Israel and the world Pt. 4- weekly news from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on April 29, 2012

Knesset committee approves bill prohibiting use of Holocaust terms

Published on January 9, 2012

A Knesset committee has approved a law that would prohibit the use of Holocaust and Nazi terms and symbols.

Lost Treasures, Home Movies, Memory Lane & a Surprise Visit from Heaven

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 2, 2011

Teen injured in school bus bombing in dire condition

Published on April 12, 2011

The condition of an Israeli teenager injured in a Palestinian rocket attack on a school bus has worsened. Daniel Viflic's condition was downgraded Tuesday to extremely critical and life threatening, according to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

WikiLeaks: Israel kept Gaza economy ‘on brink’

Published on January 5, 2011

Israel told the United States in 2008 that it planned to keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse," according to a diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.

Olmert offers civilian service plan as military draft alternative; U.S. to train Palestinian troops

Published on August 23, 2007

News briefs.

A Question of Blood

By Dan Gordon
Published on May 23, 2002

The circus of Palestinian victimhood has struck its tent temporarily in Jenin, and gone to church instead in Bethlehem. The Jenin story has petered out because the world, in general, now knows that there was no massacre in Jenin. The world now knows that of the two estimates of the death toll in the fighting which took place in the Jenin refugee camp, one was true and one was false. The Palestinians originally claimed that 500 to 1,000 people had been massacred by the Zionist entity. The Israel Defense Forces estimate was that the death toll was in the dozens, not in the hundreds, and that the majority of those killed in the fighting were gunmen, who had booby-trapped a civilian neighborhood in the hopes of killing as many Israeli soldiers as possible.