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The National Jewish Democratic Council website blasted Gingrich last week for opposition "to the values of the vast majority of American Jews,” when in fact Gingrich's position are highly consistent with "Jewish values".
The agreement was the culmination of almost two decades of negotiations between Israel and the Vatican.
Mamun Ismyail Salame Stut was originally sentenced to 38 years in prison for attempted murder, assembling explosives, and membership in a terror organization.
Deal is estimated to exceed $1 billion.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
USAID continues to offer funding to Arab 'development and humanitarian projects' in Hebron despite Abu Mazen’s attempt to unilaterally declare a ‘Palestinian state’ at the UN in September 2011.
The new technology can provide internet connections 10 to 100 times faster than current speeds.
While a contentious Likud primary is expected to result in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s landslide victory over Jewish Leadership faction head Moshe Feiglin, a strong showing by the underdog has already impacted Israel’s leading party.
Canada's foreign minister and finance minister are on an official
A newly-released study shows that while Israel continues to achieve major secular advances in fields such as science and technology, agriculture and economy, the populace is more religious now than ever before.
When Alexander Yannai, king of Judea, was prevented by the sages from becoming the high priest, he issued an order that all the sages of Israel be killed. Many were and the remainder fled. Rabi Shimon ben Shetach, considered the greatest of them all, was saved by his sister, Queen Shlomit Alexandra.
Israel is on par with Finland and Sweden as having the best internet defenses.
The three Arab men planned to attack IDF soldiers at a security checkpoint.
Israeli national elections are scheduled for November 2013.
US Defense Secretary makes statements on '60 Minutes'.
After a nasty interchange between Israeli and PA representatives in Amman, Prime Minister Netanyahu telling his cabinet "signs are not particularly good" for peace as a result of negotiations
Netanyahu: "The Eilat Railway will be a passenger railway with a travel time of two hours" from Tel Aviv.
Project head Professor Pini Gurfil says the satellites have great practical applications.
The move comes after intensified Israeli action against Hamas individuals and institutions.
Eamon Gilmore will meet with Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, among others.
Palestinian sources claimed that the Israeli principles presented would destroy any chance for a two-state solution.
General Martin Dempsey acknowledged that US and Israel see the threat differently.
Republican US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s relationship with Jewish mega-billionaire and foremost donor Sheldon Adelson has raised the ire of critics, who say Gingrich’s very public support for Israel is an exchange for support.
US Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says Palestinians "want to eliminate the state of Israel."
Roger Cohen’s New York Times column was the latest in the Obama camp’s efforts to pressure Binyamin Netanyahu to risk Israel’s being nuked by a nuclear Iran rather than cause any ripples in President Obama campaign for re-election to a second term.
“For I have made heavy his heart and the heart of his servants in order that I should put these signs of mine in his midst and in order that you should relate in the ears of your son and your son’s son how I dealt with Egypt, and you should know that I am Hashem” (10:1-2).
Gabi Ashkenazi says that Israel must 'keep a viable military option on the table.'
By Dov Gilor
“Remember the Alamo” was an important lesson in history class when I was a child and this was our first visit. It was a bit unimpressive but we enjoyed the History Channel movie about the Alamo in one of the rooms.
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA) monitors media of all types for biased or false reporting about Israel and seeks to educate the public about Middle East issues.
The Jewish Press' Knesset Insider discusses the potential for electoral reform in Israel.
Message left on website taunts anti-Israel hacker ox0mar.
Given its context, the recent declaration of the mufti of Jerusalem that it is Muslim destiny to destroy the Jewish people cannot be dismissed as the primitive rant of a crackpot cleric.
By Barry Rubin
On the surface, of course, there is apparent evidence to assume Israel will attack Iran. Yet any serious consideration of this scenario says this isn’t going to happen.
Recent poll found that almost 90% of Israeli Jews believe that the American Jewish community is crucial to Israel's security and continued existence.
'Hannibal' claims to have access to a trove of confidential Iranian information.
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman: ""We will reject any request from the Israeli embassy to meet."
The recent brouhaha surrounding the Puah Institute Conference in Jerusalem (the distinguished panel of speakers did not include women) completely missed the point. In a typical rush to judgment, the media and other detractors turned a heretofore non-issue into an outcry over discrimination, and therein lies the rub.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Recently my wife and I spent Shabbat in Jerusalem with some friends. They made aliyah a year and a half ago and invited us to spend the day with them in the Holy City.
By Sara Lehmann
New York’s 9th Congressional District will forever be remembered not only for the departure of disgraced veteran Congressman Anthony Weiner but also for who replaced him. Bob Turner’s victory marked the first Republican win in that district since 1923, and his September 2011 election stunned the Democratic Party.
The guarantees will extend through September 2015, are worth $3.8 billion.
Dan Gillerman makes comments at a women's Zionist conference.
'Anonymous Palestine' claims responsibility in tweet.
PA president not excluding possibility of additional low-level discussions.
By Sam Ser
Even before the meeting on Wednesday, PA and Israeli officials declared the talks fruitless, with each side trying to portray the other as the recalcitrant one.
The websites of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer and Assouta Medical Center in Tel Aviv were both taken offline.
