The current medal tally is: 4 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze. Adding to the three gold medals won last week, Israeli athletes have won another three medals in the World Championship Swimming Competition for the Handicapped, held in Argentina, Superstar swimmer Keren Leibovitch won the gold medal last night for her time in the 50 […]

“For 15 years, the State Prosecution and the police have waged a campaign to harm Arutz-7 by “hitting us in our pockets.” On two previous occasions, police have smashed and confiscated our state-of-the-art broadcasting equipment, under the pretext that the station’s broadcasts are against Israeli law. No court has ever ruled that this is the […]

German diplomat and member of European Union Commission Christian Waldrahs was saved by his bulletproof jeep from an assassin’s bullets, fired as he came out of Jenin Fatah commander Mussa Kadura’s home on Saturday, December 21. DEBKAfile‘s military and counter-terror sources report that Waldrahs has the unhappy distinction of being the first target of an […]

LONDON, Dec. 18 (JTA) — British Jews and other pro-Israel activists have responded with shock and disbelief to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s visit to London. During his visit, Assad denied harboring terrorists in Damascus, defended suicide bombings and dismissed a proposed conference on reform of the Palestinian Authority as misguided. He also refused to accept […]

American intelligence agencies are arduously investigating the intended destination of the North Korean ship that was found two days ago to be smuggling at least 12 Scud missiles. American sources say the ship was headed for Yemen, though it is not yet clear who purchased the missiles.

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (JTA) — Those inclined to look on the bright side might say that Israeli-Palestinian cooperation is alive and kicking: Israelis and Palestinians joined ranks to make big money, until one of them woke up with a bad conscience. The joint venture in question began in February 1997, when Palestinian Authority President Yasser […]

A North Korean-crewed ship carrying 12 disassembled Scud missiles bound for Yemen has been boarded and seized by Spanish and U.S. military forces in the Arabian Sea, Pentagon and administration officials said Tuesday. U.S. intelligence satellites and Navy ships had been tracking the unflagged ship, the Sosan, since it left North Korea during the middle […]

The Yesha Council, representing the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has once again called on U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer to stop intervening in Israeli life. Kurtzer, speaking at the third annual Herzliya Conference last night, said that the “settlers [of Yesha] do not represent the national consensus in Israel,” and added […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (JTA) — For the first time, the White House has officially determined that the Palestinians are not in compliance with the agreements it has signed with the United States and Israel. But despite the determination, President Bush immediately waived any sanctions required by law, invoking national security as the reason. The president’s […]

FRANKFURT, Nov. 29 — In an embarrassing mixup that speaks less to the fog of war than to the fog of fax machines, Germany may rescind its offer of armored vehicles to Israel on the ground that officials misread a faxed request from the Israelis specifying the model they sought. On Wednesday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder […]