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Israeli police seized a massive shipment of firecrackers, swords, tasers and other weapons at Ashdod port Thursday – a potentially deadly arsenal which was set to be delivered to Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Two containers intercepted by authorities at the southern port were packed with 18,000 fireworks, 5,200 commando knives, 5,500 tasers, 4,300 tasers concealed…

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…

Jordan’s parliament on Wednesday offered a prayer in honor of “the spirit” of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who murdered five people in a synagogue in Jerusalem on Tuesday. According to the Elder of Ziyon blog, which cited Jordanian Arabic-language media, the prayer was held as the House of Representatives…

In a dramatic development, senior IDF officials informed the families of three soldiers seriously injured when a Palestinian rammed his truck into them in Gush Etzion that the incident was indeed a terrorist attack, according to Channel Two. A little over two weeks ago, just hours after a car attack in Jerusalem killed a border…

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari has weighed in on the “hypocritical” MKs condemning Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni, who temporarily stopped the employment of Arab construction workers on sites near schools citing security amid the recent spike of terrorist attacks. Condemnation has come in from right-wing parties as well, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s criticism joined by…

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of participating in the anti-Semitic attack at a Brooklyn subway station Monday afternoon, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.  The New York City Police Department (NYPD) believes the teenager, arrested Tuesday night, was one of the the three assailants who beat an Orthodox Jewish man with his umbrella while shouting…

The Major-General of the Home Front Command issued a 48-hour warning decree prior to the demolition of the home of the terrorist who attempted to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick last month, leaving him seriously injured. The terrorist, Mu’taz Hijazi – an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was employed at a restaurant Glick was speaking…

In the wake of the storm Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s Wednesday night’s announcement created, additional municipalities have stepped up Thursday with their own plans to increase the security in their communities, also with an emphasis on construction sites, Channel 10 News reported.  Mayor Shimoni’s decision to temporarily freeze the employment of Arab Israeli workers on construction sites in kindergartens…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded Thursday to Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily freeze the employment of Arab Israeli construction workers building protected rooms in educational institutions in the city. While doing so, he also called attention to his new draft of the Jewish State Law.  “There is no place for discrimination against Israeli Arabs. We should…

In a statement issued Thursday morning, the Anti-Defamation League condemned the Spanish parliament vote urging the conservative government to recognize “Palestine.”  The vote came only hours after two Palestinian terrorists massacred Jewish worshippers at a Jerusalem synagogue in Har Nof. Four rabbis were murdered while at prayer and one policeman was killed in a shootout with the…

Israel has agreed to cooperate with the United Nations Headquarters Board of Inquiry to investigate the damage to UNRWA facilities during Operation Protective Edge this past summer.  The UN Headquarters Board, established by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, was announced by Ban last week as an “internal and independent” board that would look into the damage to UN…

In a security message to American citizens in Israel, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem said that Tuesday morning’s deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue demonstrated “low-level coordination.” The grisly attack occurred when two Palestinian terrorists stormed the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood armed with axes, knives and guns during morning prayers.…

Public broadcasting may soon be available in Arabic, after the Knesset approved in a preliminary reading Wednesday a motion by MK Issawei Friej (Meretz) to mandate Arabic-language broadcasts in the largest public broadcasting corporations. The bill, if ratified into law, would mandate that public radio include Arabic-language programs which address Israeli Arabs issues, news, culture, and…

Opposition Leader, MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) came to lunch at Congregation Bnai Torah Synagogue in Har Nof in Jerusalem – the site of Tuesday’s bloody terror attack.  “I come here as a citizen and as a leader to express heartfelt shock as a Jew. The picture of a bullet in the Ark is difficult and…

President Reuven Rivlin addressed the security situation Wednesday, noting that tensions in Jerusalem have ballooned into an all-out “Jewish-Muslim conflict” during a television interview.  “Jerusalem has seen many difficult times,” Rivlin said.  “I remember, as a child, living under siege. We have seen days of battle, days of Intifada and riots.” “Today, we are in…

Israel’s political leadership has decided not to return the bodies of Ghassan and Uday Abu al Jamal, the terrorists who carried out the massacre in the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood to their families, Channel 10 reports Wednesday night, as a deterrent against future terror attacks.  This is the first time that the Israeli government has withheld…

Furthering the controversy, journalist Charlotte Henry resigned from the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday, in partial response to Ward’s tweet.  “I joined in 2009, becoming an intern for Don Foster MP,” she said. “There are few better ways to get a political education than chasing after Don. Since then I’ve campaigned and consulted for candidates, held senior…

Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett referred to pictures to suggest that car rampage terrorist Abdelrahman Shaludi‘s house was not fully destroyed Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva.   On Tuesday night, IDF troops, assisted by the Israel Police and the Border Police, demolished Shaludi’s Jerusalem home. Shaludi, last month, carried out a car…

Together, MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and MK David Tzur (Hatnua) have drafted a bill calling for the revocation of residency status for convicted terrorists.  Palestinian Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem or the Golan Heights – over the 1949 Armistice lines – who denied the offer for citizenship, are considered permanent residents under Israeli law. They…

Police have tried to hush up the “silent intifada” of rising Arab terrorism focused around Jerusalem in recent months, but apparently the uptick in recent weeks of high-profile lethal attacks has caused a change of policy, and a redefinition of the attacks as “Intifada 2014.” A resident of Elon Moreh, located east of Shechem (Nablus)…

The Druze police officer Master Sergeant Zidan Nahad Seif (30) who was critically wounded while trying to stop the terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday morning is to be buried on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Seif’s funeral will take place in his hometown of Yanuh-Jat, located west of Nahariya in the Galilee in Israel’s…

Panic spread Tuesday night in central Tel Aviv after residents heard “Allahu Akbar” being shouted from a loudspeaker in a residential building on Ben Yehuda Street. Allahu Akbar is an Arabic phrase meaning “God is greater” –  it is often shouted by Muslim terrorists at the height of their violent attacks.  Police from the Tel…

A day after five Israelis were murdered in an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, fears were raised that terrorists in the Hamas stronghold of Gaza joined in on the attacks by opening fire on IDF soldiers. According to reports the IDF force was in the Erez Crossing region to guard work…

Jerusalem’s Parent Organization for Education announced Wednesday morning that because of the escalation of violence in the capital as well as a growing fear that children will be harmed, “security in educational institutions across the city will be reinforced significantly.”  “The Jerusalem Municipality is working with us in regard to supplementing security standards, budgets, and…

At around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, Palestinian Arabs reported that a Jewish boy from the town of Kochav Yaakov in Binyamin was in Palestinian police custody.  According to the Palestinians, four boys from Kochav Yaakov went down to an Arab village to carry out a “price tag” vandalism attack. They claimed youths threw stones at…

