Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Jerusalem Sunday, where he clarified Israel’s positions on its security and peace talks.  The President began by congratulating

A leading Iranian cleric has threatened to “raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground” if Israel attacks the country over its nuclear program. Speaking in a televised public sermon

Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to build the country’s first mosque. Erdogan’s offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America,

This article is the first in a series exploring the “status quo” on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Though “maintaining the status quo” on the Temple Mount seems to be a universal

It is somewhat of a longstanding political practice in Israel for companies to strike to identify with political causes, such as the Ben-Gurion airport strike several months ago in solidarity

Israel’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell in the third quarter of 2014 because of the summer conflict in Gaza, officials said Sunday, representing the first such drop in over five years. A

A Jewish man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday night, on Haneviim street – the latest in a string of terrorist attacks to hit the capital. 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has turned to the hareidi parties once again, officials from United Torah Judaism (UTJ) revealed Sunday night, in yet another attempt to replace Yesh Atid in

A sharp confrontation took place on Sunday afternoon in the Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation after committee head Justice Minister Tzipi Livni removed the discussion on the Jewish State bill,

Following the demand by neo-Nazi ‘Die Rechte’ party, the mayor of the German city of Dortmund asked authorities to ban the party The party reportedly demanded that the mayor send

Hours after a hassidic Jew from the Belz sect was stabbed in the neck in Antwerp, Belgium, a friend of his told Arutz Sheva the injury was not as bad as

The security establishment decided Saturday evening to put Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) under the protection of a 24-hour security detail. The decision was reached after terror

We have often stressed in these posting the huge dimensions of World War I in Palestine.  The armies, battles and casualties were often on the same scale as those on

Morocco arrested five people Saturday in the southern city of Marrakesh on suspicion of seeking to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria and of aiding terrorist activities, the interior ministry

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in talks in Ramallah on Saturday hailed the recent easing of Israeli-Palestinian tensions in Jerusalem, for which he credited the intervention by his US counterpart.

Intense searches over the weekend for a ten-year-old boy from the hareidi town of Kiryat Sefer (Modiin Illit) ended Saturday morning when he was found wandering the streets in Bnei

A photo of Thursday’s three-way meeting in Jordan between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah and US diplomat John Kerry may have carried a subliminal message threatening Netanyahu. The

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group is continuing with its policy of beheading, but this time has executed one of its own members. AFP reported on Friday that the group

CRIF, the umbrella group representing France’s Jewish community, warned on Friday that the French government’s upcoming vote on recognizing “Palestine” may fuel anti-Semitism. “This resolution is not conducive to the

The family members of Abdelrahman Shaludi, the terrorist who last month carried out an attack near the Jerusalem Light Rail and murdered two people, on Friday received an order informing

The feud between IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen is over. Gantz and Cohen met on Friday afternoon and agreed to

Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will travel to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the weekend for talks with leaders on both sides amid surging tensions, a spokesman said Friday,

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) is cracking down at Ben Gurion International Airport – not on terrorists, but on religious nationalists.  Right-wing activists told Walla! News Friday that they

The Jerusalem District Court has ordered author Naomi Ragen and Keter Publishing to pay author Sudy Rosengarten 73,000 shekels ($19,124) for copyright infringement, distortion, camouflage and literary copying of “substantial

Mads Gilbert, a Norweigan doctor with a long record as an anti-Israel activist, has been banned by Israel from visiting Gaza for life for reasons of security after almost 30

Thousands of people have begun the yearly pilgrimage to Hevron Friday, in honor of the Shabbat in which the Torah portion of “Chayei Sarah” (lit. “The Life of Sarah”) is

Lt. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, Director of the Almagor terror victims organization, raised numerous security failures in a sharp letter to the Israeli Security Cabinet on Tuesday. In light of two

Israel on Thursday ordered the demolition of the home of a terrorist who carried out a tractor attack in Jerusalem this past summer, raising the ire of the United States.