Israel revealed Sunday that IDF forces in Samaria last week prevented a massive terrorist attack when they discovered a huge store of weapons, including mortar shells, rockets and suicide belts. Soldiers arrested 14 senior Hamas terrorists in the pre-dawn raid in Shechem. The weapons laboratory was described as the largest discovered in the past three […]

The number of Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza increased significantly in the year 2004 – and particularly in Gaza, whose residents face the threat of demolition and expulsion. Population Registry statistics show that the population of Yesha increased by almost 6% in 2004, to a total of more than 250,000. This total does […]

Petitions signed by at least 10,000 IDF soldiers and officers opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal plan are to be presented to Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz next month. Noam Livnat, the brother of Education Minister Limor Livnat and spokesman for the Homat Magen [Defensive Shield] group, has released the text of the petitions it […]

JERUSALEM – Residents of Jewish towns in the western Negev and Gaza Strip were furious at the weekend over the Sharon government.s failure to adequately defend them from .Palestinian. rocket and mortar shell attacks. On Saturday night, an Israeli teen was critically wounded when a Kassam rocket hit her in the head on a main […]

In the Gulf War in the early 1990s, US soldiers fighting on the Middle Eastern battlefield sometimes found themselves using dressings dated from World War II to patch up their wounds. In the present Iraqi conflict, however, American forces are now using an advanced new bandage, developed in Israel, that can save lives by stopping […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and Stephen Flatow, father of terror victim Alisa Flatow and a member of the board of the ZOA.s Center for Law and Justice, protest the steps taken by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan. According to a statement issued Tuesday by his spokesman, the Secretary […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly condemned the first speech of Mahmoud Abbas, newly-elected leader of the Palestinian Authority where he said, ‘We offer this victory to the soul of brother martyr Yasir Arafat and to our martyrs (suicide bombers) and to 11,000 prisoners’ in Israeli jails. He also said, ‘the little […]

A new regulation set by IDF Armory Commander, Colonel Ehud David, stipulates that every soldier under his command is to be brought on a visit to the Kotel, the Western Wall. Every Sunday, IDF soldiers are brought to different sites around Israel to learn about the history and culture of the nation of Israel from […]

The Associated Press is the sole source for the report. Official confirmation has not been received. The “Galilee Free” is the name of a small Israeli-Arab terror organization that was mentioned in connection with the abduction and murder of IDF soldier Oleg Shchaiat in July 2003, shortly before Benet went missing. The group was also […]

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is determined to forcibly uproot the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria by the end of this year. His deputy, Ehud Olmert, insists a wider evacuation of settlements in the rest of Samaria and Judea will follow. But these threats against the right to settle Israel’s God-given heartland has […]