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Libyan rebels are launching their “final assault” on former dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte – but it’s not over yet. National Transitional Council loyalists are facing a fierce battle, said NTC head Mustafa Abdel-Jalil. He told reporters at a joint news conference in Tripoli late Saturday with visiting British Defense Secretary Liam Fox, and…

Cairo is demanding that Israel free 81 Egyptian prisoners in exchange for the freedom of an American-Israeli student accused of “spying.” The demand was presented during the visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who traveled to Cairo partly with the intention of bringing Ilan Grapel back with him to the U.S. with him following…

The Quartet on Sunday will discuss the negotiation deal it offered Israel and the Palestinian Authority last month, in light of the PA’s rejection of the proposal. The Quartet group, consisting of the United States and Russia, and a delegation from the EU and the UN, will discuss ways to push the PA to agree…

Preparations are now afoot for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, which begins Wednesday evening. Two cemeteries in Yafo were vandalized on the eve of Yom Kippur – one Christian, the other Muslim. Graffiti said “death to Arabs” and “price tag.” There have been no arrests of suspects as of yet. Border crossings were closed on…

Attackers set fire to a synagogue in Yafo on Saturday night. The building suffered light damage. The attack came hours after reports of vandalism in local Christian and Muslim cemeteries. The vandals painted slogans including, “Price tag,” and “death to Arabs.” Also on Saturday evening, Arab residents of Yafo took to the streets to protest…

The northern Shomron (Samaria) town of Homesh, destroyed in the 2005 “Disengagement,” continues to be rebuilt despite repeated efforts to shut it down. On Yom Kippur, the town was the site of prayer services that drew a wide variety of people from across the country. Among those present were rabbis, academics, and members of Galilee…

Palestinian Authority terrorists continued their attacks on innocent Jewish motorists over Yom Kippur, this time attacking a woman in labor and her husband as they rushed to the hospital. The husband, Ariel Goldman of Pnei Kedem, told Arutz Sheva that the two were lucky to escape with their lives. Their ordeal began near Har Homa…

Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement –  holds a special poignancy and power. “Seek God when He is to be found,” the Prophet Isaiah (55:6) says and he can be found, the sages said, during the High Holydays. The evening and day of Yom Kippur are traditionally set aside for public and private petitions…

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday warned Washington’s decision to suspend financial aid to the PA is detrimental to the peace process, the Associated Press reports. US lawmakers suspended a bloc of $200 million in aid to the PA in reaction to Abbas insistence at pursuing a unilateral bid for statehood at the United…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised on Thursday the Israel Security Agency (ISA), IDF and the police for capturing the terrorists who murdered Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonatan. “While one of our hands is outstretched in peace, our other hand will continue to protect the security of Israeli citizens,” Netanyahu said. The capture of…

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Thursday his government would provide safe-haven for Syrian refugees fleeting unrest. “My approach to these refugees coming to Lebanon is purely humanitarian,” Mikati told AFP, estimating their number at 5,000. “We are assisting these people … providing them with medical assistance, schooling and shelter.” Mikati’s comments were in response…

Authorities in Egypt are concerned that riots may break out in Tahrir Square after the Friday prayers.  A group known as the “Egyptian Revolutionary Coalition” published a call Thursday to Egyptians to rally en masse at Tahrir Square in order “to express anger at the continued deterioration of the economic situation and the social exploitation,…

It was cleared for publication on Thursday that the Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF have arrested two Arab terrorists from the Halhoul area, north of Hevron, who admitted to having thrown the rock at the vehicle driven by Asher Palmer on September 23. The car overturned from the impact of the rock, killing…

The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Thursday blasted Tehran for sowing instability by inciting Shiite minorities in predominantly Sunni countries, Gulf News reports. The statement is primarily seen as a reaction to to Monday night’s riots in Saudi Arabia’s Shiite-dominated eastern province of Qatif, where riots erupted in Awamiya city. During the riots 14…

According to the oft-controversial French magazine Le Canard Enchaîne, President Nicolas Sarkozy thinks the idea of a Jewish state is “silly.” “It is silly to talk about a Jewish state,” Sarkozy said in reference to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assertion no true peace could be made until officials in Ramallah accepted Israel’s essential Jewish identity.…

In a four minute speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) told delegates that they were not doing the PA, Israel, or the peace process a favor by accepting the PLO as, of all things, a “Partner in Democracy.” Speaking to delegates, Eldad said…

Senior Iranian Army officials announced Thursday that Tehran is prepared to dispatch troops to crisis-stricken regions at the request of the UN to conduct peacekeeping missions. “Undertaking peacekeeping missions by the Iranian forces indicates the power and strength of Iran’s Armed Forces,” Iranian Army Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan told the semi-official…

The death toll in Syria has risen to 2,900 since the start of the anti-government grassroots uprising seven months ago, the United Nations Human Rights office reports. The figures, which are solely based on the names of those whose deaths have been confirmed, do not include those who are unaccounted for, or those who have…

Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya’alon warned on Wednesday that the problem Israel has with infiltrators is “undoubtedly a social, national, and security time bomb which must be dealt with most urgently.” Channel 2 News reported that Ya’alon made the comments during a tour of the central bus station in southern Tel Aviv, where many…

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has reportedly agreed to meet with a “small group” of American Jewish leaders about the case of Jonathan Pollard. Last month Biden met with a group of 15 rabbis in Florida, and told them that although President Barack Obama had considered the possibility of granting clemency to Pollard, he personally…

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that the United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) should re-think its plans to vote on allowing the Palestinian Authority full membership. Reuters reported that Clinton noted that such a move by UNESCO could cause the United States to cut funds for the organization. Speaking…

Although its Security Council statehood bid is stalled, the Palestinian Authority is set to receive another important UN posting – membership in UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The UNESCO board voted Wednesday to put the PA’s prospective membership in the U.N. culture organization up for a vote at the next UNESCO General…

Arabs have once again desecrated the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem, daubing the structure with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti, swastikas, and other symbols of hatred. Shocked visitors to the site said that it was simply an act of barbarism, that clearly showed what the fate of Jews would be if the Arabs ever do wrest…

A top Hamas terrorist on Wednesday threatened to carry out terror attacks in the heart of Israel’s biggest population centers in order to force Israel to release thousands of terrorists in Israeli prisons. Halil al-Hiya said that “the time has come to strike at the heart of the enemy’s territory so that our prisoners do…

Officials in Ramallah on Tuesday tacitly admitted their claims the Palestinian Authority would provide a solvent state for residents in its enclaves without US aid or Israeli cooperation were false. With international donors reneging on aid pledges the cash-strapped PA has been unable to pay its salaries and bills, a situation now acute amid repercussions…

Is Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas a Zionist quisling? Senior Iranian legislator Seyed Mohammad Javad Abtahi said Wednesday the answer was “yes” when he accused Abbas of advancing “Israel’s plots” to disintigrate the PA and undermine the so-called ‘Arab Spring.’ “The game Abbas has started is a part of Israelis’ plots to curb Intifada and…

The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, USA, has put on display a rare letter signed by Adolf Hitler in 1919 that calls for the “removal of the Jews.”.

More than 10,000 people accompanied Rabbi Hanan Porat, 67, to his final resting place Wednesday, after his death Tuesday following a long struggle with cancer. The MK, who served nearly 20 years as a lawmaker, was described by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin as “a teacher and rabbi, visionary and activist, poet and warrior” in his…

The Palestinian Authority is losing no time is pushing its agenda of gaining diplomatic ground as a full member in as many United Nations committees and agencies as possible, in the context of gaining statehood via the international body, rather than negotiations with Israel. Three diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity told the Associated Press…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Israel is a “threat” to the Mideast because it possesses nuclear weapons, AFP reports. “I right now see Israel as a threat for its region, because it has the atomic bomb,” Erdogan said in a foreign policy speech during an official visit to South Africa. He…

A senior Fatah official and confidant of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for Tony Blair to be replaced as international Middle East envoy. Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Fatah Central Committee member, told Voice of Palestine radio that Blair was “no longer trusted to be an impartial mediator” and was of “no use at all.”…

The prosecution does not plan on asking for a death sentence for Amjad Awad, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the horrific murders of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar last March. According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 News, the military prosecution and the defense have reached an agreement, according to…

Jewish Home chairman MK Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz visited the Binyamin hilltop community of Givat Assaf, which is under threat of an expulsion. Joining Hershkowitz on the tour was National Union chairman MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz. The two met local residents who told them that since the decision to demolish homes in Givat Assaf is…

Mainstream Arab violence is escalating in Israel. Two young Arab Israeli men from the Lower Galilee town of Kfar Yafia, a suburb of Nazareth allegedly opened fire at police Wednesday during an early morning chase. They allegedly attacked after police saw them firing in the air, and ordered them to stop. Police returned fire, and arrested…

