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Israel Police arrested a 26 year-old Haifa man over a month ago on suspicion of being a serial killer and serial rapist, it was cleared for publication Tuesday.  Moldovan immigrant Fyodor Beizhneri has been linked to dozens of rape and sexual assault cases all over Israel, police said, and is suspected of murdering at least 4 victims.…

The overwhelming majority of young Palestinians believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through negotiations. A poll of Palestinian youth, defined as ages 16-30, published Monday by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center depicts a community that is socially conservative, supports violence against Israel, is skeptical about its leadership and opposes the Islamic State. It…

A synagogue in the center of the French city of Marseille was sold to a Muslim association that is planning to turn it into a mosque. The Or Thora synagogue on Saint Dominique Street near the Saint-Charles train station was sold a few months ago for approximately $400,000 to the Al Badr Association ahead of…

US President Barack Obama has shown blatant hypocrisy when it comes to Israel, renowned Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz noted in a scathing op-ed Tuesday – with double standards on giving and receiving criticism from other nations.  Obama sparked uproar when criticizing, and issuing veiled threats over, Britain’s possible exit from the European Union…

The US military is now conducting cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, a general said Tuesday as the Pentagon looks for ways to accelerate the fight against the jihadists. A US-led coalition has been striking ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, and officials have long stated the importance of using cyber techniques such as overloading ISIS networks…

An AIPAC-backed letter to President Barack Obama urging a more “robust” defense package for Israel reportedly has garnered the signatures of 83 senators, including Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz but not Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders. Reuters reported Monday that 51 Republicans and 32 Democrats, more than four-fifths of the Senate, had signed on to the…

An IDF army vehicle came under attack in the hostile Palestinian Arab village of Beit Fajjar, near Gush Etzion, on Tuesday evening, after accidentally straying into the village while using the Waze GPS app. The vehicle sustained significant damage when numerous Arab terrorists hurled rocks, firebombs and other projectiles at it, but thankfully the soldiers themselves emerged unscathed.…

A suicide bomber who killed three Israelis in an attack in Istanbul did not target the Israeli tour group, Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau has determined. The attacker, who detonated himself on March 19 as the Israeli tour group left a restaurant in the major Turkish city, was attempting to disrupt tourism in general to Turkey, the…

When you insist people do what you tell them, and give them no choices, do you really love them? Is freedom part of love? Elan shares a beautiful teaching of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin for Pesach, the holiday of freedom. Loading… Click here to download the podcast

Among a number of individuals arrested during clashes between Jews and Muslims on the Temple Mount earlier Tuesday were two members of the Jordanian Waqf, the Islamic trust which administers the site. The two Islamic “guards” were arrested for assaulting Jewish visitors. Israel Police also arrested nine Jews during the day, claiming they had violated…

An unusual heat wave has sparked several brushfires nationwide Tuesday, as temperatures averaged as high as 39°C (102.2°F) throughout most of the country.  Thee major fires were reported in Gan Yavne, Emek Yizrael, and the Western Galilee, Channel 2 reports. 10 firefighting teams and 4 firefighting planes were dispatched to battle the latter fire, across from Kibbutz Matzova.  Hundreds of…

The United States’ top intelligence official has warned that the ISIS terrorist group is expanding its operations throughout Europe, and has organized underground networks similar to those behind the recent Paris and Brussels attacks. Director of National Intelligence James R Clapper Jr. told reporters at a special breakfast on Monday that ISIS networks are operating in Britain, Italy and…

Israeli doctors performed life-saving surgery on a 3 year-old Palestinian Arab from Gaza last month, they revealed Tuesday, insisting to the press that politics has no effect on human life and obligation. Three year-old Saliman was suffering from a benign tumor on his spine – and was close to paralysis.   “The pathology of the child…

(JTA) – Amid a legal fight over the legality of the campaign to boycott Israel in Spain, motions supporting the boycott failed in four Spanish municipalities and passed in four. The council of the eastern city of Santa Coloma de Gramenet near Barcelona on Monday voted down a proposed motion to boycott Israel, according to ACOM, a pro-Israel group…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Maryland goes to the polls Tuesday – one of five states where the two remaining candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the three in the Republican race are facing off. The headline: It’s the new Super Tuesday, at least for the Democrats. This could be the day that once and for…

Over 100,000 people have visited the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) since Passover began Friday night, the Kinneret Authority announced Tuesday. Beaches have been opening and closing according to how quickly they fill to capacity, they said, with about 25,000 people at the beaches at any given time – day or night.  Accordingly, KA crews have collected…

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s ruling party is promoting bloodthirst against Israel in a student election campaign, Palestinian Media Watch exposed Tuesday. The Fatah movement, run by PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has posted the graphic below as part of the Shabiba student election campaign at Birzeit University.  The poster shows a knife dripping with blood, shaped as the…

Israeli firefighters have contained three major brushfires throughout northern Israel, they announced Tuesday evening, after dozens of teams and firefighting planes were called to battle the blazes.  Three major fires were reported in Gan Yavne, Emek Yizrael, and the Western Galilee earlier Tuesday, with over 20 firefighting teams and 6 firefighting planes dispatched as part of the…

Germany’s leading right-populist party has included the banning of some Jewish and Muslim rituals and symbols in its convention platform. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, or AFD, in the program to be presented at its party convention April 30-May 1 in Stuttgart, called for an end to the legal exemption allowing Jews and Muslims…

A 44-year-old man from Rishon Lezion has been arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks at cars on Route 431. Police say they believe that he was responsible for a number of such incidents over the past few weeks, in which he damaged several vehicles and even lightly injured a driver. About six days ago, a rock…

Martin Gray, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose memoir about his experiences during World War II inspired a successful TV miniseries, has died at 93. Gray was found in the swimming pool of his second home in Ciney, Belgium, but officials said no foul play was suspected, the BBC reported. In 1971, the Warsaw native born…

Israeli-based Elbit Systems has won a $20 million contract to provide advanced tactical radios to a unnamed western European country. The contract will last for three years. The radios are based on the E-LynX models, which include advanced mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and are fully function in any terrain. They also allow video transmission and…

It was only meant to last 40 years. But the aluminum core at the heart of Israel’s nuclear facility in Dimona, which was purchased from France in the late 1950s, has been operational since 1963, raising questions about the future of the facility. After using an ultrasound monitor to study the core, Israeli scientists discussed…

Rabbi Marc Schneier, one of New York’s higher-profile spiritual leaders, is resigning from The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach after 26 years, with one report saying he was leaving under pressure. Schneier, 57, went public with his decision to step down this summer from the Orthodox synagogue he founded in a letter emailed to congregants…

Jerusalem business owners claim that, despite the expected holiday period economic boom, the tension in the capital is killing its businesses. “I’m barely holding onto my business in Jerusalem,” an owner with several branches in the city told Arutz Sheva. “This period is supposed to be a great time, but the intimidation in the media is…

While the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has done little to hide its malicious anti-Israel hatred, the movement hitherto has succeeded in maintaining the appearance of legitimacy, presenting itself as the peaceful alternative to terrorism. Despite rhetoric which pro-Israel activists have noted signals a rejection of Jewish statehood per se and draws upon the kind…

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico called on Mexicans in the United States to follow the Jewish community’s example and unite to defend their interests in an urgent effort to defeat Donald Trump. The call was announced by the newly appointed Mexican ambassador to the United States, Carlos Manuel Sada, during an interview last week…

An IDF combat soldier of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, also known as the haredi battalion, was sentenced by his commanders to 17 days in detention at a military jail, after he cocked his weapon towards Palestinian Arabs. The incident took place over the weekend in Jerusalem, when the soldier was on vacation and…

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump responded angrily on Monday to an announcement by his GOP rivals that Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich were coordinating efforts. Cruz and Kasich, who lack any path to a first-ballot victory at the Republican National Convention in July, announced on Sunday that their campaigns would be working…

Likud MK Nava Boker on Monday responded to a letter sent by 83 out of 100 senators, urging US President Barack Obama to increase the annual military aid package to Israel from $3 billion when the current agreement ends in 2018. “It would be better for all those babbling about international isolation to stop lying…

(JTA) As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention. After narrowly avoiding deportation to Auschwitz thanks to a policeman’s tip, the young couple spent 2 1/2 years living less than a mile apart, each in the care of…

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List) has come out with a call, demanding that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas be replaced for being a “bully” towards Arabs who have abandoned the “illusion” of peace with Israel. Zoabi has long been an open supporter of Hamas, and in February she paid a condolence visit to the families of…

A court in Poland on Monday dismissed a case brought by a Holocaust survivor who was held at Auschwitz against a German broadcaster that described Nazi death camps as “Polish.” In summer 2013, Germany’s ZDF channel referred to “Polish camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek” during a promotional trailer for a documentary about the liberation of the Nazi-era camps. The court in Krakow accepted…

Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino Islamist jihadi group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS), beheaded a hostage from Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Monday. John Ridsdel, an ex-journalist turned mining executive, was named as the victim of the Filipino terrorists. Despite having pledged allegiance to ISIS, Abu Sayyaf has not been shown to be receiving…

Oil has fueled the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the past 84 years and turned what was previously a strategically negligible desert wasteland into one of the world’s wealthiest nations and most important power brokers. With the price of oil at 10-year lows, however, and a series of stinging foreign policy defeats,…

At a facility in Judea of UNRWA, the UN body tasked with caring for “Palestinian refugees,” a festive ceremony was held on Monday honoring Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, the 19-year-old Hamas terrorist who exactly a week ago bombed a bus in southeastern Jerusalem. Journalist David Bedein, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Resource News Agency as well as the Center for…

By a huge four-fifths majority, the US Senate signed on to a joint letter pressing US President Barack Obama to hurry and settle a new defense aid package to Israel, encouraging him to raise it from $3 billion a year. A new agreement on the defense package has been stalled, as Israel is requesting the…

