Senior Israeli Security Official: Assad Is in Control of Syria’s Weapons Systems

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

Major General Gilad says that the Syrian president controls his country's weapons systems.

IDF Soldiers Humiliated by Arab Rioters: We Are Sitting Ducks

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

You must read the IDF Spokesperson's response, it is a doozy!

35 Thousand Haredim Protest Draft, 10 Cops Injured

Posted on: May 17th, 2013

The demonstrators rallied "against the evil decree of conscription."

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Bennett and Livni in Facebook Fight over Women of the Wall

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Religious Affairs Minister Yair Lapid, who doubles as Finance Minister, are arguing via Facebook over the issue of a women’s minyan at the Western Wall. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky has proposed that a Women of the Wall demand for the minyan be allowed at the southern part of the [...]

Arabs ‘Celebrate’ Nakba with Kassam on Negev and Mortars on Golan

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Gaza and Syrian Arabs on Wednesday marked Nakba Day, the English date of the re-establishment of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948, with a Kassam rocket attack on the Negev and two mortar shells on the Golan Heights. The mortar shells may have been unintentionally fallen on the Israeli side of the border [...]

Geller Raps Toronto Rabbis for ‘Loshon HaRa’

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Pamela Geller, a controversial critic of radical Islam, has accused the Toronto Board of Rabbis for “loshon hara” in response to the clerics charging that she “is known for her extreme criticism of Muslims in language that is intended to shock and ridicule.” The Toronto rabbis had criticized the Jewish Defense League of Canada for [...]

Fatah Condemns Co-Existence

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Everyone knows Abbas wants to make peace with Israel, which wants to drive all Arabs into the sea, right? And how many know that Abbas’ Fatah party condemned the crime of a Jewish-Arab soccer game?

More Natural Gas Found

Posted on: May 16th, 2013

Israel has (more) gas. Baruch Hashem. But who should profit?

US: Iran Still Has Time to Change Course on Nuclear Program

Posted on: May 15th, 2013

"Our policy is not aimed at regime change, but rather at changing the regime’s behavior."

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Congress Widens IRS Investigation, Pro-Israel Groups Were Targeted

Posted on: May 15th, 2013

Congress is also now investigating what looks like a cover-up of the misdeeds.

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Election Of Chief Rabbis A Tumultuous Process

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

JERUSALEM – Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israel’s current Sephardi chief rabbi whose 10-year term is set to expire in the coming months, and Ramat Gan Chief Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, a leading Ashkenazi rabbi, announced their intention to force a legal change in the chief rabbinate selection process.

Rabbi Riskin Permits Women to Read Ruth for Men in Orthodox Shul

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

It appears that Rabbi Riskin's congregation is not easily offended.

Iran Looks To Make Syria Regional Bulwark Against Israel

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

The recent Israeli air strikes on Syria – which have neither been confirmed nor denied by Israeli officials – targeted weapons depots allegedly storing Iranian-made weapons intended for the Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah.

Plague of Locusts Returns to Israel for Shavuot

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

Fundamentalists were working overtime before Passover to describe how just as in Biblical times, the Jews were spared from the plague. Now the locusts are working overtime, just in time for Shavuot.

Would Hawking Meet Paraplegic Arab Saved by Israel?

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

He could meet a three-year-old Arab toddler with no arms and no legs, named Mohammed al-Farra.

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Cabinet Passes ‘Austerity Budget’

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

The Cabinet Monday evening passed a two-year budget, nearly five months late, with tax hikes and across-the-board cuts in spending, Only one minister voted against the  budget, the second and last time it will cover two years instead of one. Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who is chairman of the Yesh Atid party, said after the [...]

IRS Chief Under the Congressional Spotlight on Friday

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

The IRS attempted to present its inappropriate conduct as being limited to a small number of organizations, targeted by using only a few key words, acted on by only a few low level IRS employees in a remote office, for a limited time, without the consent or even knowledge of higher level IRS officials. By Monday morning that cover had been entirely blown.

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Obama Golfs and Bibi Eats Ice Cream – How Much to Indulge Leaders?

Posted on: May 14th, 2013

Obama has been cited for expensive golf outings. Now it’s Netanyahu’s turn: $2,700 for ice cream and $125,000 for an airplane bed. Indulgence or the price of public office?

Fischer Cuts Interest Rate and Says Bank to Buy 2 Billion Dollars

Posted on: May 13th, 2013

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer announced on Monday a surprise cut the prime interest rate as part of his battle to fight the appreciation of the shekel and help the economy to keep growing. The financial markets responded with the shekel-dollar rate rising more than 1.5 percent to the level of 3.61 shekels to [...]

Blue and White, All the Waze

Posted on: May 13th, 2013

Waze and Facebook have reached an impasse in their negotiations, but not over whether Facebook will buy Waze for 700 million dollars, or a clean billion, but over Israel, according to the Israeli site Telecom News. Facebook wants to close down Waze’s Raanana office, and transfer some of the developers to the U.S. While the [...]