Monthly Archives: April 2005

After years of speculation that the architects of the Sharon plan had an economic motivation up their sleeve, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the original architect of the Oslo process, told the AP that...

WASHINGTON -- Israel has relayed its concern to the United States of the rising prospect of a Middle East war in 2006. U.S. officials said Israel has determined that the expected U.S. withdrawal from...

As in daring situation assessments in distant places, the IDF and the police have obtained the floor plans of all the homes in the communities marked for evacuation in order to use them to...

"They trained us to hit only the lower extremities," said a soldier from the IDF's sniper unit, who said he was supposed to be part of a special sniper force that the IDF has...

"Anyone who dreams that within three months we will be able to propose housing solutions for thousand of evacuees, will be proven wrong. We have been caught with our pants down," say Housing Ministry...

The quiet along the border with Egypt was violated yesterday once again. An IDF NCO who serves with the Engineering Corps was severely injured and an Israeli civilian was moderately injured yesterday afternoon from...

TEL AVIV -- Israel's military has been bracing for Palestinian missile attacks on a major southern city. Israeli officials said the military has assessed that Palestinian insurgents would launch missile strikes on Ashkelon, north...

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation's Voice of Israel Radio Arab Affairs Correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported this afternoon that PA head Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a meeting with Israeli reporters that the PA has collected all...

www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=905642 The Yediot Ahronot Hebrew daily reports that the Peace Technology investment fund, founded to invest in projects in the Palestinian Authority (PA) has discontinued its activity. The Shalom fund was founded six years ago,...

The movement within Israel to hold a referendum on Prime Minister Sharon's "Disengagement" plan has fizzled now that the Knesset has voted solidly against it. Efforts to bring the government down by blocking the...