The JTA Slant That Needs Balance: Reflecting on the Writings of JTA Bureau Chief,...

On Erev Yom Kippur, perhaps the time has come for the JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that is funded in part by the Jewish Federations, to reconsider its ideological orientation and to allow for...

How the Israeli Media Covered the Capture of a PA Ammo ship

In a pre-dawn raid on Thursday morning, January 3, 2002, IDF naval commando troops seized control of the Karine-A vessel without a fight and forced it to sail 500 kilometers north to Eilat. The...

Israel Chief of Staff Speaks His Mind

Yaalon: "The Palestinians are an existential threat: Iraq is not." Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 2) by Rami Hazut -- "If we don't win this war against the Palestinians,we will find ourselves facing a threat of cancer-like...

Why the IDF Chief of Staff was Fired

It took barely an hour following the start of this week's Knesset (Israel's parliament)Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting to figure out that its guest speaker, Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, had quickly become...

Why does UNRWA exist?

(This article appeared as an oped in the Jerusalem Post of October 28th, 2005) As the United Nations celebrated its 60th anniversary this fall with a dramatic World Summit, supposedly sweeping reform proposals sought to...

Intelligence Assessment: Hizbullah has targeted Israeli strategic facilities.

Israeli security officials said Hizbullah has fired Iranian-origin rockets toward strategic facilities in the northern city of Haifa. Haifa contains a petrochemical plant, oil refinery and naval base. On Sunday, two rockets fell into a...

Safed Emergency Fund

Date: Wed, 16 August 2006 17:50:54 +0200 From: Noah Greenberg Reply-To: Noah Greenberg Subject: Safed Emergency Food Fund -- OUR war is NOT over! To: media@actcom.co.il 21 Menachem Av August 15, 2006 As the military situation here...

UN Determines that Report of Israel Using Depleted Uranium Munitions is False

Reports that Israel used depleted uranium (DU) munitions in the war in Lebanon this summer hold no water according to UN experts who found no evidence to support those claims. "The samples taken by the...

Commentary: From the Bar Mitzvah of a Missle Orphan…

Solomon Yaakobov observed his bar mitzvah on Thursday at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. (A boy can be bar mitzvah on Shabbat, or Monday or Thursday -- all days when the Torah is read)....