Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, said on Wednesday he had “very useful and helpful” nuclear negotiations with major powers in Geneva, according to Reuters. Araqchi, speaking to reporters at

Students on Yeshiva University’s Beren Campus created a hanukkiyah in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, by lighting windows in their dorm building, Brookdale Residence Hall.  Loading…

Police on Wednesday evening raided the offices of the Otzma Yehudit party, headed by former MK Michael Ben-Ari, and searched the premises. Sources in the police explained that the raid

Negotiations are continuing between Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel in efforts to ensure that Tekuma does not split off from Jewish Home. Under the latest offer, Uri Ariel will be

Mati Shriki, one of Israel’s up-and-coming religious musical sensations, has released a special single in honor of Hanukkah. “Ohr Chadash” (New Light) was released last year, but Shriki released a

Hamas, in both its military and governmental branches, has been temporarily removed from the European Union’s list of proscribed terrorist groups as the result of a technical legal blunder. After

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on Religious and Islamic Affairs assured in his televised weekly sermon last Friday that Israel will be destroyed, and that military options are

Benny Katzover, head of the Shomron (Samaria) Residents Council, told Arutz Sheva he is worried about how the coming March 17 elections may negatively effect Israel. “I’m worried because in the reality

MK Eli Yishai, former chairperson of Shas who on Monday split from the party and launched his Yachad party, explained the move and his falling out with Shas head Aryeh

Following Tuesday’s publication of a startling report by the National Insurance Institute on poverty and social gaps in Israel, MK Shelly Yehimovich (Labor) who formerly served as her party’s head

An international conference in Geneva on Wednesday called on both Israelis and Palestinians to respect humanitarian rights laws in Judea-Samaria, but was condemned by Israel as a “political exercise,” AFP reports.   Switzerland gathered diplomats

United States Vice President Joe Biden marked the beginning of the Hanukkah holiday on Tuesday, by taking part in a candle-lighting ceremony on the White House lawn. “Jewish heritage is

European Union lawmakers stopped short on Tuesday of proposing a joint motion urging EU members to recognize “a state of Palestine”, settling instead on a compromise resolution that peace talks

Cuba has freed Alan Gross – a US contractor jailed on the communist-ruled island since 2009 – on humanitarian grounds at the request of the United States, a US official said Wednesday. US

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday decried the decision by the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations, while expressing appreciation to the United States for

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg on Wednesday informed the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel, which he chairs, that he was resigning in order to throw

The EU said Wednesday it still considers Hamas to be a “terrorist” group even though a European court ruled that it should be temporarily removed from the bloc’s terrorism blacklist.

Rabbi Haim Amsalem, who broke off from Shas and failed to make it into the Knesset in the last elections with his Am Shalem party, told Arutz Sheva that he is calling

The decision is by the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations is a “very puzzling” one, according to former Israeli ambassador to the US Zalman

Luxembourg’s parliament voted Wednesday to urge the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reports Wednesday – the latest in a series of similar moves around Europe aimed at pressuring Israel to move forward the peace process.

The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the recognition of a Palestinian state “in principle” on Wednesday, following a series of votes on the issue in EU nations which have angered Israel.

Talk of a merger between Eli Yishai’s newly-founded “Yachad” party and the National Union faction of Housing Miniter Uri Ariel are looking increasingly unlikely following statements made Tuesday evening by

Hezbollah says it recently exposed a Mossad agent embedded among its “elite operations unit”, in what the Iranian-backed terror group says is “the most serious breach in Hezbollah’s history.”

In a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in London on Tuesday, Kerry reportedly finally promised to veto a PA

Learn and Return, an organization that works to prevent Jewish women and girls from getting trapped in abusive relationships with Arab men, has uncovered the shocking truth of an epidemic

Ahead of the traditional period of shloshim on Wednesday marking thirty days since the Har Nof synagogue massacre in which four Jews at prayer and a police officer were murdered by two

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part in a ceremony marking the first night of Hanukkah together with two elite army units Tuesday night – the Oketz canine unit and the

As the first night of Hanukkah began on Tuesday evening, a 15-year-old Arab terrorist wielding a knife was arrested at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea and confessed in investigation

Australian media has unearthed new details about “hate sheikh” Man Haron Monis (49), who took just over a dozen people hostage in a Sydney cafe Monday before being killed along with

Former MK and primaries contender in the radical leftist Meretz party Mossi Raz, who also is the former secretary general of Peace Now, paid a condolence visit in Ramallah on