The joint list of Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu together with Otzma Yehudit was a mere 11,000 or so votes short of making it into the Knesset according to the

Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon, whose party dropped from six to four seats in the Knesset, announced Wednesday morning that she is resigning from the Knesset and that she will

Labor leaders Yitzhak Herzog came very close to an outright admission of defeat Wednesday morning. Herzog gave a relatively short statement to reporters at 8:45 a.m.: “Good morning to the voters

As elections results finalize and signify a resounding victory for Likud, the Hamas terrorist organization that rules Gaza commented on the process. Hamas called on Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud

Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu joint list with Otzma Yehudit is on the edge of the recently raised threshold percentage, with Channel 1‘s pollster Stella Karayov saying, as of midnight, that

Minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Jewish Home, spoke on Tuesday evening at the party’s headquarters in Kfar Maccabiah, as exit polls showed that his party won eight seats in

As voting came to a close on Tuesday night at 10 p.m., various Israeli news channels began churning out sample result predictions, with a tight race for first place estimated.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu celebrated what he called a “major victory” in Tuesday’s elections.  “Against all odds: a great victory for the Likud. A major victory for the people of Israel!”

Syria’s military has shot down a US drone over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said on Tuesday. “Syrian air defenses brought down a hostile US

As elections draw to a conclusion, speculation continues as to the outcomes – if Labor, headed by Yitzhak Herzog and running on a joint list with Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua, manages

Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked wrote on Facebook Tuesday evening that “According to all indications, Bibi is leading over Buji . Give your vote to the Jewish Home.” “Fight for

Latest News Netanyahu: ‘Major Victory’ for Likud, Israel Gil Ronen Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett called Binyamin Netanyahu to congratulate him. Labor: Coalition Race Starting Ari Yashar Labor MKs say

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his main challenger, Labor chairman Yitzhak Herzog, engaged in last minute verbal jousting ahead of the ballot boxes closing at 10 p.m. on Tuesday night.

As of midnight, Channel 1‘s exit poll results predicted the following results for Tuesday’s national election: Likud 27 MKs Labor 26 Yesh Atid 11 Kulanu 9 Joint Arab List 12 Jewish Home

European powers and Iran made little progress on Monday toward reaching an agreement to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program as an end-of-March deadline closes in, The Associated Press

Israel’s relationship with Turkey is currently in a coma. Since the conclusion of several defense contracts, there has been very little happening outside of commerce. The responsibility for the break

Washington denied Monday there had been any move to push Tony Blair out of his role as envoy to the Middle East Quartet, as he appears poised to relinquish the

United States officials Monday denied there were any plans to meet Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, saying he would “never” be part of any peace negotiations to end the brutal civil

The United States on Monday brushed off comments by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who declared in a series of interviews he would do everything in his power to prevent the

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is planning to act as soon as next week on a bipartisan bill that would allow Congress to approve or reject any nuclear agreement that

Former Finance Minister and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid is determined to prevent a coalition that includes haredi parties, he stated shortly after voting in the 20th Knesset elections Tuesday.  “We’re

Yachad Ha’am-Itanu chairman MK Eli Yishai is personally disappointed at the fact that several polling stations hid his party’s ballots – against Central Elections Commission (CEC) laws, he revealed in

UN investigators offered Tuesday to share names from secret lists of alleged Syria war criminals with prosecutors, to help end the “culture of impunity” in the country, AFP reports.  The commission of inquiry on the human

The United States military said Monday it is “concerned” about reports that Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists used chlorine gas in an attack against Kurdish forces, but it could not confirm

A court in Hamas-run Gaza on Monday handed a Palestinian Arab convicted of “spying” for Israel 15 years’ hard labor, a judicial source said, according to an AFP report. The

Six people, including three young children, were killed in an alleged regime gas attack in northwestern Syria late Monday, a monitoring group and opposition activists said. “Three children, their mother

Most Israelis may have work off as they go to vote on Tuesday, but Arab terrorism apparently didn’t take the day off; shots were fired at IDF soldiers in an

The Islamic State (ISIS), which has been destroying churches and forcing thousands of non-Muslim women to serve as sex slaves of the jihadists, and in Nineveh, Iraq, it is enforcing

The Islamic State terrorist group posted pictures Tuesday of the beheadings of four men it said were recruiters for pro-government militia fighting its terrorists in northern Iraq. The images show

Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman visited the Negev community of Netiv Ha’esreh on Monday afternoon, where he observed the work being done to uncover Hamas terror tunnels and