The Situation 23 Years Ago People often ask why there is any reason to be so excited about the Sharon government proposing the demolition of 26 Jewish communities in Gush Katif and in Samaria. After all, didn’t Ariel Sharon demolish 16 Jewish communities in the Sinai in April, 1982, in his capacity as Israel’s Minister […]

The Palestinian Arabs Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of their current terrorist campaign against Israel, commonly known as the Oslo War or Al Aqsa Intifada. A third intifada, or uprising, far more intense in scope is on the horizon, they said, blowing away Western assertions that the region is gaining momentum towards peace in the […]

Wednesday’s sixth Nefesh B’Nefesh flight this summer includes a victim of Arab terror and a New York couple celebrating a post-wedding festival meal on the plane. More than 200 new immigrants are scheduled to land at Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday afternoon. One more flight of new immigrants (olim) is planned in December, bringing this year’s […]

Representatives of most of the communities destroyed in Gush Katif under the Expulsion Plan have expressed their preference to re-establish their towns in the Lachish area. Representatives of most of the communities destroyed in Gush Katif under the Expulsion Plan have expressed their preference to re-establish their towns in the Lachish area. The area under […]

For sufferers of osteoporosis, a new study conducted in Israel that determines the brain plays an important role in maintaining proper bone density provides a ray of hope. The research conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem focused on the activity of the protein interleukin 1 in the brain, and signified not only an important […]

The IDF attacked terrorists a second time after the government approved targeted killings and artillery attacks but ruled out a ground assault. MK Shteinitz charged that the response was too weak. The missile strikes early Sunday morning came two hours after the security Cabinet met in an emergency meeting and approved the resumption of artillery […]

(IsraelNN.com) The Disengagement Authority is pressuring 700 Gush Katif transferees to leave the hotels to which it moved them when the government destroyed their homes and communities last month. There remain less than two weeks until the Jewish holiday season begins, and it will bring with it another bit of topsy-turviness and change from routine. […]

In a provocation aimed at Hevron’s Jewish community, Arabs in Hevron have put down two trailers on one of the ancient city’s Jewish cemeteries. Hevron’s Jewish community awoke Wednesday morning to discover that two caravan trailer homes had been placed on an ancient Jewish Ashkenazi cemetery frequented by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement due to the fact […]

What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of September 3-4. That’s when 15 Muslim youths from one village, Dair Jarir, rampaged against Taybeh, a neighboring all-Christian village of 1,500 people. The reason for the assault? A Muslim woman from Dair Jarir, Hiyam Ajaj, 23, fell in […]

Simon Wiesenthal, who survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps and then spent his life hunting down and bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, has died at the age 96. Wiesenthal, whose wife of 67 years, Cyla, died two years ago, is survived by their only child, Paulinka Kreisberg of Herzliya, and her children and grandchildren. […]