Eye on the Middle East Podcast

Policing the Mount

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Policing the Mount When Christians from around the world visit the various holy sites in Israel, most naturally expect to stand on the...

From India to Israel

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

From India to Israel A number of Israeli organizations exist with the sole purpose of finding contemporary descendents of the lost tribes...

New Government in Jordan

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

New Government in Jordan The small Arab country of Jordan has a new Prime Minister and cabinet, led by Fayez al-Tara-neh. The 63-year-old...

Israel Gets German Sub

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel Gets German Sub At a military ceremony in northern Germany earlier this month, Israel took possession of its fourth naval submarine...

Israel Removes Roadblocks

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel Removes Roadblocks The United States is continuing to play a major role in training Palestinian security forces who operate in the...

Russians in Egypt

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Russians in Egypt For well over a year now, the Middle East and North Africa have been rocked by substantial political upheaval that has...

Methodist Vote on Israel

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:15:00 EST

Methodist Vote on Israel Israeli government leaders have watched with increasing concern over the past several decades as a growing number...

French Elections and Israel

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

French Elections and Israel One of the largest French expatriate communities living outside of France can be found in Israel. Some...

Hunger Strike

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Hunger Strike Hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners being held in Israeli jails have been observing a hunger strike for several...

New Coalition in Israel

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

New Coalition in Israel Both the Israeli public and most members of the Likud-led government were caught by surprise when Prime Minister...

Looking Up

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:30:00 EST

Looking Up Several Israeli social commentators have noted that during the 1990s, secularism was in and religion out among the country's...

Race Heats Up in Egypt

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Race Heats Up in Egypt The Israeli public, military and government continue to closely monitor the dramatic political developments in...

PA Censorship

Wed, 9 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

PA Censorship For many decades now, the Palestinian people have witnessed up close the thriving free press that is characteristic of...

Israel and Iran

Tue, 8 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel and Iran Israel's top political and military officials are continuing to debate the possible pros and cons of attacking...

Early Election in Israel

Mon, 7 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Early Election in Israel It appears that Israel will hold early parliamentary elections later this year. The next national vote is not...

Food for Africa

Fri, 4 May 2012 10:15:00 EST

Food for Africa The Jewish State of Israel has had a mixed record regarding its diplomatic ties with countries located on the nearby...

New Muslim Candidate in Egypt

Thu, 3 May 2012 10:15:00 EST

New Muslim Candidate in Egypt An Egyptian court issued a ruling in April that disqualified a number of candidates from running in Egypt's...

Syrian Bonds

Wed, 2 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Syrian Bonds Israeli media outlets are reporting that the Syrian police state regime headed by Bashar Al Assad has devised a new method to...

Trade Pact With China

Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 EST

Trade Pact With China The Israeli cabinet recently approved formal negotiations for a new trade pact with the world's largest country,...

Gulf States and Iran

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Gulf States and Iran A new dispute involving Iran has broken out, pitting the defiant Shiite Muslim country against some of its mainly...

Kosher Dogs

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Kosher Dogs Earlier this month, Jews around the world celebrated the annual seven-day Passover festival, which commemorates the ancient Jewish...

Shah's Son Opposed IDF Strike

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Shah's Son Opposed IDF Strike When the Shah of Iran ruled over his mainly Shiite Muslim country until he was deposed by Ayatollah Khomeini...

London Boycott

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

London Boycott Over the years, Israelis have gotten used to having many political and business groups, universities and other concerns...

The Stall Goes On

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

The Stall Goes On Senior diplomats from the Middle East peace Quartet: the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations...

Election in Egypt

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Election in Egypt The presidential race is heating up in Egypt. The first round is scheduled to take place near the end of next month. If...

Blossoming Desert

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Blossoming Desert Israeli agriculture has a well-earned reputation for employing cutting edge technology to increase crop yields. The...

Egyptian Tourists in Israel

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Egyptian Tourists in Israel Last month, Egypt's long serving Coptic Christian Pope, Shenouda the Third, passed away at the age of 89. He...

Young Muslims Support Equality

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Young Muslims Support Equality The American-based Gallup opinion polling company has released the findings of a survey it conducted in 22...

Settlements To Stay in Place

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Settlements To Stay in Place Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given his approval to legalize three contested Jewish...

Security in Sinai

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Security in Sinai Israeli government leaders have given permission to their Egyptian counterparts to station additional security forces in...

NEW KADIMA LEADER

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

NEW KADIMA LEADER Most Israeli military analysts agree that the most pressing issue facing the Jewish State is the existential threat posed...

BACKLASH AGAINST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

BACKLASH AGAINST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD The formerly outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement continues to bask in the glow of its...

ISRAELI AIR BASE IN AZERBAIJAN

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

ISRAELI AIR BASE IN AZERBAIJAN Middle East media outlets continue to report that Israel will launch a major military operation against...

CALL FOR NEW PALESTINIAN UPRISING

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

CALL FOR NEW PALESTINIAN UPRISING A leading Palestinian figure jailed by Israel ten years ago as the second Palestinian uprising was raging...

NEW WEAPONS ON LINE?

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

NEW WEAPONS ON LINE? Middle East security analysts have been busy speculating on the possibility that Israel might unveil some dramatic...

Census in Israel

Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Census in Israel In ancient times, King David got in trouble with the Lord for numbering his people against the explicit Divine command...

Fuel for Gaza

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Fuel for Gaza The Palestinian Hamas movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since seizing power from the Palestinian Authority in 2007...

Christians Flee the Middle East

Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Christians Flee the Middle East When the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Empire controlled the Middle East a century ago, self professing Christians...

Poles Train in Israel

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Poles Train in Israel The large East European country of Poland was the land where a majority of Jews slaughtered by Hitler's Nazi forces...

Russian Arms to Syria

Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EST

Russian Arms to Syria The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published a recent report that detailed Russian arms imports to...

Top Universities

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Top Universities Every spring, the British newspaper, The Times, publishes a booklet that ranks universities around the world. The booklet...

Tourists in Israel

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Tourists in Israel When massive street protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak out of power in February last year, most overseas...

Hoarding Grain

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Hoarding Grain United States and other Western officials continue to warn Iran it could face military action if it does not halt its...

Winter Rains

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST

Winter Rains The United States has been enjoying one of its warmest winters ever, which many people believe is further evidence of man-made...

False Report

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST

False Report Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, has sent a letter to a senior UN official complaining that a false...

Jerusalem

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Jerusalem The Israeli Interior Ministry has announced that the population of Jerusalem has now jumped to over nine hundred thousand people....

Palestinian Statehood

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Palestinian Statehood Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas did not succeed in securing United Nations recognition of his statehood...

Christians Flee the Middle East

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Christians Flee the Middle East When the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Empire controlled the Middle East a century ago, self professing...

American Weapons for Israel

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

American Weapons for Israel Israeli media outlets are reporting that the Obama administration has agreed to supply Israel with...

Chemical Concerns

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Chemical Concerns Israeli government and military leaders are expressing growing fears that Syria's huge stockpile of chemical...

Israel Connecting to Europe

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Israel Connecting to Europe Israeli energy officials have unveiled plans to lay an electric cable on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea...

Sarah in Trouble

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Sarah in Trouble When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States last week, he was accompanied by his third wife,...

Marriage Age to Rise in Israel

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Marriage Age to Rise in Israel Israeli lawmakers have voted to raise the minimum legal marriage age limit from the current seventeen to...

Muslims Confer on Jerusalem

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Muslims Confer on Jerusalem Islamic officials are once again blasting Israeli leaders over their policies concerning Jerusalem. The latest...

Aid to Syria

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Aid to Syria Officials in Jerusalem continue to watch the violent strife raging in neighboring Syria with deep concern. In a good will...

Hamas Breaks with Syria

Fri, 9 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Hamas Breaks with Syria With political upheaval continuing to grip many parts of the turbulent Middle East, the Palestinian Hamas movement...

Tough UN Report on Iran

Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Tough UN Report on Iran The United Nation's Atomic Energy Agency has issued its latest update report on Iran's threatening nuclear program,...

Azerbijan

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Azerbijan Israel has lost some close friends in the region over the past few years, including Egypt's ousted President, Hosni Mubarak, and...

Abbas on Jerusalem

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

Abbas on Jerusalem Israeli officials expressed deep concern over anti-Jewish comments made recently by Palestinian Authority President...

White House Visit

Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST

White House Visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting today with President Barrack Obama at the White House. Officials in...

Israel Aids the Needy

Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EST

Israel Aids the Needy Citizens of Israel are used to being frequently portrayed in the international media as powerful bullies that happily...

Jihadists Join Fight in Syria

Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EST

Jihadists Join Fight in Syria It has been known for several months that the embattled Syrian government regime headed by Bashar Assad has...

Presidential Election in Egypt

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST

Presidential Election in Egypt The Egyptian government's state-owned newspaper, Al Ahram, says that presidential elections that were...

PA Unity Deal May Unravel

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST

PA Unity Deal May Unravel Earlier this month, the Palestinian Authority government headed by Mahmoud Abbas singed an agreement with the...

Israel Prepares for War with Syria

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST

Israel Prepares for War with Syria Israeli media outlets are reporting that the country's senior government and military leaders have drawn...

Electric Cars in Israel

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:45:00 EST

Electric Cars in Israel The tiny country of Israel has long been a world-renowned innovator in the use of scarce water supplies in...

PA Move Troubles Israel

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:45:00 EST

PA Move Troubles Israel The announcement earlier this month that the Palestinian Authority government has ironed out a long sought after...

IDF Spending Cuts

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:45:00 EST

IDF Spending Cuts Israeli government and military leaders continue to keep a close eye on unsettling developments in several regional...

'Judaizing' Jerusalem

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

'Judaizing' Jerusalem Israel emerged as a new nation on the international stage in 1948 after the United Nations approved a resolution...

Full Alert After Bombing in India

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Full Alert After Bombing in India Israeli embassies, cultural centers, and Jewish synagogues around the world remain on full security alert...

African Pastor Treated in Israel

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

African Pastor Treated in Israel Israeli officials say they are very concerned over a continuing stream of immigrants entering the country...

South Korea Seeks Israeli System

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

South Korea Seeks Israeli System Under constant threat of missile attack from several sworn enemies, Israel has long been a leader in the...

Cyber War Against Israel

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Cyber War Against Israel The cover of an Israeli monthly magazine this February featured a headline that read "Israel Fears Cyber War." The...

Soldiers Off Israeli Trains

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Soldiers Off Israeli Trains In the early decades of Israel's modern existence, it was common for the country's soldiers to hitch rides home...

Brazilian Christians and Israel

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Brazilian Christians and Israel Several members of the Israeli Knesset held a meeting at the end of January to discuss Israel's relations...

Arabs in Israeli Hospitals

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Arabs in Israeli Hospitals Despite ongoing rocket attacks upon Israeli civilian centers from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, and periodic...

