A timetable for the uprooting of Jews from Gaza shows that the process will begin not in nine months’ time, as this week’s Cabinet decision indicated, but rather in two months. According to the document, prepared by the National Security Council, the first Jews will be able to leave Gaza voluntarily as early as August […]

The overwhelming feeling one has when traveling through the beautiful springtime mountains and valleys of Israel, visiting the residents of Gush Katif/Gaza, Judea and Samaria, is that those who are governing Israel have a great disconnect from the land and the people. Prime Minister Sharon doesnt understand that his proclamations about making areas of Israel […]

Another moving ceremony marking yet the latest stage in reclaiming Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem was held yesterday in the area known as the Yemenite Village. Located near the City of David, below and just to the southeast of the Temple Mount, the area was home to many Jewish families, mostly from Yemen, from the 1880’s […]

World War II to the Present: Lieutenant Frances Slanger: Jewish Nurse Killed In World War II On the morning of October 21, 1944, Lieutenant Frances Slanger of the U.S. Army Nurses Corps mailed a letter to STARS AND STRIPES telling the GIs how proud she was of them. That evening her unit was the target […]

What really happened ten years ago, in Hebron, at the Cave of Machpela – the Tomb of the Patriarchs – or, as the Arabs call it, the Ibrahimi Mosque? The short answer everyone “knows,” is that Dr. Baruch Goldstein carried out a massacre on the Jewish holiday of Purim, February 25, 1994. But a new […]

> Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab, is the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He previously served as a senior writer for the Jerusalem Report, and a correspondent for Al-Fajr. He has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC and many other networks, […]

Yesterday’s intense day-long political drama ended somewhat anti-climactically, with the Cabinet approving a watered-down version of the disengagement plan. Yesterday’s political drama ended somewhat anti-climactically, with the Cabinet approving a watered-down version of the disengagement plan. Although the withdrawal is not scheduled to be voted on before March 2005, the Prime Minister said yesterday, “The […]

Mothers for Fortitude and Unity (ACHVA) although founded only this week has received thousands of emails and phone calls from mothers and soldiers across Israel in support of their efforts and offering their thanks. Co-founder Shoshi Slozki spoke to Arutz 7s Ezra HaLevi and said many thanked ACHVA for, saying what we know is true, […]

Israel has just completed an essential defensive operation against terrorists in Rafah. Although televised images of this Gaza operation suggested cruelty and indiscriminate action by Israeli forces, exactly the opposite is true. By deliberately placing young Arab children in the front of large mobs that advanced menacingly upon Israeli soldiers, Palestinian leaders openly committed major […]

PARIS (AP) – A Jewish teenager was stabbed in the chest by a man crying “God is great,” officials said. It was the second attack in a week on a young Jewish man. The 17-year-old victim, who was not identified, was attacked Friday afternoon as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris […]