IDF forces thwarted five suicide terrorist attacks and arrested over 100 wanted terrorists this past week, Gush Katif residents filed a complaint regarding an outpost demolition. In addition to the five thwarted terrorist attacks, the IDF Spokesman’s Office further reports that Arabs fired at soldiers on nine occasions this week, and detonated three bombs towards […]

This past Sunday, November 21, marked the 19th anniversary of the date on which Jonathan Pollard (Yehonatan ben Malka) began serving his life sentence. We have written before about the terrible injustice of the Pollard case; we wish we didn’t have to do so now; and we pray we won’t have to do so ever […]

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom hosted his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Al-Gheit and Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleimon today for discussions on the future of the Philadelphi Route. The route, along the Israel-Egypt border in southern Gaza, is a critical one, in that approximately 100 arms-smuggling tunnels have been discovered snaking under it over the past four […]

On November 9th, Wissam Tayam (sometimes spelled Tayem), a Palestinian seeking passage at an Israeli checkpoint near Nablus, was observed playing his violin. According to Horit Herman Peled, a member of Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch, a group that monitors Israeli soldiers’ behavior at checkpoints) who videotaped the incident, Tayam was forced to play the violin […]

Alert IDF action helped thwart a Kassam rocket attack towards the Negev city of Sderot early this afternoon. The ready-for-firing launcher was sighted in Beit Hanoun, an Arab Gaza city less than a kilometer from Sderot. An Israel Air Force helicopter opened fire on the launcher and destroyed it. The terrorists escaped. Several dozen Arab-fired […]

Visit www.pizzaIDF.org to order On behalf of the soldiers of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), we wish to thank the many, many people the world over who send Pizza, Burgers and a variety of other treats. Friends of Israel around the world are always looking for real ways to share their feelings with our soldiers […]

Most of the demographic prognostications, since the turn of the previous century, consistently predicted that the Jewish majority in the Land of Israel has no chance against the Arab proliferation. This article disputes that assessment, regarding which there is virtual consensus with Prof. Arnon Sofer of Haifa University, one of its most avid proponents. A […]

JERUSALEM – Nearly two-thirds of Israelis believe the post-Arafat Palestinian Authority should be given one last chance to honor its peace obligations, or face a full-scale Israeli military effort to eliminate the scourge of Palestinian Arab terror. Asked what Israel should do if the new PA leadership continues to espouse Yasser Arafats policy of anti-Jewish […]

An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed Monday and another officer lightly injured when a tunnel dug by Palestinians collapsed under the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Israel border. Captain Moshe Taranto, 23, from Ashdod, was working on further exposing a tunnel that was dug from the Egyptian side of Rafah in the direction of the […]

Is Islamist terrorism rooted in economic inequality and social injustice? To discuss this question with us today, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel. Our guests today are: Mustafa Akyol, a political scientist, columnist and writer of the Muslim faith. He is a director at the , based in Istanbul; Salim Mansur, a Muslim writer […]