Hamas Looks for New Home

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Hamas Looks for New Home The radical Palestinian Hamas movement has had its international headquarters in the Syrian capital city of...

Christians Under Attack

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Christians Under Attack International human rights groups are reporting a sharp increase in violent attacks upon Christian churches...

US Warships in the Gulf

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

US Warships in the Gulf Iranian government and military leaders are changing their tune concerning America’s naval presence in the...

Assad Asked to Step Down

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Assad Asked to Step Down Over the past two months, the 22 nation Arab League has been attempting to end the bloodshed in Syria—so far with...

Snow on Mount Hermon

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

Snow on Mount Hermon Israel's tallest peak is the biblical Mount Hermon, which is pronounced Hair-mon in Hebrew, the official national...

EU Criticizes Israel

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

EU Criticizes Israel According to a memo published by the British Independent newspaper, diplomats from the European Union say they are not...

US Meets With Egyptian Brothers

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST

US Meets With Egyptian Brothers The Obama Administration was one of the first governments on earth to call upon former Egyptian President...

Atomic Agency Checks Iran

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Atomic Agency Checks Iran A high level delegation from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency recently traveled to Iran....

Dangers From Syria

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Dangers From Syria The head of the Israeli army's intelligence branch has been warning for some time of the dangers posed by the axis...

US Funding Cut Angers Palestinians

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

US Funding Cut Angers Palestinians The Palestinian Authority decided to take their statehood bid to the United Nations last year despite...

Bedouin Terrorists

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Bedouin Terrorists An official Israeli army investigation into last August's deadly terrorist attack near the southern port city of Eilat...

Turkey and Iran

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Turkey and Iran Reports have been circulating around the Middle East for several months indicating that diplomatic relations between the...

Hamas and Syria

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Hamas and Syria The 22 nation Arab League has announced that it has been working with the overall head of the radical Palestinian Hamas...

US Forces Train With IDF

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:45:00 EST

US Forces Train With IDF Senior Israeli officials say that military relations between Israel and the United States remain strong despite...

English in Israel

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:15:00 EST

English in Israel In observance of Israeli government policy, most Israeli school children must begin to study the English language in the...

Rumors in Turkey

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:15:00 EST

Rumors in Turkey Media reports have been swirling around the Middle East stating that controversial Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogen is...

Syria Releases Prisoners

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Syria Releases Prisoners International human rights groups say that the Syrian Assad regime has imprisoned tens of thousands of...

New Charges Against Olmert

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

New Charges Against Olmert Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been fighting various corruption charges filed against him by the...

New Sanctions on Iran

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

New Sanctions on Iran The leaders of the 27 countries that belong to the European Union have decided to ban all crude oil imports from the...

Latest Archaeological Finds

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST

Latest Archaeological Finds The saying goes in Israel that you can hardly turn over a rock without making a significant archeological...

Terrorists in the PA

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Terrorists in the PA Israel's main internal security agency, the Shin Bet, released a report in early January stating that last December...

A Arab League Mission in Syria

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

A Arab League Mission in Syria Leaders of the 22 nation Arab League headquartered in Cairo expressed frustration over the fact that their...

A Quartet Meets in Amman

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

A Quartet Meets in Amman For the first time in nearly 16 months, diplomats from around the world gathered in the Middle East earlier this...

A War of Words With Iran

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

A War of Words With Iran The United States and Iran have been exchanging a series of angry verbal blasts over the past several weeks. The...

Fish Farms in Gaza

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:15:00 EST

Fish Farms in Gaza Although Israeli military forces and civilian residents were pulled out of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in 2005, Israel...

Plot Against Iran?

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:15:00 EST

Plot Against Iran? Iranian leaders have been calling the United States the "Great Satan" since Ayatollah Khomeini took control of the Shiite...

Preparing for War

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Preparing for War The Israeli government has been warning its citizens over the past few years that a major war could break out at any time....

Rockets From Lebano

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Rockets From Lebano n Israel's northern border with Lebanon had been relatively quiet following an armed clash in August 2010 which took the...

USA and Iran

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

USA and Iran Israeli leaders were pleased to hear the strongest statement so far made by a senior American government official opposing...

Obama On the Rise in Israel

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Obama On the Rise in Israel The Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly clashed several times with American President...

CIA Exposed in Lebanon

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

CIA Exposed in Lebanon American officials are continuing to express serious concern over claims by the militant Lebanese Hizbullah militia...

UN Report on Syria

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

UN Report on Syria As violence and turmoil continue to rock the Arab country of Syria, the United Nations has issued a report giving the...

Trouble Near Temple Mount

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Trouble Near Temple Mount There is only one place on earth that the United Nations cultural committee UNESCO declares to be sacred to three...

Another Blast in Iran

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Another Blast in Iran Reports continue to circulate around the Middle East alleging that the country of Israel is working clandestinely...

OBAMA ON THE RISE IN ISRAEL

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

OBAMA ON THE RISE IN ISRAEL The Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly clashed several times with American...

IRAN HELPING SYRIAN REGIME

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

IRAN HELPING SYRIAN REGIME With bloodshed continuing on the streets of Syria, the main movement opposing the ruling Assad regime, the Syrian...

NO NEED TO WORRY?

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

NO NEED TO WORRY? Leaders of two Egyptian Muslim political parties which won the most seats in the first round of national...

PEACE EFFORTS REMAIN STALLED

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

PEACE EFFORTS REMAIN STALLED The Palestinian Authority autonomy government is continuing to resist strong pressure from the United...

