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Yair Lapid is handsome, charismatic and ego-centric, all that takes to become a political leader and for TIME Magazine to rate him as one of the world’s top 100 influential people in the world.
By Meir Indor
As time went on, as would be expected of me, I lost more and more of my equipment—but not my gun or my tefillin.
It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.
Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.
People go to Eilat to get away from it all, but today the trouble came to them.
The IDF's assessment, hardly surprising and certainly not for the first time, is that the attack on Eilat was made from the nearby Sinai Peninsula.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian's report noted that "Harding, who is Jewish, will also have to leave behind the pro-Israeli line of the Times."
Fifteen-year-old Yishai Eisenberg of Passaic, N.J., and a Beit Shemesh high school student were the first-ever co-champions in the International Bible Quiz held in Israel on Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day. Eisenberg and Elior Babian of Beit Shemesh, located west of, stunned the judges by their perfect knowledge of the Bible. When it became clear that […]
By Adam Levick
Rita's music reportedly became an underground hit on underground radio stations in some Muslim countries, including Iran.
Straight from the Jerusalem boardroom: Companies around the world invest millions in Israel.
Even if Mashaal himself changes, Hamas will always remain the same Hamas.
The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.
After Israel threw out Jews from Gaza and gave greenhouses to the Palestinian Authority to prosper, the PA turned them into terror training camps. Now Hamas does the same at a World Heritage site.
Israel can bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities by itself and is preparing to do so, if necessary, IDF Chief of Benny Gantz told Voice of Israel public radio on Tuesday, Independence Day. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said that Iran has missiles capable of bombing Tel Aviv and Haifa. Gantz said, “We will do what is […]
IDF Chief of Benny Gantz said that the military lacks manpower and that he would be happy if Haredim youth serve in the army. He told the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper that Haredim soldiers have “brought good results wherever they have served to date, and they will learn that army service benefits them as well.… […]
A highly regarded professor who is affiliated with Harvard engaged in anti-Israel rhetoric and a distortion of history.
Honor is a concept that is paramount in non-Western cultures, but sometimes it seems that the West has no clue about.
By Batya Medad
It's important to realize the cost of something and that includes the State of Israel.
Memorial Day in Israel is not a day of picnics and sales or barbecues and fun. It is agony. It is pain.
Choosing Life in Israel evinces what it means to be emotionally, spiritually, and viscerally drawn, as a Jew, to the siren song emitted by Israel.
The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.
With Israel's military is at its strongest, the country is capable of dealing with its highly chaotic and dangerous environment.
Israeli Air Force pilots won’t be flying the controversial and costly F35 Stealth Lightning fighter plane before 2016, but everyone now has a glimpse of how the advanced jet makes a vertical landing.
By Barry Rubin
Ironically, if Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed a peace agreement, the recruiting and encouragement of extremism in the region would be at far higher levels than it is now.
Today he might be terrorist, a peace-loving Arab. Or maybe he is a dead suicide bomber. In 1990, he was 8 years old when he hurled rocks at the bus I was guarding.
When I stand silently with my neighbors while the tzefira, the siren, is sounding its awful wail, I am thinking of my daughter.
The valuable Cypriot gas fields are located halfway between the Cypriot and Israeli coast.
Take 740 gallons paint, let a Yemenite Chabadnik work day and night for three weeks and – presto – see a huge Israel flag display in Eilat that can be seen from Jordan.
The UJA Federation of New York’s William Rosenwald Mission landed in Israel Sunday with 200 leaders who will be celebrating the country’s 65th anniversary as a modern state on Tuesday. The delegation will examine how the New York community can help improve Israel’s quality of life, especially for children in distress, Holocaust survivors and new […]
By JTA
Tens of thousands of people participated Friday afternoon in the funeral procession of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the eldest son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel and of the most influential rabbis in Israel. Yaakov Yosef died Friday afternoon at the age of 66, succumbing to a long struggle with […]
Human Rights Watch, which usually has Israel in its crosshairs, has turned its fury on the Hamas terrorist organization for failing to investigate the gory public execution of seven Gaza Arabs accused and sentenced to death without a trial for helping Israel. Hamas rejected the criticism, saying it was biased and adding that it has […]
Look up in the sky? Is It a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Plastic Man – the Orthodox Jew who wrapped himself in plastic on an airplane, apparently because he is a very scrupulous Kohen.
Nearly 1.5 million Arabs are Israelis. Most are decent citizens, even if not Zionists. But more and more want to destroy Israel. For the first time, an Israeli Arab allegedly joined Syrian jihadists.
Israel must continue to base its policies toward both Iran and 'Palestine' upon an utterly candid and unvarnished awareness of threats to Jewish life.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Israel, for its part, knows that developing E-1 is critical for its own existence.
Would that more Margaret Thatchers were found in office in capitals around the world.
I agree with Alan Dershowitz that Carter's presence at Carodozo Law School should be used as a positive.
The second horrific crash in a year resulting from failed brakes killed six people and injured 16 others in Haifa. Police are questioning the Arab driver of the truck that smashed several vehicles.
By Adam Levick
Nineteen year-old Israeli Arab Lina Makhoul won Israel's "The Voice" reality show.
By Batya Medad
The aim of people like Jimmy Carter, who claims to love the Bible is to deny us our God given rights, written clearly in the Bible, to our Land.
We must have peace in our time, the peacemakers say. And Israel must provide it.
Roger Waters, formerly of rock band Pink Floyd fame, has learned how absurd it is to demand that speech be shut down, and has come to see the virtue of open-mindedness and tolerance. At least when it comes to his own speech and tolerance for his own brand of intolerance.
By Batya Medad
Even the United Nations seems occupied with problems in the Middle East much greater than anything going on in Israel.
