I know most Jews call Yom Kippur by various holy names, but here in Jerusalem I call it the ‘Day of No Traffic Lights.’ There are no working traffic lights because there’s no traffic on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem. Imagine–a capital city without any motor vehicle traffic at all except for emergency vehicles and army […]

September 20, 2007 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is disappointed by yesterday’s decision issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, refusing to uphold the right of American citizens born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” listed as their birthplace on their passports and […]

by Isaac Kohn The president doesn’t know why they still shoot. Peres to Ambassadors: ‘It’s Not Clear Why They Continue To Shoot’ September 11, 2007 – “It’s not clear why they are continuing to shoot at us despite the fact that we went out of and disengaged from the Gaza Strip.” So said President Shimon […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The small moshav (agricultural community) of Nov in the Golan Heights mourns the loss of a son today: Staff Sgt. Ben-Zion Chaim Henman, 22, son of Yaakov and Tamar Henman, was killed during a firefight Monday night between IDF forces and terrorists in the biblical city of Shechem, now under Palestinian […]

by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan Night time – we sat and talked on the tiny lawn in front of my caravilla. Hadar Bashan was flushed with the victory of first prize in the documentary division of the International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot. Her film, ‘In the Freiman’s Kitchen’, depicting the anguish of an elderly […]

by IsraelNN Staff (IsraelNN.com) A prominent American Jewish institution of higher learning has decided to continue partnering with an Arab university in Jerusalem even though the latter is operating in the capital in violation of Israeli law, Arutz-7 has learned. Brandeis University, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, recently received a grant of $450,000 from the Ford […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 17, 2007 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1189411415051&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The IDF has abandoned its official silence in a seven-year-old case that has been characterized as a “blood libel” against the IDF and the State of Israel. On September 10, the deputy commander of the IDF’s Spokesman’s Office, Col. Shlomi Am-Shalom, submitted a letter […]

Secret raid on Korean shipment Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter in Washington and Michael Sheridan The Sunday Times September 16, 2007 www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2461421.ece IT was just after midnight when the 69th Squadron of Israeli F15Is crossed the Syrian coast-line. On the ground, Syria’s formidable air defences went dead. An audacious raid on a Syrian […]

Tens of thousands of illegal Arab homes exist in eastern Jerusalem, Negev, Galilee, Judea & Samaria New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting the call made in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by Deputy Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman to establish a committee to examine […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has ordered the government of Iran to pay $12,904,548 to the estate and family of Marla Bennett, who was killed in a terrorist attack at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem five years ago. Marla Bennett, of San Diego, California, was 24 years old at […]