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In what may be another sign of the disagreements between the members of the coalition, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Sunday ordered that the IDF’s move to a new training complex in the Negev, known as Ir HaBahadim (lit. the city of training bases), be stopped. Ya’alon cited his differences with Finance Minister Yair Lapid over the…

An Egyptian judge sentenced the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, and 25 others on Sunday to three years in jail for insulting the court, Reuters reports. Badie, who is the Brotherhood’s general guide, is among hundreds of the group’s members who have already received death sentences and lengthy jail terms in mass trials…

Despite the fact that the Hamas-Fatah unity government held its first cabinet meeting in Gaza in October and declared the “division is over,” the two rival groups appear firmly divided over whether that government has expired or not. Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said Sunday that the six-month mandate of the unity government agreed on in…

Nir Hefetz, an advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, said Monday that the point of the meeting later in the day between Netanyahu and Yesh Atid party chairman, Finance Minister Yair Lapid, is not “reconciliation” between the two men. In an interview with IDF Radio, Hefetz said that Netanyahu intends to demand answers from Lapid…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to hold a special session on preserving Jewish historical sites that have fallen under the iron grip of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization, which has been looting and wrecking ancient non-Muslim relics. Prof. Shmuel Moreh, a Middle Eastern Studies expert of Hebrew University who was…

Former senior Mossad man and government minister Rafi Eitan, who was Jonathan Pollard’s handler, is admitting for the first time that he ordered to turn away Jonathan and his then wife Anne from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, when they came to seek refuge on the morning of November 21, 1985. Jonathan and Anne were…

An Egyptian court on Sunday designated the Islamic State (ISIS) a terrorist organization and banned it in the country. According to The Associated Press, the court ruling adds that it considers all of the ISIS’s affiliates to be terrorist organizations as well. One of the ISIS affiliates is the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, which has…

If the coalition indeed collapses, it will not be because of the Jewish State Law, coalition chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) said Sunday night. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Elkin said that he is open to negotiations on changing the wording of the controversial law, of which he is one of the authors and to…

Canada said Sunday it was “aware of reports” that one of its nationals may have been kidnapped in Syria, amid suggestions it could have been a woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Kobane. Earlier on Sunday, the monitoring group SITE said Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists claimed a woman described as a “female Zionist soldier” had…

Sources in the Kurdish underground in Syria denied Sunday night that Canadian-Israeli Gill Rosenberg, 31, had been in the Kobane region, as claimed by Islamist and Palestinian websites that reported she was captured by ISIS during the fighting in that area. The report about Rosenberg’s capture has not been confirmed by ISIS. An American who…

A young Jewish man reported to police in Jerusalem Sunday morning that two Arab youths on bicycles threatened him with a knife at the intersection of French Hill.  He reported being afraid the Arabs would stab him and that he immediately fled the scene.  A search was dutifully conducted. Border Patrol officers soon spotted two…

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz praised the appointment of Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot to succeed him as Chief of Staff, saying Sunday morning that he was “happy” over the decision.  “The issue of the 21st chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, has come to a close,” Gantz said Sunday morning outside his home.…

Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) responded to the comments former Shin Bet Chief, Carmi Gillon made against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government. “Israel is headed today by a bunch of pyromaniacs and is being led by an egomaniac to its final destruction,” Gillon said, at a leftist demonstration against the Jewish State Law…

Israel’s work to help Syrian refugees has gained national and international acclaim, with Syrian citizens themselves noting that their treatment at the hands of Israeli care providers and government officials has changed their views of the Jewish state.  But at least one group has urged Jerusalem to stop providing aid, claiming that the praise is…

In the aftermath of the arson on a dual Arabic-Hebrew language kindergarten school in Jerusalem, the Ministry of Education and the Jerusalem Municipality have come out in condemnation of the attack, while the left is arguing Netanyahu and his policy of incitement is to blame.  As children returned to school this morning, forensic police remained on…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will present an amended form of the Infiltrator Law to the government on Sunday, after the bill to send illegal aliens to the Holot detention center was struck down by the High Court of Justice. The new version of the law, formulated by Netanyahu, the Interior Ministry and the Justice Ministry,…

Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri spoke Saturday night regarding tensions in the current government and inquiries from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and others parties, to form an alternative coalition.  “I made an agreement with Netanyahu that we will do nothing if he decides to dissolve the coalition. We will not establish an alternative. We will only…

“We will never recognize the Jewishness of the state of Israel,” Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared on Saturday. Abbas’s statement came at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and was quoted by Channel 10 News. At that same meeting, the foreign ministers announced their “categorical rejection of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.” According…

Early elections are “inevitable”, Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) said on Saturday night. Akunis’s comments came after Yesh Atid chairman, Finance Minister Yair Lapid, declared that the government was “stuck”, as he put it. “Lapid is arrogant and a hypocrite,” charged Akunis, adding, “If Lapid does not want to serve in the government, he can…

Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Jewry) said Sunday that volunteers of the United Hatzalah organization should be allowed to carry weapons. In a letter to Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich, Maklev said that allowing the volunteers to carry such weapons would increase security for Israelis. “In light of the tense situation these…

The Ministerial Law Committee is taking under advisement a proposal to change the law on marriage and divorce in Israel, which MK Aliza Lavie called “anti-democratic.” According to the current law, Israelis who marry or divorce outside the purview of the Rabbinate must report the fact to the Rabbinate. Those who fail to do so…

According to unconfirmed reports on jihadist websites cited by Channel 2 News, Islamic State (aka ISIS) terrorists have captured Jill Rosenberg, a Candian-Israeli woman who volunteered to join the Kurdish fighters in Syria that are struggling with Al Qaeda in the battle for Kobane. The reports – which have no official confirmation – said that…

Dr. Efraim Zuroff of The Simon Wiesenthal Center says that the center has received reliable information according to which Alois Brunner, a top Nazi fugitive whom Final Solution architect Adolf Eichmann called his “best man,” is dead and buried in Damascus. Brunner advised former Syrian dictator Hafez Asssad on torture techniques and repression, said Zuroff.…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a crucial water-filtering bill Sunday, which – if ratified into law – would introduce water recycling into private homes. According to the proposal, submitted by MK Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home), water from sinks and showers would be transferred to a water purification tank in every home, where it would…

At its weekly meeting Sunday, the Cabinet approved for a preliminary Knesset reading, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Civil Services Commissioner Moshe Dayan’s joint proposal to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the civil service.  The proposal stipulates that disabled persons will receive representation of not less than 3% of all civil service…

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation unanimously passed Sunday a proposal by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) to cancel debts for every Israeli citizen facing debt collection measures from the Enforcements and Collections Authority under certain preconditions.  Citizens who face legal action from the Authority on debts below 400,000 shekel ($102,777) and are defined as having “limited…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will submit, next month, for Cabinet approval, a plan for significant investment in the minority Druze and Circassian towns and communities.  The plan will include funding for education, infrastructure, and employment in order to reduce the existing gaps between the minority communities and the rest of Israel, and move these communities…

The Turkish Science Minister has become the latest public figure to make outrageous claims over Islam’s hand in science and technology, the Hurriyet Daily News reported Friday – this time, claiming that Muslims discovered that the world is round.  “Some 700-800 years before Galileo, 71 Muslim scientists led by al-Khwarizmi convened by the order of the…

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will discuss a proposal to pay off the debt owed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the Israel Electric Company with money that Israel transfers to the PA. A discussion on the matter will be held next Sunday. According to MKs, the PA has been using money that…

Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) paid a visit Sunday to the Bilingual School that was attacked by arsonists and proclaimed zero tolerance to intolerance. “I came here to express my anger at the fact that people take Torah books and Qurans and put them on a door and try to burn a…

Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, has been invited to speak at Ben Gurion University on “Religious Aspects of the Israeli – Palestine Conflict and the need for religious tolerance,” reports Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). For years, Al-Habbash has been promoting conflict and war with Israel in the name of Islam.…

In a wide-ranging interview in Asharq Al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi Arabian paper, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri warned Qatar to cease its efforts to destabilize Egypt and stated that concerning ties with Iran, “the situation has not changed much over the past 25 years. Ties are frozen and diplomatic relations severed.” Israel didn’t rate a mention…

Bread could be in short supply in Israel within a few weeks. The Histradrut labor union announced Sunday that workers at Angel Bakeries, the country’s largest producer of bread, had declared a work dispute. The two sides will now enter binding arbitration on their disagreements. If the issues are not resolved within two weeks, the…

A Tel Aviv synagogue was vandalized Sunday with graffiti reading, “In a place where the Jewish State Bill will be legislated, books will be burned.” The vandals left a pile of burned books next to the wall that bore the graffiti. The books are not sacred texts. The attack took place at the The Tel…

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino toured eastern Jerusalem Sunday and spoke to police and Border Police officers who are part of the beefed up force patrolling the city streets, following a spate of terror attacks. “The situation is very sensitive and tense,” Danino told the press. “Any serious event or terror attack could send us backward…

Depending on the procedure, Israelis can find themselves waiting just a few days for necessary heart, lung, or stomach surgery – but can wait months, or years, for other procedures, especially involving plastic surgery. That is the conclusion of a report released Sunday by the Health Ministry, which evaluated waiting times for 73 procedures in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet on Monday with Finance Minister Yair Lapid – who heads Yesh Atid – and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni – who heads Hatnua – after weeks in which they hardly exchanged words, and in which the government appeared to be heading for dissolution. The meetings are being described…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) is confident that he will be Israel’s next Prime Minister. “I think today it is clear that I present an alternative to [Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu],” Herzog told Channel 10 News on Saturday, amid speculations that early elections are coming. “I believe I’ll lead the next government. With the…

Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Carmi Gillon on Saturday night launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government. “Israel is headed today by a bunch of pyromaniacs and is being led by an egomaniac to its final destruction,” said Gillon, who spoke at a demonstration by leftists protesting…

One person was killed in Cairo on Saturday night, in clashes that erupted after an Egyptian court dismissed a murder charge against former President Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising. The ruling enraged Mubarak’s opponents, with about 1,000 converging on a central Cairo square to denounce the government, according to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is close to making a decision regarding elections, his associates said Saturday night. According to the associates, Netanyahu is closer than ever to deciding on early elections, despite the fact that the vote on the controversial Jewish State Law has been postponed for a second time. They further said that Netanyahu’s…

The Arab League on Saturday backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s plan to seek UN endorsement for a timetable for declaring an independent state, and rejected recognizing Israel as a Jewish nation, AFP reports Saturday. But the extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which Abbas attended, did not announce when they would approach the United Nations Security Council. A statement said the…

A Knesset plenum vote on the ‘Jewish State Law’ has been postponed yet again, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s advisor Nir Hefetz stated Saturday night – five days after the vote was postponed for a week due to controversy over the text of the proposal.  Last week, a vote on the controversial set of laws was…

A fire broke out at a dual Arabic-Hebrew language kindergarten school building in Jerusalem’s Pat Saturday night, in an apparent “price tag” attack in the capital.  Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze shortly after it was set alight, and no injuries were reported. The kindergarten is heavily damaged, however – and graffiti was discovered on…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has extended the military seizure order on Yitzhar’s Od Yosef Hai yeshiva Saturday night – this time for another six months.  Chief of Central Command, Nitzan Alon, signed the order last Thursday, Yitzhar representatives told Arutz Sheva, which will remain in effect until the end of May.  The yeshiva was initially seized by Border…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon officially declared Major General Gadi Eizenkot the next IDF Chief of Staff on Saturday, explaining that Eizenkot is “an excellent candidate who is worthy and experienced” for the job. “I believe that Major General Gadi Eizenkot right person at this time to lead the army in the coming years,” Ya’alon stated…

A department store in Sweden is sweeping a toy scandal from its shelves, the Local reports Saturday – after customers complained that a toy soldier selection appeared to be modeled after Nazi uniforms. Toy soldiers being sold at the Gekås superstore in the western city of Ullared appeared to bear Nazi symbols, parents stated to local news…

French MP Meir Habib met with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Prime Minister Manuel Wells to discuss Paris’s hearing on Palestinian statehood on Friday, where he stressed that recognition of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a “country” for all intents and purposes will not lead to actual peace.  “The proposal to recognize a Palestinian state…

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been acquitted on charges of corruption and killing protesters during the 2011 uprising on Saturday, in the final verdict in a lengthy retrial which has stretched for months.  Mubarak and his former interior minister Habib al-Adly were sentenced to life in prison in June of 2012 for failing to prevent the…

An indictment against three Israeli Arabs was filed in the Jerusalem District Court on Friday, after the three allegedly planned to attack Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick or MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud).  The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, via Attorney Yifat Pinhassi, filed the indictment against the three, names as Maj’d Ben Maher Qaraqi (21), Muhammed…

An umpire and former captain of Israel’s national cricket team died on Saturday after being hit in the jaw by a ball, the country’s cricket association said. The umpire collapsed during the course of the game after being hit, prompting bystanders to call Magen David Adom (MDA) medics to the scene. The medics carried out CPR, an MDA representative…

MK Ofer Shelah, faction leader of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, on Friday verbally attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who is waiting for a response after the weekend from hareidi parties in an attempt to replace the current coalition. “The state of Israel is operating without a budget, every reform is stuck because…

Disturbing new details have emerged about an incident Thursday, in which a young female police officer was run over in Bat Yam while trying to arrest a driver committing sex crimes – who turns out to be an employee of a professional basketball team in the Israeli league. The 19-year-old traffic officer, who has been…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s party Yisrael Beytenu is veering sharply to the left, according to a document leaked to Yediot Aharonot Wednesday – a leak that comes amid high tensions over the possibility of early elections. The document, entitled “Swim Against the Current – Yisrael Beytenu’s vision” details a “regional peace plan” replete with land concessions…

A 17-year-old Arab woman carrying a knife was arrested outside of Hevron’s Cave of Machpelah, preventing a potentially fatal stabbing attack on an IDF soldier. The Arab woman refused to be checked at the site, with police officers warning her that she must undergo a security check. At a certain point the woman drew the…

French lawmakers were to debate on Friday a motion urging the government to recognize the Palestinian Authority (PA) as “Palestine,” according to AFP. The symbolic motion is expected to pass comfortably on December 2 when the lower house of parliament votes on the text proposed by the ruling Socialists. The vote comes hot on the heels of a similar resolution approved by…

Former Likud Minister Moshe Kahlon held a meeting of his new party on Thursday, in preparation for upcoming elections in the Knesset which may come sooner than expected. Kahlon, who officially left the Likud last month so as to form the new party, held the meeting with 350 party activists in a Netanya hotel closed…

A funeral for a fallen soldier was held in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery on Thursday, in an emotional ceremony to mark the life of a young man who died fighting for Israel. But while hundreds of funerals are, unfortunately, held every year in the Jewish state, Thursday’s ceremony was special – as it was the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing to seriously consider calling early elections, Channel 2 News reported on Thursday evening. According to the report, Netanyahu is considering three options, but it is believed that his preferred route would be to dissolve the Knesset. The first option is for Netanyahu to wait until March 31 without the…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) had no choice but to essentially concede to figures presented against him in a question session at the Knesset on Wednesday by MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home), which reveal the unfair practices against Jews in Judea and Samaria. Struk began by responding to Ya’alon’s plan to heighten criminal enforcement of construction…

A local British municipal council has dropped a motion to boycott all products from the State of Israel, UK’s Jewish News reported Thursday – amid a rising trend of British councils, chains, and groups supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish State.  The Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) of West Midlands – near…

The Egyptian buffer zone along the Sinai border with Gaza has sent prices soaring in the Hamas-ruled enclave, after the Nile state cracked down on illegal smuggling tunnels to Sinai that were reportedly used by Hamas to arm lethal attacks on Egyptian soldiers. The price of cigarettes nearly tripled in Gaza, with local merchant Imad…

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino has hit back at Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) Friday, after Edelstein stated Wednesday that Danino is “not suited” to give advice over issues relating to the Temple Mount and parliamentary immunity. “Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein does not understand at all what the role of the commissioner [entails],” Danino said Friday,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has appealed repeatedly to the hareidi parties, hareidi newspaper Hamevaser revealed Friday – even though United Torah Judaism (UTJ) officials reportedly turned him down in recent attempts to draft them into the coalition.  Hareidi party demands include adding funds to yeshiva (Torah academy) budgets, adding funds to the State of Israel’s child…

Paris has returned 250 ancient artifacts to Egypt that were illegally imported into the country and seized by French customs officials, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Amulets, rings, funerary statues and pitchers, dating from 2000 BCE up to the Roman, Byzantine and Medieval eras were returned to the Egyptian embassy. Foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal…

Likud Central Committee head MK Danny Danon, currently challenging Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in primaries for leadership of the party, criticized Netanyahu on Friday morning in a meeting with Likud’s “Nationalist Camp” faction leaders in Psagot, to the north of Jerusalem. “I present an ideological and moral alternative to the path of Likud chairman and…

“One cannot govern under the present situation”, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his associates in recent days, according to a report Friday on Channel 2 News. Netanyahu, according to the report, has been holding talks with his aides in light of the ongoing tensions in the coalition. These conversations have highlighted Netanyahu’s frustration over the…

Israeli police are preventing a soldier currently in a course to become a captain, who serves in an elite unit and fought to defend Israel in Gaza, from receiving permission to have a private handgun – for a very politicized reason. The soldier lives in Kfar Tapuah, located near Ariel in northern Samaria, and due…

Major General Gadi Eizenkot will be appointed as the next Chief of Staff of the IDF, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon decided on Friday. An official announcement about the appointment is expected to be published on Saturday night, following the conclusion of the Sabbath. Eizenkot, 54, has served over the past…

Two people were killed in clashes between Islamist protesters and Egyptian police in Cairo on Friday, security officials said, according to AFP. The army and police had fanned out across the capital in anticipation of rallies called by an Islamist group, and police quickly moved in to quash the small gatherings after they began outside…

Just days after he called for “dialogue” with the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, Pope Francis on Friday condemned the group and called for interfaith cooperation in order to combat it, Reuters reports. The pope, who is visiting Turkey, said that “an extremist and fundamentalist group” had subjected entire communities in Turkey’s southern neighbors to…

Syrian hackers on Thursday wished a Happy Thanksgiving by hacking the websites of British and North American media organizations and retailer Wal-Mart’s Canadian unit. According to Reuters, the attack was believed to have been carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Among media sites hit…

Just one day after appealing the Zoabi Bill, which would make it possible to dismiss MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from the Knesset, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Thursday cancelled her appeal. The appeal prevented the bill from being brought to a vote in the Knesset, and a Knesset plenum discussion of the bill that was…

Yisrael Zeira, head of the non-profit Rosh Yehudi outreach organization, was the target of an attempted terrorist attack on Thursday night. Arabs opened fire at Zeira’s car as he was traveling near Kiryat Arba. At least two bullets hit the car but miraculously, no one was hurt. Security forces began searching the area in an…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group blocked all mobile phone networks in the largest Iraqi city they control, Mosul, accusing informants in the city of tipping off coalition forces to their whereabouts, residents told The Associated Press (AP) on Thursday. Residents described a scene of “chaos” and “paralysis” in the city, a day after the…