PANETTA ON IRAN AND ISRAEL

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

PANETTA ON IRAN AND ISRAEL Israeli officials were pleased to hear the new American Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, say earlier...

Jordanian Air Hub

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Jordanian Air Hub Several decades ago, the small, wealthy Gulf Arab country of Dubai successfully began to turn itself into a major...

Cut Offs To Gaza

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Cut Offs To Gaza Despite the fact that the radical Islamic Hamas movement controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip located on the Mediterranean...

Arab League Turns Up Pressure On Syria

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Arab League Turns Up Pressure On Syria The non-Arab Islamic nation of Turkey is backing a decision by Arab League foreign ministers to place...

Jihad Continues

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Jihad Continues Officials from the Palestinian Authority, which rules portions of Judea and Samaria south and north of Jerusalem along with a...

Elections in Egypt

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Elections in Egypt Many Israeli Middle East analysts said they were not at all surprised by the triumph of Islamist candidates in the first...

Cancer Vaccine Unveiled in Israel

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Cancer Vaccine Unveiled in Israel An Israeli medical company has announced that it has manufactured a vaccine that may reduce the pain caused...

Hizbullah Explosion

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Hizbullah Explosion Israeli media reports say a powerful explosion which occurred near the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre was at an...

Tax Transfers to the PA

Wed, 7 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Tax Transfers to the PA The United Nations has called upon the Israeli government to transfer collected tax receipts to the Palestinian...

New Sanctions on Iran

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Sanctions on Iran As the Shiite Muslim country of Iran continues to ignore increasingly urgent international calls for it to halt all of...

Secure Waters

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Secure Waters Israeli security forces have been showing up in ever-increasing numbers on ships threatened by Muslim pirates operating...

Baseball in Israel

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Baseball in Israel Over the past few decades, a number of attempts have been made to formally introduce the popular American game of baseball...

Security Council Considers PA Bid

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Security Council Considers PA Bid A United Nations committee that oversees the admission of new countries to the world body headquartered in...

Soldiers Deserting Assad

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Soldiers Deserting Assad The battered Syrian regime has stepped up repressive measures to quell constantly growing anti-government street...

Immoral Country

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Immoral Country Israeli President Shimon Peres is one of the longest serving and respected politicians in the world. Over the past few...

New Gaza Operation?

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Gaza Operation? Nearly three years ago, Israeli army forces, backed by military aircraft, were sent into the Gaza Strip to halt escalating...

Azerbiajan

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Azerbiajan Israeli government leaders have expressed congratulations to the country of Azerbaijan after it was recently elected to the United...

Concern About Jordan

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Concern About Jordan Israel’s longest international border is with the Arab country of Jordan. The border with the small country has been...

New Israeli Home Building

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Israeli Home Building Governments around the world, including the United States, Germany and Great Britain, continue to express strong...

New Saudi Defense Minister

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Saudi Defense Minister The Arab gulf country of Saudi Arabia has one of the oldest ruling royal families in the modern world. Known...

Iran Denounces UN Report

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iran Denounces UN Report Iranian officials continue to pour scorn on a United Nations report issued earlier this month which stated the Shiite...

Virtual Embassy

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Virtual Embassy The United States severed all formal diplomatic ties with the Shiite Muslim nation of Iran soon after anti-American...

US Forces Won't Go Far

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

US Forces Won't Go Far Many senior American military commanders were said to have been surprised and concerned when President Barack Obama...

Syrian Leader Loses Popularity

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Syrian Leader Loses Popularity As recently as one year ago, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was regarded as one of the most popular Arab leaders...

Abbas to Remain in Office

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Abbas to Remain in Office Arab media outlets have been reporting for many months now that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is...

Russia Supplies New Weapons to Iran

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Russia Supplies New Weapons to Iran Russia has been a major supplier of weapons to Iran ever since the Shah was overthrown by Shiite Islamic...

NY MAYOR IN JERUSALEM

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

NY MAYOR IN JERUSALEM New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently visited Jerusalem to participate in the re-opening of a totally renovated...

DIPLOMATS LEAVE THEIR POSTS

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

DIPLOMATS LEAVE THEIR POSTS Israeli government and military leaders are closely monitoring dramatic developments in neighboring Syria, where...

PULLOUT FROM IRAQ

Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

PULLOUT FROM IRAQ Israeli political and military leaders are keeping a wary eye on developments in Iraq after President Barack Obama announced...

ISLAMIC SPRING?

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

ISLAMIC SPRING? Middle East analysts around the world expressed satisfaction that some 90 per cent of eligible voters in the Arab country of...

PRISONER SWAP DEBATE CONTINUES IN ISRAEL

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

PRISONER SWAP DEBATE CONTINUES IN ISRAEL As Israeli officials prepare to implement the second phase of the controversial exchange with the...

Light Rail Gets Stoned

Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Light Rail Gets Stoned Residents of Jerusalem had been waiting for many years for the inauguration of a new light rail transport system which...

Hizbullah Blocks Probe

Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Hizbullah Blocks Probe Earlier this year, the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced that four men connected to the radical...

Tensions Rise in the Med

Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Tensions Rise in the Med The Islamic country of Turkey has been sending its warships into the central eastern Mediterranean off the coast of...

Arab Revolts Affect Economies

Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST

Arab Revolts Affect Economies Middle East financial analysts say that violent uprisings which have sprung up in a number of Arab countries...