Palestinian Officials in Ramallah blasted Tuesday a decision by US lawmakers to freeze a bloc of $200 million in aid to their fiscally teetering apparatus. The officials’ angry rhetoric came amid a hail of shoes and anti-American slogans on the streets of Ramallah by demonstrators who wished to vent their fury on American diplomats visiting…

Iran’s Fars news service quoted what it said was a conversation between Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in which Assad threatened to “shower Israel with rockets” if NATO or the U.S. attacks Syria. The conversation, says the report, took place in recent days. According to the report, Assad told Davutoglu…

The “Arab Spring” may yet yield a winter of discontent, says Mohammed el-Baradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and current candidate for the presidency of Egypt. Speaking Monday, El-Baradei said that the country could go bankrupt by next March, unless something was done to stop the flow of foreign currency…

Iranians who fled their country after converting to Christianity have received death threats in their new homes overseas, according to the religious rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). At least eleven Iranian Christians reported receiving emails in September calling on them to “repent and ask forgiveness from the presence of the Hidden Imam,” and warning…

European nations are calling for a vote on a UN resolution that would consider sanctions against Syria if President Bashar Assad’s government does not immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians. Diplomats told The Associated Press on Monday that it was unclear whether Russia, which opposes even mentioning the possibility of sanctions against Assad’s regime,…

Nobel Peace Prizes have lately been awarded with a view to providing encouragement rather than necessarily recognizing something accomplished. Although the Arab Spring is a work in the making it is a favorite topic in Norway that awards the prize. Social Democratic Party politician and Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland, said last week that ”it…

Amjad Awad on Tuesday pleaded guilty to the horrific slaying of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar on March 11. Amjad, 19, who perpetrated the mass murder with his cousin, Hakim, is said by IDF prosecutors to have been the mastermind behind the attack. Together the cousins broke into the Fogel home and…

The Jewish community of Shvut Rachel, located 30 miles north of Jerusalem, will reportedly receive final state approval. The State told the High Court of Justice in a brief that the 15-year-old community is nearing completion of the process to regulate its zoning status and construction. The brief was filed in response to a March 2011…

The Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoner affairs said on Monday that hundreds of PA Arabs in Israeli jails have joined a hunger strike to protest against worsening their prison conditions, which have been described as a “summer camp” by irate Israelis. In contrast, kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been held incommunicado by Hamas for more than…

The Obama administration is lobbying Congress to unblock $200 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority that was frozen because of its statehood bid in the United Nations, Reuters reported on Monday. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was quoted as having said that the administration was in “intensive” discussions with key lawmakers who had put…

After Sunday’s report that Egypt is set to release dual U.S.-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel after nearly four months, another report released on Monday sheds some more light on the deal that was reached to secure his release. According to the Israeli Ma’ariv newspaper, Israel has agreed to release 25 Egyptian security prisoners currently serving sentences…

Former IDF soldiers may find themselves called back to duty more frequently this year as the IDF responds to growing terrorist threats from Sinai. Following the deadly attacks near Eilat several weeks ago, in which Gaza terrorists infiltrated Israel through Sinai, the IDF has decided to station many more soldiers along the 230-kilometer/150-mile Egyptian border.…

The United States has imposed additional sanctions on Syria after a particularly violent weekend. The Treasury Department announced Monday that it will prohibit American companies from selling telecommunications equipment to the Syrian government, but not to all private firms. The sanctions include sales of telecom equipment or technology, including “satellite or terrestrial network connectivity.” The order,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Monday with United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in Jerusalem. Netanyahu thanked Panetta for coming to Jerusalem and told him, “You’re coming to the Middle East at a time when it’s undergoing a tremendous convulsion. Probably nothing on this scale happened since the end of World War I,…

Egypt, which currently provides about 40 percent of Israel’s natural gas through its Sinai Peninsula pipeline, has reportedly agreed to halt sales to the Jewish State during a conference in Tehran, according to the Iranian FARS news agency. So has Qatar, which in the past has expressed its willingness to sell gas to Israel if…

A telecom employee arrested last year for allegedly being part of a network of Israeli spies in Lebanon began a hunger strike on Monday to protest his continued incarceration. Tareq Rabaa, a former technician at Alfa – one of Lebanon’s two cellular operators – was arrested in July 2010, on suspicion of collaborating with another…

An Iraqi poet who converted from Islam to Christianity, and who expressed pain over the loss of six million Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, has paid the price for his beliefs. Over a month has passed since Alaa Alsaegh was attacked over his Arabic-language poem, “Tears at the Heart of the Holocaust,”featured on the “Arabs…

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East, The Associated Press reported. Panetta added Israel must restart negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and work to restore relations with Egypt and Turkey. Panetta made the comments as he was traveling to Israel, saying the ongoing upheaval in…

After an apparent arson attack on a mosque in the Bedouin Arab village of Tuba, about 300 people began marching from Tuba toward Rosh Pina Monday morning. They have been throwing rocks at police and burning tires. Police reportedly had pushed them back into the village by 9:00 a.m.. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the…

The chairman of the community administration in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood, Moshe Ben Shushan, expressed his disbelief on Sunday over the worldwide condemnation of the Israeli decision to build 1,100 new homes in his neighborhood. “It makes all the residents here angry that the world intervenes,” Ben Shushan told Arutz Sheva. “I do not know of any…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon reacted Sunday to the statement by a senior Fatah man that exposes the organization’s plan to destroy Israel in stages, while pretending to seek a peaceful compromise.  “As I have said on many occasions,” said Ayalon, “here is further proof that the conflict is not about territory. The Palestinians have…

When addressing the United Nations, Palestinian Authority (PA) representatives speak of the 1967 “borders” – a reference not to  borders recognized internationally in 1967, but to their hope to build an Arab state on all land east of the indefensible 1949 armistice line between Israel and Jordan. However, maps used within the PA tell a different…

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad laid blame for the untimely deaths of top Iranian nuclear scientists directly at Israel’s doorstep Sunday. Ahmadinejad said after the death of a scientist last year that the killers had used “Zionist methods” but the latest statement, accusing Israel of “conducting terror against our nuclear scientists,” named Israel more explicitly. In…

Egyptian officials are expressing fears that Israel may seize control over the Sinai Peninsula. The warning came from Egyptian Ambassador Yasser Othman, Cairo’s representative to Ramallah, who told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency that recent remarks by Jerusalem officials indicate “the presence of an Israeli plan aimed at controlling the Sinai.” Othman added, “We should…

A senior member of the Fatah Central Committee led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in an interview referred to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and U.S. President Barack Obama, as “dirtbags,” and explained how causing Israel to leave Judea and Samaria would spell its doom. Abbas Zaki told the interviewer that any final status…

Britain may compensate Israeli hate preacher Sheikh Raed Salah due to immigration officers’ failure to immediately translate a deportation order into Arabic for him. Salah was detained in Britain after violating an order prohibiting his entrance to the country. The reason for his detention was explained in Arabic only 34 hours after his arrest. Salah…

Evidence is growing that U.S. President Joseph Biden deliberately “took the hit” in a political move for his boss, President Barack Obama, last week over the painful issue of freedom for long-time imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard. Obama’s unwillingness to grant clemency to Pollard, long a sore point for the American Jewish community,  was one that Israeli…

Egypt has agreed to release dual U.S.-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel on Tuesday, according to a report published in the London-based pan-Arabic daily newspaper Al-Hayat. After nearly four months, Egyptian sources quoted in the report said authorities decided that Grapel did not spy for Israel or the U.S. Grapel, 27, was arrested nearly four months on charges…

Egypt is back to “business as usual” with the Islamic majority harassing and attacking its Christian minority. A group of Muslims burnt down part of a church Friday – the Islamic Sabbath – in the village of Marinab, according to a report published in the daily Al Masry Al Youm. The village, situated close to the…

The State of Israel on Sunday officially accepted a plan by the Quartet of peacekeeping nations to restart final status talks with the Palestinian Authority. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement issued Sunday that Israel “welcomes the Quartet’s call for direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions, as called for by both President…

U.S. President Barack Obama was set to release Jonathan Pollard but his vice president thwarted the move, The New York Times has reported. According to the report, Vice President Joe Biden met last week with 15 rabbis in Boca Raton, Florida, when he was asked by one of them why Pollard, who was convicted in…

An official Egyptian news agency has reported that the country’s temporary government is considering releasing Ilan Grapel, a young American-Israeli man detained for months and accused of spying for Israel. The MENA news agency said the move was being considered following United States intervention. The Obama administration has indicated that it will increase its political…

The IDF successfully hit a Gaza terrorist cell on Saturday night as the cell prepared to launch rockets at southern Israel. Reports from Gaza stated that the incident took place near Beit Hanun. Gaza sources stated that three terrorists were wounded in the incident. At least one is in serious condition. IDF sources said the…

By Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader assailed a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday, saying the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations is doomed to fail. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the Palestinians should not limit themselves to seeking a country within the West Bank, east Jerusalem and…

By DPA A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said that former British premier and current Mideast Quartet representative Tony Blair was “useless.” “Lately, he (Blair) talks like an Israeli diplomat, selling their policies,” Nabil Shaath told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “Therefore, he is useless to us.” Shaath…

Speaking at the retirement ceremony of Adm. Mike Mullen, President Barack Obama said Friday that the killing of American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen is a major blow to al-Qaida.

