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Sderot Tenses for the Next Round

An Israeli TV crew joined us on our trip to Sderot the other day. They are in the process of shooting a short documentary on Gush Katif refugees in which we appear. "The bombing of Sderot...

Sderot under attack

We visited Sderot yesterday. Leaving Nitzan we gave a lift to a Gush Katif student learning in the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva combining Torah studies and army service. "How are you holding on?" I asked. "Okay. It's...

Commentary on the War Commission Report

To date, we are seeing the following in response to the interim Winograd report: A special Cabinet meeting was held today. A committee, chaired by former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, is being formed to...

Robert Rechnitz: A man with a vision for Israel’s National Camp

Robert Rechnitz, from Los Angeles, the president of a Zionist organization known as Bnai Zion, married with three children and two grandchildren, served as the chairman of the recent Jerusalem Conference, held after Purim...

Commentary: In the Aftermath of the Palestinian Unity Government

Well, the Palestinian National Council approved the new unity government today, with 83 votes out of 87 council members participating. (There are 132 seats in the legislature, but 41 members are in Israeli prisons.)...

Europe To Moderate Gaza Dispute?

According to Shlomo Breznitz's, a professor of psychology who specializes in situations of stress, proposal, this step, which he calls an "international greenhouse," would be led by the European community, not the U.S., which because of its involvement in Iraq, "has lost its status as an honest broker in the view of the Palestinians and the Arab states."

Olmert Associate: Offer to European task force to run Judea and Samaria

A freshman member of the Israeli Knesset Parliament, Prof. Shlomo Breznitz of the Kadima Party, a close associate of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has offered a plan that would hand over the administration of...

Shalom Yuri – Eulogy for MK Yuri Shtern

Dr.Yuri Shtern, a member of the Knesset who came on Aliyah from the former USSR in 1981, died today at the young age of 58. I knew this man. Not as a politician. He came...

UJA-Fed. May Fund Gush Katif Evacuees With government help seen lacking, charity to evaluate...

Acknowledging that a number of families evacuated from Gush Katif in the summer of 2005 may be in need of economic assistance, the leadership of UJA-Federation of New York and the United Jewish Communities...

Rabin¹s Legacy that Never Was

On the 4th of November 1995, Israel¹s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Many Israelis, particularly those on the political left, believe that this...