Hamas is planning to carry out a series of public executions in Gaza, the attorney general in the Palestinian enclave said on Sunday, according to the AFP news agency. “Capital

Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi on Sunday said that he is not concerned about the upcoming appointment of MK Avigdor Liberman as Defense Minister. “I think Liberman demonstrated

My Israeli Brother is one of a number of projects run by the Hinam Organization aimed at promoting meaningful encounters between people from different sectors within Israeli society. By “stepping

A third of his Labor faction MKs may have boycotted his meeting on Sunday, but Opposition head MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) didn’t fare much better with those who turned

At a press conference Sunday with the visiting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s (Likud) sudden resignation last Friday. Ya’alon announced

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Sunday transferred two ancient relics from Pharaonic times to the Ambassador of Egypt. The two artifacts are Egyptian sarcophagi covers dating back to

Senior Hamas politburo official Mahmoud al-Zahar reignited the war of words between his terrorist organization and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which have long been bitter rivals.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Thursday condemned the rising anti-Semitism in Britain and encouraged other faith communities not to give in to it, or to other forms of racism. “We’ve

Torah scholars often study Talmud while standing, placing the text they are using on a plain wooden lectern – called a shtender in yeshivas. If you go to the Torah MiTzion

Coalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs

The Almagor terror victims organization on Sunday contacted ministers on the Security Cabinet and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, demanding that they not block a new death penalty bill for terrorist murderers. The

The annual event of the Friends of Israel (FOI) in Milan is always a notable affair. This year, over two hundred people attended, including Israel’s ambassador to Rome and the candidates running

One of Jerusalem’s top hotels barred a band from wearing yarmulkes and tzitzit, i.e. Jewish religious garb, out of fear of offending its Arab workers.  The King David hotel invited the Inbalim band

The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court on Sunday held a hearing on the state attorney’s request, which seeks to obligate the radical leftist group Breaking the Silence to give law authorities

A Muslim woman who gained international fame after posing for a series of ironic selfies with anti-Islam protesters, as herself been outed as an anti-Semitic bigot. 22-year-old Zakia Belkhiri was feted by

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Saturday fired back at Donald Trump for comments he made after the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced their endorsement of the presumptive Republican nominee. On

Pro-Palestinian activists turned violent last Wednesday night as they protested a pro-Israel movie screening at University of California, Irvine (UCI), and in the process hunted down a Jewish woman who was

Adherents of the Vizhnitz hassidic court are in mourning after the passing of Rabbi Gavriel Tzvi Klein of Jerusalem who died on Sunday after battling an illness at the age of 64,

The backlash over Zionist Union chairperson MK Yitzhak Herzog’s talks to join in a unity government continues to intensify, as a third of his Labor faction MKs boycotted a meeting

Yafo Military Court President Col. Maya Heller has replaced the panel of judges in the case of IDF soldier Elor Azariya, who is on trial for charges of manslaughter after having

A Torah reading was prevented on Thursday at the Ashkenazi synagogue “Bnei HaYeshivot” in Kiryat Yearim solely because the cantor prayed with a Sephardic accent, reports Kikar Hashabbat. According to one of the

The leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial

Temperatures will spike again Sunday, after days of pleasant weather.  Highs Sunday will reach 33°C (91.4°F) in Katzrin; 30°C (86°F) in Tzfat (Safed); 30°C (86°F) in Ariel; 30°C (86°F) in Nahariya; 31°C (87.8°F) in Tel Aviv; 31°C (87.8°F) in

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to skip his own farewell ceremony Sunday, in disgust with his ouster and in the context of him “taking a break” from politics.  The farewell-and-swearing-in-ceremony

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s departure from his post, and from politics in general, will not affect US aid to Israel, a senior official from Washington confirmed Sunday morning.  Ya’alon’s

Political vandals threatened the doomed plane carrying flight EgyptAir MS804, EgyptAir workers revealed Saturday, writing in Arabic “we will bring this plane down” on the plane’s underbelly.  Cairo airport workers targeted

A top Palestinian Authority (PA) official insisted that a Palestinian “Right of Return” should be to modern-day Israel – not to a “Palestinian state.”  Fatah Central Committee and PLO Executive Committee

The top US military commander for the Middle East made a surprise visit to northern Syria on Saturday to witness efforts to build up local forces in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS)

Israel imported cement into Gaza Sunday after a month and a half of hiatus om transfers into the Hamas stronghold.  Construction and employment in Gaza allegedly had suffered due to the