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Featured / Eye on "Palestine"

Palestinian Authority Survey Returns Surprising Results

By Jewish Press News Desk

Nearly half the Arabs want Israel to open up more work places (like SodaStream) in the West Bank.

Interviews and Profiles / From the Paper

Giving Female Prisoners A Second Chance

By Rhona Lewis

A human being is defined by his ability to choose. When you're in jail, choice is taken away from you.

Conversations With Heroes

Conversations with Heroes - This is Why Palestinian Arabs are Prisoners of Hamas

By Israel News Talk Radio

This week, Heather talks with three visionaries who have, as Captain James T. Kirk says, “boldly gone where no man has gone before.”

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Hamas / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Media / Sports

Fallen Soldier's Family Suing to Ban Hamas Prisoners from Watching Soccer Final

By JNi.Media

The family petitioned the court saying the decision to make all the TV channels carrying the game tonight available to security prisoners, most of whom are members of Hamas, is repugnant.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Hamas / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

New Bill to Stop Privileged Conditions for Hamas Security Prisoners

By JNi.Media

Among the privileges which will become outlawed should the bill pass are conjugal visits, canteen purchases, and possession of TV sets and game consoles.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Historical Discovery in Lithuania: Escape Tunnel Used by Jewish Prisoners to Escape from the Nazis

By JNi.Media

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / #EyalGiladNaftali

Will Abbas Pay Salaries to #EyalGiladNaftali Terrorists?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Abbas pays monthly salaries to terrorists. Will that include the murderers of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel?

Terrorism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Israeli Arabs

Israeli Arab Citizens Set to Celebrate Return of Terrorist ‘Heroes’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Card-carrying Israeli citizens in a totally Arab city in the western Galilee already are preparing celebrations for what they expect will be the return of their “heroes” who killed Israelis in terrorist attacks. The United States is trying to work out a deal with Israel to allow freeing several Arab terrorists with Israeli citizenship in […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

PA Pays Terrorists on Time but in Debt to Gas Stations

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab gas stations in Judea and Samaria have refused to fill tanks of Palestinian Authority security vehicles because of six months of unpaid bills, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The accumulated bill for unpaid fuel now stands at nearly $16 million, according to an official of the union of gas station owners, The […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem

Yahrzheit Today for Dr. Applebaum and Daughter Nava

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Palestinian Authority suicide bomber ten years ago Monday night, on the Hebrew calendar, exploded his charge and killed seven people, including American Israelis Dr. David Applebaum and his daughter Nava the evening before her wedding date. Slightly less than two years ago, Palestinian Authority terrorist Ibrahim Muhammad Yunus Dar Musa, who helped plan the […]

Op-Eds

Britain: Muslim Prison Population Up 200%

By Soeren Kern

"If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again ... For Muslims, you'd say it's good, but for non-Muslims, it's very, very bad."

Terrorism / IDF & Security / US / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Israeli Arabs

Netanyahu: ‘Freeing Terrorists Clashes with Justice,’ but So What?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu says freeing terrorists is unjust, is against public opinion, and is painful. So why do it? Because it is in the “interest of the State,” meaning John Kerry is in charge of Israel’s security.

Fresno Zionism

Prisoners Have Great Ideological and Religious Value

By Vic Rosenthal

From the standpoint of the Islamist Hamas, the actions of the prisoners constitute defensive jihad against Jews usurping land which is an Islamic waqf.

CIFWatch

What the Media Won’t Tell You about ‘Palestinian Prisoners’

By Adam Levick

The language in Sherwood’s report was revised to note that it is only the Palestinians who view them as “political prisoners.”

CIFWatch

Terrorists as 'Political Prisoners': CiF Watch Prompts Guardian Correction

By Adam Levick

The Guardian has called terrorists convicted of murder or attempted murder 'political prisoners.'

Op-Eds

From the Interrogation of the Murderer of Eviatar Borovsky

By Meir Indor

Terror victims have families that expect justice to be done, just as they were promised.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Religion

Gentile Prisoners Suddenly Become Jewish for Kosher Food

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Pennsylvania prisoners say they are Jewish simply because they want kosher food, which inflates the prison budget. Passover solve the problem when the inmates discover they can’t eat “kitniyot.”