While neither party has settled on a nominee, and with the Republican nomination process still very much in the air, Israelis are certain about one thing – the next President of the United States cannot be worse than Barack Obama. According to a TNS Teleseker poll publicized on Sunday, Israelis are generally optimistic that President…

US President Barack Obama said on Monday at a trade fair in Hannover, Germany, that this is the most “peaceful and prosperous era in human history.” Obama’s comments came during a visit to Germany where he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and called for Europe and NATO to do more to fight the brutal…

Large firefighting forces were dispatched on Monday to put out a blaze in Biriya Forest, located to the north of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), even as other crews fought a fire on the coastal plains. The forest fire broke out a short distance from the grave of Rabbi Yonatan Ben Uziel, one of the…

While the United States, United Nations, European Union, and other prominent international bodies have expressed confidence in the ability of a negotiated settlement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, a new poll shows that the next generation of Palestinian Arabs firmly disagrees. On Monday the Jerusalem Media Communication Centre released polling data revealing the wide gulf…

In their first interview with Israeli media the family of Hamas terrorist Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, who last Monday blew up a bus in southeastern Jerusalem wounding 15 and killing himself, blamed Israel for the attack and said the bombing was “self-defense.” Speaking to Walla on Monday from their home in Al-Aida adjacent to Bethlehem in Judea, the family clarified…

Israel responded Monday afternoon to recent claims made by the Jordanian government, according to which Israeli actions on the Temple Mount were threatening the Al-Aqsa Mosque and harming Arabs on the Mount. Earlier in April Jordan blasted Israel for allowing 400 Jews to ascend the Mount, accusing the group of plotting against the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Jordan…

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) on Monday accused an Arab journalist arrested at the weekend of belonging to a terror group, after colleagues called for international support for his release. Omar Nazzal, a member of the general secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), was detained by Israeli officials on Saturday at the border…

The Jewish community in Nigeria celebrated a very special Passover this year. Thanks to a unique collaboration between the local Chabad and the EMI SYSTEMS LTD, Nigerian Security Company owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Mesika, a kosher Passover seder was held for the first time in six major cities across the African nation, led by American rabbis who…

Nearly 450,000 people visited Israel’s parks and beaches Sunday, on the first day of Chol HaMoed – and Monday’s pleasant weather may see similar turnouts. Skies will be partly cloudy and slightly hazy nationwide Monday, with a slight drop in temperatures, forecasters say. Despite this, weather will remain hotter than the seasonal average.  Temperatures will…

Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal on Sunday to coordinate in future primary contests in an effort to deny front-runner Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination. Within minutes of each other, the Texas Senator and Ohio Governor revealed their strategy to block Trump from gaining the necessary 1,237 delegates. The…

The Jordanian government warned on Monday that there would be “dangerous consequences” should Israel continue to allow Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount. The announcement came after several hundred Jews and tourists visited the holy site on the first intermediate day of the Passover holiday on Sunday. Jordanian Minister for Media Affairs and government…

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog has apologized to Zionist Union MK Arel Margalit, he stated Monday, after Herzog accused him of being behind the corruption allegations brought against the party chairman last month.  Herzog is suspected of receiving illegal donations, not reporting the donations and submitting falsified declarations during the Labor party primaries in 2013, in which he…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) will be the next Prime Minister, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) opined during a Channel 10 interview.  Shaked firmly believes that Bennett will succeed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but also did not deny a possibility that Bennett could quit the party. If so, she said, “I would not rule…

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre pledges to rename a street and a park that honor a Nazi sympathizer who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. Alexis Carrel, a pioneering research scientist, surgeon and biologist from France faced criticism toward the end of his life over his involvement with the Nazis. He died in 1944.…

Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall (Kotel) Monday morning, for the annual and traditional Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing) ceremony in honor of Chol HaMoed Pesach (Passover).  Congregants then said the Shacharit morning services prayer at 8:45 a.m.; the first Blessing was at 9:30 a.m.; the Mussaf prayer was at 10:00 a.m.; and the second blessing, at 10:30 a.m.…

About 700 followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland demonstrated Monday morning outside the South African embassy in Israel in Ramat Gan calling for the release of their leader who is wanted in Israel for suspected sexual assault. The 78-year-old head of the Shuvu Banim sect has been on the run around the world and escaped several…

As always, Arutz Sheva presents news highlights from the past 24 hours for all our many readers in the Jewish Diaspora celebrating two days of chag. 12 places you have to visit this Chol HaMoed Pesach True, this is a very Israeli-centric story, but if you’re in Israel at all during Passover, we’ve put together a…

The graduate student workers union at New York University (NYU) last Friday voted to support the BDS movement boycotting Israel, and asked that NYU cuts its ties with Tel Aviv University (TAU) for its “discrimination” – even though the university has many Arab students. NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) is a labor union representing around 2,000…

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was in Toronto to meet with the Tel Aviv-Yafo Foundation, his city’s international fundraising arm, according to Canadian Jewish News (CJN). Huldai attended a luncheon at the offices of the investment firm ReichmannHauer Capital Partners in First Canadian Place, which was hosted by Toronto business leaders and philanthropists Justin Linden,…

Around a week after Opposition head MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) was questioned under warning by police in a criminal investigation, police intend to recommend to close the case against him according to reports Sunday. Herzog is suspected of receiving illegal donations, not reporting the donations and submitting falsified declarations during the Labor party primaries in 2013, in which he took over…

Norbert Hofer of the far-right anti-immigration and eurosceptic Freedom party (FPOe) on Sunday won the first round of votes in Austria’s presidential race by a large margin, in the best result FPOe has ever recorded. Hofer won 36.7% of the vote, with the next closest being Alexander Van der Bellen of the Greens at 19.7% and…

Israeli race car driver Roy Nissany on Monday finished second place in the Formula One world V8 3.5 Series championship, which took place at rainy Hungaroring in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian-raised Nissany of the Lotus Team spun from second to seventh at the final corner as the field went green for the first time, from its ‘safety car’ (caution…

Radical leftist journalist Amira Hass of Haaretz in the past actively encouraged the Palestinians to reject peace treaties and not to agree to the 1994 Oslo Accords, according to a Palestinian journalist. The journalist, Dr. Fayez Abu Shamala, revealed to the Hamas paper Palestine on Sunday the contents of a speech Hass gave during a visit to the Palestinian…

Deputy Leader of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Kamal Khatib repeatedly accused the Israeli government of trying to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, in a common incitement claim used to fuel Arab terror. In an interview with the Palestinian daily al-Quds, Khatib claimed that an organization of “extremist Jewish groups” which is…

Days before Passover, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams uploaded a breathtaking photo of Israel from the International Space Station, and shared his feelings with the world. “We finally have a Sunday (no cargo vehicle this weekend!) with some personal time to take in the view out the window,” Williams wrote on his Facebook page. “Every time…

US President Barack Obama’s visit to the UK last week in which he gave unsolicited advice pressuring Britain to stay in the European Union (EU) has raised fury among Britons, but also disbelief among American Jewish leaders given Obama’s apparent double standards. Several top British politicians last Friday suggested Obama is pressuring the UK to stay in…

The Old City of Jerusalem, ordinarily one of the most popular venues during the holidays, was virtually empty Sunday afternoon, amid terror fears. The absence of visitors surprised locals, who despite the ongoing terror wave had anticipated at least some level of holiday tourism. Daniel, one of the operators of the “Kotel Train” which carries…

The Nazareth District Court on Sunday ordered to cancel the tenders for a new neighborhood in Afula Ilit, in which all 48 plots were sold to Arabs in an “instant Arab neighborhood” that led to outrage and protests in Afula. Judge Avraham Avraham ordered to cancel the bidding results, after ruling that those petitioning the tenders were…

The Jerusalem district police distanced 13 Jews from the Temple Mount on Sunday, the first of the intermediary days of Passover, claiming that they “breached the visit guidelines” on the Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Despite being liberated in the 1967 Six Day War, the Temple Mount remains under the de facto control of…

As hundreds of thousands of Israelis flood the country’s national parks and beaches Sunday, in honor of the first day of Chol HaMoed Pesach (the Intermediate Days of Passover), dozens of rescue cases were reported. A man was extracted after falling during a hike at Temarim River near the Dead Sea. Rescue units lifted him from…

The Iranian Navy Commander on Sunday said that the United States, which possesses the most powerful military in the world, doesn’t have the “capability” to attack Iran, in the latest escalation of hostility from Tehran since the controversial nuclear deal last July. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy,…

During court proceedings in Johannesburg, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted in Israel on suspicions of sexual assault, claimed he is being wronged by the Israeli government and is being targeted along with other rabbis. In a message to his followers, the head of the Shuvu Banim sect said that “the Israeli government has a…

A preacher on official Palestinian Authority (PA) television on Friday prayed that Allah should “count” his enemies, the enemies of Islam, and “kill them to the last one.” The TV preacher then singled out for punishment “the wicked Jews” and “the atheists who help them,” according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). “Allah, punish your enemies,…

Israel on Sunday released a 12-year-old Arab terrorist, the youngest female terrorist jailed in Israel, after a paltry two-and-a-half months in prison despite her attempt to murder Jews. The terrorist girl, Dima al-Wawi, was jailed on February 9 when she tried to conduct a stabbing attack. She was caught by security forces with a knife in her possession…

The bus driver suspected of killing 17-year-old Or Elbaz in a horrific bus crash in Haifa Thursday night, was released Sunday afternoon from house arrest at his brother’s house and returned to his own home. Police also revoked his driver’s license.   According to his attorney, the 44-year-old driver was in a terrible state and felt…

The White House is anticipated to soon release a 28-page secret section of the congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks which allegedly shows the Saudi government was involved, according to reports Sunday. The 28-page document which is kept in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol building talks about foreign support for some of…

