Judge Ido Druyan of the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, convicted Yitzhak Rochberger Sunday morning of falsifying documents, corporate fraud and breach of trust. Rochberger, the former mayor of affluent Tel Aviv suburb Ramat

Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites in Dimona, died Saturday, leaving his followers in shock.  “It was an honor and a blessing to have

Amir Ohana, the head of Likud’s Gay Forum, has announced his candidacy in Likud’s upcoming primaries, saying he wants to show that members of Israel’s gay community, who traditionally gravitate

Four days before the Palestinian and Iranian soccer teams were to meet for a friendly match, the Palestinian Football Association cancelled the match due to “technical” problems, Al-Monitor reports. The

Hamas on Saturday continued to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) draft resolution to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as the Security Council prepares to vote on the resolution, likely

A firebomb was thrown Saturday night at an apartment balcony in southeast Jerusalem in what police are calling a terrorist attack.  Fire broke out on the balcony at the building

President Christina Fernández met Yair Tawil and several members of his family at her office on Tuesday to hold the unusual ceremony, dating back over 100 years. According to Argentinian

Walla! News editor Yinon Magal has joined Jewish Home, he announced Sunday morning, and he is not apologizing for it.  Magal is running the Jewish Home party primaries, he stated Sunday,

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has published a report documenting photographs of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers “killing time” at the Lebanon-Israel border.  Preliminary information suggests the pictures were

Moscow State University has launched an ambitious project to collect and cryogenically freeze the DNA of “every creature that has ever lived,” in an effort it compares to the Biblical

As election fever continues the polls keep churning out, with the latest conducted for Reshet Bet radio released Saturday showing Likud and Labor still neck and neck, and Yisrael Beytenu hampered by

The condition of 11-year-old Ayala Shapira, who was seriously wounded in a firebomb attack last Thursday night in Ma’ale Shomron located in Samaria, has stabilized after undergoing a successful initial surgery

In a letter signed by 250 academics, politicians and other public figures from the radical left, a call went out for a wide Jewish-Arab unity on the left to conquer

In response to a letter from the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP), which comprises over 350 prominent Israeli rabbis, Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) affirmed that peace negotiations with no

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Saturday evening, and as the talks began spoke about the threats facing the Jewish state. “We are now

The Iranian military, as part of its massive ongoing six-day military drill that began last Thursday, held tests on Saturday unveiling a new weapon in their arsenal: “suicide” drones. During

ISIS has lost more ground to Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane in northern Syria, according to local reports. “Kurdish forces now control more than 60 percent of

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Friday that the United Nations (UN) Security Council would vote on the PA’s resolution calling for Israel to “end the

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed European countries for criticizing deteriorating press freedom in Turkey, Reuters reported, saying they should instead try to find a solution for what

Sony’s controversial movie “The Interview” banked $1 million at the box office on Thursday, and it could make a couple million more over the long holiday weekend, CNN reported Friday.

Likud and Labor are still neck-in-neck for the top spot, according to a Panels Politics poll for Maariv Weekend Edition – but the chances of building a coalition are greatly impacted by whether or

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) visited the scene of the firebombing attack in Ma’ale Shomron in Samaria on Friday morning, where he met with top-ranking IDF commanders to review the

Reports in a Kuwaiti paper Friday morning indicate that Qatar has temporarily cut its funding for the Gaza-based Muslim Brotherhood-offshoot Hamas terrorist organization, in an attempt to cull favor with

In a controversial yet subtle move, United Synagogue Youth (USY) passed a new resolution that drops the binding “expectation” that leaders will not date non-Jews, and replaces it with a “recogni

MK and former Deputy Minister Michael (Mickey) Ratzon will be running in the Likud primaries for the 20th Knesset Likud list, he told Arutz Sheva on Friday.  Ratzon was dismissed from the

The Iranian army on Thursday began a massive military drill sprawling from the farthest eastern expanses of the Islamic regime all the way to its southern maritime borders opposite the

Chairman of Ha’am Itanu Eli Yishai believes that his party’s chances could be enhanced if he published recordings of the Shas party’s spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef z”tl.  “Maran [Rabbi

Security forces believe they have apprehended the terrorists responsible for Thursday night’s firebomb attack, which left a young girl in critical condition. Speaking to 11-year-old Ayala Shapira’s mother on Friday,

The Arab sniper responsible for Wednesday’s skirmish along the Gaza border circled the Bedouin Reconnaissance Battalion for hours, Walla! News reports Friday – and only struck after one of the soldiers took

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday morning made a phone call to express his support for the family of 11-year-old Ayala Shapira, who was seriously wounded in a firebomb attack near