(AP) RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians can’t resume negotiations with Israel under current conditions and will pursue their bid to win U.N. recognition, a top Palestinian official said Thursday, after President Mahmoud Abbas and senior officials reviewed the latest appeal from Mideast mediators to restart talks and reach a deal within a year. Last…

Thousands of Palestinian Authority terrorists in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike on Wednesday, AFP reported. The French news agency quoted the PA’s minister for prisoners, Issa Qaraqa, as having told reporters in Ramallah, “I can confirm that all the prisoners in Israeli prisons have begun a three-day hunger strike, which could be increased, as…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected on Wednesday the condemnations of Israel over the decision to build 1,100 new housing units in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood. “Gilo isn’t a settlement, but a Jerusalem neighborhood, 5 minutes away from the city center,” Netanyahu posted on his Twitter account. “All Israeli governments have built there.” The plan, which was…

Israel’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, gave a special interview to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday for Rosh Hashanah. During the interview Ya’alon summed up last week’s events in the United Nations and said that Israel should not conduct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority as long as its current leadership remains…

More than a third of Egyptians support the extreme Muslim Brotherhood movement, according to a new survey conducted by the Egyptian government’s media and decision-making support center. The survey, the results of which were reported by the pan-Arab daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday, revealed that 35% of citizens support the Muslim Brotherhood while only 21%…

The Palestinian Authority’s request for statehood at the United Nations moved to the next level on Wednesday, after the UN Security Council unanimously approved to transfer the request to a sub-committee for further examination. According to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 News, the sub-committee will be made up of representatives from the 15 members…

MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz (National Union) responded on Wednesday to the reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to the Quartet’s proposal for renewed talks with the Palestinian Authority. “There is actually one advantage to the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu tends to adopt the Quartet’s position of a withdrawal to 1949 armistice lines…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to the Quartet’s proposal for renewed talks with the Palestinian Authority and may have check-mated Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who cannot back down from his strategy of asking the United Nations for recognition of the PA as a sovereign nation without talks with Israel. The Prime Minister met…

The Jewish Community Center (JCC) of the metropolitan New York city of Rockland has unveiled an 8-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes massacred by Black September terrorists at the Munich Olympics in 1972. The sculpture is an abstract rendering of the Olympic torch and bears the names of the athletes…

.The Jewish People begin the High Holydays on Wednesday evening, ushering in the year 5772 by starting nearly a month of special days: Two days of Rosh Hashanah on Thursday and Friday are this year followed immediately by Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath of Repentance, and on Sunday by the Fast of Gedaliah. Rosh Hashana is…

In honor of the Jewish New Year, the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yona Metzger, sent the traditional greeting of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to Jews living in the Diaspora. “In our tradition, we always take an apple, dip it in honey, and we say that we shall have a good year and a…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is continuing his wave of verbal attacks on Israel, this time in an interview with Time Magazine. During the interview Erdogan reiterated his support for the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid and accused Israel of defying UN resolutions. “First and foremost, what is required is for the UN Security…

While Israel’s relationship with Turkey has certainly seen better days, the two countries continue to cooperate in a number of important areas. On Monday, for example, it was reported that trade between the two countries was up was up 26% during the first ten months of 2011 compared to the previous year. And on Tuesday,…

An Israeli doctor has sued Google – and won – in a world-precedent setting case, after a Tel Aviv court agreed with his contention that the search engine giant had effectively allowed his competitors to hijack his reputation for their benefit. As a result, Dr. Dov Klein, an eminent Israeli plastic surgeon, has been awarded…

Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nabil Abu Radina railed against the approval of new Israeli construction in Jerusalem’s Gilo area on Tuesday. According to the PA’s semi-official Ma’an news agency, Radina called the new construction project “a unilateral move by Israel that undermines Palestinian efforts to build a state with East Jerusalem as its capital” and “an obstacle to…

A woman in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to be flogged for daring to operate a motor vehicle on Tuesday. Activists told the Associated Press that Shaima Ghassaniya was found guilty of defying the kingdom’s de facto ban on women driving and sentenced to 10 lashes. No Saudi law formally prohibits women from driving, but conservative…

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday announced Nigeria will vote in favor of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ bid for full membership as a sovereign member of in the United Nations. The PA office for foreign affairs released a statement quoting top PA diplomatic Dr Riyad Al Malki, who stressed he was officially informed by the his…

Egypt’s caretaker junta has November 28 as the date parliamentary elections will take place, the state’s news agency MENA reported Tuesday. The election is expected to be held in three stages, which could take several weeks. “The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces set November 28 as the date to start the first stage of…

US officials on Tuesday decried Israel’s approval of 1,100 new housing units Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood saying the move was “deeply disappointing” and “counterproductive.” President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for Israel to halt building ahead of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials saying it “isn’t necessary for Israel’s security.” But Israeli officials, who…

The Palestinian Authority plans to expand its boycott of Israel to include an international boycott on Israeli academic institutions, a top official said Tuesday in an interview with the PA-based Ma’an news. Sabri Saydam, an advisor to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said PA Arabs would “adopt qualitative projects to end occupation using modern technology.” In…

The president, who is noted for excellent oratory and rarely misses a beat, may simply have stumbled inadvertently, but the blooper indicates he has Jews on his mind as his popularity falls. President Obama’s “down home” style was clearly appreciated by the crowd, and he responded accordingly, talking about his identification with poor people and…

The Palestinian Authority and international groups paid many of the Arabs who rioted after last week’s United Nations session where a motion was submitted for recognizing the PA as a country, the IDF reports. Arutz Sheva previously has reported that international leftists pay Arabs to riot every Friday at the separation/security fence, but the revelation…

MK Shelly Yechimovich’s successful bid to take control of the Labor party has apparently inspired her counterparts in Kadima to attempt to do the same. According to Maariv, MK Meir Sheetrit has already asked Kadima head and Opposition leader MK Tzipi Livni to hold primaries earlier than planned. Sheetrit reportedly spoke in the names of…

The rise of right-wing and anti-Semitic parties heralds a new wave of anti-Semitism that is headquartered in Budapest, Der Spiegel reports. A long and thorough analysis by writer Erich Follath concluded with stories from Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who have witnessed neo-Nazism in Hungary, complete with Nazi uniforms and blatant warnings that Jews should…

Interior Minister Eli Yishai approved a plan to 1,100 new homes in Jerusalem’s Gilo area on Tuesday. “The Israeli interior ministry announced on Tuesday that the plan for 1,100 new housing units in Gilo had passed its district planning committee, and will now be available for public objections for 60 days,” a ministry statement said.…

Ismail Haniyeh, who serves as the ‘prime minister’ in Hamas-run Gaza, called on Monday for an ‘inter-Palestinian’ strategic dialogue to decide on a joint strategy for establishing an independent state, the semi-official Palestinian Authority Ma’an news agency reported. “We are in favor of a strategic dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine…

Women and girls may have become the latest pawns in the chess game between Iran and Bahrain. Shi’ite opposition activists in the tiny Gulf country issued a statement Monday saying, “More than 40 Bahraini women were savagely arrested… in a commercial center where they were beaten.” According to the Al-Wefaq organization, the women, arrested Friday,…

The commander of the U.S. European Command (EUCOM), Admiral James Stavridis, departed Israel on Monday following a two-day work visit as a guest of the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz. During the course of his visit, Admiral Stavridis conducted work meetings with senior officers and toured a number of facilities throughout…

Pakistan is becoming a staple of US presidential debates and the hypothetical questions may soon become a reality.. Rick Perry stumbled in a debate when he was asked how he would react if woken up at 3 AM and told that Pakistan had lost control over its nuclear arsenal. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama was…

Egypt’s foreign minister reaffirmed on Monday his country’s commitment to the peace treaty it signed with Israel in 1979. In an interview with The Associated Press, Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr said relations between Egypt and Israel were governed by the U.S.-brokered peace agreement and stressed that Cairo honored all its treaty commitments as long as…

Three terrorists blew up the Egyptian-Israeli neutral gas pipeline for at least the sixth time this year in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday in the northern Sinai. The line also supplies gas to Jordan. The terrorists destroyed a pumping station, leaving behind one man who was hospitalized as the flames from the blast shot up nearly…

An Israeli-American counter terrorism organization says an alleged list of IDF names published Monday in a Turkish newspaper is not what the paper claims it to be. The Institute of Terrorism Research and Response told Arutz Sheva in a statement Monday evening that the Turkish Sabah newspaper had actually published names from the past. The list…

