President Reuven Rivlin hosted at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem the children of the Chani and Rabbi Hezki Lifshitz, the Chabad emissaries based in Nepal, Wednesday afternoon.  With their parents still

The Chabad envoy in Kathmandu, Rabbi Hezki Lifshitz, is still rescuing stranded hikers in Nepal, he told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday.  “By the grace of God we were able to rescue 25

Israelis in the area of earthquake-ravaged Nepal have been flocking to the Chabad House in Kathmandu, the one place they feel safe in the wake of the destruction around them.

Despite being the leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran should play a “major role” in the Middle East according to EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday. Mogherini spoke to

The United States Senate on Tuesday rejected an amendment toughening legislation that would require that any nuclear agreement with Iran be approved by Congress, hours after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

It has been cleared for publication that Hamas’s armed wing planned a large-scale abduction of residents from the community of Kerem Shalom in the first week of Operation Protective Edge last

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid on Tuesday evening blasted the coalition agreement reached between the Likud and the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party. The agreement, reached earlier on

Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman, on Tuesday quit his membership in a leading Jewish organization targeted by a deadly bombing in 1994, reports The Associated Press (AP). Timerman announced his

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will announce his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, presenting a liberal challenge to Hillary Clinton, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Sanders,

The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an

Representatives from Syria’s opposition National Coalition will meet the UN’s Syria envoy in Geneva next month as he seeks to revive peace talks, the group’s president said Tuesday, according to

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid sharply criticized the emerging coalition agreement between Likud and United Torah Judaism (UTJ). The two parties agreed to cancel the law passed by the previous government,

President Francois Hollande announced Wednesday that France would increase its defense budget by close to four billion euros ($4.4 billion) over four years, in response to Islamist terror threats after the Paris jihadist attacks in January, reports AFP. He also

Three members of Hezbollah, two of whom are accused in a deadly 2012 bombing targeting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, were on Tuesday placed on a special American terror watch list,

Mere days after Mount Hermon in the north was covered in unseasonable snow “you only see in January” last Friday amid surprising cold around the country, Israel is bearing the

Apple, the iconic global technology giant, is further building its presence in Israel by expanding the size of the offices in its new Herzliya headquarters. According to a report in the

Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician convicted of leaking Israeli nuclear secrets nearly 30 years ago, was detained by police over Independence Day, under suspicion of breaking the conditions of his

Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician convicted of leaking Israeli nuclear secrets nearly 30 years ago, was detained by police over Independence Day, under suspicion of breaking the conditions of his

A former employee of Al Jazeera America (AJA) has claimed he was fired after protesting his boss’s frequent “anti-American and anti-Semitic” rants, as well as his open discrimination against women employees.

New figures for 2014 published by the Defense Ministry on Wednesday morning show that record high expenditures were made acquiring domestic products, showing that a large portion of the ministry’s

UK Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron has come out strongly in support of Israel, saying he feels it is “important to speak out” and defend the Jewish

An Iranian civilian plane breached the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s no-fly zone in Yemen, leading coalition forces to bomb a runway at the Sana’a airport on Tuesday to prevent it from

Israel allowed 14,000 tons of building material into Gaza on Wednesday, the defense ministry said of the largest single shipment since last summer’s Hamas terror war – despite the fact that Hamas is

Former US President Jimmy Carter is to arrive in Gaza on Thursday and meet with top leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization. “Carter will arrive in Gaza on Thursday through the

The leadership of the Arab sector in Israel called a nationwide Arab strike Wednesday to protest the enforcement of the law against structures built illegally by Israel’s Arabs. The Arab

Police from Jerusalem’s Moriah precinct arrested a woman on suspicion of setting a fire at a gas station on Bethlehem Road Tuesday. Security camera footage shows the woman approaching a man who

The IDF rescue team dispatched to Nepal to aid in earthquake disaster relief efforts opened the gates to its field hospital on Wednesday morning, where it will work to mend

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday announced that the police officer who was caught on a security camera brutally assaulting an IDF soldier in uniform on Sunday in the coastal

US officials have denied reports Tuesday that the Iranian navy opened fire on and captured a US cargo ship – however, the ship which was captured is apparently largely owned by American

In the latest in a string of exposed smuggling operations by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, a gag order was lifted on Tuesday revealing that the Israel Security Agency (ISA), IDF and