Minister Natan Sharansky spoke with Israel National Radio’s Eli Stutz and Yishai Fleisher, explaining his reasons for resigning his post a government minister in protest of the disengagement plan. Sharansky’s resignation as Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Jerusalem (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=81174) was accepted by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Click here to listen to […]

The global rise in anti-Semitism over the past several years has left few parts of the world unscathed. From Western Europe to the Arab countries, Jews have become the targets of renewed vitriol and fury, leading various Jewish organizations to intensify their efforts to monitor and track this growing and worrisome trend. But for all […]

I grew up in Gaza during the 1950s, a child of Egyptian parents at a time when Gaza was occupied by Egypt. My father headed the Egyptian military then in Gaza and the Sinai. Because I know and understand the culture of the area, I have troubling questions about Israel’s Gaza evacuation. Will it bring […]

This past week, over 200,000 Israelis visited the Jewish communities in Gaza and northern Samaria that are slated for expulsion. This massive show of support should serve as encouragement to us all – the people of Israel have not forsaken their Land, even if their government has. (http://freund.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gush_katif_march.jpg) The struggle for Gush Katif and northern […]

The extermination of six million Jews in the Nazi death camps represents but the most recent in a long history of Jewish holocausts. It was preceded by the Chmielnicki massacres in 17th century Poland, the Almohad massacres in 12th century Spain, the Inquisition and the Crusades and the relentless spilling of blood by the Roman […]

Israeli scientists are pushing the boundaries of an already cutting-edge field: stem cell research. They have grown heart cells from human embryonic stem cells and have established companies promising, among other things, to produce new blood vessels, regenerate cartilage and heal spinal cord injuries. Coming together from both academia and industry, they have joined to […]

AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI & ZOA are issuing a last call for their ten day, May 29-June 7 CHIZUK mission. The trip will include visits to the four communities of the northern Shomron which are threatened with evacuation, and two nights and three days in Gush Katif/Gaza, visiting as many of the 21 communities […]

MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) today told tens of thousands supporters of Jewish life in Gaza to prepare for a “civil rebellion” to block the proposed evacuation of Jews from 21 Gaza communities. Organizers of the massive rally said 80,000 people came, while police, who usually minimize crowd estimates at right wing protests, said 50,000 […]

With the passage last week of a budget bill in Israel, the government of Ariel Sharon appears to be ready to remove over 8,000 Israelis living in Gaza, if necessary with force. In addition to the legal dubiousness of this step and its historical unprecedented nature (challenge to the reader: name another democracy that has […]

An IDF reserve soldier was killed Monday night by an Arab taxi driver who crashed through a roadblock on the Halhoul bridge of the Trans-Judean highway, north of Hebron. The soldier, First Sergeant Tziki Eyal, 23, was from Mazkeret Batya. The Arab driver, Iyad Dwek, 30, was shot and killed by soldiers as he attempted […]