The Knesset Absorption Committee, chaired by MK Colette Avital (Labor), held an emergency closed-door session today on the current situation of the Jews of Iraq. Some 40 Jews, mostly elderly, remain in the country, with most of them living in Baghdad. The committee heard from a senior Mossad representative, the chairman of the Babylonian Jewish […]

As the latest series of the Intel’s new series of mobile Centrino computer chips and products is unveiled in New York this week with great fanfare and an unprecedented $300 million advertising campaign, the team at the company’s R&D facility in Haifa will be looking on with a particular sense of pride. The Centrino officially […]

The Hebron Municipal Board is demanding the permanent closure of the Arab Polytechnicum institute in Hebron where yesterday’s Haifa suicide bomber was a student. The municipality is also calling for the expulsion of all persons connected to the institution, as well as the entire extended Kawasma clan to whom the terrorist bomber belonged. The Polytechnicum […]

The government has still said and done nothing about the desecration of Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem – and the army is not happy about it. Senior IDF officials say that the government’s apathy is costing Israel a price in both the religious and security spheres. They feel that the PA interprets it as a weakness […]

Esam Sohail, of Kansas, USA, told Arutz-7 about a “small, basically hole-in-the-wall college tavern” called the Field House, in Wichita, and how the patrons and owners took a stand to help Israelis injured by Arab terrorists. Last summer, Sohail recalls, the Field House patrons “black and white, WASP and Arab-American, philosopher and pest, had enough […]

Israel Navy Headquarters in Haifa received a call yesterday for help from an Egyptian cargo boat headed from Egypt to Lebanon. The boat, which met up with stormy weather about 50 kilometers west of Haifa, radioed for help and asked to anchor in Haifa’s harbor. A special Israel Navy rescue boat was dispatched towards the […]

Israel, one of the smallest democracies, and India, one of the largest, have been developing ties of all kinds for some time now. Two recent items that appeared in the press exemplify the wide-ranging nature of these ties and the potential for deepening cooperation between the two states in a variety of fields. A cutting-edge […]

Ynet, Yediot Acharonot’s internet site, reports that the Bush Administration is planning a decade-long war against worldwide terrorism. Officials of the Pentagon and the Administration have explained their plans to colleagues in Western countries, among them – Israel. The targets of the campaign are those who were mentioned in President Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speeches, […]

The modern city of Modi’in, built in the vicinity of the ancient Modi’in of Hannukah’s Maccabees, is proving to be an archaeological treasure, as well. Recently, archaeologists working not far from the city unearthed the remains of a synagogue from the country’s Persian period. It is the only synagogue from that period thus far found […]

Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has recalled Israel’s Ambassador to Belgium for “consultations.” This move is merely the sharpest expression of widespread Israeli fury at Belgium’s decision yesterday that Ariel Sharon and other Israelis can be tried under the special Belgian law for international war crimes. The Belgian Supreme Court ruled that Sharon, as a sitting […]