Wednesday, May 16, 2007

05/16/07

* The 40th Anniversary of Jewish Rebirth In Israel, events are marked by their Hebrew calendar date, and this year, the anniversary of the Six Day War comes out on May 15th.

* The Liberation of the Temple Mount In the June, 1967 Six Day War, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was a young soldier in the paratrooper brigade, led by Gen. Motta Gur, which liberated Jerusalem's Old City.

* Israel Jerusalem policy condemned The international Red Cross has privately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law.

* Artifacts From Time of Kings David and Solomon Revealed In honor of Jerusalem Day, which begins Tuesday night, archaeologists revealed a number of seals from the time of the Biblical Kings David and Solomonn.

* Fresh killings shatter Gaza truce Gunmen have killed at least 13 people in the latest factional violence in the Gaza Strip, ending a third attempt at a ceasefire in as many days.

* Muslim Religious Ban on Leaving Israel Yet another Islamic religious ruling forbidding Moslems from leaving the Holy Land has been issued, this time from the Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine.

* Evangelicals blast J'lem Day boycott A prominent Jerusalem-based evangelical organization slammed on Tuesday the decision of much of the international community to boycott celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.

* TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73 Spiritually, the Rev. Jerry Falwell seemed prepared for his passing. A little more than two weeks ago, the founder of the Moral Majority preached of man being indestructible until he has finished God's work.

* 'Soviets engineered Six Day War' In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.

* Bolton: Attack Iran before it gets bomb Iran should be attacked - as a last resort - before it develops nuclear weapons, former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was quoted as saying on Wednesday.