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IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gabi Ashkenazi has called for administering a polygraph exam to hundreds of officers, majors, before they move up the chain of command to the rank of lt.-colonel. The new policy will take effect on January 1, 2010. The move is intended to bring a halt to the ongoing norm of leaking information to the media, giving ...

MK (Yisrael Beitenu) Lia Shemtov is calling to oust rabbonim who do not recognize conversions to Judaism performed in the IDF. Shemtov serves as the chairman of the Knesset Aliyah Committee. “Not recognizing conversions from the IDF is a ticking time bomb that in time will explode in our faces” she stated. She cited the case of former immigrants living in Ashkelon, explaining the Rabbanut in the city will not open a marriage file for them since the woman underwent conversion in the IDF ...

In his statements on Wednesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for dealing with insubordination “with diligence and uncompromising determination” but added one must not jump to premature conclusions and point a finger of blame at all hesder yeshivot. In response to calls to cut funding to hesder yeshivot, a call heard from Channel 2 ...

A traffic policeman sustained moderate injuries during the night after being struck by a motorcycle. The driver was ordered to pull over for a routine inspection but ignored the policeman, striking him. The second policeman at the location managed to subdue the suspect and place him under arrest. The injured officer was transported to a local hospital. Police report the driver’s license was suspended over eight years ago. He is being brought before a remand hearing on Thursday at which ...

Baruch Hashem, during recent years, decades perhaps, the Israel Air Force has maintained unparalleled regional air superiority, enable the pilots to more or less control the skies. As a mission to Iran becomes increasingly likely, the IAF must confront today’s realities, a long-distance mission and new advanced anti-aircraft systems that will ...

Today marks the 47th yahrzeit of HaGaon HaRav Aaron Kotler zt”l. **The IAF during the night attacked weapons smuggling tunnels and storehouses. PA sources in Gaza reporting several wounded as a result. **An Israeli Arab sustained light injuries when his vehicle was hit with rocks along the Wallaje road between Gush Etzion and southern Jerusalem on Wednesday evening. **Rock-throwing attacks were reported on the Hussan Bypass Road near Betar Illit on Wednesday night. **An Egged 160 ...

Thousands of Chabad chassidim and supporters were on hand in Kfar Chabad on Wednesday night, near the 770 building, to mark the first yahrzeit of the Mumbai massacre terrorist attack in which over 170 people were murdered, including the Chabad shluchim to Mumbai, Rabbi Gavriel and Rebbitzin Rivki Holtzberg HY”D. Earlier in the day, many visited ...

It would appear that the White House prefers to ignore facts on the ground concerning Israel, opting to continue referring to portions of Jerusalem as “settlements”, in this most recent case, Gilo, a southern area of the capital which is home to over 30,000 residents. As US President Barak Obama becomes increasingly brazen in his blatant interference in internal Israeli affairs, seeking to dictate construction policy in the nation’s capital, even President Shimon Peres felt compelled ...

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin has come out to publically, challenging the statements of US President Barak Obama regarding “settlement construction” in Israel. Palin stated that there is no reason Israel should not be permitted to continue construction in “settlements” as the communities are growing and housing is needed. Speaking with Barbara Walters, Palin stated she does not believe the US administration has the right to interfere in such ...

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday filed a NIS 100,000 libel suit against Channel 2 TV in the Tel Aviv District Court after the station refused to issue an apology regarding a program aired recently alleging he abused state funds in the course of his travels abroad in his previous term in office. The program criticized him for having his wife accompany him abroad, a decision which is contrary to the Knesset legal advisor’s ruling. The suit was filed by attorney Eli Zohar, ...

According to a Kikar Shabbos report, rabbonim in Modi'in Illit have learned that thousands of homes in the community are connected to regular [non-kosher] internet as is the case in other chareidi municipalities as well. The rabbonim have convened in an urgent meeting, and they plan an emergency kenos next week to address the alarming reality and to ...

The United States is desperately seeking a compromise solution that will be accepted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to enable putting the Iran crisis aside, but as is the Islamic fundamentalist way, there will be no compromise and Tehran is simply unwilling to play the game, not event for show. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki ...

It would appear that US President Barak Obama has forgotten that while Israel and the United States enjoy a special relationship, and Israel has come to rely on America as its main ally, Israel is not a satellite government of the United States, not a state in the union, and not a puppet government that receives dictate from the White House. In an ...

During a meeting with visiting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman addressed the now-controversial planned construction of 900 housing units in Gilo, a southern neighborhood in the capital. It appears with the White House opposed to the move, labeling it “settlement construction”, the European Union, United Nations and the remainder of the international community feels free, or perhaps obligated to join in, issuing their own ...

Despite American, UN, EU and PA opposition, the atmosphere at the Rosh Chodesh Kislev cornerstone event for the new community of Nof Tzion was a happy one Wednesday, one that was somewhat marred by the pathetic presence of left-wing protestors, who are pained by the sight of a growing Eretz Yisrael, a Jewish Israel. MK (Likud) Danny Danon was on hand to mark the occasion, calling on the White House to “take its hands off of Jerusalem”, stating the capital belongs to Am Yisrael, plain and ...

Chareidi media sources report that Eida Chareidis Gavaad HaRav Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss is determined to close the doors of Jerusalem Intel on shabbos, taking the battle directly to the United States in an effort to turn up the heat on the hi-tech giant. The Eida appears unwilling to settle for the local protests but in this case, perhaps due to the lost ...

While the media focused on the handful of soldiers who were involved in displaying the anti-eviction banner on their S. Chevron Hills base this week, other combatants from the battalion have come forward, not necessarily frum soldiers, to tell the media that they stand by the side of their fellow combatants, unwilling to take part in evicting Jews from their homes. Commanders of the Kfir Brigade, which includes Nachshon, began making the rounds following the latest incident, speaking with ...

IDF Chief of Personnel Branch Major-General Avi Zamir is not willing to permit recent events to pass without a response, boldly calling on the hesder organization’s roshei yeshiva to denounce recent acts of insubordination by Shimshon and Nachshon Battalion soldiers as Read Full Story »