President Barack Obama is preparing to ask Congress to pay for a multibillion-dollar plan to expand the military campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants, an unnamed administration official told

The Bank of Israel on Wednesday released the first samples to the Israeli market of its new 50 shekel (just under $15) banknote that is posed to enter circulation. Training was

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon landed in the Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan on Wednesday, becoming the first Israeli defense minister ever to visit the country, which is located strategically on Iran’s northern

Israel on Wednesday hailed US efforts to form an alliance to fight jihadists in Syria and Iraq but raised concerns of a rapprochement between Washington and Israel’s arch-foe Iran. “I

Egypt will host a donors conference on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on October 12 in Cairo, the Egyptian foreign minister said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The announcement

A group of 45 UN peacekeepers from Fiji taken hostage in the Golan Heights two weeks ago will be released soon, the Fiji government said Tuesday night, according to AFP.

Hassan Abboud, the leader of the Syrian Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, has been killed with other top commanders in a bomb blast at a meeting, the BBC reported on

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) was assured by officials in Washington on Tuesday that the United States will not compromise on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program. Herzog met

Russian officials have traveled to Iran’s capital to boost economic ties between the two countries, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday. Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh and Alexander Novak,

Palestinian Arab terrorists who are serving time in Israeli jails announced on Tuesday night that they will start a hunger strike on Wednesday. The mass hunger strike is a response

A number of bronze shoes were stolen from the riverside Holocaust memorial ‘Shoes on the Danube’ in Budapest, Hungary, The Budapest Beacon reported on Tuesday. It is not known whether

Technology juggernaut Apple unveiled the iPhone 6 on Tuesday, the newest entry in its highly popular line of cellular phones, along with its foray into the smart-watch market entitled the

Greece on Tuesday ratcheted up its punishments for racism, anti-Semitism and hate speech, in a move prompted by the surprise rise of a neo-Nazi party.   A new law approved

Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov claimed on Tuesday that the joint Israeli and American test of an Arrow (Hetz) 2 interceptor missile, conducted in a simulated ballistic missile

Former President Shimon Peres coordinated a goodwill soccer game for “peace,” in which 80 Israeli and Arab children participated last Monday. According to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the “friendly” match

Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have reportedly arrested Fares Kawasmeh, a Hevron-based member of the Hamas-linked Kawasmeh clan that conducted the abduction and murder of Naftali Frenkel (16), Eyal Yifrah

The United Nations (UN) and Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday called for international donors to supply $550 million to the Hamas terror enclave of Gaza, despite the fact that Hamas

As the INS Tanin, Israel’s fourth and most advanced Dolphin class submarine, is making its way to Israel from Germany, it has elicited criticism from various German political leaders in

Murdered journalist Steven Sotloff was kidnapped and sold to the radical Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS, by one of the “moderate” rebel groups to whom the US government has

A fugitive rabbi fleeing sex-crimes charges in Israel has once again evaded police in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim hassidic sect, was conducting a

The controversy over the Jewish Home party’s new constitution continues to rage among party MKs, revealing what could be described as a crossroads for the religious-Zionist party, as well as

“Provocation”, “a Moroccan Muslim”, “an Ayatollah”: the appointment of a young Morocco-born woman as France’s education minister has sparked a wave of attacks that has renewed concerns about racism in

Israel’s honorary consul to Wales, UK has called for the dismissal of the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cardiff, the country’s capital, after the latter dismissed Hamas rocket attacks on Israeli

Arab foreign ministers said on Monday they will back Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s efforts to lobby the United Nations to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from

It’s a comparison that Hamas’s leadership can’t stand, but Jewish-American rapper Ari Lesser has released a new single comparing Hamas – the Islamist terrorist organization which rules the Gaza Strip

The Jewish museum in Brussels will reopen on Sunday under tight security, in a message of defiance after terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche, a former torturer for the brutal Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS)

The New York Jewish community and its supporters will stage an historic march on September 14 in downtown Manhattan, protesting the recent skyrocketing wave of anti-Semitism and media culpability in

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials on Tuesday claimed Israel committed a “war crime,” after an Arab terrorist jailed in Israel committed suicide by hanging himself. Israel Prison Service spokesperson Sivan Weizman

Syrian rebels strengthened their hold of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, conquering the mountain Al-Mal in the Quneitra region where they have recently been capturing

US-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday accused Israel of “illegally” sending almost 7,000 illegal immigrants back to their home countries in Africa. “Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean