By: Aaron Klein Date: Wednesday, May 20 2009 It has been four long, thrilling years since I first arrived as a journalist in the Middle East. I’ve reported for months on end from the rocket-battered Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip and the war-torn Israeli-Lebanese-Syrian borders. I’ve stood in the trenches during massive nationalist protests […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Interior Minister Eli Yishai and others have joined the growing chorus of those who say Israel can say ‘no’ to the United States. Yoram Ettinger, former Israeli Consul-General in the U.S. and an expert on Israeli-U.S. relations, writes this week, “Critical milestones in Israel’s history occurred while constructive disagreements dominated the […]

In conjunction with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama for the first time, the National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) is urging its 25,000 member families and Jews throughout the United States to express support for Prime Minister Netanyahu and the State of Israel. The NCYI is […]

May. 21, 2009 Sam Ser , THE JERUSALEM POST “Let the general in,” she says with a smile. The Armored Corps brigade commander is tall and broad-shouldered, radiating experience and machismo with a trim gray beard covering a strong jaw. He’s the third general to come to this office this week seeking guidance. The woman […]

By Haaertz Service Tags: Israel news, Netanyahu Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel’s government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that “settlement construction will not be […]

The E-1 Area and the Link Between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim Nadav Shragai * The E-1 area is a part of the Israeli city of Maale Adumim, located immediately adjacent to Jerusalem. There is an E-1 construction plan that was devised in order to link Maale Adumim and its 36,000 residents to Jerusalem. Every Israeli […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem Thursday night that the Israeli flag will continue to fly over the Western Wall (Kotel). The first prime minister in years to appear at the venerable yeshiva on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), he ignored U.S. President Barack Obama’s […]

by Itamar Marcus & Barbara Crook, May 13, 2009 All pigs alive today are descendants of the Jews who were turned into pigs by Allah, according to a senior Egyptian religious leader. Since all pigs are descendants of Jews, it is obligatory to kill all pigs, says Sheikh Ahmed Ali Othman. Presumably if pigs were […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans for a regional peace between Muslim countries and Israel received a jolt Saturday with Arab League secretary Amr Mussa’s rejection of the reported offer of Jordan’s King Abdullah II for a pan-Muslim peace with Israel. The Jordanian monarch told the Times of London following his […]

By Nadav Shragai The maps and textbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority present a picture of a world without Israel. Asraa, Ra’ad, and Rahaam, all of them eight years old and originally “from occupied Safed, Acre, and Haifa,” beam with pride as they are interviewed on Palestinian television. Their friends earn high marks and prizes […]