Chinese in Jerusalem

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

Chinese in Jerusalem Earlier this month, the International Christian Embassy held its 31st annual Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Israel’s...

Another Nobel Prize for Israel

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

Another Nobel Prize for Israel At the end of every year, the Swedish Royal Academy awards a number of prestigious prizes to nominated...

Countries Vie for IAF Contract

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

Countries Vie for IAF Contract If Israeli government leaders decide to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to prevent the Shiite Muslim...

Syria Threatens Israel

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

Syria Threatens Israel Israeli officials expressed deep concern when Syrian dictator Bashar Assad threatened earlier this month to lash out at...

BBC Set to Shrink in Size

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

BBC Set to Shrink in Size During World War Two, many Jews living in the Holy Land and their Arab cousins had only one usually reliable source...

No Money for Gas Masks

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

No Money for Gas Masks A senior Israeli official is warning that government funding is about to run out for something extremely important to...

Retirement Age Dispute

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST

Retirement Age Dispute Israel’s overall economic performance remains far stronger this year than in the United States and most European...

Not As Bad As It Seems

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST

Not As Bad As It Seems The Israeli government and public continues to listen with deep concern as Turkey’s Muslim Prime Minister Erdwan utters...

Tensions In the Territories

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST

Tensions In the Territories Every autumn during the annual olive harvest, tensions increase between Arab residents of the disputed territories...

Jewish Families Stay In Jerusalem

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

Jewish Families Stay In Jerusalem For the past several decades, more non-Orthodox Jewish Israelis have been leaving Israel’s capital city of...

IDF Holds Rare Drill

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

IDF Holds Rare Drill A majority of Jewish Israeli males serve at least a few days, if not several weeks, every year in their reserve army...

POWER FROM ON HIGH

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST

POWER FROM ON HIGH Israel has long been a world leader in solar energy technology, with most homes and apartments having water tanks hooked...

NO SPRING IN IRAN

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST

NO SPRING IN IRAN This year has been one of unprecedented upheaval in much of the Middle East and North Africa. Several Arab...

DEAD SEA SCROLLS GO DIGITAL

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST

DEAD SEA SCROLLS GO DIGITAL In 1947, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to establish a Jewish state in Judaism's ancient...

Syrian Revolt Worries Israel

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST

Syrian Revolt Worries Israel Israeli officials are keeping a close eye on the ongoing popular Sunni Muslim revolt against the Syrian Assad...

Netanyahu Gains In the Polls

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EST

Netanyahu Gains In the Polls Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been rising in public opinion surveys in recent weeks, with around...

Israeli Labor Party Elects Female Leader

Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EST

Israeli Labor Party Elects Female Leader...

Yom Kippur Begins Tomorrow Evening

Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EST

Yom Kippur Begins Tomorrow Evening The holiest day on the annual Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, begins at sundown tomorrow evening. Like...

Jewish Immigration Numbers Rise

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EST

Jewish Immigration Numbers Rise To mark the Hebrew New Year every autumn, the Israeli government always releases immigration statistics from...

No Oil From Syria

Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EST

No Oil From Syria Petroleum analysts say oil exports from the troubled Arab country of Syria have ground to a halt in recent weeks. This...

No Love In London

Mon, 3 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST

No Love In London Many Israelis expressed anger and disgust when they learned last year that one of Israel’s best known cosmetics companies,...

Female Singers in the Army

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:00:00 EST

Female Singers in the Army Every year in the run-up to the Jewish High Holy days of Rosh Ha Shana, the Jewish New Year, Yom Kippur, the Day of...

Likud Heading to the Right

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Likud Heading to the Right Israeli media outlets are reporting that the ruling Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...

Jewish Holidays Begin

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Jewish Holidays Begin Tonight at sunset, Jews here in Israel and around the world will celebrate Rosh Ha Shana, the beginning of the Jewish...

UK Alters Law That Prevents Israeli Visits

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

UK Alters Law That Prevents Israeli Visits For a number of years now, senior Israeli politicians and military officers have halted planned...

Israel Ups Loans to Greece

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Ups Loans to Greece The Israeli government and public have been increasingly alarmed this year as diplomatic and economic ties with...

Arabs View Netanyahu On Youtube

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST

Arabs View Netanyahu On Youtube Just over one year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office opened up an official video channel...

Arab Revolt Costs Money

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST

Arab Revolt Costs Money According to a US bank report, the various internal revolts rocking several Middle East Arab countries this year had...

Employment At Record Levels

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST

Employment At Record Levels As many countries around the world worry about recession returning to their struggling economies, Israeli...

Israel Not Threatened By Turkey

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST

Israel Not Threatened By Turkey Israeli leaders have been expressing their dismay over the Turkish government’s decision to break all military...

More Iranian Vitriol Ahead

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:00 EST

More Iranian Vitriol Ahead Israeli officials are bracing themselves for yet another round of vitriolic words from Iran in the coming days as...

Myopia Genetic Link Discovered

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:45:00 EST

Myopia Genetic Link Discovered This story might be of particular interest to you if you are one of the millions of people who suffer from...

Israeli Aid Groups Partners With Christians

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:45:00 EST

Israeli Aid Groups Partners With Christians An Israeli humanitarian aid group has partnered with an American Christian group to help Africans...

Palestinian Statehood Bid On Track

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:45:00 EST

Palestinian Statehood Bid On Track Palestinian Authority leaders continue to insist they will submit their planned statehood declaration to...

Israel Losing Space Edge

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:45:00 EST

Israel Losing Space Edge The newly retired head of Israel’s space program is warning that the country will lose its current qualitative...

