March 2008 Headlines
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal has offered Israel a "reciprocal" deal: to attack only military targets.
CBNNews.com - According to the German daily Die Welt, U.S. President George W. Bush is optimistic that Israel will sign an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) before his term in office ends.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told bereaved families, who lost sons in the Second Lebanon War, that elections would be held "sooner than you think." Barak's Labor party is the one party with enough members in the Knesset (parliament) to bring down the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The city of Bnei Brak, populated primarily by Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews has the highest incidence of sexual offenses, according to Israeli police.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel agreed to a series of "concrete steps" to help the Palestinian Authority (PA), which include removing some 50 roadblocks in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - After authorizing transfer of armored vehicles, weapons, ammunition and other military equipment to Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces this week, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said it may all be used against Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) told Israel Radio that the government is actively working to restart negotiations with Syria.
CBNNews.com - Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders released his 15-minute documentary intended to show that Islam is incompatible with democracy.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Renovation is nearly complete on Jerusalem's historic Hurva Synagogue, destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948.
CBNNews.com - TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced a transfer of armored vehicles and "equipment" to Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces Wednesday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke Wednesday of re-opening talks with Syria.
CBNNews.com - SDEROT, Israel - Gaza-based Palestinians fired a new wave of Kassam rockets on southern Israel Wednesday, with eight landing in the rocket-battered southern Israeli city of Sderot and two south of the coastal city of Ashkelon.
CBNNews.com - ARIEL, Israel - The family of 15-year-old Amiel (Ami) Ortiz, critically wounded in a bomb attack Friday, said police suspect anti-missionaries may have been behind the attack.
CBNNews.com - RAMAT GAN, Israel - Norm Shalit, father of kidnapped Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Corporal Gilad Shalit, said his son is paying the price for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's indecisiveness.
CBNNews.com - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement inviting Russia to help develop Egypt's nuclear energy capabilities.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Last week's one-day visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was less than congenial, according to an unnamed government source quoted by The Jerusalem Post.
After inaccurate reporting by the BBC of two recent events in Israel, the news agency admitted their errors and offered an apology.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Knesset (parliament) passed organ donation legislation Monday, which complies with Jewish law regarding time of death and provides compensation for Israelis wanting to donate an organ during their lifetimes.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Air Force (IAF) pilots flying F-161 fighter jets learned recently that some of them have been exposed to carcinogens.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - On day two of his visit to Israel, US Vice President Dick Cheney told reporters that an Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hamas wants to torpedo the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
CBNNews.com - Italian journalist Magdi Allam's conversion from Islam to Catholicism was a highlight of the Vatican's Easter service, with Pope Benedict XVI himself officiating in his baptism.
CBNNews.com - An audiotaped message by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, called on Muslims to attack Israelis and Americans in response to the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) counter-terror operations in the Gaza Strip.
While some parts of Israel are under the constant threat of attack, Jerusalem has enjoyed relative quiet in recent years. But that may be changing, as residents try to deal with renewed violence and talk of re-dividing the city.
The terrorist group Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip for almost a year now. After the elections, supporters hoped Hamas would root out the Palestinian Authority's corruption and bring a cleaner, Islamic-style government.
JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel is bracing for a new round of possible terror attacks from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group. Forty days of mourning for their slain terrorist leader will soon end, and Hezbollah has vowed to take revenge against Israel for his assassination.
CBNNews.com - ARIEL, Israel - A bomb, concealed in a Purim holiday gift basket, exploded when the son of a Messianic couple opened the package.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The latest in a series of attempts to reunite rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, came to naught Thursday when Fatah reps walked out of the meeting.
CBNNews.com - SDEROT, Israel - During a visit to the rocket-beleaguered city of Sderot in southern Israel, Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain told reporters, "this is no way to spend the Purim holiday."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Iranian President Mahmoud Abbas posed for the press with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey after signing a multi-million dollar gas deal between the two countries.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers said talk of a cease-fire before the border with Egypt is sealed and arms smuggling ended is worthless.