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Thursday he backed extended nuclear talks with world powers, and also took advantage of the opportunity to threaten Israel’s security. Khamenei said that if the talks, extended on Monday for seven months beyond the November 24 deadline, ultimately failed, “the sky won’t fall to the ground” and that…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday came under attack from two presidents – the former and the current – over the controversial Jewish State Law. Former President Shimon Peres and current President Reuven Rivlin both used their speeches at the state memorial for Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, to warn against the law.…

The world has been silent thus far in the face of Egypt’s expulsion of residents in Gaza’s south and the demolition of their homes by dynamite and bulldozers. The silence was broken on Thursday, however, as Amnesty International condemned Egypt’s demolition of hundreds of homes and called for a halt to its “unlawful evictions” of…

Weighing on the “debate” over whether or not Hezbollah has dug tunnels under the border between Israel and Lebanon was Lieutenant Oshri Lugasy, a top member of the IDF Engineering Corps. According to Lugasy, it is very unlikely that such tunnels exist. “Unlike in Gaza, the northern border does not have any tunnels,” Lugasy said.…

Israel and the Palestinians held secret back-channel negotiations to achieve a “two-state solution” deal even while official US-brokered negotiations were faltering, the New Republic revealed Wednesday in a first time report.  The secret talks began in 2010 between Yitzhak Molho, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s attorney and point man for negotiations, and a confidante of Palestinian Authority…

It has been released for publication that Israeli security services, together with the IDF, broke up a major Hamas terrorist cell in September that was planning attacks on a range of high-profile Israeli targets, including Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium. According to the Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shabak), the cell – which was based in Judea…

Reports notwithstanding, there is no “deal” brewing right now between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and hareidi parties, a top hareidi political source told Arutz Sheva Thursday. “We have a ‘green light’ to talk to him, but we have not yet heard his opinions on our demands,” the source said of Netanyahu, after reports said that…

The Israel Navy has picked its first woman ship captain ever. Captain Or Cohen, a graduate of several officer’s courses, will be transferred to a warship, where she will take on the position of deputy commander, and at the conclusion of another course she is taking, Cohen will be given her own ship. Her first…

Balfour Hakak, former chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association, told Arutz Sheva that Mifal Hapayis’ (Israel’s official state lottery) decision to award the Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences in the poetry category to radical leftist poet Yitzhak Laor is “surprising.”  Laor, a controversial figure and writer, has expressed vitriolically anti-Zionist stances both in his poetry and prose work. In a…

An Australian cricketer died after being hit by a ball in a freak accident during a game at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 25-year-old Phillip Hughes was struck in the lower back of his neck by the ball on Tuesday, and collapsed unconscious. He was evacuated to St Vincent’s hospital in critical condition and placed in a medically-induced…

The High Court for Justice has issued temporary orders preventing Israel from demolishing the homes of terrorists involved in the recent murderous attacks in Jerusalem – including the massacre at the Har Nof synagogue, the shooting of Yehuda Glick and the car terror attack at a Light Rail station three weeks ago. The latest restraining…

The United States expressed its “horror” at the bombardment of the city of Raqqa in Syria by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Raqqa is one of the main strongholds of Islamist rebels in Syria, and the Syrian army has been pounding it heavily for days. Dozens of civilians have been killed in the bombardment.…

Israel, along with allies the United States, Canada, and Australia are attempting to dissuade nearly 200 states that make up the Fourth Geneva Convention from convening a special session in regard to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.  The special session, slotted for mid-December would address the conditions of Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria, the Gaza Strip,…

It took several IDF soldiers in a helicopter to rescue two youths stuck in a flash flood near the Dead Sea. After nearly 15 hours in the rain and wind, the two were found and removed from Nachal Og, where they survived by remaining on high ground throughout the night. They have been taken to…

Several American Jewish groups have called for serious discussions about race, democracy and justice as well as greater tolerance and understanding, in the aftermath of a St. Louis grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot an African-American teenager in Ferguson, Missouri in August. The case has raised a furor; the…

Senior sources in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party spoke on Thursday about the likelihood of early Knesset elections, and the chances the current coalition has of surviving given the ever-increasing tensions between its various members. “The Prime Minister isn’t interested in elections, but at the same time it’s impossible to continue in a situation…

Arab terrorists from Gaza fired at an IDF jeep that was carrying out a routine patrol along the Gaza border Thursday morning. The jeep’s windshield was damaged but no one was hurt. The bullets were apparently fired with a sniper’s rifle; the incident took place near Kibbutz Be’eri. The IDF fired back at least one tank…

Joel Cohen, a Politics and Government student at Ben Gurion University, was removed from the class “Introduction to Political Thought” Wednesday. Cohen claims this was due to his statement of political solidarity with the grassroots Zionist movement, Im Tirtzu. Ben Gurion University says the student’s claims of political persecution are disconnected from reality, and that…

The Palestinian Authority’s official television network, under the rule of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, presented the five terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians as “martyrs.”  These terrorists were injured and/or killed by Israeli security forces – either in the midst of attacking Israeli civilians, or after the attack in attempts to arrest them. However, the PA…

Six Muslim religious leaders are visiting Israel this week as part of a joint initiative by the African and Diaspora Religions Department of the Foreign Ministry in Senegal and the Israeli Embassy in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.  The visit by Muslim leaders and Senegalese journalists was seen as very important to Israel as Senegal is an…

The Jewish community of Poland is working urgently to try and save the Jewish cemetery in Grodzisk, after the city’s council began work on a construction project in the northern part of the city where the graveyard is located, putting it in direct danger. The cemetery was destroyed during the Holocaust, and afterwards most of…

IDF forces arrested an Arab man near the Jewish neighborhood in Hevron Thursday evening after a sub-machine gun was found in his car, along with a bullet cartridge. The gun was of the Carl Gustav M/45 variety, a portable and lethal weapon. Arab terrorists opened fire Thursday night on an Israeli car driving on Highway 465 near…

Quick action by members of the Yad L’achim anti-missionary organization broke up an attempt to recruit Jews to missionary-sponsored religious cults in the heart of Tel Aviv – outside the Azrieli Center Mall on Hashalom Street. Passerby who took a good look at the flyers and materials being distributed by several individuals outside the mall…

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the flagship seminary of Conservative Judaism, in New York has come out against Israel’s proposed “Jewish State Law,” which would enshrine into law Israel’s status as the Jewish state.  The “Jewish State Law” is comprised of two bills by three MKs: Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), Yariv Levin (Likud), and Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home). Both bills, which…

The Paris trial of two Frenchmen accused of killing a young Israeli woman in a hit-and-run incident in Tel Aviv was halted Thursday after a defense lawyer was hit during a break in proceedings. An unidentified man punched Regis Meliodon, a lawyer for one of the defendants, in the face during a break in the trial and then fled. Reportedly the…

The city of Shaoguan, in the Guangdong Province in southeastern China, has been chosen as the pilot city for Israel’s flagship “Water City” project. Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, currently on an official visit in China, signed the Water City agreement with Chinese officials on Wednesday. He explained the project briefly on his Facebook page: “The goal is to create a…

Judea and Samaria, widely known under the misnomer “West Bank,” are the preferred locations from which to launch terror attacks on Israel, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad terror organization has explained to the Quds.net news agency. The reasons for preferring Judea and Samaria to Gaza are that there is a temporary ceasefire between…

French President Francois Hollande announced on Thursday what may be the next stage in the growing diplomatic assault on Israel, witnessed in recent European declarations of recognition for the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine.” Hollande told French media that he wants to host an international conference on the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” stressing that he…

A United Nations agency declared a state of “emergency” in Gaza City on Thursday, after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the Hamas terror enclave. “Hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes,” UNRWA said, referring to a northern district. While no casualties have been reported from the…

For the American holiday of Thanksgiving, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted IDF lone soldiers from America serving in the army without their family being in Israel, as a way of thanking their altruistic spirit seen in defending the Jewish nation. “The IDF has an unconventional secret weapon in the young women and men who…

Deputy Religions Minister MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) responded Thursday to an appeal by the widow of Ghassan Abu Jamal, one of the perpetrators of the Har Nof synagogue massacre, not to tear down her home and expel her from Israel. Referring to her three children, Nadia Abu Jamal told Channel 2 News: “As if it is…

Dozens of divorced and separated Israeli mothers have joined the sex trade in the southern city of Eilat, according to a report on Channel 2 News‘s website. The new trend can be seen as a byproduct of Israel’s growing divorce rate, which studies say has reached 40% in just the first ten years of marriage.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Druze community leaders Wednesday, where he expressed condolences over the deaths of two security officers in terror attacks on Jewish Israelis and he expressed solidarity with the Druze community. In attendance were Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif, Sheikh Hatem Halabi, Sheikh Mahmoud Seif, Sheikh Fandi Salah Assad and Druze Local Councils…

Arab High Court judge Salim Jubran said Wednesday that Israeli Arabs were victims of discrimination. Speaking before a group, Jubran said that “I could talk about equality and fairness for many hours, but instead I will quote the Declaration of Independence. You be the judge. The Declaration spoke about equality, but unfortunately we do not…

Israel has seen unprecedented rainfall in the past 24 hours, causing multiple traffic jams and accidents – but also providing a boon to agriculture.  45 mm (1.7 inches) of rain fell in Kedumim Wednesday, as well as 55mm (2.1 inches) in Jerusalem, 70 mm (2.7 inches) in Petah Tikva, 85 mm (3.3 inches) in Mevaseret, and…

