Let's Take Our Country Back

Col. William McArthur talks shop with future pilots, learns about the Knights of the Orange Tail.

Self-proclaimed “America’s Rabbi” Boteach has decided “to throw his yarmulke in the ring” and run for Congress – depending on backing.

As the international community deals with the fallout from the Chinese and Russian rejection of UN/Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria that has killed over 5,000 civilians, The Israel Project has prepared a timeline of the Syrian revolt:

March 2011

15- A "Day of Rage" demonstration in the southern city of Deraa leads to security forces shooting a number of people dead, triggering days of violent unrest and more civilian deaths.

Shayetet 13 soldiers rescue five civilians whose fishing boat sank off Haifa.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister compares Iran's threats against Israel to the Nazi Holocaust

UN chief: The violence in Syria is appalling. The Security Council's disagreement over a resolution is not a license to escalate attacks.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "strongly condemns" the mounting death toll, says Syrian violence "unacceptable before humanity," erodes the legitimacy of Damascus ...

After talks ended without progress Monday night, Histadrut labor federation Chairman Ofer Eini will meet with Treasury officials at noon on Tuesday to try and avoid a strike over the status of ...

WASHINGTON - Longtime US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross said Monday he did not believe the time was ripe for a permanent deal between Israelis and Palestinians and suggested regarding the region now ...

Calling a series of overtly sexy Purim costumes that appear in a recently distributed catalogue for children "scandalous," World International Zionist Organization (WIZO) chairwoman Gila ...

The state will spend NIS 845 million over the next five years to rehabilitate the Dead Sea, the Tourism Ministry said on Monday.According to the ministry, the sum was agree upon during a meeting ...

The ability to hear has been returned to Meir Turgeman, the most veteran resident of Sderot, who said Monday that thanks to the operation he underwent at Kaplan Medical Center, he will for the ...

Firefighters have severed ties with the national Fire and Rescue Services in response to what they described as a "trampling" on their rights by the Public Security Ministry on ...

The Knesset State Control Committee slammed ministers on Monday for delaying plans to fortify hospitals in the North against earthquakes, and for failing to issue planning tenders for the ...

According to the agreement brokered by the South African Development Community (SADC), a coalition was set up in Zimbabwe. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Democratic Movement for Change ...

television network on Sunday. The comments were translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)."Allah will punish [the Syrian regime] for what it did by means of ...

Iran announces a new ban on Simpsons dolls, but Spiderman and Superman are still welcome...for now.

Moshe Feiglin tells Mark Kaplan why those who tried to hold him back are failing: I received most of my votes outside Judea and Samaria.

Dozens of people gather to pray together for the recovery of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. His condition is now serious but stable.

Hundreds of Rome’s Jews write in the Chabad movement’s Sefer Torah for Jewish Unity, a project inititated by El Al.

Zimbabwe's artificial coalition is teetering as President Mugabe's party wants to move up elections.

In recent weeks, I and several world leaders have made serious efforts to advance peace. 
If President Abbas moves to implement what was signed today in Doha,  he will abandon the path of peace and join forces with the enemies of peace.

Hamas is an enemy of peace. It's an Iranian backed terror organization committed to Israel's destruction. It has not accepted the minimal conditions set by the international community:

Article calls for Iranian strike on Israel.
Detailed plans to destroy Israel.
Netanyahu: We heard Iranian ruler call for our destruction.

An Iranian news agency associated with a respected conservative member of Iran’s parliament is calling for an Iranian attack on Israel in order to destroy the Jewish state.

Germany is still haunted by its Nazi past. One in five Germans still harbor anti-Semitic attitudes, a figure that has not declined in recent years.

SCHOOL SOLUTIONS: Affordability is a major problem for Jewish day schools. The Hyman Brand school in Overland Park, Kan., took a radical step: It slashed tuition in half.

Israel’s citizens live their daily lives much like citizens of other countries around the world, but a major difference is that Israelis live under the constant threat of rocket fire.

