Israeli Defense Forces troops prevented a terrorist attack Thursday morning, killing a bomb-laden terrorist after he had infiltrated into a hothouse in Gush Katif. IDF forces patrolling in the agricultural Gush Katif community of Ganei Tal killed the terrorist in a 30-minute gun battle at dawn, according to an army spokeswoman. Soldiers searched in vain […]

Morale is high, despite the rain and cold, among the thousands of people at the anti-disengagement sit-in around the Knesset. MK Uri Ariel has moved his parliamentary office to the site. The protest is actually more like a live-in, with tents set up along the length of the fence surrounding the Knesset. Many families spent […]

The head of Israel’s intelligence agency issued a dire warning against withdrawing from the Philadelphi Route, adding that quitting northern Shomron would expose Israeli cities to shelling attacks. Avi Dichter, who heads Israel’s General Security Service (Shabak), appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today and spoke out unambiguously against aspects of PM […]

Arab terrorists Saturday continued to bombard Israeli targets and civilians on both sides of the Green Line with mortar shelling and rockets. A Kassam rocket fell Friday near a major power plant in the city of Ashkelon, just north of Gaza, within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Critics of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan have pointed […]

The Vatican instructed the Catholic church in France not to return Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust, according to a letter dated November 20, 1946, that was published Tuesday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. The children had been placed in the church’s care to save them from Nazi murder, but after […]

The mercilessness of Asia’s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst-hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000. The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced Thursday afternoon that Thai authorities had identified two bodies as those of Israeli tourists. One of the bodies has been […]

The IDF confiscated hundreds of illegal arms, including mortars from the homes of Israeli Arabs living in the Galilee Monday. The operation, carried out by tens of police officers, uncovered hundreds of unlicensed handguns and two mortars ‘ capable of firing mortar shells similar to those being fired upon the Jewish communities in Gaza and […]

A Hadassah University Medical Center research team has developed a vaccine that significantly strengthens the body’s immune system against the autoimmune aftereffects of HIV infection, a breakthrough that could dramatically make an impact in the treatment of AIDS patients. Close to a million cases of AIDS have been diagnosed in the US since the beginning […]

Though launched only one month ago, the Yad VaShem online database of Holocaust victims has already been visited by over three million people. A total of 3,029,930 visitors entered the Yad Vashem website since the uploading of the Central Database of Shoah Victims Names to the Internet just one month ago. Israel has the highest […]

The Foreign Ministry said Monday night that 29 Israelis had been injured in South Asia, four of them seriously. The four were in Thailand: two on Phi Phi Island and two on Phuket. Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman, David Saranga, told Israel Radio that the four will be flown to Bangkok on Tuesday for further treatment […]