by Gil Ronen and Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva May 15, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) A 45-year-old resident of Sderot was gravely injured Tuesday evening when a rocket fired from Gaza hit her home in Sderot. She was injured in the head and stomach. Her son, who was in the house with her, was injured also: his injuries […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 10, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708574884&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle% In an interview last Friday with Ma’ariv, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon expressed his view that the ongoing debate in Israel regarding the solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is an exercise in futility. As he put it, “We argue […]

by George D. Hanus There is a story in the Talmud about a man who was asked why he continued to plant carob trees when he would not live long enough to see them mature. His response was that even though a carob tree takes 70 years to bear fruit, he was planting them for […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Israeli civil rights groups attack Israel for preferring Hevron’s Jewish minority over its Arab majority; Hevron’s Jews say report is full of lies. The Hevron Jewish Community has responded sharply to the recent report published by the ultra-left wing Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Btselem. These two organizations […]

By: Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Wednesday, May 9, 2007 JERUSALEM – As Israel approaches its 40th anniversary since the reunification of Jerusalem, a report by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies that appeared in Ynet this week claims that Arab growth in Jerusalem has doubled in the past 40 years and that […]

Geostrategy-Direct, www.geostrategy-direct.com, May 2, 2007 Palestinian insurgents have been recruiting Westerners to join the fight against Israel. Westerners and other foreigners are being used as human shields, weapons and money couriers, and as provocateurs to portray Israel as an aggressor. Much of the recruitment of Westerners takes place in universities in the U.S. and Europe […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) A poll published Thursday reveals that a majority of Sderot’s children suffer from shock. Their parents blame the government and overwhelmingly call for an IDF operation in Gaza. Ninety-three percent of those surveyed agreed that life in Sderot is either “very horrible” (74%) or “horrible” (19%). The poll found little difference […]

by Sarah Bronson Zila Zwick Shlomowitz was in her late teens when the German army occupied her hometown of Lvov, Poland, in 1941. Her family, sensing that they must escape the Nazi grip, fled east to the Soviet Union. But along the way, Zila and her mother, Adela, became separated from her two brothers. After […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzippi Livni announced Saturday that she supports further retreats from Judea and Samaria. Speaking to Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper, Livni promised, “the pullout from the Gaza Strip was not the last withdrawal. We are convinced that to establish a Palestinian state, we have to withdraw from other areas.” “The majority […]

Iran “cannot be compared to any other regime in modern history” Israeli Knesset Member, Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Effie Eitam, delivered the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Ben and Esther Chouake Distinguished Lecture last night, entitled, Israel and the West: The Threat from Iran,’ warning that “Israel will have to take action if diplomacy and sanctions fail” […]