An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed Monday and another officer lightly injured when a tunnel dug by Palestinians collapsed under the Philadelphi Route on the Egypt-Israel border. Captain Moshe Taranto, 23, from Ashdod, was working on further exposing a tunnel that was dug from the Egyptian side of Rafah in the direction of the […]

“Our goal is not to win the clash between soldiers and residents [during an evacuation of Gaza and northern Shomron], but rather to prevent it in the first place.” So says Noam Livnat, the driving force behind a grassroots movement to garner soldiers’ signatures on an “I Won’t Evict Jews” petition. This morning, Women in […]

The United Nation’s Middle East peace envoy Terje Larsen, who is set to leave his position in the near future, met with Assad in Damascus yesterday. Larsen told reporters afterwards that the Syrian dictator is “willing to go to the table without conditions” and “has an outstretched hand to his Israeli counterparts.” A spokesman for […]

Known as WeaponSurvey.com, the site contains photographs as well as a variety of detailed information on the production and smuggling of weapons by local Arabs, ranging from landmines to missiles and rockets to chemical and biological agents. The site is the brainchild of Aharon Etengoff, who served in both the Photography & Film and the […]

Tuesday’s UN resolution, blanketly condemning religion-based violence, lumped anti-Semitism together with Islamophobia and Christianophobia. A report released by the FBI just one day earlier, though, illustrates the fact thatJews and Jewish institutions are the most-favored targets for hate crimes in the United States. The FBIs Hate Crimes Statistics 2003 report, released on Monday, documents 927 […]

News of the seminar was reported in an internal journal of an organization defined as “Messianic Jewish.” The group sponsored a trip of Jewish students who “take the initiative and travel to Poland,” as described in the literature. The students visited important Jewish sites such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, Maidanek, the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, told parliament on Tuesday that he’ll follow in Yasser Arafat’s footsteps and demand that Israel recognize the ”right of return” of Palestinian refugees, a hard-line position that has contributed to failed peace efforts in the past. Abbas’ remarks were seen as the start of his […]

An Israeli military court handed a life-sentence Sunday to the man who proudly displayed his blood-drenched hands after he joined a lynch-mob of other Arabs and carried out the grisly murder of Cpl. Vadim Norzitch, one of the two Israelis killed in the lynching at a Ramallah police station in 2001. Aziz Salha was part […]

The new Yad Vashem site, at www.yadvashem.org, is termed a “historic” central database of Shoah [Holocaust] Victims, and contains some three million names. It is an attempt to reconstruct the names, and some of the life stories, of all the Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. “We are reaching a crucial historical hour,” said […]

An Israeli man was stabbed last night at the Geha Highway Intersection, near Tel Aviv. He is now listed in light-to-moderate condition. The man was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition, with the knife still embedded in his back. A resident of the Shomron city of Ariel, the victim’s condition improved after he […]