Religious groups in Ashdod are planning a mass protest later this week against a shopping center that has begun operating on Shabbat. The Big Fashion Center of Ashdod said Sunday

The Supreme Court has given the Israeli government and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein only 12 hours to respond to Yesh Atid’s appeal against the expansion of the cabinet. Justice Daphne

The mayor of an Iraqi town where more than 42 inmates escaped in a prison break claimed by the Islamic State group (ISIS) said Sunday that serious security failures were to

In order to get his government organized, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is planning to increase the number of ministers in his government – if the High Court lets him. The

The coalition agreement between Jewish Home and Likud was approved Sunday evening in a session of the party’s Central Committee at Nehalim. In addition, the party approved the allocation of

Hezbollah said on Sunday it had killed over 20 fighters from Syria’s Al-Qaeda wing, the Al-Nusra Front, and destroyed several hideouts and training camps the fighters had set up to

The Palestinian Football Association vowed on Sunday to push ahead with efforts to have Israel suspended from FIFA, following joint talks with the FIFA president Sepp Blatter in Zurich, reported

Cuba’s communist President, Raul Castro, said Sunday he was so impressed by his audience with Pope Francis in the Vatican that he might return to the Catholic faith he was

Lebanon claims that an Israel Navy ship briefly entered Lebanese waters at 1:03 a.m. Sunday morning. “An Israeli enemy gunboat breached the Lebanese territorial waters off Ras el-Naqoura at 1:03

Presumed Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said on Sunday that he would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, though he acknowledged mistakes made after Saddam Hussein’s downfall, AFP reported.

Hezbollah said on Sunday it had killed over 20 fighters from Syria’s Al-Qaeda wing, the Al-Nusra Front, and destroyed several hideouts and training camps the fighters had set up to

A military committee dealing with terrorists who were freed in the Gilad Shalit deal and later re-arrested determined on Sunday that Samer Issawi, a terrorist prisoner who went on a

Khalil al-Haya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, on Sunday denied reports of the presence of a branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Gaza. His denial comes despite threats

The Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday accepted a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by Saudi Arabia, but said it would respond to any violations of the pause, Reuters reported. Neighboring

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will skip a May 14 summit of Persian Gulf leaders with President Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. At the summit Obama is

Meretz chairwoman MK Zehava Galon on Sunday came to the defense of MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), following a string of inappropriate sexist remarks against her. In her comments, Galon

ISIS terrorists have been giving their murder victims a Mafia-style “hug of death,” hugging individuals convicted of a range of crimes, from adultery to theft to homosexuality, before dispatching them

Nava Boker, one of the Likud’s new MKs, made her political agenda clear Sunday – which includes the annexation of Gush Etzion – the Etzion Bloc south of Jerusalem – as a top priority. Boker

A report by the Kikar Hashabbat web site purports to show the coalition agreement between the Likud and Shas. According to the report, the government has promised to increase the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is in the process of deciding which Likud MKs to “reward” with a ministerial position – and among those MKs is likely to be Tzipi Hotovely.

Hours after the outgoing government approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s proposal to expand the next government, the Opposition jumped into attack mode.  “Netanyahu and Bennett against the citizens of Israel

A panel of three judges in the Tel Aviv District Court dismissed the assault conviction of former MK Mohammed Barakeh of the Hadash party on Sunday. Barakeh is accused of attacking a right-wing

At a press conference held in Tel Aviv, the Ethiopian protest leaders presented their demands from the government and state authorities. Among other things, protest leaders called to prosecute the police

A group of Israelis were briefly detained by Thai soldiers this week while making a business pitch at Bangkok’s police headquarters in what officers have described as a “misunderstanding”.  

Hamas has called on the international community to hasten to bring Israeli “war criminals” to trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Saturday, following a report by far-left NGO

Dozens of people were killed and 40 inmates escaped in a bloody prison break north of the Iraqi capital for which the Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility on Saturday, according to AFP.  The

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected claims that Ankara is preparing to intervene militarily in neighboring Syria, local media reported on Saturday. “No, there is no situation right now

Syrian government forces advanced Saturday towards the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, where around 250 regime force members and their families are trapped in a hospital building, a monitor said.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) congratulated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for forming a coalition government on Saturday, after a last-minute rush to sign deals with Shas and Jewish Home before last

Twenty-nine students at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business were joined by their parents and faculty in Belfer Hall to celebrate their induction into the school’s inaugural chapter of Beta Gamma