The Almagor Terror Victims Association and a group of bereaved families have requested an urgent meeting with Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. The request follows reports that Livni solicited the legal files of the terrorists who have been in Israeli jails since before the Oslo Accord, whom the PA is demanding be freed as a precondition [...]

An African tribe, ‘Sons of Israel,” says it is descended from Jews and is “chosen.” Their language resembles Hebrew. They use the Star of David. But they are practicing Muslims.

Likud Knesset Member Tzipi Hotovely ascended the Temple Mount Sunday in what she was a personal and not a political visit prior to her wedding Monday night. The visit was coordinated with the police, and no incidents were reported. Hotovely, 34, was engaged to attorney Ohr Alon, who is orthodox, two days before the new [...]

The electric car company Better Place, which had pledged to erect electric car charging stations throughout Israel, filed for bankruptcy in an Israeli court on Sunday. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., fired about half of its staff in October 2012. Better Place provides charge spots and battery-switch stations for the Renault Fluence ZE, [...]

A bus was attacked by Arab stone throwers on Sunday afternoon near the Beitar (el Hadr) Junction on Route 60, just north of Efrat. On Friday, residents of Efrat protested the escalating terrorist attacks on the roads, and in that section of the road in particular.

An unstable enemy country is often worse than a known foe. Syrian rebel rocket attacks on Hezbollah areas in Beirut leave Israel with a powder keg from the Golan Heights to the Mediterranean Sea.

For the second time in just over a week, Arabs have poured oil on the main road connecting Highway 60 to Beitar (near Efrat), in the middle of the night. A little over a week ago, Arabs poured oil on the same road causing a car to spin out of control and crash. The fire [...]

The officer said that the road is not being built because we are afraid, but because the IDF is unable to contain the attacks.

A Jewish young man waving an Israeli flag as part of a Judea-wide protest on an intersection of Route 60, near the Arab village of Al-Khader (Beitar Junction) , May 24, 2013. The organizers had possibly envisioned thousands of fellow Jewish residents showing up to protest the stone and firebomb throwing by local Arabs. But [...]

On Friday I described the reactions I’ve witnessed of babies tasting ice cream for the first time. Their eyes light up and it’s as if they are reassessing all the possibilities presented by the planet where they’ve just landed. For comparison, here’s a Russian girl tasting her first falafel. Do you see the light in [...]

“Syria is the backbone of the resistance and we will not sit with our hands crossed.”

A bid by the Israeli government to legalize four Judea and Samaria settlement outposts is neither “appropriate” nor “constructive” but should not prevent the resumption of peace talks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. “Our position on settlements and outposts and on the legalization is that we are opposed to it,” Kerry said Friday [...]