Photo: Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. Credit: Wiki Commons
This past Sunday, I was asked to take part in an organized tour of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in all of Judaism. I accepted after embarrassingly realizing that I had not been up there in nearly three decades.
Daniel Pipes delivering his remarks at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Josh Hasten
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, explains his “Victory” initiative, and how such an acknowledgement is crucial for Arab states (and the Jewish state) to progress economically, developmentally and globally.
I have a confession to make. And it’s not something that I am proud of. In fact, what I’m about to reveal is deeply embarrassing and leaves me bursting with guilt. Perhaps I would go so far as suggesting that I feel that I have betrayed my family, my friends, and my neighbors living in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel.
U.S. and Israeli first responders gather around U.S. Ambassador David Friedman at an ASTI dinner and awards ceremony held in their honor. Credit: Binyamin Ben Kahlon
Several times a year, groups of Americans from various emergency agencies arrive to spend a week in classroom training and fieldwork alongside their Israeli counterparts. Then they take their new skills back home.
Mounted Israeli police scuffle with pro-settler supporters at the Amona outpost, February 1, 2006. Photo Credit: REUTERS
With the engines of the bulldozers still warm from destroying the homes of the 42 Jewish Amona families, the Knesset on Monday night passed the “Regulation Law” in its final reading. The legislation, introduced by Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich, seeks to provide justice for thousands of families living in homes built throughout Judea and Samaria, in addition to the rightful landowners.
I got my gun. It was an understandably painstaking bureaucratic process that I had started and stopped twice before, but this time I saw it all the way through. It took about half a year from start to finish, but here I am – my permit folded carefully in my wallet, and a brand new Glock semi-automatic on my belt.
Photo: Shrapnel blasted building in Southern Israel. Credit: Sderot Media Center
I’ve been to the Western Negev town of Sderot more times than I can count. For nearly three years from 2008-2010, I was in the beleaguered city regularly, as many as 2-3 times a week, doing PR work for the town’s Hesder Yeshiva. Therefore I am hardly a stranger to the Tzeva Adom (code red) early warning system and having to literally run for my life to the nearest shelter within 15 seconds.
Photo: An ALEH volunteer spends time with a child with disabilities. Credit: ALEH: Advancement and Rehabilitation of Children with Complex Disabilities.
The construction of a new community named “Daniel” is being built in collaboration with Merhavim; the Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing; and ALEH, Israel’s network of care for children with severe complex disabilities.
Photo: A field set on fire by Palestinian terrorists using balloons with burning materials attached to them . Credit: SHAAR HANEGEV SPOKESPERSON
While agricultural terrorism isn’t a new tactic, it has picked up steam, both in the south and, over the past several weeks, throughout Judea and Samaria, especially here in Gush Etzion.
Photo: Flooding damage in Bat Hever. Credit: Josh Hasten
For many Israelis, last week’s winter storm was a blessing. At least five straight days of rain, and then snow, turned a large portion of the country into a winter wonderland.