Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007 Tomorrow Israel’s parliamentarians will convene to elect the next president of Israel. After Shas’s council of elders decided last week to throw the party’s support behind Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres’s candidacy, Peres’s election seems to be a foregone conclusion. That this is the case is a […]

by Rachel Saperstein (IsraelNN.com) The laws pertaining to the month-long mourning period for my brother, together with my still aching foot, had kept me house-bound. But a call to meet with the architects in Tel Aviv provided a much-needed excuse to extract me from my seclusion. A comfortable one-hour train ride from Ashkelon to Tel […]

By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Israel21c June 07, 2007 A Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctoral student who has developed an innovative drug that gives people the feeling of satiety is one of three to win a Kaye Innovation Award, which will be presented at the Hebrew University’s 70th Board of Governors meeting this week. The prizes have […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva June 10, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) Despite a perceived wave of quiet in Sderot and the Negev, five Kassams have hit the area in 24 hours – amidst an emergency meeting of local residents. Jews from around the country are pitching in to help Sderot. One or two Kassam rockets landed in […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva May8, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) Arutz-7 Book Review: A new historical novel, written in English by an Israeli teenager who was there, vividly awakens dormant memories of the expulsion of 2005. The nearly 2,000 families of Gush Katif were what Israelis call the “salt of the earth” – unpretentious, pioneering, and connected-to-the-Land […]

by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan This is our second visit to Sderot. After weeks of continuous rocket attacks the town appeared to revive. There had been only one attack the previous night. The ensuing quiet sparked courage. People went out to do some quick shopping. Events could quickly change. Once again I joined Noam Bedein […]

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Must Read: The 222 Days Of Kfar Darom Note: The 222 Days of Kfar Darom, which details the heroism of Kfar Darom in 1948, has just been published. This long-awaited book was written in Hebrew by military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki of Efrat. The Yitzhaki family from Kfar Yam in Gush Katif […]

GERALD M. STEINBERG Jewish News (UK) – June 1 2007 http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/occupation_myths.pdf While Israel celebrates 40 years of a reunited Jerusalem and what many still see as a miraculous victory that reversed Nasser’s threat to “push the Jews into the sea”, the Palestinians are celebrating 40 years of “occupation” slogans. This rhetoric has provided them with […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Some 15,000 people are expected to return to the ruins of Homesh, located in northern Samaria, next Tuesday. The march will mark the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War and its liberation of Judea and Samaria, according to organizers. The recently thriving town of Homesh was destroyed by the […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Mortar shells were fired at the Erez Crossing with Gaza Sunday – injuring four IDF soldiers, one moderately. Hamas took credit for the attack. A Kassam rocket hit the hothouses of the town of Netiv HaAsara. Nine Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza over the weekend. One struck a […]