NATO held a meeting at the level of foreign ministers. The major issue under discussion was the rapprochement with Russia after Georgian crisis had badly strained the relations. French and German FM’s pushed the alliance to mitigate previous differences with Russia. By now, no one cares about the dismembered Georgia.

Bank of Israel buys US dollars to increase the reserves to $44 billion. The rest of the world is desperate to dump the dollar. It’s counter-intuitive to stock currency of the country most affected in a major economic crisis. The money will sit idly in the reserves precisely when Israeli economy is desperate for credit resources.

Bank of Israel is under great pressure from exporters who need weak shekel though it harms consumers.

Police blocked the city for half a day as they searched for the three Arabs with explosive devices who were expected to commit a major terror attack in Tel Aviv.

Close to two thousand Jews flocked to Hebron this night to prevent the expected eviction of the Peace House’ residents. Incited by leftists and the army’s inaction, Palestinian attacked the crowd, hurled large rocks from rooftops. Dozens of Jewish youth wounded in the attacks, one seriously.

Instead of doing what must be done to Arabs, the army poured tear gas and stun grenades into the Jewish crowds which tried to defend itself against Palestinians.

Jerusalem Post reports that the procurator of Judea and Samaria petitioned the Supreme Court to overrule the military appellate court’s decision which applied the Ottoman homestead law to Jews.

According to the law, in force since 1860s, a ten-year cultivation creates homestead rights to the land, which the farmer can register in his name. Israeli leftists normally use the law to issue land titles to Palestinians while ignoring that Jews cultivate land plots in the same area for decades.

near Bethlehem. The Arab firebombers were unsuccessful.

The government sent Israeli Navy to intercept the ship which carried 3,000 tons of humanitarian cargo. Too cowardly to state clearly that we will blockade Gaza from any supplies because the Arabs are firing at Sderot, the government alleged ridiculously that the ship might carry weapons to Hamas.

0.1 of Israeli population is registered with AIDS. The most simple and efficient measure to stop AIDS in Israel would be to deport the Ethiopian Christians and African illegal migrants who carry the bulk of disease.

Noam Federman, an exemplary Jew who resists the treacherous establishment, surprisingly won a second court battle. Jerusalem Court rescinded the police order barring Federman from Judea and Samaria. Very reasonably, the court rejected as absurd the police argument that Federman somehow poses a public threat because he “attacked the police.”

The alleged attack took place in the middle of night when huge police forces stormed Federman’s farm in what the leading rabbis described as Nazi pogrom. The attack consisted in Federman resisting the police which was throwing his nine small children out of the house’ windows.

The court’s decision is both rare and brave. Israeli court usually uphold police order barring particular Jews from Judea and Samaria.