By Karin Kloosterman November 23, 2008 Plastics, sheep gut, silk and metal wire: the materials that doctors have used to stitch wounds together on the battlefield and in the clinic have changed over time, but none of the solutions are perfect. They take time to apply, leave scars, and a body vulnerable to infection as […]

IMRA Doctors manage to save one of legs of Sergeant Noam Nakash, who was seriously wounded by mortar shells fired at Nahal Oz military base. ‘He always informed me about mortars landing in the area but told me I had nothing to worry about,’ his mother tells Ynet Ilana Curiel YNET Published: 11.29.08, 11:18 / […]

(IsraelNN.com) Details of the tragic aftermath of the terrorist massacre in Mumbai’s Chabad House have become available. WARNING: some readers may find the descriptions disturbing. The bodies of Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and kashrus inspector Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, were found in the Mumbai Chabad House library, with holy books in front of them. According […]

By Julie Stahl Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Israel is upset over Egyptian military exercises in which the simulated “enemy” is Israel, and some are calling on the U.S. to reconsider its aid to Egypt because of it. Israel and Egypt – two U.S. regional allies – signed a U.S.-sponsored peace treaty in 1979 – Israel’s first […]

By Aaron Klein President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed himself “very impressed” with the Arab League’s peace initiative, which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in exchange for extreme Israeli concessions, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview last week with the British media. The claim adds weight to the growing accumulation of evidence […]

Expects ‘painful sacrifice of parts Israel and history of the Jewish people’ By Aaron Klein © 2008 WorldNetDaily Ehud Olmert JERUSALEM – Five days after WND broke the story exposing secret Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at reaching an agreement on core issues, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today in Washington his intention to continue negotiations in […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) A new poll published on Channel One television Tuesday night projects Likud party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu as the next prime minister with a commanding 37-25 lead over Kadima, chaired by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. His projected coalition of religious and nationalist parties has reached 68 MKs. The telephone survey was […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) More than 55 percent of Sderot residents have suffered direct or indirect physical injury or mental shock as the result of a Kassam rocket attack, according to a new poll. The poll was conducted by the NATAL group for terrorism victims and was published Monday. More than 90 percent of Sderot […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists attempted to attack Yitzhar again on Saturday as leftists and Arabs arrived in the area to harvest olives. Yitzhar residens notified the IDF after spotting two suspicious-looking Arab men wandering near the town on Saturday afternoon. The suspects fled towards a nearby Arab village when soldiers arrived at the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the oldest Hebrew text ever found, at a site they believe was King David’s front line fortress in the war against the people of Pleshet, also known as the Philistines. The site overlooks the Elah Valley, where the young David slew Goliath, the Philistine […]