Mixed Response to UN Report

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Mixed Response to UN Report The Israeli government is continuing efforts to restore broken diplomatic relations with Turkey following Ankara’s...

Jewish Parliament In Europe

Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:30:00 EST

Jewish Parliament In Europe Several years ago, veteran Israeli President Shimon Peres suggested to various Jewish groups in Europe, that they...

Hamas Agent Charged In Israel

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:30:00 EST

Hamas Agent Charged In Israel A Jordanian citizen has been indicted by an Israeli court on charges he was plotting to kill Israelis in Jordan...

Gaddafi Fall Raises New Concern

Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:30:00 EST

Gaddafi Fall Raises New Concern Israeli officials were hardly sad to see Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s regime lose its grip on power,...

West Heads East

Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:30:00 EST

West Heads East Fewer people than expected attended former Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s pro-Israel rally held here in Jerusalem in late...

Iron Dome Works

Mon, 5 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iron Dome Works During the week after Palestinian terrorists killed eight Israelis near the southern port city of Eilat, over 150 rockets were...

Wheelchair Basketball In Israel

Fri, 2 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

Wheelchair Basketball In Israel Many young people might consider themselves ineligible to play the game of basketball due to a lack of eye to...

World Market Sell-Off Concerns Israelis

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST

World Market Sell-Off Concerns Israelis Israeli economists are nervously watching this summer’s sharp declines on world stock markets. Their...

Palestinian Statehood Bid

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Palestinian Statehood Bid Israeli officials had expressed repeated concerns that major Palestinian terror attacks might return to Israel in...

Israeli City Going Solar

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israeli City Going Solar Israel’s southernmost city, Eilat, was in the news this month after Palestinians terrorists attacked and killed...

Border Fence

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Border Fence As one of many responses to the major coordinated terrorist assault against Jewish citizens in southern Israel earlier this...

Hallelujah!

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Hallelujah! The headline in one Israeli newspaper said it all: Hallelujah! Jerusalem’s Light Rail Finally Rolls. The article was about the...

Hamas Rockets Unveiled

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Hamas Rockets Unveiled Israeli security officials say they’ve gained valuable knowledge about the production of rockets by the radical Hamas...

New Homes Draw World Ire

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Homes Draw World Ire Palestinian Authority leaders have reacted sharply to Israel’s announcement in mid August that more...

Beck Comes To Jerusalem

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Beck Comes To Jerusalem Conservative political commentator Glenn Beck is holding a large public rally here in Jerusalem tomorrow in support of...

From Iraq To Israel

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

From Iraq To Israel As American military forces continue to be withdrawn from Iraq after eight years in the Mideast Arab country, several US...

Anti-Missile System At Sea

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Anti-Missile System At Sea Israeli military sources say the navy is considering placing the strategic Arrow anti-ballistic missile system on...

Growing Concerns Over Egypt

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Growing Concerns Over Egypt Israeli and Jordanian government officials are said to be jointly concerned over growing signs that the radical...

Israel Mum on Syria

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Mum on Syria Despite the fact that at least 2,000 Syrians have been killed in internal violence over the past four months, mostly at...

Taking It to the Streets

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Taking It to the Streets Thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets over the past few weeks to protest the escalating cost of...

Never on Sundays

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Never on Sundays A new political initiative is gaining strength in Israel to make Sunday a second of day of rest in the Jewish State. ...

Counter-Terror Conference in Israel

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Counter Terror-Conference in Israel A private Israeli security company has announced it will hold a special conference in October to share...

US Warning to Jordan

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

US Warning to Jordan Israeli media reports say that Jordan’s moderate, pro-Western King Abdullah was warned during a recent visit to...

Upside Down World

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Upside Down World Like the rest of the world, Israeli citizens were shocked and horrified to learn that a lone terrorist had managed to kill...

US Cellphones For Syrian Rebels

Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

US Cellphones For Syrian Rebels Israeli media outlets are reporting that the United States government has been covertly working with Saudi...

Pure Water in Space

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Pure Water in Space When the American space shuttle Atlantis returned to earth from its final celestial mission last month, it was carrying...

IDF Preparing for September

Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

IDF Preparing for September Israeli media reports have revealed that military leaders are stepping up their purchases of...

Fireworks Disrupt Church Services

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Fireworks Disrupt Church Services Many people living in and around Jerusalem’s ancient walled Old City have been forced to notice that...

New Sanctions Against Iran

Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Sanctions Against Iran The Israeli government’s Finance Ministry is unveiling a new set of economic sanctions against the...

Normal Life in Israel

Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

Normal Life in Israel Most people would not be thrilled to read this headline in one of their leading national daily newspapers: THE...

Parking Protest Goes On

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:15:00 EST

Parking Protest Goes On Every Saturday morning over the past one hundred weeks, dozens of Orthodox Jewish young men have gathered outside...

New Border Dispute Between Israel and Lebanon

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:15:00 EST

New Border Dispute Between Israel and Lebanon A long running border dispute has produced a number of armed clashes between Israeli and...

3-D Firefighting Program Unveiled in Israel

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:15:00 EST

3-D Firefighting Program Unveiled in Israel Last December, Israel experienced its worst ever forest fire near the northern port city of Haifa....

Palestinians Support Phased Plan

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Palestinians Support Phased Plan While diplomats from the United States and elsewhere work to unthaw frozen peace talks between Israeli and...

