by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Gov’t to speed up approvals for new communities for Gush Katif expellees… A new medical center to be built in “appreciation” for absorption efforts… Rockets and unrest continue in Gaza… More… * The government’s ministerial committee decided Sunday to shorten planning procedures for the new communities slated to be built for […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) State Comptroller Lindenstrauss is likely to take on a major new case: The various Israeli governments’ handling of the Jonathan Pollard affair and their failure to obtain his release. The idea was that of MK Zevulun Orlev, leader of the National Religious Party and chairman of the Knesset State Audit Committtee. […]

Anyone contending that there is a demographic machete at the throat of the Jewish State is either drastically mistaken or outrageously misleading! DEMOGRAPHY CONSTITUTES A STRATEGIC ASSET, NOT A LIABILITY “MABAT,” publication of Israel’s Intelligence Center, Oct. 2007 By Yoram Ettinger in conjunction with Bennett Zimmerman, Michael Wise and Roberta Seid, based on a Bennett […]

by Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005 ——————————————————————————– For references to this article, see the version posted at the Middle East Quarterly website, http://www.meforum.org/article/702.: ——————————————————————————– In the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) elections that took place in January 2005, a significant percentage of Arab Jerusalemites stayed away from the polls out of concern that voting in […]

By:Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Wednesday, November 7, 2007 JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are expected to issue a joint declaration during the Annapolis conference, expected to take place the last week in November, that would pave the way for negotiations on core issues including Jerusalem and […]

Intensive talks over division of Jerusalem has prompted its Palestinian residents to make a move once considered the ultimate treason Ronny Shaked YNET Published: 11.07.07, 10:22 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3468672,00.html Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem calling to set up an appointment with the Interior Ministry to apply for an Israeli citizenship will discover the next […]

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Jewish Press The Gush Katif Kallot Project, established to deal with the needs of young couples whose families were expelled from Gush Katif, has provided gifts and cash to over 160 brides and grooms since its first shower party in Beit Shemesh in February 2006. In the first months after the […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Could this be a taste of things to come as the Annapolis summit – and its demands for the removal of all Jewish presence from Judea and Samaria – nears? A heavy contingent of security forces used what the residents called “heavy violence” against them to dismantle the Shvut Ami outpost […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) A wing of the Fatah organization, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that it has begun an escalation in attacks on Israeli towns in the Negev. The terrorist group already claimed it was behind a barrage of rockets from Gaza that struck Sderot and its environs earlier in […]

To: Ambassador Sallai Merridor, Embassy of Israel, Washington DC From: Jonathan Pollard For Special Delivery via Atlanta Consulate October 22, 2007 Dear Mr. Ambassador, A 17th century English diplomat and poet, Sir Henry Wotton, wrote: “An ambassador is a man of virtue sent abroad to lie for his country.” This quote seems quite apt in […]