Missing IDF soldier found alive and well

by Israelnationalnews.com A missing IDF soldier from the IDF’s elite combat  “Satyeret Matkal” unit was found alive and well around midnight Thursday. The 21 year-old fighter had returned to his Ashkelon coastal community home in Kochav Michael, said a spokesperson for the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. The circumstances of the soldier’s disappearance are as of…

UN: Aid convoys to Gaza don't help

by Emet Report Aid convoys like the May 31 Gaza flotilla “are not helpful to resolving the basic economic problems in Gaza and needlessly carry the potential for escalation,” according to a briefing the UN under-secretary-general for political affairs presented to the Security Council on Wednesday. The briefing report also called for the “immediate release”…

Obama squeezes Israel

by Joseph Pruder, Frontpagemag.com On July 6, 2010, the day Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Barack Obama at the White House, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Charles Levinson and Jay Solomon entitled “U.S., Israel to Burnish Ties,” which stated: U.S. officials said they will continue to press Netanyahu to firmly…

What is Tisha B’av?

by MyJewishLearning.com Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews on this day, the major commemoration is of the destruction of the…