Israel had been on edge for three days, hoping it would not happen – but it did: A Palestinian terrorist blew himself up around 6 PM today at a Tel Aviv-area bus stop crowded with soldiers, wounding 30 people, 15 seriously and murdering at least five. The terrorist succeeded in penetrating the very tight defenses […]

At least six victims are reported dead and 40 injured in a suicide blast in Jerusalem, the day’s second terrorist attack in Israel. Tuesday night’s bombing occurred at Cafe Hillel, in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem. A severe alert for terrorist attacks in Jerusalem had been issued Tuesday morning. Last year, an alert security […]

Sgt. Gavriel Uziel, 20, was killed this morning in Jenin by Arab gunfire. He and several other fighters were in the midst of arresting an Islamic Jihad terrorist who had been planning to carry out a major attack in the next few days. Shots rang out from a nearby house against the Israeli force, and […]

Shalom Har-Melech, murdered on Friday while driving in the western Jordan Valley, was buried last night. He leaves behind a young wife, a 1-year-old son, a newborn baby daughter whom he never met – and ideals left unfulfilled. Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, who was murdered on Friday morning as he was driving with his wife along […]

A violent night in Jewish Gaza: seven mortar shells at Kfar Darom, and other Jewish communities were attacked with gunfire. A shell landed on a building in which dozens of people were watching a movie – yet no one was hurt. In one of the most violent nights in Jewish Gaza in recent memory, no […]

Large IDF forces are concentrated just outside northern Gaza, waiting for the order to attack the Kassam rocket infrastructures in Beit Hanoun. The army attributes no importance to PA General Al-Majaida’s announcement last night to the effect that Arafat ordered him to put a stop to the Kassam rocket firings against Jewish communities in the […]

Israel returned the bodies of two Hizbullah terrorists to Lebanon this afternoon. The corpses are those of terrorists killed in the 1980’s in clashes with IDF forces in Lebanon – clashes in which no Israelis were killed. Today’s move is described as a “confidence-building gesture” towards Hizbullah, in anticipation of a successful conclusion to ongoing […]

The Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv had by Thursday morning identified 19 of the 20 fatalities in Tuesday night’s suicide bombing on a bus in the heart of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv said Wednesday night that five of the dead were American citizens. […]

No one was hurt in any of these attacks, but two homes in Sderot and Katif were directly hit. In addition, Arabs fired more than once against IDF soldiers in Gaza, a bomb was discovered and neutralized in Shechem, and at least two cars were stoned in the Shomron. For at least the fourth time […]

In reaction to the terrorist bombing in Jerusalem, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz announced a complete closure on all Palestinian Authority areas, beginning last night (Tuesday). He and Prime Minister Sharon had earlier decided to freeze all further steps in the diplomatic process initiated with the PA, especially the transfer of Kalkilye and Jericho that had […]