The first night of Passover ended with a trip to the hospital for 15 New York City residents Friday night/Saturday, after an extended family of 24 people was wakened by a carbon monoxide alarm after their first Passover Seder.  Four generations of the Eagle family of New Rochelle were asleep at 4:30 am Saturday when the…

A 65 year-old woman was killed and seven people injured in a head-on collision overnight Saturday/Sunday, at the bypass outside Husan (near Beitar Illit) on Route 375.  The victim was later identified as Hadassah Gida, a widow who had just lost her husband to a fatal disease two months ago. They did not have any…

Despite the elevated security threat, it appears that the IDF has begun to limit the ability of reserve soldiers to train with local security forces across Judea and Samaria. Local emergency response squads are a major component of town security in Judea and Samaria. These teams, made up primarily of volunteers, train together with soldiers,…

A 60 year-old woman was killed and a 60 year-old man injured Sunday morning in a collision between a truck and a car on Route 232, near Kibbutz Be’eri.  Magen David Adom (MDA) medics declared the woman dead at the scene after several attempts to revive her. The male victim is currently listed as being…

Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera had a bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, after recently identifying publicly as Jewish. Lopez-Cantera, 42, was in Israel last week with the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association and told the Florida Sun-Sentinel that the “It definitely wasn’t planned” and that the opportunity “presented itself” for him to participate in…

Nine Jewish visitors were expelled from the Temple Mount Sunday morning, for allegedly breaking the rules banning all forms of non-Muslim worship. The individuals were removed by police, who are currently on high alert across Jerusalem as the Chol Hamoed period of Passover begins Sunday. Security forces are bracing for an increase in Arab violence targeting…

Maurice Dadoun was born in Israel, but grew up in France before moving to the United States. Working with the famed Frederic Fekkai in New York City, Dadoun gained renown as world-class hairstylist, eventually earning a place at Fekkai’s coveted Hollywood branch. Earlier this year, however, Dadoun, a 46-year-old husband and father of three, left…

Tens of thousands of Israelis take vacation time during Chol HaMoed Pesach, to spend time with their children and enjoy the holiday. In honor of the Intermediate Days, Arutz Sheva has prepared a list of family-oriented events unfolding across the country, from Sunday through Wednesday.  Ancient Shilo – Shilo – at the heart of Samaria, explore the ruins…

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis flooded the country’s national parks and beaches Sunday, in honor of the first day of Chol HaMoed Pesach (the Intermediate Days of Passover).  50,000 people were recorded to be at Ein Gedi National Park, Cesarea National Park, Einot Tzukim Nature Preserve, Eshkol National Park, and Gan HaShlosha (Sachne).  An additional 18,000…

US President Barack Obama warned Sunday that it would be a “mistake” to send Western troops into Syria to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with the BBC, he said the United States would continue strikes against the Islamic State terror group (ISIS) while continuing efforts to broker a transition deal…

A first volume released under a groundbreaking project to translate the Talmud into Italian has become an unexpected bestseller, its publisher said on Friday. A first print run of 2,000 copies sold out in three days and another 3,000 rushed into shops are already all reserved because of what publisher Shulim Vogelmann described as “extraordinary…

Israel scrambled fighter planes Saturday to intercept an unidentified passenger aircraft entering its airspace and escorted it to land at Tel Aviv, the IDF told AFP. Israeli media reported that the aircraft turned out to be an Air Sinai flight from Cairo to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. “Earlier this morning, two Israel Air Force aircraft accompanied a foreign aircraft planning to…

At least 30 civilians were killed Saturday in regime and rebel bombardment of areas across Syria, threatening an eight-week-old truce at a time when peace talks are stalled in Geneva. The head of a Britain-based monitoring group said the escalating violence meant a ceasefire between the regime and non-jihadist rebels, in place since late February, had effectively collapsed. The truce brokered by…

Syrian regime officials and Kurdish representatives were to meet on Saturday for a second day of talks on ending deadly clashes in the northeastern city of Qamishli, a senior security source said. A truce agreed on Friday held through the night, an AFP correspondent reported, and no gunfire was heard in the mainly Kurdish city, where control is split between Kurdish militia and the Syrian army…

Two Arab Israeli medical students died on Saturday in a car crash in Piatra Neamt, a city in eastern Romania. The precise circumstances of the crash remain unclear. The two were identified as Tufik Ahmad al-Karinawi, a 20-year-old from Rahat, and Diya Zabeida, a 23-year-old from Lod. Both students were living in Iasi in Romania,…

Israeli judoka Or Sasson took home the silver medal on Saturday at the European Championships in the Over 100 kilogram category, just a month after he won gold at the Judo Grand Prix, held in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Sasson was not the only Israeli to bring his nation pride in the European Championships in Kazan,…

Eight members of the Rhoden family were shot in the head “execution style” as they slept in their homes in a rural town in southern Ohio, authorities said Friday. Seven adults and a 16-year-old were found shot dead at four crime scenes located a short distance from each other, in a massacre that took place in Piketon, a…

US President Barack Obama was put on the spot in London on Friday, when he was asked by a BBC reporter if it is any of his business whether the UK stays in the European Union (EU) indicating the backlash to his pressing for the UK to remain in the EU. Obama has been pushing to avoid a…

Masked and armed Hamas terrorists were received with ululations of joy at the mourners tent set up for terrorist Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, who last Monday conducted a bus bombing in southeastern Jerusalem in which he died while wounding 15 victims. Video of the terrorists’ warm welcome can be viewed by clicking the image below. While reports…

With the Passover holiday on Saturday, known as the spring festival, Israel appears to have fully entered spring weather as a heat wave is set to make a visit on Tuesday. Sunday is expected to be partially cloudy, with high cloud cover. Coming off of a sunny and hot weekend, the temperatures are to rise…

A first volume released under a groundbreaking project to translate the Talmud into Italian has become an unexpected bestseller, its publisher said on Friday. A first print run of 2,000 copies sold out in three days and another 3,000 rushed into shops are already all reserved because of what publisher Shulim Vogelmann described as “extraordinary…

Arutz Sheva’s Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com at this time in honor of the Sabbath and the Passover holiday. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 18:55 Summer Time (Friday). Arutz Sheva’s North American desk will continue to keep you informed until just before candle lighting time in New York at 19:25…

The United States is buying 32 metric tons of Iranian heavy water, a key component for one kind of nuclear reactor, The Associated Press reported on Friday. The purpose of the transaction is to help Iran meet the terms of last year’s nuclear deal under which it agreed to curb its atomic program in exchange…

This week’s show is packed with the news behind the news. Walter talks about what bothers the EU and the folly of the IDF to always only react; he discusses political correctness that spends fortunes to cure terrorists of their wounds so that they can go out and do it all over again – and UNESCO’s absurdities…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday issued a greeting to the Jewish people for the holiday of Passover, which begins Friday at sundown. “Michelle and I send our best wishes to everyone celebrating Pesach in the United States, in the State of Israel, and around the world,” he said. “One of Passover’s most powerful rituals…

UN-brokered talks aimed at ending Syria’s brutal conflict will push ahead until April 27, despite the departure of the main opposition group, negotiators said Friday, according to the AFP news agency. Syria’s main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) earlier this week halted its formal participation in the round of talks that began in Geneva on…

Jewish student leaders in Britain on Friday called on the National Union of Students’ (NUS) newly elected president to go further to address their concerns over her alleged anti-Semitism, The Guardian reported. The NUS, an umbrella organization for British student unions, this week elected Malia Bouattia as its president. In the past, Bouattia has voiced…

The UN Climate Summit in New York on Friday turned into a diplomatic battleground between the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representatives.  The incident began when PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who attended the summit and signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, took advantage of the opportunity to verbally attack Israel. “The occupation is…

As part of Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon’s ongoing battle to improve Israel’s image at the United Nations, he hosted on Friday the first ever Passover Seder at the UN.  By doing so, Danon sought to expose the ambassadors in attendance to this beloved Jewish tradition. About 40 ambassadors, senior UN officials, and even one…

A group of American lawmakers have introduced the Preventing Iran’s Access to United States Dollars Act of 2016 (H.R. 4995), which would prohibit President Obama from providing Iran direct or indirect access to the U.S. dollar or the American financial system. The initiative, by U.S. Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL), Mike Pompeo (R-KS), and Lee…

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, on Friday gave a special message to Arutz Sheva readers ahead of the Passover holiday that begins on Friday night. Rabbi Lau hailed the Passover seder as “the night of the birth of the nation of Israel,” and referenced a midrash (exegesis) of the Jewish sages saying Ya’akov (Jacob) prayed…

The Pentagon has allowed for more civilian casualties in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS), USAToday reports Friday, with targets of up to 10 risked civilian casualties allowed.  Defense department and other security officials revealed to the daily that requests for targets in Syria have trickled down to form a sliding scale, with more casualties approved in…

Russia on Friday denied reports in Israeli media, according to which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting on Thursday was meant to discuss an aerial incident over Syria. The alleged aerial incident between Israeli Air Force (IAF) and Russian fighter jets was reported by Yedioth Aharonoth on Thursday night as being the impetus…

Fear of US repercussions has been keeping many European business from making deals with Iran, the New York Times reported Thursday – both due to continued US sanctions on the Islamic Republic and restrictions flagging visitors to the US who have been to Iran.  EU Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini flew to Tehran last week to reassure…

In response to heated Cabinet discussions on negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) on an IDF withdrawal from Area A in Judea and Samaria, Women in Green activists went out on Thursday night to make a statement. The activists hung signs calling for the application of Israeli sovereignty on the red warning signs at the…

Najim Laachraoui, one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers, has been identified by several Frenchmen held hostage by Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as one of their prison guards, sources close to the investigation said. According to one of the sources, four French journalists kidnapped in Syria in 2013 and 2014 had identified a guard known as “Abou Idriss.” One…