An anonymous benefactor has put up at least 800,000 euros to help the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern house a massive collection of 1,000 artworks hoarded during the Nazi era.  The donation means preparations will start immediately for the arrival of the collection of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt, reported Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger on Wednesday. The patron, who requested…

Left-wing Knesset members disrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special address on the cost of living Wednesday night, which was convened following the collection of over 40 MKs’ signatures in support of a hearing on the issue.  During the hearing, Netanyahu addressed a number of core issues which threaten to disrupt the basic cohesion of the…

After daily newspaper Ha’aretz announced earlier this week it would be laying off workers, it was the turn of Yediot Aharonot, which said Wednesday that it would downsize by about 150 workers. Those to be laid off will be mostly in distribution, but the next round of layoffs will be in management, newspaper management said.…

The High Court on Wednesday kiboshed government plans to demolish the homes of terrorists. One of the few methods security forces in Israel have to discourage Arabs from joining the ranks of terrorists – demolishing the homes of those involved in terrorism – was taken off the table as the result of a lawsuit by…

New EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Wednesday to resume direct peace talks, as the European Parliament debated whether to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reports.  MEPs will hold a symbolic vote in December, following resolutions passed by the British and Spanish parliaments, and an official decision to recognize Palestine by the Swedish government. France’s National…

Although they are considered a summer fruit, grapes are likely to show up on Israeli store shelves this winter – and are likely to cost less than they have in the past. The new batch of cheaper grapes comes courtesy of Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who on Wednesday signed an order slashing the import duty…

The US’s drone strike campaign in the Middle East has killed an unprecedented number of civilians, new data on the strikes reveals Wednesday. Terrorists only comprise 3.5% of the people who have died from “targeted killings,” the data, from human rights group Reprieve, reveals. Out of 1,147 people killed in targeted airstrikes, just 41 were…

Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that he supports any Israeli Knesset Members who oppose the controversial Jewish State Law, reports The Associated Press (AP). Speaking in the South African capital, Pretoria, where he met South African president Jacob Zuma, Abbas said it is important that Israel consider what the proposed law may mean for the…

The UN’s atomic agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Wednesday it will need more funds from member states to help pay for its monitoring of an extended interim nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, according to Reuters. Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China, and Russia failed to meet…

South Tel Aviv housing activist Mai Golan, who heads the “Hebrew City” non-profit organization that tries to help Jewish residents of the largely African neighborhood, was assaulted by two Africans Wednesday night. In a Facebook posting, Golan wrote about how she was nearly abducted and verbally abused by two Eritreans. She said she had been…

A spokesman for the Israel Police clarified on Wednesday evening that Commissioner Yohanan Danino, when criticizing MKs who visit the Temple Mount, did not direct his comments at all the MKs. At the same time, the spokesman reiterated that Danino did not intend to back down from his remarks. “Anyone reading the full text of…

A trove of prosecution documents from the 1961 trial of Nazi leader and Holocaust mastermind, Adolf Eichmann, will be auctioned off in Jerusalem by the Kedem Auction House next Tuesday.  The sellers have estimated the papers could bring in more than $20,000.  Eichman, responsible for managing the deportations and eventual genocide of European Jewry, escaped…

Israel wants NATO to take steps against Turkey for allowing genocidal terror group Hamas to set up its headquarters in Istanbul. Yisrael Hayom reported Wednesday that Israel sent NATO official messages through several channels, in which it stated that it is unacceptable for a NATO member state to have ties with a terror group. Senior…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is actively torpedoing the so-called Zoabi Bill, which would make it possible to dismiss rogue MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from the Knesset. Livni filed a an appeal against the fact that the decision to bring the bill to a Knesset vote was made by the Coalition Management and not in the…

Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) is advancing a new bill to declare the groups of Muslim extremists coordinating unrest on the Temple Mount in order to block Jewish visits as illegal gatherings. The new bill was revealed on Wednesday by Haaretz, and targets the organized gatherings of Muslim men and women in recent years on…

Chairman of the House Parliamentary Committee, MK Yariv Levin (Likud) has spearheaded a multi-step program to respond to the wave of terrorism in Israel in recent weeks, Yedioth Aharanoth has reported.   The proposal, presented Wednesday in the form of temporary legislation, will include 8 measures to deal directly with terrorists, their families, collaborators, and agitators.   The…

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) on Wednesday called on singer Kobi Oz to boycott an event at the President’s Residence, after President Reuven Rivlin decided to disinvite singer Amir Benayoun over a song critical of Arab Israeli terrorists. Urging Oz not to take part in a ceremony of “silencing,” Ben-Dahan said “don’t…

Mifal Hapayis, Israel’s official state lottery, has announced that it is awarding this year’s Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences in the poetry category to Yitzhak Laor, a radical leftist poet. In a poem called “Anthem to the ‘Gush,’” Laor once infamously wrote of the “knitted kippah” religious Zionists: And our holiday of freedom, this…

In a dramatic turn of events Petah Tikva’s Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning lifted a gag order over the murder of Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami – revealing that his murder was indeed an Arab terrorist attack. Arami’s family have  long insisted that his death was an act of murder by one or more of…

British Prime Minister David Cameron fired back at critics of Israel’s “Jewish State Law” in parliament Wednesday, noting that Israel is one of the only countries in the Middle East which actually grants equal rights to all its citizens. Cameron was responding to a statement during Prime Minister’s Questions by notoriously anti-Israel Labor MP Gerald…

Meir Harel Yeshiva in Modi’in, a hesder track yeshiva that combines Torah study with IDF service, has worked for years to encourage IDF enlistment among yeshiva students abroad. The Yeshiva accompanies lone soldiers from foreign yeshivas serving without any family in Israel, and as part of the program, Meir Harel Yeshiva dean Rabbi Eliezer Shenvald and…

The radical leftist group New Israel Fund (NIF) announced earlier this month that its partnership with Taglit-Birthright Israel, Birthright Israel NEXT and Young Judea in which it guided trips to Israel for young American Jews has been cancelled. NIF announced the development in a letter penned by the group’s director in the New York Tri-State…

An Israeli tourist visiting Berlin was attacked on the street Sunday evening. He suffered a black eye, bruises, and fractured fingers.  The man, 22, was beaten and kicked, by four apparently Muslim men, upon leaving a a Chabad house in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf neighborhood. Reports indicated that the assailants were four men who spoke German with an…

A sharp debate broke out Wednesday at a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, as Committee chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) said that he would attempt to block funding for the Cinematek in Tel Aviv – because it plans to show a series of anti-Israel films. “The time has come to put an end…

The Jordanian Waqf continues to build illegally on the Temple Mount, photos leaked to Arutz Sheva revealed Wednesday.  The photos, which were taken by a visitor to the Mount, show what appears to be new construction, under a tarp, in the northeast corner of the Mount.  To clarify whether the Waqf has the license to build on…

According to forecasters, Israel is currently experiencing its biggest winter storm in 20 years, and there were numerous casualties, both human and otherwise, due to the wild weather in Israel Wednesday. Three brothers, ages 7, 9, and 11, got stuck in a deep puddle of mud and water in Hod Hasharon when they got swept…

India on Wednesday marked six years since Islamist terrorists stormed Mumbai in three days of horror that left 166 people dead, as survivors said they would never be “beaten back by terror”.   Families of victims and politicians laid flowers and wreaths at sites around the city to remember those slain in 2008 when Islamist…

As reported by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s own website and Fars news, at a conference in Tehran on Monday, Khamenei accused ISIS, all other Sunnis, and Sunni governments which battle any pro-Iranian Arab regimes and Shia militias of diverting Muslims away from fighting Israel. “The forefront of Muslims’ struggle in the region was…

Israel building in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria is “undermining” prospects for a two state solution, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday as he welcomed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on a state visit. “We reiterate our call for the total cessation of all settlement activities,” Zuma told a joint news conference with Abbas. South Africa was ready…

A British Islamist preacher has been recorded justifying beheadings of non-Muslim captives by the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) organization – and even suggests that all able-bodied non-Muslim men are legitimate targets for murder. In a video obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Minazur Rahman relates to the recent beheading of British aid…

It was announced on Wednesday that the quota for Arab construction workers allowed to work in sovereign Israeli territory is being raised with 8,000 additional workers – and for the first time in a long time, Arab workers from the Hamas-stronghold of Gaza will also be allowed in. Currently 86,000 workers are employed in Israel’s…

Despite warnings that the brutal terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) is targeting Pope Francis for assassination, the pope on Tuesday came out in favor of “dialogue” with the group that has committed countless atrocities while conquering large parts of Syria and Iraq. Such dialogue is “almost impossible,” conceded the pope, although he said “I never…

An investigation of the stabbing of two Jews aged 32 and 45 on Monday night in Jerusalem’s Old City has revealed that the incident was indeed a terrorist attack, and not “a fight between two parties” as police initially claimed. The two Jews, who study at the Shuvu Banim Yeshiva in the Old City, were attacked by…

The Israeli High Court is “the biggest problem” facing the State of Israel, according to Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Yisrael Aumann. Speaking at an event entitled “A State Ruled by the High Court: The High Court’s Indictment Against Israeli Democracy,” chaired by grassroots Zionist group Im Tirzu, Aumann claimed that the High Court’s activism in…

