by Arnon Ben-Dror and IsraelNN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) Benny Ben-Dror parachuted from an exploding helicopter in the Yom Kippur War and miraculously survived. His son Arnon related to the IDF website how his father escaped with his life even though it has never been a practice to get into a helicopter with a parachute. Ben-Dror had […]

No more music at Ma’arat HaMachpela? The Jewish Community of Hebron December 20, 2009 For the first time in years – probably as a result of a direct order from the new Commander of the Central Region, it will be forbidden to play Jewish prayer music at the Ma’arat HaMachpela courtyard. For years, Jewish visitors […]

RJC Blog, Yoram Ettinger Demographobia – the illogical fear of Arab demography – has become a central element shaping Israel’s state of mind in general and the attitude toward Judea & Samaria in particular. However, all projections dooming Jews to become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean have been crashed at the […]

By: Batnadiv HaKarmi Weinberg From Darkness to Light The Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11213 Shown: November 3-9, 2009 More than half a century has passed since the Holocaust. As the number of survivors dwindles, even as the amount of documentation grows, there has been a shift in focus from recording the […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Global anti-Semitism is “alive and kicking,” according to Information and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, who headlined a conference focusing on the issue Wednesday. Edelstein said that not one day goes by without an expression of hatred against Jews. Ministers, lawmakers, legal experts, academics, and heads of Jewish and non-Jewish […]

DAN IZENBERG, ABE SELIG and HERB KEINON , THE JERUSALEM POST www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447431785&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken a more active role in determining the fate of east Jerusalem demolition orders by giving his military attache the final word on whether the Jerusalem Municipality can destroy illegal buildings in the Arab sections of Jerusalem, MK […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) personnel, backed up by helicopters, fanned throughout the southern port city of Ashkelon Sunday morning and foiled a planned suicide attack in the city. A 27-year-old old Arab was caught in an elevator shaft at a construction site. Police said they received information […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) A northern Israeli biotechnology firm has just filed its New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for an innovative new treatment for Gaucher’s disease. Protalix Biotherapeutics Inc. (NYSE-Amex: PLX), located in Carmiel, says the new medication, taliglucerase alfa, will be cheaper than the current treatment marketed in […]

By: Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq. On the 25th day of Kislev we will celebrate Chanukah. On the 4th day of Kislev Jonathan Pollard celebrated the start of his 25th year in prison. One year ago a sense of unity of purpose and action rippled through the Jewish community. Each day, thousands of American Jews called […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 4 December 2009 For immediate release Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided to impose a ten month freeze on housing construction in Judea and Samaria because he can’t withstand American pressure (72%:17%) in order to placate President Obama rather than advance the peace process (68%:20%) and the move will lead to pressure […]