Air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods in Syria’s second city Aleppo on Friday killed at least 14 civilians and wounded more than a dozen others, the local civil defense told AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime warplanes carried out the air strikes and gave a toll of 10 dead. An AFP correspondent in the opposition-held eastern part said several neighborhoods were…

Rinat Gelman, the widow of IDF captain Eliyav Gelman who was killed by friendly fire as he fought to stop an attacking Arab terrorist on February 24, gave birth to a son on Friday morning. Eliyav Gelman’s brother Eyal, the security officer of Kiryat Arba, said that “the birth was quick at the house of…

IDF sergeant Elor Azariya, the Kfir Brigade soldier who last month shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron and currently is on trial for manslaughter, was released from his open detention at his IDF base for Passover, the holiday of freedom. Azariya, 20, is to spend the seder with his family in Ramle, and on Sunday…

Conservative Jews of all origins will eat legumes (kitniyot) on Passover for the first time this year, following two separate rulings repealing the 800-year-old ban from Ashkenazic custom. In December 2015, the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee for Jewish Law and Standards approved a proposal by Rabbi Amy Levin and Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner barring the ban due…

Fifteen-year-old Eden Dadon was anxiously awaiting the performance in Israel of Lali Esposito, an internationally famous Argentine actress and singer – but then she was seriously wounded in the Hamas bus bombing in Jerusalem on Monday. Dadon had already bought tickets two months ago for Esposito’s show next week, but she was among the 15 victims…

The Yarok Achshav (lit. “Green now” – ed.) organization has called on Israelis to be careful while burning their chametz (leavened goods) Friday, and to remove all plastic bags and packaging from their chametz pile before setting it alight ahead of Passover. Pollution from the bags “constitutes a sin which stems from a mitzvah, and it’s a shame,” the organization’s…

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Un has chosen to hold a competition on state TV to find the nation’s top cooks a la “Master Chef,” even as two-thirds of his country’s 27 million citizens are starving on minimal food rations. Kim went to school in Switzerland where he became fond of European cheeses and wines, reports The Sun on…

Israel Police arrested two Israeli Jews in Jerusalem on Friday morning, as they carried a young goat up to the Temple Mount.  They were arrested on account of “behavior which was bound to break the peace,” Police said in a statement.  Shortly thereafter, the police also found another young goat tied to a post in…

President Reuven Rivlin met Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at his residence Friday, after the latter’s return from Russia where he met President Vladimir Putin a day before. “This is an opportunity to wish all the Israeli people a joyous festival, a holiday during which all the people are united,” Rivlin began.  “May we stand united against the…

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, the longtime inspector of matzah (unleavened bread for Passover) for the kosher foods company Manischewitz, has sued the company for firing him after he criticized a lapse in kashrut standards. The lawsuit was filed against the company in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday after the rabbi was fired from his post at Manischewitz after…

A gag order has been lifted on the identity of the fatality in a horrific bus crash in Haifa Thursday night, with the 20-something fatality now revealed to be 17-year-old Or Elbaz.  Elbaz, an eleventh-grade student at the Chugim high school in Haifa, alighted the 101 bus Thursday night to buy a new outfit for…

The head of the IDF’s Home Front Command, Yoel Strick, on Thursday night issued administrative orders against several nationalist activists including Raphael Morris, head of the Returning to the Mount organization, and another activist by the name of Yair Kahati, prohibiting them from entering Jerusalem until after the Passover holiday. The orders were issued after…

Beginning Saturday, May 7 at 10:00 p.m. and ending Sunday, May 8 at 10:00 p.m., Yeshiva University students will host a hackathon—a 24-hour event designed to foster technological innovation and creativity—in the University’s Height Lounge, 515 West 185th Street, New York City. Titled “Reinvent:YU,” the event will promote activism by bringing together hundreds of local…

Iran on Thursday rejected a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which determined Iran would have to compensate families of victims of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and other attacks linked to the Islamic Republic, The Associated Press reported. The ruling said Iran would have to compensate the victims with nearly $2 billion…

Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was charged on Thursday with attempted murder over a deadly shootout with police in Brussels a week before the suicide bombings in the Belgian capital, his lawyer and prosecutors said, according to AFP. An Algerian Islamist suspect was killed and four police officers were wounded in the March 15…

Visiting Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday pledged to remain vigilant against Iran’s destabilizing activities in the Middle East, reports The Associated Press. “None of our nations have an interest in conflict with Iran,” Obama said as he met with top officials from six Arab nations at a Gulf summit in Saudi Arabia.…

Syria peace talks will continue next week despite the opposition’s decision to quit them, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura said Thursday, according to Reuters. De Mistura, speaking to the French-language Radio Television Suisse (RTS), said 400,000 people had been killed in the five-year-old war, far higher than the previous UN toll…

Gaza’s Interior Ministry and National Security on Thursday redeployed forces along the frontier with Egypt in a plan to increase control over the border area, the Ma’an news agency reported. Ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bazm said that the deployment was a confirmation of Egypt’s security and of the stability of the border zone. Last week, it…

The Ramallah-based Palestinian government on Thursday warned against Israel trying to “Judaize” the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and issued a call to Palestinian Arabs to arrive en masse at the compound in order to “protect” it. In a statement, the government warned against the “dangers” by “extremist” Jewish organizations which, it claimed, are planning to build a…

An international meeting meant to kickstart the Israel-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace process must result in guarantees and not just declarations, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told Haaretz Thursday night, shortly after his country announced the May 30 summit. The goal of the summit, he said, is to “build a collective commitment of the international community…

Women of the Wall (WoW) plan to hold morning Passover prayers at the women’s section of the Kotel (Western Wall) on Sunday. Women of the Wall chairperson Anat Hoffman on Thursday responded to the General Attorney’s decision to nix the planned female “Priestess Blessing” at the Kotel.   “This is an unhappy decision that submits to political pressure…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a press briefing in Moscow on Thursday shortly after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he clarified that Israeli control of the Golan Heights is a “red line.” Netanyahu stated that in the meeting with Putin significant achievements were made for the security of Israel. “I finished…

Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, the 19-year-old Hamas terrorist who conducted a bus bombing attack in Jerusalem on Monday, is related to a terrorist currently serving a life sentence for murder. Abu Srour, who was caught in the blast that wounded 15 victims and later died of his wounds on Wednesday, is related to the terrorist Nasser…

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted in Israel on suspicions of sexual assault, appeared before the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, according to local reports. The 78-year-old head of the Shuvu Banim sect was arrested in South Africa after being on the run around the world for a long period of time. Israel has requested…

Unites States authorities announced the discovery of the longest ever cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel connecting Mexico and California, according to local reports. The tunnel measured 795 meters (870 yards) long and was dug 14 meters (46 feet) below the surface, extending from a house in Tijuana, Mexico, to a fenced lot in a San Diego industrial…

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong finished his four-day historic trip to Israel on Thursday, becoming the first Singaporean Prime Minister to visit the Jewish state – but in the last day of his trip, he took to Facebook to publicize his visit the day before to honor arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. Lee met with Israeli…

A serious traffic accident took place on Thursday night in the Carmel Tunnels in Haifa, in which a full bus crashed into a wall, leaving at least 39 passengers wounded and tragically taking the life of a young female passenger aged around 20. Initially it was reported that the bus hit a truck and as a result…

A rabbinical court in Tel Aviv issued an exit deferment order against a haredi couple from the United States and confiscated their passports, claiming that they support their son’s refusal to give his wife a Gett (divorce document) for many years. The father of “divorce-refuser” Oded Gaz, a doctor of physics and a former lecturer at…

Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister said Thursday that a push for a UN resolution demanding an end to “Israeli settlement expansion” will be put on hold to focus instead on a French proposal for a peace conference. The draft resolution was circulated to Arab countries and to some members of the Security Council earlier this month as part of a drive…

Thursday’s meeting in Moscow between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place following as recent aerial incident between the two countries. The incident took place in recent days, when a Russian jet was scrambled to intercept an Israeli aircraft which was flying along the Syrian coast. The two aircraft did not…

Security forces on Thursday caught the Arab terrorist who fled and has remained at large for half-a-year, after stabbing and seriously wounding 31-year-old Meir Pavlovsky last October 8 as he studied Torah in Kiryat Arba, Judea. Initial reports from the attack indicated that the terrorist was a 15-year-old Arab. He fled in the direction of Hevron after using…

A Lufthansa aircraft, which was on its way from Munich to Israel, had to return to Germany after an engine shut down on Thursday. Many Israelis were aboard the plane, including leftist MK Ksenia Svetlova (Zionist Union), according to NRG News. Testimonies revealed that during the takeoff, one of the aircraft’s engines shut down with “an…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, where Netanyahu clarified that keeping the Golan Heights in Israeli hands is a “red line.” At the start of their meeting, Netanyahu thanked Putin for the visit, saying “I very much appreciate your warm hosting, and I very much appreciate…

A new study revealed that 35% of Hungarians hold “high or moderate” anti-Semitic views, and 41% of voters favoring the ruling party admit that they have a negative opinion of Jews. The survey, which questioned 1,200 Hungarian citizens on their views toward Jews, was initiated by the Action and Protection Foundation, a Hungarian organization combating anti-Semitism in the country.…

The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court on Thursday afternoon ordered the release of Shinor Dana, a Jew who was arrested over two weeks ago for investigation by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet). During his investigation Dana was prevented from meeting his lawyer, in an unusual breach of his rights. He argues that the…

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) on Thursday released for publication that it has arrested several Hamas terrorists from Bethlehem in Judea who were involved in the bus bombing in Jerusalem on Monday. In the attack Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, a 19-year-old from Beit Jala in the Bethlehem area detonated a bomb on a number 12 bus…

