TO: ZOA Executive Directors ZOA Regional Leaders Friends of Israel Around the U.S. FROM: Morton A. Klein National President Zionist Organization of America Bush’s “Road Map” Plan Will Lead to the Creation of a Palestinian Arab Terrorist State     President Bush has said that he will soon present Israel with a “Road Map” plan that […]

Two International Red Cross workers attempted to prevent the IDF from arresting a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist today. An IDF Egoz unit entered the Red Cross building in Jenin today, arrested the terrorist’s accomplice, and found two Kalachnikov rifles at the site. When the soldiers asked to enter the offices, the two female workers – […]

Families in Judea, Samaria and Gaza will be particularly hurt by the new economic plan, as they fall into many of the hardest-hit categories. They are often large families (whose child allowances will be cut) living in peripheral geographical area (whose income tax benefits will be disallowed or reduced), with added security costs (some of […]

MADRID, March 26 (JTA) — It was truly a historic find. About 15 years ago, archivists examining several yellowed volumes of notarial records in the city of Girona in northeastern Spain began suspecting that the covers were lined with precious historical documents. They carefully picked apart the volumes and found a multitude of Hebrew manuscripts […]

NEW YORK, March 25 (JTA) — Rick Dorfman may be the human face of the latest findings in the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report of anti-Semitic incidents across the country. Though the incident has not yet been confirmed by police as anti-Semitic, the University of Michigan junior was punched in the head by a stranger at […]

For Rabbi Alan Henkin, the next few weeks might be the most difficult of his life. His son, Michael Henkin, is one of the more than 200,000 American military personnel deployed in the Persian Gulf area. The 21-year-old Army specialist, now in Kuwait, could quickly find himself near the front lines if war with Iraq […]

As if to verify the warnings emanating from Hevron (see article on “Terrorist Victim’s Home Destroyed”), Ha’aretz reports today that the CIA – the United States’ intelligence agency – is establishing a special department that will be responsible for implementing the Road Map plan for an Israeli-PA peace agreement. One CIA team will focus on […]

NEW YORK, March 25 (JTA) — As the U.S. military pounds Iraq, Jewish communities in Muslim countries may become increasingly vulnerable. Jews not only are tiny minorities in the Muslim world, but to some of their surrounding public, they represent the perceived twin threats of Israel and America. As coverage from Al-Jazeera and other Arab […]

Introduction Iran’s attitude towards the war in Iraq is complex. Iran repudiates Saddam Hussein, holding him responsible for the eight-year Iran-Iraq war (1) and for gassing Iranian citizens with chemical weapons. Nonetheless, Iran regards the U.S. presence on its borders as an even greater threat to the security of its regime and its national interests. […]

Of particular interest to Israel were the reports emanating from Iraq this morning that coalition forces had uncovered two chemical-weapons production factories.One of them waslocated 150kilometers south of Baghdad, while the site of the other has not been publicized. The British Defense Ministry has allowed 15 Jewish soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf to remove […]