There is a storm brewing and we are all waiting, wondering where and when it will begin and how it will all turn out. This event is not some small insignificant affair. It ultimately will decide the fate of all man/woman kind.

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When we think of the Synagogue, we often think of its Hebrew term- Bet Knesset. The word Synagogue is from the ancient Greek: meaning The House of Assembly, a translation of the Hebrew: Bet- house; Knesset- assembly.

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Recently a number of Israeli cabinet and Knesset Members proposed a "draft law" that would criminalize the remembrance of 1948 Palestinian holocaust (Nakba) by Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship.

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The Knesset plenum gave initial approval on Wednesday to a bill that would make it a crime to publicly deny Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, punishable by a sentence of up to a year in prison.

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Netanyahu vies for complete control of Israel

Last evening, President Obama primarily addressed economic and budgetary topics in his press conference. I was surprised that more attention was not given to the inevitable problems he will have to confront regarding the new government being formed in Israel.

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Haneen Zoubi has made history: although she is not the first Arab woman to enter the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, she is the first to be elected for an Arab party. Sitting in her home in Nazareth, the effective capital of Israel's 1.2 million Palestinian citizens, she i …

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JERUSALEM -- If the polls are right, the outcome of next Tuesday's Israeli election is a foregone conclusion.

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The court issued its decision in response to an appeal filed by Arab politicians against the ban. A spokesman for the Courts Administration said judges overturned the ban in an unanimous vote Wednesday.

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By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month's election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta'al (UAL-T).

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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli police on Sunday foiled an attempt by Israeli Arabs to set off in a boat from Israel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with a cargo of food and medical supplies.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Arab-Israeli lawmakers will set sail in an attempt to break their own government's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, a front-runner for the Israeli premiership, has been severely criticised by a former Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency for comparing the threat posed by Iran to that of pre-war Nazi Germany.

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Lo and behold, some months ago, when the exchange rate of the US dollar took a nosedive against the shekel, the Bank of Israel began buying dollars at a rate of one hundred million a day, to prop up the American currency with the power of the shekel.

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A round up from around the web of opinion and commentary over the narrow win of Livni in the Knesset.

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Why should yeshiva boys need to know the multiplication tables or that the Earth revolves around the sun?

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GORDON Brown has warned Iran that it faces growing isolation if it rejects an offer from major powers on its disputed nuclear programme. In the first address to Israel's parliament, the Knesset, by a British prime minister, Mr Brown yesterday pledged to stand by Israel and brand …

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How Can Israel Become a Better Democracy?

Israel is known as the best democracy in the Middle East. This is a true statement. Compared to all of its neighbors, the personal freedoms afforded to citizens in Israel far surpass those given to citizens in neighboring countries.

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The Chirac days are over and France has begun to display some semblance of normalcy.

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After the US President, George W. Bush, gave a speech at the Israeli Knesset on Thursday, several right wing members of Knesset said that "Bush seems to be more Zionist the Olmert", and that "it is better to have Bush as a PM instead of Olmert".

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Last week President George W. Bush gave an outstanding speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

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Probably one of the best responses to President Bush's outrageous "appeasement" speech in the Israeli Knesset, and John McCain and Joe Lieberman's support of that speech, was made on a cold snowy day in 1961.

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President Bush And The Dixie Chicks: Amazing Similarity

As we all remember, the Dixie Chicks took a shot at the President overseas in front of a foreign crowd and got lots of support there. We all also remember the response that got here in America.

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In the morning, the president, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, suggested that Democrats want to appease terrorists, the way some wanted to appease Hitler. In the afternoon, the White House thought it best to play dumb.

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Much outrage has been vented over President George W. Bush's May 15 address to the Knesset, where he likened negotiating with Iran or Hamas to appeasing Nazi Germany.

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If you look a few posts below, you will find the text of President Bush's powerful and moving speech to the Knesset today. In the course of it, he says something very general:

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