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Fed up with the rise in Arab terrorism around them, Efrat residents held their first street protest in recent times.
Why throw years of friendly cooperation into the trashcan?
By Batya Medad
Considering all of the Holocaust history which is part of Israeli culture, are we immune from another massive slaughter of Jews?
Ben Caspit says the Shalit's kidnapping may have been prevented. That’s easy for him to say. He was not under rocket attack when he made these judgmental comments.
By Meir Indor
The terrorist organizers don’t only deploy terrorists., they also deploy collaborators and lawyers.
Senior IDF spokeswoman Lt. Col. Leibovich never was able to convince her father to speak of his horrors in surviving the Holocaust, even after she visited Auschwitz. Her daughter broke the silence.
Middle East power vacuums are fuel for war. A withdrawal of Assad’s army from across the Golan Heights, and fierce clashes between Hizbullah and Syrian rebels, threaten Israel on both northern fronts.
An early warning siren wailed in the Sderot area Sunday night, hours before a nationwide siren reminds the country of the Holocaust. “The journey for justice and freedom is not yet over,” said Peres.
In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.
A woman who survived the Holocaust had no idea at the time that her son would command Israel’s army. On Monday, Benny Gantz will become the first IDF Chief of Staff to lead the March of the Living.
The infiltrator strolled right across the heavily guarded border.
The IDF recently distributed ear plugs to artillery officers to protect their ears from being damaged by the roar of their weapons.
No country in the world would put up with rockets being fired regularly across its border.
Rocks kill. Words incite to kill. After a court convicted a PA terrorist of murder by rock-throwing, Haaretz’s Amira Hass writes it is a “duty” to hurl rocks at “foreign rulers.”
On Wednesday evening a number of Palestinian terrorists attacked an IDF pillbox in Einav, near Tul Karem.
United Nations “peace process” coordinator Robert Serry underplayed Wednesday morning’s rocket attacks on southern Israel while wagging his finger against any retaliation, which was “proportional” by virtue of two bombing attacks that caused no casualties. While citing the Kassam rocket attacks on the town of Sderot as “violations of the ceasefire,” Serry added that they […]
Gazan rocket attacks have begun to escalate
An annual quota of approximately 7,000 Haredim would be paid while learning in yeshiva for three years before serving in the IDF or doing national service, under a plan by Industry and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party. He also proposed that 1,800 of them would be exempt from service and […]
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
The Hillel board was conned into believing that Breaking the Silence was needed to amplify the tintinnabulation of hatred already ringing across U.S. campuses from such groups as the BDS movement and the annual Israel Apartheid Week hate fiestas.
Indictments were brought against the terrorists in the military court in Judea for severe security violations.
By JTA
A gag order has been released on the arrest and indictment of 30 Palestinian Authority terrorists from the Bethlehem area, where President Barack Obama visited last week. The defendants, believed to be part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were charged with carrying out machine gun and firebomb attacks on Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Migdal […]
Passover interview: Rolin Abdallah grew up in an Arab country with no knowledge of her Jewish heritage. Today, she is IDF soldier Dina Ovadia. Here is a Cinderella and Haggadah story rolled into one.
Israel's 'apology' to Turkey will not improve relations with Turkey because relations are poor as a result of a deliberate strategy, not an unpleasant incident.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he expects Israel to compensate Turkey and lift the maritime blockade against Hamas before Ankara normalizes relations with Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey on Friday, almost at the same time President Barack Obama left Israel for Jordan, over the “tragic” results of […]
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
What will Israel get in return for Netanyahu’s apologizing to Turkey for IDF soldiers defending their lives? A former senior adviser to Hamas says Abbas may visit Gaza with Erdogan.
Israeli security forces have arrested five Palestinian Authority rock-throwing terrorists who caused critical injuries to a baby, two sisters and their mother on the road from Ariel to Tel Aviv two weeks ago. The attackers hurled rocks at Israeli civilian vehicles with the intent of causing a crash, which resulted when the driver lost control […]
IDF troops captured a Palestinian terrorist near Shechem (Nablus) who was carrying a hidden pipe bomb on his person. The bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion. The terrorist was brought in for further interrogation.
This latest draft represents a 30% increase in the number of Haredim drafted into the battalion.
Obama uttered ominous hints that he continues to whitewash terror to advance the “peace process.” The president laid the groundwork for telling Israelis what is best for them when he speaks tomorrow.
