TEL AVIV – In a move to counter the Baker-Hamilton report, the Bush administration is boosting its involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a report in Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper on Sunday. Steps being planned include a series of measures that would embolden the Fatah movement and weaken Hamas.

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A Bible-bearing Christian flight attendant has been barred by her British employer from flying to Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is illegal.

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva December 29, 2006 For the first time in the history of the State the flags of Israel and the Palestinian Authority flew side by side at the official Prime Minister’s Residence. And a New York newspaper noticed. Last Saturday night, the red, black, green and white flag of the […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva December 27, 2006 A reminder of the historic significance of the Jewish People’s first day in the Holy Land was provided by a trip for Russian-speaking Israelis to Joshua’s Altar on Mt. Ebal outside Shechem. The story began just before this past Chanukah, when two busloads of Russian-speaking Israelis – […]

December 20, 2006 ZOA Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 “Israel’s military deterrence was damaged” in Hizballah war The head of the Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service), Meir Dagan, has stated that Syria is “more willing now than ever before” to take military action against Israel. Addressing the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday, Dagan said […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Arutz Sheva December 26, 2006 Arab terrorists launched rockets at Sderot Tuesday night, seriously injuring two Jewish children playing outside. The government continues with its policy of restraint and goodwill measures. One of children, 14-year-old Adir Basad, is in critical condition, and the second boy, Matan Cohen, suffered serious wounds. They […]

by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva December 23, 2006 The family of Gershon Bar-Kochba has won a year-long battle to remain in its Hevron home after police forced it out of the residence more than eight months ago. Lawyers for the family appealed to the courts after repeated evictions by police who […]

By: Aaron Klein Arutz Sheva Wednesday, December 20, 2006 The law firm at which former Secretary of State James Baker is a senior partner used an Israeli middleman to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iraq and push through a multimillion-dollar collection effort involving the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to a businessman here who said he […]

By: Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Arutz Sheva Wednesday, December 13, 2006 In late November, mobs in Paris once again shouted “Death to the Jew” – the very chant that came to characterize the Dreyfus case. The Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team had won its match with the Paris Saint-Germain team. An angry mob surrounded a French […]