Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said the deal currently under discussion between Iran and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program is even worse than he had feared. “The dangerous

The man whose clever quiz questions, based mostly on the Hebrew language and Jewish history and culture, were familiar to even passing radio listeners in Israel – and certainly to his thousands

The Germanwings crash story has gained another wrinkle on Sunday – this time, as analysts predict large lawsuits against parent company Lufthansa.  On Tuesday, Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz may have intentionally crashed an

Syrian government forces apparently executed at least 15 prisoners in the city of Idlib before Islamist terrorists overran the provincial capital, AFP reported on Sunday.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bodies

Following the right-wing’s victory in Israel’s general elections earlier this month, several prominent leftist commentators have reacted ferociously, sometimes even vindictively, in some cases calling on Diaspora Jews to respond

A 27 year-old Arab man has been arrested by the Judea-Samaria District of the Israel Police on Sunday, after he made multiple false reports of ‘terrorism’ in the region and

Fragments of pottery used by Egyptians to make beer and dating back 5,000 years have been discovered on a building site in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said on

At an olive grove next to Mishor Adumim junction, in the Gush Edumin region east of Jerusalem, 225 saplings were uprooted over the weekend. Yaniv Aharoni, who is in charge

“I think the animosity exhibited by our administration toward the prime minister of Israel is reprehensible,” US House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told CNN‘s Dana Bash on “State of the

Poet Erez Bitton has been named as this year’s recipient of the Israel Prize for Literature. He told Army Radio after the announcement: “At first I couldn’t believe it. I

A provisional agreement on key elements of Iran deal has been reached, say diplomats, according to AFP. Western diplomats in talks in Switzerland said Sunday that Iran had “more or less” agreed to

Saudi forces began air strikes against Houthi-controlled Yemeni forces, which began just three days ago, have caused considerable damage to the Iranian-backed rebels so far, according to reports. Yemen’s air

Dozens of women who served in the Mossad have united in opposition to the decision to award ex-Mossad employee Sima Shine with the honor of lighting a beacon in the

In a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) requested that the Ambassador inform U.S. President Barack Obama as to who the winner of

Hamas has generally accused Israel of making life miserable for Gazans, even though it’s been nearly a decade since Israel abandoned the Strip, and Hamas has been in charge since

A source in the Likud said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was strongly considering asking Zionist Union/Labor head Yitzchak Herzog to join his coalition. The source, speaking to Arutz Sheva,

Prenuptial agreements in Israel are on the rise. Long-shunned by more traditional circles and sometimes even considered interference by some authorities, they have increasingly been embraced as the best way

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said late Sunday he believed a nuclear deal with Iran could be reached, but insisted it must place an atomic bomb “beyond reach” for the

The Knesset building is now the “greenest” parliamentary building in the world. As of Sunday, the building’s roof, with near 5,000 square meters of solar panels, is set to generate

In honor of the 67th Israeli Independence Day next month, Toronto will host a showing of the documentary film “Beneath the Helmet,” a movie following five young Israelis who enlisted

An influential rabbi in New York, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, called the attention of his congregants last Wednesday to an article dissecting why US President Barack Obama’s hostility towards Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

Hamas deputy politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh said over the weekend that Israel agreed to providing a gas pipeline to Gaza’s power plant – the plant has shut down on numerous occasions given

The ex-girlfriend of Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings co-pilot thought to have intentionally crashed an Airbus into the French Alps killing 150 people last Tuesday, has revealed that he previously made

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas used the platform of the Arab League summit in Sharm el-Shekh, Egypt, this Saturday to attack his “unity partner” Hamas, making a subtle call for

MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) dismissed claims that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would look to form a unity government with the Labor party. In a post on Facebook before Shabbat, Hotovely

The New Yorker raised a furor late last week with a quiz by controversial Girls actress Lena Dunham, in which she compared Jewish men to dogs and played on classical anti-Semitic tropes favoring a canine companion

The head of the United Nations cultural body vowed in Baghdad Saturday to step up measures aimed at protecting Iraq’s heritage, which has been systematically targeted by jihadist terrorists. UNESCO chief Irina Bokova launched

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday he doubted Israel’s willingness to unblock hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes a day after it promised to do so. “They’ve announced

Iran’s Foreign Minister remained cautiously optimistic on Saturday, as world powers appeared to be narrowing in on a nuclear deal with his country. “We’re moving forward,” Mohammad Javad Zarif was