A new report has exposed the details of a heated meeting held between Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Qatar-based Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal on August 21 in

At least 42 children have been killed in government air strikes and shelling across Syria in the last 36 hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Sunday,

Several senior British Muslim clerics have added their support to a fatwa (Muslim religious decree) against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group, ITV News reported on Sunday. The

Iran warned on Sunday of “unpleasant” responses to new U.S. sanctions against it, Reuters reports. The declaration by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, came after an announcement on Friday

A 16-year-old girl suspected of trying to reach Syria to join Islamist rebels has been arrested in the southeastern French city of Nice, Reuters reported on Sunday. France’s Interior Minister

B’nai Brith Canada has announced that it will nominate Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, for the Nobel Peace prize. In a statement released on Friday, B’nai Brith CEO Frank Dimant

As part of his visit to Israel, New York Republican candidate for Congress, Bruce Blakeman, visited the Jewish communities of eastern Jerusalem and the old city of Jerusalem. Hosted by

Finance Minister Yair Lapid on Sunday a press conference at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem, in which he suggested that the Arab world should work with Israel and the

The United States on Sunday condemned Israel over its decision to assign about 4,000 dunams (988 acres) of land in Judea and Samaria, mostly in Gush Etzion, as state land.

There were conflicting reports Sunday evening on who, If anyone, was in control of the abandoned US embassy in Tripoli, Libya. According to reports, an Islamist militia group had taken

A mortar shell fired from Syria struck an open area on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights Monday morning, as fighting across the border continued to rage between pro-regime

A group of prominent Turkish-Jews have released a letter in protest of the “racist” way in which they and the wider Jewish community has been targeted in response to Israel’s

The Palestinian Authority “unity government” with Hamas is totally bankrupt, according to a leading PA minister, who blamed broken promises by America and Arab states for the dire situation. “The

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday once again threatened to pursue Israel through the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Kol Yisrael radio reported. Speaking at a

2,105,394 children will begin the new academic year today (Monday), at kindergartens and schools throughout the country. 149,705 of those are students entering their first year of school, according to

It remains to be seen if apartment prices fall when (and if) the 0% VAT plan proposed by Finance Ministry Yair Lapid is enacted into law, but according to a

MK Danny Danon (Likud) on Sunday filed a petition with the High Court demanding that the Attorney General begin the process of filing an indictment against MK Hanin Zoabi. The

The government on Sunday ratified an across-the-board 2% cut in the budgets of all state ministries to pay for Operation Protective Edge. Two ministers – Housing Minister Uri Ariel and

There has been a recent series of incidents in which children swallow magnetic beads; on Sunday, the latest small victim of the dangerous toys was brought to the Schneider Children’s

School is set to start Monday on schedule, Education Minister Shai Piron said Sunday. For the first time in several years, there are no threats of labor actions by teachers

The government is seeking to cut NIS 1.9 billion from the state budget in order to pay for Operation Protective Edge, but further cuts should be expected, because the Defense

Schools in Israel have improved over the past several years – altogether, 98% of Israeli children now finish 12 years of study – but there are still better and worse

The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is demanding an apology from Andrea Tantaros of Fox News for comments she made on the show “Outnumbered. The AAJA statement said that “AAJA

The son of the president of Suriname has admitted to aiding Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah on Friday. Dino Bouterse, 41, who had initially denied the charges, was filmed last year

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday promised to pay Hamas employees in Gaza their backlogged salary “as soon as possible,” but one PA official revealed fears over the group’s international

The Israeli Air Force downed an unmanned drone (UAV) over the Golan Heights as it attempted to enter Israeli airspace from Syria. Forces fired a surface-to-air Patriot missile at the

Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas said in a PA TV interview Thursday translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that the casualties of the Gaza war could

Shimon Shalev, father of paratrooper Sgt. Shahar Shalev hy”d, spoke Sunday about his son, who succumbed to his wounds today after being critically wounded during Operation Protective Edge. “We received

The Cabinet, at its weekly meeting Sunday in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council area, approved a 1.3 billion shekel five-year plan for the economic, social and communal development of Sderot

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman has been very critical of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s handling of Operation Protective Edge, and there are some in the political establishment who think he is