The troops were evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. Also Wednesday, Palestinians fired two Qassam rockets at the western Negev and mortar shells at Gaza Strip settlements, in a continuation of ongoing mortar and rocket fire that the IDF has been attempting to bring to an end in recent weeks. There were no injuries […]

It is hard to imagine an anti-Semite going to a Jewish doctor with a broken foot, and holding out his foot, telling him, “Here, fix this, you Jew bastard.” And yet this is what is happening today, but with a different twist. It is now, although virtually unreported by the world’s press, a case of, […]

Morale is high, despite the rain and cold, among the thousands of people at the anti-disengagement sit-in around the Knesset. MK Uri Ariel has moved his parliamentary office to the site. The protest is actually more like a live-in, with tents set up along the length of the fence surrounding the Knesset. Many families spent […]

The head of Israel’s intelligence agency issued a dire warning against withdrawing from the Philadelphi Route, adding that quitting northern Shomron would expose Israeli cities to shelling attacks. Avi Dichter, who heads Israel’s General Security Service (Shabak), appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today and spoke out unambiguously against aspects of PM […]

SHARON ON GAZA “I also recommended the establishment of several Jewish settlements, Jewish ‘fingers’ as I called them, to divide the Gaza district….all of them built, like the Judean and Samarian settlements, on state-owned land. Standing with the cabinet members on a high hill of dunes, I pointed out exactly what I thought we needed. […]

Iran’s Sahar 1 TV station is currently airing a weekly series titled “For You, Palestine,” or “Zahra’s Blue Eyes.” The series premiered on December 13, and is set in Israel and the West Bank. It broadcasts every Monday, and was filmed in Persian but subsequently dubbed into Arabic. The story follows an Israeli candidate for […]

“Our residents are fed up. I don’t know what has to be done, but perhaps Gaza should be flattened and rebuilt,” the mayor of the besieged town of S’derot told Arutz-7 Monday. Mayor Eli Moyal aimed his complaints against the government and not the army. “The government cannot hide under the slogan that it is […]

Thousands of Jewish Israeli women marry Arabs, unwittingly entering a trap of torture. Mayaan Jaffe goes behind the scenes to see how some of them are rescued. Black eyes. Bruises. Blood. Out of the refuse of a Gaza town, Aliza [all names have been changed] emerged a broken woman. With tears streaming down her face […]

Arab terrorists exploded two shells at the Erez Industrial Park and checkpoint in northern Gaza, one of them a direct hit on Nissim Arviv, a 25-year-old resident of Nissanit who was arranging affairs at an automobile shop. Arviv, married and father to a baby girl, is in critical condition at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon where […]

These days, we hear many hysterical voices – in the Israeli government, the army and the media – proclaiming that civil disobedience threatens the foundation of the nation. In fact, the very opposite is the case. Civil disobedience is the root and cornerstone of Am Yisrael (the People of Israel). This week’s Torah portion brings […]