About 30 worshippers arrived Wednesday morning to Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof for shacharit morning prayers – the day after two Arab terrorists horrifically massacred worshippers, killing five people in the synagogue.  Two security guards stood at the entrance to secure the morning prayer service, after the 7 a.m. prayers the previous day was…

Jerusalem experienced a double day of terror Tuesday, after Palestinian Arabs attacked a Jewish man in his twenties with iron bars near the New Gate in the heart of the city just hours after the Har Nof massacre which killed four people and fatally wounded another.  Daniel Bronstein, the victim of the iron bar attack,…

The funeral for a Druze police officer killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem has begun in his home town of Yanuh-Jat. Sergeant Major Zidan Seif (30) was shot in a firefight with terrorists as he heroically intervened to stop the massacre at the Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof; he died of his wounds late Tuesday…

The Satmar Rebbe eulogized the victims of the massacre in Har Nof Tuesday, pointing the blame not at the Palestinian Arabs who killed them, but at Jews who ascend the Temple Mount (Judaism’s holiest site – ed.) as the cause.  “These days, bad news comes from the holy city of Jerusalem,” the Satmar Rebbe stated,…

Professor Avi Rifkind, head of the Trauma and Emergency Medicine Department in Hadassah Hospital, visited Wednesday with Yeshayahu Horowitz – one of the men badly wounded in the stabbing attack at Alon Shvut Junction. Horowitz served as a medic during his compulsory military service. His medical condition has improved in the past few days.  Dahlia…

On Sunday, 23rd November, London’s JW3 restaurant will be holding an Israeli extravaganza. The “A Taste of Israel” expo at JW3, is being billed as “the ultimate Israel experience without leaving London”; guests are invited to revel in the connection and feel inspired at the presentations, workshops and exhibitions. Among the attractions will be vendors straight…

The aide to Arab MK Masoud Ganaim (Ra’am-Ta’al) has been fired and had his entry permit to the Knesset negated, after a Knesset guard member complained that he threatened that after a soccer game next Sunday between Beitar Jerusalem and Bnei Sakhnin “we’ll slaughter 50 Jews.” The heated soccer game, which comes in the midst…

As Israel reels following the horrific attack on a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning, five victims wounded in the attack remain hospitalized, but there is good news – one of the wounded has regained consciousness. Four of the five are hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, with two still in critical condition, one suffering moderate to…

The head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force has claimed it is raising an army of “millions” to flood Gaza and Syria to support Tehran’s allies. Fars, Iran’s semi-official newspaper, reported that that Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Commander the Basij paramilitary force, as saying: “Millions of Basijis (volunteer forces) are ready in Iran to be…

Israel denounced as unhelpful on Wednesday a vote by the Spanish parliament, hours after a deadly Jerusalem synagogue attack, which called on Madrid to recognize a “Palestinian state.”    In a highly symbolic move, Spanish MPs adopted almost unanimously a motion urging the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by…

The IDF reported on Wednesday morning that following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders, the home in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood belonging to the Arab terrorist behind the lethal October 22 car attack was demolished – that appears to be only partially true. The terrorist, Abdelrahman Shaludi, plowed his car into pedestrians at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in…

As Israelis mourned the horrific attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday morning, many Palestinian Arabs reacted with delight. In macabre scenes played out in numerous Arab areas – including Gaza, Bethlehem and parts of Jerusalem – Palestinians took to the street to celebrate the cold-blooded murder of unarmed Jewish worshipers as they prayed in…

CNN weren’t the only ones making outrageous reportage failures concerning the brutal terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning that left four Jews murdered and eight others wounded, four of them critically – Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) took to Facebook to do her part as well. “I met and spoke with 12th grade students…

Hours after a lethal terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning, an Arab citizen of Israel was arrested in possession of an improvised sub-machine gun at the same Hahagana train station in Tel Aviv where an IDF soldier was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist last Monday. The 21-year-old aroused the suspicions of…

Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen may have claimed Tuesday after the Har Nof attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “isn’t inciting terrorism” – but that appraisal is completely wrong according to Abbas’s own adviser. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed on Tuesday that PA Supreme Sharia (Islamic law) Judge and…

CNN has apologized for one of several errors in its reporting of Tuesday morning’s brutal terrorist attack in Jerusalem. In one particularly jarring error, the headline presented for the story broadcast live to tens of millions of viewers read: “Israeli… Police Shot, Killed 2 Palestinians.” The headline sparked outrage, with one prominent Israeli activist calling…

Just hours after four Jews were murdered praying at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof, a young Jew in his 20s was attacked by two Arab assailants armed with iron bars in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday night. The attack took place at the Old City’s New Gate, located in the north-western corner of the…

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) fired back at Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen on Tuesday, who told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee following the Har Nof terror attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “did not incite terror.” Cohen likewise claimed that the “cause” of recent terrorism…

Some 300 protesters from the Otzma Yehudit organization took to the streets of Jerusalem today in protest of this morning’s terrorist massacre at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood. The demonstration took place next to the capital’s iconic String Bridge close to the central bus station. Activists called for “revenge,” as well as calls…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Tuesday night in response to the shocking terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood that morning. “We are at the height of a terror campaign focused on Jerusalem. In the middle of shacharit (morning) prayers four innocent and pure Jews were murdered. We send condolences to the…

Hours after a terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue killed five people on Tuesday morning, Hamas is continuing its incitement against Jews. The latest incident is an animated propaganda video, posted on the Facebook page of the Shehab News Agency, and which encourages car terrorist attacks against Israelis. In the video, “Zionists” are warned to…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim from several days ago that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Christopher Columbus. In fact, Erdogan called for his rewriting of history to be taught in schools. “A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry…

Spanish lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday calling on the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reported. The motion submitted by the opposition Socialists asks the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by the European Union. It was adopted nearly unanimously in the lower house of parliament, with 319 in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has drawn fire from both the right and the left for the end of his speech Tuesday night in the wake of the terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, in which he called on opposition parties to join in a unity government. In his speech, Netanyahu said, “We must put aside…

Iran has been using a Chinese bank to transfer funds to companies linked with its army, according to a Western intelligence report reviewed by the Reuters news agency. The report says that a company by the name of Shenzhen Lanhao is one of several companies in China that receives money from Iran through a Chinese…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday night strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood in which five people were murdered. In a statement, Ban called for political leadership and courage on both sides to address the “very tense” situation in the region. He noted that beyond today’s…

The death toll in Tuesday’s terrorist attack at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem has risen to five, after an officer who was fatally wounded in the attack died of his wounds Tuesday night. The latest victim has been identified as Zidan Seyf, 27, a police officer from the Arab town of…

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hailed this morning’s massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue, in which four worshipers were murdered and many more wounded by Palestinian terrorists. In a statement, the Hamas terrorist group said it was “a response to the murder of the martyr Yusuf Ramuni,” referring to a Palestinian bus driver who committed suicide…

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday condemned a Palestinian terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which four Israelis were killed and 13 wounded. “The Palestinian presidency has always condemned the killing of civilians on either side, and condemns today the killing of worshippers at a synagogue in west Jerusalem,” a statement from his…

Four people were murdered and six people wounded Tuesday morning, after two Arab terrorists entered the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue on Agassi Street during Shacharit (morning) prayers in Jerusalem’s religious Har Nof neighborhood bearing guns, axes, and knives. Among the wounded are two policeman, one critically wounded during the shootout with the terrorists. Medics…

One of the terrorists behind Tuesday’s massacre in Har Nof’s “Bnei Torah” synagogue worked next door, Palestinian sources told IDF Radio, at a grocery store in the Jewish neighborhood.  The two, reportedly identified as cousins Uday and Rassan Abu Jamal, are also Israeli Arabs who carry blue teudat zehut identity cards.  According to reports in the Palestinian media,…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) responded to this morning’s Jerusalem terror attack, blaming incitement by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas for the deadliest attack in the capital in years. “An attack which is perpetrated in a synagogue during prayers is the biggest indicator that for all of these despicable acts of murder by terrorists, the responsibility lies entirely…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has vowed not to “surrender to terror” on Tuesday, after Arab terrorists executed a massacre in a Har Nof synagogue, killing four people and injuring thirteen others as they prayed the morning service.  “Jerusalem bows its head in pain and sorrow on this difficult morning,” Barkat stated. “Jerusalem residents peacefully praying…

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday condemned an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed four Israelis as an “act of pure terror and senseless brutality”. Speaking in London ahead of talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry called on the Palestinian leadership to denounce the attack, which was carried out by…

The horrific massacre at a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem during morning prayers is reminiscent of pogroms, the Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, stated Tuesday.  “The dreadful scene, [victims] soaked in blood donning praying shawls and phylacteries [tefilin – ed.] reminds us all of the riots and pogroms passed down through the generations of…

A media gag order has been lifted on the full list of victims of Tuesday morning’s massacre in Har Nof, Jerusalem – where two Palestinian Arabs brutally murdered four people and wounded eight others as they were in the midst of morning prayers.  The four victims were Rabbi Moshe Twersky, hy”d, ‘Rosh Kollel’ for the…

Thousands of people made a human chain in Gush Etzion Tuesday, joining hands on the road between the town of Kfar Etzion and the Gush Etzion junction in the wake of Tuesday’s massacre in Har Nof and in memory of stabbing victim Dalia Lemkos, hy”d.  Lemkos, 26, was murdered by terrorists last week, just feet…

At the scene of the terrorist attack in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, where earlier on Tuesday two Arab terrorists murdered four Jews and wounded eight others, Arutz Sheva got the chance to speak with Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, founder and chairman of ZAKA. ZAKA works to ensure proper burial according to Jewish law at the scenes of attacks and…

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) have arrived at the scene of the horrific massacre of praying Jews in a Har Nof, Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, noting the severity of the incident.  “This attack is the most difficult we have witnessed in recent years,” Danino stated.  Regarding his plan…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) announced that he would be holding an urgent Security Cabinet meeting Tuesday, following the brutal massacre of Jews as they prayed at a Har Nof, Jerusalem synagogue for the morning service.  “This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud…

International media coverage of this morning’s massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue has already come in for some criticism, with media watchdogs already pointing out a slew of headlines and stories downplaying or otherwise misrepresenting the attack. Four people were murdered and eight others wounded, four of them seriously, when two terrorists stormed Kehillat Bnai Torah…

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini condemned a deadly massacre on a Jerusalem synagogue by Palestinians Tuesday as an “act of terror” and urged regional leaders to try to calm the situation. “The attack in the Har Nof synagogue this morning killing at least four people can only harm any step forward towards peace. It is an act of…

Israel is to ease controls on carrying weapons for self-defense after Palestinian terrorists launched a brutal massacre on a Jerusalem synagogue, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said on Tuesday. “In the coming hours, I will ease restrictions on carrying weapons,” he said in remarks broadcast on IDF Radio.  Aharonovich indicated the new rules would apply to anyone with a license…

Spain’s parliament will vote Tuesday on a non-binding motion calling on the conservative government to recognize a Palestinian state in coordination with any similar EU move, parliamentary sources told AFP.  The ruling Popular Party and the main opposition Socialists were in talks on the final wording of the motion, sources from the two parties said. The motion, proposed by the Socialists, calls…

Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims. According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the…

Two new surveys from France suggest that French Muslims or Frenchman of Muslim origin are are much more likely to hold anti-Semitic views than the general French population, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.  The surveys, recently conducted by the IFOP polling company and the Foundation for Political Innovations, were released in Paris on Sunday at the fifth…

The Knesset plenum ratified into law Monday MK Yoni Chetboun’s (Jewish Home) “Draft Dodgers’ Law,” whereby Israeli citizens who dodge the mandatory IDF draft will now not be privy to state-funded student benefits and scholarships. State-funded scholarships cover a wide range of popular programs for college students in Israel, including – but not limited to…

A new survey conducted by Professor Camil Fuchs and published by Channel 10 News Monday evening places the Jewish Home party as the second strongest party in Israel.  If elections were held today Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would win 22 seats in the Knesset followed closely by rival Naftali Bennett with 17 mandates.  The survey…

North Korean dictator Kim-Jong Un could be charged in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Tuesday, when the United National General Assembly (UNGA) will vote on a crucial resolution condemning the human rights violations in North Korea, which it described in February as “without parallel in the contemporary world.” Over fifty member countries have co-sponsored the resolution,…

A German fundraiser for the Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer hit a discordant note after event organizers tried to prohibit the appearance of the Israeli boy band, Kinderlach, because some of the members live in Judea and Samaria.  According to a report by Haddad Ofer for Channel 2 News, the controversial event was held a…

Police from the Akko (Acre) Precinct arrested four young men in their 20s on suspicion of involvement in the mass brawl that broke out between Muslims and Druze in Abu Snan Friday night.  The suspects, some Druze, some Muslims, will be arraigned Tuesday in Akko Magistrate’s Court. Akko Station Commander, Chief Superintendent Kobi Karni says…

