Shlomo Dror, spokesperson for the Coordinator of Activities in the Territories, told IMRA today that Israel is still supplying to Gaza the water that it previous supplied to the Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip. Dror noted that a week before the evacuation, Israeli officials toured the Israeli water processing facilities with Palestinian officials as […]

Israel and Egypt are the two largest recipients of U.S. aid. For its“participation” in the Gulf War, Egypt was forgiven its indebtedness of $9 billion. Israel pays its bills. It receives $2.8 billion every year. Of that amount, $2.0 billion is for military aid and $0.8 billion for economic aid. It’s fair to ask whether […]

New York – The ZOA has expressed deep concern that President George W. Bush, in a major speech in Annapolis yesterday, omitted any mention of the Jewish state of Israel when referring to countries that have been victim of Islamist terrorism. Israel is of course Islamist terrorism’s most consistent target. In his speech, President Bush […]

Arab terrorists fired two rockets on Ashkelon Saturday. They landed in open fields and caused no injuries. Another Kassam struck the Negev Friday, and 15 wanted terrorists crossed at Rafiah. The IDF retaliated with artillery fire on open fields in northern Gaza after the attack on the southern city around 5 p.m. (10 a.m. EST). […]

A poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israeli Jews carried out by Smith Research & Consulting on 29-30 November and sponsored by ZOA – The Zionist Organization of America – finds that 67% oppose carrying out a significant unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria if it is not possible to advance in negotiations […]

Emulating the blunder of their patriarch’s elder brother Esau, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party Monday said Israel has no choice but to sell its birthright for the “bowl of pottage” it believes will ease the nation’s current ills. “The people of Israel have a national and historical right to all of Israel, and […]

Anti-Israel violence continues in the PA-controlled city of Shechem, in the Shomron. Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza, causing no injuries. Shechem (Nablus), has long been known as one of the Palestinian Authority’s terrorism capitals. Last night, an IDF force identified three Arab terrorists standing on the side of the city’s southern bypass […]

New York – Yesterday, Palestinians fired Qassam rockets and mortars at Israeli population centers in a serious attempt to murder Jews and destroy Jewish property; yet, despite promises by senior Israeli officials months ago to use overwhelming force if terrorism continues after the Gaza withdrawal, Israel’s only response was to fire back at empty fields […]

If the opponents of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan didn’t derail anything, the failure can’t be blamed on Helen Freedman. Freedman, the tireless executive director of Americans For a Safe Israel, was practically a one-woman opposition movement this past spring and summer. She organized rallies, wrote press releases, organized missions to Israel and the territories and […]

Gush Etzion residents are deciding whether to continue to negotiate with the authorities on the route of the Partition Wall, or to oppose the wall’s construction altogether. Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, one of the region’s first communities reestablished after the Six-Day-War, announced last month that it rejects the building of a wall around the Etzion Bloc […]