Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem on Monday night, gathering to ask for forgiveness and mercy in Selichot prayers before the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

A 91-year-old woman in Germany has been charged as an accessory to the murder of 260,000 people at Auschwitz, The Telegraph reported Monday. The woman, who has not been named

India has accelerated plans to buy drones from Israel that can be armed, defense sources told Reuters on Monday, allowing the military to carry out strikes overseas with less risk

The Vatican flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations on Friday ahead of Pope Francis’ address, but there will be no ceremony, the Holy See’s

The White House said on Monday it was seeing indications Iran is cooperating with inspectors from the UN’s nuclear watchdog and credited tough international sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program, according

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) on Monday blasted a group of leftist former ambassadors who had lobbied Brazil to reject the appointment of Dani Dayan as Israel’s ambassador to Brazil.

France will not demand Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s departure as a precondition for peace talks, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday, according to the Reuters news agency. “If we require,

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday took to Twitter to criticize Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson for saying he would not support a Muslim becoming president. Carson, responding to

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas raised his rhetoric on Tuesday, threatening about the “risk of an intifada” or popular terror war if clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon just hours before the start of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) within the boundaries of Beit Haggai, a town located just south of

​ Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv Yisrael Meir Lau, sat down with Arutz Sheva on Tuesday to offer holiday greetings and a spiritual message before the start of Yom Kippur.  “We are

Israel and Japan have been becoming key allies in the span of just over a year, and that growing bond connecting the two countries located on either extreme of Asia was

The new leader of Britain’s Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, has been invited to speak before the party’s pro-Israel caucus, the UK-based Jewish Chronicle reports.  MP Joan Ryan’s invitation to Corbyn to address the

Several leading nationalist voices have been expressing disappointment after Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) added Attorney Raz Nizri and Prof. Ron Shapira to the list of candidates for the

Iran’s armed forces are the best defense against “terror” in the Middle East, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, urging regional countries not to rely on world powers. “Today, the largest power against

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed indictments against five Arab teenagers in the Juvenile District Court on Tuesday, all of whom were arrested for throwing rocks at an Israeli civilian.   Two weeks

Forty two years after it ended, more information has emerged on the tensions that dogged the IDF in the wake of the Yom Kippur War. The new documents, which were

Israel defending Judaism’s holiest site is a “red line,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated to a delegation of visiting Arab MKs on Monday.  “I am very disturbed by

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) filed a new bill Monday which seeks to establish a minimum sentence for rock-throwers and Molotov cocktail throwers, following the rise in terrorism in and around

Rock-throwing terrorists aren’t just a recent Jerusalem phenomenon, according to Gush Etzion Regional Council head Davidi Perl – it’s been going on for years in many parts of Judea and

France opened a business development office in Tehran on Monday seeking to renew once-strong economic ties with Iran after the July 14 nuclear deal in the face of “fierce competition.”  French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll

Leading Religious Zionist rabbis encouraged Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) to continue ascending the Temple Mount on Monday, after an MK blamed the minister for an increase in the

Israel and Russia will coordinate their military actions over Syria to avoid an accidental exchange of fire, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday after concluding talks with Russian President Vladimir

An ISIS terrorist recruiter posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart. So reports German RTL television. At the same time, a

A new poll shows that most Palestinians no longer support the “two state solution,” which entails lopping off Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem from Israel and establishing an Arab

An entire class’s annual visit to the Temple Mount was cancelled on Monday, despite advanced coordination with the Israel Police.  Over 100 students from the Birkat Moshe Yeshiva in Ma’ale

This week’s edition of Temple Talk, the first of the year, takes us through the process of the Ten Days of Repentance and the cleansing healing of Yom Kippur, and

Jerusalem District Commander Moshe Edri on Monday evening announced that the entry of Muslims to the Temple Mount compound will be restricted in the coming days, in light of the ongoing

Israel on Monday accused Jordan of exacerbating tensions on the Temple Mount, after King Abdullah proclaimed that Jews had no business praying on Judaism’s holiest site. In response, Israel sent

172 new olim (immigrants) from Ukraine landed in Israel on Monday, many of whom are starting a new life after experiencing the horrors of civil war in the Donetsk region.  Among them: