Saudi Arabia, which holds a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, is set to execute a Shiite cleric who called for pro-democracy protests in the country, Reuters reports Sunday.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto violated a court order Monday by not boarding a plane to return from New York to Israel to stand trial for corruption, with his followers claiming he collapsed

The High Court needs to know its place, MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday, after the director of Israel’s Courts

Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman on Monday morning issued a grave warning, in response to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s rare public appearance last Friday. Liberman spoke about Nasrallah, who heads the Lebanese

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that he is considering taking away the Israeli ID cards from Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem. He

The Southern District Court on Monday issued an indictment to the Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court against 20-year-old Omer Al-Okabi, the brother of the terrorist Muhaned Al-Okabi who conducted a lethal attack

MK Yisrael Eichler of the haredi UTJ party caused a firestorm of indignation at the Knesset Monday when he compared the Women of the Wall (WoW) to the Islamist murabitat

Just days after the horrific fire that burned down the historic Congregation Poile Zedek Synagogue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the synagogue’s Rabbi Abraham Mykoff recalled the difficult events of last

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson doubled down Sunday on comments in which he said an armed Jewish population could have stopped the Nazis from carrying out the Holocaust. Carson said

After a freak, severe winter storm hit Israel Sunday morning, knocking out power in dozens of communities throughout the country, thousands of homes are still without power – not necessarily

“No power in the world” can stop the “intifada”, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh declared on Sunday, according to the Ma’an news agency. Speaking at a demonstration in Beirut, Haniyeh said,

Rabbi Elan Adler admits to being in a bit of a chatty mood today, but once he gets focused, it’s all about developing patience as an aspect of Derech Eretz. Is patience

Hours after a Jewish man was stabbed at the Ariel Junction in Samaria Sunday afternoon, the stabber has been arrested, according to the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet).

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon will fly to the U.S. on Sunday night for a series of meetings. Yaalon will be in the U.S. for three days, his office said. Yaalon

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said Sunday his country must “eradicate terrorism” to find a political solution to its civil war, even as he reportedly expressed a willingness to hold new

MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) on Sunday evening slammed Michael Spitzer, Director of the Israel’s Courts, over a letter he sent to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, asking the latter to sanction

The Jewish Home Chairman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, tried to lower the flames of acrimony between the Supreme Court and MK Moti Yogev of Jewish Home, following the court’s decision

The terrorist behind the deadly Be’er Sheva Central Bus Station shooting and stabbing last Sunday night was in contact with the Hamas terror organization prior to the attack.  Police uncovered a

An Arab woman attempted to stab a soldier at a police checkpoint in Hevron Sunday afternoon. The terrorist was shot dead by alert border police officers before she was able

The Israeli government ruled Sunday afternoon to formally declare several organizations previously defined as “unlawful associations” as “terrorist organizations.”  Among them:  Islamic state (ISIS) – increasing areas under its control, which

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid spoke with students at Derech Avot high school in Gush Etzion Sunday in honor of the official memorial day of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.  In remarks to Arutz

Despite delays and postponements over the demolition of terrorists’ homes, the entire process has become much easier than in the past, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) revealed in an Arutz

Israel’s first winter storm entered with a thunderclap on Sunday morning, with unusual weather along Israel’s coastal region endangering lives.  A 20-year-old man was critically injured after a wall collapsed

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has formally agreed to Jordanian demands to place security cameras on the Temple Mount, he stated in his opening remarks to his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday,

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is willing to eventually hold parliamentary and presidential elections and is ready to run himself for president, a Russian lawmaker told AFP from Damascus on Sunday. “He is ready

Ynet, the web site of daily newspaper Yediot Achronot, has fired one of its English-language editors for posting a Photoshopped image of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wearing an SS uniform

Meat and chicken could be in short supply in the coming days if veterinarians go on strike as planned. All meat and poultry producers in Israel are required to have

The Ministerial Law Committee on Sunday approved for legislation a new law that would require children to study Arabic in elementary grades, starting with first grade. The law was proposed

France’s highest court of appeals has upheld a decision that found BDS advocates guilty of inciting hate and/or discrimination, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions has reported. Last week

A terror attack has been reported at Ariel Junction. A Jewish man, aged about 25, was stabbed and suffered moderate-to-serious wounds in the upper body. The stabber escaped. Magen David Adom teams are