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Nearly a Million Living in Poor Jewish Households in the US

Close to 1 million people in American Jewish families live in low-income households, according to a new study that appears to be the most...

Separation without Withdrawal of Settlements

PM Sharon has set up a demographic strawman regarding Gaza. The fact is that the 8,000 Jewish settlers do not "live amid 1.2 million...

Sharon Plan Violates Basic Human Rights

A group of legal experts, jurists and academics joined the battle against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan on Monday after sending Jewish residents...

Israel’s Planned Expulsion of its Citizens From Their Homes Constitutes a Violation of International...

Law professor warns that Israel's planned expulsion of its citizens from their homes would violate international law which protects human rights and civil liberties. Eliav...

The Initial Reaction of the Egyptian Auhtorities to the Terror Attack in Taba

For quite some time after the attack, the Egyptians insisted that a bottled-gas canister had exploded, but crowds of Israeli vacationers and tourists were...

Confusion During the Initial Rescue Operation

The efforts to rescue casualties from Sinai continued all night, with Egyptian confusion reigning. Fire fighting teams from Eilat have so far rescued seven...

A Perspective From Israeli Intelligence on the Taba Attack

On Tuesday, The Director of the Political-Security Staff in the Israel Defense Ministry Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad returned from his talks on the...

UNRWA: Links to Terror

UNRWA Founding The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East was established on December 8, 1949, by United Nations General Assembly...

A Dispassionate Analysis

This dispatch contains a series of mostly short notes concerning the reporting by Reuters, the AP, the Guardian, and others of attacks on Israelis...

Her Death Made a Difference

Tifferet Tratner, age 24, was the first resident of Gush Katif to be killed directly by a mortar shell. In four years of endless bombardment...