Professor Adi Shamir, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, has been named a 2002 winner of the A.M. Turing Award, regarded in academic circles as the “Nobel Prize” of computer science. Shamir shares the award with Ronald L. Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Leonard M. Adleman of […]

LONDON, May 7 (JTA) — The phenomenon of suicide bombing “is going to be around for a long time,” a British professor predicts in a new paper. But despite the fact that two Britons were responsible for a suicide bombing last week that killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv, Britain is not likely to produce […]

Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Achiyah, east of Shilo, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists last night on his way to give a ride home to a fellow resident. A member of the town’s secretariat, he heard that a friend – Tamir Dar, 25, a reserve soldier – needed a ride back to the community, and he […]

Israel celebrates its 55th Independence Day (Yom Ha’Atzma’ut) tonight and tomorrow, joined by many communities around the world. A partial list of Yom Ha’Atzma’ut celebrations in Israel and worldwide, as well as articles on the significance of the day, can be seen here. The Israeli Air Force will open certain facilities to the general public […]

May 14, 1948 THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) – the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the […]

Israel begins its annual two-day commemoration ceremonies of Remembrance Day and Independence Day this evening. A one-minute siren will be sounded throughout the country at 8 PM in memory of the fallen soldiers in Israel’s wars and those who fell as victims of Arab terrorism. A two-minute siren will be sounded nationwide tomorrow at 11 […]

NEW YORK- The statement by Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) demanding that Israel release all imprisoned Arab terrorists shows that he is not serious about fighting terrorism, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. In a telegram to President Bush, ZOA national president Morton A. Klein, chairman of the board Dr. […]

A mother, who mobilized the world to save her son — an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas terrorists — tells the story of one fateful week in the history of Israel. My name is Esther Wachsman. I was born in a DP camp in Germany in 1947 to parents who had survived the ovens of […]

Nearly three dozen leaders of emerging crypto-Jewish communities from across Spain gathered Thursday in Barcelona for the opening of an unprecedented three-day seminar devoted to examining various topics relating to the country’s “hidden Jews.” The seminar, entitled “Judaism and Jewish Descendants in Spain: Past & Present Between Identity and History”, is being run by the […]

President Bush may declare as early as this week an end to the Iraq war, but he appears ready to press ahead with the “road map” to establish a Palestinian state that can only jeopardize the continued existence of Israel. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the road map – drafted last year by […]