by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) “Jerusalem will remain Israel’s eternal capital forever.” So stated Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Wednesday at a special Knesset session marking Jerusalem Day, adding, “This is not a promise; it’s a fact.” Participating in the special Knesset session were Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, his predecessor Uri Lupoliansky, and members of […]

(IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists reported Monday that they found a bone seal with the biblical name Shaul (Saul) from the First Temple period (8th Century BCE) in Jerusalem. The seal was found during an ongoing excavation in the City of David, located right outside Jerusalem’s old city walls. The seal contains the common Hebrew name Shaul, who […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A powerful Christian activist group joined thousands of Jews Monday at a massive rally in Washington DC to protest the Obama administration’s pressure on Israel to accept the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state within its current borders. The Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC Heartland), which links Israeli towns […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) The ‘B’Emuna’ construction company, which has built projects in Judea and Samaria, is now facing criticism for its latest initiative – a housing project in the Israeli city of Yafo (Jaffa), in pre-1967 Israel. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has termed the company “racist” over the plan, while […]

By Nadav Shragai The maps and textbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority present a picture of a world without Israel. Asraa, Ra’ad, and Rahaam, all of them eight years old and originally “from occupied Safed, Acre, and Haifa,” beam with pride as they are interviewed on Palestinian television. Their friends earn high marks and prizes […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) With Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu getting ready to leave Jerusalem and travel to Washington DC, MK Ya’akov (Ketzaleh) Katz, chairman of the Ichud Leumi (National Union) party, fired off a last-minute appeal to the prime minister to remain strong in the face of pressure to agree to a “two state solution.” […]

by Yehudit Tayar (IsraelNN.com) Recently, in the middle of the night, we traveled the familiar mountainous roads toward Shechem and Kever Yosef (the Tomb of Joseph). We were given permission to enter the Kever at half-past midnight; and as we drove toward our destination, the moon shown fully in the dark sky. We had mixed […]

JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 13, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212366589&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Israel Air Force test pilots are flying MIG 29 jets and conducting dogfights against the IAF’s F-16 fighters, Channel 2 revealed Wednesday evening. The MIG 29, developed by the soviets in the 1970s, is one of the best fighter jets used by eastern and Arab […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Pinchas Buchris, Director of the Ministry of Defense, has ordered work halted on the security barrier in disputed areas of eastern Jerusalem. The construction will not be renewed before a court rules on a motion filed against the construction, according to MK Otniel Shneller (Kadima), who heads a Knesset committee that […]

In reality, the near complete freeze on building in the territories has pushed some 1,600 young couples – out of the 2,100 couples who marry each year in the West Bank – to live in communities far from their parents and the towns in which they grew up. ‘Israel is quietly expelling young settler couples […]