From now on, everyone in Israel gets a day off – a full one, consisting of 25 hours away from their job – and not just bits and pieces of

In the wake of reports that MK Eli Yishai is about to leave the Shas party, the Shas Council of Torah Sages on Saturday night instructed MK Aryeh Deri not

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Saturday condemned the night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens and stressed the need to catch the perpetrators, AFP reports. In

Dalit Halevy Palestinian Authority (PA) press agency SAFA has published portions of the minutes of a meeting held November 26 between senior PLO official Yasser Abd Rabbo and another PLO

Former Justice Minister MK Tzipi Livni was a guest on Saturday night on the satirical television program “Matzav HaUma” (lit. State of the Union), which airs on Channel 2. Most

A man suspected of running an influential Twitter account promoting the Islamic State (ISIS) has been arrested in southern India, the BBC reported on Saturday. The man, a 24-year-old working

The Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties were involved in some back and forth bantering on Sunday, after Yisrael Beytenu chairman, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, said he would not rule out

The Israeli air raid on Hezbollah weapons in Syria last Sunday was the most extensive yet, in terms of the number of targets hit, according to a report on Al

Meretz chairwoman MK Zehava Galon said on Saturday that the upcoming elections must be the last ones in which Binyamin Netanyahu contends. “Bibi is the dybbuk that has overtaken Israeli

Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett fired back Saturday evening at veteran reporter Nahum Barne’a of Yediot Aharonot, after Barne’a used nasty language to describe Jewish Home’s religious-Zionist

MK Eli Yishai is leaving the Shas movement, according to sources close to him. Yishai served as Shas’ chairman for years, until the political comeback of MK Aryeh Deri, his rival. At

The planned new party uniting Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) and MK Eli Yishai (Shas) “is meant to move the entire political system to the right,” said elements involved in

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he hoped to head off an end-of-year showdown at the United Nations over the Palestinian Authority’s planned push for statehood in meetings

A bomb attack slightly damaged the shuttered French Cultural Centre in Gaza City Friday night without causing casualties, two months after a fire forced its closure, police and an AFP

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Chairman of Yisrael Beytenu, said Saturday that he does not rule out joining a coalition with the Labor party after it united with Hatnua, but criticized

The UN Security Council called for a speedy and transparent investigation after a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official died during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers. The PA leadership has blamed

A Frenchman was ordered into detention Friday as investigators probed his ties to Mehdi Nemmouche, a compatriot charged with killing four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in May. The 27-year-old

A task force investigating the provenance of priceless paintings found in a Nazi-era art hoard said Friday it had received more than 200 queries about specific works by possible heirs,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not promise Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett that he will be appointed as defense minister after the elections, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Channel 2

The United Nations’ (UN) human rights chief on Friday said the circumstances of the death of senior Palestinian Authority minister Ziad Abu Ein were “disturbing” and called for a timely

Greek police on Friday said a far-left group was likely responsible for a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but

Portugal’s parliament on Friday adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the Palestinian state, following a growing number of similar votes around Europe. Parliament’s motion, filed jointly by

Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide, on Tuesday emphatically stated that Iran’s genocidal threats to “wipe Israel off the earth” are “totally unacceptable.” Dieng

An unusual opinion piece was written on Thursday by homosexual journalist Gal Ohovski in Channel 10‘s Mako Magazine, in which he warned leftist Labor party head Yitzhak Herzog that he has to

Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan announced Friday that he will be running in the Jewish Home party primaries for the 20th Knesset.  Rabbi Ben-Dahan has worked adamantly

A vending company in Tulsa, Oklahoma is under fire on Friday, after a four-year-old boy presented a toy ring with Nazi insignia on it to his shocked mother.  Leona Kelley

As the elections frenzy continues ahead of a March 17 voting date, a new poll published Friday morning confirms the newly combined Labor and Hatnua party would become the largest

A Likud-Jewish Home pact could still be on the table, Likud sources told Channel 10 Thursday night – despite Jewish Home’s opposition to the idea.  The report contradicts a similar report

Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon is invested in the party for the long term, Channel 10 reports Friday – instituting a rule that he would remain chairman until 2023.  The former

Recordings from a closed meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud activists from the party’s Central Committee were released by Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) on Friday, and in them Netanyahu can