Within one hour on Thursday afternoon, two fatal car crashes occurred – one on Route 806 near Eilabun, where a 30-year-old woman was killed, and the other on Highway 90 near Moshav Argaman in the Jordan Valley, where a 30-year-old man was killed and three others were seriously injured. In the first accident, a private ambulance…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is seeking to have the international forum recognize their “right under international law” to murder Israeli civilians in all places and at all times, which they claim is established by a UN resolution. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports that the PA are requesting that Palestinian “heroes and role models” who murdered Israeli…

France on Thursday announced that it has selected May 30 to hold an international meeting attempting to force Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) into peace talks, reports AFP. Paris will be hosting a meeting of ministers from 20 countries on May 30 to try and bring the peace process back to life, according to Foreign…

Bar mitzvah boy Noah Helfstein of New York City on Thursday held a special ceremony in Jerusalem’s Gan Sacher, where he unveiled Israel’s first-ever portable high-tech innovation lab meant for financially disadvantaged Israeli children. Noah, a 7th grader at Abraham Joshua Heschel School, worked with UJA-Federation of New York’s “Give a Mitzvah-Do a Mitzvah” program to…

A fire caused by an oven during its self-cleaning cycle in preparation for Passover destroyed the home of a New Orleans rabbi. The fire swept through the home of Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg of the Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel on Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which caused “substantial” damage, Jefferson Parish East…

With the supply of imported firearms dwindling in the Palestinian Authority, terrorists are increasingly turning to locally produced weapons, which can be acquired for a fraction of the price. A genuine M-16 assault rifle, for instance, can cost as much as $18,000 on the Palestinian Authority black market, a figure prohibitively expensive for small terror…

British lawmakers voted Wednesday to urge the government to recognize the Islamic State jihadist group’s attacks on minorities in Iraq and Syria as genocide. Members of parliament unanimously approved the motion – which is not binding on the government – by 278 votes to zero. The vote in the 650-seat lower House of Commons calls…

A fiery debate which erupted during Wednesday’s cabinet meeting revealed a widening gulf between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home). The two locked horns over a planned discussion on the proposal to withdraw IDF forces from major Palestinian Authority cities, a moved opposed by Bennett and other senior cabinet members.…

(AFP) He is the brother of jihadist Mohamed Merah, who four years ago killed three soldiers and four Jews, but in his extremist, anti-Semitic family it is Abdelghani who is seen as the black sheep. Abdelghani Merah has light brown eyes, a shaven head and a surname immediately associated with terror in France, but after losing…

The Israeli-America-developed Iron Dome missile defense system has gained fame for its unprecedented ability to intercept short-range rockets of the type fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, which other systems were incapable of protecting against. Now, the US Army has successfully demonstrated how the system can also be used to down unmanned drones – adding further…

A day after a man wounded in Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem died from his injuries, new details have emerged regarding the alleged terrorist. Immediately following the attack, which left at least 16 people wounded, Israeli police suspected that the most severely wounded passenger on the bus was the bomber responsible for the attack. The…

A new section of the Begin Expressway in Jerusalem was opened Wednesday morning in a ceremony featuring Mayor Nir Barkat and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. The latest addition to the expressway links the Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem to the Gush Etzion tunnel and Route 60. The change has both strategic importance as well as…

Israel’s former president Shimon Peres has wished Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II a happy birthday in a special video message on the occasion of her 90th birthday. “From my own experience I can tell you that in my judgment – life begin at the age of 90, and they go up better and better,” said the 92-year-old Peres.…

After a string of electoral defeats, Donald Trump’s big New York win on Tuesday has reenergized supporters and according to some, has fundamentally altered the trajectory of the race. According to an internal study conducted by the Trump campaign immediately following the primary vote, the Republican frontrunner is likely to secure more than the necessary…

Najim Laachraoui, one of the terrorists who blew themselves up at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport last month had in fact worked at the site for five years until 2012, AFP reported Wednesday, citing Belgium’s VTM television. Laachraoui was one of the two suicide bombers at the airport on March 22 in coordinated attacks that also struck…

David Lev and Dr. Sam Minskoff have more than Pesach cleaning on their mind. It seems that every year, the Jewish household Seder night ends with the same declaration of “next year in Jerusalem!”. Sounds promising, right? Well, not exactly, because another Pesach has come around and it’s not in Jerusalem. So when exactly is next year in Jerusalem? Join the…

(JTA) — Massive flooding has caused serious damage to the Jewish community of Houston for the second time in less than a year and just days before Passover. Dozens of homes in the Jewish neighborhoods of Meyerland and Willow Meadows reported significant flood damage as of Tuesday morning from the extremely heavy rainfall in the…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hold commanding leads in Pennsylvania, according to a new Fox News poll published Wednesday, a day after both cruised to victory in the New York primary. Trump receives 48 percent among likely GOP primary voters in the Keystone State, according to the poll. John Kasich is at 22 percent and…

A new campaign on Facebook is calling for the return of Avraham (Avera) Mengistu, who is missing in Gaza and believed to be held by Hamas. The organizer of the campaign, Nir Braudo, told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday that the silence surrounding Mengistu is surprising, as he put it. “I’m sure many have forgotten his…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was unfazed on Wednesday by insults that were directed against him during Tuesday’s demonstration at Rabin Square in support of IDF soldier Elor Azariya. Azariya faces manslaughter charges for controversially shooting dead a neutralized terrorist, after being under the mistaken impression the terrorist was still armed. Some of the participants at…

(JTA) — The Boulder City Council in Colorado agreed to hire a moderator in the dispute over its planned sister-city relationship with the Palestinian city of Shechem (Nablus). At its meeting Tuesday night, the council agreed to spend the $5,000 allocated annually for the Sister Cities program and up to $5,000 more on the mediation.…

Several members of the American Studies Association (ASA) announced on Wednesday that they would be suing the association for its boycott of Israel. In 2013, the ASA promoted an academic boycott of Israel, saying it was “in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom, and it aspires to enlarge that freedom for…

A Harvard student has apologized for calling MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) a “smelly Jew” during a panel discussion last week. The incident occurred last Thursday when the Harvard Law School hosted a panel discussion with guest speakers Dennis Ross and Livni. During a question and answer session a president of a student organization mocked…

Radical Sheikh Raed Salah remains defiant, even after the Supreme Court this week denied his request to appeal his conviction for inciting violence. The court, while rejecting Salah’s appeal, cut his prison sentence by two months to nine. Salah, who heads the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was convicted two years…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will depart for Moscow Wednesday morning, for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.  The two will discuss further coordination between the Russian army and the IDF to prevent clashes between them in Syria, as well as Russia’s sale of the S-300 missile system to Iran and the transfer of arms to Hezbollah.  Prime Minister…

The terrorist behind Monday’s Jerusalem bus bombing has died of his wounds Wednesday night, in Sha’arei Tzedek Medical Center. Palestinian news sites have identified him as a resident of the Palestinian Authority (PA).  A bomb exploded on the #12 bus in the capital Monday afternoon, injuring 16 people – mostly bystanders and passengers on an adjacent…

(JTA) – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have reason to allow their New York state of mind to coast for another week or so. The next set of contests, on April 26, echoes the demographics and polling that spurred them to victory in New York state on Tuesday. And large Jewish communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland…

As public perceptions of marijuana change across the Western world, a parallel evolution has taken place within the Orthodox Jewish world. Once expressly forbidden by the leading American haredi religious authority, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, in a ruling made some four decades ago, rabbinic opinions on the drug have softened in recent years. In January, a…

British Prime Minister David Cameron accused the Labour party’s candidate for London mayor of associating with an alleged Islamic State group supporter Wednesday, spotlighting the dirty race to run Britain’s capital. Cameron’s comments were aimed at Sadiq Khan, a Muslim former government minister and human rights lawyer who is favorite to win the May 5…

The Security Cabinet held a hearing over the proposed withdrawal of IDF soldiers from Palestinian Authority (PA) cities in Area A Wednesday, after a heated confrontation between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home).  After a nearly two-hour long discussion over the issue, the Cabinet concluded that the IDF maintains and will maintain…

Hamas took responsibility for Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Al-Jazeera reports, after posting details of the bus bomber who died from his wounds Wednesday night. Hamas identified the #12 bus bomber as a 19 year-old from the Aadia refugee camp near Bethlehem, listed as belonging to the organization; his name remains under gag order. Despite this,…

The Jewish People will begin celebrating the Jubilee of Jerusalem’s liberation and reunification next month, marking the 50th year after the Six Day War – but pro-war Israelis and other Jews plan to take advantage of the yearlong festivities to call worldwide for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Previous unilateral…

NEW YORK (JTA) — For a people obsessed with numbers, the Jews have relatively scant concrete data about how, exactly, the Jews voted in Tuesday’s presidential primaries in New York. But we do know enough to make some educated guesses. Here’s what we know: Approximately 12 percent of all primary voters on Tuesday were Jewish, according to…

Harvard Law School’s newspaper, the Harvard Law Record, on Monday blasted as anti-Semitic an incident during a recent panel discussion involving MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp). Last Thursday, Harvard Law School hosted a panel discussion with guest speakers Dennis Ross and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. During a question and answer session a president of a…

Nearly 500 participants representing over 50 Chabad House communities spanning thirty US states, Canada, England and Australia last week wrapped up JLI’s Land and Spirit trip to Israel, an inspiring eight-day visit to the Holy Land. The trip, lasting from Monday to Monday the following week, gave participants first-hand interaction with their history and heritage, and…

Whether Ashkenazic (European) or Sephardic (Spanish or Middle Eastern), most Jews in fact have genetic links stemming back from Turkey, according to a controversial study released Tuesday.  Dr. Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield discovered Turkish, Greek, and Persian roots in genetic studies of Ashkenazic Jews, the British Independent news site reports, with “over 90%” of…

Despite popular portrayals in Western media outlets of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party as moderates, the Fatah movement continued on Wednesday to incite young Arabs to violence. Just two days after a bus bombing rocked Jerusalem, leaving at least 16 wounded, Abbas’ Fatah party released a nine minute video glorifying the…