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After disinviting popular singer Amir Benayoun from an event over a song critical of Arab Israeli terrorists, President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday disparaged the “Jewish State Law” at the Annual Conference of the State Prosecutor in Eilat. The conference, entitled “To be a minority in our country,” featured talks by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua),…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s official PA TV has reached a new low, presenting four Arab terrorists who were killed during or after their lethal attacks on Israeli citizens as victims of “Israeli attacks,” and whitewashing the terrorist context of their deaths. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Tuesday revealed a broadcast from last Tuesday presenting…

What do baseball and God have to do with each other? Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will and New York University (NYU) President John Sexton intend to probe that very question in their conversation “Baseball, Traditional and God” next month. The talk, hosted at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, will take place…

One of the potential candidates to replace Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary of the United States pulled out of the race. Michèle Flournoy confirmed to the Politico website on Tuesday that has taken herself out of the running. Flournoy, who was undersecretary of defense for policy from 2009-2012 and now runs the Center for a…

Lutfu Turkkan, a Turkish MP for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), introduced on Monday a bill to Turkey’s parliament which proposes recognizing Israel as “a terrorist state.” The Turkish deputy began his speech to parliament by referring to the nine Turkish Islamists killed while attacking IDF soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara, the ship which was…

Parents groups are up in arms after a recent report found public schools in Newton, Massachusetts presented whitewashed versions of Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) charters, as well as other materials posing the destruction of Israel as acceptable. The findings were made through an investigation of classroom materials by the independent watchdog group Verity Educate, which…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the Hatnua party, welcomed on Tuesday evening President Reuven Rivlin’s criticism of the controversial Jewish State Law. Rivlin, who spoke at a conference earlier Tuesday, said, “The State of Israel is the national state of the Jewish people. A small, abhorred minority, undermine this fact, both from within our…

MK Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer (Labor) will resign from the Knesset and retire from public life soon, the Maariv Hashavua newspaper reported on Tuesday. “Ben-Eliezer has been serving the State of Israel more than 60 years, 30 years of which were in senior positions in the army as a fighter and commander all the way to…

The Jewish Home members forum in Judea and Samaria met Monday, where frustrated members of the key coalition member called on the party to follow through on its stated pledges to Jewish construction in the region and stop the ongoing building freeze. Jewish Home has proven itself unable to stop the covert freeze bringing Jewish…

A proposal by MK Miri Regev (Likud) to require all ministers to attend the funerals of security force members killed in terror attacks is being challenged be an unlikely source Tuesday – the Terror Victims’ Association (TVA).  TVA has demanded that the motion be expanded to include all terror victims’ funerals, and not to differentiate…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, along with Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, intends to bring a bill that will revoke the rights of those involved in terrorism to a vote in the next cabinet meeting. The proposal, the wording of which has already been completed and handed over to the Attorney General for a legal opinion, would…

The US should mind its own affairs, Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett stated Tuesday – especially regarding the proposed “Jewish State” law to concretize Jewish values in Israel’s legal system. “I say to the Americans that the affairs of the State of Israel – we will manage [ourselves],” Bennett stated, speaking on…

Minister for Senior Citizens MK Uri Orbach (Jewish Home) defended MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) on Tuesday, after Feiglin forcibly removed MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) and MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) from the Knesset podium for labelling Feiglin a “fascist” and threatening him. According to Orbach, an MK who calls another MK a “fascist” and threatens to…

The growing chorus of calls for Israel to crush Hamas in Gaza before they begin another war has gained a new voice Tuesday – this time, from the son of a major Hamas leader. Mosab Yousef, the son of Hamas leader in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Sheikh Hassan Yousef known for working for the Israel…

South African retailer Woolworths on Tuesday secured a court order banning anti-Israeli activists from protesting in its shops against goods from the Jewish state. The high-end supermarket took the case to a court after a series of protests by extremist activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, who broke into stores brandishing placards and chanting…

Leading Israeli singer Amir Benayoun on Tuesday afternoon responded to the decision of President Reuven Rivlin’s office to cancel a performance by him at a state event next week, over a new song by Benayoun that is critical of Arab extremists in Israel. “On the matter of the announcement published by the President’s Residence, which…

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced it has extended sanctions relief for Iran until next June 30, after nuclear talks were extended from their deadline this Monday to next July 1 – and as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei crowed that the EU and US had failed to stop his country from achieving nuclear power.…

Turkey’s Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday stirred up more controversy when he said women cannot be treated as equal to men. “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” he told a women’s conference in Istanbul, according to the BBC. “It is against nature.” Erdogan also said feminists did not grasp…

MK Amir Peretz (Hatnua) has submitted a bill to return the direct elections system for Knesset elections Tuesday, saying that he was “afraid” of seeing Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) assume the role of Prime Minister in the event Jewish Home gains a majority during the next elections.  “I don’t see Bennett having a…

The family of the late Netanel Roey Arami, hy”d, the construction worker who was the victim of a suspected terror attack after he fell – or was pushed – from the eleventh floor of a Petah Tikva construction site, is campaigning Tuesday for the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court to publish details of the death. Police…

Twenty-eight trucks of cement entered Gaza Tuesday, Hamas officials told AFP, in the second shipment of construction materials for the “private sector” since Operation Protective Edge this summer.  Raed Fatuh, the Palestinian Authority (PA) official in charge of the entry of goods into Gaza from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing, said 28 trucks, each carrying 40 tonnes of cement,…

Terrorist attacks continue to plague northern Nigeria – last Wednesday 45 people were murdered in a suspected Boko Haram attack, and on Tuesday another attack consisting of double female suicide bombers has claimed the lives of at least 30 more. The attacks occurred in a crowded marketplace in Maiduguri, a city in the northeast of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shot back at critics of the “Jewish State Law” during a meeting with his Czech counterpart Bohuslav Sobotka, during a high-level visit to promote ties between Israel and the Czech Republic. Recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is a basic requirement of any peace deal as far…

President Reuven Rivlin (Likud)’s office has cancelled the scheduled appearance of popular singer Amir Benayoun at a state event next week, following controversy over the singer’s latest song. Benayoun had been scheduled to sing at an event marking the expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands and Iran for next Sunday, November 30.  However, on Tuesday, the Director…

A new bill could finally see MKs linked with terrorism banned from the Knesset, Channel 10 reports Monday – in a bill being dubbed “Zoabi’s Law.”  According to the proposal, submitted by MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu), MKs would gain the power to request the dismissal of another MK based on allegations of involvement with terror groups or…

The left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz is preparing for another round of layoffs before the end of 2014. Publisher Amos Schoken sent a letter Monday to all employees offering voluntary retirement before the layoffs begin.  Schoken wrote, “This is a step that we are taking out of significant economic necessity. Our aim is to ensure that the newspaper can support itself from its…

Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) has retracted his decision to ascend the Temple Mount Monday night, in deference to the severity of the security situation in Jerusalem.  Last week, Ariel’s office appealed to the VIP security unit of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) to request a security detail for the Housing…

A 45 year-old man is in moderate to severe condition Monday night, after being stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Paramedics and Magen David Adom paramedics have provided medical care to the man in the Old City police station, where he reported the event shortly after it unfolded.  Another Jew, estimated to be in…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians on Monday to “step back from the brink” and return to peace talks for a “two-state solution.” “The Israeli and Palestinian people face a shared fate on shared land. There is no erasing the other,” Ban told a UN committee on “Palestinian rights.” He called “on…

An Arab man driving a stolen car ran over a policeman in Kikar Adam near Binyamin before fleeing the scene, security forces said Monday night. The officer sustained minor injuries in the suspected attack.  An initial investigation shows that Border Patrol officers from Binyamin stopped the vehicle for inspection in the square. In the middle…

Recriminations abound in the Knesset Monday, as MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) removed MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) from the stand after Barakeh threatened to “choke” him.   MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) then joined in on the unrest, being forcibly removed by security from the platform after he called Feiglin a “fascist.” Both moves sparked loud cries…

Wellesley College, a private all-girls institution in suburban Boston, has eliminated the posts of Hillel director and Jewish chaplain, Haaretz reported.  The two part-time positions were removed last week after Wellesley announced its intentions to restructure the Hillel. They plan to hire a full-time rabbi to serve as Jewish chaplain. In the meantime, an interim Hillel director…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed news of the extension of Iranian nuclear talks Monday, in remarks made at the opening of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset.  “We are anxiously monitoring the nuclear talks with Iran. We are also using our contacts and expressing our views, directly as well, in the international media, in…

Gaza’s Hamas-run agriculture ministry threatened on Monday to stop importing Israeli fruit to the Palestinian territory in response to what it said was vegetable exports being blocked, AFP reports. “If Israel doesn’t reverse its decision to halt the export of Palestinian agricultural produce… we will ban the entry of fruit” from Israel, a ministry statement said. It said Israel on Sunday refused to let through…

A Turkish regional governor was accused Monday of inciting hatred towards the country’s Jewish community, after suggesting a synagogue be turned into a museum as a reprisal for Israel’s policies over the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Dursun Ali Sahin, governor of the northwestern province of Edirne, sparked an outcry when he said Friday that the…

In response to the tragic terror attacks that have occurred in Israel in recent weeks, the student leadership of Yeshiva University organized a rally in solidarity with Israel in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday, November 23. The rally, which was open to all denominations and faith groups, created a peaceful space for communal…

MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), one of the authors of the controversial Jewish State Law, said on Monday that the Likud is not interested in elections at the present time, but also made clear that his party was not elected in order to carry out the agenda of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. “You cannot run a…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Monday hit out at European governments for “failing us again,” singling out Sweden’s “historic mistake” of recognizing the “state of Palestine”. European parliaments voting to recognize Palestine are “giving the Palestinians exactly what they want — statehood without peace,” Prosor told the UN General Assembly. “By…

Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, on Monday welcomed the extension of talks between his country and six world powers, and hailed it as “victorious” for Iranians. “We have neither compromised over Iran’s nuclear rights, nor will ever do so, and there is no doubt that the Iranian nuclear technology will remain functioning,” he said, according to…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted on Monday that the “momentum” of countries recognizing the “state of Palestine” will grow. Ban, who spoke before a UN committee on Palestinian rights, urged Israel and the Palestinian Authority to “step back from the brink” and return to peace talks. “The Israeli and Palestinian people face a shared…

The controversial Jewish State Law on Monday elicited a response from Washington. Jeff Rathke, a spokesman for the State Department, did not condemn or denounce the law, but did say that “Israel is a Jewish and democratic state and all its citizens should enjoy equal rights. We expect Israel to stick to its democratic principles.”…

During a Labor Party faction meeting Monday afternoon, Opposition Leader, Yitzhak Herzog issued strong criticism against the conduct of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and called on several ministers to abandon the coalition.  Herzog pointed specifically toward Minister of Finance Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) as those who should leave…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed by BBC on Monday where he addressed the nuclear deal Western powers are trying to arrive at with Iran – and the failure to reach a deal by the latest deadline.  Netanyahu has long been opposed to such a deal, calling the Islamic regime and the possibility of them acquiring a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Esther Pollard, the wife of longtime US prisoner Jonathan Pollard, on Monday – promising her to secure his release after receiving updates on his condition.  “We are constantly working for the release of Jonathan and will not slacken our efforts to return him home,” Netanyahu said. Jonathan Pollard has…

The Shaked Committee, headed by MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), met Monday morning to track the results of its controversial Enlistment Law, which was passed in mid-March, and found that the law has had the exact opposite of its intended effect. It was revealed in the discussion that of the 1,500 hareidi IDF recruits set as a goal for…

A Swiss museum said Monday it would accept a German recluse’s bequest of a spectacular trove of more than 1,000 artworks hoarded during the Nazi era. The decision, announced at a press conference in Berlin, covers priceless paintings and sketches by Picasso, Monet, Chagall and other masters that were discovered by chance in 2012 in the Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt.…

Talks between Iran and Western powers regarding a comprehensive nuclear deal have been extended by seven months, a diplomat told the Associated Press on Monday – just as the original November 24 deadline approached.  According to the diplomat, who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity, the deal must be settled by March 1. A fully-fleshed out and detailed…

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist organization behind the Palestinian Authority (PA) revealed on Monday that it has once again postponed submitting a resolution to the UN Security Council, which demands an end date to “Israel’s occupation.” PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency that the decision was made to buy time…

The Coalition Management decided Monday to postpone by a week the Knesset plenum vote on two versions of the Jewish State bill, one of which was proposed by MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), and the other by MKs Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu). The decision to defer the vote was reached after…

After extending a July 20 deadline, it looks like talks between world nations and Iran over the Islamic regime’s nuclear program will be extended yet again on Monday, as the November 24 deadline is set to come and go. According to a source close to the talks who spoke with Reuters, the talks are likely to…

The office of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a clarification Sunday evening about his statement to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Egypt would be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state. “Regarding the statement about the possibility of sending troops from Egypt and the Arab countries to secure a future…

A British-Iranian woman who was detained after attempting to watch a men’s volleyball match in Iran, has been freed on bail, her family said Sunday, according to the BBC. The woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, was freed because of health problems and was staying with her parents in Tehran awaiting a decision by the Court of Appeal,…

Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off, Reuters reports. Official results were yet to be announced, but shortly after polls closed, the parties of two front-runners said initial tallies showed they had passed to a second round run-off next month. Beji Caid Essebsi’s…

As the deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran draws near, the president of the United States admitted on Sunday that “significant” gaps remain between the Islamic Republic and the West. “The good news is that the interim deal that we entered into has definitely stopped Iran’s nuclear program from advancing. …. So it’s been…

Over two years after the discovery of missing masterpieces looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners, German officials and a Swiss museum are expected to confirm on Monday that the paintings will go to Switzerland, according to Reuters. The Bern Art Museum discovered in May it had been named sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt,…

Likud Central Committee Chairman MK Danny Danon is advancing a new bill to prevent Israel from returning the bodies of dead terrorists to their families and the Palestinian Authority (PA), in an attempt to deter terrorism and prevent the glorification of terrorists at their funerals. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Danon explained “we saw what happened recently…

The United States suggested to Iran on Sunday that it consider extending nuclear talks, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Iran and six world powers are holding talks in Vienna in an attempt to reach a lasting agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program before a deadline on Monday, but little progress has been made. A senior…

Channel 10 News reported on Sunday that the police will summon former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for questioning over remarks he made in a recorded conversation, in which he accused former Defense Minister Ehud Barak of “taking millions in bribes”. The recording in question was made by Olmert’s former close aide, Shula Zaken, and was…

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, declared on Sunday night that his party will vote against the Jewish State Bill when it comes to a vote in the Knesset. “Yesh Atid and I are not against the Jewish State Law but do not support it in the form in which it…

Tensions over a possible nuclear deal between Iran and world powers were on display on Sunday outside an atomic facility in Tehran, where a rare protest saw hardliners criticize government negotiators. According to a report by the AFP news agency, about 200 people, mostly students, gathered at the entrance to the Tehran Research Reactor to…

Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) told Arutz Sheva he is looking for legislative and parliamentary means to block the transfer of funds from Israel to the Palestinian Authority (PA). “We must recognize there’s a crazy absurdness here that I don’t understand,” Slomiansky said. “A terrorist who murdered and attacked and goes into jail has…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition is hurtling toward a crash that could spell its end on Wednesday, as Netanyahu prepares to bring the Jewish State law to a Knesset vote. At Netanyahu’s insistence, the government decided Sunday that all coalition MKs – including ministers – will be bound by coalition discipline in the vote, and…

The estate of Guma Aguiar, the Jewish philanthropist who disappeared off Fort Lauderdale in June, 2012, has been divided among his heirs by a Florida court, reports Yediot Aharonot. The court approved a compromise agreed upon by Aguiar’s wife, Jamie, and his mother, Ellen, along with his sisters Adriana and Angelika. The sides had been…

A Venezuelan member of parliament recently claimed that while Hitler had killed Jews during World War II, he did not kill any “Zionist Jews”. In an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, Venezuelan MP Adel Al-Sughayar said that Hitler’s main financiers had been the Zionists, and especially the Bush family. “Hitler killed those Jews who belonged…

The convoy for Palestinian Authority (PA) “Prime Minister” Rami Hamdallah was pulled over for a traffic violation Sunday, in the second such incident on Route 60 by the convoy in a one-year period. The convoy allegedly drove on the lane divider on Route 60 for a continuous period between Eli and Shiloh – a dangerous…

Palestinian media reported Sunday that a suspected revenge attack committed by “settlers” took place in the Ramallah area. According to residents of Khirbet Abu Falah, Jewish extremists set fire to a private residence. The building sustained heavy damage in the attack, but no one was injured. It is believed to have been conducted in revenge…

A political storm has erupted in Turkey over yet another anti-Semitic comment issued by a high-profile politician. On Friday, the governor of the city of Edirne announced that a synagogue being renovated in the city would be turned into a museum in revenge for Israel’s actions during Arab riots at the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s…

Despite rising anti-Semitism in Europe, and France in particular, Jews still have some friends, especially French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve who announced his love for French Jewry.  Cazeneuve’s remarks were made Wednesday during a speech at a gala in the Paris Marriott Hotel organized by the French Jewish Radio J station.  “I feel more close…

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) has officially cancelled the permanent residency status of a Palestinian terrorist Sunday morning, negating the rights of Mahmoud Nadi, the driver for the suicide bomber responsible for the bombing at the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv in June 2001. That attack killed 21 people and wounded over 100 others. Nadi…

Despite sharp criticism from several Knesset members and the Prime Minister himself, residents of Ashkelon are defending Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily remove Arab constructions workers from building in kindergartens.  Shai Rubin, a public activist and a father to children attending the kindergartens in questions, told Arutz Sheva, that parents’ demand from the mayor was unequivocal.  “We…

As the deadline to an agreement about Iran’s nuclear program approaches, Iran claims the failed negotiations and wide gaps between the two sides is the fault of “pressure from the Zionists.”  Iranian Army Chief of Staff, Hassan Firuzabadi said Saturday night, that even before talks began in Geneva, Switzerland, an agreement was thwarted – by Israel…

Dr. Nabil Shaath, commissioner of international relations for Fatah, denied reports Sunday morning that the Palestinian Authority is rejecting the request to the United Nations regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state.  The Palestinian news website Donia Al-Watan reported Shaath’s comments, including that the Palestinian Authority will appeal to the UN by the end of the week, Israel’s Channel…

The Har Nof massacre has set a precedent for attacks on Jerusalem synagogues, a resident of the neighborhood of Nof Tzion told Arutz Sheva on Sunday – and now their local synagogue is being targeted.  “As the terrible massacre in Har Nof was being carried out, at the same time, dozens of young men threw rocks at…

Coalition Chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), one of the authors of the Jewish State bill, praised the government for voting in favor of it Sunday and thanked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for supporting it. The bill will be brought before the Knesset for a preliminary vote Wednesday. “No maneuvering will prevent this, nor will attempts…

