by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised to release yet another 250 terrorists from prison, as a goodwill holiday gesture to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas. Olmert made the promise in a meeting with Abbas in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon. MK Ruby Rivlin (Likud) said about the news of the planned release, “We […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Ashkelon’s residents will not remain quiet and wait for the government and army to protect them, said Itamar Shimoni, head of the coastal city’s security forum, after Ashkelon was shaken Friday morning by a barrage of five Grad Katyusha missiles fired from Gaza. “I hereby announce to the Defense Minister that […]

JPost.com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 13, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404725900&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull A “code red” warning was sounded in Ashkelon on Thursday evening, in order to warn residents that a rocket had been fired from the Gaza Strip towards the city. The rocket landed in an open area south of the city, and did […]

by Michael Freund The Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2008 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404702016&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Even as its armed forces are valiantly prosecuting the war on terror overseas, Britain’s diplomats at home are doing their utmost to ensure that this will not be remembered as their country’s finest hour. In a baffling turn of events, the government of Prime Minister […]

We spent this past Shabbat at Kibbutz Saad visiting with our good friends Ellen and Aaron. Ellen and I had been roommates at the Institute for Youth Leaders in Jerusalem some fifty years ago and our friendship has lasted through the years. Both of us had come to live in Israel: she to marry her […]

By Karin Kloosterman November 09, 2008 Pregnant women are at a greater risk of a heart attack. Although not common enough to worry most doctors – some may never see such a patient in their lifetime – Israeli Prof. Uri Elkayam, 64, has found the issue critical enough to have made it his specialty. Doctors […]

by Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) On the Sabbath of Parshat Lech Lecha, in which the Torah reading relates G-d’s commandment for Abraham to trek from Ur Kasdim to the land of Canaan, an 88 year-old survivor of the 60-mile Bataan Death March was finally given his Bar Mitzvah celebration. It was this past Sabbath, November 9. […]

American-Jewish businessman whose disputed purchase of property inflamed conflict in Hebron claims h will sue government, prevent his community members from investing in Israel if court evicts Jewish settlers living there Zvi Zinger Published: 11.07.08, 19:00 / Israel News “If the Jewish settlers are evicted from the ‘peace house’, I will file legal suits against […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 6, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1225910057878&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Many American Jews won their races for the Senate and Congress on Tuesday, and three more are aiming to join a different government in the race for the Knesset on February 10. Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball star Tal Brody, Government Press Office director […]

By Brigitte Gabriel This Thursday, in association with the Islamic Finance Project of the Harvard Law School, the U.S. Treasury will be hosting a forum entitled “Islamic Finance 101.” You read this correctly. As the humorist Dave Barry writes in many of his columns, “I am not making this up.” Indeed, despite the fact that […]