MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on Thursday said he would resign from the Knesset. Ben-Eliezer, a Labor Party member who served as an MK and Minister in numerous governments, wrote to Knesset

The Likud Central Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s proposal to advance primaries for party leadership to December 31. In addition to moving the primaries

Rightwing MKs reacted with sharp criticism – and in some cases sharp mockery – to the announcement Wednesday that Tzipi Livni was abandoning her colleagues in Hatnua, and joining the

The IDF will be on high alert in Judea and Samaria on Thursday, in anticipation of riots by Palestinian Arabs during the funeral of Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Palestinian

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Rome on Sunday for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, AFP reported Wednesday. Kerry and Netanyahu “will discuss a

Israel has updated its anti-spam laws to include “spammy” phone calls. The new law making spam phone calls illegal was sponsored by MKs Adi Koll (Yesh Atid) and Mickey Rosenthal

Israeli and Palestinian officials have issued conflicting reports Thursday over the autopsy of Palestinian Authority minister Ziad Abu Ein, who died during a Palestinian protest riot in Turmas Ayya in

Israel’s policy of demolishing terrorists’ homes effectively decreases terrorist attacks, a new study found.  The study, “Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions,” was co-authored by researchers at Northwestern University and the

In an interview Thursday, MK Tzachi Hanegbi said that there was one upside to the political union between Tzipi Livni and Labor announced Wednesday night: There was now a clear

Kulanu head Moshe Kahlon denied on Thursday the rumor floated by former welfare minister Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid), who said earlier that there is ongoing contact between his party’s chairman,

Police arrested two children, ages 12 and 13, who tried to rob a bank in Rishon Lezion Wednesday. The two children were caught after leaving behind a slew of clues

The umbrella group of French Jewish communities – the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) condemned 20 theaters in France planning to host the explicitly anti-Semitic show of comedian Dieudonne

Why did Labor Chairman Yitzhak Herzog agree for Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party to join Labor and, more importantly, to share the country’s top political office with her? Because, said Yitzchak

Following the stabbing in Crown Heights’ 770 Chabad Lubavitch center on Tuesday, Michael Miller, Executive Directive of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in New York, has called for additional

Former Likud minister Gideon Saar announced Thursday that he will not contend for leadership of the Likud party against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Likud primaries. “In the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Thursday afternoon with dozens of Likud activists at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, and spoke to them about the latest political developments, including the

President Reuven Rivlin addressed the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel on Thursday, speaking about the rising wave of Arab terrorism and appraising the danger – to Israel’s

Jordan put two brothers, accused of planning to blow up Israel’s embassy in Amman, on trial Thursday. The two are part of a terror gang arrested during the summer, at

A statue of Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank was dedicated in Buenos Aires Wednesday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported.   The statue, an exact replica of one located in Amsterdam,

Three activists from the Lehava organization have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a kindergarten at the bilingual Max Rayne Hand in Hand Jerusalem School two weeks ago, and

Yaron Lahav, the brother of Boaz Lahav, who was murdered along with his friend David Lankri by terrorist Ziad Abu Ein, stated that Abu Ein’s death Wednesday is not a “comfort,”

A U.S. Army chaplain has been reprimanded for “using Christian scriptures and solutions” at a suicide prevention training session. The chaplain, Joseph Lawhorn, spoke at a seminar held at the

Temple Mount rights activist Yehuda Glick received a human rights award Wednesday, at the Second Zionist Conference for Human Rights by the Im Tirzu organization.  Glick – who founded and

Hatnua chairman Tzipi Livni and Labor chairman Yitzhak Herzog officially announced a joint list Wednesday, forming a leftist bloc ahead of the upcoming elections after weeks of negotiations. Herzog emphasized

The “Scroll of Fire,” a well-known Holocaust memorial in central Israel, was found to have been vandalized by a group of students who were visiting the site. In addition, two

Former Likud MK Moshe Kahlon will indeed be running for the Knesset – and on Wednesday evening, he introduced his new party to Israelis. The party’s name will be “Kulanu,”

The falling price of oil worldwide has nothing to do with market forces, Iran’s head of state Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday. It’s part of an international plot by Western countries

“Kosher slaughter is permitted by the laws of Poland,” the Polish High Court determined Wednesday.  The landmark decision was a 9-5 majority ruling supporting a petition by the Chief Rabbi

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon expressed “regret” for the death Wednesday of a senior Palestinian Authority official after a confrontation with the IDF, saying the matter was under investigation, according to AFP. “The incident in which

Looking for a job? If you’re a programmer or computer science grad, there are plenty of jobs for you in Israel, said Meir Brand, head of Google’s Israel office. “I