Looking back after 50 years of service to the Anti-Defamation League, retiring national director Abraham Foxman expressed passionate concern to journalist Edwin Black about the safety and security of Jews overseas
Large fire and rescue forces were called on Monday morning to the Tambour paint factory in Akko after a leak of massive quantities of fire retardant foam. Initially, three people were
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has spoken out for the first time since his tenure as Chief Rabbi of the town of Efrat was extended by the chief rabbinate, ending weeks of controversy and rumors
Iran has demanded yet another concession in nuclear talks with the West on Monday – this time, to end the UN arms embargo on the Islamic Republic. After already having
Islamic State (ISIS) group fighters attacked a town near their de facto Syrian capital Monday in a bid to recapture it from Kurdish and Arab rebel forces, a Kurdish spokesman
President Barack Obama said Monday the coalition battling Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists was “intensifying” its campaign against the group’s base in Syria, but cautioned the fight would be long, AFP
The “Greek Tragedy” playing out in the European Union’s most troubled economy contains a bright spot for Israelis looking to get away on vacation. As a result of Greece’s problems
The Jerusalem-based Kedem Auction House has put up for sale an original typed protocol of two meetings between the Council of Torah Sages and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and President
Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who was savagely attacked last October by an Arab terrorist who shot him in the chest, found himself, figuratively, in “the belly of the beast”
Among its slew of complaints about Israel to the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian Authority – recognized there as “the State of Palestine” – demanded that Israel be investigated for,
The government on Monday held an official memorial service for the IDF soldiers killed during last year’s Operation Protective Edge. Most of the 67 soldiers killed in the war are
In a letter Monday to entertainment mogul Haim Saban, Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton expressed her “alarm” over attempts to boycott Israel, bother commercially and academically. It was the first
A resident of Israel’s south who worked as a translator and lip reader for the police in the past has sued the Israeli Police, charging them of “abandoning” him and allowing him to
Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan gathered the police’s top officers Monday for a motivational talk following the suicide Sunday of Major General Efraim Bracha, who headed the National Unit for
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has raised a media storm after she roped off reporters in a New Hampshire 4th of July parade, in an apparent bid to prevent uncomfortable
British police are under fire for having let a man cloaked in the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization walk with impunity near the UK Houses of Parliament
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) has defended her party from charges it should never have agreed to a cancellation of conversion reforms when it joined the ruling Coalition. Her comments
A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday because of a “technical problem”, killing at least seven people, security and medical officials said.
An indictment was submitted on Monday morning to the Central District Court against Muatasem Fadila, a 35-year-old Israeli Arab resident of Tira to the northeast of Tel Aviv, for the premeditated
President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of Muslim officials Sunday in the President’s Residence and broke the Ramadan fast with them at the same time that Jews were breaking the Fast of the 17th of
Jordanian security forces arrested a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards planning attacks in Jordan, foiling what they said was the most serious terror plot in the country in the past
Hundreds of people joined a large crowd in Beit El Sunday afternoon to recite afternoon prayers near two buildings the High Court ordered torn down Sunday. The worshipers prayed that
At an event marking the end of the Ramadan fast on Sunday, President Reuven Rivlin spoke with Arabic language mediaand discussed a number of issues, chief among them the relations between
Greece’s government on Sunday looked to have won a ‘No’ it had been seeking in a referendum on bailout terms, AFP reports. An official tally of over half the ballots
On the eve of the 39th anniversary of the historic Operation Thunderbolt, the rescue of Jewish and Israeli citizens kidnapped by terrorists and held captive at Entebbe Airport in 1976,
The Turkish army has called a meeting of troop commanders stationed along its fortified border with Syria to discuss a possible intervention in Syria, the Hurriyet newspaper reported on Sunday.
How can Israel deal with the rising threat of ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula, along its southern border? Middle East expert Prof. Hillel Frisch of the Begin-Sadat Center doesn’t rule
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said Sunday that he, and the Jewish Agency, were “troubled” by the decision of the government earlier Sunday to reform the conversion system in Israel.
The Tunisian jihadist behind the recent massacre of foreigners at a seaside resort had previously worked in tourism, officials said Sunday, according to AFP. Meanwhile, the mother of the jihadist,
The Yad L’achim anti-missionary organization called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to do something about the “worrying rise” in assimilation and intermarriage. Speaking at Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that