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Following the arrest of an Arab in the coastal city of Netanya who was found with a knife in his possession, it has emerged that a potentially serious terrorist attack was averted by a miracle, with no one injured. Last week, Netanya's special anti-crime police unit began the interrogation of the Arab, who was apprehended after local police received reports of a suspicious individual roaming a central promenade in the city armed with a knife and apparently attempting to stab passers-by. Police were quickly dispatched to the location where they detained the Arab, a man in his twenties from Samaria,...

Essential Question: How should one be rewarded for doing the right thing? The worldwide press is calling him “the young Indiana Jones," but eight-year-old Itai Halperin of the central Israeli town of Pardesiya* was not intentionally digging for relics when he came across the ancient head of a fertility goddess figurine. He was simply out for a November nature walk with his family near Tel Beit Shemesh*. Because Itai did the right thing and turned over his find to archaeologist Alexander Glick of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), he and his class will now have the privilege of participating in...

Furious Netanya residents attempt to block terrorist's ambulance; details of attack revealed. Photo urther details about the Netanya attack have been released later Monday night, in the wake of the third stabbing of the day. Initial reports indicate that the stabber, a 22 year-old man from the northern Samaria town of Tulkarm, first attacked a couple, stabbing a 71 year-old man in the back; the victim was later transported to Laniado hospital in critical condition. Witnesses told Walla! News the terrorist was shouting 'Allahu Akhbar.' Traffic police officers of the Sharon region called for the terrorist to stop, but he...

Fourteen illegal Palestinian aliens were arrested Tuesday after being discovered staying in an ice-cream truck stationed in Netanya's Ramat Poleg neighborhood. (Raanan Ben-Zur)

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

JERUSALEM - Israel rounded up 19 Islamic militants in the West Bank on Friday and pounded the Gaza Strip with artillery fire, pressing forward with a crackdown in the wake of a suicide bombing at a shopping mall this week. In the days since Monday's suicide bombing, which killed five people in the coastal city of Netanya, Israel has killed three militants in airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and rounded up dozens of others in the West Bank. The army said it carried out an arrest sweep overnight near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. Ten of the suspects belonged...

This is written as news comes in of yet another bomb attack in Netanya. At the end of November 2000, I lectured at a retirement home in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, to discuss the PLO demand that all Arabs who have wallowed in UN refugee camps for the past 50 years have the "right to return" to villages that they left in 1948. I showed the audience the map of a "future Palestinian State," which the PLO Orient House headquarters provided in Jerusalem. The map marks the 531 Arab villages that are slated for return, all of which...

The stories of victims of Palestinian suicide bomber who blew himself up at entrance to Netanya shopping center The names of four of the victims of the suicide terror attack in Netanya have been released: Alexandra Grimatzky, 65, of Netanya, Iliya Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer, Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya, and Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya. Kinan Tzumai, 20, of Petah Tikva, has been named as the fifth victim. 24 injured people are still hospitalized in the Laniado Hospital in Netanya, the Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, and the Beilinson Hospital in Petah...

Excerpt - An explosion was reported at the Hasharon shopping mall in Netanya at around 11:30 A.M. Monday. Magen David Adom ambulance service said that dozens of people had been wounded.

Most of us surely remember those cute but chilling childhood games played with toy pistols. Sometimes they were packed with nothing more harmful than water or a well-worn plastic bullet, chewed several times over by the family dog. The game always ended when a shrill, childish voice would call out “Bang, bang, you’re dead” and the “victim” would fall to the ground faking death, before running in for lunch. If only all the innocent Jewish men, women and children felled by Arab bullets could just get up off the ground and run in for lunch. But the Palestinians are playing...

Jerusalem, August 11: US President George W. Bush says a planned pullout of Jewish settlers from occupied Gaza 'will be good for Israel'. Bush's remarks, in an interview given to Israel's Channel One television and aired on Thursday, appeared to be an attempt to boost Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against Jewish rightists seeking to thwart the withdrawal due to start on Aug 17. "I believe the decision that Prime Minister Sharon has made and is going to follow through on will be good for Israel," Bush said, interviewed at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Asked why he thought Israel's 'disengagement'...