The Arab League will hold an “extraordinary” meeting next week to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the presence Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, an official said Sunday. The meeting on November 29 comes as Jerusalem as been roiled by months of unrest, which has spread across Judea and Samaria. Four rabbis and a policeman were…

Rabbi Shmuel Goldstein, one of several people seriously wounded in last week’s horrific attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem, has described his “miraculous” survival to journalists for the first time. Speaking with some difficulty from a wheelchair at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem where he is being treated for his wounds, Rabbi Goldstein…

A four year-old Jewish boy was attacked by an anti-Semitic thug in New Zealand – the latest such incident in a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. The boy, who was walking home from preschool with a friend and his brother, were approached by a man “of Middle Eastern appearance”, said to be in his…

A day before the self-imposed deadline for the talks on Iran’s nuclear program, a source close to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna dismissed western media reports about attainment of a comprehensive agreement with the P5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany). “Consultations are still underway and no agreement has been achieved…

Students of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the head of the “Shuvu Yisrael” sect who is in the center of a number of bribery and corruption allegations, have pledged to march against the legal proceedings against their Rabbi on Tuesday, students told Arutz Sheva exclusively on Sunday.  The demonstrators say they will protest against the court accepting Pinto’s plea…

Graffiti in Arabic supporting the Islamic State terrorist group was found Saturday on a memorial monument dedicated to Druze IDF soldiers killed in Israeli wars.  The monument is located along the Carmel Scenic Route, to the east of the entrance to Druze town Daliyat al-Karmel, near Haifa. Pro-Islamist graffiti was also found on a walking path…

The outpouring of sympathy and support for the family of Druze police officer Zidan Seif, who was killed as he rushed to defend a synagogue from Palestinian terrorists, continued Sunday with a condolence call from hareidi MK Meir Porush (UTJ). Seif was among five people murdered in last Tuesday’s horrific attack at the Kehillat Bnei…

European Parliament Member Bastiaan Belder of the Netherlands has urged the parliament to hold a debate on anti-Semitism. “It’s a shame that this has not been done before,” he said. Belder made his latest comments in an address at the annual conference of the European Coalition for Israel (ECI), a Christian initiative promoting European-Israeli cooperation.…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published Sunday that he is be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state to help stabilize it, but only in agreement with Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to AFP. Sisi, who begins his first European trip on Monday, made the comments in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He…

On Sunday, the Cabinet approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver’s plan to ease the absorption of new immigrants into the labor market in various professions. The move was led by Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Ministry Director General Oded Forer, with the assistance of the Prime Minister’s Office director General…

Sunday’s Cabinet meeting has devolved into petty arguments between Ministers, Arutz Sheva has learned, ahead of a monumental vote on the “Jewish State” bill to concretize Israel’s national identity.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) apparently began the row, noting that he had to compromise on the principles of the law after a veto from Justice Minister…

The Jewish State bill has passed a crucial cabinet vote this afternoon, with 15 votes for and 6 against. The debate saw right-wing proponents of the bill face-off against mostly left-wing opponents in what was at times an angry exchange. During the debate, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had strong words for Justice Minister Tzipi Livni,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned France’s parliament Sunday against recognizing a Palestinian state in a vote on December 2. “Do they have nothing better to do at a time of beheadings across the Middle East, including that of a French citizen?” he asked reporters in Jerusalem, referring to hiker Herve Gourdel who was executed by…

A Fatah MP has explained that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ condemnation of the massacre of five Jews in a Jerusalem synagogue was uttered for diplomatic purposes, reported Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Sunday. The MP explained to Quds Net News Agency that Abbas’ movement Fatah “justified the statements of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, who…

Magen David Adom emergency services announced that it is scaling back its activities in Judea and Samaria and northern Israel because of budgetary difficulties – despite the fact that Israel is in the midst of a wave of Arab terror. Avi Naim, head of the Beit Aryeh council and Chairman of the Security Committee in…

In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview, David Kupinsky, whose brother Aryeh was among the five Jews slain at the Har Nof synagogue last week, remembers his older sibling – and the qualities that came to bear as he struggled with the murderers, saving others’ lives. Kupinsky was born and raised in the metropolitan Detroit area,…

An Iranian official has said reaching a deal with the West over its nuclear program by tomorrow is ‘impossible,’ reported the Daily Mail Sunday. The official said the discussion “may soon have to shift from trying to reach an agreement to extending negotiations past tomorrow’s deadline for the end of this round of negotiations,” the…

Thousands of Rabbis from across the world gathered in Brooklyn, New York Sunday, for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, or Kinus Hashluchim. Nearly 5,000 rabbis attended the annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice around the world. Among those in attendance are a close-knit group of friends who meet up each year…

Hamza Magamsa, an Israeli Arab from the village of Yafi’ in northern Israel, was arrested last month at Ben Gurion airport as he returned from a 10-day training stint with ISIS in Syria. The story was under a gag order until now. Magamsa, who is 22, admitted under ISA (Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet)…

A bomb went off near a train station in southern Egypt Saturday night, as police found three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks in the region, the government said, according to AFP. A charred body was found near the railway station in Wasta, a town in the province of Beni Suef, the interior ministry…

Tehran is ready to allow nuclear inspectors access to its Marivan military site, an Iranian official said Saturday, according to AFP. Marivan is a facility long suspected of being used to develop explosive weapons. The declaration comes as Iran and six world powers hold talks in Vienna to reach a lasting agreement on Tehran’s disputed…

Fitch has downgraded the outlook for Israel’s sovereign long-term foreign currency issuer default rating from Positive to Stable, but the Finance Ministry isn’t concerned, according to the Globes financial newspaper. In its announcement of the change, which came on Friday, Fitch said the change in outlook was because of the expected wider fiscal deficit in…

Michal Levine’s father, Rabbi Kalman Levine hy”d, was brutally murdered along with three other Jews at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood last Tuesday by two Arab terrorists armed with hatchets, knives and guns, who went on to murder a Druze police officer as well. Levine spoke to Arutz Sheva about her father in front of…

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night that it is time for Israel to stop blaming itself for terrorist attacks and start fighting terror. Speaking to Channel 2’s “Meet the Press” program, Bennett said that terrorists’ homes must be destroyed the same day they carry out a terror attack. “Today, those terrorists who…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will on Sunday bring the controversial Jewish State Law to a vote in the Cabinet, as he announced he would do last week, despite continuing objections to it from both Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Speaking on Saturday night, Netanyahu said the law “is essential in order to establish…

The Jerusalem District Attorney on Sunday morning will submit an indictment to the city’s district court against the Border Patrol officer who was arrested on suspicions of killing an Arab rioter during Nakba Day riots in May. The officer has denied the charges, which appear to have been made on the basis of a Palestinian…

Jewish yeshiva students are fuming after police defined a pre-planned Arab attack on them at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives Friday night as an “altercation” or “mutual provocation” in an announcement to the media. One of the Jewish youths who was attacked is hospitalized at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in the capital with light to moderate wounds,…

Somali terrorists of the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab organization murdered 28 people in an attack on a bus in Kenya’s northeastern Mandera county on Saturday – before shooting their victims in the head they separated out the Muslims. Around ten heavily-armed terrorists stopped the bus bound for Nairobi not far from the Somali border, forced passengers off,…

Salah, Hassan, Riyad and Ahmed of Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood – just a handful of the many Arab children aged eight to 13 who, instead of going to school and learning, mask their faces and assault police officers with potentially lethal rocks every single day. Yedioth Aharonoth interviewed Jerusalem’s youngest Arab terrorists last week, providing a unique…

Following discussions last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night is expected to propose a bill negating permanent residency status and social benefits from Arab residents of Jerusalem conducting riots and terrorist attacks. “It cannot be that those who act in terror against the state of Israel enjoy rights such as national insurance,” said…

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) announced Saturday that he would be looking into the possibility of revoking the residency permits of Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem participating in the ongoing deadly violence in the capital. “I have ordered a review and recommendations… in order to expand my powers as Interior Minister to revoke the permanent residency…

While last week US Secretary of State John Kerry was jetting to Vienna to continue negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, the United States House of Representatives, in a rare bi-partisan vote, unanimously passed legislation condemning Iran’s “gross human rights violations.” This was passed almost simultaneously with the sending of a letter signed by…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday delivered a fiery speech in Ramallah, in which he reiterated his plan to ask the UN to set a deadline for Israel to “end the occupation”. At the same time, Abbas said he was against violence and condemned recent terrorist attacks against Israelis. “We are being shut…

Two Jewish men were wounded in eastern Jerusalem on Friday evening when they were stabbed by Arabs during what police believe was a fight that escalated. The two men, aged 24 and 21, were making their way towards the Beit Orot yeshiva on the Mount of Olives when they were attacked by Arabs. A Magen…

Yemen’s culture minister, who was recently honored for her work combating extremism and discrimination against women, says she is giving her award to Yemen’s dwindling Jewish population, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. Arwa Othman won Human Rights Watch’s Alison Des Forges Award in September. At a Thursday celebration in Sanaa, Othman called for…

Jordan’s Prime Minister, Abdullah Nsur, on Friday sent a letter of condolences to the families of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who murdered five people in a synagogue in Jerusalem this week. “I ask that Allah surround them with mercy, and give you all patience, solace and recovery from your grief,”…

An English football (soccer) club and anti-Semitism have been linked yet again Thursday, after Wigan F.C. head Dave Whelan was forced to apologize for making offensive comments against Jews. “The Jews don’t like losing money,” Whelan stated in an interview with the British Guardian. “Nobody likes losing money.” “Do you think Jewish people chase money…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) took part on Thursday in a conference of the Council for Peace and Security, in which she blamed the Jewish presence in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria for “heating up the atmosphere” in the recent wave of terrorism. “Our role as cabinet members is to rise above the…

