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Oren Almog says he serves in the IDF “like everyone else.” There are a few differences: Terror cost him his eyesight – and five relatives. A suicide bombing attack at Haifa’s Maxim restaurant in 2003 killed 16 people in addition to Oren’s father, brother and other family members. He went blind while being treated for his wounds. He obviously is exempt from the draft but insisted on enlisting in the armed forced and being like most other Israelis – and now he is a soldier n the IDF. He is a volunteer soldier in an intelligence unit, the name of...

A young man who spray-painted the words “Free Yigal Amir” on the Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv has been met with wildly different responses, from support and understanding to calls for a severe punishment. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai issued perhaps the strongest response, saying Friday, “The hands that permitted themselves to harm what is holy and important to the people of Israel should be chopped off.” The Labor party called for a harsh response as well. “The murder of Rabin and the memorial are a national symbol that reminds us that extremism and violence are a threat to Israeli...

UN HUMAN RIGHTS HIGH COMMISSIONER ADMITS TO WIESENTHAL CENTER DELEGATION… “HEZBOLLAH DELIBERATELY TARGETED ISRAELI CIVILIANS" A Simon Wiesenthal Center delegation to the UN Human Rights Council charged Hezbollah with war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting Israeli population centers and civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools and houses of worship during this summer’s 34-day war. During a 45 minute meeting with Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, delegation member Shlomo Bohbot, the Mayor of the Jewish and Arab twin City of Maalot-Tarshiha, which lies 6 miles from the Lebanese border spoke of the devastation wrought by the over...

In times of war, when daily doses of death and destruction are the norm, one learns to steel oneself against the tide of bad news. Particularly since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the many horrors committed by our enemies in the years since, it often feels as if nothing's shocking anymore. Yet, occasionally something pierces the armor that we've constructed about ourselves and reminds us just what we're up against. The tragic death of Florida teenager Daniel Wultz was one such instance. Daniel was visiting family in Tel Aviv for Passover last month, when he was seriously injured in...

'Odelia was the life of the party' Critically injured woman dies days after attack; Abbas says he will not tolerate terror attacks By Doron Sheffer and Efrat Weiss Odelia Hobera The aftermath of the bombing Photo: Ofer Amram Abbas says he will not tolerate terror attacks against Israel Photo: Channel 10 The Tel Aviv bombing death toll rose to five on Monday, after 26-year old Odelia Hobera from Jerusalem died from her injuries. Dozens of family and friends gathered at the Hobera family home to pay their last respects. Odelia's brother Alon, told Ynetnews she lived life to the fullest...

(IsraelNN.com) A resident of the southern Gush Katif community of Kfar Darom who was seriously injured in a terrorist shooting attack two years ago gave birth to her eight child. Hana Barat, 37, was seriously injured in the area of southern Gush Katif by terrorist gunfire two years ago. On Tuesday, she gave birth to her child in Tel Aviv’s Tel HaShomer Hospital

Tenth victim of Jerusalem suicide attack named as 23 year-old Anat Darom (Army Radio)

Jerusalem Post military correspondent Erik Schechter suffered moderate wounds in Thursday morning's suicide bombing, having boarded the No. 19 bus just moments before the explosion. In Schechter's case, "moderate" wounds are a broken left knee and a severed vein in the calf below it; puncture wounds in his right leg and back, from slices of metal packed into the explosives; a broken shoulder suffered on impact when the blast threw him from one part of the bus to another; lungs and spleen contused by the force of the explosion; and singed eyebrows from the blistering heat. After patching together his...

A little over a year ago, Canadian-born Yechezkel "Chezi" Goldberg wrote an article about his feelings when he heard about a failed terrorist attack while riding on a Jerusalem bus. He preached for years against making concessions to terrorism in articles he wrote for The Jewish Press and in a radio show he hosted on Arutz 7. But Goldberg, a social worker in Jerusalem and Betar Illit, wrote mostly about his specialty: saving American immigrant children at risk. His Jewish Press column was called "Lifeline," and he proved to be just that for families having difficulty with their aliya and...

ISTANBUL, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Two young women sit side by side in the waiting room of Haydarpasa station in Istanbul, waiting for a train to take them home to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of Ramadan with their families. One, a 24-year-old university student named Sibel Ates, wears jeans, ear-rings and make-up. The other wears an all-encompassing black chador covering her hair and body. These are the two faces of European Union-candidate Turkey -- an overwhelmingly Muslim country which has been a secular state for more than half a century and which gave the vote to...

