Daily Archives: October 5, 2015

Fatah unit claims responsibility for murder of Israeli couple

(Over the years, JTA has hesitated to report what the Palestinian Authority conveys . Not this time.- David Bedein) A cell affiliated with Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple...

Eulogy by Dr. Yagil Henkin, Military Historian and Lecturer at the IDF Command and...

I want to tell you a little bit about Eitam. Eitam was a jokester. I know it's surprising to say this at a funeral, and all the more so, about a rabbi and scholar who was...

What American Jews can do in response to the Henkin murders

The heartbreaking murder of Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Naama, gunned down by Palestinian terrorists in front of their children, will generate tear-filled eulogies and anguished recitations of tehillim (Psalms) throughout the Jewish...

Palestinian factions praise deadly shooting of Israeli settlers

Palestinian factions and military wings on Friday praised the killing of two Israeli settlers, a married coupled, who were shot dead between the illegal Israeli settlements of Itamar and Elon Moreh near Nablus. Eitam and...

Official PLO news agency: “Israeli occupation” kills “young man” who stabbed “settlers” in Jerusalem

Official PLO news agency: "Israeli occupation" kills "young man" who stabbed "settlers" in Jerusalem Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 3 October, 2015 While the English language website of the official PLO news agency, WAFA, has yet to report...

Open Letter of encouragement to Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein, new Ambassador of Israel to Italy

Dear Fiamma, A belated message of Mazel Tov on your new appointment. A consistent message from our agency is that the educational system of the PA and UNRWA must be reformed before any peace process can...

Pilgrims’ Progress

We are in the midst of Succoth commonly known in English as the Feast of Tabernacles…writes Michael Kuttner. This is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals dating from the time when Jewish pilgrims from Israel...

The West Bank tires of its government

IT SEEMS that the ageing politicians who appear on the official Palestine television station are in “urgent need” of a makeover. So, at least, said one of the channel’s directors in a letter to...

Invitation to membership for the Center For Near East Policy Research

To counteract the torrent of delegitimization directed against our country, Israel must cope with misrepresentations spread by those who oppose the existence of a Jewish state. The Center for Near East Policy Research is...