Astute investors invest in Israel’s high tech, in spite of – and due to – global economic slowdown. 1. While global economy has slowed down substantially, and investment capabilities are shrinking, astute investors leverage declining market valuations, and invest in Israel’s breakthrough export-oriented high tech industries, expecting a promising “exit” when the cycle turns upward. […]

July 30, 2008 Contact: Morton A. Klein Phone 1: 212-481-1500 81% of Gaza Jews from Gush Katif – still no permanent homes The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has deplored the continuing neglect by the Israeli government of the tragic plight of the thousands of Jews forcibly uprooted from Gaza by Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) The Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) decided Monday night to unanimously accept a proposal to transfer the community of Migron in Samaria to a nearby location. The decision comes one week after the Binyamin Regional Council rejected the idea. Migron, with over 40 families, is the […]

By The Associated Press Last update – 08:51 11/08/2008 For video: www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1010449.html Youths leaped through fiery hoops as gunfire echoed in an action-packed graduation ceremony for a Hamas summer camp aimed at preparing the youngsters for battle against Israel. About 200 teens dressed in the uniforms of the Hamas military wing showed off their new […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, July 16, 2008 There is one question readers have asked the Monitor with far greater frequency than any other. It’s a simple one, and it goes basically like this: What is the most important thing you can say about the media after doing a column like this for ten years? […]

By Deborah Weiss FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 08, 2008 Last Wednesday, July 30, 2008, the House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 361 “commemorating Irena Sendler, a woman whose bravery saved the lives of thousands during the Holocaust and remembering her legacy of courage, selflessness, and hope.” So, who was Irena Sendler? Born to a […]

Aug. 8, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Monday will mark the third anniversary of the forcible expulsion of the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria from their homes. Those expulsions were followed weeks later by the withdrawal of IDF personnel from the Gaza Strip. Unlike the Rabin-Peres government’s decision to embark on the […]

Aug. 9, 2008 ALLON SINAI, JPost correspondent in Beijing , THE JERUSALEM POST Politics reared its ugly head at the Olympic Games once more on Saturday after an Iranian swimmer refused to compete alongside Israeli Tom Be’eri. Mohammad Alirezaei was due to race against Be’eri in the fourth heat of the 100 meter breaststroke, but […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A left-wing kibbutz member, who had never seen a Yesha settlement until the day she came to destroy it, asks forgiveness of the people she expelled. “Three years without a home is much too long,” she says. The soldier publicized her story, and request for forgiveness, in an interview with Yedidya […]

By:Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Smugly and shamelessly, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert gives freedom to terrorists in exchange for slain Jews. By any measure of sanity or logic, this grotesque exchange is incomprehensible. But so, too, is the underlying and antecedent Israeli policy of exchanging land for nothing. Credo quia absurdum. “I believe […]