January 18, 2008 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the proposed sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) to Saudi Arabia as part of the $ 20 Billion arms package formally announced on January 14. The proposed arms sale is not in the best interests of US national […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Three teenaged girls continue to be held in prison – despite a ruling by a District Court judge implying that the police should have released them this past Friday. District Court Justice Noam Solberg ruled last Wednesday, regarding one of seven incarcerated girls, that whether or not the police succeed in […]

Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 20, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572498691&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull More than 280,000 Israelis live in the West Bank, Interior Ministry statistics released Sunday showed. The 2008 figures show that the number of residents has increased by about 10,000 from a year ago. The Israelis live in 130 settlements in the West Bank, amid […]

by Moshe Sharon Everybody says that his donkey is a horse. There is no tax on words. –(Two Arab proverbs) On December 24th 1977, at the very beginning of the negotiations between Israel and Egypt in Ismailia, I had the opportunity to have a short discussion with Muhammad Anwar Sadat the president of Egypt. “Tell […]

by Leah Morse (IsraelNN.com) Nearly one year ago, a group of Jews purchased a large building in Hevron, now known as a Peace House, from an Arab for four million shekels (roughly one million dollars). Soon after, the Arab who owned the building told the police and media that he never received the money, and […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The IDF can handle the problem of the unending Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot and other communities in the western Negev, according to Sderot Media Center director Noam Bedein – if allowed by the political establishment “and the world” to do so. Speaking with IsraelNationalNews after a morning in which […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by reports that seven Jewish girls between the ages of 13 and 15, who were among those arrested three weeks ago for helping establish an outpost at Givat Ha’or near Beth-El in Judea, were taken to Binyamin Prison where, according to one of their mothers, “The girls […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Sderot and other western Negev towns remain under fire as at least 80 rockets, mortar shells and one missile fired in the past 24 hours from Gaza. Ambulances and rescue squads are racing throughout the town of Sderot in an effort to locate the sites of the rocket explosions. Medics treated […]

JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 16, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1200475895695&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Following a deadly terrorist attack near Hebron three weeks ago in which two off-duty Israeli soldiers were killed, the government has so far prevented an IDF raid which would likely succeed in detaining the Palestinians suspected of perpetrating the attack, Channel 2 reported on […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The enemy in Gaza kept firing anti-civilian terror rockets at Sderot and the Gaza perimeter late Tuesday evening, bringing the reported total of such rocket strikes to 25 Tuesday. The enemy fired another 25 mortar rounds at Israel as well. The Gazan terrorists fired seven rockets from northern Gaza at […]