Five of the most important Dead Sea scrolls appeared on the Internet on Monday in what their custodians say will be a broader effort to make the celebrated manuscripts available to anyone who has a computer, AP reports. The initiative, a joint project of the Israel museum and Internet giant Google, put online Monday the Great Isaiah Scroll, War Scroll, Habakkuk commentary, Temple Scroll, and scroll…

Turkey has officially denied involvement in gathering a list of 174 names of Israeli personnel – mostly navy commandos – involved in the May 2010 clash on the Mavi Marmara flotilla vessel. Istanbul Deputy Public Prosecutor Ates Hasan Sozen denied in a statement to the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman asking the National Intelligence Organization (MIT)…

Ten out of eleven pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren were tried and convicted Friday on charges of heckling, more than a year after they managed to successfully stop him from delivering his message at the University of California Irvine campus. The verdict came after two and…

The dismembered remains of a Syrian girl were discovered by chance in a local morgue last week by her mother who was expecting to identify the dead girl’s activist brother Zainab Al Hosni, 18, from the city of Homs had been decapitated, her arms cut off, and had her skin removed, Amnesty International said. She…

Hundreds of ancient artifacts lent to a U.S. archaeologist in the early 1960s have been returned to the Hashemite Kingdom. The artifacts, which date back to the early bronze age, were discovered in the area of Bab Al Thira’a in the southern Jordan Valley. Numerous artifacts have been found in the past century in the…

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin on Monday said Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ address to the United Nations underscores why peace hasn’t been achieved. According to Israel’s Channel 2 Radio, Rivlin told Japanese Ambassador Haruhisa Takeuchi on Monday that Abbas’ speech Friday “distorted the historical record and showed open hatred and hostility for the Jewish state.”…

The Lebanese Army announced on Monday it had arrested a man on suspicion of spying for Israel, the As-Safir newspaper reported. The suspect, arrested late Saturday and held for interrogation, was identified only as Ibrahim S., 55, the newspaper said. The Egypt-born Ibrahim, who is married to a Lebanese woman, has lived in Hasbaya, southeast…

Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea put Hizbullah on notice that he expected them to lay down their arms saying regional policies that have long-protected the terror organization’s arsenal were fading amid the Arab Spring. “The existence of illegitimate weapons in Lebanon is no longer justified or acceptable, particularly in light of major [regional] changes…

A Turkish newspaper has published a list of 174 names of Israelis – mostly soldiers – it says were involved in the raid on the Mavi Marmara in 2010. The paper, Sabah, reported that intelligence sources in Turkey transferred the list of names to the prosecutor in charge of the Marmara case in the Turkish…

Anyone wanting to earn easy money could have pocketed $1,500 for the questionable honor of eating with Ahmadinejad in New York’s fancy Warwick Hotel, where he stayed last week. He basically rented a crowd, as he customarily dines every time since he began his yearly visits that cause controversy in the Big Apple, The New…

Jews in the Hevron area, described as ”settlers’ by most media, post pro-Israel signs on the highway frequently attacked by Arab and where a rock-throwing terrorist caused the deaths of a father and baby son last Friday Instead of carrying out violent “price tag” operations against Arabs, Hevron area residents hung posters and slogans on…

A clear majority of Israeli Jews see themselves as religious or ‘traditional,’ according to newly released data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Eight percent of Jews define themselves as hareidi, 12 percent as religious, 13 percent as religious traditionalists, 25 percent as “traditionalists who are not so religious” and the remaining 42 percent…

President Shimon Peres told foreign diplomats at a pre-Rosh HaShanah reception Monday that seeing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak in the United Nations is “revolting.” “For an Israeli to see him on the stage of the United Nations is revolting,” President Peres declared. “It is actually the antithesis of the United Nations. He calls for…

Israelis were not allowed to cross into Egypt through the Taba border crossing Sunday morning, although foreigners were able to cross through as usual, as was any Israeli who possessed a foreign passport. A source at the crossing told a reporter that the crossing was “probably” closed to Israelis due to terror alerts. Although thousands of Israelis…

Scores of people were turned away on Saturday night as they attempted to enter – not a theatre, movie premier, concert or four star restaurant – but the packed-to-the-rafters Great Synagogue of Jerusalem. And this in order to pray for forgiveness for past sins. The Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that ushers in the Jewish New Year, is the…

Two U.S. citizens who inadvertently crossed the border into Iran while hiking with a third person in Iraq’s Kurdistani mountains have finally reached the end of a two-year ordeal trapped in an Iranian nightmare. Josh Fattal, an environmentalist, and Shane Bauer, a freelance journalist, were picked up more than two years ago by Iranian security…

Temple Mount Police arrested a 76-year-old Jewish man Sunday after he recited a blessing before drinking some water. Yosef Hacohen felt ill during a tour of the Temple Mount and wanted to take a sip from a water bottle. As another member of the group he was a part of supported him, he recited the “shehakol”…

Most Israeli Jews believe that decisions on the country’s future should have the agreement of the majority of Israel’s Jewish citizens, according to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). A total of 77.9 percent of Jewish respondents said there should be majority Jewish support for decisions on peace or security with a long-term…

Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino has confirmed that the victims of a tragic car crash Friday were murdered by terrorists, Channel 2 television reported Sunday afternoon. Previously, police stated that the crash was caused by driver error and was definitely not the result of an attack. The dramatic change in approach followed a meeting Saturday night…

Asher Palmer, who was killed Friday near Hevron, carried a gun on him when he died and the gun was stolen from its holster, according to evidence now being published.  The police were apparently well aware of this fact from the moment Palmer and his baby Yonatan were found dead, yet they chose to say…

The Associated Press refuted Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ speech in the United Nations last Friday and noted he omitted any reference to Jewish biblical figures.   The news agency’s report on Abbas’ speech in the United Nations indicates media may be fed up with him and reveals a dramatic reversal of decades of alleged…

Cheered by thousands, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was given a hero’s welcome Sunday when he returned from his trip to the United Nations. “This is the popular Palestinian Spring,” he declared, calling for the official start of a non-violent intifada against Israel. “Raise your heads with pride; you are Palestinians!” he told the crowd…

The Tel Aviv Warden of the U.S. Embassy is warning American citizens to “exercise caution and take appropriate measures to ensure their safety and security” while traveling along the border with Egypt. A “credible threat of increased terrorist activity near the border between Israel and Egypt” is in effect, according to the alert sent by…

Saudi Arabia has decided to join the 21st century. In a five minute speech delivered Sunday to the advisory Shura Council, King Abdullah announced a significant change in the status of women. “Because we refuse to marginalize women in society in all roles that comply with Shari’a, we have decided after deliberation with our senior…

The grassroots Judea Residents’ Council has revealed that a CT scan conducted on Asher Palmer, who was murdered with his baby son Yehonatan on Friday, as well as an autopsy conducted in the Abu Kabir forensic lab, both confirm that a rock hit his face and caused fractures in the front of his skull. Boaz…

Russian Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he plans to return to take his country’s top leadership spot in March of next year. The announcement ended months of speculation as to Putin’s plans for the next elections. Putin served as president from 2000 to 2008. He was unable to run for…

A California jury delivered a guilty verdict against 10 Muslim students and placed them on a year’s probation for disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the Irvine campus of the University of California last year. A government attorney labeled the students’ behavior as “thuggery,” but Muslim leaders were furious over the verdict…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s predecessors were easier for Arab negotiators to work with, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview with the pan-Arabic A-Sharq il-Awsat. Abbas included former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as an Israeli leader who was easier for PA negotiators than Netanyahu, along with former Prime Ministers Yitzchak Rabin, Shimon Peres…

Four Arabs were killed and nine others wounded Saturday in an explosion and the subsequent collapse of two Egypt-Gaza smuggling tunnels, often used by terrorists. The tunnels were dug under the border. One of them was under the city Rafiah, part of which is located in Hamas-controlled Gaza and part of which is under Egyptian…

The Palestine Today network reports that an Egyptian youth Facebook campaign urges a raid on the American embassy if the United States casts a veto on the Palestinian Authority’s request that the United Nations Security Council approve its request for full membership. Egyptian rioters raided the Israeli embassy compound in Cairo last month, threatening the…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is running away from responsibility to reach an agreement with Israel, Foreign Minister Lieberman says as the United Nations prepares to discuss his bid for recognition for the Palestinian Authority. He told Voice of Israel government radio that Abbas’s refusal to talk with Israel for two years, his then going…

Abbas, after rebuffing President Barack Obama, now has taken on the Quartet and rejected its proposal for resuming talks with Israel because it does not include pre-conditions. The Quartet – the United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union – set a timetable for an agenda for peace talks within a month and concrete…