Israel to Attack Iran in September?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel to Attack Iran in September? Israeli media headlines highlighted comments made by a retired CIA officer in mid-July predicting that...

How Do You Slaughter A Cow?

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

How Do You Slaughter A Cow? Israeli religious leaders say animal farms in South America must alter their methods of ritual slaughter for meat...

US Envoy Warns Against PA Declaration

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

US Envoy Warns Against PA Declaration Veteran American diplomat James Cunningham has served as Washington ’s ambassador to Israel ever since...

Israelis Protest Iranian NATO Speech

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israelis Protest Iranian NATO Speech Two Israeli parliament members walked out of a speech that was delivered by an Iranian government...

Great Relief

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Great Relief Israeli government and military leaders were greatly relieved when a long-planned flotilla designed to break Israel ’s naval...

Political Limits

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Political Limits Unlike most other countries on earth, Israel has been forced to fight at least one war during every decade of its modern...

Life Stats On Israel

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:45:00 EST

Life Stats On Israel Israel has a low infant mortality rate, and people living here are blessed with relatively long life spans, despite...

Electricity Price To Rise Sharply In Israel

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Electricity Price To Rise Sharply In Israel An Israeli government body that controls the prices of public utilities in the country has...

New Weapons Technology Unveiled

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Weapons Technology Unveiled Borne of necessity, Israel has emerged in recent years as one of the leading world countries in production...

Israel To Target Assad

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel To Target Assad According to a recent media report, printed in the usually reliable Kuwaiti Al Jarida newspaper, Israeli leaders have...

Greek President Visits Israel

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Greek President Visits Israel In another sign of growing political ties between Greece and Israel, Greek President Karolos Papoulias is...

Non Political Hamas

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Non Political Hamas A debate has been raging inside the Palestinian leadership of the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement over the...

Ancient Church Discovered In Israel

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Ancient Church Discovered In Israel Whenever construction contractors in Israel give clients their building time estimates, they always have...

Iranian Satellite

Wed, 6 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iranian Satellite Israeli security analysts are expressing concern after the Shiite Muslim country of Iran launched a second space satellite...

Durban Summit

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Durban Summit Ten years ago this September, a controversial human rights conference was held in Durban, South Africa. The international...

New Lebanese Government

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Lebanese Government Several Israeli commentators have complained that in the midst of severe regional upheaval affecting many Arab...

Iran Aids Syria

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iran Aids Syria Israeli government leaders were relieved to hear a top American official back up their contentions that Iran has been aiding...

African Immigrants

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

African Immigrants Israeli border and immigration officials report a continuing flow of illegal immigration from impoverished portions of the...

Stanley Fischer

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Stanley Fischer Despite the dramatic turbulence sweeping many parts of the Middle East and North Africa this year, Israel’s economy...

More Warnings of War

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

More Warnings of War There are few issues that unite the leaders of Israel’s two largest political parties, the ruling Likud party led by...

Turkish Elections

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Turkish Elections Israeli officials are said to be concerned over the strong showing of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party in...

Large Hamas Weapons Stockpile

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:15:00 EST

Large Hamas Weapons Stockpile Israeli security experts have revealed that the Palestinian Hamas movement has acquired a large stockpile of...

Going Underground

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:15:00 EST

Going Underground Led by the United States and Israel, many countries around the world have called upon Iran despotic leaders to halt their...

Cyberwar Conference

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST

Cyberwar Conference Israel’s prestigious Tel Aviv University hosted a conference in mid-June focusing on a growing worldwide security...

Druze Dispute

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST

Druze Dispute Among the many religious communities residing in various parts of the Middle East is the Druze sect. Although the community has...

Palestinian Moves

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST

Palestinian Moves Leaders of the Palestinian Authority autonomy government have begun to indicate that they may drop their announced plans to...

Crisis Deepens In Syria

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Crisis Deepens In Syria As anti-government protests continue to rage in the Arab country of Syria, Iran has stepped up its attempts to help...

Error In Sinai

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Error In Sinai The Sinai Peninsula was a place of wandering for the ancient Jewish people who were escaping the clutches of Pharaoh, ruler...

Water Found Beneath Jerusalem

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Water Found Beneath Jerusalem Construction workers in Jerusalem have discovered a large underground cave full of fresh flowing water....

Strike Iran?

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Strike Iran? Israeli leaders have been inching closer to openly calling for a military strike upon Iran’s outlawed uranium...

Inevitable Declaration

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Inevitable Declaration Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits there is no possible way of stopping a unilateral Palestinian...

Israeli Anthems For Arab Revolt

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israeli Anthems For Arab Revolt Israeli officials are closely following the significant regional upheaval which has brought down several Arab...

Israel Assesses New Iranian Rocket

Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Assesses New Iranian Rocket The Shiite Muslim clerical regime governing Iran test fired a new missile in late May that military...

New Neighborhood In Jerusalem

Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Neighborhood In Jerusalem The Jerusalem municipality has unveiled plans for a new Jewish neighborhood to be constructed in southeast...

Israel Worried By Border Opening

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Worried By Border Opening Israeli leaders have expressed deep concern over Egypt’s recent decision to open its Sinai border with the...

First Female Major-General

Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

First Female Major-General In the 1960s, Israel became one of the first countries in the world ruled by a female when the American-born Golda...

Shavuot

Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Shavuot Next Tuesday evening, Jews around the world will celebrate the annual Feast of Weeks celebration, known in Hebrew as Shavuot and in...

Palestinians Require More Aid

Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST

Palestinians Require More Aid Israeli government authorities have been saying for some months that the Palestinian Authority’s declared...

