By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter George Gilder’s latest book, The Israel Test (Vigilante Books), is so unabashedly pro-Jewish and pro-Israel that it would make many Jews blush. In the book (an excerpt of which was featured as the front-page essay in The Jewish Press’s November 6 issue), Gilder argues that “Jews have forged […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Media coverage of the proposed law requiring a national referendum in the instance that less than 80 MKs support transferring sovereign Israeli territory has for the most part ignored the potentially critical Subparagraph 3A. Here is a rough translation: “Despite what is written in Paragraph 3(A), if the Knesset approved the Government […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) personnel, backed up by helicopters, fanned throughout the southern port city of Ashkelon Sunday morning and foiled a planned suicide attack in the city. A 27-year-old old Arab was caught in an elevator shaft at a construction site. Police said they received information […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) A northern Israeli biotechnology firm has just filed its New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an innovative new treatment for Gaucher’s disease. Protalix Biotherapeutics Inc. (NYSE-Amex: PLX), located in Carmiel, says the new medication, taliglucerase alfa, will be cheaper than the current treatment marketed in […]

A couple of days ago I heard the news that George and Laura Bush paid a private visit to the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood. They specifically requested that the base commander not inform the media of their visit. They came. They comforted the wounded soldiers and the Fort Hood community for a couple of […]

Dore Gold * According to the 1993 Oslo Agreements, Jerusalem is one of the issues to be discussed in future permanent status negotiations. The Swedish move to have the European foreign ministers back a declaration recognizing eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state clearly pre-judges the outcome of those talks. * When […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israelnationalnews.com) An American pro-Israel organization is planning to lead a demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in New York on Sunday against the government’s declared policy of freezing further construction by Jews in Judea and Samaria. The event is being called an “urgent anti-freeze demonstration” by Americans for a Safe Israel […]

by Boaz Haetzni (Israelnationalnews.com) People are telling each other sotto voce that the real reason Netanyahu froze construction in Judea and Samaria is that this is the price that must be paid the USA in order for Israel to have a free hand in attacking Iran. You can’t really argue with a point of view […]

– by Robert Spencer A new study released Sunday shows that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe. The “German Situation” study, which is conducted by the University of Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, found that across Europe in the last year, “Islamophobia” has declined, while anti-Semitic incidents have increased. True […]

By: Michael Freund It was supposed to be temporary. Nine years ago last month, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israeli army to withdraw from Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) in one of the most humiliating retreats in the nation’s modern history. The move came after Palestinian policemen and Fatah terrorists had launched a coordinated […]