I extend a warm welcome to the Prime Minister of Belgium, Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, who is also the President of the European Council, and Mr. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission. Welcome to Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people for more than 3000 years, and the united, undivided capital of Israel forever. Israel […]

(IsraelNationalNews.com) At about 3:00pm today, three Jews were wounded by terrorist gunfire in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack near Shavei Shomron. Injured in the attack were Yair [ben Rivka] and Shimrit [bat Chemda] Heibi, who both were taken for emergency surgery following their arrival at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Yair, 52, was injured in […]

Today’s news involved a series of quotes uttered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at various forums, as well as significant statements made by other political leaders. Sharon began by repeating his pledge, at the beginning of today’s Cabinet meeting, not to conduct any talks regarding a Palestinian state before a discussion is held on the […]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – In a letter to President Bush today, 89 senators urged him not to restrain Israel from retaliating fully against Palestinian violence and to express his solidarity publicly with Israel soon. The six-paragraph letter was intended to prevent Secretary of State Colin L. Powell from including direct or indirect criticism of Israel […]

Tourism Minister Benny Elon demanded today that Prime Minister Sharon fire Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, following the latter’s speech in the United Nations yesterday. Asked if he can continue to be a member in a government whose representatives express public support for a Palestinian state, Elon said, “At present, I can, yes – but not […]

Following a series of phone calls between the Prime Minister’s Office and Peres’ aides in New York, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the UN that “there is a consensus in Israel for a Palestinian state,” although he prefaced it by saying, “This is not the official policy of the State of Israel…” Earlier in the […]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak took a rather threatening tone today. Speaking at the dedication of a new bridge near Ismailia, he called on the U.S. to stop supplying Israel with “blind military aid.” Mubarak said that Israel’s neighbors may respond by stocking up on “weapons of mass slaughter – nuclear, chemical and biological” – and […]

A carbomb in the Machpelah Cave in Hevron? Almost. The GSS reported today that it apprehended, three weeks ago, a Tanzim terrorist cell from the Southern Hevron Hills that had planned to detonate just such a bomb at the holy site. The car was to be disguised as a UN vehicle, for which the group […]

Aaron Ussishkin, 50, the security officer of Moshav Kfar Hess, was shot dead by an Arab terrorist last night. He was alerted to the presence of a suspicious man at the entrance to the community, within pre-1967 Israel, about six kilometers northwest of PA-controlled Kalkilye and six kilometers northeast of Raanana. He ran to the […]

(Nov.11- 21:42) An Israeli man was killed in a terrorist attack on Sunday night shortly before 8:00pm. A suspicious male was seen near the entrance to Moshav Kfar Hess in the Lev HaSharon Regional Council, inside Green Line Israel, about ten kilometers (six miles) northwest of PA-controlled Kalkilya. The security officer of Kfar Hess was […]