Sponsors Subscription Get News Updates Profile Login  
Retail Advertising General Synagogue Activities Finance Real Estate Health Funeral Homes Schools & Camps Classifieds
Mideast October 22, 2008  RSS feed
1973 Yom Kippur War documents declassified
WAR DOC
      JERUSALEM—Top Israeli army officials did not know what was happening in the field during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, according to documents newly declassified by Israel's Defense Ministry.
More ...

LET'S TALK…
Bahrain would like Iran, Israel in regional club
      JERUSALEM - Bahrain called for the establishment of a Middle East association that would include Israel and Iran. "Why don't we all sit together even if we have differences and even if we don't recognize each other?", Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa told the London-based, Arabic-language daily al-Hayat, according to a report in Thursday's Guardian newspaper.
More ...

Ill Iranian boy treated in Israel
      An Iranian teenager arrived in Israel for emergency brain surgery. The 13-year-old boy flew to Israel via Turkey, where he had undergone unsuccessful treatment for brain cancer, after receiving special permission from the Shin Bet security service and Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit, Ynet reported.
More ...

Family fumes as Kuntar trains
      The family of the policeman killed by Samir Kuntar is angry but not surprised that he has returned to terror. A video of the Lebanese Druze terrorist, who was responsible for the death of four Israelis, including a four-year-old girl and her father in a 1979 attack, was made public showing Kuntar receiving weapons training with live gunfire.
More ...

NATO head: World can't stop nukes
      The secretary-general of NATO said he does not think the world will be able to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a World Policy Conference in southeast France organized by a French think tank that the United Nations has failed to halt Iran's nuclear program, Reuters reported.
More ...

Neo-Nazi attack prompts fears
      An acid and feces attack at the Budapest Jewish Theater just before Rosh Hashanah has revived concerns about increasing antisemitism in Hungary. The attack, which occurred after the premiere of a provocative parody of porn, is believed to be the first open and physical attack against Jews since the country's democratic transition in 1989.
More ...