DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 22, 2009, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile quotes senior Israeli military circles as staggered by the discovery that US president Barack Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the services of Turkish military instructors. This was taken as further proof that the US president is deaf […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists attacked the Jewish community of Yitzhar in northern Samaria late Friday afternoon as the Sabbath was about to begin, lightly wounding three members of the first-response team before fleeing to a nearby Arab village. It was the third attack on a town in Judea and Samaria in the […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A wave of terrorism is hitting the Jewish towns of Judea and Samaria, while soldiers and funding for security decrease. Among the incidents in the past two weeks: * The running-over of two policemen at the Hizme checkpoint north of Jerusalem; * the murder of a 13-year-old boy in Bat Ayin […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) IAM, the Israel Academia Monitor organization, has set itself the goal of alerting the public to outspokenly anti-Israel professors and others in Israeli universities. Its top project at the moment: A drive to have the positions of Tel Aviv University doctoral student Omar Barghouti – “clearly an enemy of Israel,” IAM […]

By: Richard McBee Wolloch Holocaust Haggadah Illustrated by David Wander Calligraphy by Yonah Weinrib We are taught: “In every generation one is obligated to regard himself as though he had gone out from Egypt.” How difficult, what a leap of imagination for us in a free America, surrounded by friends and family, secure in our […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Judge Nechama Netzer of the Kiryat Gat Magistrates’ Court ordered the immediate release Sunday of seven activists arrested by police at a rally in Sderot earlier in the day. The judge had exceedingly sharp criticism for the police’s actions. “The use of the power of government and the authority to arrest […]

In a new book, ‘Until the Last Generation’, Leah London Friedler, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, recounts her experiences as Auschwitz’ Dr. Mengele’s delivery girl. All proceeds from the book will go towards special needs children Shlomit Sharvit, Einav Barzani In a new book “Leman Yeduo Dor Acharon” (“Until the Last Generation”), Leah London Friedler – […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Three and two-thirds years after being thrown out of their Gush Katif homes in Ariel Sharon’s 2005 Gaza Disengagement program, the former residents of Netzer Hazani are signing a historic agreement to build their town anew – midway between Rehovot and Beit Shemesh. Residents of the destroyed town of Netzer Hazani, […]

by Avraham Zuroff and Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) For the first time in two thousand years, the ancient synagogue atop the Judean desert fortress of Masada will ring out at dawn with the rare blessing of the sun. The blessing, recited only once in every 28 years, will be uttered by Jews around the world […]

Baruch Gordon (IsraelNN.com) Thousands of family, friends, and Israeli citizens wishing to express solidarity attended the funeral of Shlomo Nativ on Thursday. Shlomo, a Jewish youth from Bat Ayin, located south of Jerusalem, was murdered by an Arab terrorist Thursday morning. Thousands fill the Gush Etziyon cemetery located in Kfar Etziyon for the funeral of […]