The speech made by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas “was the worst example of anti-Israel incitement and vitriol I have ever heard,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said over the weekend. Abbas, who throughout the speech called Israel a “colonial occupying power,” accused Israel of targeting civilians and arbitrarily destroying crops, schools, mosques and hospitals. He…

The victims of a car crash Friday afternoon on Road 60 near Hevron Asher Plamer, 25, of Kiryat Arba, and his two year old son Yonatan, may have been the victims of a rock attack, said National Union chairman MK Ya’akov Katz (Ketzaleh) . The vehicle they were traveling in overturned late Friday afternoon. Police…

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday demanded a renegotiation of key aspects of the Oslo Accords, claiming that the agreement had prevented the PA economy from expanding as much as it could have. At issue is the Paris Agreement, which set up the system whereby Israel collects customs and taxes for the PA, and…

After making his speech at the UN General Assembly Friday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did the “interview circuit,” speaking to reporters on various American and Israeli media outlets. Speaking in an interview broadcast Saturday night, Netanyahu told Channel Two that Israel welcomed efforts by the Quartet to restart the peace process. “If the basic conditions…

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and AMY TEIBEL, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly suggested Saturday that he would reject a peacemaking blueprint put forward by international mediators, saying he would not agree to any proposal that disregarded Palestinian conditions for the resumption of peace talks. Abbas, who returned to the West Bank…

The Middle East Quartet published on Friday a new timetable for re-launching negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. According to Reuters, the Quartet, which comprises the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia, said in a statement it would like to see comprehensive proposals within three months on issues of territory…

The Hamas terror group dismissed on Friday Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ UN speech, saying that it failed to address PA Arabs’ aspirations. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency that by recognizing Israel and seeking UN membership for a Palestinian state on 22 percent of ‘historic Palestine,’ Abbas “decreased Palestinians’ rights.”…

In a historic speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas officially asked the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state. Abbas started his speech by referring to Israel as “an occupying power who has committed ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, pushing them away from their ancestral homeland.”…

One Palestinian Authority Arab died on Friday after a mutual rock hurling incident between Israeli civilians and approximately 300 PA Arabs near the village of Qusra, south of Shechem, incited a violent riot. The IDF Spokesperson reported that during the riot, PA Arabs hurled rocks at security personnel. Security personnel used riot dispersal means and…

The IDF has increased its preparedness and raised its alertness following concrete information regarding intentions by Hamas, as well as other terror organizations, to execute another terrorist attack along the Egyptian border in the very near future, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, military sources suggest that these…

Foreign Minister Avigddor Lieberman slammed on Friday the speech by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the United Nations and labeled it an incitement. Lieberman, who walked out as an act of protest during Abbas’ speech, told Israel’s Channel 10 News, “Abbas’ speech was one of most difficult incitement. I’ve never heard such a speech…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, just a short time after Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas officially submitted his bid for membership of a Palestinian state in the world body. Netanyahu began by saying that he extends his hand to peace to all the surrounding nations, including Egypt, Jordan…

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas is presenting his application for full United Nations membership to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday. Ban will then pass the application to the Security Council for review. It is widely thought the Security Council will issue a recommendation on the application Friday afternoon. Procedurally, however, guidelines for a Security…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution on Friday calling on all countries in the Middle East to join a regional anti-nuclear arms treaty, Reuters reports. Arab league states had said in previous months they would make an issue out of Israel’s alleged nuclear arsenal in this year’s IAEA session, and the resolution…

Frustrated by the restrictive no-fire orders handed down by IDF attorneys, local rabbis and leaders are asking the Chief Rabbis of Israel to take the rare step of issuing a direct contradiction. While the Rabbinate avoids involvement in military affairs, the rabbis said that in this case, the orders are a case of “pikuach nefesh,”…

Israel’s former UN Ambassador Yoram Ettinger addressed on Thursday President Obama’s speech to the United Nations, saying the speech may have been a change in tactics on the part of the president, but adding that his relationship with Israel has not changed substantially. “A leopard never changes its spots,” Ettinger told Arutz Sheva. “Obama may…

Israeli families are not paid rewards by their government when their relatives are killed. Israeli soldiers do not use children as shields when they initiate a firefight with terrorists. Israeli schools and summer camps don’t brainwash pupils to undertake violence against civilians. Israeli religious figures do not laud children who engage in terror operations. So…

A report claiming that Naftali Bennet, Director-General of the Yesha Council, is leaving over his support for “cost of living” protests is untrue, Bennet told Arutz Sheva. An article in Maariv claimed that the real reason behind Bennet’s departure was “a deep ideological dispute with Yesha Council head Danny Danon” that centered on Bennet’s visit…

Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz passed away on Thursday night at the age of 84. The rabbi was known for his dedication to fighting missionary activity and assimilation, a fight he conducted through his organization, Yad L’Achim. His funeral will begin Friday at 10:30 a.m. at his home on Beit Shammai in Ramat Gan, and will…

A document compiled by IDF lawyers that demands extreme restraint in the face of Palestinian Authority violence may be illegal, the Yesha Human Rights Organization has warned. The document orders security teams in the many Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria to avoid using live fire even if PA mobs break into the towns with…

Israel’s leaders may be among those making it possible for the Palestinian Authority to teach hate and violence to a new generation of children, according to new findings from veteran investigative reporter David Bedein. Bedein has long been involved in exposing incitement in PA schools – incitement often made possible by United States funding. During…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took advantage of his speech at the UN General Assembly on Thursday to attack Israel, something he has made a habit of doing in recent months. “Israel did not comply with 89 UN resolutions and the UN is not helping to put an end to tragedy of the Palestinians,”…

As President Barack Obama gave his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a pro-Israel rally was taking place outside. One of the participants in the rally was a Palestinian Authority Arab named Mazen, who also came to demonstrate in support of Israel. Wearing a white shirt which read “shalom, peace, salam,” Mazen…

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said Thursday he is working to create a bloc of seven votes against PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statehood bid in the Security Council on Friday. “We’re still trying to get a block of seven countries,” Prosor told the Hebrew-language Walla!  Prosor said he was working with US…

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took center stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday afternoon September 22nd, over 500 members of “StandWithUs”, the pro-Israel advocacy organization, engaged in some creative street theater, only a few blocks away as they staged their own circus style protest in response to the racism and hypocrisy of…

A French-woman who wears an Islamic face veil in open defiance of a nation wide ban, is planning to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency in next year’s elections. In an interview with The Associated Press, Kenza Drider said she wants to defend the rights of all French women. She is among a group of…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told Arutz Sheva he walks “tall and proud” as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. “The most important things to understand here is that here are no shortcuts to peace,” Prosor told Arutz Sheva. “Peace can only be achieved by direct negotiations between the two sides. By definition peace…

This is the first time in the show’s 11 year history that Israel is participating. Twelve other states will take part, including Britain, Germany and France. Turkey, whose relationship with Israel has been somewhat tense in the past two years, is also among the participants.  Visitors will be able to enter the Hercules’s belly and see a…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday launched into his customary tirade against Israel and the West at the United Nations. Announcing he planned “to analyze the current situation from a different angle,” Ahmadinejad immediately lambasted Israel saying the “Zionist regime imposes terror on the Palestinian people.” Ahmadinejad also cast aspersion on the Holocaust and hinted…

In his New Year’s message released Thursday, President Shimon Peres exuded optimism and hope for a better 5772, which could come as the result of positive changes in both the Arab world and Israeli society. In his message, released in numerous languages ahead of Rosh Hashana, Peres praised the “Arab Spring” movement, despite the possible…

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission to the United Nations has, on its logo, wiped Israel off the map. The logo is displayed on the website of the Palestinian Authority’s mission to the U.N., which is technically represented by the PLO, the “sole representative of the Palestinian people.”  The Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine, as it…

Germany’s top Jewish leader will lead a delegation to meet with the German-born Pope Benedict XVI this week. The pontiff began a four-day visit on Thursday, his third return to his homeland since 2005, when during his first trip back he went to visit a synagogue in Cologne. The second time, in 2006, he denounced…

Forensic examination of the remains of suicide bombers who carried out terror attacks in Saudia Arabia revealed they were injected with heroin before blowing themselves up. Dr. Yusuf Rumaih told Saudi newspaper Al Watan officials in Riyadh sent the samples of remains of the terrorists to three foreign countries, where the results showed the presence…

MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) on Thursday said he does not understand opposition-leader Tzipi Livni’s declaration that the Labor Party is Kadima’s “natural Zionist partner.” Livni declared her intention to partner with Shelly Yechamovich, who beat our Amir Peretz to head the party, in the Labor primaries this week. Yechnimovich is a left-wing activist, journalist, and…

U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in a private meeting following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that yes, the United States will ensure the PA does not reach statehood via the U.N. without conducting direct talks with Israel. He also urged Abbas to resume direct…