(IsraelNN.com) A female soldier injured in the September terrorist attack at the Tzrifin army base has died of her wounds at the Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Tel HaShomer. The death of Liron Sivoni brings the number of those killed in the attack upon the bus stop near the army base to nine.

(IsraelNN.com) The 23-year-old tourist from Ecuador who was critically wounded in this morning’s terror attack has died of her injuries in the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva (Beersheba). She is the only fatality in the attack. Four other tourists remain in the Yosef-Tal Hospital in Eilat in light-to-moderate condition.

The Palestinian terrorist that carried out the June attack on the Trans-Israel Highway that killed a seven-year-old Noam Leibovitch has handed himself over to IDF forces manning a roadblock in Kalkilya on the West Bank. Tarek Hassin, 25, an Islamic Jihad cell leader and the man who pulled the trigger on the Leibovitch family surrendered to troops Monday evening. The June 17 attack killed Noam Leibovitch and seriously wounded her younger sister and lightly wounded her elder brother and grandfather. The gunman had sneaked through a culvert under the security wall and riddled the Leibovitch family car and another vehicle...

Oct. 15, 2003 21st victim of Haifa suicide attack laid to rest By JPOST.COM STAFF Haifa's Maxim restaurant Photo: AP After fighting for his life for 11 days, George Matar, 57, was laid to rest Thursday afternoon in Haifa's Christian cemetery. Matar succumbed to his injuries – sustained at the suicide attack on Maxim restaurant in Haifa – and died on Wednesday in the city's Rambam hospital, bringing the death toll of the attack to 21. The Matar family are the Arab co-owners of the Maxim restaurant, jointly run by Jews and Arabs. George, a Haifa resident, was an employee...

"When you were killed, we looked around for an angel to save you," said Shai Avraham at the funeral of his seven-month old daughter, Shaked. He stood by her body, hugging his wife, as he spoke of how in the biblical story, an angel saved Hagar's son, Ishmael, when she called out to God. "But no angel came to save you," he said. "Then we understood that you were our angel," telling Shaked that she had made their family complete. "We had you for such a short time," Avraham said. "We tried to give you so much, but you gave...

Shubert Spero said that almost every time he visited his son-in-law's home on Shabbat, the meal was interrupted by someone knocking on the door to ask a medical question. It wasn't office hours. They interrupting a family meal, because David Applebaum, 50, the head of the emergency department at Shaare Zedek Hospital was everyone's personal doctor, Spero said. Spero's daughter-in-law, Yehudit, added, "he was a busy person, but he made time for everyone." Relatives said he always did additional research or made that extra phone call to help people. His son Natan said, "my father was one of the 36...

(IsraelNN.com) Alon Mizrachi, 22, one of the victims of the suicide bombing in Jerusalem last night, gave his life trying to prevent the attack. He was one of the café security guards. Realizing that the Arab who entered the cafe was a terrorist, Alon jumped on him, trying to wrestle him to the ground. The Arab detonated himself on the spot. Alon’s heroic action prevented the terrorist from making it to the center of the packed cafe where his explosives would have caused even more death and destruction than they did in practice. Mizrachi, a Border Guard reservist, was the...

A memorial ceremony was held yesterday in the Shomron community of Chomesh for Shuli Har-Melekh, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists ten days ago on his way home. He and his wife Limor, who was wounded in the attack and gave birth to their baby daughter a few hours later - a sister to 1-year-old Ahuvya - moved to Chomesh two years ago when it became clear to them that this was the charge of the hour. Many of the residents had been moving out because of the dangers and difficulties caused by the Oslo War, and the remaining residents...

Everyone has stored in his brain at least one traumatic experience, such as the death of a loved one, a horrific road accident, a terrorist attack, or a Holocaust experience. Now Israeli neurobiologists, working on rats and fish, have discovered a new principle that guides memory dynamics and may make eventually make it possible for people to intentionally erase or at least dim specific memories from their minds without affecting the other ones. A team of neurobiologists at Rehovot's Weizmann Institute of Science headed by Prof. Yadin Dudai have published their findings in Thursday's issue of the prestigious journal Science....

Security forces are not talking - the police have clamped a gag order on the investigation - but it is feared that taxi-driver Eliyahu Gur-El has fallen victim to a terrorist attack. His abandoned taxi was found on Friday in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in northern Jerusalem, and police have been searching for him ever since. He was heard from only briefly yesterday when he called and said, "I'm fine," before the telephone went dead. Police are looking into reports that an Arabic-accented voice said on the phone, "We won't hurt him." On Friday afternoon, Gur-El, who lives...