Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is up in arms over reports of long-term ceasefire discussions held in Qatar’s capital of Doha, negotiated by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Sunday expressed “outrage” and “utter bewilderment” at news that a music festival in Spain had disinvited American Jewish musician Matisyahu for

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that

A capital murder trial will begin this week for a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people last year outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish

Around 50 hard-line students and activists in Iran staged a rally, calling on the parliament to reject the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last month, The Associated Press

Gerald Molen, the producer of Schindler’s List, has responded to 98 prominent Jews in Hollywood who published an open letter in support of the nuclear deal with Iran, according to

Danish police said Sunday they had arrested a man on suspicion of torching a mosque in Copenhagen earlier in the day, AFP reported. “At 11:31 a.m. (0931 GMT), the police

The toll in Syrian government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100 Monday, as the UN’s humanitarian chief expressed horror and appealed for civilians to be protected. Sunday’s series of raids on

The state on Monday submitted to the Supreme Court its response to the release petition of Mohammad Allaan, a jailed Islamic Jihad terrorist who has been hunger-striking more than 60 days.

Just three months before the 20th anniversary of the nationally traumatic assassination of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a new book about the murder has been published – once again opening

A terrorist stabbing attack was thwarted Monday afternoon near the town of Tapuach in Samaria. The terrorist approached Border Patrol officers standing at Tapuach Junction, and attempted to attack him with a

Azizi Brum, a 57-year-old Jewish resident of Ashkelon, arrived at Barzilai Hospital in the coastal city on Sunday where protests continued, as Arabs demonstrated in support of the hunger-striking Islamic Jihad

Some of the rabbis on the “independent” conversion courts announced last week outside the framework of the Chief Rabbinate do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle,

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor met this week with Carmen Lapointe, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, and submitted a demand for an investigation into the behavior of Rima Khalaf,

Intelligence officials are comparing a newly discovered secret Islamic State document to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” as it blames Israel for the rise of the Islamic State and crowns U.S. President

Arabs and Jews rioted against each other at Ashkelon Junction Sunday, not far from Barzilai Hospital, where a hunger-striking terrorist prisoner is being treated. The Arab rioters demand that the

Arsonists set fire to a small roadside synagogue in north-central Israel before dawn in Friday, but the fire was put out before it could consume holy books and tefillin (phylacteries). The

Charges were filed Sunday against an Arab man from Hevron who ran over a soldier on July 19, after a police chase. According to the charge sheet, a soldier and

  The WSCI – World Science Conference Israel – opened Sunday at the Hebrew University campus in Jerusalem. The conference’s participants included Nobel Prize winners from the world over. Among

In an effort to lessen confusion among soldiers operating in Judea and Samaria regarding the recently tightened open-fire orders, the commander of the Border Police – a combined military and

At least 82 people were killed in Syrian regime air raids Sunday on a town outside Damascus, a monitor said, as the UN’s top humanitarian chief held talks with government

After years of bickering and haggling, the government approved on Sunday the outline for development of offshore natural gas fields, as presented by Minister of Energy, Dr. Yuval Steinitz, with

A massive arms cache seized by security forces in Kuwait was smuggled into the gulf state by Iran, and was destined for a Hezbollah “sleeper cell,” Kuwaiti media reported Sunday.

Senior members of Hamas have escalated their threats against UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), following UNRWA’s announcement that it will

Alcee Hastings, a member of the US House of Representatives from Florida, has joined the growing list of Democrats who are opposing the recent nuclear deal with Iran. Hastings recently

Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has filed an appeal against his two sentences of death and life in prison. According to Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maqsud, one of Morsi’s defense lawyers, told Egyptian

Earlier this evening, police stopped a suspicious car in Tel Aviv. The officers found five illegal residents inside the vehicle. All five have been taking for questioning. An explosives expert

One of Chicago’s most prominent Jewish organizations has rejected the Iran deal – and along with it, US President Barack Obama’s attempts to lobby Jewish groups for support for the

The fire that broke out Friday evening at a self-service gas station on Highway 60, near the Eli community in the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, has been confirmed as an

Six of Israel’s eight universities are listed among the world’s top 500 universities on Sunday, with two in the top 100.  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was ranked #1 in