The “Arab street” is extremely upset at U.S. President Barack H. Obama after he called for direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and for his references to Israel as the “historic homeland” of the Jewish people. As a result, Arab youth in the entire Muslim world plan to show their anger at mass…

Iran has begun to produce advanced combat helicopters for its army, capable of carrying out land and sea missions. Brigadier General Hooshang Yari, commander of the ground forces aviation service, told the state-run IRNA news agency Wednesday the combat helicopters are carrying automatic machine guns. Yari said Iranian scientists have been working on the military…

The Turkish northern half of Cyprus marked its marine borders with Turkey and will issue licenses for offshore oil and gas drilling, state media reported Wednesday, in another response to Israeli offshore gas finds. According to the report on the Turkish state-run TRT, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Dervis Eroglu, the president of the…

Even as US President Barack Obama laid down the gauntlet and called for world consensus for sanctions on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the United Nations, Moscow is banking on Assad’s survival. Assad’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters has left more than 2,600 civilians dead and brought sharp disapprobation from both the…

US President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations was eagerly awaited in Israel and the Middle East region. For Israel, the speech marked an improvement over the previous two addresses at the United Nations by Barack Obama. If in previous addresses, Obama had given the impression that Israel arose as a result of the…

A pro-Israel rally was taking place on Wednesday outside the United Nations, as President Barack Obama was making his speech to the General Assembly. The participants in the rally waved Israeli flags and chanted “Am Yisrael Chai” (the people of Israel live). “I think that the United Nations is totally unfair to Israel,” one participant…

Professor Yisrael Aumann, Nobel Laureate and noted American-Israeli mathematician and game theorist, said on Wednesday that one of the biggest problems of the Israeli right is that it has adopted the misguided terminology which says that Arabs are Palestinians. “Up until the Balfour Declaration in 1918 there was no [Arab] Palestine,” he pointed out in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in New York on Wednesday and thanked him for his country’s support of Israel. The two met in the UN after Harper met senior business leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, The Canadian Press reported. Harper, a longtime supporter of Israel, told journalists…

French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested on Wednesday that the United Nations admit Palestine as a non-member state and upgrade its status to simple observer while opposing the Palestinian Authority’s bid for full membership. Sarkozy made the suggestion during a speech to the UN General Assembly, in which he also called for “one year to reach…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thanked US President Barack Obama for his continued opposition to the Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statehood gambit at the United Nations, saying the president’s stance was “a badge of honor.” “I want to thank you, Mr. President, for standing with Israel and supporting peace through direct negotiations,” Netanyahu said. “We…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Wednesday that if the Palestinian Authority (PA) makes a formal request for the United Nations to approve its statehood status, Israel should take a series of punitive steps against it. These should include annulling the Oslo Accords and annexing settlement blocs in Judea and Samaria, he said. By annexing…

Arabs threw rocks Wednesday at an Israeli car between Migdalim and Tapuach Junction in Samaria. A 20 month old girl was injured in the face. “They hold an olive twig in their mouths and murder weapons in their hands. To these barbarian terrorists they want to give a state. The Nation of Israel is strong,…

No American did more to pursue this objective than President Franklin Roosevelt. He knew that a victory in war was not enough. As he said at one of the very first meetings on the founding of the United Nations, “We have got to make, not merely a peace, but a peace that will last.” The…

As their leaders prepared to ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian Authority state, Arabs in Hevron engaged in rock-throwing. The video embedded above was shot by Hevron Jewish residents. The one below was distributed by the IDF. The video shot by Hevron residents shows a typical rock-throwing event, in which children who appear to…

Palestinian Authority representatives in the United Nations are handing out maps of “Palestine” that show it in place of all of Israel, including Tel Aviv, reports David Bedein of the Israel Resource Review.  Bedein, who is currently in the United States, told Arutz Sheva: “They do not want a Palestinian state, but all of Palestine.…

Hundreds of Palestinian Authority Arabs held a violent demonstration Wednesday afternoon near the Zif Junction in Judea, south of Hevron. The protesters hurled sharp-edged rocks at IDF soldiers, who responded with crowd-control measures to disperse the demonstration. No one was injured and no damage was reported in the incident. Dozens of PA Arabs also clashed with…

A joint FBI raid on seven IHOP pancake chain restaurants in Indiana and Ohio netted a haul of material reported to be linked to terror. Homeland Security and Internal Revenue Service agents joined the FBI and other officials in the 90-minute on the restaurant, all but one of which are owned by Tarek Elkafrawi, who…

According to initial reports a car filled with Israelis was ambushed near Karnei Shomron on Wednesday afternoon. The Shomron Regional Council reported shots were fired at the car, which sustained damage in the attack, but no injuries were reported. The IDF has sealed off the road and deployed a large number of troops to search…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Tuesday that an uprising similar to the “Arab Spring” will hit the United States, which should worry about killing Libyans instead of fretting over Syria He told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who questioned him about killing protesters, “Remember the same thing may happen in the near future for the American government.“…

US President Barack Obama dismissed the Palestinian Authority’s statehood bid at the United Nations on Thursday saying “there is no shortcut to peace.” “I am convinced that there is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the UN –…

Dozens of nationalist activists gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard on Tuesday, in a protest march against the Palestinian Authority’s intention to ask the United Nations to unilaterally recognize a Palestinians state. Protest organizer Tomer Tal Hacohen told Arutz Sheva the protest was important due to Israel’s existential threat. “The UN is only 10% of…

Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter this week sought to clarify remarks she made over the weekend that were construed at anti-Semitic, AFP reported. Fekter apologized for a corollary she made between the contemporary media-pillorying of bankers and the rich to medieval persecution of Jews. “In Europe we are now pillorying the banks and the wealthy,”…

Israel scored one success on Tuesday in its diplomatic efforts to block a declaration of a Palestinian state in the UN, after Nigeria decided to abstain in Friday’s vote in the UN Security Council. Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s office made the announcement of Nigeria’s decision, following a meeting in New York between Barak and Nigerian…

President Barack Obama will meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday as part of the United States’ diplomatic efforts to avert a clash at the United Nations at the end of the week. According to a report in The Associated Press, the White House announced the late addition to Obama’s schedule on Tuesday…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman denied reports Wednesday morning that he will break up the government coalition if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not “punish” the Palestinian Authority should it file a formal motion in the United Nations for unilateral recognition. The Foreign Minister heads the Yisrael Beiteinu party, the largest coalition partner in the Likud…

New York police arrest a rabbi and five other activists who blocked traffic in a protest against the Palestinian Authority bid for unilateral United Nations recognition at the United Nations annual General Assembly. They were arrested during a rally co-sponsored by Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) and Amcha that drew more than 35 people,…

The IDF’s Artillery Corps is considering a new cannon system with the ability to shoot six shells a minute with a range of 25 miles. The system also will be easier to load automatically. The IDF is studying two possible weapons – one manufactured in Israel by Elbit and the other by a German company…

Israel does not oppose Palestinian Authority statehood – but it must be reached through direct talks. That’s the message being driven home repeatedly by every government official, and now by Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor as well. On Friday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is set to submit the PLO application “demanding” that the United Nations Security…

France has joined the United States to build a ladder for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to climb down by filing a motion in the United Nations, let it be tabled and return to talks. The solution to let all three sides – Israel, the PA and the United States – avoid diplomatic collision is…

Hundreds of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria staged peaceful demonstrations near Arab villages in the region to show opposition to the PA statehood bid at the United Nations this week and as a contra to Arab marches rumored to be planned to lead participants towards Jewish communities. At the Knesset meeting called by MK Ben Ari…

It’s the political horse race of the hour: How will the 15 members of the UN Security Council vote on the Palestinian Authority’s request that the UN recognize the Arab state it intends to declare in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem? With the PA’s decision to take its bid directly to the Security Council, speculation about…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s international spokesperson, Mark Regev, gave a briefing to reporters in Jerusalem on Tuesday ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit to New York for the UN General Assembly. Regev pointed out that by going to the United Nations to ask for recognition of a state, the Palestinian Authority is violating agreements it…

The Jewish community of Negohot is located on the western slopes of the Southern Hevron Hills (Drom Har Hevron), a range adjoining the Judean Hills, and about 25 kilometers from the southern city of Kiryat Gat in the Lachish area. The communities of Otniel and Beit Haggai are located east of Negohot, a 15-minute drive away. Negohot, originally…

There’s a great spirit of generosity among Israelis, and indeed all Jews, especially around holiday time. Large groups of volunteers pool their resources around Rosh Hashah and Passover to make sure that needy folks have enough, so that they, too, can share in the holiday spirit abroad in the land. But there’s a bit of…

A report Tuesday night said that U.S. President Barack H. Obama would endorse the idea of a PA state when he speaks at the United Nations at the opening of the General Assembly Wednesday – and that he will also endorse the status of Israel as a Jewish state. The report, quoting officials in the…

