by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) The Yesha Council’s new website, as introduced at a public conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, teaches Land of Israel supporters how to take full advantage of the internet for the cause. The Hebrew-language website, www.MyIsrael.org.il, was conceived by Karnei Shomron resident Elchanan Shwartz, and was implemented under the direction of Natali […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Using the GPS to get from Point A to Point B without double-checking the route suggested could become a life-threatening exercise for non-Arabs using it in Judea and Samaria, according to the NAVNGO company. GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigational network, receivers of which are installed in vehicles […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Controversial U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference Rashad Hussein is back in the spotlight over an interview published Monday in the English-language edition of the Arabic international daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Commentary magazine’s political columnist Jennifer Rubin first raised the alarm over the interview, charging in an […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) A member of the central council of the Fatah party, headed by Abbas, calls on the Palestinian Authority to extend its boycott of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) products to all of Israel. Speaking at a recent conference in El Bireh, next to Ramallah, Mahmoud al Aylool said an all-out boycott […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel’s most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount. “It is the most important site in the world for the Jewish people,” Barkai told […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) State Comptroller and Ombudsman, retired judge Micha Lindenstrauss, devoted a chapter in his annual report to the state of disrepair of the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives (called Har HaZeitim in Hebrew). The report was released Tuesday afternoon. The Lindenstrauss report said that successive Israeli governments were aware of […]

by INN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) “We will evict the Arabs from the Synagogue on our own.” The Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva announced Tuesday that it intends to evict the Arab squatters, who took over the Yemenite Synagogue in the Shiloach neighborhood (Silwan) just outside the Old City of Jerusalem walls several decades ago, by itself if no […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) The American-mediated “indirect talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel began Sunday with a loud silence as both sides wait for U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell to return to the region, probably in the next 10 days. He is to leave Israel Sunday night. The Palestinian Authority officially approved […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The Minister of Construction and Housing, Ariel Attias (Shas), admitted Wednesday on the Knesset podium that there are thousands of housing units awaiting sale in Jerusalem, but that none have been been marketed since December. He was responding to a motion filed by MK Uri Ariel (National Union), who claimed that […]

Many Jews and Arabs living in this part of the world really miss the good old days before the Middle East peace process began — before Yasser Arafat and the PLO were brought to the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the signing of the Oslo Accords. It is time to cry out loudly that […]