A violent clash occurred on Monday morning at the flagship Lithuanian-haredi Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, the largely haredi suburb of Tel Aviv, after the yeshiva’s dean Rabbi Shmuel Markovich was assaulted by a

Japan’s failure to rescue two hostages beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists has raised doubts about the ability of the country that renounced war after World War II to handle an international crisis,

Soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda battalion – formerly known as Nahal Haredi – took part in a special winter exercise this week in the Jordan valley. The entire battalion took part

Radical leftist organization B’Tselem published a report last week detailing the findings of its investigation of alleged “war crimes” committed by the IDF during Operation Protective Edge, and grassroots Zionist group

Australia’s foreign minister said Monday there is a danger of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists expanding operations to Afghanistan, even though there is little evidence of a presence there now. Julie Bishop, hosting Britain’s Foreign

Sephardic haredi party Shas has promised not to use its educational institutions and school network to advance its elections campaign, in a letter written by the party’s legal adviser, Attorney Nadav

The fallout from the controversial Enlistment Law mandating haredi IDF recruitment continues, as dozens of haredim on Monday morning blocked the Shilat Junction outside of Modi’in in protest of the arrest

With the entry of Hevron loyalist and activist Baruch Marzel into the Knesset election race, a story of his “correct” relations with his Arab neighbors in Hevron has been making the rounds. 

Israel will not hit back at Hezbollah following the attack by Iran’s Lebanese proxy militia on an IDF force that killed two soldiers last week – this is the consensus

Hackers targeted Syrian opposition members with online “honey traps,” posing as female supporters to steal battle plans and the identity of defectors, a security firm said in a report Monday. The report, by

After two Japanese hostages were beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Syria, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hinted at taking part in the US-led fight against ISIS, but Professor Ehud

The far-left Meretz party faced a setback recently when a local billboard company in Ramat Gan refused to display its banner, Channel Two News reported Monday.  As part of the second wave of its campaign

Swedish prosecutors indicted Monday a former Syrian rebel accused of severely beating a pro-regime fighter in 2012 after a video of the attack was posted on Facebook. The 28-year-old is accused of violating international

Yesh Atid has managed to twist the Ponevezh Yeshiva violence to its political advantage, with the pro-enlistment comments of Former Education Minister Shai Piron on his Twitter account.  Piron wrote that he would

Indian authorities have released nine people deported from Turkey after allegedly trying to enter an area of Syria controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group, police said Monday. Police in the southern city

Kurdish forces have found the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in a mass grave in northwest Iraq, officials

53 officers, soldiers, other military representatives, and family members of soldiers who fell in battle will be attending a special ceremony this evening (Monday) in recognition of their brave actions

The Victory in 2015 (V15) organization filed a complaint with police Monday afternoon against the Likud party and the head of Likud’s publicity campaign.  In a press conference Sunday, Likud

A senior European commissioner warned Monday about rising levels of  extremism and intolerance across the 28-nation bloc, targeting Jews, Muslims, homosexuals and even women. “There is rising anti-Semitism, there is rising Islamophobia, there

Syrian government air strikes on an opposition-held town killed at least 15 civilians in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, a monitoring group said.   “The death toll from

IDF forces successfully foiled two stabbing attacks on Sunday, both in the area of the Machepelah Cave (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hevron. Both potential stabbers – Arabs from the

Former US Secretary of State James Baker said Sunday that House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address Congress, which was extended without consulting the White

The Efrat organization’s activities are enabled through donation received from within Israel and abroad; from people with generous hearts and wise minds, who understand that saving lives is a principle of

A blast ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least nine people, a monitor said, in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett’s unsuccessful recruitment of soccer legend Eli Ohana to the party’s Knesset list cost the religious Zionist party 0.9 Knesset seats in the weekly average of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains popular, according to a new poll released Sunday by the TRI polling firm. In addition, voters said they did not believe that last week’s elimination

Eli Yishai says he never had any doubts that his Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party could and would pass the threshold into the Knesset on its own, and insists his decision to run together with

BLITZER: Would you be willing to give up the Golan Heights to reach a peace treaty with Syria? LIVNI: Syria now, this is now not even the beginning of direct

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on Sunday put his foot down on ongoing leaks of confidential state documents to the media – using as an example Channel Ten reporter Raviv Drucker, who

Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, who is the Labor-Hatnua list’s candidate for Defense Minister if that list heads the next government, on Sunday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of