An IDF officer was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment Monday, after two fingers were amputated by Palestinian Arabs throwing fireworks at Kikar Hamoniot (Taxi Square) near Ramallah. Roughly twenty terrorists are still in the area, throwing rocks and firebombs at security forces; riot dispersal measures are being used to disrupt…

The death of Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni, an Arab 32-year-old Egged bus driver found hanged Sunday night in his bus at the Har Hotzvim industrial zone bus depot in northern Jerusalem, has been ruled a suicide.  The criminal pathologist who performed the autopsy at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv told al-Ramuni’s family and police that…

Swastikas were found painted on the Holocaust memorial monument at Babi Yar in Kiev for the second time in two months.  The menorah-shaped monument, a memorial for the 33,000 Jews murdered by Nazi troops in September 1941, is located at the site of the murders.  The hateful graffiti was found Monday morning during a tour…

The European Union (EU) said Monday it deplored Israeli plans to build Jewish homes on land it deems to be “occupied Palestinian territory,” but denied outright that it planned sanctions against Israel as a result, AFP reports.  There was “no plan of this type,” new EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said when asked about an Israeli press report on the issue.…

The United States is “not intimidated” by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday, after another American hostage was killed by the group. Kerry said the brutality of the Islamic State group and its potential spread worldwide was a key reason, among many, that the United States must remain…

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al-Qaeda’s north African arm, on Monday issued a video of a French national and a Dutch national they are holding hostage in which the two men urge their respective governments to negotiate for their release. According to Reuters, the video, posted on a popular jihadi forum by Al-Qaeda in…

Iran and six major powers have so far not discussed extending negotiations on a nuclear agreement despite the fact that their deadline is a week away, a senior American official said on Monday, according to Reuters. Senior foreign officials from Iran and the six powers – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China…

In yet another sign that the Hamas-Fatah unity government is crumbling, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday urged Prime Minister Rami Hamallah to carry out his responsibilities in Gaza. Speaking to the Ma’an news agency, Haniyeh said that Gazans have been disappointed with the performance of the national consensus government. “They expected the government…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday that he intends to bring the controversial Jewish State Law to a vote in the Cabinet next Sunday – despite Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s rejection of the law. Speaking at the start of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, Netanyahu recalled how on November 29, 1947 the UN…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it goes ahead with unilateral moves, such as asking the United Nations Security Council to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper reported on Monday Speaking on condition of anonymity,…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman reiterated on Monday that the Yisrael Beytenu party will not accept any changes to the make-up of the coalition without elections. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there are two options: either this coalition or new elections,” Liberman said, speaking before a meeting of the Yisrael Beytenu faction.…

Veteran Israeli soccer manager Avram Grant looks set to become the new coach of Ghana’s national team, which has been rudderless since its previous manager Kwesi Appiah resigned in September. But Grant’s Israeli nationality has meant that an otherwise unremarkable changing of the guard at a struggling African national team could in fact become a…

On Monday, MK Danny Danon (Likud) will bring up for a vote in the Knesset a proposal to revoke stipends from parents whose children carried out a rock throwing attack. The proposal comes in the wake of the continued violence in Jerusalem, much of which is perpetrated by Arab-Muslim minors. Speaking to Arutz Sheva on…

An Illinois court tomorrow (Tuesday) will discuss whether to reduce the $5 million bail of John White, who vandalized a synagogue in Lombard last month and apparently planned a shooting attack on the Jewish community, or whether to hold him without bail. White, a 40-year-old resident of Westmont, pleaded not guilty last Monday after having…

The 35-year-old Breslov hassid who was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday continues to heal, and on Monday he was said to be in good condition at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in the capital. At the time he was hospitalized imaging tests were conducted which indicate that he was not critically wounded, despite…

Over 30,000 fans cheered the victory, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), as Israel took the top of Group B with nine points, placing itself ahead of Wales. The match leaves Israel undefeated in the qualifying games, having won last month against Andorra 4-1 and Cyprus 2-1. Israel is…

The European Union (EU) has sent a secret document to its 28 member states detailing sanctions to be taken against Israel, if it takes moves the EU feels compromises the creation of an Arab state of ‘Palestine’ inside Israel. The paper, drafted by the European External Action Service (EEAS), was distributed to European diplomats who…

In the wake of allegations that bus driver Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni was killed by “Israeli settlers”, Palestinian terror organization Hamas called for an escalation [of violence] against Israel, Walla! News has reported.  Al-Ramuni, an Egged bus driver from the A-Tur neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, was found hanged on Sunday night in his bus at the Har Hotzvim industrial zone bus depot…

President Reuven Rivlin launched the 2014 ‘Shmitta project’ on Sunday, which aims to use the values of the traditional Sabbatical year to aid poor families in need nationwide.  During the course of the project, which was initiated by MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid), five thousand families deep in debt will work closely with the government to…

Sweden said Monday it will not open an embassy in Ramallah even though it has officially recognized “the state of Palestine”, the first major EU nation to do so.   “Nobody has opened an embassy in Ramallah, and we think that this can be managed by the consulate in Jerusalem, which is a satisfactory solution…

If you’re an Israeli citizen looking for help on a personal matter from a Knesset Member, ask MK Shelly Yechimovich of the Labor party. According to a study by Channel 2’s late night news program, the results of which were published Sunday night, Yechimovich is the most accessible MK in the Knesset. The least accessible…

Israel’s Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau paid a visit to Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in hospital Monday, as he continues to recover from an assassination attempt last month which left him fighting for his life. “I’m not in hospital because I have appendicitis, I’m not here because they shot me for being ginger,” the…

First Lieutenant (Reserve, US Army), Dan Nadel received a notable honor Sunday. He was chosen by the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) to donate a Sefer Torah to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) unit in a special ceremony at the base.  Nadel, a 94-year-old resident of Jerusalem, is a five-time decorated hero of World War…

The Qatari executive committee for the rehabilitation of Gaza announced Monday that they have begun to transfer raw construction materials to the Hamas-controlled territory via Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. According to the “Minister of Civil Affairs” for the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hussein al-Sheikh, an agreement on the transfer had been reached with Israel over the raw…

This article is the second in a series exploring the “status quo” on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. For Part One click here. It is very popular to demand nowadays that Israel “maintain the status quo” on the Temple Mount – but barely anyone can say exactly what that “status quo” is. In fact, the rules instituted…

The French Interior Ministry on Monday admitted there is a “very strong probability” that one of the ISIS terrorists who committed the beheading of US aid worker Peter Kassig and at least 18 Syrian soldiers is a French citizen. “There is a very strong probability that a French citizen was directly involved in these despicable…

