by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Tonight, Sunday night, begins the holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the day on which the people of Israel received the Torah 3,320 years ago, and the beginning of the harvest season. The holiday, which also marks the end of the 49-day Omer period, is celebrated for one day in Israel, and two […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 5, 2008 Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei’s most prominent personality trait is his chutzpah. Two weeks before Israel destroyed the North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Syria on September 6, ElBaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was complaining to Australian television about the US’s decision to augment its […]

Herbert Zweibon A “Resolution regarding Israel from Pro- Israel Christian Leaders” signed by over a thousand Christian leaders and urging a new U.S. policy toward Israel is being submitted to Senator John McCain with a request for a meeting with the candidate. AFSI has been working on this project with Rev. James Hutchens, Chaplain and […]

by Joshua J. Adler 1. Scientists in Israel, found that the brackish water, drilled from underground desert aquifers, hundreds of feet deep, could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tent has saline as sea water, free of pollutants, and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proves an ideal environment. 2. […]

Posted by Yoram Ettinger on Thursday, May 29th at 2:27 PM ISRAEL’S 60 YEARS OF BREAKTHROUGH ECONOMY – (Hows that boycott going, btw?) The 1948-2008 series of Arab-Israeli wars, coupled with Palestinian terrorism, have been bumps on the path of unprecedented Israeli economic growth: From a $1.2 billion GDP in 1948 to a $170 billion […]

By:President George W. Bush Wednesday, May 21, 2008 (Editor’s Note:The following is adapted from President Bush’s address to the Knesset on May 15.) Sixty years ago in Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s independence, founded on the “natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate.” What followed was more than […]

Asking U.S. to guarantee independent state if prime minister forced from office By Aaron Klein © 2008 WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – Fearing the collapse of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government, the Palestinian Authority asked the U.S. government for backing to rush a deal regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state, WND has learned. According to a […]

Moshe Sharon In 1683 the armies of Islam besieged Vienna for the second time. The first occasion had been a century and a half earlier. The great Islamic Empire of the time, the Ottoman Empire under the long reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, was then at its zenith. It had extended its border on the […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) The largest annual gathering of Jews will be celebrating Jerusalem Unification Day in a mammoth parade and concert in New York on Sunday. Jerusalem Day will be celebrated in Israel Sunday night and Monday. The free concert will take place following the parade on Summer Stage in Central Park from […]

Humanitarian assistance to Gaza since Feb 27 escalation in terror 25 May 2008 Ministry of Defense Unit of Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Total (June 16, 2007 – May 25, 2008) : 23,219 trucks; 548,866 tons May 25, 2008 75 truckloads (2690 tons) on wheat, barley, corn, soy, sesame seeds and animal […]