Already lower than it has been in nearly a decade, the price of oil is likely to drop even further. The United States, now officially the world’s largest oil producer,

Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat announced on Thursday to James Rawley, the UN’s Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, which international conventions the PA signed onto the

An Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist from New Zealand has suspended his Twitter account after mistakenly tweeting his location from Syria, reports The Independent. Mark John Taylor, who now goes by the

Two of Likud’s leading advocates for increased Jewish presence on the Temple Mount – Moshe Feiglin and Tzipi Hotovely – appear to be on their way out of the Knesset,

The World Forum of Orthodox Judaism held it’s annual conference on Wednesday in Jerusalem, honoring leading rabbis, professors and other figures for their contributions to Judaism and the Jewish nation

As of Thursday, submissions are being welcomed online for the new Jerusalem Unity Prize in Memory of Eyal Yifrah (19), Gilad Sha’ar (16) and Naftali Frenkel (16) hy”d. Following the

An armed attacker was arrested on Thursday in front of the prime minister’s office housed in Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, after he threw a grenade at police that failed to detonate. The

Shas chairperson Aryeh Deri handed in his resignation to the Knesset on Tuesday after recordings revealed Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef zt”l strongly condemned and opposed him – it

More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria’s civil war in 2014, reports AFP, making it the bloodiest year yet in the war according to a monitor of the situation.

One of the world’s leading publishing houses has been forced to apologize for distributing atlases which literally erased Israel from the map. HarperCollins had been distributing the atlases via its

A Jordanian Muslim cleric has been arrested for advocating Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, just a week after he issued a public statement retracting the comments following a

Likud MK Miri Regev, who made it to the fifth spot in the party’s primaries Thursday, told IDF Radio that she expects to be named a minister in the next

The head of the Samaria Regional Council Gershon Mesika was released to house arrest Thursday, eight days after his arrest last week in the large-scale police investigation of corruption centering

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon will ask the Ministerial Committee for Symbols and Ceremonies on Sunday to approve his decision to award veterans of Operation Protective Edge with a campaign decoration.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an emergency meeting at the prime minister’s office in Tel Aviv on Thursday to discuss the Palestinian Authority (PA) attempt to join the International Criminal

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened an emergency discussion of the latest diplomatic developments vis-a-vis the Palestinian Authority (PA) Thursday, but did not invite Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, according to Voice

After the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) decided last June to name Jerusalem as the “capital of Islamic tourism” for 2016, the OIC on Thursday said its secretary general will visit

There were 20% fewer drunk drivers on Israel’s roads in 2014 compared with recent years, but drunk driving is still a significant problem, the Or Yarok road safety organization said

Hamas has praised Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a “step in the right direction.”  “This step needs to be part

Israel has little to fear from the Palestinian Authority (PA) signing the Rome Statute to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Wednesday night – and

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman harshly criticized Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday, noting that any “deaf, blind, and dumb” judge in a criminal court would find the PA –

Labor is the current front-runner for the 2015 elections, according to a Channel 10 poll released Wednesday night.  Labor would remain in the top spot with 23 seats, followed by Likud with

If the resignation of Aryeh Deri as head of Shas was undertaken to show how badly the party needs him, it isn’t working, at least as far as MK Nissim

The United States said Wednesday it “strongly opposes” a request from the Palestinian Authority to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), fearing this will further delay peace talks with Israel. “It would be counterproductive and

In a series of articles about the “Efrat” organization, Arutz Sheva presents a number of personal stories and anecdotes relating the group’s life-saving activities. This week’s article centers on Inbal, a former model

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday signed a Palestinian request to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), seeking a new avenue for action against Israel after a failed UN resolution calling for Israel to withdraw

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, who headed a special committee appointed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to examine complaints by protesters during the social protests of summer 2011, on Wednesday officially joined the Labor-Hatnua

French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that the fight against racism and anti-Semitism will be his national cause for 2015, according to The Associated Press (AP). In a speech

MKs Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni, who head the joint Labor-Hatnua list for the March elections, on Wednesday evening joined a slew of politicians who condemned the Palestinian Authority’s (PA)

Almost 400 people have been hospitalized with heart and respiratory problems caused by heavy air pollution in Tehran, with nearly 1,500 others requiring treatment, AFP reports. Year round, more than