by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) A group of five Jews was attacked in Jaffa (Yafo) on Saturday night near an ice cream shop. The five, four women and one man, are all IDF soldiers, but they were not wearing their uniforms or carrying weapons. They stopped for ice cream after a day at the beach, they […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Yaki Haimovitch, a simple private who received a medal in the Six Day War, tells how he ended up in the front of the line, leading his comrades to victory. One of the bloodiest and most important battles of the 1967 war was fought just across the street from the modern […]

Daryl Temkin, Ph.D. May 15, 2007 I wonder who will remember one of the most important events in modern Jewish history? I am afraid that for most of the Jewish world, yet alone the non-Jewish world, this calendar date will lapse with barely a blink. In Israel, events are marked by their Hebrew calendar date, […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 14, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708600683&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Last week the EU-financed Peace Now organization held an “Alternative Jerusalem Day” ceremony in which it called for Israel to renounce its sovereignty over half of the city in the interests of peace. Why anyone would believe that an Israeli surrender of the eternal capital of […]

by Larry Domnitch Arutz Sheva May 16, 2007 There is a recurring theme related to Jerusalem. There is a recurring theme associated with Jerusalem – that of Jewish unity. Jerusalem is the “city of peace,” although it has been conquered thirty-six times in its long history. The psalmist King David wrote, “The built-up Jerusalem is […]

by Gil Ronen and Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva May 15, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) A 45-year-old resident of Sderot was gravely injured Tuesday evening when a rocket fired from Gaza hit her home in Sderot. She was injured in the head and stomach. Her son, who was in the house with her, was injured also: his injuries […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 10, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708574884&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle% In an interview last Friday with Ma’ariv, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon expressed his view that the ongoing debate in Israel regarding the solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is an exercise in futility. As he put it, “We argue […]

by George D. Hanus There is a story in the Talmud about a man who was asked why he continued to plant carob trees when he would not live long enough to see them mature. His response was that even though a carob tree takes 70 years to bear fruit, he was planting them for […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Israeli civil rights groups attack Israel for preferring Hevron’s Jewish minority over its Arab majority; Hevron’s Jews say report is full of lies. The Hevron Jewish Community has responded sharply to the recent report published by the ultra-left wing Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Btselem. These two organizations […]

By: Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Wednesday, May 9, 2007 JERUSALEM – As Israel approaches its 40th anniversary since the reunification of Jerusalem, a report by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies that appeared in Ynet this week claims that Arab growth in Jerusalem has doubled in the past 40 years and that […]