Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has replaced Ariel Sharon as the Kadima Party’s prime ministerial candidate, is to visit Washington in February, just a month before Israel’s national elections. Visits of this type invariably add to the invitee’s stature in the perception of Israel’s domestic public, and this will therefore help Olmert as the […]

Compiled by the Gush Katif-L’maan Acheinu Task Force, the report states that out of 1,000 high school youths among the Gush Katif expellees, 50 have dropped out of school totally, and another 50-100 are registered but barely show up. No solution has been offered for those at risk of dropping out. In addition, a gap […]

Police used severe violence in Gush Etzion, firing tear-gas grenades into a house sought to destroy, pepper-spraying protestors, and dragging and hitting those who interfered, injuring 12 youths. At the end of the day, the mixed secular/religious community of Sde Boaz saw a small house and stable destroyed, while thwarting the demolition of a large […]

Since the disengagement last August, Israel’s security in relation to the Palestinian Authority, in particular the Gaza district, has been disintegrating. “The smuggling of weapons and explosives into Gaza has jumped by hundreds of percent in comparison to the period before the disengagement,” Diskin told the committee. “If before the disengagement, 200-300 rifles were smuggled […]

The Hevron Jewish Community leadership is calling upon Jews all over the country to flock to the city in order to protect the Mitzpe Shalhevet neighborhood from destruction. The people of Amonah, overlooking Ofrah in the Binyamin region, on the other hand, are taking a “wait and see” approach for the meanwhile. The Hevron neighborhood […]

The doctors began the process of easing Sharon out of his induced coma this morning, and he began breathing on his own shortly afterwards. He is still connected to a respirator, however. Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yoseph, Director of Hadassah in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, said later in the afternoon that Sharon had moved his right hand and […]

A U.S.-based Saudi professor and former U.N. fellow says he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a “myth” and says America eventually will collapse like the Soviet Union. Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, who has taught at four American schools, told Iran’s Mehr News Agency Dec. 26, “I agree wholeheartedly with President Ahmadinejad.” […]

Proponents of the disengagement as well as government statisticians might have expected that the number of Jews living across the country’s post 1967 borders would have declined after the disengagement, at least in the short term. But in fact, the exact opposite has occurred. On the eve of the disengagement, 250,179 Jews were officially registered […]

Egyptian police arrested some 100 Palestinians who swarmed across the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday after gunmen bulldozed a path through the barricade lining the frontier, Palestinian witnesses and officials said. Earlier, two Egyptian soldiers were killed and 37 wounded as thousands of Egyptian security forces were said to have withdrawn from the border with […]

Earlier this morning, doctors in Hadassah Ein Karem in Jerusalem said Sharon’s condition of Prime Minister Sharon continued to be “serious but stable.” They had planned to ease him out of his induced coma on Sunday morning. Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Director of Hadassah Hospital, told reporters this morning that the Prime Minister’s condition had not […]