The Palestinians are reportedly seeking the deportation of Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Sa'adat.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama won’t show up on the vote tallies after polls close in Florida’s Republican primary on Jan. 31, but the president’s supporters already are waging a fight for the Sunshine State.
Two Palestinian teenagers caught on tape firing on Israeli vehicle last Saturday.
King Abdullah reportedly hinted at such measures to get Abbas to talks in Amman.
Suspects allegedly intended to murder the Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan and two employees at the Chabad school in Baku.
All cases so far have tested negative for harmful substances like anthrax.
The Lithuanian sage is suffering from pulmonary edema.
Deliberating over terminating a pregnancy is a struggle Rachel* never thought would face her. Life in Northern Israel with her husband and daughter was great until a business they invested in brought a huge financial loss and left them in debt.
By Elke Weiss
College should be a place of learning, a place for a free exchange of ideas, a time to explore new perspectives.
Members of terror group’s political echelon had been hiding from law in Red Cross compound.
An ancient Torah scroll once belonging to the great Torah sage Ben Ish Chai has been rescued from war-torn Iraq, and made its way home to Israel’s beach-side community of Netanya on Tuesday.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton scheduled to visit Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza this week.
Footnote, a film by Joseph Cedar, is a film about father-son Talmudic scholars.
By Baruch Widen
Vice PM Ya’alon to Likud Anglos: Israel cannot overcome both internal challenges and external threats with an obsolete paradigm he identifies as “Westernism”.
Andrew Adler proposed 'taking out' president deemed unfriendly to Israel.
Hannibal has been responsible for the release of several batches of personal information.
IAI and Boeing mark 10 years of collaboration.
The men had been in staying in the compound for over a year.
Israel Bonds raised $1.1 billion in all of 2011.
Shas MK: Torah protected Jews before there was a state, the IDF, and Shin Bet.
Arab Knesset member "fears nobody".
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry has rejected the New Year’s wishes of Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, sending the letter back because it called Jerusalem the capital of the State of Israel.
Statements come in annual Human Rights Watch report.
Every Friday evening, in Jewish homes across the world, the question is asked, "Eishet chayil mi yimtzah – The woman of valor, where can she be found?"
The vehicle can operate while under attack from molotov cocktails.
The Sunday Times also reported that the US postponed the joint US-Israel military drill
By Barry Rubin
Why would anyone even think of making peace with Israel when they are enthusiastic believers in total victory, the idea that events are on their side for wiping out Israel? Everyone in the Middle East understands these attitudes are triumphing, no matter which side they are on.
Any.DO was downloaded over 500,000 times in its first month.
Campus watchdog organizations Im Tirtzu, IsraCampus, and Israel Academia Monitor performed the survey.
Jordan's Speaker of Parliament blasts Rivlin's New Years greeting as racist.
Arab MKs Hanin Zoabi, Ibrahim Sarsour, and Masud Ghnaim all photographed meeting with Dr. Aziz Dwaik.
Head of Har Bracha yeshiva supports IDF service for religious men.
One-year extension of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law supported by Israel Security Service.
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan has commissioned a jeweler in Calcutta, India to make shoes for her out of gold.
PM speaks on the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis decided on their "Final Solution," for the Jewish people.
Terrorist squad in southern Gaza targeted after launching rockets.
Palestinian man wielding an axe attacks border guards.
By Sam Ser
Air force kills rocket squad, but shooters flee in West Bank ambush
“And Amram took Yocheved.... And she bore to him Aharon and Moshe” (6:20). The names that were given in Egypt were not repetitions of previous names but were original expressions of genuine devotion to Hashem.
This week marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the most chilling events of the modern era.
U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran ineffective; EU to encourage Arab building in Area C; Al Jazeera accused of promoting anti-Americanism; Israelis rescued from the Italian Costa Concordia cruise liner.
No coercion is good – religious or secular. Today, Israel suffers more from secular coercion than from religious coercion. Unlike the situation in the past, religious soldiers today are forced into combat with women soldiers.
We were dismayed by a press release the other day from the World Jewish Congress describing a meeting WJC leaders had with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in London.
No one in the know is talking about the reason(s) for the abrupt postponement of the of those much ballyhooed joint U.S.-Israel military maneuvers that had been scheduled for this spring.
Yes, it is true. I, a haredi with right-wing political leanings, stood on the same stage with representatives of Yisrael Chofshit, Hitorirut Yerushalayim, and Meretz – three secular and very left wing groups – at the massive rally in Beit Shemesh on the last night of Chanukah.
The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been the chief beneficiaries of the collapse of longstanding authoritarian repressive regimes across North Africa.
An IDF Spokesperson said that a fragmentation grenade was found on the person of one of the detainees.
Israel fears protesters may incite anti-Israel violence on anniversary of January 25 Revolution.
Netanyahu will discuss natural gas, security cooperation.
Knesset Speaker Rivlin heckled as he tries to enter main entrance.
anti-Israel Arab graffiti increasing in Jerusalem.
Arab-Israeli conflict intensifies on the web.
By Sam Ser
Many claim prejudices against the Ethiopians’ skin color and widespread suspicion of the authenticity of their Jewishness prevent greater integration.
Comments come in speech by Netanyahu at Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.
Khaled Mashaal has served as chairman of the Palestinian terrorist group since 1996.
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