By: Aaron Klein Date: Wednesday, May 20 2009 It has been four long, thrilling years since I first arrived as a journalist in the Middle East. I’ve reported for months on end from the rocket-battered Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip and the war-torn Israeli-Lebanese-Syrian borders. I’ve stood in the trenches during massive nationalist protests […]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Here is a threat: President Obama holds up supply of helicopters to Israel out of concern for Palestinian civilians. But when it comes to 12 of the same helicopters for Egypt its the standard boiler plate “The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Heavy IDF forces arrived – on the Sabbath – to destroy the Shvut Ami start-up neighborhood near Kedumim in the Shomron (Samaria). However, young pioneers began the rebuilding as soon as the Sabbath ended. Former Kedumim Mayor Daniella Weiss was in Shvut Ami when the destruction occurred. “There were so many […]

IDF Spokesperson May 30th, 2009 National Home Front Training Exercise for Israeli Security and Rescue Forces and Public Readiness Tomorrow, Sunday, May 31st, 2009, the IDF Home Front Command, in conjunction with the National Emergency Authority, will carry out a comprehensive national training exercise across Israel. The exercise will involve various governmental offices, local authorities, […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Interior Minister Eli Yishai and others have joined the growing chorus of those who say Israel can say ‘no’ to the United States. Yoram Ettinger, former Israeli Consul-General in the U.S. and an expert on Israeli-U.S. relations, writes this week, “Critical milestones in Israel’s history occurred while constructive disagreements dominated the […]

By Haaertz Service Tags: Israel news, Netanyahu Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel’s government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that “settlement construction will not be […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem Thursday night that the Israeli flag will continue to fly over the Western Wall (Kotel). The first prime minister in years to appear at the venerable yeshiva on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), he ignored U.S. President Barack Obama’s […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans for a regional peace between Muslim countries and Israel received a jolt Saturday with Arab League secretary Amr Mussa’s rejection of the reported offer of Jordan’s King Abdullah II for a pan-Muslim peace with Israel. The Jordanian monarch told the Times of London following his […]

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Office)Monday, May 18, 2009 In recent years several Israeli citizens and residents – who were recruited by terrorist organizations and operated via the internet – have been arrested and tried. Terrorist organizations actively scan Israeli sites, as well as social networks in which many Israelis are active, including veterans of […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that his country has test-fired the Sejil-2, an upgraded version of a surface-to-surface missile with a range of about 2,000 km., according to Iran’s IRNA news agency. If the claims are true, the Sejil-2 would have the range needed to hit Israel as well as […]