Haifa-based Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk in final experimental stages aims to allow paralyzed people to stand, walk, with help of computerized leg supports. Expected to be on sale next year Dr. Itay Gal Published: 01.20.09, 07:59 / Israel Culture In what is probably one of the most important Israeli medical breakthroughs of recent times, Haifa-based […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) This week’s momentous news events were the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza and the inauguration of President Barack Obama, but nothing changed for American prisoner Jonathan Pollard and kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Pollard has languished in prison for nearly 24 years after having been sentenced to life by […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon Members of the Knesset (MKs) and other Israeli officials, journalists and Jewish leaders who gave their support to the 2005 Gaza/northern Samaria unilateral withdrawal to apologize to the Israeli electorate, which had voted overwhelmingly against that proposal in the January 2003 elections (when then-Labor leader, Amram […]

Israeli invention allows paraplegics to walk Haifa-based Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk in final experimental stages aims to allow paralyzed people to stand, walk, with help of computerized leg supports. Expected to be on sale next year Dr. Itay Gal Published: 01.20.09, 07:59 / Israel Culture In what is probably one of the most important Israeli […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 19, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292908245&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull On Sunday, Israelis were witness to a cavalcade of European leaders marching to Jerusalem to have their pictures taken with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and […]

1. Wall Street Is More Important Than Gaza Strip. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is higher today than it was upon the launching of the Gaza War. It is substantially higher than the ebb of November. Once again, Israel’s economy is impacted by economic fundamentals (budget deficit, interest and inflation rates, debt to GDP ratio, […]

by Israel National News (IsraelNN.com) Israel’s government has picked up the IDF’s brilliant tactical win in Gaza and tossed it in the trash. Hamas has been hit hard. It learned that, unlike Hizbullah, its armed forces were neither well trained enough nor well armed enough to stand up to the assault of a real army […]

Regarding the BBC interview with Edward Zwick about his film DEFIANCE, on Tuesday, January 6, 2009: Producing a movie about the Jewish partisans does not give him license to dishonor their memory by equating them in any way with the Palestinians. By doing so he aided and abetted the BBC’s never ending media campaign against […]

Release Date: 18 January 2009 (Jerusalem) – Jerusalem based watchdog, NGO Monitor today called on all human rights groups to demand the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit and to press for International Red Cross access, in accordance with international humanitarian law. Schalit was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from sovereign Israeli territory in June […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) An IDF soldier in Gaza speaks of enemy attempts to kidnap soldiers into tunnels, the special boost that letters from back home give him and his friends, the incredible motivation displayed by his comrades-in-arms, and more. Aryeh, a former hesder yeshiva student and a soldier in reserves who spent a week […]