President Shimon Peres – President Government Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister Minister of Economic Strategy, Minister of Pensioner Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport Silvan Shalom – Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and the Development of the Negev and the Galilee Moshe Ya’alon – Vice Prime Minister […]

Jacob Shrybman recounts unfriendly welcome at US university where he presented Sderot’s grim reality Jacob Shrybman Recently I shared the human side of the conflict in southern Israel and told my personal stories from Sderot in a presentation at DePaul University in Chicago sponsored by StandWithUs, Hillel, and the university’s Political Science department. As a […]

by Avraham Zuroff (IsraelNN.com) Schoolchildren from a school near Shechem are making a pilgrimage walk to Jerusalem along the ancient road that their forebears took nearly 2,000 years ago. On Wednesday, 7th and 8th graders from the Lieberman Talmud Torah, located in the Jewish town of Yitzhar in the Shomron (Samaria), started their two-day trek […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) As if to signal the possible intentions of the new government, army forces under the command of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, together with Israel Police, made their way to Kokhav HaShachar in eastern Binyamin late Thursday morning, and destroyed four buildings in the start-up outpost neighborhood of Meoz Esther. They then […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Six months ago, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinian Authority more than any other government in Israel’s history had been willing to give. So said Olmert himself on Thursday, in a speech given at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. “At one point, I put everything on […]

Adar 29, 5769, 25 March 09 05:37by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) National Union party head Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) says that despite all, his party is still anxious to “join the government and serve the public by accomplishing — and in the end, that’s what I think will happen.” “Our talks with the Likud were broken off […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Following the Labor Party vote enabling the party’s entry into the coalition, Binyamin Netanyahu has achieved what he wanted: a form of a national unity government, as opposed to what some see as a “narrow right-wing” government. The Prime Minister-designate must now, however, turn inward and see if he can placate […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The Labor party’s Central Committee voted 58-42 percent Tuesday night to give the go-ahead for the party to join a Netanyahu-Lieberman coalition. Leaders of the losing camp warned that the victory by party chairman Ehud Barak will lead to the death of the party. Barak, who stands […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: No question about it, the American Jewish withdrawal advocacy group, J Street, declared war on the incoming Netanyahu administration in particular and the Jewish State in general with a poll that they released. [The group is a “withdrawal advocacy group” rather than a “peace” group because there is no discernable […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 23, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727509812&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Shas became the second party to join Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s government Sunday night, Army Radio reported just after midnight. According to the report, Shas chairman Eli Yishai will take the Interior Ministry portfolio as part of the agreement. The deal also guarantees the Shas […]