When Islamist terrorist Mu’taz Hijazi shot Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick four times at point-blank range he was aiming to kill. Only by a miracle did Glick survive, although he still has a long road to recovery ahead of him. But Hijazi was not just trying to kill Glick. As Likud MK Tzipi Hotoveli…

Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) warned at the start of the committee meeting in which Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) presented the 2015 budget on Monday that “we won’t be a rubber stamp to pass the budget.” “If needed the debate on the budget will continue even into January,” Slomiansky continued,…

The CIA and other intelligence services have estimated the fighting strength of Islamic State (ISIS) to be no more than 31,500 terrorists – but according to a senior Kurdish officer, that number is actually at least 200,000. Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdish Region President Massoud Barzani, told the Britain’s The Independent that ISIS’s…

A Hamas-affiliated member of the unity government that was formed between Hamas and Fatah, on Sunday accused the Fatah movement and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, of thwarting reconciliation between the rival parties. Speaking to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Yahya Mousa accused Abbas of “thwarting reconciliation in favor of investment projects, security coordination with Israel…

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, sought to calm tensions on Sunday, amid reports that the tensions in the coalition are great and that elections are imminent. “I never threatened to leave the government, so this threat is not serious,” Lapid told Channel 10 News, adding, “People with interests, members of…

Yaakov Hagoel, head of the Department for Combating Anti-Semitism at the World Zionist Organization, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that he was not surprised by the stabbing of a Jewish man in Antwerp. “Unfortunately, we are receiving reports about incidents such as this all the time,” he said, noting that there has been a substantial…

The parents of Peter Kassig, the American aid worker who was beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, said Sunday night they were “heartbroken” by the death of their son. “We are heartbroken to learn that our son, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, has lost his life as a result of his love for the Syrian people and…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzahi Hanegbi (Likud) on Sunday ruled out the possibility that elections will be held within the coming year. Speaking to the Knesset Channel, Hanegbi pointed out that the elections are currently scheduled for November 2017. “They will likely be held before that for a variety of reasons”, he added, but it will…

American aid worker Peter Kassig may have struggled to the end with his captors, experts have speculated. Kassig, who reportedly converted to Islam while in captivity and took on the name Abdul Rahman, is the fifth western hostage to be executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in recent months. A video released by…

“I didn’t believe that it could be happening to me,” Batel recounted. “I gave birth to my firstborn son exactly one year earlier, and it didn’t seem logical that I was pregnant again. I grew exceedingly stressed. It was my last chance to apply for work-funded schooling, a course that could potentially upgrade my salary…

Gulf leaders agreed Sunday on the return of Saudi, Emirati, and Bahraini envoys to Qatar after an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh, promising an end to eight months of tense relations, according to AFP. The agreement “promises the opening of a new page that will present a strong base, especially in light of the sensitive circumstances…

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar declared on Sunday that the terrorist movement is planning to develop its capabilities to carry out terror attacks against Israel from Judea and Samaria, and that it intends to continue to lead the Palestinian camp which advocates for armed struggle until Israel is destroyed. Al-Zahar, who spoke in Gaza, said…

Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, Egypt’s deadliest terrorist group which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last month that killed 30 soldiers, AFP reported on Saturday. The group made the claim in a video posted on social media, according to the report. Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has killed scores of…

The British government on Saturday said it had received reports that “Jihadi John”, the British-accented Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a U.S. airstrike, according to AFP. The Foreign Office could not confirm reports published in the Mail on Sunday that the masked executioner, who…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of the Labor party, predicted on Saturday that elections will be held within a year, and also said that he believes he is capable of being Israel’s next prime minister. “Realistically, the current Knesset can topple the government, but I do not know if an alternative government is possible,”…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing state news agency WAM. The Gulf Arab state has also designated the Syrian based Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS), whose fighters are battling Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as terrorist organizations, along…

Eight former employees of Bank Leumi tried to blackmail the bank’s management by threatening to make public the details of some one million credit cards, it was cleared for publication on Saturday night. Police have released the names of five of the suspects in the blackmail attempt: Ziv Drin, Avraham David, Assaf Mor, Elad Abulafia…

In his meeting on Saturday with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for the ongoing tensions in Jerusalem. According to the WAFA news agency, the PA’s Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki, who spoke at a press conference following Abbas’s meeting with Steinmeier, said, “President Abbas briefed the…

Islamic State (ISIS) has beheaded US citizen and aid worker Peter Kassig, according to video footage posted on social media – even though the hostage converted to Islam.  Kassig, who had converted and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, is the fifth Western hostage to be murdered in ISIS’s brutal social media campaign against the West. …

MK Miri Regev (Likud) welcomed on Sunday morning, reports that the Ministry of Defense will be raising the salaries of IDF soldiers in 2015, but expressed disappointment with the Minister for dragging his feet on the matter.  “Unfortunately, the Defense Minister’s announcement to raise salaries stems mostly from large public pressure, and the Supreme Court…

The United States has expressed deep concerned about anti-Semitism in Turkey, Ira Forman, the State Department’s special envoy for combatting anti-Semitism, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview Friday.  Forman spoke from Berlin, where he was attending a high-level meeting on anti-Semitism with other American diplomats and leaders, which was organized by Organization for Security and Cooperation…

Israel will never agree to limit its construction activity in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday. “We won’t accept any limitation on building in Jewish areas of Jerusalem,” he said at a news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, insisting that Israel would never accept construction in the city’s eastern sector as “settlement building.” “It must be clear…

The 31 year-old victim of an anti-Semitic stabbing attack in Antwerp was released from hospital late Saturday night – and is now speaking to the media about his brush with death.  Yehoshua Malik, a Belz hassid, was walking to a local synagogue in the city’s Jewish Quarter when he was attacked.  “At about 9:00, I…

Jordan’s tough stance towards Israel over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount reflects a determination to preserve its custodianship of the flashpoint site as well as its own stability, analysts say. By recalling its ambassador to Israel, the Hashemite kingdom sent a message that deploying police inside the mosque compound had “crossed a red line” and put their…

Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, one of Egypt’s deadliest terror groups, published images Saturday, showing some of their jihadists carrying ISIS’s recognizable black flag onto one of the guard towers located near the border between Israel and Egypt.  On Wednesday, Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis pledged its allegiance to ISIS in Iraq and Syria, in a bid to boost recruitment and…

Thunderstorms rage across Israel Sunday morning, prompting flood warnings for several coastal cities.  Rain began Saturday night in the North, from Haifa to the Western Galilee, and caused several flash floods in southern Lebanon.  Heavy rain, thunder, and lightning continue across the North, the Central District, Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem Sunday morning, but is…

The controversial ‘Jewish State Law’ will be brought before the Ministerial Committee on Legislation for approval Sunday. The law, which has been frozen for some time, is now being promoted by MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), with the support of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.  The bill, opposed both by Yesh Atid and Hatnua, was transferred by…

