By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent PARIS – The mother of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was abducted, tortured and murdered by a gang in a suburb of the capital, accuses the police of missteps that led to her son’s death. She revealed to Haaretz Sunday that the police told the family to ignore […]

By: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Wednesday, February 22, 2006 (Editor’s Note: The Jewish Press received the following column from Rabbi Riskin just a few hours too late to make the Feb. 17 issue. Though the column appeared in a couple of other media outlets last week, Rabbi Riskin asked us to consider running it this week […]

By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent 20/02/2006 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/685119.html A retired Israel Defense Forces colonel who was present at the evacuation of nine structures in the West Bank outpost of Amona submitted a complaint Monday alleging police brutality against protesters who clashed with security forces. Colonel (res.) Moti Yogev petitioned the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department for […]

By Dennis Prager, Feb 28, 2006 There’s a certain consistent pattern regarding the worldwide Left’s assessment of culpability for Muslim terror. It is the fault of the murdered. The most recent example is the blaming of Denmark, or at least the Danish newspaper, for publishing cartoons of Muhammad. From Kofi Annan to The New York […]

Two Arab terrorists murdered gas station attendant near Migdalim, in the western Jordan Valley. Two hours later, another Israeli was critically wounded in Samaria, east of Herzliya. The first attack occurred shortly after noon. The two terrorists arrived on foot at the gas station, and began shooting. The victim, 48-year-old Eldad Abir, died of his […]

By Mark Lavie JERUSALEM – It was summer 1988. We were sitting in a cramped office, more like a closet, just off a darkish corridor in the Islamic University in Gaza City, a block-like building with green hallways and cement floors, the nerve center of Hamas. The other people in the room, sipping coffee, trading […]

by Moshe Feiglin, February 26, 2006 Arutz Sheva – IsraelNationalNews.com The IDF is part of our culture and national ethos. But the time has come to examine its objective status, the role that it is playing today in the State of Israel and the Gordian knot between it and the belief-based public. Our future depends […]

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser) The Government has today (Tuesday), 28.2.06, launched a new (Hebrew only!) website that deals with the Negev 2015 development plan: www.negev.gov.il/Negev . The site provides current information on all aspects of the national strategic Negev development plan and will be updated and modified on a regular basis. The […]

An Arab terrorist tried to murder a group of people waiting for buses and rides at the main Gush Etzion Junction. The terrorist wounded two before he was shot. The terrorist ran over to the bus stop and began stabbing whoever he could catch. He was shot by security personnel and armed bystanders who arrived […]

by Emanuel A. Winston January 30, 2006 Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has appointed Tzipi Livni as Foreign Minister. Olmert has assigned her the task of issuing cover-up statistics for “Kadima” on the Gaza/Hamas blunder. Livni issued a statement to the effect that “Israel (Sharon) opened the door of peace by abandoning Gaza and the […]