French President Francois Hollande joined calls to maintain a ban on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, warning Wednesday that any change in the rules governing Judaism’s holiest site could lead

A New York judge has upheld the right to religious freedom on Monday, after animal rights activists attempted to have the annual Kapparot ritual banned.  Kapparot is a Jewish tradition believed to have originated

The Icelandic capital of Reykjavik has announced that it will boycott all products made in Israel “as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues.” The boycott not does limit

Hundreds of people attended the funeral of murdered Israeli Alexander Levlovitz, 64, who died in a rock attack on his car outside Jerusalem over the Rosh Hashanah holiday.  Levlovitz’s children

Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics have already begun preparations for the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) fast next Wednesday, ahead of an expected need for thousands to receive emergency medical

The official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily has encouraged Palestinian Arabs to continue throwing rocks at Israelis, to “save” the Al-Aqsa Mosque built on the Temple Mount, Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday.  Another PA

A Beit Orot yeshiva student was arrested in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, after its students retaliated against a steady stream of Arab attacks by blasting the “Shema Yisrael”

An Iranian champion soccer player has been banned from attending a major match this week, after her husband took her passport under the protection of Iran’s Sharia Law.  Niloufar Ardalan,

The White House was placed on a security lockdown for close to an hour on Wednesday afternoon (local time), Reuters reported. The reason for the lockdown was an unattended package

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday launched a scathing verbal attack on Israel, following the continued clashes between Arab rioters and Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in

Searches for an Israeli man missing in the Ukrainian city of Uman have increased Wednesday, with local patrols and rescue services focusing on finding a body. The yet-unnamed Israeli was one

The IDF could intervene in future rock-throwing attacks, Deputy Defense Minister MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan stated Wednesday, in the event the Israel Police needs reinforcements.  “If the police think it needs

The yeshiva student who escaped an Arab mob in a Jerusalem alley on the eve of Rosh Hashanah has demanded immediate action from the Jerusalem District Police on Wednesday, after his

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has accepted France’s invitation to visit Paris in November, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday, in what will be the first trip to France by an Iranian leader since 1999. Speaking

International leaders have called on Israel to continue a ban on Jewish worship on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, in order to maintain calm and placate Muslim extremists who

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed to make a harsh policy change against rock-throwing and firebombing, his office announced on Tuesday following a rise in violent rioting in eastern Jerusalem. In addition

Islamist rioters and Israeli security forces clashed in Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount and in the surrounding Old City for a third straight day on Tuesday, despite

An Israeli motorist was fatally injured late on Sunday night in a car crash apparently caused by Arab rock-throwers in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of south Jerusalem.  Israel Police said the car lost

Over 100 residents of the southeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv protested on Tuesday night, at the site bordering Arnona neighborhood where an Israeli driver was murdered in a rock attack on

While Democrats in the Senate may have last week given US President Barack Obama backing to pass the Iran nuclear deal, two leading Republican Congressmen continued the fight this week with

The Knesset Committee is expected to discuss in the coming weeks the government’s budget for the next fiscal year, and one MK is pushing for increased funding to Judea and

The influential Saudi Binladin Group has been suspended by Saudi Arabia after one of its cranes at the Grand Mosque in Mecca collapsed last Friday, killing 107 and wounding 238 people at

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Ankara on Monday with Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, the exiled leader of the Gaza-based terrorist group who resides in Qatar. Turkish media

Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned Israel Monday following arrests of rioters on the Temple Mount, saying he was “very concerned and angered with the recent escalation’s in Jerusalem, specifically in

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon condemned on Tuesday the fatal rock attack as well as continued disturbances in eastern Jerusalem over the two-day Rosh Hashanah holiday.  Jerusalem resident Alexander Levlovitz, 64, was

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday night made his third phone call to his Russian counterpart in the last 10 days, a State Department official said, according to The

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern Tuesday about the latest escalation at the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem – but had nothing to say about North

The UN’s Mideast envoy, Nikolay Mladenov, warned Tuesday that clashes between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs in and around Jerusalem’s holy sites have the potential to ignite violence well beyond the

More than 20 Kuwaitis denied in court on Tuesday that they were linked to Iran and the Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah, alleging that confessions were extracted under extreme physical torture,