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• News from Israel
• Security issues
• Israeli politics
• Research and policy institutes
• The settlements
• Lebanon, Syria and Hizbullah
• Prisoners of conscience
• Activist groups - Israel
• Activist groups - U.S.
• Miscellaneous
• Israel/Jewish Internet indexes

News from Israel

• The Jerusalem Post publishes its daily Internet Edition, containing a selection of top news stories, opinion pieces and features from Israel's leading English-language daily newspaper.
• Arutz 7 the news web site from the only privately-run national radio network in Israel. Daily news updates, live audio broadcasts and hugely popular email lists: Hebrew / English / Russian / French
• YeshaNews: Truth without Borders (Updated Daily): Hebrew / English
• Gamla Shall Not Fall Again: news & views, politics and military analysis from Jerusalem, Israel: Hebrew / English
• The Israeli Foreign Ministry has two identical web sites, one in the United States and another in Israel.
• IMRA (Independent Media Review and Analysis), summarizes news from Israel and conducts surveys and interviews.
• ZINC, the Zionist Organization of America's Israel News Center, distributes material from the Israeli, Arab and world media twice a week.
• Israel Resource Review presents news items and analysis that are often not seen in the mainstream media, even in the Middle East.

Security Issues

• The Israeli Prime Minister's Office: Hebrew / English
• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel's military, has its own Internet information center.
• The Arab-Israel Conflict in Maps, an unmissable Web exhibit by the Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education.
• The Golan Heights Information Center, maintained by the Golan Heights Residents Committee, is loaded with photos, maps and information about the strategic Israeli plateau on the border with Syria: Hebrew / English
• The David Eizen War of Attrition Memorial describes one of the few monuments to the victims of Israel's least-known war, the 1967-70 War of Attrition. The history and aftermath of the war are also discussed.

Israeli Politics

• The Israeli Likud party Home Page.
• The Ze'ev Jabotinsky Home Page profiles the life of the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, out of which today's Likud party has developed. Also home to the Israeli Classical Liberal Web Site.
• Dry Bones, by Yaakov Kirschen, is one of Israel's premier political cartoons.

Research and Policy Institutes

• The Shalem Center, an innovative research and educational institution focusing on Jewish social thought and Israeli public policy, seeks to offer the Jewish nation a coherent alternative to an increasingly post-Zionist Israel.
• The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) is a research institution supporting a vision "of the Jewish state and Israeli people ordering their economic affairs around the institutions of limited government, private property, low taxes, free trade."
• The Freeman Center for Strategic Studies "commissions extensive research into the military and strategic issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict" and publishes The Maccabean Online, a monthly compilation of political commentary.
• The Jabotinsky Institute conducts academic research and maintains archives and a musuem regarding the life and works of Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky: English / Hebrew
• The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace has researched incitement against Israel in officially sanctioned textbooks in the PA school system.

The Settlements

• Amana has worked for over 20 years to establish and build Jewish communities in the areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Check out their beautiful web site with presentations on most of the settlements in Yesha.
• The Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza represents the over 140 Jewish towns and villages in these ancient historic regions of Israel.
• The Jewish community of Hebron provides information on the city where the Jewish Patriarchs once lived.
• Ma'aleh Adumim, the largest city among the "Jewish settlements," is located just east of Jerusalem. (Private web site run by Jacob Richman.)
• Ariel, the second largest Jewish town in the territories, calls itself the "Capital of Samaria."
• Mitzpeh Yericho, located in the Judean desert, 20 km east of Jerusalem. This site also includes links to other yishuvim in Yesha.
• Har Hevron, the Hebron Hills region, is one of the most ancient regions of Jewish habitation in the world.

Lebanon, Syria and Hizbullah

• Background on Hizbullah from the U.S. State Department.
• Syrian Support for Terrorism, testimony by Ambassador Philip Wilcox, Jr. before the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations (July 25, 1996).

Prisoners of Conscience

• The International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers campaigns for information on Israel's MIA's and POW's.
• Israeli airman Ron Arad, in particular, has been in captivity since October 16, 1986. More information is here, along with a petition for his release.
• Justice for Jonathan Pollard, the official Web site authorized by Jonathan and his wife Esther.

Activist Groups - Israel

• Professors for a Strong Israel is an influential non-partisan organization of Israeli academics united in a common concern for the security and the Jewish character of the State of Israel.
• Zo Artzenu is a grassroots Israeli protest movement supporting Jewish rights to the land of Israel.
• Israel's Media Watch is an independent, non-partisan advocacy group examining issues of journalistic ethics and objectivity in the Israeli media.
• Women for Israel's Tomorrow is a grassroots women's movement "dedicated to the security and Jewish heritage of historic Israel." They are commonly known as the Women in Green due to their distinctive green hats.

Activist Groups - United States

• AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the largest pro-Israel lobby group in the U.S.
• The Zionist Organization of America is the oldest pro-Israel organization in the U.S., and one of the largest.
• Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) is a US-based activist group.

Miscellaneous

• Shalach Manos -- send affordable mehadrin gifts to your family and friends in Israel.
• Hebrew Dictionary Online is a great place to learn Hebrew words. Sign up for their Hebrew Word-a-Day Mailing list.
• Instant Hebrew is a new online course that teaches people to read Hebrew in just 2 hours.
• JudaicaOverstock.co.il sells discount Judaica products from Israel.
• The Sefer Torah Recycling Network finds out-of-use sifrei Torah in need of repair, fixes them, and then donates them to settlements and synagogues in Israel.
• Computer Jobs in Israel -- Home of Jacob Richman's famous email list that posts available high-tech jobs in Israel. If you are looking for a computer job in Israel this is the place to start, even if you live abroad.
• Keren Yishai -- Site of Israel's reknowned Rav Mordechai Elon, featuring his weekly drashot (sermons) in a variety of formats, including audio.
• Binyan Shalem -- an institution that helps bring the beauty of traditional Jewish weddings to secular Israeli couples (Hebrew site).
• The Holy City Prayer Society is a nondenominational monotheistic prayer service in Jerusalem.
• Ready for Prime-Time English Textual Content -- An economic, professional alternative to problematic in-house English text, corporate correspondence, web research and internet marketing.
• Yad Vashem is the Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem.
• Kishurim Executive Recruitment -- A leader in Israel's human resources field, helping companies and non-profit organizations find and hire quality personel.
• Stock Market Challenge is a free, online stock game run by an Israeli company. This real-life simulation lets you practice investing in the US stock market without ever risking a cent of your own money.

Israel/Jewish Internet indexes

• Maven: The Ultimate Jewish Index.
• Judaism and Jewish Resources list.
• iGuide - Israeli Internet Guide
• HaReshima: The Jewish Internet Portal

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