Other Israel-Related Sites

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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 (or try this mirror site) 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 Radio News broadcasts live via the Internet using RealAudio and also provides daily news updates from the only privately-run national radio network in Israel.
• 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.

Security Issues

• The Israeli Prime Minister's Office is packed with information. In particular, see the Government Press Office.
• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel's military, has recently launched 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.
• 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 Likud party is the senior partner in Israel's governing coalition.
• 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 International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (Herzliya, Israel) features a database of terrorist groups and attacks, news updates and articles on international terrorism, along with a comprehensive list of web links.
• The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is a Washington-based organization which works to educate the American public about the security requirements of both the United States and Israel, and to strengthen the strategic relationship between these two democracies.
• 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.
• 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 18 years to establish and build Jewish communities in the areas of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
• 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. (This is a private web site operated by Jacob Richman.
• Ariel, the next-largest town, calls itself the "Capital of Samaria."
• 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 is a US-based activist group.

Miscellaneous

• JNF Trees -- Lets you plant trees and help make Israel green, right from your computer.
• Yad Vashem is the Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem.
• The Initiative Center of the Negev is a technology business incubator and home of some of Israel's hottest new hi-tech firms.
• Chen Travel is an Israeli travel agency specializing in trips and tours to and from Israel for holidays, family occassions and more.
• Ivantiques Antiques and Collectibles is a antiques store located in downtown Jerusalem. Ivantiques buys and sells judaica, silver, glass, porcelain and jewelry collectibles all over the world.
• Givot Olam Oil Exploration is a company that thinks it has found a billion barrels of recoverable oil in 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).

Israel/Jewish Internet indexes

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