Yisrael Beytenu announced Thursday plans to appeal the Central Elections Committee’s injunction against its party distributing copies of Charlie Hebdo – to the Supreme Court.  CEC Chairman, Justice Salim Joubran ruled Wednesday that Yisrael Beytenu was

A special poll emphasizing the fate of religious and haredi parties in the elections found that three haredi-oriented parties would enter the next Knesset. If elections were held now, said the

The investigator probing the mysterious death of an Argentine prosecutor who was carrying out a politically explosive investigation has summoned a powerful former spy for questioning Thursday, local media reported. Prosecutor Viviana Fein, who is

Police acted illegally when they arrested a nine-year-old boy this week, during the evacuation of a residence at a new community near Kiryat Arba, cvivil rights organization Honenu said. According to attorney

Jordan said Thursday its warplanes had launched new strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, after vowing a harsh response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots captured in Syria.

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Syria appear to have started a new trend when they released video on Tuesday of themselves burning a Jordanian pilot to death; officials in Cameroon reported on Thursday

Although relations between Jewish Home and the Likud are much better than they were during the 2013 elections, the two parties are still competing for votes.  On Thursday, Likud MK

The weather forecast for next week shows signs of volatility.  This weekend will be unusually warm with relatively high temperatures for the season. But it looks like that will change on

MK Tzipi Livni called on Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid for a pledge not to recommend Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to form the coalition for the 20th Knesset.  Instead, she said Thursday,

Al-Qaeda said Thursday that one of its top terrorists, Harith al-Nadhari, died in a United States drone strike in Yemen.  Nadhari and three other terrorists were killed in a January 31 “crusader American drone strike against

For the first time, Israel’s top defense official will be traveling to India. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon will depart for New Delhi in about two week where he will meet

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the construction site of Route 531, a suburban freeway in the southern Sharon region, Thursday. At the site, he repeated warnings against the emerging nuclear agreement between

A senior Hamas leader called Wednesday for the formation of Palestinian terrorist groups loyal to his Gaza-based Islamist movement in Lebanon and Syria for attacks on Israel. Mahmud Zahar told reporters in the Gaza Strip that

Jewish Home chairperson Naftali Bennett has come in for flak from leading religious Zionist rabbis over claims he made on Tuesday in the southern city of Dimona, where he claimed his

Russia is making a push at the United Nations for a new resolution to choke off funding from oil sales, the antiquities trade and ransom payments to the Islamic State group, diplomats told AFP Wednesday.

Haredim opposed to the IDF draft of yeshiva students on Wednesday staged a major protest along Israel’s highways. Some 200 motor vehicles left from Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem and slowly

The United Arab Emirates withdrew from air strike missions against the Islamic State group in Syria after the capture of a Jordanian pilot, who has since been murdered by the jihadists, US

Fox News broadcast still images of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh being burned alive by Islamic State jihadists before posting full raw footage from the horrific execution video on its website, AFP reports. Senior officials

As yet another top police official on Wednesday was accused of sexual impropriety, MK Shelly Yechimovich (Labor/Zionist Camp) called for police to stop all non-essential police activity for at least

Despite what people may think in the wake of the Eli Ohana “incident,” Jewish Home is still a religious party, consults regularly with rabbis, and follows in the path of

The Central Elections Committee has upheld a United Arab List (UAL) petition against the distribution of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Israel, Channel 2 reports Wednesday.  Arab parties have argued that the distribution

Most of the public trusts Kulanu chairman Moshe Kahlon when it comes to economic issues, according to a survey published Wednesday. According to the poll, conducted by Midgam Institute and published by

The Likud Youth intend to continue to hold protests outside Yedioth Aharonoth House in Tel Aviv, as the newspaper continues to publish front page stories that besmirch the Prime Minister’s

The Nationalist Crime section of the Central Unit of the Judea and Samaria District Police announced Wednesday it had conducted a raid in the community of Yitzhar and confiscated a

As part of the campaign against IDF enlistment led by followers of extremist hareidi leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, residents of the Shlomo neighborhood in the northern coastal city of Hadera on

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), Donald Trump and Joan Rivers – who recently passed away and was represented by her daughter Melissa – were awarded honorary prizes on Tuesday in New

Canadian William Schabas resigned from leading the UNHRC “war crimes” probe of Israel on Monday, after new revelations regarding consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist organization

A television news channel founded this week by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and which aimed at challenging Al-Jazeera lasted all of 18 hours before being pulled by Bahrain. According

Not only has Egypt been able to expel Gazans from the border with Sinai and demolish their homes and mosques to create a counter-terror buffer zone as the world silently watches,

The IDF Border Patrol has occupied the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Samaria’s Yitzhar for almost a year, seizing the site last April and extending its hold since – exasperated students