Despite yesterday’s massacre, the plans to withdraw the IDF forces from most of Hevron this week are still in effect. A senior Central Command officer told Arutz-7’s Haggai Huberman that the redeployment would take place after two issues are agreed upon: What security authorities the Arabs in Hevron will assume, and in which evacuated areas […]

(IsraelNN.com) The left wing’s hate campaign attached to last week’s annual anniversary for Yitzhak Rabin continues to gain momentum as MKs and left wing notables “warn” that the actions aimed at preventing the dismantling of Yesha (Judea, Samaria, & Gaza) outposts are “setting the stage for another political assassination”. Labor MK Tzali Reshef attacked Rabbi […]

(Updated – Monday – 9:40pm) Police officials a short time ago announced the death toll in the bus bombing attack has climbed to 14. In addition, the body of one terrorist has been identified. Authorities caution that a body of a second terrorist may be among the 14 although this is not believed to be […]

Hundreds of soldiers were bussed to the mission of “outpost evacuation” on Sabbath afternoon, including many who are religiously observant. They were thus faced with the dilemma of either “keeping the Sabbath” or following their commanders’ orders. Yitzchak Meir, father of one officer who faced this problem, told Arutz-7 his story: “My son, a commander […]

After almost four stormy hours of attempts to destroy the remaining structures in the Gilad Farm, and after an aborted shot at it last night, the army finally succeeded shortly before 3 PM this afternoon. After the synagogue was taken down, and after a crane was put out of commission by the crowds that arrived […]

Tensions are again high at the Gilad Farm near Kedumim, and hundreds of people – mostly youth – streamed to the site late this morning. On Wednesday, over 1,000 people showed up to resist the army’s plans to dismantle and uproot the site, but left peacefully – for the most part – after landowner Moshe […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George Bush emerged from their 45-minute Oval Office meeting yesterday in good spirits. In his remarks afterwards to reporters, Bush put to rest – at least publicly – speculation that he was pressuring Israel not to respond militarily to an Iraqi attack. “If Iraq attacks Israel tomorrow, I […]

While well over 1,000 people waited tensely at the Gilad Farm near Kedumim for army forces to begin dismantling the site this morning, Moshe Zar – legal owner of the land on which the farm is built – suddenly made a surprising announcement: “We will leave peacefully.” People had been continuing to arrive all morning […]

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told Army Radio today that, “security permitting,” he plans to withdraw IDF forces from Hevron by the end of the week. The move would come as part of the new “Judea First” plan introduced by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. An extension of the failed “Gaza and Bethlehem First” plan, “Judea First” […]

Bethlehem district Fatah Al-Aksa Brigade terrorist Mohammad Abayat was killed instantly in Beit-Jalla yesterday, when the public telephone he was using inside a phone booth exploded in his hand. Abayat was one of the wanted Arabs who took Christian clergy hostage, forcing a standoff at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity this past April. While the […]