An Arab attacker tried to stab a woman in downtown Jerusalem this afternoon, according to testimony given to Israeli police. The woman was unharmed and the attacker fled the scene. The

(AFP) Israel’s Ehud Olmert on Monday becomes the country’s first ex-prime minister to sit behind bars as he begins a 19-month prison term for separate counts of bribery and obstruction of

A senior figure in the Syrian opposition movement on Sunday criticized the truce deal forged by the US and Russia, saying Moscow was continuing its onslaught on civilian areas. “We have gotten used to conferences

Miri Michaeli Schwartz, Israel’s Channel 10 News correspondent in Europe, has exposed the behavior of passengers on the London Underground who ignore heavily pregnant women and do not give up

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79, a government source and a family friend told CNN on Saturday. Scalia reportedly died in his sleep

A convoy carrying medical aid on Saturday entered the besieged rebel-controlled Douma area, a flashpoint near the Syrian capital, the Red Crescent said. The aid consists of medicines and also

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar vowed on Saturday to remove all the Jews from “Palestine”. Al-Zahar’s comments, quoted by Hamas’s Palestine newspaper, came at a ceremony in memory of a

Jakob Denzinger, a Croatian man suspected of having been a guard at Auschwitz, has died at the age of 92, local media reported Saturday, according to AFP. Denzinger, who had

Today is expected to continue to be sunny and mild with temperatures similar to what Israel experienced over the weekend. High temperatures will reach the low twenty degrees celsius across the

One year after a Danish-born gunman killed a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks in Copenhagen, thecountry will on Sunday honour the victims amid tight security. Danish Prime Minister Lars

A delegation of Palestinian terror organization representatives met with Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (the Islamic Consultative Assembly) Ali Larijani on Saturday.  Members of the delegation included representatives from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah

Saturday provided a welcome relief from the winter with its moderate temperatures and warm sun, but the weather is to take it up a notch this week and go full

Families and supporters of the youthful Jewish suspects who were allegedly tortured by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) as part of the investigation into last July’s lethal Duma arson protested Saturday

The Turkish military on Saturday hit targets of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Syrian regime in two separate incidents in response to incoming fire, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. In line

A senior source at the Egyptian forensics authority on Saturday revealed that 28-year-old Giulio Regeni, an Italian student found dead in Cairo last week, was tortured to death in a highly unusual

Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” in reference to Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing Poland’s

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office denied on Saturday night that Israel had agreed to cooperate with the process of compiling a European Union report on the freeze in the peace

Three Border Police officers were lightly wounded slightly before the end of Shabbat on Saturday evening, after a car driven by several Arab terrorists rammed into them at Metzudat Adumim

Russia must change its military targeting as it backs the Syrian regime, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday, as world powers seek a cessation of hostilities in the country within a week.

Yisrael Beytenu head MK Avigdor Liberman, the former ally of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who even formed a joint list with Likud in 2012, came out swinging on Saturday, accusing

Turkish artillery on Saturday shelled areas of Aleppo province in northern Syria held by Kurdish forces, a monitor said, as Ankara said it could launch a ground assault alongside Saudi troops. The Syrian Observatory for

An ambush by Syrian rebels on pro-regime forces near Damascus this week killed 76 fighters, a monitor said Saturday, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind since the conflict began. Rebels from

Israel has maintained a policy of not taking sides in the internecine Syrian war but rather only providing humanitarian aid, and as part of those efforts on Sunday the Knesset is to

An initial investigation has revealed some new details in the car ramming attack on Saturday evening, in which Arab terrorists lightly wounded three Border Police officers at Metzudat Adumim Junction, near

Maj. Gen. (res.) Avigdor (Yanush) Ben-Gal, former IDF Northern Commander, passed away on Saturday at the age of 80 following a struggle with a serious illness. The former commander leaves

Maj. Gen. (res.) Avigdor (Yanush) Ben-Gal, former IDF Northern Commander, passed away on Saturday at the age of 80 following a struggle with a serious illness. The former commander leaves

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Friday met with King Abdullah of Jordan, during the security conference in Munich. A statement released by Ya’alon’s office said that during the meeting the

A man wielding a machete on Thursday stormed a restaurant owned by an Israeli in Columbus, Ohio, CNN reported. The man attacked several people before he was killed by police,

The foreign ministers of the Quartet – the United States, Russia, EU and UN – decided on Friday at the end of their meetings on the sidelines at a security

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini spoke on Friday and ended a freeze on talks with between Israel and the bloc on the Israeli-Palestinian