by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Gaza terrorists fired more rockets on the Negev, with a direct hit on a kibbutz, and Arab sympathizers near Tel Aviv threw rocks at Jewish drivers. Gaza terrorists, including those from a group led by Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, pummeled the western Negev on the Sabbath with at least 14 […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A handful of North American children are the stars of a new two-minute Chanukah film that honors the 18,000 new immigrants who have come to Israel under the Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) since the program began in 2002.

By Karin Kloosterman Israel21c December 15, 2008 Colon cancer is the third most common cancer found in American men and women. While screening and treatment options for colon cancer have improved in recent years, the American Cancer Society estimates that the disease will take the lives of about 50,000 Americans in 2008. A new Israeli […]

Dec. 15, 2008 Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST The settler population in the West Bank is growing three times as fast as the population in the rest of the country and has doubled over the past 12 years, according to an extensive demographic study published Monday by the Ariel University Center in Samaria (the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) An international conference like no other was held in Jerusalem Sunday. The conference, called Facing Jihad, organized by MK Aryeh Eldad, dealt with the current world wide threat posed by Islamic holy war, Jihad, and what can be done about it. Dutch MP Geert Wilders was also present, and the attendees […]

1. The British Mandate urged Arabs and Jews (November 30, 1947- May 14, 1948, before the outbreak of the war) to evacuate small mixed towns, where they constituted a minority. Arabs complied, while Jews defied. Consequently, Alan Cunningham, the British High Commissioner, stated: “Arabs are leaving the country with their families in considerable numbers, and […]

by Aviva Woolf (IsraelNN.com) Nefesh B’Nefesh has launched an innovative new project, “Go North”, to encourage aliyah (immigration) to northern Israel. Go North is aimed at westerners who want to make aliyah to northern cities such as Afula and Nahariya, but are uneasy about living away from the major urban centers of Jerusalem and Tel […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The Likud Election Committee ruled in favor of Netanyahu-ally Ophir Akunis on Thursday afternoon, and ordered a re-shuffling of the list of Likud candidates for the Knesset in the upcoming national elections. The chief significance of the ruling is that Moshe Feiglin will be moved down from the 20th spot to […]

A new Israeli poll has shown that about two-thirds (63%) of Israelis expressed agreement with the statement that “In reality, most of the Palestinians do not accept the existence of the State of Israel and would destroy it if they could, despite the fact that the PLO leadership is conducting peace negotiations with Israel,” with […]

by Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) The Amigour Company, a quasi-governmental housing company aligned with the Housing Ministry, sold a Haifa synagogue and all its contents to an Arab, according to a report by Yeshiva World News. Located at 31 Jaffa Street in lower Haifa, the synagogue paid rent to Amigour before shutting down six years ago. […]