A private memorial ceremony will be held in Houston, Texas today for the seven astronauts who perished aboard the Columbia space shuttle. Some 12,000 pieces of the craft have been found thus far. Volunteers of the Zaka emergency medical organization – which responds to terrorist attacks, car accidents and the like, ensuring burial for all […]

A senior terrorist mastermind was caught in Hevron early this morning: Bader El-Haimouni, who planned the ambush attack between Hevron and Kiryat Arba three months ago. He also planned the murderous attack of five weeks ago in the Otniel yeshiva. El-Haimouni, of Islamic Jihad, is thus responsible for the murder of 16 Israelis. IDF forces […]

(IsraelNN.com) The Israel Defense Forces has created a special e-mail address where the public may express its condolences to the Ramon family and to the people of the State of Israel on the loss of Col. Ilan Ramon in the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy. The e-mail address is: ilanfamily@mail.idf.il . All letters received by the […]

The year 2002 will be remembered as a low point in the long conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, when diplomacy came to a standstill, emotions boiled over, blood ran in the streets, and the prospects of all-out war drew closer. Anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic furies seemingly put to rest suddenly revived with stunning vehemence. The existence […]

The Belgian Senate approved this morning an amendment to its Universal Law, allowing Belgium to try Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes. Sharon was about to be tried there last year for his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres – in which Christian Phalangists murdered hundreds of Arabs in Lebanon in 1982 – […]

Residents of Nacogdoches Texas report finding debris, including an arm and a hand, presumably from the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle that broke up about 200,000 feet above central Texas minutes before its scheduled landing. US officials are indicating the seven are most likely dead as a result of the shuttle breaking up before landing. US […]

My son long ago introduced me to the joys of the Onion, the hilarious Web site that features such parodies of the news as “Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia; Cities of Sjlbvdnzv, Grzny to be First Recipients.” So when, on the night of the State of the Union address, my son handed me an Internet […]

The condition of the 9-year-old boy – Dvir Nissan ben [son of] Esther – who was shot yesterday afternoon by terrorists as he was driving home, continues to be very serious. He was in a car with his mother on his way to Ofrah when terrorists sprayed the vehicle with automatic weapons fire, and a […]

Myth: Everything that’s wrong with Iraq’s economy is because of sanctions. Fact: Iraq enjoyed a strong economy until Saddam Hussein took power and launched attacks against his neighbors âEUR” Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990 âEUR” with devastating results for Iraq. It took 5 years for Saddam to accept the oil-for-food program. Saddam also […]

While relations between Israel and Britain had been bumpy for some time, things seemed to come to a nasty head last month. First, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made time to roll out the red carpet for Syrian President Bashar Assad, but had no time to meet Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then the British […]