Prominent religious-Zionist Rabbi Dr. Benny Lau has added his voice to growing calls to allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Rabbi Lau, who had previously opposed Jewish prayer there due to concerns over ritual purity, said that the events of the past few months had forced him to reconsider his stance. “Enough is enough,”…

Over 41 people were injured in violent clashes that erupted between Druze and Muslims Friday night in the Arab village of Abu Snan in the Western Galilee.  The clashes appeared to be a result of ongoing tensions in Israel between security forces and Arabs in the week since police shot Hir Alhamdan, who lunged with a knife at…

The Jewish Home party has lashed out at its left-wing coalition partners, in particular Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua), as a coalition crisis over the “Jewish State bill” appears to be coming to a head. Senior Jewish Home party officials reacted with fury to Livni’s attempts to postpone the key ministerial discussion on pushing the…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed support Sunday for the US fight against Islamic State terrorists, but cautioned against any softening toward Iran. “We want them both to lose. The last thing we want is to have any one of them get weapons of mass destruction,” Netanyahu said in an interview with CBS Face the…

Meretz Chairman Zehava Gal-On responded acidly to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s declaration of support for the ‘Jewish State Bill’ on Sunday, claiming that officially consecrating Israel as the Jewish homeland rejects Israeli Arabs.  “This bill combines the democratic system and the legal system under [MK Ze’ev] Elkin’s Jewish nationalism,” Gal-On fired. “[It] states that Arabic…

The white supremacist who murdered three people during a killing spree at Kansas Jewish Community Center and nearby Village Shalom care center on April 13 gave his first interview Saturday. F. Glenn Miller Jr told of his “exhilaration” while carrying out the bloody rampage, but also his surprise and regret at not having managed to kill any Jews.…

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) fired back at MK Ahmed Tibi (Balad) Sunday, after Tibi stated that Muslims were the “true owners” of the Temple Mount. “[Tibi] is cocky, a traitor and a liar,” Katz stated Sunday. “The Temple Mount has been a Jewish historical site for nearly 3,000 years, and is under Israeli sovereignty.”…

Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, has cancelled a visit to London scheduled for this week.  The visit was set to feature a series of engagements including a Friday night dinner organized by the Center for Jewish Life. The cancellation comes after weeks of escalating tension between Palestinians and Israelis, as well as a slew of…

The International Network Against Cyber Hate and the Paris-based International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism released a report Wednesday documenting the explosion of online anti-Semitic hate speech generated during the summer war between Israel and Hamas.  The two groups presented the report, which chronicles the online activity of 10 European countries, at a meeting on anti-Semitism in…

Islamic State (ISIS) has beheaded US citizen and aid worker Peter Kassig, according to video footage posted on social media – even though the hostage converted to Islam.  Kassig, who had converted and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, is the fifth Western hostage to be murdered in ISIS’s brutal social media campaign against the West. …

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Jerusalem Sunday, where he clarified Israel’s positions on its security and peace talks.  The President began by congratulating the German foreign minister, “I am pleased to welcome you in Jerusalem, capital of Israel,” Rivlin said. He then addressed the security situation. “We have…

A leading Iranian cleric has threatened to “raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground” if Israel attacks the country over its nuclear program. Speaking in a televised public sermon in the capital Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani boasted that “the Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raise to the ground any place in Israel, as…

Cuba has reportedly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to build the country’s first mosque. Erdogan’s offer came during a speech in Istanbul to Muslim leaders from Latin America, in which he made the bizarre claim that Muslims discovered America nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus. “Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178,” Erdogan…

This article is the first in a series exploring the “status quo” on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Though “maintaining the status quo” on the Temple Mount seems to be a universal goal, no one is quite sure what it is. Those who believe it means that Jews must not pray there should take note that the…

It is somewhat of a longstanding political practice in Israel for companies to strike to identify with political causes, such as the Ben-Gurion airport strike several months ago in solidarity with the Israel Postal Workers’ Union – much to the frustration of consumers and businesses alike. But that practice may change Sunday, after the Ministerial…

Israel’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell in the third quarter of 2014 because of the summer conflict in Gaza, officials said Sunday, representing the first such drop in over five years. A Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) statement said GDP was down 0.4 percent between July and September compared with the previous three months, citing the effect on the…

A Jewish man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday night, on Haneviim street – the latest in a string of terrorist attacks to hit the capital.  The perpetrator, a 32-year-old Arab man, fled in the direction of the Damascus Gate (Sha’ar Shechem). Jerusalem police forces have set up roadblocks and begun…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has turned to the hareidi parties once again, officials from United Torah Judaism (UTJ) revealed Sunday night, in yet another attempt to replace Yesh Atid in the coalition following increased tensions over the past week. Netanyahu reportedly turned to UTJ and Shas, sources said – and was so desperate to maintain…

A sharp confrontation took place on Sunday afternoon in the Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation after committee head Justice Minister Tzipi Livni removed the discussion on the Jewish State bill, that seeks to define Israel as the State of the Jewish People, from the agenda. Several of those who attended the meeting told Arutz Sheva…

Following the demand by neo-Nazi ‘Die Rechte’ party, the mayor of the German city of Dortmund asked authorities to ban the party The party reportedly demanded that the mayor send a list of the city’s Jews, a request that the mayor promptly refused, news site Ynet reported Saturday. According to various reports, the party, known…

Hours after a hassidic Jew from the Belz sect was stabbed in the neck in Antwerp, Belgium, a friend of his told Arutz Sheva the injury was not as bad as initially reported. He has been released from the hospital to his home and his condition is good, said the friend. The identity of the suspect…

The security establishment decided Saturday evening to put Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) under the protection of a 24-hour security detail. The decision was reached after terror organizations threatened to hurt the minister, in view of his active support for the idea of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, and for Jewish…

We have often stressed in these posting the huge dimensions of World War I in Palestine.  The armies, battles and casualties were often on the same scale as those on the “Western Front” in Europe.  The war raged from the Suez Canal to Damascus and Iraq. The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that carved up the Middle…

Morocco arrested five people Saturday in the southern city of Marrakesh on suspicion of seeking to join jihadists in Iraq and Syria and of aiding terrorist activities, the interior ministry said. Three of those arrested, whose identities were not given, were “preparing to join terrorist organisations in Syria and Iraq, in particular the Islamic State…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus,” the…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in talks in Ramallah on Saturday hailed the recent easing of Israeli-Palestinian tensions in Jerusalem, for which he credited the intervention by his US counterpart. “We welcome the meetings in Amman… which led to an improvement in the situation, especially around the mosques compound,” he said, quoted by the Palestinian…

