UNESCO, PLO Recognize Jerusalem As An Arab Capital

Contrary to a common assumption that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and its administrative arm, the Palestinian Authority (PA), demand "East Jerusalem" as a future capital for a nation state of Palestine, they actually...

Palestinian Authority Suffers Stinging Lawsuit Defeat

The Jerusalem District Court handed down a precedent-setting ruling yesterday when it enjoined the Palestinian Authority to pay more than $116 million in damages to the surviving family of Yaron and Efrat Unger, who...

Abbas: ‘Entry Of Refugees To Israel Is On The Table’

On the eve of the meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asserted that the two had already discussed the entry of Palestinian refugees into Israel. "We are discussing the...

Al-Aqsa Brigades in Gaza graduate a class of fighters

A class of fighters trained by the Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah's armed military wing, graduated on Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip. The group stated during the graduation ceremony, that they intend to continue armed resistance...

Response to the Jewish Agency/Nefesh B’Nefesh Agreement

The Jewish Agency for Israel's (JAFI) decision to outsource the entire aliyah operation in North America to Nefesh B'Nefesh, a 6-year-old American group promoting aliyah, is indicative of both the need for change in...

Jewish Agency and Nefesh B’Nefesh Reach Historic Agreement for Increasing Aliyah from North America

A "one-stop Aliyah shop" has now been created by both organizations to streamline the Aliyah process for North American Olim Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel have reached a successful conclusion to the...

Archiving the struggle: Local Jews begin to document efforts to free Soviet Jews

Issue of August 27th, 2008 When Oscar and Joan Dodek traveled to Moscow in 1978 on a 22-member synagogue mission to meet local Jews, they certainly didn't expect to get arrested by the KGB and...

Report: Iran supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles

Al-Quds al-Arabi reports missiles can accurately hit targets in Israel, weapons to be used by Lebanese organization in event that Israel or US launch attack against Islamic republic Iran has supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles...

PA, Germany sign agreement to establish 55 police stations

Palestinian Interior Minister Abd Ar-Razaq Al-Yahya and German Representative to the Palestinian Authority Klaus Burkhardt signed a joint agreement to establish a total 55 new police stations in the West Bank on Thursday. The agreement...

Olmert’s Attempt to Subvert Democratic Process in Talks with Palestinians

"The president of the United States will adopt the wording, the world with adopt it, the European Union, also the Arab world. We can tell the Israeli People that this is what can be...