By Batya Medad
Considering all of the Holocaust history which is part of Israeli culture, are we immune from another massive slaughter of Jews?
Ahmadinejad almost never misses a chance at wiping the West’s face in the dirt. While diplomats try to convince Iran to give up its unstated goal of a nuclear bomb, it launches two new uranium plants.
Few people, if anyone at all, caused more damage to Israel and the “settler” movement than
By Daniel Pipes
What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?
The father of the late Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl will light one the memorial flames at the Memorial Day Ceremony in Jerusalem, the day before Independence Day. Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic radicals for The Wall Street Journal. Nine days after his abduction, Pearl was cruelly […]
Chuck Hagel will visit Israel for the first time as Secretary of Defense for three days, April 21-23, according to Reuters, which was informed of the schedule by an Israeli official. Officially billed as trip to tighten cooperation with allies in the Middle East, Iran will be at the top of the agenda in his […]
By Noah Beck
With all prior Israeli withdrawals leading to violence, why is Obama so convinced that Israelis will now get land-for-peace instead of land-for-war?
Jordanian-Palestinian activist Mudar Zahran says King Abdullah is seeking to save Himself by colluding with Islamists, Iran and Assad
Kerry’s latest “listening tour” is drawing the familiar echo of “no.” The Palestinian Authority boasts that Kerry asked it to change a “few words” in the Saudi Peace Initiative. Nice try. John.
The ancient port of Ashkelon was a key point for trading Israeli wine. Archaeologists have unearthed a huge wine press and rare ceramic church model near the city’s old highway.
Do Israeli orthodox rabbis have a “monopoly?” Should Diaspora Jews try to pull Israel’s domestic strings? The National Council of Jewish Women seems to say “yes” to both questions.
"Today I mourn the passing of Prime Minister Baroness Margaret ,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said shortly after her death was announced Monday. “She was truly a great leader, a woman of principle, of determination, of conviction, of strength; a woman of greatness,” the Prime Minister added. “She was a staunch friend of Israel and […]
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.
By Barry Rubin
A situation is being set up in which a future Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria can blackmail the United States.
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.
Is Israel wrong in its policy since we're actually targeted by mortars, shootings, rockets, missiles and underground tunnels?
In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.
As long as rabbinic leaders live in the past and insist on calling the idea of ‘sharing the burden’ a 'shas haShmad,' antagonism toward Haredim will not change.
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) revealed Sunday that it arrested a five-member Hamas terrorist cell in Jerusalem for firebomb attacks on security officers at the Temple Mount last month. Nine policemen suffered injuries. The arrests were kept under wraps until Sunday, when security officials announced that indictments were filed against the cell a week […]
By Batya Medad
At present, ordinary Arabs fear the terrorists more than they fear Israel.
Israel motorists Sunday evening are paying another “painful concession” for the 22-year-old and will be kept off one of the nation’s busiest arteries – Highway 1 connecting Tel Aviv with Jerusalem – so U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry can travel without having to taste the local culture, such as heavy traffic. After having being […]
Sec. of Foggy Bottom Kerry is chock full of ideas, such as selling pro-Hamas Turkey as a quick fix for the beloved peace process. Two Problems: Israel and the Palestinian Authority don’t buy it.
Trying to outsmart Israel, the PA is demanding that Israel hand over maps, to use them as the sole basis for negotiations,
Claiming the 2-year budget concept a failure, the country will revert to the 1 year budget system.
The infiltrator strolled right across the heavily guarded border.
As the #OpIsrael cyberattack against Israel began, Israeli hacker retaliated, and now the official #OpIsrael site www.opisrael.com is playing Hatikvah.
The IDF recently distributed ear plugs to artillery officers to protect their ears from being damaged by the roar of their weapons.
The Turkish delight that Netanyahu presented on a golden platter to Erdogan only fueled Turkey's sense of invincibility against the dhimmi Yahudi.
By Shalom Bear
Yitzchak Tshuva expressed regret that the gas flow's arrival into Israel was being presented as having desecrated the Shabbat or the Pesach Holiday.
By Adam Levick
According to the Associated Press's logic, shouldn't the terms 'illegal settler' and 'illegal settlements' also be put out of commission?
Under all relevant criteria of international law, Iran's ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal.
Divinity exemptions are designed to produce clergy that will serve the populace, not so that every single member of it becomes a member of the clergy.
By Steve Maas
Dewey Stone worked behind the scenes for the establishment of the State of Israel.
No country in the world would put up with rockets being fired regularly across its border.
Democracy does not have to allow jihad to be waged against it, even if this jihad uses means that appear to be legal.
In what has become a daily occurrence, Palestinians are routinely throwing rocks at Magen David Adom ambulances, smashing windshields and seriously endangering the MDA medical crews.
By JTA
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will visit Israel in June to participate in President Shimon Peres' annual "Facing Tomorrow" conference. Hawking, head of the practical mathematics and physics department at Cambridge University, last visited Israel in 2006 at the invitation of the British Embassy. The conference, which is in its fifth year, gathers world leaders and […]
The global media are roiling about the death of the terminally-ill Abu Hamdiyeh. Try googling for any mentions the one who died at the hands of Hamas.
A sentence has not been pronounced yet, but the murderer of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonathan faces the possibility of a life sentence.
Your children will look back and thank you for moving them to Israel now.
All the wars involving Israel, throughout its history, have caused at least 30,000 fewer deaths than have been caused in Syria in the last couple of years alone.
If Erdogan wants Israel to apologize for killing terrorists, it should search its own soul for the deaths of 766 Holocaust refugees by towing their stricken ship to the high seas, where it was sunk.
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 […]
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