The IDF has completed the removal of some 40 barriers around Arab villages throughout Judea and Samaria, thus removing many restrictions on free travel for Palestinian Authority residents. Neighboring Jewish residents fear that terrorists will be able, as they have in the past, to commit shooting attacks and then return quickly to their villages without […]

A nine-justice Supreme Court panel nullified today local laws forbidding the public sale of pig meat, ruling that the non-kosher product may be sold in certain areas. The judicial panel, headed by Chief Justice Aharon Barak, ruled unanimously that the towns and cities are advised to legislate permission to sell pork in accordance with the […]

Yet another emergency meeting will be held in Gush Katif on Sunday, in light of the apparent onset of the withdrawal/expulsion process. On the agenda will be the reports of the beginning of negotiations for financial compensation and other indications that the withdrawal is being implemented. Promotional literature for the mass gathering states, “Secretly, while […]

NEW YORK- There is new evidence that Egypt is permitting and facilitating the flow of weapons to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to pressure Egypt to change its policy. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “It is surprising and disappointing that the […]

A timetable for the uprooting of Jews from Gaza shows that the process will begin not in nine months’ time, as this week’s Cabinet decision indicated, but rather in two months. According to the document, prepared by the National Security Council, the first Jews will be able to leave Gaza voluntarily as early as August […]

Yesterday’s intense day-long political drama ended somewhat anti-climactically, with the Cabinet approving a watered-down version of the disengagement plan. Yesterday’s political drama ended somewhat anti-climactically, with the Cabinet approving a watered-down version of the disengagement plan. Although the withdrawal is not scheduled to be voted on before March 2005, the Prime Minister said yesterday, “The […]

Mothers for Fortitude and Unity (ACHVA) although founded only this week has received thousands of emails and phone calls from mothers and soldiers across Israel in support of their efforts and offering their thanks. Co-founder Shoshi Slozki spoke to Arutz 7s Ezra HaLevi and said many thanked ACHVA for, saying what we know is true, […]

PARIS (AP) – A Jewish teenager was stabbed in the chest by a man crying “God is great,” officials said. It was the second attack in a week on a young Jewish man. The 17-year-old victim, who was not identified, was attacked Friday afternoon as he left a Jewish school in Epinay-sur-Seine, north of Paris […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is requesting clarification of the apparent contradiction between President Bush’s latest call for Israel to return to the indefensible 1967 borders, and the promise he made to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon less than two months ago that Israel would not be expected to return to those […]

Thirty-seven years after regaining control over key areas of its biblical patrimony in the 1967 Six Day War, Israel’s cabinet Sunday decided the time had come to abandon the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria and uproot the Jews living there. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement” plan ran up against a wall of political chaos Sunday, […]