by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Archaeologists working in Tel Kedesh in northern Israel have uncovered an extremely rare 2,200-year-old gold coin, minted in Alexandria by King Ptolemy V. The head of the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Association, long-time American immigrant Dr. Donald T. Ariel, said, “This is the heaviest and most valuable ancient gold […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The synagogue of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, luminary sage and father of modern religious Zionism, was reopened Monday in southern Tel Aviv 30 years after it closed its doors. The synagogue, Shaarei Torah, is located in the Neveh Shalom neighborhood just north of Yafo (Jaffa). The synagogue’s gabbai (manager), Roni […]

Rafael Haddad was arrested on suspicion of spying while photographing buildings on behalf of society that seeks to preserve Libyan Jewish history. By Barak Ravid Complex and secret negotiations between Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Libyan authorities came to a dramatic conclusion Sunday when an Israeli who disappeared in March was freed from a […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) The Samaria Residents’ Council is reaching out to central Israel to warn residents of the dangers they could face in case of a withdrawal from Samaria. On the anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, council activists traveled to Petach Tikva, Raanana, Hadera, Netanya, Herziliya and Kfar Saba to remind those […]

Sources say Hezbollah looking to divert attention from U.N. murder probe By Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily U.N peacekeepers on their armoured vehicles patrol Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon August 3, 2010. Israeli artillery shelled the Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people, after Lebanese Army troops fired warning shots at Israeli soldiers along the usually quiet but […]

by Baruch Gordon (Israelnationalnews.com) It’s taken millions of dollars to cap it, and it could take billions more to clean it up. BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century. But Tel Aviv University has a solution that may help remedy the remaining oil residue through a […]

GOC Northern Command: “This was a planned ambush”. Lt. Col. Harari was shot and killed IDF http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/08/0305.htm During the grave incident in the North, Lt. Col. (res.) Dov Harari was killed, and Cpt. (res.) Ezra Lakia was critically wounded. Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot called it an “initiated and provocative action by the Lebanese army, without […]

By Shani McManus and Sergio Carmona, Staff Writers Five years after the Israeli government uprooted more than 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, ceding the land to Palestinians in the hope of peace, some are calling the sacrifice a disaster. “Anyone who thinks the forced removal of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip delivered […]

[IMRA: This item is from February but repeated now because it got into the news cycle again when JTA cited it] February 24, 2010 Support for Israel in U.S. at 63%, Near Record High Near-record-low 30% optimistic about Arab-Israeli peace by Lydia Saad www.gallup.com/poll/126155/Support-Israel-Near-Record-High.aspx [See www.gallup.com/poll/126155/Support-Israel-Near-Record-High.aspx for graphs] PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time […]

By P. David Hornik Israel scored surprisingly – perhaps – high in the newly published Gallup poll [1] ranking countries for their citizens’ happiness levels. Israel came in tied for eighth along with Canada, Australia, and Switzerland. Only the four Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden – along with the Netherlands, Costa Rica, […]