Although the Shemittah year prohibitions against planting new trees are largely kept around Israel, in both secular and religious community, the Judea town of Kfar Adumim will be planting olive

Minute’s silence at Jerusalem’s Martyrs’ Forest Israelis throughout the country stood for a minute’s silence Thursday morning, as the sirens sounded in honor of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

Nearly three decades after it was established, CNN has “discovered” the town of Mevo Horon – and declared it an “illegal settlement,” according to Yehudit Tiar, one of the town’s

A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday jailed deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi’s former chief of staff for three years, after he was convicted of abusing his powers, AFP reported. The

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said Wednesday that President Barack Obama was “responsible” for making sure that Washington respects a final agreement over Iran’s nuclear program, even though Congress

Hamas on Wednesday demanded that the national unity government with longtime rival Fatah commit to previously agreed-to understandings regarding salaries of civil servants. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday dismissed pressure from the U.S. Congress over a preliminary deal on his country’s nuclear program, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Speaking a day after

Both Israel and the Iran deal have become deeply partisan issues, according to a recent poll – despite repeated calls from politicians on Capitol Hill to discourage the nation from

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) will be officially inaugurated at 8:00 pm Wednesday night, in a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Loading… The central theme

A UN envoy will travel to Iraq and Syria this week to address the disturbing use of rape, sex slavery and other sexual violence by extremists like the Islamic State, according to AFP. 

Israeli Professor Daniel Boneh of Stanford University will be awarded the 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences for his work in cryptography. The award specifically will recognize his

A police investigation has been launched against a high school music teacher in Berlin, The Local reports Wednesday, after she forced her class of eleventh graders to march to the Nazi anthem

A day after his conviction on bribery charges, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, head of the Shuvu Yisrael sect, told followers that his suffering would save the Jewish people from “a difficult

Rebels fighting in southern Syria will not cooperate militarily with Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al Nusra Front, a spokesman said Wednesday. Essam al-Rayes’ comments come after tensions between local rebel groups and

Police are suspecting a terrorist attack after a car driven by an Arab driver hit and seriously injured two pedestrians who were standing at a bus stop in Jerusalem’s French

What is Israel’s next move against Iran? The question is a complex one to answer, and partly deals with the question of how Israel deals with its primary ally going

The Holocaust serves as a testament to Jewish strength  – but also as a reminder of the obligation to support survivors, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated Wednesday night.  “An outsider can never

(AFP) – Suzanna Braun, who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust and defied death at least three times, believes she survived because of her determination to save her sister – and some divine intervention. The

It’s been seventy years after the Holocaust, and the world still hasn’t learned the lesson of where unbridled hatred of Jews can lead it, wrote MK Miri Regev (Likud) on

A mortar shell struck the Golan Heights on Wednesday night, near Alonei HaBashan.  The shell struck an open field and there were no casualties.  Security officials said shortly after the

A new research study released its findings on Wednesday, exposing how acts of violent anti-Semitism in Europe positively skyrocketed in 2014. The report, conducted by the Kantor Center for the

At least 24 people have been killed in a series of Syrian government air strikes around the city of Idlib, which rebels seized earlier this month, a monitoring group said Wednesday. Two children were

IDF soldiers on Tuesday blocked off an illegal road paved by Palestinian Arabs between an illegal Arab quarry and Highway 60, adjacent to the Jewish community of Ofra in Samaria’s

The Israel Law Center / Shurat Hadin legal NGO, which specializes in anti-terror legal warfare, has won a “historic” judgment in the amount of $330 million in a lawsuit filed

The Israel Law Center / Shurat Hadin legal NGO, which specializes in anti-terror legal warfare, has won a “historic” judgment in the amount of $330 million in a lawsuit filed

A new research study released its findings on Wednesday, exposing how acts of violent anti-Semitism in Europe positively skyrocketed in 2014. The report, conducted by the Kantor Center for the

The IDF, Israel Securoty Agency (ISA) and Israel Police launched a large-scale operation in Shechem (Nablus) Tuesday night, arresting 29 Hamas terrorists suspected of planning attacks against Israel. Those arrested

There has been mutual sniping between the more liberal Zionist rabbis and a more conservative Zionist MK, over the Conversion Law passed by the previous government, which allows municipal and neighborhood

A top Saudi terrorist in the leadership of Al-Qaeda in Yemen was killed in a US airstrike on Tuesday, according to a statement by the group online cited by Reuters.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday expressed anger over the pope’s recognition of the genocide of Armenians in 1915-1917 by Ottoman Turks, pressing the pontiff not to repeat such a “mistake” again.