Monthly Archives: January 2010

Israeli Delegation Returns From Haiti

Jerusalem - The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) medical and rescue team sent to Haiti concluded its operations Wednesday. The delegation’s 236 members, including 218 IDF soldiers and officers and 18 civilians, left Haiti on board...

Tu Bshvat, A Celebration Of Land

Saturday will be the observation of Tu Bshvat on the Hebrew calendar, the 15th of Shvat, the Jewish arbor day, a day when the Jewish people bid a “happy birthday to the land of...

German Company Will Not Sign New Contracts With Iran

Jerusalem - Exactly 19 years ago, when Iraq launched 39 missile attacks against Israel, causing damage to more than 10,000 homes in the center of the country, a German activist organization known as the...

INTERVIEW WITH PALESTINIAN HANNA SENIORA: DO ANY OF HIS STATEMENTS RING TRUE IN THE...

Rhonda Spivak, an attorney and a writer, is a member of the Canadian and Israel Bar Associations. Hanna Seniora, the man that Yasser Arafat appointed to be The Palestinian Authority’s Ambassador to the U.S. in...

Iran: The Time Has Come INSS Insight No. 158, January 25, 2010

Mission The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) is an independent academic institute that studies key issues relating to Israel's national security and Middle East affairs. Through its mixture of researchers with backgrounds in academia,...

New immigrant looks to make rainwater harvesting popular

When Eric Aiken, 47, decided to make aliya with his family, he began to look for a new way to help the country. He stumbled across an ancient idea in a modern format: rainwater...

Training the Palestinian Security Forces for What?

Jonathan Rosenblum Jonathan Rosenblum is the director of Jewish Media Resources, a leading media organization dedicated to furthering an understanding of Torah Judaism. Jewish Media Resources works with foreign journalists stationed in Israel and with...

PA Holds Diplomatic Event In Jerusalem: Norwegians Deny Meeting With Senior Officials

http://www.5tjt.com/news/read.asp?Id=5739 Last Monday, Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Store held official diplomatic talks with Palestinian Authority minister for Jerusalem Ahmed A-Rawidi and Rafik Husseini, chief of staff to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, on the Mount...

New Israeli Subs To Station In Persian Gulf

Jerusalem - This week, a delegation of seven Israeli government cabinet ministers, headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, held a joint cabinet meeting with their counterparts in Berlin, Germany. The reported subject under discussion:...