Rabbi Aryeh Stern, who was elected Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem last October, took a visit to the OU Israel Center in the capital on Tuesday to learn about its activities.

Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party may be turning to the national religious public for support, the party’s Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron indicated Friday – days after the party established a

The Islamic State (ISIS) branch in “Bayt al-Maqdis,” an Arabization of the Hebrew Holy Temple and a term for Jerusalem, has started distributing publications explaining ISIS’s platform, in a campaign

The mother of one of the Japanese captives being held by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists Friday urged the Tokyo government to pay the jihadists’ $200 million ransom, and pleaded that her son’s life be spared. As

Leftist sources in Israel have decried Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation extended by the US Congress and changing the date to two weeks before March 17 elections; likewise US President

Otzma Yehudit chair Dr. Michael Ben-Ari explained Friday what has been keeping his party from a joint list with Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu, a move called for by

Israel’s former president Shimon Peres Friday said the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was “a real loss for the peace ofthe Middle East.”  “He was an experienced leader and a wise king. He

The Belgian authorities are looking for a possible accomplice to Mehdi Nemmouche, who has been charged with murdering four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last year, the prosecutor’s office said Friday. The

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) dispersed rumors of a joint list with Likud on Friday, maintaining that the two parties will not be uniting for the 20th Knesset.  “I do not

Hank Sheinkopf, former adviser to ex-US President Bill Clinton during his election campaign from 1995 to 1996, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the complicated political relations between Israeli and American leaders. Speaking about

The Arab parties of Balad, Hadash and United Arab List, which split earlier on Thursday when MK Ahmed Tibi broke off to form his own one-man party, decided on Thursday

President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi of Yemen resigned Thursday, according to government sources cited by the Associated Press. Immediately prior to this, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah offered his government’s resignation to

A senior Israeli official delivered an uncommonly harsh attack on US President Barack Obama’s administration Thursday evening, following the American report that alleged that Mossad Head Tamir Pardo had warned

Almost half a year since Gilad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Eyal Yifrah (19) hy”d were brutally abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists, top Israeli musicians along with the

A Polish university on Thursday restored doctorate degrees to 262 people, most of them Jewish, decades after genocidal Nazi Germany annulled them in the run-up to World War II. Descendants of the wronged men

Yet another poll has been released in the run up to the March 17 elections, this time showing Likud getting a clear upper hand on the Labor Hatnua joint list

A group of top European diplomats on Thursday spoke out against imposing new sanctions on Iran at this time, calling for talks between Western powers and the Islamic Republic to

The Jerusalem district attorney on Wednesday submitted an indictment at the local magistrates court against Muslim preacher Omar Abu Saara, who called to “slaughter” Jews in a speech on the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering placing nationalist journalist Erel Segal, 45, on Likud’s Knesset list. Netanyahu is allowed to place candidates of his choosing in the 11th and 23rd

While Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) has tried to allay fears claiming digging sounds residents on the northern border have been hearing for years are not Hezbollah constructing terror tunnels, a

Arabs in a stolen Toyota vehicle attempted to run over IDF soldiers at Tapuach Junction in northern Samaria on Thursday evening. The Arabs approached from the direction of Hawara, driving

Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the House Democrats, said on Thursday that Republican Speaker John Boehner’s invitation for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address Congress was “inappropriate”. Pelosi, a

Experts on the negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear capabilities have taken issue with two main points made by U.S. President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address

Iraq on Thursday called on the international community to provide more weapons to help it push back the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, amid growing fears the jihadists are planning

US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed Thursday that six months of airstrikes led by his country had stopped the advance of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), even as his British

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died overnight Thursday in hospital, state TV reported. Before the announcement, reported the BBC, Saudi television cut to Koranic verses, which often signifies the death

Teachers who have stuck with what many call the world’s hardest profession are to be recognized for their efforts by the Economy Ministry. On Wednesday, the Ministry announced it was going

A panicked Zehava Gal-On said Thursday that contrary to the impression many on the right have, the media is “not on our side.” Speaking on Israel Radio, Gal-On said that

The hashtag #JeSuisCouteau which means “I am knife” has begun trending on Twitter as users flock to social media to heap praise on the Palestinian terrorist who stabbed 11 Israelis on a