Six Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded Sunday evening, one critically, after a huge explosion went off at a tunnel beneath an army outpostat the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip. A few hours later, Israel launched two separate missile strikes at metal workshops in Gaza City early Monday. No major injuries were reported. […]

JENIN, West Bank \u2014 The Israeli army reports a sharp drop in fatalities from Palestinian terror attacks in the first half of this year, giving much of the credit to the partially completed West Bank security barrier. Palestinians, who are reluctant to find any good in the barrier, also are benefiting from a reduction in […]

The commonly accepted version of events is that Clinton promised then-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, during the Wye talks of late 1998, to release Pollard as part of an overall Israeli-Palestinian Authority agreement. Several Israeli participants at the talks confirm that the promise to release Pollard was indeed made, but Clinton, in his newly released autobiography, […]

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat (Safed), told Arutz-7 that the incident proves the danger from local hostile Arabs to be greater than originally thought. The incident, as reported in the weekly B’sha’ah Tovah magazine, took place several days ago, when a group of yeshiva (seminary) students from America studying in Jerusalem made […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]

The Agency’s Executive convened yesterday for “extensive deliberations” and announced the following decision: It will “involve itself in planning, at this stage, and if the need arises in the future, also in building new communities and expanding existing communities in the Negev, Galilee and Gilboa funded by the Government of Israel.” The Agency was responding […]

Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denies that he ever agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The issue has risen once again with the release of ex-US President Bill Clinton’s autobiography, in which he claimed that four Israeli Prime Ministers with whom he worked agreed to leave the Golan. The three were Yitzchak Rabin, […]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, on the campus of Harvard University, Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) will host the fourth in a series of teach-ins at universities across the nation. Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Time: 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Where: Harvard University, Lecture Hall C, Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 […]

IDF troops arrested three Palestinian suspects in the West Bank on Monday night, including a senior Tanzim official, who the army said tried to escape from authorities by traveling in an ambulance. Earlier in the day, a laborer from Thailand died after being hit in the chest by a mortar fired at the Kfar Darom […]

It now appears that Israel’s “unilateral” disengagement from Gaza will only occur if Egypt sets the precise terms. Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Suleimon is expected to arrive in Israel this week, and will lay down the conditions that both Israel and the PA must fulfill for Egypt to agree to the Israeli withdrawal. Among the […]