MK-elect Nava Boker (Likud) toured the Shomron (Samaria) region last week and said she was seriously considering relocating to one of the communities in the area. Boker, a new MK,

A close media aide to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is seeking political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West, the

A white supremacist charged with fatally shooting three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April pleaded not guilty on Friday, Reuters reports. Frazier Glenn Miller,

The 26th Arab League Summit opened Saturday in Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday as Arab states gathered to discuss the region’s many questions – the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, the fight

The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group unleashed a tirade against Saudi Arabia on Friday over its intervention in Yemen, saying the Sunni kingdom has abandoned the Palestinians and does

A court in Egypt has sentenced a man and woman to lengthy jail terms and ordered them to pay large fines after convicting them of spying for Israel, a judicial

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has accepted the recommendation of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, as well as the IDF and Shin Bet security service, and unfrozen millions of dollars in tax

The European Union (EU) kept Hamas on its terrorism blacklist Friday, negating in practice a controversial court decision ordering Brussels to remove the Gaza-based terrorist group from the register. Brussels has lodged an appeal

Islamist rebels made fresh advances Friday on the edges of Idlib city in northwest Syria, after fierce clashes that have left dozens of dead, a monitoring group said. “The fighters

The co-pilot of a Germanwings airliner who intentionally brought down his aircraft killing everyone on board appears to have been suffering from depression. German prosecutors claim Andreas Lubitz hid details about

The victory of Likud and the nationalist camp in elections led one Tel Aviv teacher to vent her leftist frustrations in a vulgar and offensive Facebook post targeting right-wing voters. The

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid his respects at the lying-in-state of the late Lee Kuan Yew, founding father and the first Prime Minister of Singapore on Friday afternoon. The President arrived

Syria would welcome an increased military presence from its Russian allies at its sea ports, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian news channels published Friday. “I can say with

Concerns have recently been raised that the development of the highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv may lead to Halakhic (Jewish legal) issues given the restrictions of Shemittah, the agricultural sabbatical.

In the latest sign a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran is imminent, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday he was ready to join the talks this weekend,

Hamas on Friday rejected a report by Amnesty International accusing the group of war crimes during last summer’s war with Israel, the Ma’an news agency reported. Hamas criticized the findings

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blasted Saudi Arabia for launching airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Speaking in a televised speech, Nasrallah said the military campaign should be directed at Israel,

The United States provided a cool reception on Friday to a new French initiative on a new Security Council resolution to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. “We’re not going to get

France plans to begin talks at the United Nations on a new Security Council resolution to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday, according to the AFP

Hamas on Friday denounced a European Union decision to keep the group and de facto Gaza ruler on its terrorism blacklist, despite a court ordering its removal. “This decision completely

The United States on Friday welcomed Israel’s decision to release frozen tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority (PA). “We certainly hope both sides would be able to build on this,”

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad declared Thursday that he is open to having a dialogue with the United States, Reuters reported, quoting an excerpt of an interview the embattled leader gave

A female lecturer from the Islamic University in Gaza recently claimed in a television interview that, contrary to the claims of Westerners, Islam defends the rights of women. The interview

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States on Thursday said that Iran has been playing a key role in backing the advance of Houthi rebels in Yemen, The Associated Press

The United States Senate voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of a non-binding amendment to a budget bill intended to make it easier to re-impose sanctions if Iran violates a

Turkey on Thursday reopened a restored century-old synagogue built during the Ottoman Empire but closed for several decades, AFP reported. A special ceremony was held at the Buyuk Sinagog (lit.

A British diplomat said on Thursday that the six major powers and Tehran had made significant progress in negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters reported. At the same time the

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday lashed out at Iran, accusing it of trying to dominate the Middle East and saying its efforts have begun annoying Ankara. The comments,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett met on Thursday evening as part of the coalition negotiations. A source involved in the meeting told Arutz Sheva, however,