Former CIA chief Michael Hayden said Tuesday he was “uncomfortable” with Iran’s growing influence in Iraq, made especially evident by an offensive in Tikrit, reports the AFP news agency. The

Guidelines during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza gave a 15-second window to Gaza Belt residents to run to shelters in the event of a “Code Red” alarm – a short

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid is “an out-and-out leftist, everything about him is an impersonation,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Makor Rishon that will appear in

Iran is considering two new laws that would strongly discriminate against women without children – in an attempt to increase population growth. One law is named the “Bill to Increase

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett promised Tuesday not to allow the Israel Hayom Bill to pass in the next Knesset. In response to a question in an appearance at Bar

The head of the IDF Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevi, told the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) annual National Gala in New York Tuesday night that Israel must be “prepared”

President Reuven Rivlin hosted at his residence a conference with around 100 citizens who had declared they were not intending to exercise their right to vote on Tuesday. The conference, entitled “Don’t

Six days before elections, public favor is swinging toward Labor-Hatnua and a leftist government, according to the latest pre-elections poll. Labor-Hatnua would gain 24 seats in the 20th Knesset if

Israel and India are finally coming out in the open: with the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has outwardly expressed its desire to expand

Avishai Rozen, 16, made his name as a star of the child choir “Kinderlach,” after starting his studies in music at the tender age of five. Learning piano at seven and

Another mad man drove his car into a bunch of people in Jerusalem on Purim, though thankfully this time no one was seriously hurt.  These things unfortunately happen too frequently, especially in

Sunday marked International Women’s Day. Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction celebrated the event in a unique way: by lauding a female Arab terrorist who kidnapped and murdered a 16-year-old

A Likud victory in next week’s elections is not guaranteed, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned on Tuesday evening, as polls showed the joint Labor-Hatnua list opening its largest lead over

King Abdullah II of Jordan claimed Tuesday that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) would help combating Islamic extremists, saying the conflict served as a rallying cry for jihadists. Abdullah

The brief power cut-off by the Israeli Electric Corporation (IEC) late last month apparently got the message through to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which has ignored its massive electric debt for

When we talk about crypto-Jews, we tend to think about the descendants of Spanish Jews in 1492 and Portuguese Jews in 1497 who were forced to convert to Catholicism but

Questions of partisan division and immovable differences in policy between the United States and Israel have plagued the public profile of the relationship in recent weeks. What can be forgotten

US President Barack Obama’s policy of supporting “moderate” Syrian opposition forces to counter the more radical alternatives appears on the brink of collapse, as the Al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front continues

Police will not launch a criminal investigation into the publication of an animated video that portrays leftists as following in the footsteps of Jewish collaborators with anti-Semites, Kol Israel public

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman has raised the ire of the Palestinian Authority (PA), after he advocated “cutting off the heads” of Arab residents who are not loyal to the

Social media sites are finally cracking down on Islamic State, experts have stated over the past several months, with 18,000 accounts linked to the group having already been shuttered as of

Around half the estimated 700 Britons who have gone to fight with Islamic State jihadists in Syria have returned home, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. The weekly broadsheet’s figures, in a story about

Polling stations open one week from today, but 16% of eligible voters are still undecided, according to the latest pre-elections survey. The survey, from Army Radio‘s “Good Morning Israel” show

Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the Deputy Minister for Religious Services, called to place Rachel’s Tomb, which is located between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, under the aegis of the Municipality of Jerusalem. Speaking

The whereabouts and status of top terror commander Mohammed Deif is still under investigation, Hamas’s “military wing,” the Al-Qassam Brigades stated late Monday night – and revealing more information “could aid

With elections just a week away, Jewish Home’s Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel launched a frontal attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, accusing him of failing to fulfill his promises,

In a recent address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a Palestinian Arab political researcher launched a verbal tirade against the United States. The researcher, Ahmad Al-Khatwani, also known as “Abu Hamza”,

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on Monday fired back at Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, who on Sunday had advocated “cutting of the heads” of Arabs who were not loyal to Israel.

The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization known as SHATIL, have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create political

The next round of talks between Iran and the West over its nuclear program will take place next week, the State Department said on Monday, according to Reuters. The announcement