NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (JTA) As Israel captured its first Nobel prize in science this week, Jews worldwide kvelled over the recognition of excellence in a discipline that has long been a hallmark of the Jewish state.The Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to two Israelis, Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion […]

The IDF Spokesman’s Office disseminated a short video clip yesterday, showing terrorists loading a UN ambulance van with a Kassam rocket. The van was later attacked by an IDF helicopter. The video clip can be seen here on Reuters’ “World Channel.” Other clips released by the IDF show terrorists firing Kassams from within the yard […]

1. You can’t get on a bus without being poked in the rear a dozen times with someone’s stray lulav. 2. The sweet smell of etrogim in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda (Yehuda Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds descend on the alleyway just outside the market to vie for the best lulav and etrog. 3. An enterprising […]

The Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel Electric Company are building the world’s biggest and brightest sukkah in time for the upcoming Sukkot festival, which begins Wednesday evening, September 29. A sukkah is a temporary dwelling in which Jews live for the weeklong festival of Sukkot, commemorating the 40-year period during which the Nation of Israel […]

NEW YORK- A senior Israeli official has said that Egypt’s policy is to promote Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israel, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to suspend U.S. aid to Egypt until the Egyptians change their policy. Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, who is chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs […]

The missile in the photo with this article is the Luna-2 short-range ground-to-ground missile, known to NATO from Soviet times as FROG-7, which Iran has developed as its Zelzal-2/Mushak-200. In the hands of Iran’s Lebanon-based Revolutionary Guards, it has extended the Iranian-Hizballah’s missile range due south to Israel’s coastal cities of Haifa, Hadera and Netanya. […]

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (JTA) — While it’s unlikely that a hurricane like Ivan will ever sweep through Balad, Iraq, Chaplain Capt. Shmuel Felzenberg says he thinks his desert sukkah — built for him near Balad by soldiers of the U.S. Army — likely could withstand the storm. Felzenberg, a rabbi, is one of a […]

NEW YORK- A senior Palestinian Authority official has for the first time publicly acknowledged that the PA knows the identity of the terrorists who murdered three Americans in Gaza last year but he says the PA will not arrest them. Musa Arafat, the head of PA Military Intelligence and a cousin of PA chairman Yasir […]

A tense meeting took place last night between Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra and leaders of the Yesha Council, in anticipation of a planned forcible evacuation of thousands of Jewish residents Gush Etzion Regional Council Chief Sha’ul Goldstein told Arutz-7 last night, “It was a very difficult meeting. We feel that we are the prophets […]

IDF intelligence evaluations state that Arab terrorists are working on introducing Kassam rocket launchers and capabilities into Judea and Samaria. The monthly army journal BaMachaneh [In the Camp] reports as much in its current edition in the name of a “high ranking intelligence officer.” The officer said that the Palestinian Authority Arabs’ strategic objective is […]