President Reuven Rivlin met at the White House on Wednesday evening with US President Barack Obama for the first time since he assumed the presidency.  President Obama stressed the meeting

The couple injured in the terror shooting in Samaria on Wednesday evening were identified as Shaul and Rachel Nir, residents of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem.  The attack occurred as they were on

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon visited the Eshkol Regional Council on Wednesday evening, where he lit a Hanukkah candle of Hanukkah with locals. The Eshkol Regional Council, located near the border

Al Quds University in eastern Jerusalem decided to mark the upcoming Christmas holiday by placing a large tree at its campus entrance – but this was no ordinary Christmas tree for

An American official confirmed to The Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday that Iran tested a ballistic missile last month, the second such test since signing the nuclear agreement with Western

Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn was evacuated on Tuesday night due to a bomb threat. The threat targeting the iconic Jewish center was made in a

Three-dimensional printing has become the future for materials technology – and Israelis are involved with some of the biggest manufacturers in the businesses.  Arutz Sheva spoke with Arik Shefet, 3D Printing

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Tuesday that would overhaul the federal visa waiver program and bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Sudan, or those who have

Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who killed 14 people in last week’s attack in San Bernardino, California, had communicated with “people with extremist views” in the Los Angeles area, MSNBC

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government in Ramallah, headed by Rami Hamdallah, in its weekly meeting on Tuesday expressed support for a two-state solution based on the establishment of a Palestinian

The criminal division of the State Attorney’s Office has petitioned the Supreme Court over the leniency in the punishment of an Israeli citizen, who joined Islamic State (ISIS) and fought

Over 100,000 people attended the 33rd annual gala dinner event for Beit El Institutions Sunday night, at the prestigious Marrott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan.  The dinner was chaired by former

Israel should take steps to improve the lives of Palestinian Arabs, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) must also end its incitement to terror against Israelis, President Reuven Rivlin said on

Palestinian Authority news agency Ma’an reports that 14 Gazans are “missing,” following the flooding of a smuggling tunnel with seawater by Egyptian military forces. Gazan rescue teams rescued seven tunnel

Two people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in the Beit Hadassah area of Hevron. Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene say one of the victims – a

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will travel to Israel to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on December 28, an Israeli government official said Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity,

Miriam Arami, the mother of Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami who was murdered by Arab coworkers in September 2014, responded in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Tuesday to announcements that those arrested

IKEA, the famous Swedish furniture retailer, has gotten its official certificate of kashrut (Jewish dietary law) in the coastal city of Netanya where a branch of the global chain is

On Sunday MK Miki Zohar (Likud) presented a draft of the “Shabbat Bill” to the Ministerial Committee of Legislation. The bill outlined an overhaul to the status quo that is

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday lambasted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after the latter on Monday called to ban all Muslims from entering the US. The real

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday evening rejected the EU’s “double standard” in distinguishing between Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israelis and terrorism by the Islamic State (ISIS) group. The remarks came

The United States is reviewing reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said

Iraqi security forces on Tuesday recaptured a large area on the southwestern side of Ramadi from the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), which overran the city in May, officials said.

The mothers of the Jewish youths being held on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson in July plan to protest on Wednesday, together with supporters from around

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the military had launched strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean. “We used Calibre cruise

American Jewish groups attacked would-be Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Monday over his plan to block entry of Muslims into the US. “A plan that singles out Muslims and denies

There has been a dramatic change over the past three decades with regard to how the Jewish community, and more specifically the Orthodox Jewish community deals with the after effects

Senior White House officials lined up on Monday to condemn Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, saying it was contrary to American values and interests,

The number of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria has more than doubled since last year to at least 27,000, a report by an intelligence consultancy said Tuesday, highlighting the global dimension of the