It comes from the necessary improvisations of an outnumbered army, or it comes from generations of Talmudic questions and counter-questions, or it gets wired into your brain by the effort of reading Hebrew. Wherever it comes from, independent thinking underlies the Israeli start-up spirit which has become the country’s flashy calling card and which may be its economic savior. Lean little hard-working companies, with novel ideas and belief in themselves, can and do achieve what the lolling…

We’re very pleased to announce that The Lonely Tree by Yael Politis has received an honourable mention in the General Fiction category of the 2012 Eric Hoffer Award.



The Eric Hoffer Award was created to promote writers, authors, and independent presses. Full coverage for all award winners can be found in the US Review of Books.



Publisher Bernadette Jansen op de Haar…

By Peter Paton

Iran already has acquired nuclear weapons and neutron bombs according to sources within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The source in the…

Benzion Netanyahu, father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu, will be laid to rest at 5pm today at the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem. Netanyahu died early Monday morning at the age of 102. Several Israeli political parties, among them Labor, Meretz and National Union…

By PETER PATON

The recent blistering attack by former Israeli Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are thought to be politically motivated in some in Israeli circles, and possibly connected to the Obama Administration in Washington, who cite the American President’s personal dislike of Netanyahu,…

Who is qualified to be the next mayor of Los Angeles 2013?

Any of the current elected officials at LA City Hall who are running, do not qualify to be the Mayor of LA. Their past poor performance, their contribution to the current state of affairs is reprehensible. They do not deserve to…

Poll shows YJ Draiman is one of two viable outsiders in race for Mayor of Los Angeles – April 2012

I have great news - recently released a poll testing voters' mood and attitude towards the major candidates in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles. There are several key…

On the Monday before Passover, I attended a conference with a triple name: the “Ariel Conference for Law and Mass Media – Israel in the Middle East – A Current Evaluation,”  featuring professors, Knesset members, and miscellaneous experts.  I promised some colleagues that I’d take notes and share my impressions.  I thought that in the whole audience I would be the only audient taking notes with pen and paper, but I underestimated the average age.  There were plenty of pens and…

French special forces raided the apartment of Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah early Thursday afternoon, killing him and ending a 32-hour siege. Police entered his first-floor apartment, and shot the murderer of a rabbi and three Jewish children, and three French paratroopers. Three police officers were injured in the raid, one seriously, according to police reports.…

A Rabbi and his two children were murdered in a shooting attack on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday.  An eight year old girl also was killed.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is YJ Draiman and I am a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles.

I am not a politician. My experience has been in Real estate development, energy conservation - sustainability and utility efficiency.

Tonight’s forum should…

In an interview with Channel 10 this week, Noam Schalit (the father of kidnapped and freed soldier Gilad Schalit) said that “if he were Palestinian he would try to kidnap IDF soldiers.” “We also kidnapped British soldiers when we were fighting for our freedom,” Schalit said. And for good measure, he added that he was in favor of negotiating with Hamas. “I am in favor of speaking to anyone who wants to talk to…

One or more missiles fired Monday morning reached what a military correspondent described circumspectly as an unprecedented distance that "was not permitted to report" presumably to deny the launchers accurate information about the range.

Israel Radio Reporter Nissim Keinan reported this morning that  "Missiles reached ranges that are not…

A massive barrage of both short and medium range rockets was fired into Israel since Friday afternoon's killing of a top terror leader in Gaza.  Several people in Israel have been seriously hurt, and school tomorrow has been canceled in more than a dozens of towns and cities within 25 miles of the Gaza border.

The Iron Dome…

More than 35 rockets have been fired from Gaza since this afternoon, with several people injured, one seriously. The barrage followed the liquidation of Zuhair al-Qaissi, who was blown up in his car in Gaza City along with two other terrorists,…

Israel was behind the devastating blast last November that damaged an important Iranian military facility and killed at least 15 people present, according an email written by the head of a leading private American intelligence company revealed Wednesday on Wikileaks.

Claiming to have communicated with multiple “good” Israeli sources,…

German football authorities have promised to stamp out racism in the stands after an Israeli football player was subjected to Heil Hitler! salutes and sordid chants about the Holocaust at a training game. Germany's Football Federation the DFB said it 'will not tolerate anti-Semitic or racist attacks' after a small group of people verbally abused Israeli player Itay Shechter during a…