The state must immediately release a ship seized in 2012 which tried to break through the sea blockade the Israeli Navy is maintaining off the coast of Gaza. According to

Syrian rebels have made fresh advances near the Israeli Golan Heights in Quneitra province, where 26 troops and 17 rebels were killed in a battle on Saturday, a monitoring group

If history is an indication, it may be a very long time before anything gets built on land in Gush Etzion that was declared state land last week. Another declaration

A radical new law regulating the public activities of business and cultural groups on Shabbat is just another attempt “by those in Yesh Atid and Hatnua to harm Judaism and

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett and Environment Minister Amir Peretz reached a compromise on how much consumers who choose to use plastic grocery bags supplied by supermarkets will have to pay.

A Jerusalem court on Sunday rejected a petition by the Education Ministry for an injunction against the use of a secular school by a hareidi girls’ school in Ramat Beit

Largely in response to an Arutz Sheva report on a counter-anti-Semitism event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Palau to the UN, organizers say that there has been a surge of over 500

Rabbis of the religious-Zionist Tzohar organization decried the refusal of city rabbis in Petah Tikvah to register members of the Ethiopian community for marriage. According to reports, Ethiopian community members who

“Moderate” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has bragged of his regime’s role in aiding Hamas’s terror war against Israel, even as Iran is locked in a final round of negotiations with

As the government worked over the past year on a bill that would require hareidi youths to serve in the IDF – or possibly serve time in prison – leaders

The Arab League said Sunday that it would back military action led by the US and Europe against IS (aka ISIS or ISIL), the Islamist group that has taken over

Jack the Ripper was a 23-year-old Polish immigrant called Aaron Kosminski, according to an author claiming to have exposed the serial killer’s true identity using DNA evidence. Russell Edwards, 48,

Dozens of Arabs rioted in the Wadi Joz area of Jerusalem Sunday following the death of Mohammed Abu Sankara, 16, who was injured during another riot a week earlier. He

Egypt arrested seven men on Saturday for taking part in a gay wedding video that went viral on social media, accusing them of inciting debauchery and undermining public morals. The arrest of two

President Barack Obama said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his strategy to deal with and ultimately defeat the Islamic State terrorists, who he said could

Two weeks after the IDF’s counter-terror operation Protective Edge in Gaza was halted by a ceasefire, a senior diplomatic source says that Hamas has renewed its production of rockets and the

During 50 days of war against Hamas in Gaza, one of the stated goals of Israel was the demilitarization of Gaza. Officials and politicians from parties both right and left

Hundreds of people gathered over the weekend at a synagogue in Miami, Florida for a service in memory of Steve Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was brutally beheaded by terrorists

The Somali Al-Shabaab terrorist group confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. airstrike this week and named a new leader, Reuters reported. U.S.

Egypt on Saturday charged ousted president Mohammed Morsi and several other people with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, Reuters reported. Security sources had

Middle East studies expert Dr. David Bukay of the University of Haifa ridicules intelligence experts trying to downplay the danger posed by the extremist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS),

Concerns that a young Nigerian tourist hospitalized in Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital may have been carrying the lethal Ebola virus were dismissed on Saturday night, as test results revealed she

A senior member of the Palestinian Arab negotiating team that reached a ceasefire deal with Israel on August 26 in Cairo said Saturday that restarted talks on larger demands will

A freed French hostage has said the terrorist behind the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May was among his Islamic extremist captors in Syria, and was part

The Lebanese army says it is looking into reports that the Islamic State terrorist group has beheaded another of its soldiers Saturday. An IS commander told Turkey’s Anadolu news site that

Knesset Coalition Chairman MK Yariv Levin (Likud) on Saturday indicated in a TV interview that the coalition may be in for a shake-up in the near future – and that

Before Shabbat began on Friday evening, residents of the northern Jerusalem neighborhood Pisgat Ze’ev reported to the 100 police emergency hotline that they heard gunshots from the adjacent Arab neighborhood

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to combat anti-Semitism, the White House said in a statement. “The President met with Turkish President Erdogan today

The United States said Friday it has “no plans” for any military coordination with Iran in the fight against Islamic State fighters operating in Iraq and Syria, AFP reported. “We