by Fern Sidman, INN NY Correspondent A conversation with Rabbi Nachum Shifren: So, what’s a nice Orthodox rabbi doing in California politics? According to TEA Party candidate, Rabbi Nachum Shifren (R), “I’ve thrown my hat in the political ring and am running for the California State Senate in the 26th district because like many others, […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu In a sign of another failure of U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy of ”engagement,” a top US official said Syria can forget Israel’s surrendering the strategic Golan Heights while it damages American interests in Lebanon. Jeffrey D. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told the Washington […]
by David Lev Earlier this week, Military Intelligence head Amos Yadlin presented what many called a very pessimistic forecast before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. According to Yadlin, the regional is moving inexorably towards war, and that the coming war would be the most difficult Israel ever faced. But perhaps even more serious was […]
by Maayana Miskin British Foreign Secretary William Hague signed a “treaty between nations” with Palestinian Authority leaders on Wednesday. “This agreement is the first ever bilateral treaty between the two nations,” the British Consulate-General site proclaimed. The treaty covers cooperation in the film industry. Hague signed a similar agreement with Israel. Aside from its reference […]
by David Lev It would take a lot to shock a guy like Noam Bedein, who runs the Sderot Media Center, which has effectively told the story of that shelled and shell-shocked story to lawmakers, diplomats, tourists, and even world leaders. Dealing as he does with the personal stories of Sderot residents, as well as […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu National Union chairman Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz warned a Knesset committee Monday that 100,000 African immigrants will flood Tel Aviv in the next few years. MK Katz heads a committee on foreign workers and has previously sounded the alarm bells on the flood of refugees that threatens the character of the […]
by Chana Ya’ar Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to announce to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Israel plans to withdraw from the northern border village of Ghajar. Netanyahu will present the proposal to Ban when he meets with him in New York on Monday, according to Israeli officials, who made the announcement overnight […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. Over the past week, it has been widely reported that the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government are conducting secret negotiations regarding future Israeli land surrenders to the Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem. According to the reports, the Obama administration […]
Palestinian “news” websites engage in plagiarizing, gross misinformation and anti-Semitism. Occasionally, the various pro-Palestinian / anti-Israel websites that claim to be credible media sources catch our eye. In this case, the following attack on HonestReporting appears in a piece from The Palestine Chronicle entitled “A Close Look at the Pro-Israel Lobbies inside Britain“: Finally, if any news stories critical […]
A missile fired from an American warship in the Mediterranean hit the car in which Muhammad Jamal A-Namnam, 27, was driving in the heart of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 3 and killed him, debkafile’s exclusive counter-terror sources report. Namnam was an operational commander of the Army of Islam, Al-Qaeda’s Palestinian cell in the Gaza Strip. […]
