A mortar shell fired on Kfar Darom in Gush Katif today has lightly injured a Jewish boy and an adult. The two were evacuated for medical treatment. Mortar and sniper fire at Jewish homes along Israel’s southern Mediterranean coast continued unabated Thursday night. Arabs launched mortar shells on Alei Sinai and Kfar Darom, causing damage […]

The alert passengers and driver on an Egged bus from Jerusalem to Kiryat Shmona prevented a mass murder shortly before 1:00 PM today. An Arab carrying a bag attempted to board the bus via the rear door but was instructed to enter up front. He immediately aroused the suspicion of the driver and others. Two […]

“I have news for you!” my friend says. “Gravitazione works also in Palestine and Israel!” “What?” I asked. My friend is Italian, and I don’t always understand his English. “Gravitazione, you know, things fall.” Ah, the law of gravity. A journalist, he was driving back from the funerals this morning in Nablus, where he had […]

AFTER the collapse of the Oslo process in January 2001, Israeli and American officials most closely involved with this diplomacy went silent – and with good reason. Promising an end of the Arab-Israeli conflict, they delivered the most vicious and fatal Palestinian-Israeli fighting since 1948. But the brief period of remorse by those diplomats and […]

The Sages teach us that the juxtaposition in the Bible of one sentence next to another has enormous significance. Likewise, as a student of editorial policy in newspapers, I myself give meaning to the juxtaposition of articles side by side in newspapers. Last week I found quite interesting the juxtaposition in many newspapers, including The […]

During US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s June 28th visit to Israel, Powell announced that the US would dispatch military “observers” to oversee implementation of US-brokered accords between Israel and the PLO. On July 27th, two days before the Tisha B’Av fast that marks the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem, the new US ambassador, a […]

When waves of Arab violence rocked Palestine in the late 1930s, and the British Mandate authorities responded by severely restricting Jewish immigration and land purchases, Zionist leaders realized that an entirely new path would be needed to reach Jewish statehood. That path would have to go through Washington. A new era was about to dawn, […]

Imagine a largely well-off, Western-oriented Jewish community with European immigrant roots. Most members of the community have ancestors who escaped persecution and poverty and sailed across the Atlantic in hope of a better life for themselves and their families. They largely succeeded and through the years built a Jewish infrastructure in their new homeland that […]

Members of the “Committee to Prevent Archaeological Destruction on the Temple Mount” include A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz and S. Yizhar, former justices Meir Shamgar and Miriam Ben-Porat, as well as many archaeologists. The committee constantly passes on reports about a continuing destruction of antiquities on the mount. Some of the reports have been confirmed, […]

On August 31st, the United Nations will hold a conference against racism in Durban, South Africa. The latest draft of a declaration up for adoption by the conference includes references to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians as a “crime against humanity” and revives the classification of Zionism as a “movement which is based on racial […]