CBNNews.com - Senior Hamas official Said Siam accused Egypt of detaining and torturing Hamas-affiliated Palestinians who entered the country during January's border breach at the Rafah crossing to the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A report issued by the Israel Prisons Service Committee of the Israel Bar exposed the inhumane treatment of underage girls detained by Jerusalem police.
CBNNews.com - On Wednesday, Israeli and Egyptian officials roughed out a deal that would transfer Gaza's electrical power supply from Israel to Egypt.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Canada's former justice minister Irwin Cotler said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is clearly guilty of "incitement to genocide."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Nearly 65 percent of Israelis oppose any further withdrawals of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The ultra-left-wing Meretz party elected Member of Knesset (MD) Chaim (Jumus) Oron to replace outgoing chairman Yossi Beilin.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued an order for full closure of areas under Palestinian Authority (PA)control at midnight Tuesday.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A rabbi walking with a student guard near the Damascus Gate was stabbed in the neck by an Arab assailant.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Shin Bet (General Security Services) has received seven warnings of possible terror attacks ahead of the Purim holiday, which begins Thursday evening and goes through Sunday evening.
CBNNews.com - Gaza-based Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh came out a percentage point ahead of Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in a recent opinion poll.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Egyptian intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman will not visit Israel this week, marking the third scheduled visit to be canceled.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Foreign Ministry advised Israelis to cancel all "non-essential" visits to Tibet.
CBNNews.com - TEL AVIV, Israel - In a joint decision by the Defense and Transportation ministries, airspace around Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport will be expanded.
CBNNews.com - SDEROT, Israel - Hundreds of Israeli Air Force (IAF) officers and soldiers arrived in Sderot Sunday to help 50 boys celebrate their Bar Mitzvah.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Plans are well underway for the largest emergency drill in Israel's history, slated for next month.
CBNNews.com - Gideon Meir, Israeli ambassador to Italy, minced no words in responding to Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema's call to open talks with Hamas.
CBNNews.com - On Thursday, the al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades,a terrorist brach of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party, called on Abbas to fire Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, cut all contact with Israel, and form a unity government with Hamas.
CBNNews.com - Following a four-day visit to the U.K., Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal concluded that Israel needs to beef up its public relations abroad.
CBNNews.com - A report issued Thursday by the U.S. State Department concluded that global anti-Semitism has risen during the past decade.
CBNNews.com - Seven Muslim countries boycotted this year's Paris Book Fair to protest choosing Israel as its "guest of honor."
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In an undeniable statement of Israeli youth's love for their country, 70 percent of high school seniors requested to serve in Israel Defense Forces (IDF) combat units ahead of the March draft, which begins Sunday.
CBNNews.com - Southern District Police Chief Cmdr. Uri Bar-Lev paid a very special visit to eight-year-old Osher Twito at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Palestinian rock-throwing incidents are on the rise again, particularly in the north.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - In an unconfirmed report, Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces said they rescued an Israeli who inadvertently entered Ramallah, where a mob surrounded him.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - On Thursday, Jewish communities around the world will participate in ceremonies marking the end of the seven-day mourning period (Shiv'ah) for the eight students killed at Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (religious seminary) last week.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The brief two-day respite in rocket attacks launched by Gaza-based Palestinians appears to have ended Thursday morning, with at least 15 rockets fired into southern Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - On Tuesday, the Israeli Knesset announced the formation of a new committee to address the needs of Jews in Western countries considering immigration (aliyah) to Israel.
CBNNews.com - During a visit Tuesday to the coastal city of Ashkelon, the latest target of Palestinian rocket fire, the prime minister said Israel has no way of preventing rocket attacks from recurring.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A bill designed to protect Israelis from indictment for defending themselves against intruders is making its way through the legislative process.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A bill designed to protect Israelis from indictment for defending themselves against intruders is making its way through the legislative process.
CBNNews.com - In what can only be described as divine intervention, a 19-year old Israeli Arab woman survived two bullets to her head.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Member of Knesset (MK) Zevulun Orlev wants an investigation of an Israeli television report alleging that Mercaz HaRav yeshiva students planned a revenge attack for last week's murders against a senior Arab official.
