Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s brain scan Thursday evening showed positive results, indicating that the remnants of the blood in his brain from a massive stroke last week have been absorbed, hospital officials said in a statement. In response, doctors had removed a tube they had inserted into Sharon’s skull to relieve pressure on his brain, […]

The Likud Knesset list is as follows: [With thanks to Arutz 7] Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu – Unhappily supported Disengagement until the week before implementation, when he left the government in protest of it. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom – Supported Disengagement from beginning to end, though came out against the abandonment of the Philadelphi Corridor […]

What legacy has Ariel Sharon left Israel, and what will be the long-term impact of that legacy on Israel? Since the prime minister was stricken by a stroke last week columnists and commentators have been clamoring to describe Sharon and to define the impact of his years in power on Israel and the Middle East. […]

In an attempt to clear the name of settlers living in West Bank communities blamed for the destruction of Palestinian olive trees, the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea,Samaria and Gaza on Tuesday, showed film footage of Palestinian farmers pruning their own trees near Yitzhar. The film footage clearly showed Palestinian farmers pruning their trees […]

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has replaced Ariel Sharon as the Kadima Party’s prime ministerial candidate, is to visit Washington in February, just a month before Israel’s national elections. Visits of this type invariably add to the invitee’s stature in the perception of Israel’s domestic public, and this will therefore help Olmert as the […]

JERUSALEM – Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to stop the de facto division of Jerusalem, which is already under way, unless there is a strong rightist bloc in the Knesset to supervise the Likud, National Union MK Effi Eitam said Monday. “The debate over the division of Jerusalem is hypothetical,” he said, […]

Compiled by the Gush Katif-L’maan Acheinu Task Force, the report states that out of 1,000 high school youths among the Gush Katif expellees, 50 have dropped out of school totally, and another 50-100 are registered but barely show up. No solution has been offered for those at risk of dropping out. In addition, a gap […]

Police used severe violence in Gush Etzion, firing tear-gas grenades into a house sought to destroy, pepper-spraying protestors, and dragging and hitting those who interfered, injuring 12 youths. At the end of the day, the mixed secular/religious community of Sde Boaz saw a small house and stable destroyed, while thwarting the demolition of a large […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) for allowing the Islamist terrorist organization, Hamas, which it is supposed to be disarming, to set up its own television channel within the PA. The channel, called Al-Aqsa, named for the mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, started broadcasting last night via satellite from […]

Since the disengagement last August, Israel’s security in relation to the Palestinian Authority, in particular the Gaza district, has been disintegrating. “The smuggling of weapons and explosives into Gaza has jumped by hundreds of percent in comparison to the period before the disengagement,” Diskin told the committee. “If before the disengagement, 200-300 rifles were smuggled […]