Four wounded Syrians arrived at the Israeli-Syrian border Tuesday and received medical treatment on site from Israeli soldiers, the IDF website reported. Two of the casualties were treated adjacent to the border fence and were returned to Syria afterwards. Due to the severity of their injuries, two of the Syrians were transferred to Israeli hospitals […]
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
By Batya Medad
Drastic changes must be done gradually and with the cooperation of the affected sector of society.
By JTA
Yityish Aynaw may have a meeting set up with President Barack Obama when he travels to Israel later this week, but getting one with a U.S. embassy employee in Tel Aviv is a more difficult task. Israel's first beauty queen of Ethiopian Jewish descent was unable to attend a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces […]
By JTA
Israeli military officers and religious students are objecting to the selection of supermodel Bar Refaeli as part of an ad campaign to raise Israel's public image. Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, wrote the Foreign Ministry a critical letter of its choice of Refaeli, pointing out that she did not […]
Hamas wants Palestinians civilians, especially babies, to be killed precisely so that they can display the kind of photographs that were shown around the world.
”Soldiers with special needs voluntarily commit to serve their country for three years, just like their peers.”
Hezbollah are currently training a 50,000-strong militia to fight the rebels in Syria – with hopes to recruit 50,000 more.
Outgoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak told officers at the Palmachim Air Force he always hopes all personnel return safely from action. Hours later, two helicopter pilots died on their way to the base.
The crew were on a routine training mission.
Once again we see a great rabbinic figure who apparently does not understand what it is that really upsets the non-Haredi public, including many observant Jews.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rather than applying consistent and professional standards to fact-finding, the claims of are often the products of instant speculation.
By Shalom Bear
Safety and security of the Jewish residents of the Binyamin region has been compromised.
The draft is but one area Haredi leaders badly stumble over.
The terror unit's leader is still at large in Gaza.
Israel women’s soldiers are known for being tough. They are combat soldiers Air Force pilots, logistic specialists and martial arts experts. And one of them may be Miss Universe.
A senior officer in the IDF Central Command said the army is “prepared for every eventuality,” the IDF stated on its website but played down media reports of riots. "The newspaper headlines are more dramatic than the reality in the field, even if recent months have been characterized by more significant events with a higher […]
Obama’s policy is Saudi policy. That is where the irrational push to create a Palestinian state comes from, and that is where the handcuffs on the IDF are forged.
The report has not been verified, and there are no details concerning who kidnapped the victim, Carl Kampo from Austria.
Barack Obama will bravely step in to take the political risks necessary to once and for all save Israel and the Palestinians from each other — which he will do by forcing more concessions from Israel, yet again.
There ought to be a process of exempting yeshiva students via bechinos (tests).
Palestinian Authority violence continued early Wednesday afternoon when approximately 200 Arabs in Samaria rioted and hurled rocks at soldiers who evacuated a small illegal village. Two of the soldiers were lightly injured and w ere treated on the spot. The IDF shot over the heads of the rioters to disperse them.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Feeling abandoned, some residents of Judea and Samaria are taking security into their own hands.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not discounted the possibility of calling new elections, Likud sources say, according to the Israeli publication, Ma'ariv.
Do these rabbis really think that Naftali Bennett, an observant Jew, or Rabbi Dov Lipman have “risen in our generation to destroy the Jewish people”?
My proposal to solve the contentious issue of Israel’s universal draft.
By Meir Indor
Once Knesset Members have made cuts to their own salaries, it will be much easier to cut away at the fat that is choking the budget.
Hezbollah is preparing for the next conflict with Israel.
By Batya Medad
I was especially disturbed in the troubling times leading to the Disengagement expulsions when so-called Torah observant rabbis said that a Knesset vote could over-ride the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
Israeli soldiers and rescue teams routinely treat Palestinian Authority accident victims.
By JoeSettler
When a drafter of Israel's Constitution says there is a problem because too many IDF commanders are religious, we need to worry about what kind of Constitution he is drafting.
In its rush to pass the Bedouin land grab bill, the government forgot to due some basic due diligence.
As citizens of Israel these ‘Palestinians’ enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East, as well as more personal and political freedom.
The question is, why would Israeli Arabs hurl curses, harass and stone IDF soldiers -- when the anti-rocket system protects them as well?
The Indian army prepared to move in and rescue the hostages, but before they did, the Israeli hostages had already overpowered their kidnappers, tied them up and handed them over to the army.
