By Chaim Levinson, Haarez Correspondent www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106953.html Two weeks ago, Erez Ben Sa’adon, a vintner, farmer and novice beekeeper, received a frantic phone call from the West Bank settlement of Eli. A swarm of bees had left its hive and was approaching one the settlement’s day-care centers. The children were afraid. How, the caller wanted to […]

By Barry Rubin* www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/08/hooray-for-jihad.html I’m beginning to understand the Obama administration strategy, at least in its initial phase, as a “bridge too far” approach. That expression came after the heroic Allied operation at Arnheim in World War Two, when what seemed a clever idea-to capture a key bridge far ahead of the existing Allied lines-turned […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Terrorists in northern Gaza fired a mortar shell on the western Negev Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond to any and all attacks in the region. The mortar shell hit the Eshkol region. No injuries or damage were reported in the attack. Chaim Yellin, […]

By: John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com We have grown accustomed to the bloodlust of the radical Islamic state of Iran, and of its determination, in league with terror organizations such as Hizbollah and Hamas, to annihilate Israel. What is new is the degree to which the Middle East conflict has been brought home to America by radical […]

By: Dvora Waysman Two of my four children live in places defined as “settlements” and are therefore characterized by most of the secular press as “obstacles to peace.” But if the journalists who use such terminology ever spent time there, among those idealistic and brave Jews, they might have to rethink their definition. My daughter […]

By Nir Hasson and Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters Last www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106506.html Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Monday that Israel must go ahead with plans to expand a settlement enclave near Jerusalem despite U.S. objections. While touring the E-1 corridor, Yishai called for continued construction in the contentious corridor between the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement […]

John Podhoretz From issue: July/August 2009 Barack Obama began the first week of June with a series of interviews on the eve of his journey to Cairo to deliver his address to the “Muslim world.” In all of them, he spoke of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the central importance of resolving it as part of […]

Tank commander killed in accident was ‘modest genius’ Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 6, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418532543&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Visiting the Liwerant family – mourning for their son, St.-Sgt. Uriel Peretz Liwerant, 21, who was killed early Wednesday morning when the tank he commanded flipped over on the Golan Heights – one could not escape the […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) The most recent dramatic archaeological find in Israel is that of a luxurious administrative center from the period of King Hezekiah, over 2,700 years ago. The center was discovered in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, just south of Jerusalem Over 100 students and volunteers from Israel and abroad are taking part in the […]

By: Yael Ehrenpreis Meyer It is three days until Shavuot. All is quiet on the streets of Nitzan. The sun beats fiercely on the stark white stone caravillas; not a soul is in sight. Silence and emptiness are abruptly shattered as an immense truck appears, lumbers down a narrow street, and then comes to a […]