Government ministers have been hinting for months that the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria will not be the last. Now a senior officer says the IDF is preparing for more pullbacks. A senior IDF officer interviewed by London Arab newspaper Al Shark al Awsat said that Israel’s “disengagement plan” represents the first installment in […]

In light of recent events, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon must heed calls to hold national elections: Failure to do so makes a mockery of Israel`s parliamentary system. In a humiliating defeat for the prime minister, the Knesset recently carried three consecutive motions of no confidence against the government. While technically not amounting to the requisite […]

Terrorism usually comes like a bolt from the blue, but not so the four explosions yesterday in London, killing at least 37. Some British Islamist leaders have been warning for months that such violence was imminent. An Islamist British group called Al-Muhajiroun (Arabic: “the immigrants”) for some time publicly stated that the United Kingdom was […]

What is the history of Gaza? Who holds claim to Gaza? Gaza, or in Hebrew, Azza, is a city on the southern coastal plain of Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel, today Medinat Yisrael, or the modern nation State of Israel). In Biblical times, G-d gave this Holy Land as a gift, as an eternal […]

World sporting attention will be focusing on Israel in the coming days, as the 17th Maccabiah Games takes off July 11-21. Over 7,000 sports men and women from 55 countries will participate in the 2005 games. Every four years, the best Jewish athletes come to Israel from all over the world to compete in the […]

Hundreds of Jewish worshippers visited Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) Wednesday night to pray at the site. Terrorists opened fire at soldiers escorting the visitors, failing to inflict injuries. In what has become a monthly tradition, more than 450 Shomron residents and Breslev hassidim participated in the visit, which was planned and coordinated with the […]

Member of Knesset Professor Arieh Eldad is building two field clinics. One will be in Gush Katif and the other in northern Shomron. Each costs approximately $25,000.00. The clinics will provide primary care for the tens of thousands of Jews who will be gathered in these areas during the struggle to stop the deportation. Sadly, […]

The IDF backed off from a confrontation Wednesday afternoon with about 100 northern Samaria residents who stopped construction of a road the IDF plans to use to evacuate residents. No one was injured or arrested in the incident, and both sides avoided a replay of last week’s violence in Gush Katif when about 1,000 policemen […]

The Yesha Council has preempted the government: Instead of waiting for the government to declare D-Day by closing off Gush Katif, the Council is asking myriads to start marching on July 18. The plan is for tens of thousands of people – 100,000 ideally, but even 40,000 will do, Council leaders say – to begin […]

Everyone I meet asks me: “What really happened in the Maoz Yam hotel?” First, let’s start with the good news: the deportation operation at the hotel proved to all the world that we have the ability to prevent the implementation of Sharon’s deportation plan, if we only organize accordingly. If it is necessary to bring […]