“It would have a major impact on the economic situation in the West Bank, if the you lose $500 million [in US aid] from financial support for development in the West Bank,” Palestinian Monetary Authority Governor Jihad al-Wazir said. “Really, the risk of a PA collapse is very real under the financial strain, without US…

Hizbullah may be able to stomach the foreign scorn that goes with mass murder, political assassinations, torture, and war crimes but its leaders are vexed not to have won accolades at home. Criticism from the March-14 opposition parties focused on Hizbullah’s refusal to disarm and disband its terror militias in favor honest politics have caused…

Civil Administration officials and senior IDF Central Command officers met Tuesday with security officials from the Palestinian Authority amid rising tensions over the PA statehood bid at the United Nations. A security official close to the talks told the Hebrew-language Walla! the purpose of the meeting was to improve communication and prevent “errors” if, as…

Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday saying he was not a partner in peace. “As far as Mr. Netanyahu is concerned I can answer him with six words: “Netanyahu is not a partner in peace,” Erakat told Al Jazeera while meeting with Arab League envoys in Doha.  “Without…

Hundreds of Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria staged peaceful demonstrations near Arab villages in the region to show opposition to the PA statehood bid at the United Nations this week and as a contra to Arab marches rumored to be planned to lead participants towards Jewish communities. At the Knesset meeting called by MK Ben Ari…

Let no one be mistaken, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Likud members Tuesday evening: Time and time again, Israel has gone out of its way and bent over backwards to get Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to the negotiating table, but has been rebuffed every time.  “We are a nation that seeks peace,” Netanyahu said…

Saudi Arabia is forking over $200 million to bail out the Palestinian Authority, whose conditions for a state are based on the 2002 “Saudi Peace Initiative.” The official Palestinian Authority WAFA news agency reported that Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf called PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to inform him of the transfer of funds. The injection…

A bomb threat in Marseille France forced the staff of Israel’s consulate in the city to flee the building Tuesday until a suspicious bomb turned out to be a hoax. After an anonymous person telephoned the threat to police, authorities discovered a suspicious Renault van parked outside the Israeli consulate in the southern port city.…

On Sunday, MK Ahmed Tibi’s office denied reports that he was traveling to New York as part of a Palestinian Authority delegation. The next day, Tibi uploaded pictures to his Facebook page in which he can be seen alongside PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, senior PA negotiator Nabil Shaath and other PA delegates on a plane…

France has announced it will not attend the Durban III conference in New York next week, dealing a heavy blow to the integrity of the anti-Israel “conference against racism.” France participated in the Durban II gathering two years ago but its delegates and other European Union representatives left the room when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…

The state must take steps to punish a prosecutor who disregarded protocol in order to allow the demolition of homes in Migron despite a court order, MK Michael Ben-Ari said Tuesday. Ben-Ari has turned to Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein in the matter. State Prosecutor Osnat Mandel, head of the High Court Department, has admitted to…

The pro-Israel organization StandWithUs has launched a poster campaign in the San Francisco area to counter a pro-PA poster campaign that calls for an end to American military aid to Israel. The StandWithUs organization has countered with a poster of two boys, one an Israeli Arab and the other Jewish, next to the slogan, “Israel…

Israeli technological breakthroughs have lead to building new “micro” and “nano” satellites as well as others that are impervious to weather changes on Earth. The nano satellites are cheap to manufacture and extremely cheap to launch since they weigh less than 22 pounds. “We’ve recently begun working on micro and nano satellites. A micro satellite…

For many families, the walk home from synagogue on Friday evening provides an enjoyable moment of tranquility after a long week. This past Sabbath, one Jerusalem family’s walk became a nightmare, as they were set upon by an Arab gang determined to cause harm. The mother of the family, Tzipi, recalled the traumatic event in…

GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is joining a New York rally with a leader of the Likud party’s strongly nationalist flank Tuesday.   The Texas governor will hold a press conference in New York on Tuesday (today) with Knesset Member Danny Danon, who supports bringing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria under Israeli sovereignty. Danon…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned on Tuesday that that Israel is isolating itself and American influence is waning in the wake of the showdown in the United Nations over the Arab world’s motion to gain unilateral recognition of the Palestinian Authority. “I think my best way to describe my view toward Israel is my increasing…

Israel recently destroyed three homes in Migron, and the government is planning the demolition of several more homes in accordance with a Supreme Court order. In the meantime, the Palestinian Authority continues a massive building project just minutes away. One frustrated resident of Ateret, who sees the PA construction from his window, wrote to Prime…

The influential Washington Post has accused Mahmoud Abbas of not being serious about wanting to establish the Palestinian Authority as a country. In a lead editorial Tuesday morning, the liberal newspaper joined a growing number of mainstream media outlets – with the notable exception of The New York Times – throwing up their hands at…

An arson attack near the Jewish town of Itamar in Samaria on Monday night was met by a rapid and large-scale military response – a fact locals say is a sign of the high tension in advance of the Palestinian Authority’s planned statehood bid. PA Arabs set fire to a field south of Itamar on…

By Giulio Meotti – Israel National News So what will this famous “State of Palestine” be like?  It will be a state led by Holocaust enablers like Hamas or by a Holocaust-denier like Mahmoud Abbas, who in a book downgraded the number of Jewish victims and denied that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews. In…

The Holy Temple Conferences by the Movement for Temple Renewal, with the participation of leading temple-oriented organizations, took place in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem on Sunday. The conference included lectures on different matters connected to the Temple Mount and to the rebuilding of the Temple. “We’re dealing with matters of the press, the government,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to meet with him while the two are in New York. “I call on the chairman of the PA to begin direct negotiations in New York that will continue in Jerusalem and Ramallah,” Netanyahu said. “I suggest that Abbas start negotiations for peace…

Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists are ignoring a warning by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that attacking Israel is counterproductive while he seeks United Nations recognition of the PA as a sovereign nation and full member of the international body. In southern Israel, a short-range Qassam rocket fired by Gaza-based PA Arab terrorists exploded in an open…

Lawmakers from around the world this week tackled the thorny issue of fighting anti-Semitism at the International Consultation of Parliamentarians in Kiev. The conference, spearheaded by Oleksandr Feldman, Ukrainian MP and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, brought together legislators to discuss the issue of countering Jew-hatred, especially in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Among…

An Israeli scientist at Tel Aviv University has discovered the cause of a rare disease in which some babies are born without fingerprints, and a reduction in the number of sweat glands. The condition, adermatoglypia – “Immigration Delay Disease” – is extremely rare, but can make life miserable for the people who have it. According…

IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told soldiers on Monday that readiness is a “moral obligation.” “Israel and the IDF are now at the mouth of a complex period that bears new challenges,” Gantz told members of the Kfir brigade. “Over the past few months we saw a large-scale processes that changed the…

The United Nation’s Durban III “anti-racism” conference has accredited a Libyan NGO close to Muammar Qaddafi but barred the pro-Israel “UN Watch” group. Next week’s conference in New York marks the 10th anniversary of the first Durban conference in Africa, where virtually the entire session was dedicated to condemning Israel while ignoring atrocities in Sudan,…

Sixty El Al pilots and crew took off Monday on a unique mission to act as pro-Israel emissaries (hasbara”) on foreign campuses and in schools and institutions. Under the slogan “El Al emissaries explain blue and white,” the colors of Israel, pilots, stewards and stewardesses  began training for their new voluntary work in public diplomacy in…

Livni accused Netanyahu of falsely claiming that “the world is against us,” that there is anti-Semitism and that Israel can’t do anything about it.  “Israel’s friends no longer understand Israel’s policy and they do not know what it wants,” she accused. “I am sorry to say it, but they do not believe the Israeli prime…

Israeli officials say the Jewish State may still open a mission at the NATO office in Brussels, despite attempts by Turkey to block the initiative. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the CNNTurk news channel in an interview aired Sunday evening, “Israel recently made an attempt to open an office at NATO in Brussels. We…

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas proudly proclaimed “all hell has broken out” in response to his statehood bid at the United Nations. He chose a terrorist’s mother to represent the effort. According to the semi-official PA Ma’an news agency, Abbas told reporters on his flight to New York officials in Ramallah had “seriously discussed all…

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Fayyad met in New York Sunday as western diplomats frantically try to head off a showdown at the United Nations. “There was a short meeting between the two and they discussed the UN bid, security and other issues,” a diplomat told AFP on condition of…

A synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot was torched by unidentified vandals Sunday. Officials said arson is suspected in the destruction at the Hanichei HaYeshivot study hall. Investigators discovered that a flammable liquid had been poured on items at three separate locations within the building, and then ignited. A student who studies at the…

Pro-Israel activists have launched an information-packed public diplomacy video three days ahead of a major pro-Israel rally for September 21, when the UN is expected to vote on the Palestinian Authority bid for statehood. At least 15,000 are expected to attend. It remains to be seen whether the graphically sophisticated video can outperform clips released…

