Minister of Industry and Trade Eli Yishai said this week that the religious party he represents, Shas, will not be able to remain in the coalition if the government promotes further Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank.

Source: Ynet, BBC

A special situation report presented by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of the Jewish New Year reveals that at the end of 2006, Israel had 7,116,700 million citizens living in its territory.

In a recent opinion piece, radical religious Zionist leader Moshe Feiglin, who received 23.4 percent of the vote in the Likud primary last month, wrote that Israel is wasting money on security and military operations when it could instead give that mone

Nativ, the Israeli government organization that brought Russian Jews to Israel for decades beginning in the 1950's, now has its sights set on the 120,000 Russian Jews in Germany.

Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday, August 29 that they fear priceless relics could be damaged by a mechanical digger being used by Muslim caretakers to carve out a utility trench at one of Jerusalem's holiest shrines.

On Friday, thousands of Israelis from all over the country made a special trip to Sderot to support the town with a massive grassroots shopping spree in the rocket-battered city's stores and groceries.

In a recent essay, Yaniv Itzkovitch, writer for Yedioth Ahronoth, put into words the feelings of an increasing number of young secular Israelis who are avoiding army service.

A Brooklyn advertising guide aimed at the Jewish community, "The Vues", contained an ad this week asking Jews to donate to religious celebrations on a regular basis at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The banner read, "Be a Part of Hebron".

A new English newspaper called "Hadar" has begun to be published weekly in Brooklyn, covering Israeli and world news from a strong Zionist perspective. Based on its advertisements, the newspaper appears to target the Orthodox Jewish community.

The Monsey-based English-language Jewish newspaper Yated Neeman (Aug. 17, 2007) printed a letter in its "Readers Write" section from a Feivel Goldman, entitled "The Gedolim's View Vis-à-vis the State of Israel."

The letter stated,

Orthodox Jews attending a local Chassidic synagogue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hisachdus Yereim Veretzky, under the leadership of Rabbi I.

Inspired by an IsraelNationalRadio program, some 30 Christians protested at a Florida church against its pastor's national call for a Palestinian state in the Land of Israel.

The Zionist organization CAMERA - the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America - has published a detailed, scathing attack on the two-hour television program "G-d's Jewish Warriors," created by CNN's Christiane Amanpour as part of a th

The Zionist State will invest in the establishment of a new network of communities for families evicted from Gaza during the 2005 disengagement, the cabinet decided unanimously Tuesday morning.

Half of the IDF's young combat officers are religious Jews, according to statistics published as the lead story Sunday in Maariv, Israel's second largest daily newspaper.

In an attempt to include some of the most alienated factions within Israeli society, two self-proclaimed non-Zionists - a haredi media consultant and an Arab mayor - have been appointed to Israel's 60th anniversary planning committee.

Moshe Feiglin, leader of the radical right-wing Zionist group Manhigut Yehudit, won 23.4 percent of the Likud votes in the primary election last week.

This week Israeli police arrested Binyamin Mayerovitz, owner of a printing company, on the grounds that he had printed anti-police incitement material.

Palestinians in north Gaza fired two Qassams toward Israel on Tuesday. One rocket struck a vacant Na'amat daycare center in the western Negev city of Sderot, causing slight damage to the building.

This Tuesday through Thursday, Aug. 21-23, CNN will present a series by chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour examining the effects of evangelical Christianity as a powerful political force around the world.