Rael Jean Isaac Joel Gilbert has pulled off a remarkable tour de force: in “Farewell Israel” he has produced a technically sophisticated, visually imaginative, scholarly documentary that manages in the space of 145 minutes to investigate the belief system and history of Islam, the development of the Arab-Israel conflict (more accurately the Muslim-Jewish conflict) and […]

by Yoni Kempinski (IsraelNN.com) The “Save the Land and Nation” rabbis’ organization held an emergency session Tuesday night in Tel Aviv to discuss the upcoming visit of U.S. President George W. Bush in Israel. MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) called for civil disobedience, following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s declaration that no construction be carried out […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The terrorists who killed two young Jewish men at Nahal Telem last Friday turned themselves in to the General PA Intelligence Wing in Hevron a few hours later, the Shabak has revealed. The two belong to Mahmoud Abass’s Fatah movement, and are directly linked to the PA security forces, the Shabak […]

By STEVEN ERLANGER and TAGHREED EL-KHODARY Published: December 15, 2007 GAZA — About 200,000 Gazans rallied in support of Hamas on Saturday, the 20th anniversary of its founding. About 200,000 Gazans rallied in a show of force from Hamas on the 20th anniversary of its founding. It was a significant show of force from Hamas, […]

Israelis had a hard time getting excited about Annapolis. They’d seen it all before, been through too much and been let down too many times to work up much enthusiasm, writes PJM Tel Aviv editor Allison Kaplan Sommer. By Allison Kaplan Sommer The Annapolis peace conference has managed to elicit a mood not normally associated […]

(IsraelNN.com) Berta Lovinger is no ordinary olah hadasha [new immigrant to Israel]. At the ripe old age of 95, she was the oldest Jew to come home to Israel on Thursday’s Nefesh B’Nefesh flight of new immigrants. The Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) organization eases the obstacles facing North American Jews wishing to make aliyah (move to […]

by Baruch Gordon (IsraelNN.com) Arutz Sheva Israel National TV and The Ohr Olam Center for Biblical Zionism are jointly launching a Jerusalem-based Jewish TV show celebrating the wonders of Israel, the beauty of Judaism, and the experience of life in Jerusalem. “Tuesday Night Live” will premier on Tuesday, January 1, 2008, with a live studio […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Haaretz’s Chief Editor asked US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “rape” Israel, using other unsavory terminology as well in his request for American pressure. The comments were made during a confidential briefing by Rice on September 10, during one of many visits to the Jewish state. The meeting was attended […]

Moshe Sharon The Western world, in particular the United States and Israel, have not yet come to grips with the gravity of the global conflict. This is a war that fanatic Islam, which now engulfs the whole Islamic world, has declared on the West. The eradication of Israel by force from the heart of the […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two Jewish hikers in their 20’s were shot dead and a third hiker, a woman, was wounded, in Wadi Telem near Adora Friday. Rescue forces are currently extricating them from the riverbed. MDA said a woman who was with the group reported that the attackers fired at them from a passing car. The woman […]