Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist expressed concern over the apparent arson that severely damaged a Miami Beach synagogue on the third day of Passover, and said that applicable hate crime laws should be enforced if a bias crime is proven.

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Knesset Members Moshe Sharoni, Sarah Marom-Shalev and Elchanan Glazer of the Pensioners’ Party announced that they would be leaving the party and the coalition led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Glazer said Saturday that “in view of Prime Minister Olmert’s investigations, the government’s days are numbered, and an alternative approach to […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Civil Administration and police officials swooped down on the small Jewish neighborhood of Havot Yair, located in Samaria 14 miles east of Herzliyah, and destroyed a small unauthorized swimming pool. The pool was about seven feet wide and 28 feet long. Though word of the impending law-enforcement operation was received early, […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Shlomo Taub of Israel, founder of a Polish-based organization, spoke with IsraelNationalRadio’s Eve Harow about his efforts to help Holocaust-era Jews reclaim their long-lost property from the hands of absentee-owner administration authorities, mostly in Poland. Taub’s Legacy organization helps Holocaust victims and their descendants reclaim property they left behind in Poland […]

 by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Following a day of enemy rocket barrages from Gaza, hundreds of residents of the southern city of Sderot took to the streets in an angry spontaneous demonstration Monday night. They protested against the government’s failure to stop the Palestinian Authority attacks on them. Attacks continued Tuesday morning, with PA rockets and […]

Syria used to control the Golan Heights. From there, it shelled Israeli kibbutzim, killing more than 140 people and making life extraordinarily difficult for the intrepid residents (farmers couldn’t hear the shells from their tractors, so they had flagmen watch for the incoming rounds and wave at them to get to the shelters). Children slept […]

JINSA Syria and North Korea are/were pursuing something that appeared to be nuclear-related. Israel destroyed it, the United States approved and today the CIA is giving some of the details to Congress. One might think the United States and Israel would be pleased that their respective tough lines are vindicated, but both wish knowledge of […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) A record number of Bar Mitzvah ceremonies, approximately 300, took place throughout Monday morning at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem’s Old City. Celebrants came from Israel and abroad, including 23 boys from the rocket-battered western Negev. 23 celebrations were sponsored by a family from Miami. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony welcoming […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The majority of the Knesset faction of Kadima – Israel’s largest party and political home of the Prime Minister and most of the more influential Cabinet ministers – opposes a giveaway of the Golan Heights. The results of an internal party poll to this effect were published on the Kadima party […]

28 April 2008 Gideon Schmerling Jerusalem Municipality Spokesman The Passover events brought more than one million visitors to the capital. This was a record number of visitors for the past 20 years. Approximately 250,000 visitors viewed the Old City Walls multimedia performance. For the first time, the Municipality closed routes to the Old City and […]