Islamist terrorist Amedy Coulibaly murdered four Jews at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris earlier this month while taking hostages and later being shot by police – just two
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday refused to confirm or deny that Israel was behind a recent airstrike in the Syrian Golan Heights which killed a senior Hezbollah commander and
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will visit Stockholm next month after Sweden became the first major state of the European Union to recognize the PA as “Palestine,” the Swedish government announced Friday. “The
A Greek politician who claimed that Jews “don’t pay taxes” has been elected as Defense Minister, Greek media reported Thursday night, amid already-high concerns over rising anti-Semitism in the country that
Renowned Israeli conductor Israel Yinon collapsed and died as he was conducting a concert in the Swiss city of Lucerne late Thursday, a spokesman said. According to local media, the 59-year-old was in the
The Islamic State (ISIS) group has shot down a Syrian regime warplane that was bombing opposition-held areas, killing the pilot, a monitoring group said on Friday. Jihadists published photographs of the plane and
The Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that is identified with the ruling monarchy is presenting the newly appointed King Salman, who was enthroned after King Abdullah died last week, as being a successor
With their town liberated but largely destroyed by battles that drove Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists out, thousands of Syrian residents of Kobane are settling into Turkey’s newest refugee camp for an indefinite stay.
Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party, with Baruch Marzel from Otzma Yehudit on the fourth spot, presented its Knesset list on Thursday night to the Central Elections Committee, ahead
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu selected social researcher Dr. Anat Berko for the reserved 23rd spot in Likud’s Knesset list Thursday. Berko, a Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF reserves, has made a name
The special prosecutor whose mysterious death set off a political firestorm in Argentina was laid to rest Thursday, as an investigation tries to unravel his apparently staged suicide, reports AFP. Alberto Nisman, 51,
MK Zevulun Kalfa resigned in protest on Tuesday after secular former soccer player Eli Ohana was given the eighth spot in the Jewish Home list, sparking anger throughout the party
Three Israeli startups raised a total of $75 million according to their announcements on Wednesday, reports Haaretz. ClickTale, whose software enables website owners to track user behavior on their sites, said
Two terrorists from the Hamas stronghold of Gaza breached into Israeli sovereign territory on Thursday night, where they were arrested. The two were nabbed in the Eshkol Regional Council just
A judge in Florida’s Broward County on Thursday declared that Guma Aguiar, the Jewish philanthropist who disappeared off Fort Lauderdale in June, 2012, is dead, according to NBC Miami. Aguiar, 35, was
The war between Israel and Gaza drove the Palestinian economy of Gaza and Judea and Samaria into its first contraction since 2006, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday, according
The state-run Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) is to reduce energy supplies to Arab residents of Judea and Samaria due to Palestinian Authority (PA) electric debts worth over $450 million that have been accumulating for
After circuitous negotiations about a technical bloc unity list between Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu and Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit, and after Yishai’s MK Yoni Chetboun threatened on Thursday
A gunman was arrested on Thursday in one of the studios of Dutch news broadcaster NOS after disrupting the main evening news and reportedly demanding airtime. According to the BBC,
At least 26 people were killed on Thursday in a series of terrorist attacks targeting army and police positions in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the website of the Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
Former Minister Benny Begin is returning to the Likud, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided on Thursday to place Begin in the #11 spot on the Likud Knesset list, which
Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett expressed regret Thursday at the decision of former soccer start Eli Ohana to drop out of the party’s Knesset list, and to eschew politics altogether.
A day after two IDF soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah attack on an army patrol along the Lebanese border, life was seemingly back to normal in northern Israel. Although
MK Alex Miller (Yisrael Beytenu) filled a petition Thursday morning moving to forbid radical Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from running in elections for the 20th Knesset. Members of the Likud,
The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting late Wednesday night to discuss a flareup in violence between Israel and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border. Along with IDF
Former soccer player Eli Ohana, chosen earlier in the week by Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett to complete the party’s Knesset list, told Bennett Wednesday night that he would not run
In the final hours of his curtailed trip to the United States, President Reuven Rivlin toured around New York City, visiting the 9-11 memorial site and meeting with former US
Islamic State terrorists say they will execute a Jordanian pilot “immediately” if Amman does not hand over a female suicidebomber by sunset Thursday, as Japan waits in anguish for news of a
Israelis concerned that Hezbollah is digging underground tunnels into Israel in order to carry out Hamas-style attacks on Israeli civilians can relax – at least for now, said Defense Minister
Canada strongly condemned Hezbollah’s deadly attack on an IDF convoy Wednesday, and reiterated its belief in Israel’s right to defend itself from “brutal terrorist organizations.” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird,