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On Tuesday, March 9th, US Vice President Joe Biden was the first visiting foreign dignitary to lay a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem within the framework of activities to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Herzl...

In an historic speech in the German Parliament on Wednesday, President Shimon Peres read Kaddish and spoke in Hebrew about the personal loss of his grandfather and the special relationship between Israel and Germany that was established in the wake of the holocaust.

Anti-Semitic incidents in western Europe peaked to a level not seen since the close of World War II, according to numbers released by the Jewish Agency on Sunday, three days before the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day...

The majority of the Jewish People, as a matter of choice doesn't live in its land, but in another two decades, the Jewish center of gravity will shift to Israel. In the meantime, 75% of the Jews in the former Soviet Union are assimilating, as are 55% of American Jews.

Dr. Avi Yitzhak, the first Ethiopian Israeli doctor, is currently in Haiti taking part in the IDF Rescue Mission, and was involved yesterday in rescuing an earthquake survivor.

“I am having the best time of my life here at Ben Yakir,” says Niel Loth from Holland, who came to the KH supported youth village in November in order to volunteer...

Just a few weeks before we lit the first Hanukka candle this year, the Jewish world lost one of its greatest luminaries, Mendel Kaplan, honorary president of Keren Hayesod-UIA.

It is an ancient royal communiqué that details the appointment of a new tax collector. And its text, newly deciphered after four recent archeological finds were put together, brings demonstrable veracity to the events that precipitated the Maccabean Revolt in 167-164 BCE and the story of Hanukka.

Prof. Ada Yonath - a pioneer in the study of the key protein-producing ribosomes in all cells - became the first Israeli woman, and the ninth Israeli, to win a Nobel Prize

Israel's in fourth in global scientific activity, ranking just behind Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark for the number of scientific publications per citizen, according to a report presented at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan on Monday.

Thirteen rockets landed in September from the Gaza-strip in the Israeli city Sderot. On February 25, 2008, Yossi Chayimov was hit by one of these exploding Qassam-rocket. It is a miracle Yossi is still alive.

UN Watch Oral Statement UN Human Rights Council, 12th Special Session Geneva 16.10.2009

A group of 35 young Sderot residents got on a bus to Jerusalem on Wednesday night, to present a letter to the United Nations demanding that Hamas leaders be brought to trial for war crimes.

Mark Edelman died at age 90 at his Warsaw home. Following World War II he dedicated his life to fighting Communism in Poland and specialized in cardiology.

First sergeant M, a 28 year-old Muslim Bedouin from the north, and combat soldier serving in the Border Police undercover unit, received a citation for distinguished service and the Commissioner of Police Citation.

Let's start at the end. Richard Goldstone perpetrated a moral crime. Not against the State of Israel but against human rights. He turned them into a weapon for dark regimes. Goldstone was not negligent. He did this with malice.

Israel's population on the eve of Rosh Hashana 5770 stands at 7,465,500, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday.

Blessing from Chief Rabbis of Israel: the Rishon Lezion, Shlomo Moshe Amar and the Chief Rabbi of Israel: Rabbi Yona Metzger

'In recent years, many Jews from Iraq have started to talk about what happened to them. But I was so hurt and so locked into myself that I didn't think I could deal with it," says Linda Abu-Aziz Menuhin...

It took Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein 25 years to get a second aliya at the Peitav Synagogue in Riga...

Toronto Jews rally around museum taking flak over Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit.

Within one year runner Yosef Gazacho lost a brother and became a father, but also received his wife’s blessing to fulfill his lifelong Olympic dream. After setting a national record for the 1500 meter race, his ambition grew and he has no self pity.

There is also an Israeli humanitarian crisis, and alongside the siege of Gaza, there is also a siege of Israel.

For those who haven't heard, the first week in March has been designated as Israel Apartheid Week by activists who are either ill intentioned or misinformed.

The confrontation in the Gaza Strip is not between Hamas and Israel, but rather between Al Qaeda, Iran and radical Islam, and the free world

First Lieutenant Anton Syomin, who retrieved his friend’s body in the Second Lebanon War...

Renovation of Public Shelters - From the Israeli Press

Iraqi girl wasn't supposed to overcome heart defects, but Israeli hospital doctors intervened. 'At times I feel that perhaps we are building a bridge to peace here,' surgeon says.

Pogrom conducted throughout Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938. It was officially presented as a spontaneous outburst provoked by the assassination of the Third Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, by a 17-year-old Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan

Visitors reciprocate with earthquake preparedness workshop

KH-UIA leadership's condolences message to the Goldwasser and Regev families

The Israel Foreign Ministry's Development Cooperation Program

Two Badly Wounded Victims of Terror Triumph over their Injuries

On the eve of 2008, Israel population reached 7.241 million residents

PAUL CHAMAH By courtesy of PIEDRA LIBRE

A mere five years separated the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, during Passover of 1943, and David Ben Gurion’s Declaration of Independence speech in Tel Aviv...