By: Aaron Klein The U.S. extracted concessions from Israel in exchange for American opposition to the establishment of a United Nations commission to investigate Israel’s commando raid of a flotilla earlier this month that resulted in the deaths of nine violent activists, this column has learned. Separately, an official from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) A demographic study in Israel analyzing the past 15 years shows a dramatic drop in Arab births per woman, a rise in births among secular Jewish women, and a continued very high rate among religious Jewish women. Dr. Adam Reuter, writing on Arutz-7’s Hebrew site, presents a set of statistics showing […]

By GIL HOFFMAN The Jerusalem Post 06/22/2010 22:01 www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=179209 Michael Oren claims Pollard didn’t act as Israeli agent. Jonathan Pollard acted as an agent of the State of Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, in reaction to a comment from Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren that was interpreted as suggesting otherwise. Pollard is […]

by Malkah Fleisher (Israelnationalnews.com) In an attempt to reverse a worrying trend of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the Netherlands, Dutch police may begin going undercover as Jews. Amsterdam and Rotterdam have become hotbeds of anti-Semitic activity, with members of the Jewish communities there being verbally attacked, bombarded with anti-Semitic e-mail, and confronted with Hitler salutes. […]

Tammuz 10, 5770, 22 June 10 11:28 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel successfully launched the ”Ofek 9” military spy satellite late Tuesday night from the Palmakhim base in central Israel, and the Defense Ministry said all systems are working. “Right now, it’s giving a pulse, and we assume it has opened its solar panels, […]

This year Tisha B’Av (July 19 and 20), when we commemorate the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem, we also mark another tragedy for Israel – the 5th year since the destruction of 21 Gush Katif/Gaza, and 4 northern Shomron communities. The destruction and expulsion of over 10,000 Jews from religious and […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Hamas, Fatah, and the Islamic Movement are buying properties within Jerusalem city limits as part of the struggle for the future of Israel’s capital, says Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin. Diskin appeared at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee session this week to share his assessment. Fatah, Hamas, and the […]

by Avi Yellin (Israelnationalnews.com) Veteran fighters from the Lehi Underground (“Lohamey Herut Yisrael” – Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) that fought the British Empire during the 1940s to liberate the Land of Israel, gathered in Jerusalem Sunday night to celebrate the 70th anniversary of their movement’s founding. The ceremony, which packed the capital’s Menachem […]

By: Kenneth Levin Many are puzzled by the widespread support in European democracies of Palestinian groups and Arab states that promote genocidal anti-Semitism. After all, Palestinian and broader Arab anti-Semitism draws heavily, in its anti-Jewish propaganda, on Nazi models, and Western Europe and the European Union are supposed to be opposed to everything touching on […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Rami Levy, owner of the Israeli discount supermarket chain that bears his name, has announced the chain will no longer stock items imported from Turkey. The decision is Levy’s response to Turkish hostility toward Israel and the country’s part in engineering the Gaza flotilla clash. In an apparent response to Levy’s […]