Palestinian emigration on the rise JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 1, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1161811251277&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Palestinians are leaving the territories due to the harsh security and economic situation there, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Israel Radio reported that thousands of Palestinians have received permits to emigrate to Arab and other foreign countries. Ahmed Suboh, […]

by Hillel Fendel and Yechiel Spira Arutz Sheva November 1, 2006 Givati Infantry Brigade forces, accompanied by tanks, armored vehicles and aerial support, have engaged terrorists in heavy battle in northern Gaza; ten terrorists and one soldier have been killed. IDF censors have released the name of the soldier killed during the clash with terrorists […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva October 31, 2006 Major General Yoav Galant told legislators Tuesday that any slowdown in IDF activity in Gaza means increased activity by PA terrorists preparing further attacks. Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Maj. Gen. Galant, head of the IDF Southern Command, said, “If there will be […]

By: Editorial Board Jewish Press Wednesday, October 18, 2006 When MK Natan Sharansky resigned from the Sharon cabinet in protest of the decision to unilaterally disengage from Gaza, we hailed his move as an act of statesmanship and vision even as we were somewhat disappointed with his having taken more than a year to do […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva Five Israeli-Arabs were arrested Sunday in the Arab village of Um el-Fahm just hours after it was released for publication that a young Israeli-Arab woman was arrested for planning a bombing. The entire Wadi Ara region of north-central Israel, where Um el-Fahm is located, was placed on high alert Sunday […]

By Allison Kaplan Sommer Israel21c October 29, 2006 Professors Aaron Ciechanover, 57, (right) and Avram Hershko, 67, in their lab at the Technion-Israeli Institute in Haifa. If the high tech and biotech industries are the engines that have been driving the Israeli economy over the past five years, it is the nation’s universities that have […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva October 29, 2006 2-4 Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and the western Negev this morning, damaging a building and sending a woman into shock. Sderot residents protested outside their neighbor DM Peretz’s home. The IDF reported on two rockets, while other sources reported on either three or four rockets. […]

by Gil Zohar Arutz Sheva October 26, 2006 The percentage of Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha) willing to relocate abroad jumped to 32%, according to a Birzeit University survey last month. For many years, that figure hovered just below 20 percent, according to an October 24th report by the Christian Science Monitor’s Middle […]

NOAM BEDEIN , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 26, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1161811209973&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull [The writer, age 24, spent a year in seminary, three years in the IDF and a year trekking around Asia. He recently moved to Sderot to work and study. ] Rockets were fired on the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Friday night. No casualties […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva October 26, 2006 Arabs nearly lynched two Jews north of Jerusalem on Wednesday, while IDF soldiers at a nearby lookout watched and took no action. A Jewish man was shot and wounded by terrorists near Kiryat Arba. Yehuda Karpelis and his wife Suzy, the victims of the near-lynching, say soldiers […]