American intelligence agencies are arduously investigating the intended destination of the North Korean ship that was found two days ago to be smuggling at least 12 Scud missiles. American sources say the ship was headed for Yemen, though it is not yet clear who purchased the missiles.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (JTA) — Those inclined to look on the bright side might say that Israeli-Palestinian cooperation is alive and kicking: Israelis and Palestinians joined ranks to make big money, until one of them woke up with a bad conscience. The joint venture in question began in February 1997, when Palestinian Authority President Yasser […]

A North Korean-crewed ship carrying 12 disassembled Scud missiles bound for Yemen has been boarded and seized by Spanish and U.S. military forces in the Arabian Sea, Pentagon and administration officials said Tuesday. U.S. intelligence satellites and Navy ships had been tracking the unflagged ship, the Sosan, since it left North Korea during the middle […]

Editor`s Note: In July 1998, Daniel Gordis moved with his wife, Elisheva, and their three children to Jerusalem for a one-year fellowship at the Mandel Foundation. A few months after the Gordises arrived in Israel, they decided to stay permanently.) In New York last month I had occasion to be interviewed on National Public Radio. […]

A newly released best-selling novel for teens, Rever la Palestine (Dream of Palestine), sympathetically portrays a young Palestinian who becomes a suicide bomber. The fifteen-year-old Egyptian author, Randa Ghazi, who lives with her family in Italy, writes about Palestinian teenagers who fight ‘bloodthirsty Jews, who assassinate children and old people, profane mosques, and rape Arab […]

In 1978, Israel tracked both crucial strategic assets and vital principles for what (predictably) turned out to be worthless pieces of paper. Yet unlike the 1993 Oslo agreements, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty is still almost universally deemed a success. This became obvious when conservative critics, indignant at the Nobel Peace Prize award to Jimmy Carter, […]

Two IDF soldiers were seriously wounded this morning when a Hizbullah-placed roadside bomb exploded near their outpost on Israel’s northern border near Moshav Zar’it. One soldier was wounded in his legs, and his colleague suffered serious wounds to the head; they were both operated on today in Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The bomb went off […]

Over the past two years, the Palestinian Authority has conducted a campaign to encourage the cold blooded murder of 682 men, women and children throughout the land of Israel. As a result, the IDF has been forced to conduct operations in the areas controlled and protected by the Palestinian Authority, to locate, arrest and neutralize […]

Early this morning, IDF tanks and ground troops, backed up by IAF helicopters, entered the Bureij district of Gaza City. The incursion, which was meant to secure the capture or killing of Islamic Jihad terrorist Gema’el Isma’il, led to an intense gun battle between Arab gunmen and IDF soldiers. During the course of the battle, […]

The Yesha Council, representing the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has once again called on U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer to stop intervening in Israeli life. Kurtzer, speaking at the third annual Herzliya Conference last night, said that the “settlers [of Yesha] do not represent the national consensus in Israel,” and added […]