The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Tuesday met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow as he looked to lay the groundwork for peace talks expected

Arutz Sheva was on hand as emergency personnel participated on Monday in a drill simulating a tsunami wave, meant to raise public awareness and practice appropriate and effective responses in

CNN is projecting that Ted Cruz will win the Republican primary in Wisconsin, while Bernie Sanders is holding a lead on the Democratic side. Sanders is hoping to pull off

Senior Republican lawmaker John McCain warned Tuesday that the United States-led coalition is headed for “slow, grinding failure” unless it scales up the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group

The Obama administration on Tuesday designated Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect of last November’s terror attacks in Paris as a “global terrorist,” The Hill reported. The decision means that

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he is ready to work with Israel to stop the “mutual incitement” between the sides, the Ma’ariv newspaper reports. Abbas

The United States military is considering pulling troops from a base in the northeastern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the increasing threat from Islamic State (ISIS) group

(JTA) After three firebombs hit the synagogue of this poor and heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its profile. Like dozens of

A Syrian rebel group allied with Al Qaeda said it had downed a warplane over northern Syria on Tuesday, with the pilot reportedly captured. In a statement on Twitter, Ahrar

The military court on the Kirya army base in Tel Aviv denied the prosecution’s request regarding the remand of the IDF soldier who shot a seemingly neutralized terrorist dead in

A Scottish college student was accused of violating “safe space” rules and told she risked being expelled from a meeting after she spoke out against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

The New York Observer said its editor would no longer consult with the campaign of Donald Trump, whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns the weekly. The statement Tuesday, reported Monday by

Belgium’s Defense Ministry denied reports that some soldiers had guarded synagogues in Brussels without ammunition in their rifles. The denial last week by the ministry’s press department came in response

Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has taken aim at controversial comments by one of his own party’s MKs, who spoke in support of separate rooms in maternity wards for Jewish

Czech and Jewish community officials on Tuesday signed a memorandum to boost the security in and around Jewish institutions due to increased concern over global terrorism.   “The problem in

In a culinary first, a British Jewish celebrity chef created English dishes, including a bacon sandwich, for consumption in space. Heston Blumenthal spent two years preparing the dishes for the

(JTA) Six years after a White House religious advisory panel grappled with how the government should fund faith groups, its recommendations are being implemented. The Orthodox Union on March 31 praised

During a hearing on the IDF soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist on Tuesday, military judge Brigadier General Doron Piles revealed that the soldier’s platoon commander, who was at the scene,

David Keyes, Prime Minister Binyamn Netanyahu’s new spokesperson, has been accused of sexual assault, Army Radio reports. The accusation came in the form of a Facebook post which was quickly

A Palestinian official on Tuesday denied Israeli charges of syphoning off cement imports to Gaza and warned of a potential “explosion” unless a cement ban is lifted. Earlier, Israel announced it had stopped private

(JTA) Israel and the United States agreed to enhance energy cooperation between the two countries. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and

The Civil Administration has destroyed several illegal Arab buildings at the Khirbet Marjam archaeological site, near Kochav Hashachar The site contains archaeological findings from the time of the Bible, as

A military court has heard testimony for the first time from the soldier who shot dead a wounded terrorist in Hevron, sparking an ongoing controversy and triggering a manslaughter suit

Two Jewish men in their early twenties sought a novel way of getting round draconian restrictions on Jewish visits to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: dressing up as Muslims. The pair were stopped

Ancient implements dating back to the Second Temple period has been discovered at Magdala, a 2,000-year-old Jewish town in the Galilee region. The implements – a decorated bronze incense shovel, used for

A senior official involved in the investigation against opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) told Channel 10 that the case could soon turn into a criminal investigation. According to the official, mounting