Mortar attacks on Jewish Gaza resumed in force today, as several shells fired by Palestinian terrorists landed near buildings in Gush Katif this morning and this afternoon. They caused light damage, but no one was hurt. Last night, two shells fell near Jewish homes in one of the larger communities in Katif, but again, miraculously, […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivered a diplomatic statement in the Knesset this afternoon. He began his speech by mentioning that we stand only two days before the Shavuot holiday, when “our ancestors would fulfill the Biblical commandment of [bringing the first fruits] to Jerusalem, and would recite, ‘I have come to the Land that our […]

The 2,700 members of the Likud Party’s Central Committee convened late this afternoon for a tense and dramatic meeting tonight in Tel Aviv’s Heichal HaTarbut. On the agenda: A resolution against the establishment of any form of a Palestinian state, in direct opposition to the stated position of Prime Minister and party leader Ariel Sharon. […]

Four people were injured lightly, and seven others were treated for shock, after a terrorist attack in Be’er Sheva this morning. Two terrorists arrived by taxi at a Bank HaPoalim branch; one of them blew himself up, while the other one ran away and was later caught. Yitzchak and Esther Bavlar, the husband and wife […]

The following are excerpts from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s remarks at a Tuesday news conference in Washington, in response to the Rishon Letzion suicide bombing in which at least 15 people were killed. “I came here, to the United States, to talk over the possibility of reformation of the Palestinian Authority, which is an essential […]

Rishon Casualties Climb To 15 Fifteen people were killed last night in the Sheffield Club suicide slaughter in Rishon LeTzion. Over 50 people were wounded, including 12 in critical and serious condition in four Tel Aviv-area hospitals. Of these, two died in the hospital this morning, while 19 of the injured Israelis have already been […]

(Wednesday, 08 May, 2002 – 03:14am) Authorities report the death toll in the Sheffield Club pool hall attack in Rishon L’Tzion has climbed to 15. Dozens of persons were injured with some in critical and serious condition in four Tel Aviv area hospitals. The wounded were transported to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, […]

BEITAR ILLIT, West Bank – On what was a simple West Bank hilltop just a dozen years ago, construction workers hammer out the walls of yet more new houses in this now massive Jewish settlement. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who meets Tuesday with US President George W. Bush to discuss efforts to restart peace talks, […]

INSIDE THE P.A.: DONATED MONEY WENT FOR TERRORISM, CORRUPTION The “Arafat file,” presented today by Minister Danny Naveh, is a 100-page document containing evidence that much of the money sent to the Palestinian Authority by the European Union for humanitarian purposes was used by Yasser Arafat for terrorism – and to line the pockets of […]

The fact that Yasser Arafat personally approved terrorist funding for Fatah has now become “unequivocally clear.” So announced the Prime Minister’s Office today, based on the questioning of senior Fatah terrorists in Israeli custody, including Marwan Barghouti. It has also been learned that explosive charges used by the terrorists were supplied from the Palestinian Authority’s […]