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- News from Israel
- Security issues
- Israeli politics
- Research and policy institutes
- The Settlements
- Missing Israeli soldiers
- Activist groups
- Learn Hebrew
- 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 is a news web site with daily news updates, live audio broadcasts and hugely popular email lists: Hebrew / English / Russian
- Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- IMRA (Independent Media Review and Analysis), summarizes news from Israel and conducts surveys and interviews.
- 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: English / Hebrew
- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s military forces: English / Hebrew
Israeli Politics
- The Israeli Likud party home page: English / Hebrew.
- Dry Bones, by Yaakov Kirschen, is one of Israel’s premier political cartoons.
Research and Policy Institutes
- The Jabotinsky Institute conducts academic research and maintains archives and a museum regarding the life and works of Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
- The Herzl Institute is a Jerusalem research institute concentrating on Jewish political thought, the history of Zionism and other related fields.
The Settlements
- 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 run by Jacob Richman. The official site is in Hebrew.)
- Ariel is a large town in Samaria, home to 20,000 residents and 10,000 students at Ariel University.
- Mitzpeh Yericho, located in the Judean desert, 20 km east of Jerusalem.
Missing Israeli Soldiers
- 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.
Activist Groups
- 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.
Learn Hebrew
- Online Hebrew Dictionary is a great place to learn Hebrew words. Sign up for their Hebrew Word-a-Day Mailing list.
- Instant Hebrew is an online course that teaches people how to read Hebrew in just 2 hours.
- Learn Biblical Hebrew — possibly the most useful online Biblical Hebrew course in the world.
- Hebrew Verbs — a great site for learning Hebrew verbs, with full conjugations (including audio) for hundreds of verbs.
- Learn Hebrew Phrases with Audio: Free site with 1,215 Hebrew phrases and sentences with Audio pronunciations, Nikud (vowels), and English translations and transliterations.
- My-Hebrew-Dictionary.com: Learn Hebrew with pictures and audio.
Miscellaneous
- The Sefer Torah Recycling Network has found a number of out-of-use sifrei Torah in need of repair, fixed them, and donated them to settlements and synagogues in Israel.
- 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.
- Yad Vashem is the Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem.
- Shalach Manos — Send Purim gift baskets (Misloach Manot) to Israel.