Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon (Likud) has ordered the promotion of the legislation planned by El-Matan to become part of the municipality of Ma’ale Shomron, as well as a tourist

President Barack Obama on Monday said he was not ruling out the possibility of reopening a U.S. Embassy in Iran, reports The Associated Press (AP). Obama was asked in an

Palestinian Authority (PA) envoys are pressing on with changes to a draft UN resolution on statehood Monday, meeting with Arab countries to decide when the text should be put to a vote at

Former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges was uninvited from speaking at a University of Pennsylvania conference following the publication of an incendiary column.  That column, from

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center slammed on Monday a Mass in Zagreb to commemorate Croatia’s World War II pro-Nazileader, calling it a “badge of shame” for the Catholic Church. “It’s hard to

Labor and Likud are still tied for the top spot in the 2015 elections, according to a survey published by Channel 2 Monday night.  Both parties are due to gain 24 mandates

The United States reiterated on Monday that it does not support the unilateral draft resolution that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is promoting at the United Nations Security Council. State Department

Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing AirAsia jetliner, officials in Washington said Monday, according to the AFP news agency. The State Department also

The Palestinian Authority’s envoys presented on Monday a more toughly-worded United Nations (UN) draft resolution on statehood that could come up for a vote at the Security Council this week,

The IDF will on Thursday pull out its security forces from Israeli communities that are not located near the security fence with Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced on Monday

The United States military on Monday carried out an airstrike against the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, NBC News reported, but the Pentagon did not say whether the intended

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri said on Monday night that he is determined to resign from his position, despite the fact that the party’s Council of Torah Sages had earlier rejected

After the Parisian suburb of Valenton in October named a street after Fatah arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, now another suburb of the French capital Aubervilliers has followed suit, raising a furor by granting

Shevah Stern, head of the Likud’s “National Headquarters” faction and a candidate in the Likud primaries running for the party’s Knesset list, has launched a public call on Prime Minister

Engineer Fishel (Faisal) Benkhald, a Pakistani who according to his own estimation is the last Jew in the Muslim country, is struggling to preserve the Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Pakistan’s

For the past 30 years, when tourists would arrive at the stately entrance to the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv at 110 Allenby St, the doors were usually locked. But

Lod Magistrates Court has sentenced Raanana resident Michal Aloni to two consecutive life sentences for murdering her two young daughters in 2010. In October of that year, Aloni strangled six-year-old

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir of Otzma Yehudit told Arutz Sheva that while there has been a call for the nationalist party to run jointly with Eli Yishai’s Ha’am Itanu, Yishai apparently is leaning

In what has become a “Christmas tradition” for the Palestinian Authority (PA), PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other senior figures of the group once again made the ahistorical claim that

A unique visit occurred on Sunday when Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Dov Kalmanovich, himself a firebomb attack victim, came to the Sheba Medical Center to visit the parents of 11-year-old Ayala

Britain is set to unveil a raft of tough new laws to tackle anti-Semitism Monday, following a shocking rise in the number of hate crimes against Jews over the summer.

Several of the children of Shas spiritual founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”tl visited their father’s grave on Monday, as part of a campaign to support Shas head Aryeh Deri after

Former Minister and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) leader Avi Dichter will be returning to politics, Walla! News reports Monday – this time, running in the Likud primaries, to be

The Larissa Jewish cemetery was desecrated last Tuesday in the latest incident in a long string of anti-Semitic vandalism in Greece.  Larissa, a major city located in central Greece, is

Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett was in Jerusalem Monday for the annual international rabbinical conference, and noted the significance of the yearly event taking place in the ancient Jewish capital.

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, the rabbinical guide for former Shas chairperson Eli Yishai’s recently founded Ha’am Itanu party, denied on Sunday night that recordings damaging to Shas head Aryeh Deri which

Police forces arrived on Monday morning to the Tel Aviv suburb of Givat Amal to evict the last remaining eight families who continue to refuse to evacuate the area. MK

A rare Sumatran tiger in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo has killed and eaten her two five-week-old cubs in a blow to its captive breeding program, its chief vet said Monday.

A police gag order was released revealing that the Jerusalem district attorney on Monday submitted an indictment against two Arab brothers from eastern Jerusalem, who were arrested for planning a

The council of Arab UN ambassadors gathered on Monday to discuss the Palestinian Authority (PA) resolution set to be proposed at the UN Security Council, unilaterally demanding recognition and Israeli