Not even on the holiest day of the Jewish year were Israelis given the opportunity to rest, as was seen on the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when a coalition of Arab countries attacked simultaneously in an attempt to catch Israel off-guard.

Palestinian rights advocate Ali Abunimah told a national boycott Israel conference that the Middle East conflict is near an ‘end game.’

When Aya Almasal, 12, left her Gaza home approximately one month ago and headed for Rambam, she didn’t know that this trip would save her life. For several years Aya had suffered from sudden bouts of unconsciousness, and her doctors couldn’t find the cause.

About a month ago, Aya set out for Rambam to treat this problem, which had accompanied her since birth. Upon leaving Gaza, she felt ill and the situation steadily deteriorated. As the girl neared Rambam, in Haifa, her heart stopped working and she was, in effect, dead. After repeated attempts at resuscitation, the girl’s heart began to pump and she arrived at Rambam, artificially respirated and in serious danger. At the hospital, Aya was diagnosed as suffering from Long QT Syndrome, a disorder of the heart’s electrical system that causes irregular and rapid heart rate, and had prevented blood from reaching her brain.  This had caused Aya to lose consciousness suddenly, and could have killed her.

Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 5.2.12:

"We have received a reminder about what kind of a neighborhood we live in. We heard the Iranian ruler's remarks about the elimination of Israel.  We saw the Syrian army massacre its own people.  We have seen bloody events in our region.  Various leaders have no moral compunctions about killing their neighbors and their own people alike.

Pro-peace group Breaking the Silence decided to join a government-run tour of Jewish sites in Hebron on the West Bank. That’s when settlers’ groups tried to undermine the tour.

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General
United Nations
New York

Excellency,

For the third time in the past week, I write to express Israel’s very serious concern about the rockets flying out of the Gaza Strip daily.

On the evening of 1 February 2012 - in the midst of your visit to our region - terrorists in Gaza fired 7 rockets into Israeli communities within the span of an hour. These rockets exploded in close proximity to the City of Sderot - and forced thousands of Israelis to spend the evening in bomb shelters. In the last three weeks alone, more than 20 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israeli cities and communities.

Three Tehran businessmen are expected to attend the upcoming Agritech -Tel Aviv's 18th International Agricultural Technology Exhibition in May.

According to Ynet news, organizers of the exposition were taken aback when they were contacted by the Iranians who expressed interest in coming to the fair to purchase hothouse equipment.

Jewish support for the Republican Party has grown dramatically since 2008 nationwide, a new analysis suggests. Democrats rejected the study as wishful thinking.

Tehran: Iran's Supreme Leader says his country will assist any nation or group that "confronts" Israel, describing it as a "cancer”.

His speech came a day after Israel’s top political and military leadership issued a series of warnings to the Islamic Republic - including one from Israel’s Defense minister Ehud Barak who declared that  “If sanctions don’t achieve the desired goal of stopping [Iran’s] military nuclear program, there will be a need to consider taking action.”

Donor-advised funds are a growing and controversial form of philanthropy. Critics say they make it easy for donors to get a tax deduction while delaying giving cash to charity.

Overnight, IAF aircraft targeted two weapon storing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, three terror tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a weapon manufacturing facility in the central Gaza Strip.

Direct hits were confirmed as well as secondary explosions at several targets.

These sites were targeted in response to the rocket fire on communities in southern Israel. Over 620 rockets were fired at Israel in 2011.

Four years ago, Florida Jews fretted that Barack Obama might be Muslim. Those concerns are rarely heard, replaced by worries about his Israel policy.

Davos Shabbat is one of the toughest tickets in a tough-ticket town. It’s a stunning gathering of 250 Jewish and non-Jewish leaders, from Sheryl Sandberg to Ehud Barak.

Mitt Romney found his voice in Florida and got a big win to prove it. He’s the frontrunner again and he’s got another chance to turn out the lights on his opponents.

Right-wing Israelis accuse Knesset member Ahmad Tibi of glorifying suicide bombers. He insists he praises civilians killed by Israeli forces.