The IDF has decided that former Lechi fighter Ezra Yachin will no longer be allowed to lecture to soldiers as part of the army’s educational seminars. Meretz MK Naomi Chazan complained that Yachin tells his audiences that Lechi soldiers did not carry out a massacre in Dir Yassin in 1948. Yachin himself, who took part […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two Patriot missile batteries arrived in the Port of Haifa today from the United States. The US military personnel accompanying the shipment will deploy them in the coming days and they will take part in a major joint Israel-USA military exercise in the coming weeks that will test missile defense and other weapons systems.

Two IDF soldiers were seriously wounded this morning when a Hizbullah-placed roadside bomb exploded near their outpost on Israel’s northern border near Moshav Zar’it. One soldier was wounded in his legs, and his colleague suffered serious wounds to the head; they were both operated on today in Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The bomb went off […]

Early this morning, IDF tanks and ground troops, backed up by IAF helicopters, entered the Bureij district of Gaza City. The incursion, which was meant to secure the capture or killing of Islamic Jihad terrorist Gema’el Isma’il, led to an intense gun battle between Arab gunmen and IDF soldiers. During the course of the battle, […]

Prime Minister Sharon, addressing the third annual Herzliya Conference last night, reiterated his support for U.S. President Bush’s “road map” plan, including a Palestinian state, and set out the conditions under which he sees it unfolding. He began by noting the PA’s campaign of terrorism, “meticulously planned and prepared by the PA chairman” Yasser Arafat, […]

IDF soldiers detected and killed two armed terrorists south of Hevron this morning. The Arabs had opened fire on the troops from within a local cave, but no Israelis were hurt. In another incident early this morning, reserve soldiers sought and finally found an armed terrorist trying to enter Kibbutz Nachal Oz, east of the […]

Israeli security forces successfully continue to prevent Arab and Islamic terrorism against Israelis. It was revealed last night that a severe terrorist attack against a Haifa-area military base was thwarted last month thanks to accurate intelligence reports. Several Islamic Jihad terrorists were taken into custody as a result of these reports. Other counter-terrorism successes of […]

An Arab laborer was killed this afternoon by a Palestinian-launched mortar shell that landed in the northern Gaza industrial zone. The shell, one of four fired this afternoon towards Jewish targets in northern Gaza, also wounded nine other Arabs. An Arab boy was similarly killed several days ago by shrapnel resulting from a Palestinian attack. […]

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Yehuda Lancry said that Israel accepts Palestinian statehood as a solution to the Mideast conflict. Lancry told the General Assembly on Friday that Israel had accepted U.S. President Bush’s vision of peace in which two states – Jewish and Arab – exist “side by side in peace and security.” […]

In Beit She’an this afternoon, two terrorists opened fire in three different locations in and around the Likud Party headquarters, killing five Jews and wounding some 30, including ten seriously. Almost all the victims were hit in Likud Party headquarters as elections for the party’s leader were being held. Beit She’an is situated in the […]