CBNNews.com - In a rare expression of solidarity with Israel, a Kuwaiti newspaper condemned last week's attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (religious seminary).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The fourth winter with below-average rainfall has left Israel in the throes of a major water deficit. Water Authority officials say it's the most acute water crisis in a decade.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - A municipality official said Monday that Jerusalem-area schools would not withstand a major earthquake.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Member of Knesset (MK) Moshe Feiglin received an unsolicited letter from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith informing him that he would not be allowed to enter the country.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - It is instructive to analyze the reaction of the Palestinian populations in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza following Thursday night's terror attack on Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (religious seminary) in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, which killed eight students, seven of whom were teenagers.
CBNNews.com - At a special ceremony in Teheran Sunday, a youth terror cell calling itself Islamic Student Justice Seekers put a bounty on the heads of three top Israeli security officials.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israeli plans to continue construction in the Jerusalem area neighborhoods of Givat Zeev and Pisgat Zeev humiliate PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers impounded a truck transporting quantities of sulfuric and nitric acid near the Palestinian Authority- (PA) controlled city of Kalkilya.
CBNNews.com - Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb Thursday that killed an Israel Defense Forces iIDF) soldier and wounded three others, one seriously.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Arab protests against Israel's counter-terror operations in Gaza continued for a second day in Jerusalem.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Following Thursday night's terror attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (religious seminary) that claimed the lives of eight students, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Libyan delegation managed to block the UN Security Council from publishing a condemnation of Thursday night's terror attack in Jerusalem.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Late Thursday evening, Jerusalem police announced restrictions on Muslim men planning to worship at the Temple Mount Friday.
JERUSALEM, Israel - Two Arab terrorists infiltrated a Jewish yeshiva (religious seminary) in Jerusalem Thursday night and opened fire in the library, killing eight people and wounding nine.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak refused to grant military exemptions to 61 new yeshivot (religious seminaries), which applied for Torato omanuto ("Torah is his profession," i.e., studying the Law of Moses).
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli ambassador to the United States Salai Meridor welcomed the U.S. Congress' decision to withhold a $150 million aid package to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until the State Department clarifies how the money will be spent.
If Hamas doesn't stop firing rockets into Israel, the Israeli government has threatened it might take over the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas agreed to resume negotiations with Israel.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's assessment of the al-Jazeera satellite network has prompted Foreign Ministry spokespersons to shun the Arabic television network.
CBNNews.com - After nearly a year of undercover work, Israeli agents arrested some 50 drug dealers in southern Israel Monday night.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Jerusalem police have stopped a project being conducted by the Muslim religious trust (Wakf), which oversees the Old City's Temple Mount until archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) can examine the unauthorized construction.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - While Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni priased the newest round of U.N. sanctions against Iran, the prevailing sentiment among Israeli officials is that they don't go far enough.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel Tuesday following a five-hour visit to Egypt.
CBNNNews.com - As Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops began pulling out of their positions in the northern Gaza Strip early Monday, Hamas declared itself the victor of the weekend's intensive fighting.
CBNNews.com - According to one resident of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian children admire Hamas fighters and want to emulate them.
JERUSALEM, Israel - Israel's military has pulled out of the northern Gaza Strip after a three-day campaign to stop terrorist rocket attacks by Hamas. Although the Israeli raids took a heavy toll, Hamas was claiming victory in the end.
CBNNews.com - When it comes to helping people, Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics respond "as if there is no war."
CBNNews.com - An estimated 1,000 Lebanese supporters of the Hezbollah terror group staged a rally Sunday to protest Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - The latest Israel Defense Forces (IDF) counter-terror operations in Gaza concluded its first stage over the weekend.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were killed in the counter-terror operations in northern Gaza early Saturday morning.
CBNNews.com - In the early hours of Sunday morning, an Israeli air strike razed the building housing Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh's offices.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The Shin Bet (General Security Agency) arrested a 17-year-old resident of the village of Abu Tor, who confessed to preparing for a suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - Arab residents of Palestinian Authority- (PA) controlled cities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and in Jerusalem rallied against Israel's counter-terror operations in the Gaza Strip.
CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - According to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, if the Bush administration doesn't make good on its promise to broker a Mideast peace agreement, the opportunity will be lost forever.
