The coalition negotiations officially began today, with representatives of Shinui, Shas, and the National Union meeting one after the other with the Likud at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan. Labor is boycotting the negotiations – although it appears that Ariel Sharon and Labor Party leader Amram Mitzna will meet privately in the coming days. Sharon […]

It was learned over the weekend that Ariel Sharon met over the past few days with Abu Ala, the head of the PA Legislative Council. Dov Weisglass, Director of the Prime Minister’s Office, departed for Jordan this morning to brief its Foreign Minister on the recent highest-level Israeli-PA talks. Sharon’s staffers say that further talks […]

As reported by Arutz-7’s Israel National News, the Shinui party’s Avraham Poraz told Israel Radio this morning that families should not have more than four children unless they have the means to support them. At first, I thought to ask Knesset member Poraz to define “means.” Should families with an income of 7,000 NIS per […]

The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP), which has conducted surveys of Israeli, Syrian and PA school textbooks in the past, has undertaken a similar survey of Saudi Arabian textbooks, with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee. The report presents the worldview to which Saudi students aged 6-16 are exposed through their […]

Israeli artists are garnering more international recognition this year. Since the start of 2003, two Israeli films have received awards at a French Film and Television festival, six Israeli films were chosen to take part in the 53rd Berlinale film festival, and eight Israeli artists will present at the Venice Biennale. 1. The film Purity […]

The Interior Ministry, in a report entitled “Polygamy in Israel,” indicates that Israel is paying through the nose to 20,000 Israeli-Arab men who have married multiple wives from other countries, and thus receive child-support payments for them. The report, submitted to Prime Minister Sharon yesterday, was prepared by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Herzl Gedz, head of the […]

A senior terrorist mastermind was caught in Hevron early this morning: Bader El-Haimouni, who planned the ambush attack between Hevron and Kiryat Arba three months ago. He also planned the murderous attack of five weeks ago in the Otniel yeshiva. El-Haimouni, of Islamic Jihad, is thus responsible for the murder of 16 Israelis. IDF forces […]

Myth: Everything that’s wrong with Iraq’s economy is because of sanctions. Fact: Iraq enjoyed a strong economy until Saddam Hussein took power and launched attacks against his neighbors âEUR” Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990 âEUR” with devastating results for Iraq. It took 5 years for Saddam to accept the oil-for-food program. Saddam also […]

By Richard McBee In Poland there was a vibrant Jewish culture for close to a thousand years before it was brutally erased by the Holocaust. The years between the First World War and the Nazi invasion in 1939 were especially rich in diversity, encompassing traditional shtetl life and a vast cosmopolitan secular Jewish culture. After […]

Prime Minister Sharon basically has three choices in forming the new government, none of them particularly smooth: A secular unity government with Shinui and Labor; A unity government as it was until last November, based on Labor and the religious parties, with or without National Union; and without Shinui; A right-wing coalition with the National […]