The Security Cabinet on Wednesday discussed the question of removing the IDF from Area A, a series of regions in Judea and Samaria classified as being under the administrative and security control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) by the 1994 Oslo Accords. Israel was forced to bring its forces back into the region due to…

Evidence uncovered in 2002 links the Saudi Arabian government with the September 11, 2001 attacks, anonymous US officials revealed to the British Times Wednesday. US authorities discovered the flight certificate of would-be hijacker Ghassan Al-Shrabi in an envelope from the Saudi embassy to Washington during the latter’s 2002 arrest in Pakistan, the officials revealed.  Details about the certificate and other…

Temple Mount activist Gilad Hadari was given a “briefing talk” by the police on how to deal with the threats made against him by Arabs due to his frequent visits to the Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Hadari had complained to the police numerous times over the death threats, but apparently the police made…

The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of American terror victims on Wednesday, awarding over $2 million in Iranian assets to the families of victims murdered in Iran-backed attacks.  The court doled a heavy blow to Iran’s central bank, Bank Markazi, by a 6-2 ruling, Reuters reports.  Tehran had appealed a 2014 New York Circuit Court of…

The National Union of Students, an umbrella organization for British student unions, elected Malia Bouattia as President on Wednesday. The NUS, which includes some 600 local student unions across the United Kingdom, represents more than 95% of British college students. Bouattia’s campaign for NUS president raised eyebrows due to her radical positions on terrorism and…

Israel has seen “unprecedented” intelligence cooperation with Egypt and Jordan as the countries’ fight against the Islamic State group nudge them to work together more closely, Israel’s deputy military chief said Wednesday. Major General Yair Golan said “there is a strong feeling in the region…that we have to put aside past animosities and concentrate on mutual interests and working together”…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have swept to victory in the New York state primaries, extending the front runners’ leads over their respective party rivals. With 98% of the votes counted, Trump has achieved a clean-sweep of all 14 New York delegates, with 60% of the Republican vote. Clinton achieved a similarly convincing victory, receiving just…

Embattled Israeli Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog has doubled down on controversial remarks he made yesterday (Tuesday), in which he opined that his party needs to reconnect with the Israeli people and dispel the image that they instinctively side with the Arab world against Israel. The Zionist Union leader came under fire from a number of Arab…

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) engaged in a verbal sparring with Education Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennet Wednesday, after the former claimed to a crowd Tuesday night that “we have to stop giving people the impression that we hate Arabs.” “I hear there are some who are unhappy with my Zionist approach,”…

The Jordanian government-controlled Waqf Islamic trust has announced it will be appointing 150 new “Islamic guards” to patrol the Temple Mount, just days after it was confirmed that a long-awaited program to install security cameras at the holy site had been scuppered by Muslim objections. Earlier this week, the Jordanian prime minister announced that the American-brokered…

Demonstrators protesting the allocation of land to the Jewish community in the Russian city of Perm demanded the outlawing of the Chabad movement. More than 100 people attended the rally near the area that municipal authorities in Perm, which is located 870 miles east of Moscow, designated for transfer without charge to the local Jewish…

Sweden’s deputy prime minister walked back her labeling of the 9/11 attacks as “accidents” in her defense of a politician who resigned over his anti-Israel rhetoric. Asa Romson, who is also agriculture minister, on Tuesday told the Aftonbladet daily newspaper that she misspoke a day earlier during an interview with the SVT broadcaster about the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a letter of encouragement to regional council leaders and residents of Judea and Samaria Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.  Netanyahu thanked the residents and the local leaders for standing strong against months of terror attacks, and encouraged Israelis nationwide to hike in the region – as well as…

An online petition has been launched calling on UNESCO to reverse its recent “insulting” resolutions which deny any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount or Western Wall. Last Thursday the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provoked outrage when it adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution in which the holiest sites in Judaism – the Temple…

The Shin Bet security service announced it broke up a “Jewish terror” cell active in the Gush Talmonim area in southeastern Samaria. According to the Shin Bet, the suspects in custody carried out unspecified attacks against Palestinian Arab targets during the latter half of 2015. The security agency said intelligence gathered in the aftermath of…

The family of Steven Sotloff, a journalist who was brutally beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists back in September 2014, on Monday launched a lawsuit against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad at a federal court in Washington. The suit seeks $90 million in compensatory damages, as well as up to three times that amount in…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A congressional human rights commission heard testimony from experts on how Islamic radicalization in Europe has ramped up risk for Jewish communities. “ISIS especially hates the Jewish people and has instructed its followers to prioritize killing them,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., the chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, said Tuesday, launching the…

Why is it so important to speak the Haggadah Shel Pesach? Which of the four sons has the most to teach us about who we are as a people and what we should be doing with out lives? How much matzah should we eat, how fast, and why? Why four cups of wine? These and other…

South Korea, Japan and the United States on Tuesday warned North Korea of harsher sanctions and deeper isolation if it went ahead with a fifth nuclear test or other provocations, AFP reported. The warning, which followed a trilateral meeting of top diplomatic officials, came amid growing speculation that Pyongyang is in the final stages of…

Donald Trump is projected to win the Republican primary in New York while Hillary Clinton is projected to win for the Democrats, CNN said Tuesday night, shortly after polls closed. With the victory, Trump is moving closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the GOP presidential nomination before the Republican National Convention. If…

MK Erel Margalit (Zionist Union) on Tuesday launched an attack against “rightist psychopaths” in a video clip he released as part of a campaign to encourage Israelis to register as members of the Labor party’s Central Committee. The video was released as thousands gathered at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv in a show of…

As all of Israel prepares to observe the pivotal and defining festival of Passover, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman reflect on the growing support for the renewal of the Passover offering in our time. In this week’s special Passover edition, our hosts focus on the lessons of Passover – especially in the light of the heinous, criminal…

(JTA) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill to create a Holocaust memorial in the state’s capital, Tallahassee. The ceremonial signing took place at the Jewish Federation of Broward County on Monday, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Scott, a Republican, officially signed the memorial legislation on April 6. It takes effect on July 1. The bill…

The White House on Tuesday backed the harsh remarks against Israel made by Vice President Joe Biden a day earlier. Biden, who addressed the J Street conference in Washington, expressed what he called the Obama administration’s “overwhelming frustration” with Israel.  “The present course Israel’s on is not one that’s likely to secure its existence as…

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday joined in on the criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement that the Golan Heights will remain under Israeli sovereignty. Federica Mogherini, the EU foreign policy chief, reaffirmed that the body does not recognize Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, according to the AFP news agency. “The EU recognizes…

A rabbi in Poland embraced as a Jewish community’s spiritual leader actually is not a rabbi, a Polish journalist uncovered. Jacoob Ben Nistell, aka Yaakav — he used different forms of the name — admitted two weeks ago during an interview that he is not a rabbi. He has served for several years in Poznan,…

The day before the New York presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton distributed an essay linking her policies to the “ancient lessons” of Passover. In the essay sent Monday to Jewish and other media in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, Clinton highlighted her record on religious freedom, state benefits, Israel and global justice – and pledged to continue…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on world leaders to condemn Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, which wounded 16 people.  “We deplore the horrific attack in Jerusalem, the first bus bombing in a long period of time, and an act of terror that brings back nightmares for many in Israel,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO,…

Italian sports officials punished its top soccer team, Juventus, for its fans shouting an anti-Semitic chant, but suspended the penalty. The order to close a section of the club’s stadium in Turin for its next game will only be enforced if there is a repeat of the behavior, ESPN reported Monday. The Curva Sud section…

Activists in the UK have launched a campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government. The Israel-Britain Alliance is leading the campaign to have Hezbollah officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. Nearly 20 different organisations, both Jewish and Christian, have thrown their weight behind the initiative so…

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto has submitted a request for pardon, Channel 10 reports Tuesday, just two months after beginning his jail sentence for corruption.  Pinto based his request on his deteriorating medical condition, which he has referenced time and time again throughout legal proceedings against him.  He allegedly suffered a heart attack in April 2015 while boarding a flight back to…

Israel remains in favor of installing security cameras on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, even after Jordan reneged on the project due to Palestinian reservations, a senior official said Tuesday. “Israel’s support for placing cameras on the Temple Mount remains unchanged. That’s because we believe in transparency,” the Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “It is regrettable that the Palestinian…

Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz, who helped bring her country’s films to the world and became a star in France, died on Tuesday aged 51 after battling cancer, her agent said. A mother of two, the actress, screenwriter and director appeared in films including “The Girl on the Train” alongside Catherine Deneuve and “Ashes and Blood”.…

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) sharply criticized participants in a rally for IDF soldier Elor Azariya Tuesday, claiming that those who support the soldier are “extremists.”  “Despite this clumsy experience – and a false one, as if it were a demonstration [just] calling to support the IDF – it was a poorly attended demonstration of hatred…

Hamas officials on Tuesday warned that the bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus a day earlier was “just the beginning”, though they refrained from claiming responsibility for the blast. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though all of them – Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and even Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah – welcomed…

A rare amulet bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler Thutmose III, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty who reigned from 1479 – 1425 BCE, was discovered at the Temple Mount Sifting Project located in Jerusalem’s Tzurim Valley National Park. The amulet, which is more than 3,200 years old, was found within earth discarded from the Temple Mount by…

A rally being held in Tel Aviv’s iconic Rabin Square Tuesday night is not just for IDF soldier El-Or Azariya, Azariya’s father Charlie stated Tuesday – it’s for “IDF soldiers and security forces, who work from morning till night, 24 hours a day.”  The rally will be held for “those who will be in the same…

Following the dissemination of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory by a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, a chief rabbi of Russia called on the government to stamp out hate speech against Jews. Rabbi Berel Lazar’s appeal on Friday to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in reaction to the April 10 statement on Jews by…

