Kurdish forces backed up by US-led airstrikes have recaptured territory from Islamic State terrorists near the strategic city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the American military said Monday.  The advance

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) is helping Ukrainian Jewry, its founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein announced Monday. Eckstein said the organization will deliver a total of $650,000 in emergency aid to

“It’s time to put things on the table: the central element that stands behind the wave of mudslinging against me and my wife is Noni Mozes, the publisher of Yedioth

US President Barack Obama’s administration has responded harshly to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s accepting an invitation to address the Congress two weeks before elections, saying he did so without first

The two Jewish women who were involved in relations with Arab men and clashed with each other, leading to the lethal arson attack in Jerusalem’s Pisgat Ze’ev late last month

In the last several days the IDF has completed the destruction of a terror tunnel from Gaza that was meant to enable terrorists to attack Israeli civilians; the major part of

A leftist journalist claimed on Monday that officials in Washington are trying to convince Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to shelve his Congress address scheduled for two weeks ahead of elections,

Tokyo defended Monday its confiscation of the passport of a Japanese journalist planning to travel to Syria, as the country reels from the beheading of two citizens by Islamist State (ISIS) terrorists. Chief Cabinet

The Israel Police are currently in a state of emergency as six generals out of the 16 who compose the senior command staff have either resigned or been fired in

Jordan announced it has carried out dozens of air strikes on the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, as a top US envoy said Iraqi troops would begin a major ground offensive against

The Zionist Camp, the name by which the joint Labor-Hatnua list for the Knesset is known, fired back at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night, after he declared he

The “Arab spring” continues in Yemen, where the Shi’ite Houthi militia loyal to Iran has completely taken control of the government in the capital city of Sana’a, after forcing the

The Jewish population in Europe has declined at an alarming rate, according to a Pew Research Center report released Monday. 1.4 million Jews were estimated to still be living in Europe

Supreme Court Judge Noam Solberg issued a conditional warrant Monday forcing all relevant parties to explain why the temporary ban against Yisrael Beytenu distributing copies of the Charlie Hebdo magazine had yet to

Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to demolish nine homes in Judea-Samaria which were allegedly built on private Palestinian land, AFP reports Monday. According to the ruling handed down late on Sunday,

A Qatar-based senior Hamas leader on Monday praised the Gulf state’s “courageous” Foreign Minister, Khalid al-Attiyah, after an apparent spat with Israel’s Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz at a German security conference, AFP reports. In a

A record number of French Jews flocked to “Israel opportunities” fairs throughout France this week, as Israeli officials anticipate an unprecedented wave of French aliyah to only increase in 2015. Some

Last summer, amid the tension and turmoil of Israel’s 50-day war with Gazan terrorists, Jews throughout the world sprung to action in solidarity with their Israeli brothers and sisters.  Prayers,

Hooded men opened fire on police in Marseilles, France on Monday afternoon, reportedly with Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles.  The La Castellane neighborhood, a housing project known for its high levels of

A petition was filed to the High Court on Monday, to issue an order demanding that the interior minister, prime minister and the government explain why they don’t exercise their authority to remove Deputy

The Im Tirtzu group called on President Reuven Rivlin Monday to cancel his participation in Haaretz’s Israel Democracy Conference sponsored by the New Israel Fund (NIF).  In 2010, Im Tirtrzu was the

Members of grassroots Zionist movement Im Tirtzu visited Ghazi Hasisi from Daliat al-Karmel who had been attacked after speaking Arabic at a club in Kibbutz Yagur.  Hasisi, a Golani fighter, stepped

At a Likud event for immigrants from France Sunday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the Labor Party/Zionist Camp would make negotiating away Jerusalem one of their first priorities,

Channel 2 evening news anchor Yonit Levy’s body language appeared to disclose her contempt for Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett in an abrasive interview Sunday night. Levi appeared to be leaning

According to data released Sunday by the Al-Marsad humanitarian organization in Syria, some 210,000 people have been killed in Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011. At least

In a series of articles about the Efrat organization, Arutz Sheva presents a number of personal stories and anecdotes relating the group’s life-saving activities. This week’s article centers on Ronit, a teacher who found a colorful

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday that he will not form a government with the left. In a post on his Facebook page, Netanyahu said that the Jewish Home

Two Tel Aviv thieves thought they hit the jackpot when they broke into an apartment and absconded with wads of cash – and they would have hit the jackpot, if

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett stood behind his statements on surging lawlessness in the Arab sector Sunday evening. On Channel 2‘s evening newscast, Bennett refused to retract his earlier statements

Israel will be unsuccessful in keeping Hezbollah off the Golan Heights, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said Sunday. In what amounted to a direct admission that Hezbollah terrorists were aiding