Thousands of people are expected to celebrate Independence Day tomorrow in Gush Katif. Buses will leave for the area from throughout the country, and a march across the Katif region will begin at 11 AM. Thousands of people are expected to celebrate Independence Day tomorrow in Gush Katif. Buses will leave for the area from […]

Tonight at 8:00 PM, the Memorial Day siren will sound around the country, and the central ceremony will then begin at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Tonight at 8:00 PM, the Memorial Day siren will sound around the country, marking the beginning of the day’s solemn events. The main state ceremony will take place at […]

MADRID, April 22 (JTA) — Nicholson family members love getting out of Madrid on weekends, and often they round up other young families for the weekly kosher barbeque at Masada, a Jewish retreat in the mountains outside Spain’s capital.Masada, it turns out, was on a list of bombing targets police found in the hideout of […]

Housing purchases in the Golan Heights will have quintupled over the past three years, according to official estimates. The Golan Regional Council reports that the housing campaign entitled, “Connecting to the Dream,” which began this week, has already shown great success. Hundreds of phone calls have been received so far, and some 450 new families […]

Almost thirty years ago, a young Jerusalem high school teacher lent a hot-steam vaporizer to a neighbor with a sick child. Others asked to borrow the device too, and the teacher – Uri Lupolianski – purchased additional vaporizers geared for lending purposes to the large families in his neighborhood. Today, Yad Sarah – the organization […]

The Jewish Agency has launched an initiative which will allocate subsistence grants to members of the Israeli Olympic Team to Athens who have recently immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. The purpose of the grant is to allow new immigrant athletes to fully concentrate on training for the Athens Olympics instead […]

Preparations are underway and anticipation is high as many thousands of residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and other places in Israel, begin their house-to-house campaign to “save Israel from the disengagement/evacuation/expulsion plan.” Some 500 Beit El residents gathered in the Central Synagogue last night for last-minute coaching and encouragement. Similar events were held in […]

Holocaust Remembrance Day will begin with an official state ceremony at 8 PM this evening in Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. The large families built by many who were the only survivors of their original families place in bold relief the national catastrophe of the Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day will begin with an official state ceremony […]

U.S. media emphasized two points regarding the Bush-Sharon understandings: One, that President Bush’s diplomatic assurances provided a “victory” for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and two, that the Bush-Sharon negotiations were carried out behind the back of the Palestinians, thus infuriating them. The Washington Post summed up both these points in its opening sentence: “President Bush […]

A Palestinian woman carrying a bag containing a 25-kilogram explosive device was arrested Thursday evening outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Israel Defense Forces reservists noticed 28-year-old Fatan Dararmeh, trying to hitch a ride near the Ariel Junction in the West Bank at around 7 P.M. Upon searching her bags they found the explosive […]