Alain Finkielkraut, a pro-Israel, left-wing philosopher who was recently recognized as one of France’s greatest thinkers, was violently ejected from a public gathering on labor laws. Finkielkraut, who is Jewish, was spat on and heckled by protesters shouting “fascist” and “racist” on Saturday at a rally organized by the Nuit Debout, or White Night, platform,…

The Military Prosecution has accepted an appeal from the family of terror victim Moshe Hasno to charge his killer with murder, instead of the lesser charge of manslaughter he was initially to face. The Prosecution informed the Hasno family of its decision Tuesday afternoon to upgrade its indictment against Sahban Wael At-Titi at a military court…

Iran is to finally receive Russian-made S-300 air defense missile systems by the end of this year, according to the pro-Kremlin Interfax news agency. Interfax quoted Sergei Chemezov, who heads the Russian state-owned Rostec weapons technology firm, making the pledge on Tuesday. The Russian shipment to Iran has been the source of major contention, and threatens to destabilize…

Just two months after making aliyah from the US, Jewish rapper Nissim Black has hit the ground in the Holy Land running. Black, whose recent collaboration with Israel music star Gad Elbaz went viral, is already working on his new album, which is due to be released this summer. His latest single – Zman Cheruteinu…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a fumbling terminology mix-up late Monday, during his final campaign rally before the New York primaries.  “It’s very close to my heart because I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down,…

IDF Chief of Operations Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon and IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkott held an inquiry Tuesday, regarding the mistaken return of a terrorist’s body against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s explicit orders.  On Thursday, the IDF shot dead would-be ax murderer Ibrahim al-Gharooz Baradeah, 45, as he attacked soldiers near Al-Arroub, between Hevron and…

NEW YORK (JTA) – Here’s what you need to know about the Jews of New York as the state votes in Tuesday’s presidential primary. About 1 in 10 New Yorkers is Jewish New York state has about 1.75 million Jews, comprising approximately 9 percent of its total population of 20 million. Nearly all the Jews live in…

A Jerusalem court has convicted Yosef Haim Ben-David of murdering Mohammed Abu Khder, as well as a number of other crimes. The judge accepted prosecutors’ claims that Ben-David led his two nephews, aged 17 and 16, in kidnapping 16-year-old Abu Khder, dousing him in gasoline and burning him to death in 2014. They then attempted to destroy any…

Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Monday night at a J Street gala in Washington DC, expressing what he said was the Obama administration’s “overwhelming frustration” with Israel. Biden criticism of Israel came just hours after a bomb ripped through a bus in Jerusalem, leaving at least 16 wounded. “The present course Israel’s on is…

Authorities in the former Soviet state of Georgia have arrested six people for trying to sell $200 million worth of uranium, Reuters reports. “Officers of Georgia’s State Security Service detained three citizens of Armenia and three citizens of Georgia,” Savle Motiashvili, a security service investigator, told reporters. “The members of the group were planning to sell the nuclear material, uranium-238,…

Both Republican and Democratic candidates have been courting Jewish voters ahead of Tuesday’s New York primary vote, looking for an edge in competitive districts with large Jewish populations. Orthodox Jews, who make up a significant portion of New York’s Jewish population, have become an important bloc in the New York primary for both parties. Ted…

Following Monday’s terror attack, the organization Lavi has asked police to open a criminal investigation against MK Jamal Zahalka (Joint List) for incitement. The group’s letter to Deputy Commissioner Meni Yitzhaki, the head of the police intelligence and investigative branch, notes that Zahalka has frequently made inflammatory statements regarding the Temple Mount and the ongoing wave…

Retired deputy commissioner Arieh Amit, the former commander of the Jerusalem district for Israel Police, spoke with Arutz Sheva about Monday’s attack, saying that it represents an escalation in the ongoing wave of terror. “It’s a little early to make an educated guess, we still don’t know who the terrorist was. But my estimate is that it…

Some 16 people were wounded in Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem. The identity of the most severely injured person remains unknown, as police try to ascertain whether he was the bomber, or just an innocent bystander. The driver of the bus, however, has stated that the man was indeed the terrorist, and that security officials…

A Jerusalem district court found Yishai Schlissel guilty of murder on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a teenage girl in 2015. Last July, Schlissel attacked the Jerusalem gay pride parade, stabbing seven participants. One of his victims, Shira Banki, died from her injuries three days after the attack. Schlissel carried out the attack…

A joint operation between the IDF, the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) and Israel police led to the arrest of the two terrorists responsible for a stabbing attack near Har Bracha last month. The attack left two soldiers wounded, one lightly and one moderately. The forces arrested a…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke to reporters on Tuesday morning at the start of his meeting with Singapore’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong. In his comments, Netanyahu touched on the case of Elor Azariya, the soldier charged with manslaughter for killing a wounded terrorist in Hevron last month. The Prime Minister expressed confidence in…

Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, this week amid Iranian complaints that it is not getting the sanctions relief it deserves under last year’s nuclear deal, The Associated Press reported Monday. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Kerry and Zarif would meet in New York on Tuesday before…

ROME (JTA) –  The Beit Venezia Jewish culture center unveiled a series of 24 etchings created by eight international artists that will form part of a new, illustrated Venice Haggadah. The ceremony took place Sunday at the Venice Jewish Museum, where the prints will be exhibited until July 31 as part of initiatives kicked off…

Risk management is an important strategy in investing. On today’’s show, Professor Lewis Mandell, financial economist, author, and former Dean of Business at the State University of New York at Buffalo, discusses risk management and explains why he thinks the popular tactic of portfolio rebalancing may be a mistake.  Doug answers a listener’’s question on…

Fatah, the faction headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed Monday’s bomb attack on a bus in Jerusalem, in which 16 people were wounded. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which is Fatah’s so-called “military wing”, praised the attack and said its perpetrators “responded to our calls to carry out suicide attacks as the only…

(JTA) — A 38-year-old Jewish zookeeper in Florida described as a “tiger whisperer” was killed last Friday afternoon when a 13-year-old Malayan tiger in her care attacked her. Initial reports indicated that Stacey Feige Konwiser, who was preparing for a “Tiger Talk” for patrons at the Palm Beach Zoo scheduled for later that afternoon, was…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday met with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and told him Russia would support his efforts aimed at facilitating the Middle East peace process, the Russian TASS news agency reports. “I know that you are making strenuous efforts to facilitate the settlement process, and, of course, we will support…

(JTA) — The mayoral candidacy of a Bucharest politician who said local Jews lied for money about the number of their brethren killed in the Holocaust “presents a concern,” a Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said. Marian Munteanu of the National Liberal Party, Romania’s second largest, made the accusation in a press statement he co-signed…

Nickolay Mladenov, the UN’s Middle East envoy, on Monday night condemned the bomb attack on a bus in Jerusalem in which 16 people were wounded. “I condemn the #terror attack in #Jerusalem today and call on all to avoid escalation, stand against violence and those who glorify it,” Mladenov tweeted. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had…

BUDAPEST (JTA) — Three Christian bishops were among tens of thousands who took part Sunday in the March of the Living in Hungary, as well as the country’s largest anti-racist rally of the year. “It is a historic moment, when the leaders of the Christian and the Jewish religion are on the same stage together,”…

The United States will push for a two-state peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians until the end of President Barack Obama’s mandate, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Monday, according to AFP. Speaking in Washington to a conference held by J Street, Kerry said attacks like Monday’s on an Israeli bus in Jerusalem…

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Monday denounced as an “escalation” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s remarks Monday in the first Cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights, in which he declared that the Golan will always remain under Israeli control. Arabi, the secretary general of the pan-Arab bloc headquartered in Cairo, said Netanyahu’s statement “was an new escalation that represents a brazen violation…

Arutz Sheva was on the scene at Derekh Hevron in southeastern Jerusalem on Monday, where a bomb was detonated on an Egged bus wounding 16 people. Police reported that an explosive was placed on a 12 line bus that was empty of passengers, wounding passengers in an adjacent bus and a private car. Two of the…

(JTA) Tel Aviv is arguably the startup capital of the world — so, at the outset, a story about a new technology initiative might not sound particularly surprising. But this particular startup is located inside the venerable Beit Hatfutsot-Museum of the Jewish People, an institution that has been archiving and exhibiting the story of Jews…

The UN cultural body on Monday called for “respect and dialogue” following outrage over its vote divorcing the Temple Mount from the Jewish people, but did not take back its attempt to rewrite history at the holiest site in Judaism. “Jerusalem is a Holy Land of the three monotheistic religions, a place of dialogue for all Jewish,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem which left at least 16 wounded, including one critically and two seriously, pledging to find those responsible and “settle the score.” “We will find whoever made the bomb, we’ll get to [the terrorists] who delivered it, we’ll get to the people standing behind [this…

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Monday hosted Natan and Ranana Meir, the husband and daughter of Dafna Meir who was murdered at the entrance to her home in Otniel, Judea in January. Danon hosted the two together with the OneFamily organization that supports terror victims at a special session of the UN Security…

Natan and Ranana Meir – the husband and daughter of Dafna Meir who was murdered by a 15-year-old Arab terrorist in January at the entrance to her home in Otniel, Judea – spoke to the UN Security Council on Monday. The two were brought to the UN in New York by the OneFamily organization that…

The United States does not consider the Golan Heights to be a part of Israel, State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed on Monday, a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed the Golan Heights “will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.” “The U.S. position on the issue is unchanged,” Kirby told reporters during a daily briefing at…

(JTA) — Information that convicted American spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard provided to Israel 30 years ago is still classified as “top secret” and “secret” and its disclosure could harm U.S. national security, the U.S. director of national intelligence said. James Clapper wrote in a February letter to the U.S. Parole Commission that the intelligence…

