While the over 130,000 participants in todays Human Chain event were singing the Hatikvah National Anthem, an anti-tank rocket was fired into the southern Gush Katif community of Nvei Dekalim, striking a community center and injuring six persons including children. Magen David Adom emergency medical service officials reported all the victims were transported to the […]

The Jewish residents of Israel’s southern Mediterranean coastal region, also known as Gush Katif (The Harvest Belt), have opened an English homepage on their popular website: english.katif.net. The site operator Moti Sender told IsraelNationalNews, “there has been a long-time demand for an English website, and we simply haven’t had the time, as this is a […]

Alert soldiers and fortuitous circumstances helped thwart a suicide terror attack in Haifa today. The army placed a random checkpoint along the west-east highway from Tapuach to the Jordan Valley, and it produced very welcome results. An Arab taxi approaching the checkpoint from the west was seen turning around in an apparent effort not to […]

One of the two soldiers shot and killed by Hizbullah terrorists yesterday – Sgt. Itai Ilouz, 21, of Afula – will be buried today. The other, Sgt.-Maj. Avishai Korisky, 24, of Nazareth Illit, was to have been married in two weeks. Hizbullah snipers shot the two soldiers as they fixed an antenna at the Nurit […]

Released for publication this morning: Diners in the Caffit Cafe in Jerusalem last Sunday night were saved from a suicide attack only because the terrorist turned back at literally the last minute. Details of the almost-attack, as reported by Arutz-7’s Kobi Finkler based on information provided by the intelligence services, are as follows: Two clans […]

Outgoing Israel Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki told President Moshe Katsav yesterday that a terrorist attack is foiled “almost daily,” impressing upon the president the ongoing efforts to perpetrate attacks and the success of the counter-terrorism work of Israeli security services. Several such successes were recorded in recent days. Late Thursday, it was released for publication […]

Two more Kassam rockets were fired at Israeli targets this morning, with one landing in an open field in the city of Sderot, and another in an agricultural area nearby. No damage was reported. Sources in the IDF, which has created a security zone around northeastern Gaza specifically to prevent such launchings, say they will […]

Four soldiers were wounded this afternoon – including one whose leg had to be amputated – when their army vehicle was attacked by Arab fire. It is not yet clear whether the vehicle over-drove an explosive, or was rocketed by a mortar shell. An IDF soldier was seriously wounded in Beit Hanoun, Gaza last night […]

Two Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot this morning, landing in open fields and causing no casualties. The rockets were fired from west of the new IDF security zone around the PA-controlled city of Beit Hanoun, from where many Kassams were fired towards Sderot and the western Negev. Two people, including three-year-old Afik Zehavi, were […]

Two leading terrorists were killed, as was an IDF officer, during an Israeli anti-terror operation in Shechem (Nablus) last night. The unit arrived in Shechem for what has become a routine, if dangerous, mission of searching for and capturing wanted terrorists. Specifically sought were two commanders of the Popular Front terrorist organization in Shechem, who […]