Israel
Isreal’s Olmert Announces Plan To Resign
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a special press conference on Wednesday at 8 p.m. where he announced he will not run in the Kadima primary scheduled to take place in September.
Olmert said he would resign from office upon selection of a successor, and would allow his successor to attempt to form a coalition.
The premier lashed [...]
Bulldozer Attack In Jerusalem - Take 2
Sixteen people were wounded, one of them moderately, as a bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital earlier this month.
The vehicle reportedly left a construction site near Yemin Moshe neighborhood and set off towards Liberty Bell Park (Gan Hapa’amon), [...]
Iran Test Fires Long-Range Missiles
Iranian state television reports the Revolutionary Guards have tested nine new long- and medium-range missiles during war games. The tests come one day after the Iran’s president said there is no chance of war with the United States or Israel.
Strangely enough, this didn’t seem to dominate the news cycle in Israel today. The media in [...]
Iran Begins War Games Against U.S.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have begun a military exercise and issued a warning that Israel and U.S. naval forces in the Persian Gulf would be prime targets if Iran is attacked.
The Web site of the elite Iranian force posted a statement late Monday announcing the military drill, which it said involved “missile [...]
Bulldozer Terror Attack In Israel
Video above shows Israeli police killing the Palestinian man who was driving the bulldozer. The video below was captured on a cell phone and captures the chaotic scene in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian man plowed an enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a busy street Wednesday, killing at least three people [...]
Panic Strikes Sarkozy/Israel Visit
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli soldier on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy shot himself on Tuesday, causing a security stir but not endangering the visiting leader, Israel Radio said.
Television footage showed bodyguards hustling Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy into their plane at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport [...]
Inside Rocket-Damaged Israeli Mall
At Least 14 Wounded As Rocket Rips Through Israeli Mall:
At least 14 people were wounded Wednesday evening, including a mother and her three-year-old daughter, when a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit the Hutzot Shopping Center in Ashkelon.
The rocket ripped through the roof of the mall, causing a large chunk of the roof to collapse [...]
Cameraman Killed By Israeli Tank
Reuters Cameraman Last Moments Alive Caught On Tape:
GAZA (Reuters) - A Reuters cameraman was killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what appeared to be an Israeli military strike.
Fadel Shana, 23, was covering events in the enclave for the international news agency on a day of intense violence when 16 other Palestinians and three [...]
