Middle East

  Israel approves 300 extra security guards for public transport after bus attack (JNS.org) After two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus in Jerusalem and killed two Israelis in just one of Tuesday’s terror attacks in Israel, the Israeli security cabinet announced that 300 additional security guards will be recruited for public transportation in the capital

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The ambition in many quarters in Israel is that now when the peace process is going nowhere and the Oslo Accords are falling apart, we should abandon the idea of a two-state solution and work towards one state with a Jewish majority. With the help of the high birth-rate among the

3 Israelis killed in terrorist attacks during Palestinian ‘day of rage’ (JNS.org) Palestinian terrorists killed three people and wounded many others in a series of attacks in Jerusalem and central Israel on Tuesday, which was declared a “day of rage” by Palestinian groups. In Jerusalem, two Palestinian terrorists boarded a bus, one armed with a

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The cynical abuse of the Temple Mount by Israelis and Palestinians seems to be the principal reason (or perhaps excuse) for the present unrest. Avi Sagi, professor at Bar Ilan University and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, published an article the other day in Ha’aretz under the provocative

Indian president: ‘Palestine belongs to Arabs like England to English’ (JNS.org) Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who will arrive in Israel on Tuesday for the first-ever visit to the Jewish state by an Indian head of state, said at the University of Jordan in Amman that “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The foreign media rarely have something good to say about Israel, particularly in relation to the Palestinians. That’s why foreign journalists seem to be certain that the responses by the Israeli military to those who throw stones and try to stab them or people around them are harsh, cruel and

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Whether you call it intifada or something else, there’s unrest in Israel, not only in Jerusalem and the West Bank but also elsewhere in the country. Though there’s nothing new in this in the history of the state, it’s nevertheless a cause for deep concern, much speculation as to the reasons