Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with leaders of Israel’s English-speaking community Wednesday, emphasizing his commitment to focusing on issues of specific interest to the Anglo community. The meeting, which was hosted

(AFP) Dirt-covered skulls and bones scattered among ragged clothing in a ditch in north Iraq are all that remain of some two dozen people believed to have been murdered by

Iran has for years declared that it will never give up on its “right to enrich uranium” as part of a deal with the West, and reports Tuesday indicated it

The Likud responded for the first time to claims by Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon that he single-handedly reduced the cost of cellphone service, cable TV, and other basics of modern life

The Israeli government has effectively voted to give the New Israel Fund and its co-founder and ex-president, Naomi Chazan, influence over policies – including foreign policy, defense and internal security – and

An IDF officer in her twenties was injured Wednesday afternoon after a land mine detonated in the Nahal Sa’ar area in the Golan Heights.  The officer was treated on-site by

MK Aryeh Deri, leader of Shas, announced Wednesday that he is pulling out of the Haaretz Conference on Democracy scheduled for mid-February, after finding out that the New Israel Fund

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday praised Jordan’s King Abdullah for executing two terrorists after the Islamist ISIS terror group executed a Jordanian pilot that it was holding captive. Abdullah,

MK Issawi Freij (Meretz) and a group of Israeli citizens who say that they support the rights of Israel’s Arab minority have filed a petition against Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman

Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading authority on modern history, the Holocaust, Jewish and Israeli history, has passed away Wednesday in London after a long

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday said it was “deeply troubled” by the anti-Semitic statements made by the pro-Russian separatist leaders of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics” on Monday. In a

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday voiced concern over reports of mass book-burning in Iraq, saying it would be one of the most “devastating” such actions in history if confirmed.

Winners have been announced in the Jewish Book Council’s 2014 National Jewish Book Awards – one of the prime winners of accolades in the contest was the Koren Ani Tefilla Siddur, a

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida publication of a cartoon of the founder of Islam Mohammed last Sunday. The investigation, illustrating

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is evidently upset that Otzma Yehudit candidate Baruch Marzel, number four on the joint Yachad – Ha’am Itanu list, refused to shake the hand of Central Elections

Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for Argentina’s president and foreign minister before he died under suspicious circumstances, it was revealed Tuesday. In a 26-page document – found

The Hamas terrorist organization said Tuesday that it had arrested an “Israeli collaborator” resident of Gaza, who it claimed was considered one of the best intelligence gatherers within the terror stronghold by

William Schabas stepped down from leading the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) “war crimes” probe against Israel on Monday over concerns his documented bias could “harm the findings” of the

Just hours after a video surfaced showing the ISIS terrorist group executing a captive Jordanian pilot by burning him alive, Jordan is preparing to execute five terrorist prisoners in revenge,

More details have emerged from the French city of Nice, where a knife-wielding man attacked three soldiers patrolling outside a Jewish community center on the French Riviera Tuesday, with sources saying he was

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned the apparent burning alive of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, calling it an “appalling act.” Ban labeled ISIS “a terrorist

Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who survived an assassination attempt by a Palestinian Arab terrorist last October, on Tuesday called on the public to pray for people who were injured

The United States “remains concerned” about the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) “one-sided” commission of inquiry into Israel’s actions in Gaza, even after the resignation of its head, William

Argentine lawmakers on Tuesday began debating President Cristina Kirchner’s order to disband the intelligence service, mired in scandal after the suspicious death of a prosecutor who was probing the 1994

Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday described the Islamic State (ISIS) as a “cowardly” organization, and added that its killing of pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh will only strengthen Jordanians. “We have received

Difficulty concentrating? There’s an app for that now, thanks to an Israeli start-up. Jerusalem-based Umoove released an app last week, named “uHealth,” which helps smartphone users improve their attention spans and concentration through

Two judges in Argentina on Monday declined to handle the allegations brought by late prosecutor Alberto Nisman against President Cristina Fernandez, charging her with seeking to derail his investigation of

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird on Monday said he is in talks with his Egyptian counterpart and is hopeful Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy will be released from prison soon,

Hundreds of Hamas supporters marched in Gaza on Monday to protest a ruling by an Egyptian court to declare the group’s “military wing” as a terrorist group, AFP reported. Waving