Former Chief Military Rabbi, Brigadier General Rabbi Avichai Ronski, who served as a company commander in Sayeret Shaked during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, recounted his experiences of Simchat

Rescue forces are trying to locate missing persons after an avalanche Tuesday in the Annapurna Mountain Range – 160 kilometers northwest of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.  BBC reports that at least sixteen

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is apparently still very upset over Economics Minister Naftali Bennett’s direct contact with IDF officers during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas. In an interview with the

Tragedy occurred Wednesday on Hoshana Raba, the last day of Sukkot, as a car crashed into a sukkah booth traditionally dwelt in during the holiday, wounding a father and his

An extraordinary exhibition into the later works of Rembrandt opened at the National Gallery in London on Wednesday, AFP reports, revealing the energy, innovation and empathy of the Dutch master right up to his death. Featuring

Nahal Oz, a kibbutz in the South located near the Gaza Strip saw its share of tragedy during this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge.   On July 28, a group

Opposition Chairman and Labor Party Head MK Yitzhak Herzog said Wednesday on IDF Radio that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu profits politically from Israel’s increased diplomatic isolation, claiming it deflects attention

The Judea and Samaria district police emergency call center received a call on Monday night around 9:30 p.m. from four family members from the central coastal region who were driving

The Israel Police will restrict the entry of Muslim worshipers to the Temple Mount on Wednesday, due to intelligence information that was received about plans by Arabs to riot at

The World Health Organization released an updated projection on Tuesday of the Ebola epidemic gripping the globe, and warned that by December the lethal virus may infect as many as

Counter-extremism and pro-Israel groups are protesting the first ever London-based conference to encourage European states to trade with Iran following the easing of sanctions. Several grassroots and communal organisations published

The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Iraq are not necessarily committing

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday that any recognition of “Palestine” as a state must be “helpful to peace” as part of a two-state solution, and not just symbolic – a not-so-subtle

The Islamic State terror group (also known as ISIS or ISIL) recently released what it says was a letter written by murdered American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff just days before his

Does yesterday’s symbolic vote in Britain’s parliament to recognize a “Palestinian state” reflect a failure on the part of pro-Israel advocacy groups to make Israel’s case effectively?   That depends

MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am-Ta’al) responded on Tuesday evening to MK Miri Regev’s (Likud) demand that he be dismissed from the Knesset for flying to London to convince parliamentarians to vote

A Libyan already behind bars was indicted Tuesday on new charges arising from the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, including crimes punishable by the death penalty, the

A final deal on Iran’s nuclear program is still possible despite the difficulty of the negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, according to The Hill. “I don’t

U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters on Tuesday that the effort to dismantle the terror group ISIS “is going to be a long-term campaign,” CNN reports. Obama’s comments were made

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, thinks the United States, Israel and the “wicked” British government are behind the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terrorist group, Al-Akhbar reports. According to

A large factory for manufacturing rockets in the Sinai was discovered and destroyed by Egyptian security forces, the blogger Elder of Ziyon reported on Tuesday, citing Egyptian media. Authorities said

An explosion rocked the area near Egypt’s High Court of Justice in central Cairo on Tuesday night, government officials have confirmed. According to Al Jazeera, Brigadier General Abdel Fattah Othman,

As has been widely noted in Israel, but quite scantly elsewhere in the world, the demand that Hamas be relieved of its lethal missiles has been all but forgotten. Media

Some 60,000 people came to the city of Hevron Monday and Tuesday, to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles).  Of those, a record 40,000 flocked to the city

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abe Foxman expressed on Tuesday the League’s deep dismay at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s “stunning” bias in his recent remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The

The British parliament passed a non-binding – but possibly monumental – resolution Monday night to recognize the Hamas-Palestinian Authority (PA) “unity government” as “Palestine.” However, many of the MPs abstained

Sweden recognized “Palestine” on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, and on Monday the UK followed suit in a non-binding vote – now “frustrated” European officials reveal that they are

A US government-funded September 2, 2014 scientific quantitative transmission analysis study (the Spread-Risk Ebola Study) wholly contradicts and refutes Obama’s statements on September 16 that the chances of a US

Five senior Taliban leaders in Pakistan swore allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier this week – the latest in a series of regional

Israeli news media on Tuesday morning headlined an alleged ‘Price Tag’ attack on a mosque in the village of Akraba, near Shechem. The mosque was set on fire overnight, according