What does it say about us that we create programs to measure how fast we can run and where we can seek shelter?
What do IDF soldiers and Super Bowl football players in common? They take charge, never back down and are team players. For example: IDF soldier Asaf Katz.
Hamas terrorists blew off the left arm of Captain Ziv Shilon in an October roadside bomb attack at the Gaza border. Shilon now is back in action after “a very long journey.”
The group was planning to kidnap an IDF soldier and use her or him as a bargaining chip for the release of Hamas prisoners.
By Tzvi Fishman
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The trees will provide some shelter from gun fire for Israeli hikers and motorists on the roads outside Nachal Oz.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Rabbis of the religious Zionist community serve in the army; why shouldn’t Haredi Rabbis also be brave examples for their students?
When it comes to the army, there are some thing you just don't post online.
A new Israeli government survey sheds light on mainstream media slander of Haredim and points to a growing trend of Haredim studying law and business.
There are concerns about the flight of millions of displaced Syrians over the border into Israel.
At the Oz Etzion (Jewish) outpost in the Binyamin region, a large number of troops arrived on Saturday night to expel the residents and destroy the homes that were built there. There are two permanent homes built on the site. They were rebuilt there after troops destroyed the homes that were on the hill a […]
65 years ago this week, 35 student soldiers set out from Jerusalem to bring much needed supplies to the kibbutzim in the besieged Etzion Bloc south of the city.
Earlier this month, a man in uniform you probably never heard of signed a military order which conferred formal recognition upon Rehalim as the 32nd Jewish community in Samaria.
The IDF conducts physical profiling of Israeli children to determine placement in the army.
A Palestinian Authority resident, Samir Awad (16), was reported to have been killed by IDF soldiers near Ramallah on Tuesday. Initial reports incorrectly stated that there was a physical confrontation between Palestinians and the IDF soldiers in the village of Burdos, near the security fence. The IDF spokesman finally released a statement that an IDF […]
The IDF accidentally discovered a terror tunnel preventing a terror attack/kidnapping from Gaza.
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Following the disturbances, about 30 residents arrived from the entire Shilo area to Esh Kodesh.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I’ve come to sing here tonight to show my gratitude to all the Israeli soldiers who work so hard to defend the Jewish state.”
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The first IDF resolution was, naturally, to provide security for the people of Israel.
Boring is one of God's greatest gifts, especially for a soldier's mother.
May God forever bless us with these messy floors and children who never listen for the siren, never look where to hide.
My son-in-law needs to believe that there will be no need for soldiers in another 18 or so years. Deep down, I want to believe that too.
Naftali Bennett goes on the offensive, questioning whether Netanyahu is planing another Expulsion/Disengagement based on his statements.
By Adam Levick
The Arab assailant pressed the realistic looking run it to the IDF officer's throat and further attacked other IDF officers, throwing punches and grappling with one.
By JoeSettler
The IDF is embarrassed to fight to win, the politicians are afraid to give them orders to fight.
By David Wilder
Seeing Israeli soldiers run from marauding, rioting Arabs is a disgrace.
By Tzvi Fishman
Our Sages teach that when Chanukah comes around, we are to thank Hashem, not only for the miracles that He performed for us in Israel long ago, but also for the miracles which He performs for us today. So, with your permission, I want to take this opportunity to thank Hashem for all of the […]
By JTA
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraiser that singer Stevie Wonder pulled out of raised more than $14 million.
One person was injured, and a few cars and buses were damaged by Arab rock throwing near Karmei Tzur on Highway 60. The victim was treated by an IDF medical crew for a head injury at Karmei Tzur.
F-16 engines, worth millions of shekels, were stolen from an Air Force base in central Israel, according to Walla. Unlike previous incidents on IDF bases which included jeeps (in May) and large amounts of ammunition (in February) being stolen, this time there were no holes in the fence. It is suspected that the thieves had inside […]
By JTA
Stevie Wonder is set to pull out of a performance at a fundraiser for the Israel Defense Forces, a source told JTA.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Since the commencing of Operation 'Pillar of Cloud' the police have recorded many events of terrorist activities and public disturbance in Judea and Samaria, which constitute a sharp increase in terrorist activity in the region. Stones and Molotov cocktails were thrown at cars, roads were blocked and tires were burned, marches were conducted. 201 events […]
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