You have to hand it to US President Barack Obama. He is relentless. Just when you thought he was shifting gears – easing up on Israel and turning his attention to Iran’s nuclear weapons program – he pulls out a zinger. His recent courtship of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu led some Israelis and supporters of […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israeli Jews by Geocartography and broadcast on Israel Television Channel 1 on 27 July 2010 on a program marking 5 years from the Israeli retreat from the Gaza Strip [AL: the term “retreat” most aptly describes the move both in terms of how […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Elad Benari (Israelnationalnews.com) The search for the six IDF soldiers whose helicopter crashed Monday afternoon during a joint military exercise in Romania resumes this morning. The soldiers were participating in an 11-day Blue Sky 2010 joint military drill. Late last night the IDF cleared for publication the names of the […]

Rabbi of Yitzhar Yeshiva arrested while Ehud Barak enroute to crucial meeting in DC. Vital to besiege Barak feedback upon arrival In the early hours of this morning, Israeli security swooped down on Yitzhar and arrested the rosh yeshiva on charges stemming from the halachik treatise which he wrote that relates to the dilemma of […]

By: Uri Kaufman “It’s been a long time since American Jewry has been [so] shaken,” declared the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in its July 9 Magazine cover story. Judging from the volume of chatter thundering across the upper firmament of the media heavens, this is no exaggeration. What caused this disturbance in the cosmos is Peter […]

by Maayana Miskin and Elad Benari (Israelnationalnews.com) An IDF reserves force arrested five Palestinian Authority Arabs on Sunday evening near the Jewish town of Elon Moreh. Soldiers stopped the group for suspicious behavior. A search revealed that they were carrying two makeshift weapons, two firebombs, and one knife. The five, who are thought to have […]

By: Editorial Board Two weeks ago in this space we sharply disputed the suggestion of many that the problems between Israel and the Obama administration were more apparent than real; more the case of a personality clash between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu than diverging perceptions of national interests. So for all the recent […]

By CAROLINE GLICK The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=182316 Change has come to the Middle East. Over the past several weeks, multiple press reports indicate that Turkey is collaborating militarily with Syria in a campaign against the Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Turkey is a member of NATO. It fields the Western world’s top weapons systems. […]

by INN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) The United States State Department has announced to the Palestinian Authority/Palestinian Liberation Organization Mission representative in the United States that its status will be upgraded from a ‘bureau’ to that of a “general delegation’ and that this change will allow the office in which the representation is situated to fly the […]

By Victor Sharpe Of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism is considered the mother faith and the other two, Christianity and Islam, her daughters. The first daughter, Christianity, under the influence of the early church fathers, rejected the mother and distanced herself from Judaism, even to the extent of changing the Sabbath from the seventh day, […]