Australia has prevented a third teenager from flying out to fight in the Middle East, a minister told AFP Wednesday, as Western countries battle to stop the flow of youngsters to jihadist groups.

Ayman Odeh, chairman of the joint Arab list and first time MK, has already revealed parts of his subversive past – in a new interview with Channel 2 he divulged how

An Israeli court on Tuesday jailed for 15-and-a-half years a Palestinian terrorist caught fighting in Gaza during last summer’s 50-day war between Israel and Islamist terrorist groups. A transcript of

Canadian airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq will be extended one year to March 2016 and may see sorties into Syria, the government said Tuesday. But no ground combat troops

The current diplomatic crisis between Israel and US President Barack Obama’s administration is the most vicious and public yet among only a handful of crises that have marred the close, long-running relationship, says

The top Republican in Congress said Tuesday he was “shocked” by a report claiming that Israel spied on Iranian nuclear talks, saying the claims that information on the deal being formed was passed

A group of members of the House of Representatives announced on Tuesday that they were launching a Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, in a move meant to respond to the

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has trained more than 400 children in Syria as fighters in 2015 alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Tuesday. Calling them “Cubs of the Caliphate,” the

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, in the first visit by a senior Baghdad official since Syria’s conflict began in 2011. Speaking after meeting Assad and his Syrian

A protest was held on Tuesday in Gaza in front of the Hamas government building, in which the families of “martyrs,” Palestinian Arabs who died during clashes against the IDF,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a letter of condolence on Tuesday evening to French President Francois Hollande, following the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner in the French Alps,

Just a week before Pesach, 110 new olim from Ukraine arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport Tuesday morning to start their new lives in the Jewish state. The majority of the

The Palestinian Authority is far more confident than it was just a few short weeks ago about its diplomatic offensive. With tensions at a purportedly unprecedented level between Jerusalem and

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) was forced to apologize on Tuesday, after attacking a political opponent for being an “Orthodox Jew” at a radical leftist J Street conference. At the conference,

US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his disagreement with Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over how to pursue a Middle East peace deal was substantive, not personal. “I have a

An anonymous attacker hurled a Molotov cocktail from a window in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem at a support rally for Yachad – Ha’am Itanu chairperson Eli Yishai on Tuesday

The US administration will continue to brief Israel on its secret nuclear negotiations with Iran, US officials said Tuesday, despite allegations the Jewish state has been spying on the talks.

Israel’s intelligence minister on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day European diplomatic offensive against making concessions to Iran in nuclear negotiations with world powers, his spokesman said. “Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed reports that 39-year-old Eyal Baum, an Israeli citizen, was on the Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner that crashed in the French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne on Tuesday.

US President Barack Obama’s approval ratings stand at about 45%, according to the latest Gallup poll – but most Americans prefer even television presidents over their real-life Commander-in-Chief. Reuters reports Tuesday

Among elephant remains some 500,000 years old at a Lower Paleolithic site in Revadim, in southern Israel, Prof. Ran Barkai and his graduate students Natasha Solodenko and Andrea Zupanchich of

Two months after making its first investment in Israel, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is partnering with venture capital firm JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners) to invest in promising startups. The amount

Israel has held the district semifinals for its annual Zionist Quiz this week – with semifinalists being chosen in the Sharon area, the Coastal region, the Center, Haifa, Jerusalem, the Negev,

Morton Klein is not just relieved, but proud that Israelis came through in the end to choose a Likud-led administration. “Israelis understood peace with the Palestinian Authority was not realistic,” says

The shekel continued to strengthen against the major currencies Tuesday morning, following the Bank of Israel’s surprise announcement Monday that its interest rate would not change in April, and remain

The Lebanon-Israel border has been relatively quiet over the past several months, with no incidents recorded since January.  But another war could be on the way – and it will

The US’s silence during the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian territories was not a form of backlash against Israel, contrary to a Reuters report released

A Palestinian chemical engineer from eastern Jerusalem has just been awarded the position of deputy chief scientist at the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space, Haaretz reported.  Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, 42 and

Europe might be a riper fruit to pick for Israel than most people think. For all the threats of sanctions and leaked reports recommending punishing Jerusalem for, well, building in Jerusalem,

Former Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid) is likely to bow out of the 20th Knesset, Channel 2 reports Monday – allowing former Hatnua MK Elazar Stern to take his place.