Hamas is attempting to stir up tensions in Judea and Samaria on Friday, specifically near the Qalandia checkpoint in Jerusalem’s north and in Hevron.  News of a potential “day of rage” in the making surfaces after the Israel police announced that no restrictions would be levied on Muslims entering the Temple Mount on Friday, the…

Israeli security forces busted a major Hamas terror cell aimed specifically at carrying out terror attacks in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, Palestinian Arab sources said Friday.  The terror cell is closely related to the crackdown by the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and police over the summer, which saw 93 Hamas terrorists arrested…

In the wake of the horrific terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue this Tuesday, the rabbi of the Jewish community in Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, has received deaths threats to burn down his synagogue – with him inside of it. Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli made aliyah (immigration) to Israel at the age…

German anti-Semitism and resentment towards Israel have risen sharply in recent months, a new survey has found. More than one in four respondents in the new poll equated the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War Two, Reuters reported on Thursday. The bi-annual survey on xenophobia in Germany…

Ambassadors from five major European Union (EU) member states met with the Foreign Ministry’s senior diplomat Alon Ushpiz in Jerusalem on Thursday, where they voiced opposition to the demolition of the homes of Arab terrorists. Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Spain were the five countries whose consul generals argued that such demolitions, which are meant…

A woman was arrested for carrying a gun outside the White House on Thursday night, the Secret Service revealed Friday, and has since refused to cooperate with police.  April Lenhart, 23, from Mount Morris, Michigan, was taking part in a protest along the north fence Thursday night as US President Barack Obama was completing a…

Anonymous vandals on Friday threw acid on the car of Sheikh Samir Assi who serves as the Imam of Akko, a mixed Jewish and Arab city located near Haifa. After the horrific terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood this Tuesday – in which two Arab terrorists murdered four Jews at prayer…

In a scathing two-page letter by 43 Republican senators to US President Barack Obama dated this Wednesdasy, the senators, led by Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio, warned that they were “alarmed” by reported plans to bypass Congress and reach a nuclear deal with Iran. The senators were alarmed at “reports that your administration plans to…

Yisrael Beytenu MK Alex Miller’s bill to blacklist the Islamic Movement in Israel will be reviewed by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, and if passed, would strike a major blow against Islamists blamed for the continued Arab rioting in Jerusalem and elsewhere.  The Islamic Movement’s northern branch, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, was…

Tuesday’s massacre at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof is not just the culmination of months of rioting, MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home) stated this week – but rather apathy to a culture of incitement in general.  “Incitement is very broad – not just from Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – ed.],” Struk…

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) welcomed the compromise agreement on the Jewish State Law Friday, in an interview with Arutz Sheva.  The compromise, proposed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, equates the democratic and Jewish qualities of the State instead of elevating the Jewish nature of Israel.  A portion of the draft reads: “The right to…

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri justified a foiled plan to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Friday, claiming that while he does not personally know of information regarding the plot, “all the leaders of the occupation are considered legitimate targets for resistance.”  “The leaders of the occupation, who are responsible for the killing…

A march that will be held on Sunday around the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City in a call for the building of the Third Temple is to be dedicated to Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who was shot by an Arab terrorist late last month. The march, highlighted by prayers and dancing, is held monthly…

Jerusalem Councilman and Israel Land Fund (ILF) founder and director Arieh King has been outspoken in fighting for Jewish rights to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem – apparently Arab terrorists have taken note, and are targeting him. ILF wrote on its official Facebook page on Wednesday that King “was informed yesterday by Israeli police that…

Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) on Thursday won a major decision in their landmark case against the Palestinian Authority (PA), achieving a court date in a $1 billion case exposing PA and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) culpability in numerous terror attacks. The Israeli-based civil rights organization sued the PA on behalf of 11 families for…

 A large prayer rally was held Thursday evening at the Kotel plaza in Jerusalem, following the latest surge in Muslim terrorism in the capital and other parts of Israel. The prayers were led by Jerusalem’s recently appointed chief city rabbis, Rabbi Aryeh Stern and Rabbi Shlomo Amar. Also attending was Deputy Minister for Religious Services…

In light of the decision to once again block the parole of Jonathan Pollard, who on Friday enters his 30th year of imprisonment in a US jail for charges of spying for Israel, senior US officials have written US President Barack Obama to denounce the injustice of the case. The letter was signed by eight…

The emergency rescue teams in the Dead Sea area are warning the public that floods are expected at week’s end in the stream beds leading to the Dead Sea – and they are also calling on people who wish to view the floods to do so carefully. Streams must not be crossed during a flood,…

If elections were held today, Likud would receive 20 MKs and the Jewish Home would receive 19 MKs, according to a poll held by Panels Politics for the Knesset Channel. Yesh Atid and Labor would receive 13 MKs, according to this poll. These numbers show Yesh Atid gaining strength relative to previous polls, and Labor losing…

As IDF sources on Thursday flip-flopped whether the Arab driver who left three IDF soldiers wounded in Judea’s Gush Etzion by hitting them with his van two weeks ago committed a terror attack, it was revealed that the driver is a Hamas terrorist – and that he admitted to conducting a premeditated terror attack in…

At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, AFP reported on Thursday. The attack happened in the village of Azaya Kura in the Mafa area of Borno state on Wednesday, the caretaker chairman of Mafa local government area, Shettima Lawan said, calling it “wicked and despicable”. Village chief…

An Iranian-Canadian blogger who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his writings has been pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reports The Associated Press (AP). The news of the pardon of Hossein Derakhshan, who helped ignite blogging in Iran, was first reported by Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. It said authorities…

Jordanian authorities on Thursday arrested the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in the kingdom, Zaki Bani Arshid, the Turkish Anadolu agency reported. According to the report, the reason for the arrest is statements made by Arshid against the United Arab Emirates. “The security agencies arrested Bani Arshid over his remarks against the United…

For the second week in a row, Israeli police said on Thursday evening they do not plan to bar young Muslim worshippers from Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. “So far, restrictions on entry of worshippers will not be imposed,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement quoted by AFP late Thursday. She said…

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the IDF and the Israel Police apprehended three terrorists who planned to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman using RPG missiles, it was cleared for publication on Thursday evening. The military prosecutor filed charges in the Judea Military Court against the three, who planned to assassinate Liberman as a response…

Britain’s foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said on Wednesday that a nuclear deal with Iran is unlikely to be completed by a deadline next Monday but there may be enough progress to warrant extending the talks. “I’m not optimistic that we can get everything done by Monday,” Hammond told reporters during a visit to the Latvian…

A second Frenchman who took part in the brutal beheading of aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State (ISIS) was identified on Wednesday, AFP reports. The man appeared unmasked in the grisly execution video among other ISIS jihadists, many of whom are believed to be Western fighters. Several European countries are probing the possible involvement of…

The United Nations (UN) Security Council  on Wednesday strongly condemned the “despicable terrorist attack” on a Jerusalem synagogue in which five people were murdered, calling on Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders to restore calm. In a unanimous statement quoted by the AFP news agency, the 15-member council expressed concern over rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions and stressed…

Egypt’s state news agency reported on Wednesday that prosecutors have asked for the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on trial on espionage charges. According to The Associated Press (AP), prosecutor Emad el-Sharawy said in closing remarks that Morsi and his aides leaked state security documents to foreign…

In what has become somewhat routine, the United States on Wednesday condemned Israel’s latest approval of construction in Jerusalem. According to Reuters, State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke stressed Washington’s “clear and consistent opposition to construction activity in East Jerusalem.” “During this sensitive time in Jerusalem, we would see such activity as inconsistent with the goal…

Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni raised the ire of leftists on Wednesday after he ordered to temporarily stop the employment of Arab construction workers who are tasked with building protected spaces in educational institutions in the city. Shimoni cited security concerns for his decision, amid continued tensions, particularly in Jerusalem, and the series of recent terrorist…

The Secret Service on Wednesday arrested an Iowa man after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House, according to ABC News. R.J. Kapheim, 41, was arrested on a charge of having an unregistered firearm, which is illegal in the…

The IDF has confirmed that Hamas fired yet another rocket from Gaza towards the Red Sea Thursday morning. It is the fourth such launch in the past two days alone, part of a series of tests by the Islamist terrorist group to improve its rocket capabilities. “Moments ago, #IDF Active Defense system identified a rocket…

Economy Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett delivered a speech at an industry conference in Eilat Thursday morning. In the speech, he referred to Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily stop the employment of Arab Israeli construction workers.   Shimoni cited security concerns for his decision, amid continued tensions and a series of recent terrorist attacks, including Tuesday’s brutal attack in…

Former Palestinian terrorist, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh was found guilty last week of not disclosing she had been convicted in a 1969 terrorist attack in Israel when she was applying for United States citizenship. Two people were killed in the attack she participated in.  On Wednesday, she petitioned the court to be released from custody until her sentencing hearing, scheduled…

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s synagogue massacre, Jerusalem is on high alert. Israeli troops were stationed outside educational institutions and kindergartens, as was as deployed to the entrances of a number of Arab neighborhoods in the capital.  Police were instructed to tighten control over individuals exiting the neighborhoods. Checkpoints were set up for searching. However, according…

Weeks after the official Swedish recognition of a Palestinian state led to a severe diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden, Stockholm has sent a senior official to Jerusalem to persuade Israel’s Foreign Ministry to return Ambassador Isaac Bachman to Sweden for consultations, Yedioth Aharanoth reported.  Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department in the Swedish…