JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 28, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605933738&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The former deputy of the Iraqi air force, General Georges Sada, revealed on Saturday that that former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, ordered him during the first Gulf War to bomb Israeli population centers with chemical weapons. The ousted dictator, said Sada in recently published book, […]

IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that the IDF will destroy the Jewish community of Amona next week. Halutz did not set a date for expelling the Jewish residents living in the Hevron market, though that action is expected to take place by February 15. Amona, […]

New York – The former Israel Defense Forces (DF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Moshe Yaalon, told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday that since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, Gaza has turned into “Hamastan, Hizbullahstan and al-Qaedastan …Israel failed to create reliable deterrence for the future. The Arabs’ refusal to recognize Israel is […]

By 3 PM, just over 40% of eligible voters had exercised their right to vote in the election for the Palestinian Authority’s legislature in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Hamas is expected to do well. Senior Hamas official and candidate Mahmoud al-Zahar said, after casting his vote, that Hamas “will not change a single word in […]

[IMRA: Some wonder if Mr. Olmert’s media advisors have suggested that he make up the gap in his stature regarding security matters by showing that he is strong against settlers. Ater all, he can thump on the desk as the cameras roll and demand action against settlers and be confident that Israeli security forces can […]

A mother of 11, and several teen-agers, have been ordered to be kept under house arrest indefinitely – until the evacuation of a Hevron neighborhood is completed. The mother of 11, Chana (Deli) Landau of Hevron, was arrested last week in Kiryat Arba when she did not stop to show her ID card to policemen. […]

Kever Rachel is distinguished from all other major Jewish Holy places in that it has always been accessible to Jewish worshipers. They were even the guardians of the precious keys to the holy tomb. Indeed, the longing for Kever Rachel and its adoration accompanied and even guaranteed the modern homecoming of the Jewish People. To […]

The State Comptroller’s report, issued today, details the government’s failure to adequately defend Jewish communities near the Gaza border in the wake of the disengagement. State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has published the first in a series of reports criticizing the way the government carried out the disengagement from Gaza last August. The first report, issued […]

The members of the Israeli delegation to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games are naturally going to be at the peak of their physical powers. But thanks to an innovative program developed by researchers at the Wingate Institute, Israel’s National Center for Physical Education and Sport, the athletes are also going to be mentally prepared. The […]

A suicide terrorist detonated his charge in southern Tel Aviv at approximately 3:45PM, injuring 15 people. No one was killed in the attack, but one person is in moderate-to-serious condition. The terrorist targeted the Shwarma Rosh Ha’ir fast food restaurant on the busy pedestrian mall located at the intersection of Neve Shaanan and Solomon Streets, […]