Deputy Chief of Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood fire station, Rashaf Roni Sonino, accused the haredi community for the numerous fires which broke out across the capital on Thursday. Dozens of fire

Real estate mogul Donald Trump has now officially been crowned as the Republican presidential candidate for 2016, as delegate counts show he has passed the 1,237 threshold needed to secure

Unnamed diplomatic sources in Jerusalem were quoted on Thursday night revealing that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is shifting ever closer to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and against Israel – and

The World Health Organization (WHO) called for an investigation into alleged abuses of “mental, physical and environmental health” rights by Israel, the only country singled out during the U.N. agency’s

Thousands of Jews visited the tomb of Shimon Hatzadik located north of the Old City in Jerusalem on Wednesday night and Thursday for Lag B’Omer, which marks the passing of

President Reuven Rivlin marked Jordan’s Independence Day on Thursday by speaking at a reception hosted in Tel Aviv by Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Walid Obeidat. Rivlin began by speaking in

Germany’s Culture Minister Monika Grutters has announced her idea to integrate Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, rabbi of Berlin’s Jewish community, in the commission seeking to return art stolen by the Nazis to the

Donald Trump, who has passed the number of delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination, on Thursday fired back at President Barack Obama, after the latter said that Trump

Fire broke out in the famous Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem on Thursday, forcing students to evacuate the study hall. Three teams of firefighters arrived in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in

Border Police officers stationed near Hevron’s Cave of the Patriarchs thwarted a stabbing attack Thursday, arresting an Arab man found with a concealed knife. Officers noticed the 26-year-old Hevron resident

Rescue forces were dispatched on Wednesday night to the Ashdod home of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the head of the Shuvu Yisrael sect who is currently in jail for corruption, after

The Ministry of Environmental Protection published their “Clean Coast” Index revealing that only 37% of Israel’s beaches are considered “clean” or “very clean,” while 20% were categorized as “dirty” or

Johannesburg’s Randburg Magistrates Court ruled on Thursday that Rabbi Eliezer Berland is to be extradited to Israel, reports Walla news. Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim sect, fled from Israel in 2012 after several

Israeli media raised an uproar after security cameras apparently showed an Arab Israeli supermarket worker in Tel Aviv being hit by eight police officers – but a closer investigation of the footage

Kes Aviyahu Azariya, chairperson of the Council of Kohanim of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel, issued a letter on Wednesday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other ministers, warning about the planned

A new report by the grassroots Zionist group Im Tirtzu on Thursday exposed the leading role played by top Israeli academics in promoting the BDS boycott movement – which includes an

Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and Minister of Social Affairs Haim Katz (Likud) are initiating a new law that would provide greater protection of Youth Laws – including

There is a Jewish tradition to give boys their first haircut – known as halake – at age three on Lag B’Omer which falls on Thursday, and in order to capitalize on

Some 3.2 million people have immigrated to Israel since the founding of the state in 1948, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The

A report presented to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday sharply criticized the Hamas terror organization – not for its recent rocket attacks on Israel, but for extra-judicial killings

The Amman-based Arab Bank on Tuesday agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by the families of terror victims killed in attacks the plaintiffs say the Arab Bank helped

The stabbing of a woman at a kosher restaurant here was not a hate crime, police said. The attack Monday night at Grand Cafe Rimon, which resulted in moderate injuries to the victim

Knesset Guard Sergeant-at-Arms Brigadier General Yossi Grif warned Knesset Members from the predominantly Arab Joint List party not to ascend the Temple Mount, including during the upcoming Ramadan holiday. The

Feeling the heat over her clashes with Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is at the center of a debate among Democratic lawmakers over whether to push for her ouster as party chair. The Hill reported Tuesday that

Taylor Swift may look every bit the all-American girl-next-door, but according to white supremacists, she’s actually a Nazi at heart, feeding her legions of followers racist messages coated in the saccharine

An Israeli delegation led by a top diplomat arrived in Turkey to represent Israel at the first World Humanitarian Summit. Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, cut the ribbon of

Border control agents, working in conjunction with the Shin Bet internal security agency, confiscated a large shipment at the Tarkumia Crossing in the Hevron region. The shipment, bound for Gaza

Last October, Bezeq employee Alaa Abu Jamal went on a murderous rampage in the Malchei Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem. Ramming his car into a bus stop, Abu Jamal then exited

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday attacked Israel’s incoming Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, referring to him as “crazy”. Nasrallah made the comments in a speech marking 16 years since the

Israeli aircraft overnight Wednesday attacked two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrike was in response to