If all goes well, between now and the end of the year Israel’s Tourism Ministry will have spent more than NIS 40 million on marketing the nation abroad. Israel’s “autumn flush” is being seen as an investment in the country’s economy, with an eye toward creating continuity in marketing activities abroad. The outreach to potential…

MK Ahmed Tibi’s office denied on Sunday the reports that he went to New York to be a part of the Palestinian Authority’s delegation to the United Nations as it presents its unilateral statehood bid. “MK Tibi travelled by invitation of the U.S. Congress to lecture at Columbia University and participate in the activities for…

Along with the Palestinian Authority’s request to the UN to recognize an Arab state in Judea and Samaria, this coming week will see another major anti-Israel event – the Durban 3 Conference, set to open on September 22, one day before the PA is scheduled to submit its request to the Security Council. Judging by…

The United States and the European Union are making last-ditch efforts to fend off the Palestinian Authority’s bid to gain statehood through the United Nations, rather through direct talks with Israel, as agreed upon in the 1993 Oslo Accords. Both the U.S. and the EU, as well as Russia and U.N. officials – a group…

Echoing earlier statements by officials in the Hamas terror group, Hamas’ Gaza Prime Minister said on Sunday his group would not back a United Nations membership bid and warned that no Palestinian Authority leader had a mandate to sacrifice “fundamental Palestinian rights.” Speaking in Gaza, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said the terror group continued…

Professor Moshe Sharon, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, took part on Sunday in the Holy Temple Conferences by the Movement for Temple Renewal with the participation of leading temple organizations. During the conference, which took place in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Prof. Sharon…

Jews around the world gathered on Sunday for first-ever global Shofar FlashMob hosted by Art Kibbutz NYC, the newly-launched international artist community. The event was meant to give the Jewish tradition of sounding the Shofar daily during the Hebrew month of Elul a 21st century post-modern twist. The Shofar, traditionally made from a ram’s horn,…

For example, reservists reported asking what to do if an Arab woman carrying a baby tries to break into a community. “Do we open fire?” They were told: “Open fire only if your life is in danger.” In the communities themselves, rapid response teams intend to show “zero tolerance” to attempts by frenzied mobs to…

The trial of three Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs charged with the sadistic murder of a Christian tourist and the attempted murder of her Israeli friend began Sunday in the Jerusalem District Court.  The Arabs, Aiad Fatfata, Kifakh Ganimat and Ibrahim Ganimat, are residents of the villages of Surif and Tarkumiya in the Hevron area. They…

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads to UN to fend off PA statehood, an Arab Knesset Member is reportedly going there too – to aid Israel’s rivals in their latest diplomatic offensive against the Jewish State. Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi is en route to New York as part of the PA delegation, according to the Bethlehem-based…

Arabs hurled a fire bomb at the fence of the community of Itamar in Samaria Sunday evening. The fire bomb exploded but no one was hurt and no damage was caused. IDF soldiers began to comb the area and search for the perpetrator.  Hakim Awad, 18, of Awarta, and his cousin Amjad, murdered Ehud Fogel…

MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am Ta’al) “is using Israeli democracy as a tool of treason,” National Union MK Uri Ariel said Sunday in response to the report that Tibi has joined the Palestinian Authority (PA) delegation to the United Nations, where the PA seeks recognition as a state. “Parliamentary immunity does not grant Tibi the right…

In what appears to be an attempt to minimize inflammatory statements by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, a former American president claimed the PA’s upcoming statehood bid at the United Nations is simply an “act of frustration.” Former U.S. President Bill Clinton added in the interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he…

Many IDF reservists have received an emergency call-up notice in recent days, telling them to report for duty Sunday. They join reserve forces called up last week and the week before, all of whom are preparing for possible unrest in Judea, Samaria and elsewhere when the Palestinian Authority asks the UN to recognize it as…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Sunday he will meet with President Barack Obama this week and added that the Palestinian Authority will fail to win full recognition from the United Nations. He said the meeting with the president will take place after he addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Obama’s promise to veto…

Police in Jerusalem are preparing for the possibility of disturbances as the Palestinian Authority goes to the UN this week to ask for recognition as a state. A number of potential responses have been weighed, including changes to the school schedule and the light rail train route. IDF Radio reported Sunday that schools in the…

Worldwide pro and anti-Israel rallies outside the Arab world the past few days revealed lopsided support for Israel, with 800 pro-Israel Christians rallying in London and 150 pro-Arabs, including 20 anti-Zionist Jews, in New York. Mainstream headlines spreading fear of huge protests, and even a “Third Intifada” in Israel, have failed to ignite the Arab…

Syria has broadcast the alleged confession of a Jordanian man to involvement in the killing of Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in Damascus three years ago. The prisoner who allegedly confessed said he worked with Israel. The confession, broadcast on Syrian national television, was meant to show that foreign countries are plotting against…

“Present to us something sensible. Don’t present to us ‘the Jewish State,’” Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in a recent speech in Ramallah. Unmasking what he really thinks about Israel, he told an appreciative audience that the “Quartet cannot force upon us the character of the State [of Israel].” The Quartet is comprised…

“This September is likely to be a ‘black September’ – but only for the United Nations General Assembly and the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians,” says a speech prepared by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. The PA seems to believe that the UN will serve as an “Israel bypass route” allowing it to achieve statehood…

A small Arab rally in support of the Palestinian Authority’s bid for UN recognition turned into a rock-throwing riot at the Kalandia IDF checkpoint north of Jerusalem Friday, injuring one soldier lightly. PA politician Mustafa Barghouti organized the protest, in which only 200 Arabs participated, an indication that Israeli and American opposition to PA Chairman…

Suzy Eban, wife of former Israeli United Nations Ambassador Abba Eban, who helped her husband in the move to have Israel win UN recognition, died last week at the age of 90 and is to be buried near Tel Aviv Sunday. Knesset Member Yitzchak Herzog, her nephew, said she worked for Zionism and shared responsibility…

The IDF is training combat soldiers in underground tunnels to fight terrorists who use tunnels to attack and kidnap soldiers. The use of underground tunnels and bunkers by terrorists took a heavy toll in 2006, when Gaza-based terrorists kidnapped Gilad Shalit, who is still in captivity, and Hizbullah terrorists pummeled northern Israel with thousands of…

Palestinian Authority unity is further away then ever as the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups unite to denounce PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his “unilateral moves.” Statements by the two terrorist groups highlight the split in the Palestinian Authority and find Hamas and Islamic Jihad in rare agreement with Israel and the United States, although for…

The United States has begun a diplomatic campaign to get a majority in the United Nations Security Council against the Palestinian Authority’s bid for unilateral statehood. The U.S. is hoping that, with support from others on the council, it can avoid using its veto. American officials have declared that they will veto the PA move…

A Jewish shepherd escaped with his life on the Sabbath after Palestinian Authority Arabs stoned him and tried to steal his herd. Police prevented him from identifying the attackers, who live in a small outpost several hundred feet from an IDF checkpoint on the southern edge of the southern Hevron Hills, between Arad and Kiryat…

The Hamas terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip, was quick to condemn on Friday the speech by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in which he confirmed that he intends to turn to the United Nations and ask for recognition of a Palestinian state. In a statement it released on Friday and which was quoted by…

Palestinian Authority officials on Saturday threatened the United States saying vetoing its statehood bid in the United Nations Security Council next week would “destroy” the so-called two-state solution. The warning came hours after PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced in a speech in Ramallah that he would ask the UN Security Council to accept membership of…

Egypt on Friday reaffirmed its commitment to the peace treaty signed with Israel in 1979. An official with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry told the MENA news agency that Egypt is committed to all international agreements, including the Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations. The official added that Cairo will abide by the peace agreement with Israel…

The efforts of the quartet – consisting of the European Union, the United States, Russia and the UN – are part of the international diplomatic push in recent weeks aimed at persuading the Palestinians to drop their UN plans. This included EU attempts to convince Abbas to settle for an upgrade of the PA’s UN…

Demoralized rebel fighters tried to regroup outside the coastal oasis town of Bani Walid after being beaten back by snipers and gunners loyal to Muammar Qaddafi holding the strategic high ground. The defeat at Bani Walid is the second in a week for rebel forces, where fractious rebel commanders admitted they had a loss of…

Another step in the deteriorating relations between Israel and Turkey toook place on Thursday, with hints that Israel is behind the leakage of tapes of secret talks betwen Ankara’s intelligence personnel and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a disclosure that shocked the Turkish public and put Erdogan’s government on the defensive. Erdogan, obviously furious, sought to defend National…

Forty people were killed as Syrian opposition ot the rule of President Bashar Al Assad entered the 27th week on Friday. The revolution coordination committee marked Friday protests, in which thousands took part, to reiterate the continuity of the revolution till the regime falls, according to its Facebook page. Bahia Mardini, head of the Arab…