Looters have desecrated mass graves at the Sobibor death camp in southeast Poland, museum sources revealed Monday, apparently in a bid to find treasure buried with Holocaust victims.  A large

Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) believes that neutering and spaying dogs and cats to prevent their reproducing contradicts Jewish law, according to a report in Yediot Aharonot Monday.

The annual global conference of Chabad emissaries, or shluchim, will begin at week’s end in New York City. About 3,500 shluchim are expected to take part, and to discuss matters

An Arab assailant from eastern Jerusalem assaulted a haredi woman with a glass bottle Monday. The woman, a 45-year-old tour guide, was guiding a group of tourists at the Yafo

A well known Salafi sheikh in Jordan has caused wide outrage in the Muslim world, after issuing a fatwa (Islamic ruling) in a video making the rounds online in which he

The rampant human rights abuses committed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) have seldom merited public attention due to the PA’s crackdown on the topic, but one daring resident has raised

Top officials at the Russian airline Metrojet, whose plane crashed in Sinai on Saturday killing all 224 passengers, revealed Monday that the crash was not due to a technical fault but

Republican presidential candidates on Sunday expressed skepticism over President Barack Obama’s plan to deploy a small number of special forces to Syria, saying it showed “weakness”, Reuters reported. In fact,

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dismissed on Sunday the chances of foreign countries bartering a deal over Syria’s future, suggesting they should focus on securing a halt to fighting

The head of the Italian football federation is in hot water following alleged anti-Semitic comments he made, The Associated Press (AP) reported Sunday. The official, Carlo Tavecchio, allegedly made the

The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone onboard, broke up at high altitude, Russia’s top aviation official said Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP).

Shas leader Aryeh Deri, who on Sunday resigned from his position as Economy Minister to become Israel’s first ever Periphery Minister, may soon be appointed Welfare Minister, Channel 2 News

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri is calling on Muslim supporters to band together to confront the “threat” from the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq, Reuters reported on Sunday. The

The fact that “many Jews are leaving Europe is most alarming,’’ writes European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans in a letter to Rabbi Menachem Margolin, General Director of the European

A Palestinian Arab attempted to stab an Israeli Jew Sunday afternoon at Einun junction, north of Kiryat Arba and Hevron.  The IDF confirmed in the minutes after the attack (update: 1:55

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed the cabinet secretary and chairman of the National Security Council to intervene in the issue of sports boycotts against Israel on Sunday morning, following an urgent

Economy Minister Aryeh Deri officially resigned Sunday, opening the way for the government to greenlight a multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant Noble Energy, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.

Jerusalem District Police and Israel Security Agency officials have arrested a Palestinian Arab resident of Abu Dis on suspicion he planned the terror stabbing on Haggai Street in Jerusalem’s Old City

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Israel’s multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant Noble Energy at the start of his Cabinet meeting on Sunday.  “Today we are taking a major step toward advancing

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to power following Turkey’s elections today. Almost 90 percent of the ballots have been counted, and the official

Zehava Shaul, whose son Oron Shaul was killed in Operation Protective Edge, and whose body is being held by Hamas, expressed anger Sunday at the security establishment’s decision to hand

Former Balad MK Said Nafaa began his one-year prison sentence on Monday – a year and a half after he was convicted of illegally entering an enemy state and of

Over the weekend, the IDF’s intelligence branch sent a letters to all officers and soldiers, warning them against foreign attempts to enlist spies from among the IDF’s ranks. Channel 2 reports that

The European Union on Sunday said it was allocating an extra 28 million Euro ($31 million US) to Jordan to help it meet the urgent needs of Syrian refugees as winter sets in. EU

The immigration crisis rocking Europe has once again underlined how events far away in the Middle East can have a massive impact on Europe and other western democracies. But how democratic leaders

Arabs in Haifa threw a rock that hit a Jewish youth in the head Saturday, and tension between Jews and Arabs in the northern port city has been growing, according

The president and founder of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), Yigal Carmon, says the American media has dangerously refused to notice that Iran has not only not approved the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office on Sunday evening clarified that the state of Israel invests heavily in Jerusalem, after the mayor of the capital, Nir Barkat, sent a strongly-worded letter

Three Border Police were reported hurt in a car terror attack at Bayt Einun Junction near Hevron. One victim suffered head wounds that were initially described as moderate but his condition later deteriorated and

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today, after months of dialogue with the Ministry of Finance about strengthening Jerusalem reached a dead end. Barkat