By:Joe Lieberman Wednesday, January 30, 2008 All across the nation over the next two weeks, the American people will be voting in a tightly contested election that will help determine who will be the next president. In this election, however, we are not just choosing our next president. We are also choosing our commander-in-chief – […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Construction has begun on 200 new housing units in the Jerusalem Shimon Hatzaddik development, between the Old City and the northern areas of the capital. The project is to be constructed on 18 dunams (just under 4.5 acres) in the neighborhood which is also known as Sheikh Jarrah. It is meant […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The latest chapter in the ongoing tribulations of the former residents of Gush Katif is this: The bank accounts of some 500 families are liable to be cracked open by the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, in lieu of unpaid – and unfairly demanded, the residents say – property taxes. The story […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Encouraged by their success in breaking through the Egyptian border with Gaza last week, a Hamas spokesman has threatened to gather 500,000 Palestinian Authority residents of the region for a similar assault on the perimeter fence dividing southern Israel from PA-controlled Gaza. Ahmad Yousef… called the fall of the barrier between […]

The Shuafat attack and others are an indication that while there is a danger that the IDF might err on the side of Palestinian inconvenience, the Supreme Court might err on the side of risking Israeli lives. Courting security Editorial – THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 26, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1201367873262&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Border policeman Rami Zoari, 20, was […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The removal of IDF checkpoints from Arab-populated areas of Judea and Samaria, in accordance with US and PA demands, has lead to an increase in terrorist shooting attacks. The increase was recorded over the last half of 2007, especially on the main north-south Highway 60 leading from Hevron to Jerusalem and […]

Barak’s cruelty: doing in Hebron what he isn’t willing to do in Gaza The Jewish Community of Hebron January 27, 2008 A week ago the Supreme Court ruled that the Jewish residents at Beit HaShalom could continue to live at least until April. In view of this ruling, attorney Nadav HaEtzni, representing the building’s residents, […]

In Advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day Arabic Website launched at www.yadvashem.org On Thursday, January 24, 2008, Yad Vashem will launch a new website about the Holocaust in Arabic. The Arabic website follows the successful launch of a website in Farsi last year. Both sites are accessible at www.yadvashem.org. The website will include the historical […]

By ISRAEL21c staff December 25, 2007 Scientists based at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital have broken new ground in the field of stem cell research by injecting sufferers of neurological diseases with therapeutic quantities of cultured adult stem cells. The Hadassah neurologists, working under the guidance of team leaders Professor Dimitrious Karussis and Prof. Shimon Slavin, […]

Here is a remarkable statistic. Israel’s Interior Ministry reports that the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria (which the media refers to as the “West Bank”), soared in 2007 by 5.2 percent. That’s three times the pace of population growth within pre-1967 Israel. As a result, the total number of Jews living in these areas […]