Rabbi Joshua Kahn has been appointed the new head of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MSTA). Welcoming the new school head, Miriam Goldberg, chair of
The precariousness of Israel’s narrow waistline 1. Pressuring Israel to retreat to the pre-1967 ceasefire lines – which is an 8-15-mile sliver along the Mediterranean, dominated by the Judea &
Most Israeli Arabs think that the Joint List Knesset members do not properly represent them, according to a survey published by Channel 2. According to the survey, which was completed by
The Israeli Security Cabinet held a meeting on Thursday night on the Arab terror wave that has raged since last September, and decided to begin work on fences around Jerusalem
The US-led coalition carried out the first air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) chemical weapons sites, the Pentagon said Thursday, acting on crucial information from a captured senior insurgent. The successful multiple bombings
The family members of a terrorist who wounded two Border Police officers in an attack in eastern Jerusalem earlier this week were expelled from Jerusalem on Thursday and sent to Palestinian
Ramat Givat Zeev, a new community in the Jerusalem hills, is attracting hundreds of families from the United States, largely because Rav Bezalel Rudinsky of Monsey plans to open an
After a brief delay, Egyptian diplomat and former Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was named Thursday as the Arab League’s new secretary general, AFP reports. The appointment came after Qatar
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday night ordered the country to improve nuclear attack capability by continuing to conduct more tests, Reuters reports, citing the official KCNA news
The UN Watch NGO revealed on Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) vetting committee has shortlisted a UK professor for a six-year term as the world body’s investigator
In the wake of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s warning call to Iran on Wednesday protesting its recent ballistic missile tests defying US sanctions, Iran on Thursday held a ceremony
An international coalition of anti-Israel NGOs called Thursday on Airbnb to remove rental properties in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria from its website. A demonstration was held in Paris, and others were planned
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said he opposed “all forms of violence” but ignored a call from US Vice President Joe Biden to explicitly condemn terrorist attacks on Israelis. “Our
Israel saved an ailing lion from the Hamas terror stronghold of Gaza to a Palestinian zoo in Samaria on Thursday, rescuing it from the Hamas enclave that has suffered economically as the
In the wake of a move last Wednesday by Gulf states declaring the Iran-proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon a terrorist organization, members of Congress called on the European Union (EU) on
In the wake of the police investigation of a police volunteer who shot the Arab terrorist behind Tuesday night’s lethal stabbing spree in Jaffa (Yafo), Arutz Sheva on Thursday spoke with Rabbi Ya’akov Ariel who opined
Qatar has delayed the appointment of a veteran Egyptian diplomat as the next head of the Arab League over his “hostile positions” towards the Gulf state, diplomats said on Thursday. Egypt was expecting Ahmed
In France, more teenage girls than boys are drawn to joining brutal Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Iraq and Syria, a high-ranking anti-terrorist official told AFP this week. “Among minors, females are over-represented
Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Yoav Mordechai on Thursday spoke of the relationship between Hamas in Gaza and the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, in an interview
(AFP) Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadis who joined the Islamic State group (IS or ISIS) have been given to
(AFP) Four men went on trial in Denmark on Thursday accused of helping the terrorist gunman behind twin attacks on a Copenhagen synagogue and a free speech event last year that left
US Vice President Joe Biden met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Thursday, amid a rash of terror attacks across Israel that have further dimmed the prospects for renewed
Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton is the first presidential candidate from either party to officially accept an invitation to address the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference next week. The Conference will
One of the victims of Tuesday night’s deadly stabbing attack in Jaffa was an Arab-Israeli peace activist. Tel Aviv resident Mohammed Wari was stabbed in the back during the attack
Seven Palestinians were rescued Thursday after a Gaza smuggling tunnel collapsed, according to local officials. One man is still trapped underground, however – his condition is unknown He described the underground
On Wednesday, terrorists opened fire on an Egged bus at Ramot Junction. The attack, made on a major thoroughfare just minutes from the Ramot neighborhood, stunned Jerusalem residents. Shmuel P.,
Vice President Joe Biden met on Thursday with Micah Lakin Avni, son of Richard Lakin, an American citizen who was murdered in a terrorist attack last October. Avni told Biden
Female activists in the Jewish Home who came to the Knesset Tuesday at the behest of MK Shuli Mualem to take part in the International Women’s Day events were sorely
Details of a tense meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have been revealed for the first time, shedding further light on the fraught relationship
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday urged mainstream Republicans to unify behind his candidacy, saying that if Republicans unite around him, he would be “unbeatable”. The often-brash Trump softened