by Nadia Matar Dear Friends, Yair Stern, the leader of Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael), wrote an article on the holiday of Hanukkah entitled “The Miracle of Hanukkah.” It was written on the eve of Hanukkah 1942, and was published in the Kislev 5702 issue of the organization’s internal newspaper Bamahteret: “The miracle of Hanukkah […] […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel’s UN Ambassador, Prof. Gavriela Shalev, is “very quiet,” and her replacement needs to have a more powerful personality, journalist Caroline Glick told Arutz Sheva Wednesday. Recent reports in the media indicate that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman intends to replace Shalev, who was appointed by Tzipi Livni when she was Foreign […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Global anti-Semitism is “alive and kicking,” according to Information and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, who headlined a conference focusing on the issue Wednesday. Edelstein said that not one day goes by without an expression of hatred against Jews. Ministers, lawmakers, legal experts, academics, and heads of Jewish and non-Jewish […]

DAN IZENBERG, ABE SELIG and HERB KEINON , THE JERUSALEM POST www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447431785&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken a more active role in determining the fate of east Jerusalem demolition orders by giving his military attache the final word on whether the Jerusalem Municipality can destroy illegal buildings in the Arab sections of Jerusalem, MK […]

By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter George Gilder’s latest book, The Israel Test (Vigilante Books), is so unabashedly pro-Jewish and pro-Israel that it would make many Jews blush. In the book (an excerpt of which was featured as the front-page essay in The Jewish Press’s November 6 issue), Gilder argues that “Jews have forged […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Media coverage of the proposed law requiring a national referendum in the instance that less than 80 MKs support transferring sovereign Israeli territory has for the most part ignored the potentially critical Subparagraph 3A. Here is a rough translation: “Despite what is written in Paragraph 3(A), if the Knesset approved the Government […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) personnel, backed up by helicopters, fanned throughout the southern port city of Ashkelon Sunday morning and foiled a planned suicide attack in the city. A 27-year-old old Arab was caught in an elevator shaft at a construction site. Police said they received information […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) A northern Israeli biotechnology firm has just filed its New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an innovative new treatment for Gaucher’s disease. Protalix Biotherapeutics Inc. (NYSE-Amex: PLX), located in Carmiel, says the new medication, taliglucerase alfa, will be cheaper than the current treatment marketed in […]

A couple of days ago I heard the news that George and Laura Bush paid a private visit to the wounded soldiers at Fort Hood. They specifically requested that the base commander not inform the media of their visit. They came. They comforted the wounded soldiers and the Fort Hood community for a couple of […]

Dore Gold * According to the 1993 Oslo Agreements, Jerusalem is one of the issues to be discussed in future permanent status negotiations. The Swedish move to have the European foreign ministers back a declaration recognizing eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state clearly pre-judges the outcome of those talks. * When […]