(IsraelNN.com) During the Hol-Hamoed [Intermediate Days of] Sukkot, thousands of people -including a wide spectrum of public figures – have taken visited the Gush Katif Museum, located on Sha’arei Tzedek Street, near Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehudah open-air market. The museum has been open from 9:00AM to 8:00PM during the holiday period. It is staffed by people […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Akko Mayor Shimon Lankri announced Friday that he is calling off the Akko Festival for fringe theater which was supposed to take place next week. “Because of the residents’ feelings of anger and insult, there will be no point in holding the festival,” Lankri said. Video of the aftermath of the […]

HERBERT ZWEIBON As Russia exerts its military power at will over Georgia, there are lessons for Israel—and the West. For Israel the lesson is obvious. To expect others to save you in an existential crisis is folly. The United States makes strong statements of disapproval and sends humanitarian aid. The EU can’t muster that much […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Was the IDF brainwashed into carrying out the Disengagement from Gush Katif and northern Shomron in 2005? A complaint has been filed with the Ethics Committee of the Israel Board of Psychologists against two psychologists for “using their psychological and hypnotic skills” to facilitate the Disengagement-expulsion. The complaint was filed by […]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Last update – 10:43 06/10/2008 www.haaretz.com:80/hasen/spages/1026860.html Arab Israeli non-profit groups have approached Islamic charity organizations in the West Bank over the past year with requests to receive money for various projects, according to documents seized over the past year in Israel Defense Forces raids on West Bank associations identified with […]

Israeljustice.com Date added: 10/2/2008 www.israeljustice.com/news2.asp?key=145 JERUSALEM — The Israel Army has launched an offensive against Jewish dissidents in the West Bank. Military sources said the army’s Central Command has been ordered to dismantle unauthorized Jewish outposts and arrest organizers in the West Bank. The sources said the military has assessed that Jewish opponents of the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The Magistrates’ Court in Kfar Saba Friday ordered the release of Avi Shikartzi, 30, from the small Jewish town of Yitzhar, located 22 miles east of Herzliya. He was arrested Thursday on suspicion that he fired in the air in the village of Asira a-Kabaliya following a terror attack on Yitzhar […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Syria has renewed its nuclear program, according to the Arabic-language daily A-Sharq al-Awsat. The report was based on information from anonymous sources within the IDF. Iranian experts visited the country last month to provide aid. According to the report, Syria began rebuilding its program following Israel’s attack on a Syrian nuclear […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The number of Jews in Judea and Samaria grew by 20 percent from 250,000 when Ehud Olmert began his term as Prime Minister in April of 2006, to more than 300,000 in the Interior Ministry’s official census in 2008, according to Yesha Council Director Pinchas Wallerstein. Wallerstein said Sunday that the […]