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Jews in Washington Launch Fund to Help Gross and other Jailed Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington established a legal defense fund for Jews being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness and will assist Alan Gross, who is in prison in Cuba. Financial contributions will be used to help cover the legal defense of Jews in the United States and throughout the world who […]

This Ongoing War

Journalists, The Right to Live and Other Human Rights

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Human Rights Watch attacked Israel for bombing a media installation. Perhaps they have forgotten the story of Palestinian journalist Ahlam Tamimi.

This Ongoing War

The Shalit Deal Continues to Haunt Us

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

There is abundant and growing cause to deeply regret the extorted decision that led to October 2011's mass release of unrepentant killers and other terrorists from Israeli prisons.

News Briefs

Canada Cuts Non-Christian Prison Clergy

By JTA

Canadian rabbis want the Canadian federal government to reconsider cuts to the federal prison chaplaincy program, which would eliminate non-Christian clergy. If the cuts are enacted, non-Christian federal inmates will be expected to turn to Christian prison chaplains for religious counsel and guidance. Canada has about 80 full-time prison chaplains, all but one of whom […]

Israel

Dead Bodies in Tel Aviv

By Shalom Bear

Moshe Feiglin (Manhigut Yehudit) and MK Michael Ben-Ari (Ichud Leumi) led a protest this evening against the Bodies: The Exhibition display in Tel Aviv. It is generally believed that the cadavers used in the display were prisoners murdered by the Chinese government, including political dissidents. The exhibition of the plastinated dead bodies, and this  exhibition in particular,  […]

News Briefs

Yitzhak Rabin Assassin to Be Released from Solitary Confinement

By Jewish Press News Desk

Yigal Amir will finish 17 years in solitary confinement after shooting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to death in 1995.  The assassin will join between one and three other inmates in a locked cell and be allowed time to walk in the prison yard for just two hours a day.  Amir is serving a life sentence […]

US / Politics / News Briefs

Congress Urging Hillary to Act on Haredi Imprisoned in Bolivia

By Jacob Edelist

Jacob Ostreicher remains locked up at Palmasola Prison in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. That notorious facility was designed to hold 1,000 prisoners, but is currently home to 3,500. Unlike U.S. facilities, this prison is essentially run by the prisoners. Guards provide food and make sure prisoners do not escape, but do nothing to maintain order within the prison’s walls.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine"

Report: Israel Uncovers Terrorist Plot to Abduct Israelis, Hatched in Israeli Prisons

By Jewish Press Staff

The revelation is particularly disturbing because Israel recently agreed to ease restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails so that they would end their hunger strike. An explicit term of the agreement required the prisoners to sign a pledge forswearing terrorist activity.

Analysis

Palestinian Hunger Strikers Not Innocent

By Vic Rosenthal

You will recall that over 1000 prisoners, including some multiple murderers, were released in the ‘exchange’ for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Many of the ones that are left were not part of the deal because they were considered more dangerous or because their crimes were more vicious.

Rubin Reports

Rubin Reports: New York Times Coverage of Israel: What Comes After Ridiculously Biased?

By Barry Rubin

At times we seem to be living in the updated version of Ignazio Silone’s remark, “The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.” All too often, we cannot depend on Western-trained intellectuals in positions of power who either buy into leftist ideology or tremble in fear of being called racists or Islamophobes.

News Briefs

Hunger Striking Gandhi's Killer Hospitalized

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Sunday it holds Israel responsible for the life of the group's imprisoned leader, Ahmad Saadat, who was transferred to hospital after joining a mass hunger-strike in Israeli jails. PFLP called for support to the 2,000 or so prisoners who are refusing food to protest their conditions, […]

News Briefs

Nazi Death Camp Exhibition Debuts in Shanghai

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Xinhua news agency reports that a concentration camp exhibition Nazi crimes has opened in Shanghai on Thursday. The exhibition concentrates on the Auschwitz death camp, and will remain on long-term display at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (SJRM), said museum curator Chen Jian. Chen described the exhibition as comprised of thirty display boards illustrating […]

Israel

2,300 Palestinian Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike

By Solomon Burke

"Palestinian Prisoner's day" is the latest attempt to load the Palestinian calendar with days of mass mobilization and action, with the higher aim of embarrassing Israel and pressuring it to make concessions. Among the demands being made are an end to administrative detention and access to newspapers and more television channels.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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