by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Fast and furious developments in the Disengagement-destroyed town of Homesh: continued Jewish presence, a new yeshiva, a Knesset lobby, and more. Two years after the IDF destroyed four towns in the Shomron in Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement, one of them – Homesh – is once again the site of a thriving Jewish […]

(IsraelNN.com) Four years after his murder, Shuli Har-Melekh remains a symbol of the struggle for Homesh. His family mourned him this year back in Homesh, which is beginning to bloom once again. A grassroots movement has formulated that has set as its goal the rebuilding of the town of Homesh as a first step in […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 17, 2007 Sometimes terror doesn’t have to pay. Reports last week that Fatah Prime Minister Salaam Fayad had paid the annual salaries of members of Hamas’s army in Gaza caused US Congressman Eric Cantor to shoot off a livid letter to Fayad. Cantor, the third-ranking Republican in the House […]

by Morton A. Klein and Irwin Hochberg The JNF has a contract with its Jewish donors. There has been criticism of the clear decision of Israel’s democratically-elected Knesset, voting overwhelmingly, by a margin of 64 votes to 16, to approve the first reading of a bill reaffirming that all lands belonging to the Jewish National […]

The coin pictured above is a “High Tech in Israel” commemorative coin issued by the Bank of Israel. It depicts a growing tree with binary leaves. Along those lines, Rabbi Aryeh Markman of Aish HaTorah, Los Angeles, reports: ISRAEL’S RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIRST MONTH OF 2007 Despite the second Lebanon war, the divestments, and […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A public opinion survey carried out in Gaza shows that Hamas rule there has not made its populace very happy. Carried out by a Norwegian agency and published this week by the Palestinian Authority’s Wafa news agency, the poll shows the following numbers: 51% of the residents say they do not […]

By Steven Plaut FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/16/2007 Israel’s critics have increasingly adopted the term Naqba (or Nakba), which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, to refer to the Jewish state’s creation and existence. The idea is that if “Palestinian Arabs” are thought to have suffered as a result of Israel’s creation and gaining of independence, then Israel’s very […]

by George D. Hanus In Yiddish folklore, the real-life Polish town of Chelm was characterized as a legendary community of fools. According to this folkloric tradition, Chelm’s residents were exceedingly proud of their tradition of non-wisdom and convoluted insight into the world’s problems. They viewed themselves as brilliant. There are many hilarious stories about the […]

by Moshe Feiglin Draft evasion starts in kindergarten. And what did you think? That there wouldn’t be draft evasion? When you organized the peace rally in the square and Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres hugged the great, leftist draft dodger Aviv Gefen, what message did you think you were Did you really think that the […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, August 15, 2007 As Relevant Today As When Presented In Israel On March 11, 1994 The following is the original text of an important lecture delivered by Professor Louis Rene Beres to the Dayan Forum, Israel, on March 11, 1994 (Ambassador Zalman Shoval, presiding). It remains entirely relevant today, especially […]