A new research study led by NASA has reversed commonly held theories about carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, finding that the emissions in fact are absorbed by tropical forests at a

The Palestinian Authority is claiming it has the necessary nine-vote majority to enable it to pass a resolution through the UN Security Council calling for recognition of a “Palestinian state”

Bentzi Gopshtain, director of the Lehava anti-assimilation organization, has recently been the subject of a police crackdown and intensive media scrutiny – but according to him, the arrests and press

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has joined calls urging the United Nations Security Council to vote down a resolution drafted by the Palestinian Authority calling for an imposed solution on the

Controversy embroiled Shas chairperson Aryeh Deri submitted a letter of resignation Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud), after being discredited in video recordings released to

The UN Security Council will vote later Tuesday on a draft resolution from the Palestinian Authority (PA) unilaterally demanding recognition as a state and Israeli withdrawals, Jordan’s ambassador and diplomats said. “We have decided

After Israel last Thursday secretively returned for burial the bodies of Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who carried out the massacre on a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem last month

The past several days have been filled with headlines concerning the Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party. Headed by former Shas chairman Eli Yishai – who broke away from the hareidi-Sephardic

As 2014 winds to an end, the very last plane of olim (immigrants) from North America making aliyah to Israel with the organization Nefesh B’Nefesh landed on Tuesday morning, closing

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday visited a base in the Judea and Samaria region of the Border Patrol’s special mista’aravim unit, an elite squad of undercover forces disguising themselves as

At midnight on Tuesday night, the gasoline prices for gas stations around Israel will be updated. The price for a liter of 95 octane unleaded Benzene for self-service (including VAT)

Malaysian officials have confirmed that they have found the debris field for AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday over the Java Sea with 162 people on board.  The debris field, which

Shas MK Nissim Zeev, who founded the party in 1983, spoke in a special interview with Arutz Sheva on Tuesday about the drama unfolding between Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and Ha’am

Eight ministers and 39 employees of the Ramallah-based Palestinian unity government arrived in Gaza through the Erez crossing on Monday, in the second visit of its kind since the unity

After years of calling for Israel’s destruction, is Hamas actually prepared to talk with the Jewish state? According to a report on Monday in the British Independent, the group may

The chairmen of 20 regional councils in Judea and Samaria have penned a letter to the heads of Israel’s security establishment demanding that an attack labelled as a hit-and-run be

It is Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, not spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, zt”l, who orchestrated Shas’s lean leftward and vote for the Oslo Accords, according to footage leaked on Channel 2 Monday

The corruption investigation into Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party and the drama surrounding Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri could see many voters move their allegiances to Jewish Home, Deputy

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday that it will not allow screening of Hollywood’s Biblical epic “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” mirroring similar bans by Egypt and Morocco, according to AFP. The National Media Council,

IDF soldiers were forced to open fire after a suspected improvised explosive device was thrown at soldiers from a car driving past Beit Ummar, a spokesperson told AFP Tuesday, seriously wounding a teenaged Palestinian

President Reuven Rivlin spoke at the International Joint (JDC) and Economics Ministry conference for hareidi employment Tuesday, where he noted that the hareidi community in Israel has ceased to be a

Hamas again criticized the political process of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the center of which is a draft resolution calls for Israel to “end the occupation” – that is, to withdraw from

The Rishon Letzion Magistrates Court on Tuesday extended the arrest of several senior state employees suspected of being involved in a massive corruption scandal that was revealed last week, among them

Jerusalem Councilman Arieh King exposed surprising tidings on Monday night, revealing that the capital’s Municipality last Monday passed out 100 Christmas trees for free at the Old City’s Yafo Gate,

Jewish Home issued an urgent and unusual announcement on Tuesday distancing itself from statements made by a candidate for the party’s primaries, in which the candidate supported the concept of

Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger cancelled a High Court for Justice injunction against the revised version of the Infiltration Law going into effect on Tuesday, paving the way for Israel

Former Finance Minister Yair Lapid slammed the 19th Knesset Tuesday, saying in comments about the Yisrael Beytenu corruption case that MKs were fighting internal corruption “every day” in the government

Shas’s Council of Torah Sages have rejected Chairman Aryeh Deri’s request to resign as the party’s leader Monday night, arriving specifically at Deri’s home in Har Nof, Jerusalem to deliver

President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin held a Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebration at the President’s residence for 50 children who are the victims or related to victims of

A female aid worker from Sierra Leone has become the first person to bring Ebola to the United Kingdom, BBC News reports Monday night, and is in isolation in a Glasgow hospital.