Gush Katif is the name of the set of Jewish settlements at the western end of the Gaza Strip. Just recently, Ariel Sharon pushed through his plan for unilateral Israeli disengagement from Gaza, thus ensuring that he will go down in history as part of the Oslo appeasement and capitulation pantheon. Sharon showed that his […]

US authorities have arrested two members of the Hamas terror group operating on American soil. The two are being brought to trial on racketeering and terrorism charges. Muhammed Hamid Khalil Salah and Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar were arrested on Thursday in Chicago and Virginia, respectively. A warrant was issued for senior Hamas chief Mousa abu-Marzouk, […]

If Israeli professor Eliahu Levitas has his way, women undergoing IVF treatment will all have the benefit of a hypnotist at their bedside. According to Levitas’s team from Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, hypnosis can double the success of IVF treatment. Levitas’s study of 185 women found that 28% of women in the group who were […]

The Arab terrorist prisoners’ hunger strike entered its second week today, and they have not yet reduced their astonishing list of demands. Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi, who said at the beginning of the strike that as far as he’s concerned, “they can starve until they die,” said that he had not changed his stance. […]

The Embassy of Israel in Nairobi, Kenya, closed its doors for one day yesterday in order to deliver 15 tons of food to the village of Miangeni, hard-hit by the recent drought, which has affected many parts of Kenya. The Embassy of Israel in Nairobi, Kenya, closed its doors for one day yesterday in order […]

The Likud Party Central Committee voted last night against Prime Minister Sharon’s attempts to include the Labor Party in his government coalition. The vote places a big question mark on the future of the government and the disengagement plan. The convention delegates were asked to vote on two proposals. One, formulated by Prime Minister Sharon, […]

The largest international body outside the United Nations, the 115-member Non-Aligned Movement, passed a series of anti-Israel resolutions last night. Among them is a call for action “to decline entry to Israeli settlers” – i.e., the 450,000 Jewish residents of areas liberated in the Six Day War such as eastern and northern Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, […]

Two Kassam rockets were fired at the Negev city of Sderot this afternoon, wounding two people lightly – including a child. Some 30 people were treated for shock. One of the rockets landed in a shopping center. Another Kassam rocket was fired at the western Negev this morning, landing in an open field. In other […]

One person was seriously wounded this afternoon when a terrorist-fired mortar shell landed near the entrance to N’vei Dekalim in Gush Katif this afternoon. At least one other person was treated for shock. Other military news: IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon denied yesterday the headlines of last week, according to which he had […]

Tensions are high in the ruling Likud Party, only a day before a critical Central Committee session that is likely to decide the future of the government. The central question at hand is whether or not to include Labor in the government. Convention Chairman Yisrael Katz, a Likud Cabinet minister with right-wing leanings, promised last […]