Islamic Candidate in Egypt

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Islamic Candidate in Egypt Ever since veteran Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was driven from power last February at the beginning of the...

North Korea Aids Iranian Missile Program

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

North Korea Aids Iranian Missile Program Media reports reveal that the Shiite Islamic clerical regime ruling in Iran has been stepping up its...

Island In The Sea?

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Island In The Sea? As part of the 1993 Oslo peace accord signed between the late Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, the...

Russia Closely Watching Mideast Upheaval

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Russia Closely Watching Mideast Upheaval Israeli experts on Russia say the Kremlin is disturbed by some of the political shock waves that have...

Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt Israeli officials continue to express serious concern that the fundamentalist Sunni Arab Muslim Brotherhood...

Judea and Samaria

Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Judea and Samaria Many Israelis who travel abroad say they quickly discover that most people around the world have little idea just how tiny...

Fifth Anniversary Of Shalit Kidnapping

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Fifth Anniversary Of Shalit Kidnapping Five years ago next month, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted by Hamas operatives just inside...

Israel Not Arabs' Main Problem

Fri, 20 May 2011 11:00:00 EST

Israel Not Arabs' Main Problem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long argued against the frequently heard contention that Western...

Iran To Build More Reactors

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:00:00 EST

Iran To Build More Reactors A top Iranian nuclear official has declared that his country will step up its rogue nuclear program in defiance of...

More Sailings On the Horizon

Wed, 18 May 2011 11:00:00 EST

More Sailings On the Horizon Israeli navy forces are gearing up for several more attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to break through...

New Group Harassed In Iran

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

New Group Harassed In Iran Christian church leaders in Iran have come under state-sponsored harassment in recent months, with a number being...

Bieber Fever Hits Israel

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Bieber Fever Hits Israel Around two million Christians travel to the Holy Land each year to visit the places where Jesus was born, lived his...

Al Qaida Group Versus Hamas

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Al Qaida Group Versus Hamas Israeli security officials are continuing to monitor a growing power struggle in the Gaza Strip between the...

Iranian Nuclear Bomb On The Way

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iranian Nuclear Bomb On The Way An Israeli security expert insists that the radical Shiite regime controlling Iran is closer to producing a...

Israel Lauded For Aid To Japan

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Lauded For Aid To Japan When a devastating earthquake struck the northeast portion of Japan in early March, Israel became one of the...

Iron Dome In Action

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iron Dome In Action Israeli leaders are expressing strong satisfaction with the new Iron Dome anti-rocket system that was developed in Israel...

Nato Flotilla

Mon, 9 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Nato Flotilla A NATO flotilla recently visited a number of Sunni Arab Gulf countries in an apparent effort to bolster their defense against a...

Growing Ties With Brazil

Fri, 6 May 2011 13:15:00 EST

Growing Ties With Brazil With political relations souring in recent years between Israel and Turkey, and the prospect of the same thing...

Regional Unrest Benefiting Iran

Thu, 5 May 2011 13:15:00 EST

Regional Unrest Benefiting Iran Israeli military leaders have issued a stark assessment warning that the escalating political turbulence...

Israel Watching Presidential Race In Egypt

Wed, 4 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Watching Presidential Race In Egypt Israeli officials and political commentators are continuing to closely monitor political...

Iran Persecutes More Authors

Tue, 3 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iran Persecutes More Authors Several prominent Iranian writers have been jailed in recent years after being accused of engaging in...

Barbaric Hamas

Mon, 2 May 2011 00:00:00 EST

Barbaric Hamas Several Israeli government leaders have been sounding off against the Iranian-supported Hamas movement which controls the...

Natural Gas Price Going Up

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Natural Gas Price Going Up Israeli drivers were not exactly thrilled when it was announced in early April that the government-set price of...

Arab Legislator In Hot Water

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Arab Legislator In Hot Water Many Israeli Jews expressed outrage when an Arab Knesset member joined a Turkish Muslim flotilla last June which...

Palestinians Ready For Statehood?

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Palestinians Ready For Statehood? The World Bank recently issued a report claiming that the Palestinian Authority government, established as a...

Eichmann Trial Online

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Eichmann Trial Online The popular YouTube website is being employed by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum to mark the 50th anniversary of...

Flight From Egypt

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Flight From Egypt The annual festival of Passover ending today is always a time for family and friends to gather together throughout Israel to...

World Band Gives Thumbs Up

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

World Band Gives Thumbs Up Despite strong Israeli opposition, Palestinian Authority leaders continue to insist that they will unilaterally...

Iran Aids Latin America

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Iran Aids Latin America According to a senior United States military leader, the radical Shiite regime ruling Iran is strengthening its...

Palestinian Human Rights Abuses

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Palestinian Human Rights Abuses The international group Human Rights Watch has frequently aimed its often sharp critiques at the small Jewish...

Israeli Air Strike In Africa

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israeli Air Strike In Africa Israel’s Air Force is renowned worldwide for its highly-skilled pilots flying some of the most advanced aircraft...

Goldstone Retracts Report

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Goldstone Retracts Report Israelis were outraged when a United Nations special investigative commission released a report last year charging...

Fatah Struggles With Hamas

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Fatah Struggles With Hamas Ever since the radical Palestinian Hamas movement was formed in 1988, the Islamic group has waged an internal...

Israel Opposed Convoy To Gaza

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EST

Israel Opposed Convoy To Gaza The Israeli navy is once again facing the prospect of having to intercept a ship convoy that is planning to set...