By: Jerold S. Auerbach Thirty years ago – Friday evening, May 2, 1980 – in Hebron. Inside Me’arat HaMachpelah, the massive 2,000-year-old Herodian edifice above the tombs of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people, the Shabbat service had just concluded. Several dozen Jews, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, walked to nearby Beit […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The State Prosecution and the residents of Beit Yehonatan in the Shiloach neighborhood have agreed to have the Jerusalem Administrative Court decide the fate of the building, which is inhabited by eight Jewish families. The residents told Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that they have agreed to request a temporary injunction from […]

If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East. For today, Obama faces the wreckage of every aspect of his Middle East policies. And largely as a consequence of his policies, the region moves […]

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, April 27, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3879831,00.html Since 2007, US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to PA-controlled NGOs reached nearly $2BN, in addition to $3.7BN contributed by the US to UNRWA since 1950. Has American foreign aid to Abu Mazen advanced moderation, the pursuit of peace and US national […]

By Ruth King While much has been written about the Cold War—recently Glenn Beck’s fine documentary Revolutionary Holocaust detailed the horrors of Stalin’s and Mao’s evil empires–there has been little attention to the heroic Russian “refuseniks” and the remarkable role they and their international supporters played in bringing down the Iron Curtain. There were a […]

Muddling the Iran Issue INSS Insight No. 177, April 26, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Landau, Emily B., and Asculai, Ephraim www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3969 On April 17 the New York Times revealed that in January US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote a memo to National Security Adviser James Jones on the need to develop policy options regarding Iran’s […]

BY MARK TANENBAUM A red line is crossed when a professor at an Israeli university transitions from stating his opinion on politics in academia or outside it. Prof. Joseph Klafter, president of Tel Aviv University, is mistaken if he feels members of the board of governors, such as myself, have a problem with free speech […]

March 27, 2010 Avi Ifergan, Rehovot, Israel Dear Mr. President, Earlier this month, your Secretary of State told a forum of Jewish leaders that ‘sometimes friends need to tell each other the hard truth’. Well Mr. President, allow me, on behalf of my people, to return the courtesy. You have always been rhetorically supportive of […]

By Salomon Benzimra The U.S. regularly reiterates its support of Israel’s security, but it says nothing about Israel’s legal rights. These legal rights originated at the San Remo Conference, and the Resolution passed on April 25, 1920 is enshrined in international law. The commemoration of the ninetieth anniversary of this event will certainly open a […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) A near-lynch in Jerusalem last week led police to admit that they have a policy of not getting involved when Arabs attack Jewish motorists, a victim says. Baruch Heller, whose car was smashed by Arabs as he left the Kotel (Western Wall), spoke to Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew news service about the […]