When the Foreign Ministry went very public last week with its protest to the Vatican over Pope Benedict XVI's failure to condemn the July 12 Netanya suicide bombing, it clearly wanted to get the Vatican to stand up and take notice. Otherwise, the ministry could have done what it had done numerous times in the past when John Paul II also did not condemn terrorism in Israel: protest quietly and through more conventional diplomatic channels – and not alert the press. But unlike the previous low-profile attempts, this time the ministry got its wish and the Vatican paid attention. And...

The death toll in the bombing in Netanya rose to four on Wednesday after a fourth woman died of her wounds. Three women were killed outright and 70 more wounded when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber blew himself up outside a crowded Netanya mall Tuesday evening. The blast shattered a relative lull in such attacks since the last Islamic Jihad bombing in February. Anya Lifschitz, 50, died Wednesday at Laniado Hospital in Netanya of wounds suffered in the terror attack. Her daughter is in very serious but stable condition with multiple system injuries at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in...

June 25, 2003 - Clara Rosenberger, 77, of Jerusalem was one of 30 people killed in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder on March 27, 2002. On the eve of Passover, the terrorist walked into the dining room of the hotel, located in the center of Netanya, where 250 guests had just sat down to begin the seder. He detonated an explosive device, killing 22 immediately and injuring 140, eight of whom subsequently died. The bomber was identified as a member of the Hamas Iz...

A year after Israel witnessed one of the worst suicide bomb attacks in its history at the Park Hotel in Netanya on Seder night last year, the Shin Bet announced that over one hundred members of the Hamas military infrastructure from Nablus, Tulkarm and Kalkilya who were involved in the planning of the attack have since either been caught or killed by security forces. A day after the attack on March 27, in which 29 Israelis were killed and over sixty wounded, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank in an attempt to destroy the terrorist infrastructure and...

March 30, 2003 Terrorist Attack in the Center of Netanya At approximately 12:50pm this afternoon (March 30, 2003), a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowded city center of Netanya. 29 people were reported wounded, amongst them two in serious condition. 10 IDF soldiers were wounded, one seriously, two moderately, and the rest lightly. Rescue services evacuated the wounded to nearby hospitals, as security forces searched the area for additional explosives. The terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Eighteen of the wounded in Sunday noon's suicide attack on a Netanya beachfront cafe are still in hospital. A young man, apparently a soldier, who was very severely wounded in the attack while preventing the bomber from entering Netanya's London Cafe, was transferred from Netanya's Laniado Hospital to the Hadassah Ein Karm medical complex in Jerusalem Sunday evening. The other seventeen wounded were in either moderate or light condition. More than 30 people were initially wounded in the attack. The terrorist who carried out the attack was earlier identified as 19-year-old Rami Ghanem from the village of Deir Al Ghassoon...

Islamic Jihad claims Netanya suicide bombing The radical Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya, in a statement received by AFP in Jenin. Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, named the bomber as 20-year-old Rami Ghanen, a first-year student from the Al-Quds university in Tulkarem, a Palestinian town on the border between the West Bank and Israel and just 15 kilometres from Netanya. He was from the village of Deir al-Ghusun, just north-east of Tulkarem, which like almost the whole of the West Bank has been under constant...

Car Bomb Thwarted And Other Successes A car that was about to be blown up in the Netanya area was discovered early this morning in Tul Karem. IDF forces found a 20-kilogram explosive next to the car, and suspect the Islamic Jihad of planning the attack. In Shechem, IDF forces destroyed the home of a Tanzim terrorist, who was killed last year while attempting an attack in Shavei Shomron. It was reported today that a suicide terrorist was arrested a number of weeks ago on his way into Jerusalem. He was wearing an explosives pack and was on his way...