The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Hussein on Tuesday condemned Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan’s (Likud) call the day before to ban the Islamist organizations that routinely riot on the

The United States and Turkey have finalized technical details on an agreement to include Turkey in an international effort to bring down the Islamic State (ISIS), fully integrating Turkey into

Saudi officials on Tuesday said that King Salman will visit the United States early next month, for the first time since ascending the throne, and will meet with President Barack

Dr. Sudi Namir, who was fired from the Israel Medical Association Ethics Committee for controversial comments he made about homosexuals on an internet forum, has defended his comments in an

Ayoub El Khazzani, the 25-year-old gunman from Morocco who opened fire on a train in France last week, intended to murder everyone on the train as part of a Muslim

A leading Islamist preacher in the UK has been left red-faced after his details were included on a batch of leaked user IDs from the Ashley Madison website. Private details

Heinz tomato ketchup is a household name around the world, including in Israel. But now, thanks to a court ruling, that’s about to change… sort of. Osem, Israel’s leading food

After announcing construction on two new nuclear facilities in a southeast region on the Indian Ocean late last month, Iran continues to seek new nuclear sites after the nuclear deal

The good news in the annual report by the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) is that there is a surge in pro-Israel activity in the US. The bad news is

Hael Daud, the Jordanian Minister for Sacred Properties and Islamic Holy Sites, has announced the Jordanian government’s intent to enlarge the number of Waqf guards at the Al Aqsa mosque

Sir Nicholas Winton, also known as “Britain’s Schindler” for saving hundreds of children from the Holocaust, will be immortalized on a Royal Mail stamp after a petition attracted more than

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday he plans to travel to Iran in October, the latest sign that Europe’s largest economy wants to quickly rebuild economic and political

A white supremacist wanted to explain to jurors on Monday his motive for killing three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City, but a judge told him the first

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen fired rockets into a residential district of Taez, killing 14 civilians, mostly women and children, officials told AFP on Monday. The bodies of those killed, including seven women

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for fresh parliamentary elections, his office said on Monday, according to Reuters. The move was widely anticipated after two months of coalition talks

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said on Monday that fighting the “terrorists” in his country takes precedence to fighting Israel. “Terrorists” is the term the Syrian president routinely uses to describe

A preview of Bonfils’ photographs includes the one of Rachel’s Tomb as it used to look. The photo is repeated and explained below. Three thousand pictures taken by the Maison Bonfils

It has been cleared for publication that the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), with assistance from the IDF, arrested a four-man terror cell that planned to attack Jews

Jewish land rights group Regavim and the community of Kfar Adumim filed a motion to the High Court Monday in an attempt to halt illegal construction of structures by the

The most likely scenario in the congressional fight over the nuclear deal with Iran is that Congress will pass a measure of disapproval against the deal, but will not be

About 1,200 infiltrators will be freed Tuesday and Wednesday from the Holot open detention center in the Negev, following a High Court decision two weeks ago that the Law for

Right-wing groups, including Im Tirzu, are up in arms over an event planned to honor a new book published by the United Kibbutz Movement and the Jerusalem-based Van Leer Institute that

Following a negative report from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on the Israeli economy last week, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) summoned his top officials to an emergency meeting

A prominent rival of Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas called for the ouster of the veteran leader on Monday, as the PA seeks to organize a congress for the first time in

Lebanese officials are said to fear that Hezbollah will take advantage of protests in Lebanese cities about how the garbage is collected to engineer a coup. The “trash crisis,” as

A strike by teachers and personnel in Gaza kept more than 200,000 children from returning to school for the new term Monday, as the UN agency that employs them struggles financially. Several thousand teachers,

Israeli triple-jumper Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko has won the silver medal for her sport in the World Athletics Championship in Beijing on Monday, perhaps paving her way to the upcoming Olympics in Rio,

A joint security operation has broken up a terrorist cell targeting Israeli motorists in the Samaria region, it has been cleared for publication Monday. Israel Police, the IDF and the

Sarah Steelman, professor in the Economics Department of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a former State Treasurer of Missouri, battled to introduce state legislation preventing Missouri from

There’s a major problem with the emergency call-in hotline system in Judea and Samaria, said Yossi Dagan, head of the Judea and Samaria Council. Speaking Monday, Dagan revealed that calls