AFSI attended a Yom HaZikaron service at Wadi al-Haramiya, near Ofra, where 10 Israeli lives (7 soldiers and 3 civilians) were lost to lone Arab sniper who fired on March 3, 2002.

Our friend, Marc Prowisor, who was present that day, shared his personal experience of this tragedy.

This Memorial Day is set aside to remember the fallen heroes of the Israeli Armed Forces.

We like Giulio Meotti’s OpEd in Arutz Sheva. Meotti spells out the MANY reasons why Israel is UNIQUE in the world and why Israel is like no other country.

Click HERE to read Meotti’s inspiring words.

“Best wishes to Prime Minister @Netanyahu and all of the people of Israel on the 70th Anniversary of your Great Independence. We have no better friends anywhere. Looking forward to moving our Embassy to Jerusalem next month!”

Caroline Glick’s Opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post last week forces us to think about the damage that the recent merger of the New Israel Fund with the Anne Frank Foundation can produce. This is the latest chapter in the theft of Anne Frank’s legacy, which began in the 1950’s. The merger also de-judaizes Frank’s legacy.

Historic realities of past horrors against the Jewish people cannot be diminished. Unfortunately Anne Frank’s diary has been turned into a universal message of suffering, thereby removing any trace of its Jewish origin and the real reason for Frank penning her experiences.

Some 12,000 youths from 41 countries, joined by President Reuven Rivlin and heads of the Israeli defense establishment—the chief of staff, police chief and heads of the Shin Bet and Mossad—walked the three kilometers that separate Auschwitz and Birkenau, the extermination section of the infamous death camp in Poland, as part of this year’s March of the Living. More HERE

Johannes Hahn, the European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) schools in the Beddawi camp in Lebanon visited there on March 27.

Ahead of the visit, UNRWA decided to polish the facade of its camp. The Palestinian news site Al-Quds News reports that UNRWA had told the inhabitants of the camp conditions they wanted met.

Can we believe any lasting change took place? Read Tobias Petersson’s report HERE

It should be no surprise that The New York Times once again twisted facts while defaming Israel in a recent report stating that their journalists did not find any terrorists among the Gaza rioters.

Jack Engelhard’s Arutz Sheva OpEd discusses The New York Times disgraceful news report and sets the record straight.