Summary The historical animosity between Israel and Russia softened after the Cold War, due in part to Russian immigration to Israel and Moscow’s growing problems with Muslims. Since Sept. 11, that détente has transformed further into a tacit alliance. A new oil-transfer agreement now will empower the former adversaries to jointly undermine a common foe: […]

Israel’s next national elections will be held in less than three months’ time – most probably on Jan. 28, 2003, the 25th of Sh’vat, 5763. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon exercised his right this morning to dissolve the Knesset and call elections for 90 days later, and President Moshe Katzav, whose approval of the move is […]

Most Americans recognize that we are at war with people who use open societies as the sea in which to swim. Our neighbor Canada apparently does not; and we have serious questions about our State Department. US immigration law requires the fingerprinting and photographing of people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria (the State […]

While I boarded my El-Al flight last week, holding on to Chana and a bag full of toys, books and food, I couldn’t help but think of what I was leaving behind. Just one day earlier a terrorist had blown himself up near a busy gax station in Ariel killing three soldiers and wounding many […]

Two people were killed early this evening when a Palestinian suicide terrorist blew himself up at the entrance to a shopping mall in Kfar Saba. One of those killed was a guard at the mall, who managed to block the terrorist and delay the explosion for a few seconds, thus saving the lives of many […]

For months now Israeli intelligence officials have suspected that Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon have been planning to widen the conflict in the Middle East by financing, arming and training Palestinian militants. As Palestinian resistance groups have struggled to survive a ferocious Israeli anti-terror campaign that began early this year with Israel’s invasion and reoccupation of […]

The most fundamental question for this new Post-Oslo era is this: How could Israel have allowed itself to pursue the “peace process“ in the first place? The answers are very likely to raise serious doubts about the nature of secular Zionism itself and its alleged success in resolving the modernity dilemma of the Jews. The […]

Many Arutz-7 readers have registered their complaints with representatives of Finland and its government regarding the country’s refusal to sell critically important gas-detection kits to Israel. Finland was considerate enough to formulate a response to the complaints, in which it explained that it sold Israel 10,000 gas masks last year, that the gas detectors are […]

(IsraelNN.com) Hevron officials reported that over 25,000 guests arrived for ‘Sabbath Hevron’, opting to join in for the Sabbath festivities in the holy city. The annual event coincides with the weekly Torah portion of Chayei Sara, where the sale of Cave of Patriarchs to our Patriarch Abraham is documented.

Sometime during World War I, the story goes, a Jew lost his way along the Austro-Hungarian frontier. Wandering through the woods at night, he was suddenly stunned by the screaming challenge of a border-guard: “Halt, or I’ll shoot.” The Jew blinked uncomfortably into the beam of the searchlight and replied. “What’s the matter with you? […]