by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Construction at Har Homa is continuing apace, the chairman of the authority in charge of developing the southern Jerusalem neighborhood said Wednesday. Building in the neighborhood of Homat Shmuel within Har Homa continues, Chairman Herzl Yechezkel told Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew service. “I want to remind Jerusalemites and all of the Nation […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The US is considering abstaining if the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution against Israeli construction in eastern Jerusalem, the BBC reported Sunday. For decades, Israel has depended on the US to veto UNSC resolutions aimed against it. A change in this US policy could be very perilous for […]

by David Lev (Israelnationalnews.com) The home of Major Eliraz Peretz, who was killed Friday when his IDF unit pursued a gang of terrorists into the Gaza region, is set to be demolished by May 1 at the latest, thanks to an order by the High Court which gave the state a deadline for carrying out […]

Netanyahu Can Say “No,” by Prof. Efraim Inbar The Israeli interest in keeping Jerusalem united is more intense than the Obama desire for a foreign policy success. Efraim Inbar BESA Center Perspectives Papers No. 103, March 25, 2010 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives103.html EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel to accept the division of Jerusalem as […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) The three prize-winners of the annual Moskowitz Prize for Zionism have been announced: Rabbi Yoel Schwartz, Anita Tucker, and Brig.-Gen. (res.) Aharon Davidi. The Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, founded by Dr. Irving Moskowitz and Cherna Moskowitz, was first awarded in 2008. It was established in recognition of the people who put […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) A project for construction of 20 housing units at the Shepherd Hotel compound in eastern Jerusalem received the final bureaucratic approvals Tuesday and construction could begin at any time. The project involves restoration of the British and Jordanian-era building in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, next to Shimon HaTzaddik […]

In the Copenhagen township of Nørrebro that has been solidly in Muslim hands for a long time [1], Jews must hide their faith in order to avoid persecution. Yellow stars get stuck to the backs [2] of Norwegian schoolchildren, and the teachers don’t intervene. In the “enriched” Swedish town of Malmö, many Jewish families have […]

by Avi Yellin (Israelnationalnews.com) Every time the United States forces Israel to surrender land for “peace,” it is followed by rocket attacks and civilian casualties, National Union chairman and Knesset Member Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz said Monday. Commenting shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “Israel undermines U.S. policy” speech at the annual American Israel […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) First time in 62 years: Hundreds gathered for Sabbath prayers at the renewed, majestic Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. Puah Shteiner, who spent her early years in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter and was exiled as a little girl when Jordan captured and largely destroyed the area, was […]

By Charles Krauthammer Why did President Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in Israel’s Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Biden was visiting, […]