Attributed to “security sources” [Provided by IDF Spokesperson’s Office] Suicide bombing thwarted In a joint IDF and ISA operation overnight in Nablus, forces uncovered a 10kg explosive belt which was intended for use in a suicide bombing in the coming days. Abdullah Haled Mahmad Qatawi and Jihad Yusef Shamah Dukan, 17, were in close contact […]

By: Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Wednesday, September 27, 2006 “Once, a policeman stopped me. He looked at my identity card and saw that I was a Lebanese Arab. He looked at my kippah and tsitsit and said: “I don’t understand.” I told him, “Forget it, don’t even try to understand. It’s been […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva September 27, 2006 As PA terrorists continue to fire rockets at the Jewish towns of the Negev, government, army and local leaders spar over who is to blame. Palestinian Authority terrorists fired another Kassam rocket towards Ashkelon Wednesday afternoon, the latest in what has become an almost daily occurrence over […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva September 26, 2006 Defense Minister Peretz admitted that the war in Lebanon strengthened Hizbullah, says MK Steinitz. Attempts at bombings by PA terrorists continue. As for Syria, Peretz foresees “costly concessions.” Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz (Likud) claimed that Defense Minister Amir Peretz admitted that the recently fought war in Lebanon […]

By Nicky Blackburn Israel21c September 17, 2006 With fears for the environment growing and the price of fossil fuels rising, a team of Israeli researchers working in Israel and the US is working on a new emission-free method to run your car – with water. Water may seem like an unlikely source of fuel, but […]

Post Lebanon War poll show major shift to right Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 24 September 2006 Telephone poll of a representative sample of 1,000 adult Israelis Jews carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz for Israel Policy Center [ www.merkazmedini.org ] on 17-22 August 2006 (shortly after the end of […]

by Tamar Sternthal CAMERA September 21, 2006 In an Op-Ed Sept. 10, 2006 calling on Israel to free Arab prisoners, (“Free them, now”), Ha’aretz’s Gideon Levy is free with the facts. He repeatedly accuses Israel of holding 15 Lebanese “civilians.” For instance, he writes: Israel also cannot announce that it won’t negotiate and at the […]

Poll: Right person for PM post: Netanyahu 27% Olmert 7% YNET 21 September 2006 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3306587,00.html A poll conducted by Yedioth Ahronoth and the Dahaf Institute headed by Dr. Mina Tzemach, 27 percent of the public believe that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is the most suitable person to head the government. He is followed by Israel […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 A brother and sister who long thought each other dead, have finally reunited for the first time since the 1940s, thanks to Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names. The meeting was enabled thanks to the efforts of two grandchildren of the sister, Hilda nee Glazberg. […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 Though put on hold with the outbreak of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, the Olmert administration’s plan to destroy Jewish hilltop communities is being put back on the table. Defense Minister Amir Peretz issued a directive Monday night authorizing IDF officials to destroy 90 homes and structures […]