Monday is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, so I thought this would be a great time to look back on Jews in space. No, not the Mel Brooks version. I’m talking about bona fide Jewish astronauts who have translated the ancient, nomadic ways of our people into a passion for exploration among […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Preemption Options We have seen that, among other purposes, Israel needs nuclear weapons to undertake and/or to support various forms of conventional preemption. In making its preemption decisions, Israel must determine whether such essential defensive strikes, known jurisprudentially as expressions of anticipatory self-defense, would be cost-effective. This would depend upon a […]

by IsraelNN TV staff (Israelnationalnews.com) Yitzchak Hershkowitz has battled for 17 years to evict a clan of Arab squatters from property he owns. Now, after police failed yet again to implement a court order calling for the clan’s eviction, clan members have obtained an injunction from the High Court. Hershkowitz remains unable to make use […]

AIPAC.org AIPAC is deeply disappointed by the Obama administration’s choice to award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson. AIPAC respectfully calls on the administration to firmly, fully and publicly repudiate her views on Israel and her long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state. Robinson is widely known for […]

By: Louis Rene Beres As we asked last week, why then must Israel remain a nuclear power? We continue with the detailed and complete answer that Prime Minister Netanyahu should prepare to transmit to President Obama. 6. Residually – as only a distinctly last resort – Israel needs nuclear weapons for nuclear war fighting. Although, […]

The Times (UK) Online www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6739175.ece Three years after Israel fought a bloody war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, there are growing fears that hostilities could erupt again this time with the militant group better armed than ever. According to Israeli, United Nations and Hezbollah officials, the Shia Muslim militia is today stronger than it was in […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel is isolated. The United States and others have strongly condemned a domestic decision, which has been confirmed by various courts all the way up to the Supreme Court, evicting long-time Arab squatters from property that is not theirs. The property in question is located in the northeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of […]

By Karin Kloosterman Israel belongs to the Asian continent, but when it comes to research and development the US and Europe seem closer to home. And like most countries operating in today’s global village, Israel relies on cooperation with industrial partners from the European Union and the US to propel its high-tech and biotech products […]

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus There is a chilling scene in the 2002 movie “The Pianist.” In it the train was already chugging along on the path to insanity and destruction, but before all was destroyed. The family of the protagonist has been moved into the Warsaw Ghetto and the head of the family is sitting […]

Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 572 July-August 2009 Nadav Shragai * The Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, that the Palestinians demand to transfer to their control, is the most important Jewish cemetery in the world. The area has constituted a religious and national pantheon for the Jewish people and the State of Israel, containing the […]