by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The Minister of Construction and Housing, Ariel Attias (Shas), admitted Wednesday on the Knesset podium that there are thousands of housing units awaiting sale in Jerusalem, but that none have been been marketed since December. He was responding to a motion filed by MK Uri Ariel (National Union), who claimed that […]

Many Jews and Arabs living in this part of the world really miss the good old days before the Middle East peace process began — before Yasser Arafat and the PLO were brought to the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the signing of the Oslo Accords. It is time to cry out loudly that […]

INSS Insight No. 178, April 28, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Guzansky, Yoel, and Schweitzer, Yoram www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3977 During a recent trip to Prague, where he signed a new arms control treaty with Russia, President Barack Obama declared that nuclear terrorism is “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security.” Though the unique destructive power of nuclear […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Three men sprayed tear gas on an elderly Jew outside a French synagogue Sunday, the second violent attack on Jews in the country in three days. The attackers of the elderly man left behind an anti-Semitic slogan, according to the London Telegraph. The attackers, still at-large, launched the attack as […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) A Jewish man was brutally attacked in Strasbourg, France, on Friday night. The man, who is 42, was attacked by two assailants. One of them hit him across the back of the head with a metal rod and the other stabbed him in the chest. He was reportedly in serious condition. […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Dalia Emanueloff, whose son Dvir was the first Israeli soldier to fall during Operation Cast Lead, spoke Sunday to Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service, and clarified a story circulating online about her, her son, and a young baby bearing his name. The story began on Dvir’s birthday last summer, Dalia said. […]

By Barak Ravid Haaretz www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1166413.html U.S. President Barack Obama has told several European leaders that if Israeli-Palestinian talks remain stalemated into September or October, he will convene an international summit on achieving Mideast peace, senior Israeli officials told Haaretz on Thursday. The officials said the conference would be run by the Quartet of Middle East […]

April 25, 2010 by Tamar Sternthal Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi of Jerusalem, an academic affiliated with the Hebrew University, penned a lengthy letter, published in the April 21 edition of the International Herald Tribune, indignantly condemning author and Nobel Prize Peace winner Elie Wiesel for his full-page ad “For Jerusalem” which appeared in that newspaper and […]

By CAROLINE GLICK The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=174345 By using support for Israel as a wedge issue in the upcoming elections, Republicans will do more than simply constrain Obama’s ability to harm the Jewish state. Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. […]

by Baruch Gordon (Israelnationalnews.com) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an equal opportunity destroyer. It attacks the central nervous system and eventually renders most patients disabled. Among its high-profile victims are celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pre, whose career was ended by MS, and Joan Didion, a famous American writer. The National MS Society estimates that there are […]