Israeli coach David Blatt led his new team, the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, to a 107-80 victory over the visiting Maccabbi Tel Aviv, in a pre-season exhibition basketball game on Sunday

As Islamic State (ISIS) forces continue to advance on the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria (western Kurdistan), Kurdish forces are engaged a last-ditch, desperate fight to fend off

An explosion at Iran’s Parchin nuclear plant has killed at least two people, among them an unnamed “nuclear expert”, according to Iranian media reports. The plant is located close to

US Vice President Biden’s October 2, 2014 Harvard Kennedy School comments on Syria garnered most of the media attention, but he also made an important statement saying there is a

Israeli security officials on Monday arrested an Israeli woman who was trying to smuggle illegal Palestinian workers into Israel – along with a cache of drugs. The woman and three

The hareidi draft is here to stay, the State Attorney’s Office stated Monday – after petitions were filed against the law to the High Court of Justice. The Equal Burden

The Attorney General told the Knesset’s Interior Committee Monday that he will not allow it to override a High Court ruling that knocked the teeth out of the Infiltrators Law.

Following the Jewish High Holidays, Jerusalem will once again be awash in festive events – but not Jewish ones. The Municipality is planning to hold a special week of events

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Science Minister Ya’akov Perry (Yesh Atid) on Sunday announced the winners of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation. The two

Anti-Semitic British designer John Galliano is to restart his shattered career by taking over the creative direction of the fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, the label said on Monday, three years after he was

The Social-Economic Cabinet on Sunday decided to sell off nearly all the government-controlled companies in Israel, in a move that is expected to bring in as much as NIS 20

After a four-year-long legal battle, Egged buses in Jerusalem began displaying advertisements that feature women’s faces on Sunday. The advertisements feature a mix of women from Jerusalem – secular, religious,

Syria has been wracked by civil war for over two years, with a variety of factions, from “moderate” groups to Islamists associated with Al Qaeda to IS (Islamic State) fanatics

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hosted a traditional Bible study class in his official residence Sunday. The Bible classes were first held by Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben Gurion. They

Residents of working class Tel Aviv expressed their anguish and anger Sunday following the High Court decision striking down the Infiltrator Law, by marching with black flags. Organizer May Golan

Egyptian security forces have arrested four suspected members of a cell recruiting fighters for the “Islamic State” (IS or ISIS) group in Syria, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Sunday.

The president of the Sudanese Chess Association (SCA) tendered his resignation on Sunday following a game of chess that took place against an Israeli player at the World Youth Chess

The Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-1939) was almost a preview for the 1947-1949 hostilities after the UN partitioned Palestine, the British mandate ended, the British army withdrew from Palestine and the State of

Drivers on Route 1, the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, are waiting with bated breath for completion of work that will upgrade the road to an international-class highway,

Last week, Hamas Political Bureau member Mahmoud Al-Zahar stated that Hamas wants to build an Islamic state in all of Palestine, meaning it would replace Israel, reports Palestinian Media Watch

A day after apologizing to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. Vice President Biden on Sunday made another apology, this time to the United Arab Emirates. According to The Washington

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an interview which aired Sunday on CBS that the White House’s rebuke of Israeli construction in Jerusalem goes “against American values”. In the interview,

Asia’s Olympic chief has urged all sports to let women wear the Islamic hijab headscarf, after an Asian Games row which saw Qatar’s basketball team quit in fury, AFP reports.

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi has criticized Israel and the United States over their reaction to Sweden’s decision to recognize “the state of Palestine”, the Ma’an

The Hezbollah group said Sunday that at least five of its fighters were killed along with “dozens” of gunmen in clashes in the Syria-Lebanon border area, AFP reports. A Hezbollah

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had a message for Sweden on Sunday, a day after Sweden’s Prime Minister said his country would recognize the “state of Palestine.” Netanyahu clarified that unilateral

A senior Israeli Muslim religious leader called terrorists of the Islamic State (IS) “brothers” of Muslims in Israel and elsewhere, adding that they could not stand by and watch silently

The Egyptian jihadist group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis on Sunday decapitated three people and shot a fourth on accusations of “collaborating” with Israel’s Mossad spy agency and the Egyptian army, the

At a party meeting for Yesh Atid, Chairman Yair Lapid, apologized for convening a press conference from the doorway of his home on the Sabbath of September 20. He stated, “I

An Orthodox Jewish group has taken legal action against a terminally ill patient’s family, DNAinfo reported Thursday, in an attempt to prevent the patient from being taken off life support.  Eileen Beth