Tuesday morning, Israel’s Air Force fired two missiles at targets in northern Gaza. The missiles struck structures used by the Al-Aqsa Brigades terror group, which is affiliated with PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party. “One structure, in Beit Lahiya, was used as a recruitment center,” the IDF spokesperson announced, and the other, in Gaza City, […]

[IMRA: It would appear that Israel will continue with its policy of waiting for the Palestinians to first succeed in murdering Israelis before actually taking – rather than talking about – serious action.] Rocket lands near kindergarten www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190485,00.html Chanukah miracle? Qassam rocket fired at Israeli kibbutz Monday afternoon lands near preschool during party; no injuries […]

BETHLEHEM – With Christmas services here drawing far fewer tourists than in the 1990s and the town’s Christian population now at an all-time low, many world leaders and hundreds of major media outlets this week blamed Israel for Bethlehem’s decline – often citing false information – while a simple talk with the town’s residents reveals […]

Newly elected Likud Chairman MK Binyamin Netanyahu’s desire to remove criminal elements from the Likud Party is laudable, but it is hardly the way to address the electoral liability that Moshe Feiglin’s presence in the party may represent. That Feiglin was sentenced for leading a stringently non-violent movement against Oslo should be an embarrassment for […]

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was asked to undertake the rehabilitation project of what was Gush Katif by the Government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Quartet. With more than 1.2 million tons of debris and rubble to be cleared and recycled, the project will cost US $24.7 million – underwritten totally by […]

Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has criticized the US House of Representatives for threatening the PA with a loss of funding should the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas participate in the Palestinian legislative elections in January. The House resolution passed last Friday called for the PA to require all groups running in the elections to disarm […]

After a month of post-withdrawal quiet, there were 62 Kassam attacks in September (all in the second half of the month), 16 in October, 29 in November, and 49 so far this month. In total, then, there were 156 rockets since Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza this past August. Over 80 more Gaza-fired Kassams landed […]

Likud MK Michael Ratzon attacked newly elected party leader Benjamin Netanyahu late Wednesday over his plan to change the Likud charter in an effort to exclude far-right activist Moshe Feiglin from running for a place on the party’s Knesset list next month. Netanyahu wants to keep out Feiglin, the head of the far-right Jewish Leadership […]

Hebrew University professor Israel Aumann accepts Nobel Prize for Economics in Stockholm ceremony Saturday evening along with Thomas Schelling for advancing understanding of conflict through game theory Ynet Israeli pride: Professor Israel (Robert) Aumann of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University has accepted the Nobel Prize in Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday evening. Aumann’s excited family members were […]

(IsraelNN.com) Israel has agreed to pay the United Nations $25 million for Palestinian Authority (PA) contractors to remove the debris from the destruction of buildings that once housed the Gush Katif and northern Gaza Jewish communities. The PA also will receive the debris without payment and use it as fill for construction projects. Israel’s spokesman […]