Cairo, with its close to 18 million inhabitants, has a total Jewish population of 52 families. Most of them live in and around the city of Old Cairo, a neighborhood surrounded by 29 mosques and 20 churches. The Great Synagogue, where occasional religious services are held, is situated in this area. The second Jewish home […]

The Bush Administration has given voice to several serious problems of American national security interest that the previous administration left unmentioned. Sham negotiations with North Korea over its missile program. Russian arms proliferation and sales of nuclear technology to Iran. Renewed and expanded fighting in the Balkans. Chinese missile proliferation in range not only of […]

The ZOA has just released a special report, “Ten Good Reasons to Stop U.S. Aid to Egypt.” Copies are available by calling the ZOA at 212-481-1500. The ZOA is also establishing a new task force called SANE: Stop Aid Now to Egypt, to educate the U.S. Congress, public, and media concerning the reasons to halt […]

An Israeli committee has begun hearing testimony about some 2,000 Jews abducted during Argentina’s infamous military dictatorship of the 1970s. This year is the 25th anniversary of the coup that led to a seven-year-long dictatorship led by a military junta. During this period, approxiraately 30,000 Argentines were abducted, imprisoned or murdered. Earlier this month, the […]

About three months ago the Interdisciplinary Academic Center in Herzliya held a conference on “The Balance of National Strength and Security in Israel.” The conference’s organizers and 300 participants were the leading figures of Israel’s political, defense, and academic establishments. Last week, the conference’s organizers published a document titled, “The Balance of National Strength and […]

Any attempt of the Bush administration to restart the peace process in the Middle East must first, recognize why the Palestinian economy is on the brink of collapse. According to surveys by the research center of the Israeli Yad Tabenkin, the West Bank per capita gross domestic product (GDP) before the Oslo accord in 1993 […]

Granting that death is never to be taken lightly, we are more than concerned about the “body count” that inevitably appears in newspapers describing the Palestinian war against Israel. The “count” shows many more Palestinians than Israelis killed; hence the assumption that Israel is the aggressor. But just as the “body count” was an unhelpful […]

Hizbullah terrorist organization Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said in Lebanon this week that presence of "Lebanese Islamic Resistant Forces" along the Lebanese border with Israel is necessary for the country. So reports Iran´s official IRNA news agency. According to the terrorist leader, Lebanon´s national interests mandated that Hizbullah remain near the border "along with their […]

Our community, Kfar Darom, is home to forty young growing families. During the day we also host 25-30 students who learn in the village Kollel Tal-Orot. Kfar Darom was first established in 1946 as one of the eleven points in the Negev. It proved to be strategically vital to the country when is succeeded in […]

Columnist Hazem Saghia writes in the London based Arabic daily Al-Hayat on February 28, 2001: [We in] the Middle East are under the illusion that the world waits for us and will wait for us forever. So we can take our time as well as others since time is on our side and the future […]