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(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak has agreed to allow 600 armed Palestinian Authority policemen into the northern Shomron city of Jenin - though he knows it does not jibe with the requirements of Israeli security. Explaining his decision this morning, Barak said, "We have overriding responsibility for the security of Israeli citizens, but in order to improve the chances in our talks with the Palestinians, we must try to make things easier for them - even at the price of a calculated risk." He spoke at the IDF Induction Center in Tel HaShomer, near Tel Aviv. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Israel continues to be attacked or threatened on three fronts: Rockets from Gaza, rock attacks in Samaria, and warnings of vengeance from Hizbullah. Trouble from Gaza For more on this story:
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(IsraelNN.com) Yekutiel Ben-Yaakov, convicted over a private referendum he conducted, was sentenced on Tuesday to 200 hours of community service, along with a suspended sentence of six months in jail. Ben-Yaakov's parole period is to last for three years. About 50 demonstrators, including some musicians playing protest songs, showed up outside the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, where sentencing took place. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) The Knesset unanimously passed legislation Tuesday eliminating some of the bureaucratic red tape required to establish new permanent communities for former Gush Katif residents. The bill, introduced by MK Zev Elkin (Kadima), moves to correct a major failure of the 2005 Evacuation-Compensation Law that was intended to compensate victims of the Gaza disengagement plan. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas terrorists in Gaza continue
firing rockets at Israel practically unabated.
Israel presents its case to UN. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Once again, a furor surrounding US Presidential candidate Barack Obama has erupted, this time over a senior military advisor to the Obama campaign with a history of anti-Israel remarks. He has strongly criticized pro-Israel Jews in the United States for allegedly torpedoing peace efforts in the Middle East. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Nationalist camp opinion is divided as to whether Israel should allow the PA to police the city of Jenin. Gen. Amidror and MK Edelstein weigh in. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror says that giving the PA a chance to instill civil order in Jenin is likely to give Fatah an edge over Hamas. MK Yuli Edelstein says that giving more guns to PA Arabs is not just a "calculated risk," but actually a clear and present danger. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority terrorists launched nine or ten Kassam rockets on the western Negev community of Sderot Wednesday night. A barrage of nine or ten rockets was fired from northern Gaza, according to Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal, who told Voice of Israel government radio that eight of the rockets landed in and around his city. The other one or two missiles exploded south of the coastal city of Ashkelon, site of several strategic installations. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind spent the Purim festival in Sderot, learning first-hand what it means to live under fire and delivering love from US Jews. IsraelNationalRadio’s Yishai Fleisher interviewed the 48th District (Brooklyn’s) Jewish state representative about what brought him to Sderot and what he sees for the future of Jewish leadership on both sides of the Atlantic. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) MK Zevulun Orlev (National Religious Party), who initiated the State Comptroller's investigation of the government's failure to attain Pollard's release, says Olmert is behind the anti-Comptroller leaks. Wednesday, a day of Jonathan Pollard news, began with a blaring headline in Yediot Acharonot, Israel's largest daily, screaming out in the name of defense officials, "The Comptroller Will Sabotage Pollard's Release." The report stated that Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss was "once again causing a storm," and that "security elements" said the country was "insane" for allowing him to investigate the government's mis-handling of the Pollard affair. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) After three days of Purim, Jerusalemites young and old came out of one more night of revelry as Tuesday Night Live focused on Biblical Jewish fashion. The evening featured Reuven Prager, who pioneered a movement of producing Beged Ivri (Hebrew garb) for Jews who have returned to the Land of Israel, as well as Dr. Ari Greenspan, who has reintroduced the Biblical blue tekhelet dye, used to fulfill the mitzvah (commandment) of tzitzit (fringes placed on four-cornered garments). For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Reuters News Agency has removed a link to an anti-Israel blog that referred to the Jewish state as the "Zionist regime" and the separation barrier as the "Apartheid Wall." The blog also claimed that Israeli soldiers were ordered to "kill peaceful Palestinian protestors." The blog was removed after protests from the HonestReporting organization. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) The long-awaited and controversial movie Fitna, which graphically portrays Islam as a religion seeking to dominate the world and slaughter non-believers, finally debuted on the internet on Thursday night. Within two hours of the film's release on Britain's LiveLeak.com video site, close to two million people had seen it. More than half of them were from Holland, home to the film's producer, Dutch politician Geert Wilders. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport Saturday evening in another attempt to push the pace on talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Rice met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Saturday night over dinner to discuss the main issues on which she plans to focus this time around. The Secretary of State hopes to convince Israel to relax its security measures in Judea and Samaria in order to enable PA Arabs greater freedom of movement in the area. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli officials are planning additional “gestures” to ease restrictions on Palestinian Authority Arabs, according to Army Radio. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak will discuss the plans with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday. The US Secretary of State arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport Saturday evening in another attempt to push the pace on talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Rice said Saturday that one of her goals in her current trip to the region was to convince Israel to ease travel for PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni once again confirmed that the barrier being constructed in Israel is a border fence intended to partition the land and establish the state of Palestine. Responding to questions at a press conference with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday morning, Livni confirmed that Jews living on the “other” side of the so-called security fence should be the subject of legislation compensating them in return for leaving their homes. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Lilian Vaknin, a Jewish resident of Yafo (Jaffa), was brutally attacked by an Arab neighbor on Friday during the Arab march marking Land Day. Vaknin has been systematically and sadistically victimized by her neighbors for years, yet the police are unable or unwilling to help her. As Arab attacks on Jews become commonplace, meanwhile, a century-old Jewish self-defense organization, HaShomer, is being born again in the Galilee. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli diplomatic sources said Sunday that the American delegation was very surprised at the extent of Israeli concessions to the Fatah-controlled "Palestinian Authority" (PA) announced by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. However, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was quick to say that they were not enough, and vowed to monitor Israel's execution of its promises. For more on this story:
(IsraelNN.com) Now on Arutz Sheva: Fitna, the controversial and censored movie by Geert Wilders that aims to energize the West into fighting back against its mortal enemy. The movie, which shows the Western world some of the aims and means of its latest mortal enemy, extremist Islam, was banned first by the internet registrar Network Solutions and LiveLeak. The full version can now be seen in full on Arutz Sheva. Arutz Sheva provides this service in order educate the Western world as to the dangers facing non-Muslims and Western democracies all around the world. To view this movie:
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