by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Jewish residents of Samaria are accustomed to passing through checkpoints on their way to central Israel. However, in recent weeks residents have been forced to undergo security checks on their way home to Samaria as well. Dozens protested the new procedure recently, accusing the government of ordering the security checks as […]

SF AND SILICON VALLEY DELEGATION INCLUDES TOP HIGH-TECH, VENTURE CAPITAL AND BUSINESS PERSONALITIES. (SAN FRANCISCO, CA/ JERUSALEM, ISRAEL) 4 MAY 2008- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will lead a high-level mission to Israel taking place this week. The trip, almost unprecedented in scope, will see some 100 San Francisco-area leaders explore possibilities of investment, cooperation, […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) On the final day of President Shimon Peres’s Tomorrow Conference, a panel discussion on Aliyah and the Israel-Diaspora relationship took place. The questions asked of the panel were: “Do current trends necessarily widen the gap or is it possible to cement relations between Israel and the Diaspora? What can be done […]

By Sharon Kanon May 14, 2008 Terrorist organizations are exploiting well-known Internet Service Providers to get their messages out, according to a new study by an Israeli researcher. Prof. Niv Ahituv, academic director of the Netvision Institute for Internet Studies (NIIS) at Tel Aviv University (TAU), said that some of the world’s most dangerous organizations, […]

by Hana Levi Julian and Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists in Gaza fired two Grad Katyusha missiles at southern Ashkelon late Wednesday afternoon, and one rocket scored a direct hit on a children’s medical clinic inside a shopping center. Parts of the building collapsed, trapping four people for a half-hour. At least 94 people had […]

Pres. Bush: Olmert is Honest and Abbas is a True Peace Partner by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) United States President George W. Bush called Prime Minister Ehud Olmert an honest man and labeled Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as an authentic peace partner. He also said a Palestinian state is a necessity for Israel’s Bush said […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Five youths hiking through the fields north of their hometown Beit El on Friday afternoon were attacked by two armed Arab terrorists. The Jews, following military procedure, called for them to identify themselves. However, when the terrorists continued to advance and shot directly at them, the hikers returned fire, killing one […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A series of documents in the British National Archives released to the public on Monday reveals the fierce debate over the tattered remnants of European Jewry who desperately tried to reach Israel during the British Mandate. The document, more than 400 pages long, showed how British diplomats around the world […]

6 Iyar 5768, 11 May 08 08:28 by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) With army approval and protection, thousands made their way to the Disengagement-destroyed Shomron town of Homesh on Independence Day – and then another 150 continued further north, in the middle of the night, to establish a presence at another Disengagement-town, Sa-Nur. The midnight pioneers […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) At least one Arab terrorist entered a sixth-floor hotel room and briefly took three Jewish youths hostage in central Warsaw on Monday. The Arab, a 23-year-old man who identified himself only as “Muhammad,” was reportedly drunk and unarmed, according to police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski. He threatened to blow up his […]