A media gag order on the identity of the soldier who is currently on trial for shooting a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron last month was lifted on Monday. It is now permissible to announce that the soldier is Elor Azariya, a 20-year-old resident of Ramle. Just shortly earlier on Monday, Azariya was indicted by the military…

Jordan said Monday that it is recalling its ambassador to Iran for consultations, as tensions between Iran and Gulf states continue. Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani said that his government took the step because of what he described as Iranian interference in the “internal affairs of neighboring countries, especially Gulf countries.” In comments published by…

The Passover holidays typically see a major boost to Israeli tourism, with both domestic and foreign tourists flocking to holy sites, or to enjoy the holy land’s beautiful spring weather. One area of Israel which has experienced significant growth in the number of visitors over the past several years has been the Samaria region where,…

Germany rejected on Monday a call by the Israeli government to recognize Israel’s control of the Golan Heights, calling the move a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. On Sunday the Israeli cabinet held a special meeting on the Golan Heights. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened the meeting with a declaration…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday about how the IDF uncovered a Hamas terror tunnel in the region immediately surrounding Gaza, marking the first terror tunnel breaching into Israeli sovereign territory found since 2014 Operation Protective Edge. Netanyahu warned that Israel would respond with force to any attempt by Hamas to harm Israeli civilians.…

A Swedish cabinet minister of Turkish origin who compared Israel to Nazi Germany and was photographed with Turkish ultranationalists resigned on Monday, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced. “Mehmet Kaplan has submitted his resignation and I have accepted it,” Lofven told reporters, nonetheless praising the outgoing housing minister’s “humanistic and democratic values.” Kaplan, a member…

Two Jews were arrested on Monday on vague suspicions of being involved in “nationalistic crime events,” a broad term that often refers to vandalism or other acts targeting Arabs. The two were arrested within the framework of a case that currently remains under a media gag order. They will be brought in to court on Tuesday…

At least 15 people were wounded in an explosion on Monday, which hit Egged bus line 12 on Derekh Hevron and Moshe Baram Street in the southeast of Jerusalem, not far from Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Police have yet to confirm it was a bombing attack. Large Magen David Adom (MDA) and police forces rushed to the site. According to…

A senior Israeli official revealed on Monday that Israel has halted all transfers of building material to Gaza as part of the ongoing effort to disrupt the construction of terror tunnels by Hamas. The report came just hours after the IDF announced the discovery of a terror tunnel leading into Israel from Gaza. The official estimated…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Monday afternoon toured the Sdot Negev region near Gaza, and spoke about the massive rally planned for Tuesday in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square supporting the soldier Elor Azariya who shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron last month. Ya’alon voiced his opposition to the protest, and took the opportunity…

Farmers in the Gaza Belt continue to work as usual – a few dozen meters from the border fence – despite ongoing threats from Hamas. While Palestinian media has reported heavy engineering tools along the Gaza side of the border, and both MKs and the media have stated Hamas is rebuilding its terror tunnels, the…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and other senior defense officials of the danger, following reports of secret talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to Haaretz. The talks are allegedly aimed at withdrawing Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) presence from…

It has been cleared for publication that the IDF recently discovered a terror tunnel from Gaza into southern Israel, marking the first such discovery since 2014’s Operation Protective Edge. The tunnel was a particularly large and complex one; its route stretched along the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip all the way to southern Gaza, and…

The military prosecutor’s office filed an indictment against two weeks ago against Saadi Ali Abu Hamad, the 21-year-old Arab terrorist who brutally attacked a Jewish security guard in Ma’ale Adumim in February – and details of the investigation prove the act was highly premeditated.  Hamad initially claimed that the motive was personal, alleging that his victim had…

An Algerian immigrant to the United States who admitted to planning to blow up synagogues in New York City tried to hang himself in prison reportedly after being taunted by guards over his terror conviction. Ahmed Ferhani, 31, is in a medically induced coma after the attempt in Attica prison in New York, The Associated…

Bet Tzedek legal service organization together with Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, filed Monday a petition to the Supreme Court (High Court) to prevent the Women of the Wall organization from holding a “priestesses blessing ” ceremony at the Kotel (Western Wall) during Passover. The petitioners argue that the…

One day after a massive earthquake in Ecuador which killed 272 people, the Chabad emissary to Guayaquil spoke about the damage.  “The quake occurred Saturday night, toward the end of the Ma’ariv prayer,” Rabbi Uriel Tawil began, in an interview with haredi news outlet Hamevaser. “Suddenly, everything was shaking – and we were shocked, we didn’t know…

Israeli Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has applauded the IDF’s success in locating and destroying a massive terrorist attack tunnel from Gaza into Israel, and warned of Hamas’s continued motivation to launch a major attack. Bennett, who is also a member of the Security Cabinet, said Hamas’s top priority was to carry out…

Last Thursday, after four years of hardship and bureaucracy struggle, Y. (full name withheld), a terminally ill immigrant, was finally granted permission to convert and marry his sweetheart. The pair, who were born into gentile families, began a conversion process several years ago in the United States. Four years ago, the pair sought to live…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) welcomed the IDF’s discovery of a terror tunnel Monday, noting it as a strategic step in defeating Hamas’s “informational war.”  “The exposure of a Hamas terror tunnel by the IDF and the security establishment near the Gaza border is an important operational achievement and the result of the very extensive effort of the…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) insisted on Sunday evening that he remains calm, despite having earlier been questioned under warning over suspicions that he accepted forbidden donations, did not report the donations and handed in a false declaration, all in connection with the 2013 Labor party primaries. “It’s no secret that over the…

A special celebration took place on Sunday in honor of Yom HaAliyah (the day of Aliyah), which is celebrated on the 10th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. It is on this date in the year 2488 of the Jewish calendar (1273 B.C.E) that the first mass Aliyah in history took place, when the Children of…

French President Francois Hollande on Sunday called for human rights to be respected in the fight against “terrorism” in Egypt. The comments came after Hollande’s meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, reported the AFP news agency. Hollande arrived in Cairo earlier for a two-day visit to oversee the signing of several economic agreements, but…

Jordanian security forces raided the headquarters of the kingdom’s largest Muslim Brotherhood group, but the raid was apparently a mistake, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The Jordanian government claimed the offices were raided after they were confused with the offices of an outlawed organization. Government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani said security forces stormed the Islamic Action…

The Arab League-affiliated Arab Parliament has decided to designate Hezbollah as a “terrorist group,” the Lebanese Naharnet website reported on Sunday. Arab Parliament Speaker Ahmed al-Jarwan condemned “Hezbollah’s practices, which are aimed at undermining the security of many countries in the region,” the report, which cited, Kuwait’s official news agency KUNA, said. Al-Jarwan went on…

Islamic State (ISIS) group revenues have dropped by around 30 percent since last year, forcing the group to introduce a range of new taxes including a levy on repairing satellite dishes, a research group says. “In mid-2015, the Islamic State’s overall monthly revenue was around $80 million,” Ludovico Carlino, senior analyst at IHS, which issues…

Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel, The Associated Press reports. Speaking during a National Army Day parade on Sunday, Rouhani praised Iran’s role in helping the Syrian and Iraqi governments roll back the Islamic State (ISIS) and said, “If tomorrow your capitals face danger from terrorism…

The back and forth between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman continued on Sunday night, as the Prime Minister accused Liberman of conspiring with the Arab Joint List party to bring down the government. “There is someone who presents himself as a rightist, but is working to replace the rightist…

Ecuador’s central coast was rocked by a massive, 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday which left dozens dead. The tremor was the strongest to hit the South American nation since 1979, said the US Geological Survey. Initial reports claimed 41 had been killed in the quake, though the country’s Vice President, Jorge Glas, warned that figure…

For the past five weeks there have been no driving tests in Israel, due to protests against the Ministry of Transportation’s plans to contract out the position of testers. The Ministry of Transportation on Sunday sent a letter to The Histadrut, Israel’s largest labor union. “We believe that the strike is illegitimate since it was…

Science Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) on Sunday joined the condemnation of the UNESCO decision Saturday night, which declared the Temple Mount to be a Muslim site while failing to mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism. In its decision, the UN body for world heritage and culture went along with the Palestinian Authority (PA)…

In recent years as Europe grows more hostile Israel has increasingly been turning to the East, building alliances with Japan, China, India, Taiwan and South Korea – an historically groundbreaking visit on Monday reveals that Singapore is the latest key Asian ally of the Jewish state. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is to arrive on Monday in…

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich has claimed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a warning letter that MKs who go up to the Temple Mount endanger national security, Channel 2 reports. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, Alsheich explained his decision to ban MKs from visiting…

The military prosecutor on Monday is to submit an indictment charging the soldier who last month shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron with manslaughter, but the day after Israeli music superstars will rally to his defense. The soldier has testified he shot over concerns that the terrorist – who minutes earlier with an accomplice stabbed and…

Former Prisoner of Zion Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich spoke with Arutz Sheva on Sunday ahead of the Passover holiday that begins on Friday night, and recalled back to when he courageously celebrated the holiday seder in a Soviet jail. Rabbi Mendelevich noted that as a former Prisoner of Zion, he did not require any imagination in order to fulfill…

The Knesset Committee for the Rights of the Child and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) signed a new condition for future teachers to undergo personality tests as part of the profession’s framework. The pilot is due to begin next year with 1,500 new hopeful teachers who want to enter training collages. Each candidate will…

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has recently had a spate of anti-Israel comments, and on Sunday he continued the streak as he said US President Barack Obama has not been far enough on the Palestinians’ side. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC, Sanders was asked about his debate with frontrunner Hillary Clinton last Thursday,…

Fighting in Aleppo killed at least 22 civilians on Sunday, as the opposition delegation threatened to quit Syria peace talks in Geneva if there is no progress on a political transition. The opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said the indirect negotiations could collapse if Syria’s regime refuses to compromise on political and humanitarian issues. “We…