Nadav Shragai The Israeli Cabinet approved on August 17 the release of almost 200 Palestinian security prisoners as a “goodwill gesture” to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. The list includes several prisoners “with blood on their hands,” who, by definition, were involved in the murder of Israelis. According to an informal estimate by Israeli security […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Wedding and Town Meeting The Shomron Regional Council, headed by Mayor Gershon Mesika, held a largely-symbolic town meeting on the site of the former Jewish town of Homesh on Tuesday – just before a wedding ceremony was celebrated there.

‘US rejects Barak’s Boeing 767 request’ Yaakov Lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 20, 2008 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218601145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The US turned down a request by Defense Minister Ehud Barak to purchase the Boeing 767 aircraft, which can be used for mid-air refueling, amid fears that the sale would appear to support an Israeli strike on Iran, Channel […]

By Karin Kloosterman   August 18, 2008 Many sufferers from chronic neck pain and migraines don’t know why the pain persists, but they do know that a gentle massage on the neck muscles can make life more bearable. That’s just what the new Israeli company Headway is planning to do. The company, which is located within the […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) “…How can the police lawyer promise that they will do the eviction before Rosh HaShanah, when the days before Rosh HaShanah are still in the month of Ramadan?! How can I believe them?” Yitzchak Herskovitz had hoped to have his Jerusalem property freed of Arab squatters by Wednesday, as the court […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) It’s never too late to celebrate a Bar Mitzvah. Arieh Czeizler, age 78, will step up to read from the Torah and celebrate the seminal life event next month, 65 years after his 13th birthday, when Jewish males usually celebrate their Bar Mitzvah. A Holocaust survivor and veteran resident of […]

By:Sara Lehmann Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Historically, we Jews have had few friends in this world. And the more grave our situation, the more scarce those friends seem to be. Which is why I found myself at a massive gathering at the Washington Convention Center on the night of July 22. There I was among […]

Expelled: A Powerful Video Documentary of the Tucker Family by Baruch Gordon (IsraelNN.com) All fifteen soldiers came into her house, sat at her dining room table, and listened to Anita Tucker plead with them not to forcibly remove her and her family from her home of 29 years on the day of the implementation of […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Gaza terrorists are building a 25-kilometer (16.8 mile) range rocket, dubbed Nasser-3, despite the temporary eight-week-old ceasefire with Israel, according to CNN. The maximum range of the Nasser rocket, being manufactured by Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) terrorists, includes Israel’s 5th largest city, Ashdod, which is dotted by oil refineries. A […]

August 7, 2008 JOHAN RHODIUS, THE JERUSALEM POST Danny and Yitzhak Halamish live in Ma’aleh Rehavam, a settlement near Bethlehem. The IDF trained and armed the brothers as volunteer security guards. On February 21, 2004, Baruch Feldbaum, the IDF security guard from the neighboring settlement Sde Bar, called for the assistance of the brothers as […]