Intense searches over the weekend for a ten-year-old boy from the hareidi town of Kiryat Sefer (Modiin Illit) ended Saturday morning when he was found wandering the streets in Bnei Brak. A police investigation found that on Friday at 12:00, the boy got off the school transportation vehicle that took him home, together with his…

A photo of Thursday’s three-way meeting in Jordan between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah and US diplomat John Kerry may have carried a subliminal message threatening Netanyahu. The photographer was positioned in a way that placed Netanyahu’s head squarely at the tip of several long ornamental swords that hang in the king’s palace…

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group is continuing with its policy of beheading, but this time has executed one of its own members. AFP reported on Friday that the group executed a senior member who was accused of embezzling funds and theft. “The Islamic State executed a senior leader in the group of Syrian nationality,…

CRIF, the umbrella group representing France’s Jewish community, warned on Friday that the French government’s upcoming vote on recognizing “Palestine” may fuel anti-Semitism. “This resolution is not conducive to the establishment of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, it may generate new tensions on the ground if it was voted and supported by the government,…

The family members of Abdelrahman Shaludi, the terrorist who last month carried out an attack near the Jerusalem Light Rail and murdered two people, on Friday received an order informing them that their home is to be demolished. Shaludi plowed his car into pedestrians at the Ammunition Hill station of the Jerusalem Light Rail, killing…

The feud between IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen is over. Gantz and Cohen met on Friday afternoon and agreed to cooperate with one another, days after Gantz wrote Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu complaining of mistrust between the IDF and the Shin Bet. An emotional conflict…

Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will travel to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on the weekend for talks with leaders on both sides amid surging tensions, a spokesman said Friday, according to AFP. Steinmeier aims to get a first-hand picture after recent clashes between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli forces, a situation in which the “peace…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) is cracking down at Ben Gurion International Airport – not on terrorists, but on religious nationalists.  Right-wing activists told Walla! News Friday that they and their families are being specifically targeted at Israel’s only international airport when they return from abroad by ISA agents, who have placed them under…

The Jerusalem District Court has ordered author Naomi Ragen and Keter Publishing to pay author Sudy Rosengarten 73,000 shekels ($19,124) for copyright infringement, distortion, camouflage and literary copying of “substantial and significant” portions of Rosengarten’s story, “A Marriage Made in Heaven,” into Ragen’s novel The Sacrifice of Tamar. Rosengarten, 82, a Bobov hassid, was shocked…

Mads Gilbert, a Norweigan doctor with a long record as an anti-Israel activist, has been banned by Israel from visiting Gaza for life for reasons of security after almost 30 years of frequenting the terror stronghold. Gilbert told the Norweigan NRK that during Operation Protective Edge this summer he worked at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which Hamas used…

Thousands of people have begun the yearly pilgrimage to Hevron Friday, in honor of the Shabbat in which the Torah portion of “Chayei Sarah” (lit. “The Life of Sarah”) is read, discussing the Biblical matriarch.  Crowds typically gather in the city to visit the Cave of the Patriarchs for the Shabbat, and many Torah academies…

Lt. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, Director of the Almagor terror victims organization, raised numerous security failures in a sharp letter to the Israeli Security Cabinet on Tuesday. In light of two fatal terrorist attacks that occurred on Monday in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion, Indor presented “a compilation of failures and proposals for putting an end…

Israel on Thursday ordered the demolition of the home of a terrorist who carried out a tractor attack in Jerusalem this past summer, raising the ire of the United States. The terrorist whose home is to be demolished is Mohammed Jabis, who slammed his tractor into a bus in Jerusalem in August, killing Rabbi Avraham…

Jewish-American comedienne Sarah Silverman will be visiting Israel in December, Yediot Aharonot reported Thursday, to attend the gala screening of her Emmy-winning stand-up show, “Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles.” Silverman will be in Israel on the 16th, according to the daily, to attend the screening at the Jewish Film Festival in Jerusalem. The festival, under the direction…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) warned on Thursday that she is considering leaving the government, after Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz of her party last Saturday announced he is quitting the coalition. Speaking at a conference of the radical leftist OneVoice Movement which has tried to bribe Israelis to support “peace,” Livni spoke about the…

MK Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid) left many shaking their heads last week when she made the following claim on her Facebook page: “over 3.2 million students are victims to bullying.” There’s just one problem with the assertion – the figure is almost 50% than the number of students in Israel. According to Knesset figures published…

A long-term ceasefire deal with Hamas is in order, Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yelin stated in a special interview with Arutz Sheva on Friday, in order to postpone another war for as long as possible.  Yelin acknowledged that as long as a ceasefire deal is signed, the issue of another war becomes a “matter of time” –…

As daily Arab riotous violence continues to engulf the capital city of Jerusalem, police appear to have started enforcing a stricter crackdown on one of the key hotbeds of Arab terrorism – the neighborhood of Issawiya. Issawiya, located near Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus, has been the source of near daily riots for many long…

A car bomb went off early Thursday outside the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli, causing some damage to the building but no injuries. A Libyan security official told the Associated Press news agency that shortly after the blast, another car bomb was discovered near the embassy of the United Arab Emirates. It is unclear why that…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that steps were agreed at talks in Amman to lower tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians. After talks with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Kerry said “firm commitments” had been made to maintain the status quo at holy sites in Israeli-annexed east…

After Islamic State (ISIS) reported on Sunday that an airstrike the day before had wounded its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and amid speculation that the terrorist may have been eliminated, ISIS on Thursday released an audio recording of him speaking to dispel the rumors that he was taken out. In the recording, which was distributed…

Canada’s top court refused Thursday to hear a university professor’s final plea to halt his extradition to France, effectively ensuring he will face trial for the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. The decision brings to an end 60-year-old Hassan Diab’s six-year legal battle to avoid what he said would be an unfair prosecution in…

Farmers in Israel’s north and south came under attack in October and November in several incidents of theft that volunteer organization Hashomer Hachadash say are part of a spike in such crimes that is linked to the general tension between Arabs and Jews. Earlier this week, Arabs attempted to steal a water pump from a…

The bi-weekly paper The Capital City, which is distributed with the official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, featured a cartoon Thursday portraying Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick as a venomous snake. Terrorist Mutaz Hijazi, who attempted to murder Rabbi Glick on Oct. 29, is seen trying to strangle Rabbi Glick while saying: “You make…

Anti-racism activists in Norway have refused to participate in a Holocaust commemoration because members of the Jewish community were also invited to it, according to a Norwegian blog cited by the International Business Times (IBT). According to blog “Norway, Israel and the Jews,” Norwegian organization New SOS Racisme – which claims to act against racism…

