JERUSALEM (March 4) – Despite congressional testimony to the contrary, the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday refuted the claim that Prime Minister Ehud Barak made three calls to then president Bill Clinton in a bid to gain a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich. According to testimony given Thursday to the House Government Reform Committee hearing […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Secretary of State Colin Powell for his demand that Israel stop using economic pressure against Yasir Arafat’s terrorist regime, at the same time that Powell himself continues advocating American economic pressure to combat Saddam Hussein’s terrorist regime. During his current visit to Israel and […]

HAIFA (February 22) – Local authorities from Haifa northward have received instructions to make appropriate preparations for the possibility of Katyusha rocket attacks from south Lebanon, OC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Gaby Ophir said yesterday. “Regarding Haifa and the bayside suburbs, for the past year, Home Front Command generally and the district commanders in particular […]

“There is no other explanation, except that it is a miracle.” So says the sister-in-law of Roni Diament of Efrat, who was shot 14 times in the stomach and chest by Palestinian terrorists last night – but who underwent an operation this afternoon and is no longer in life-threatening danger. His condition had deteriorated over […]

The Moslem Waqf continues in its refusal to allow tourists – or any non-Moslem – to visit the Temple Mount. Waqf director Adnan al-Husseini rejected the government’s request, and said that this is an “internal Waqf matter, and Israel has no right to intervene in it… It is our prerogative to open and close the […]

For the second time within the past 12 months a high ranking military defector from Iraq is claiming that Saddam Hussein has completed a top secret nuclear weapons project, which may have yeilded at least two operational atomic bombs. According to the London Sunday Telegraph, the latest defector, who is a military engineer, fled from […]

GAZA – Israeli attack helicopters have assassinated a commander in the praetorian guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. The target was Lt. Col. Masoud Ayad, an officer in Arafat’s Force 17. Ayad’s car was struck by an anti-aircraft missile fired by an Israeli assault helicopter in northern Gaza City on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said […]

JERUSALEM – Knesset Member Benny Elon (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) is calling on Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon to take action against the continuing murder of Jews and other Palestinian violence, such as the shooting on Gilo. “Sharon, even before he was elected, intervened in the municipal workers strike,” Elon said, “so how much more so should […]

JERUSALEM – The family of Tehilla Cohen and other victims of the Kfar Darom school bus bombing have filed suit against PA security service director Mohammed Dahlan and Yassir Arafat for 100 million shekels. The law suit accuses Dahlan and the PA chairman of responsibility for the terror attack on the bus transporting young children […]

JERUSALEM – A wave of Arab terror swept Israel on Thursday. It began with a car bomb in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of downtown Jerusalem. One eyewitness to the car bomb blast, a student in the nearby Mir Yeshiva, told reporters that only about ten seconds before the two blasts, a truck delivering liquid propane […]