By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent Last update – 01:11 28/01/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059336.html The U.S. navy was forced to release an Iranian boat detained in the Red Sea on suspicion of carrying arms to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Weapons of various kinds were found aboard the ship, which was flying the Cypriot flag when it was stopped January 19. […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The Likud’s Moshe Feiglin says the nationalist public must vote for the Likud in order to thwart Netanyahu’s centrist government plans, while National Union leader Ketzaleh says a strong National Union means a more nationalist Likud. Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu, favored to win the upcoming Israel elections and form the next […]

expect renewed fighting with Hamas within two years Dr. Aaron Lerner Date 24 January 2009 Poll #1 Telephone poll of a representative sample of 600 adult Israelis including Israeli Arabs) carried out by TNS Teleseker for Maariv apparently on 22 January 2009. Published on 23 January Poll #2 Telephone poll of a representative sample of […]

Barcelona pulls public service marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in protest of Israeli offensive in Strip. ‘Marking the Jewish Holocaust while a Palestinian Holocaust is taking place is not right,’ says official Maya Mahler Published: 01.22.09, 19:44 / Israel Jewish Scene BARCELONA – The Catalunya government has called off the ceremony marking the International Holocaust […]

Jan. 22, 2009 Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard told his wife Esther from his North Carolina jail cell Wednesday that he was “very disappointed” that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni did not act to help bring about his release during her visit to the US last weekend. A massive campaign was […]

Haifa-based Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk in final experimental stages aims to allow paralyzed people to stand, walk, with help of computerized leg supports. Expected to be on sale next year Dr. Itay Gal Published: 01.20.09, 07:59 / Israel Culture In what is probably one of the most important Israeli medical breakthroughs of recent times, Haifa-based […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) This week’s momentous news events were the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza and the inauguration of President Barack Obama, but nothing changed for American prisoner Jonathan Pollard and kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Pollard has languished in prison for nearly 24 years after having been sentenced to life by […]

Israeli invention allows paraplegics to walk Haifa-based Argo Medical Technologies’ ReWalk in final experimental stages aims to allow paralyzed people to stand, walk, with help of computerized leg supports. Expected to be on sale next year Dr. Itay Gal Published: 01.20.09, 07:59 / Israel Culture In what is probably one of the most important Israeli […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 19, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292908245&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull On Sunday, Israelis were witness to a cavalcade of European leaders marching to Jerusalem to have their pictures taken with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) An IDF soldier in Gaza speaks of enemy attempts to kidnap soldiers into tunnels, the special boost that letters from back home give him and his friends, the incredible motivation displayed by his comrades-in-arms, and more. Aryeh, a former hesder yeshiva student and a soldier in reserves who spent a week […]