The ranking of Israeli windsurfer Gal Friedman improved and he is now ranked in third place after one of two men’s Mistral Olympic races was cancelled late on Sunday. Friedman finished the cancelled race in fifth place, but organizers cancelled it after it was determined competitors raced in the wrong course. Friedman reached the third […]

A 40-year-old Arab man from Shuafat – an Arab-populated neighborhood in northern Jerusalem – attempted to murder a Border Guard policeman in Jerusalem shortly before 10:00 this morning. The terrorist stabbed his victim on the eastern side of the capital’s Highway #1, less than 300 yards north of the Old City. The policeman, though wounded […]

Friday, 15:30 – One Israeli is dead after having been shot outside the Shomron town of Itamar by an Arab terrorist. The attacker was a member of the Palestinian Authority’s Preventative Security Force. The lone terrorist fired at a rear sentry post of Itamar shortly before 11:00am today. The communitys first response team was activated […]

Is it possible to both produce oil and save the environment at the same time? Israeli start-up BioPetrol Ltd. has developed a system to do just that. The company’s breakthrough process produces usable synthetic crude oil from sewage sludge – reducing the garbage to only 5% of its original volume. Furthermore, ingredients in the biopetrol […]

Released for publication: A Jewish “peace activist” from Tel Aviv, 29-year-old Tali Fahima, has been arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks against Jewish targets and aiding arch-terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi from Jenin. Fahima was arrested yesterday by police and turned over to agents of the General Security Services (GSS/Shabak). The Petach Tikva District Court extended […]

Security sources revealed today that in In months, at least three attempts by Arab terrorists in Israel to use minors in attacks against Jews were foiled. In one case, a group of 11-14-year-olds were caught smuggling weapons between Egypt and Israel. In another case, a 17-year-old Arab youth blew himself up in an attempted attack […]

An Israeli research team is leading a clinical study which could lead to stamping out shigella, one of the world’s most deadly diseases and the killer of an estimated one million children each year. Shigella dysentery is a common disease, often self-limited and mild but occasionally serious, particularly in the first 3 years of life. […]

Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz decided last night to allow Palestinian Authority para-military policemen in Judea and Samaria to bear arms. The decision was made in a special meeting last night with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Shabak officials, and IDF generals. The objective of the new policy is to enable the PA to […]

Modigliani: Beyond the Myth May 21, 2004 – September 19, 2004 Solely sponsored by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation. When Modigliani died in Paris in 1920, at the age of thirty-five, he became the standard-bearer for the myth of the bohemian artist the unappreciated artist-genius consoled by wine and drugs. This celebrated myth is based […]

The “settlement blocs” Prime Minister Sharon promised to keep safe are clearly in danger. Not only is his disengagement/expulsion plan for Gaza and northern Shomron picking up steam, it now appears headed for the rest of Judea and Samaria as well. The Defense Ministry has completed a large-scale project to mark the existing built-up borders […]