The leaders of the Islamic State (ISIS) and Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, have agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday. A high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander told the news agency that the agreement was made in…

Spain is following in the footsteps of several other European countries, and its parliament plans to hold a vote next week on a resolution to recognize a Palestinian state, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Thursday. The non-binding, largely symbolic resolution, presented by the Socialist opposition party, will be debated in parliament on Tuesday, and…

One of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s close associates has in recent days hinted to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s associates that Lapid is considering quitting the coalition and forming an alternate government, Channel 2 News reported Thursday. “If you keep this up, we will establish an alternative government headed by Lapid in the current Knesset,” is…

Amid concerns that its citizens may join jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq and then bring terrorism back to their home country, Britain is announcing new measures against radicalized locals. Prime Minister David Cameron, who is visiting Australia, on Friday (local time) outlined plans to seize passports from radicalized Britons and stop them returning from…

As Israel’s security establishment warns of more attacks amid a recent spike of Arab terrorism, and soldiers are faced with more and more legal red tape in combating the threat, the nationalist group SOS Israel has come up with their own way to ensure the security of Israelis. The group, which also goes by the name…

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) unity government Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Thursday visited the mosque in Al-Mughayir, a village north-east of Ramallah in Samaria, which Arab locals claim was the target of a Jewish arson attack.  The mosque fire came the same night a firebomb was hurled at the ancient synagogue of Shefar’am in the Galilee causing…

Hamas terrorist Ibrahim Al-Akari of the Jerusalem neighborhood Shuafat murdered two Israelis and wounded over 13 others in the capital last Wednesday – four days later, the UN- and EU-funded Al-Quds University in Jerusalem honored him by naming a tournament after him. Al-Akari murdered Druze Border Patrol captain superintendent Jadan Assad and 17-year-old yeshiva student Shalom Ba’adani…

Police announced on Thursday evening that, unlike in previous weeks, they will not limit the entry of Muslim worshippers into the Temple Mount on Friday. Tensions and intelligence information about planned riots have in recent weeks caused the police to limit entry to the Temple Mount to men over the age of 35. However, this…

The so-called “military wing” of the Hamas terrorist group warned Thursday of renewed violence unless Israel allows the reconstruction of Gaza, AFP reported. “We are saying to all sides  — if the siege on Gaza and the obstacles for reconstruction remain, there will be a new explosion,” said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Izz…

Arab support for the jihadist Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is highest among Palestinian Arabs, according to a recent survey. A poll carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha gauged opinion on the Arab street regarding the current US-led campaign to “rollback” and ultimately defeat ISIS in Iraq…

Three and half months after 5 soldiers were killed near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in a Hamas terrorist infiltration during Operation Protective Edge, their families came to the scene Wednesday to commemorate and say goodbye to their loved ones.   The guard stand near the Kibbutz was attacked on July 28, when a group of Hamas terrorists…

The United States Army is denying Israeli media reports that it has purchased Iron Dome – the US funded missile-defense system that boasted a 90-percent hit rate in the recent Gaza conflict, Operation Protective Edge. “News reports about a sale of Iron Dome to the Army aren’t true,” Dov Schwartz of Army Public Affairs told Watchdog.org…

Yaakov Wieder, a member of the Likud presidium who chairs the party’s hareidi-religious task force, warned that if police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) do not take responsibility for harsh incitement against hareidi soldiers, the result could be murders. Wieder stressed: “There is a phenomenon of extremists raising their heads and stirring the streets against these…

A 17-year-old Palestinian from Ramallah was arrested late Wednesday night at HaParsa Junction, near Dolev in Binyamin, on suspicion of planning to stab a bus driver in Jerusalem.  Police officers from Modi’in Illit patrolling in the area noticed the suspect and stopped him to search his bag, where they found a large knife and a…

The Iranian military on Wednesday released a video of what it claimed was the successful maiden voyage of a drone it copied from an American unmanned aircraft that crashed in Iran three years ago, ABC News reported. Officials in Washington, however, downplayed the Iranian showcase. The footage, broadcast on Iranian state television, shows an aircraft…

Congressional lawmakers are warning President Barack Obama they will work to increase sanctions on Iran if the administration makes what they consider a bad deal over Tehran’s nuclear program, USA Today reports. “We believe that a good deal will dismantle, not just stall, Iran’s illicit nuclear program and prevent Iran from ever becoming a threshold…

One of the ZIM shipping company’s cargo ships was attacked by pirates Wednesday afternoon in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, adjacent to Somalia.  Security guards stationed aboard the transport ship repelled the attack by the group of pirates who attempted to abduct the ship while in the middle of open waters.  The incident occurred as the Israeli…

US President Barack Obama has asked his national security advisors to determine a new strategy for the war against Islamic State (ISIS).  The key issue is Syria, senior US officials and diplomats told CNN, as the President has realized it may be impossible to defeat the terrorist organization without a political transition in Syria and the…

Temple activist Yehuda Glick posed Thursday for his first photo since he was shot point blank by a would-be assassin two weeks ago. He is seen in the photo with his wife, Yafi. “Praise G-d, Yehuda’s condition continues to improve,” Yafi told the press. “We are experiencing miracles every day and we see, before our…

Israel should not be complacent about the threat posed by as Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq and Syria, an Israeli expert has warned. While much of the world’s attention has been focused on the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) and its bloody campaign through both countries, analysts are increasingly warning of the growing threat…

The scent of possible early elections has not caused a meaningful shift in the public’s poilitical preferences, according to the latest Knesset Channel poll by Panels Politics. The poll gives Likud 22 seats, leaving it as the largest party. It is followed by the Jewish Home under Naftali Bennett, with 17 seats. In third place…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will hold three-way talks with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II Thursday night to discuss growing unrest in Jerusalem, officials said. “They will focus on ways to restore calm and de-escalate tensions in Jerusalem,” Kerry’s deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said. The talks will follow a…

Israeli do-it-yourself website construction platform Wix is set to advertise during the Super Bowl XLIX, writes Jewish Business News. The company will air a 30 second spot in the fourth quarter of the game, which will be broadcast on NBC on February 1st. Seth Winter, Executive VP-sales and sales marketing, NBC Sports Group and NBC Universal News Group,…

Mayor of Efrat, Lt. Col. Oded Revivi, does not believe sending additional forces into Judea and Samaria is the solution to the deteriorating security situation.  “These are difficult days, but remember increasing [tension, violence] is not only happening in Gush Etzion, but also in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem,” Revivi noted in a radio interview with Arutz…

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan on Thursday for talks aimed at calming a wave of violence gripping Israel. The meeting in Amman came hours after fresh clashes broke out in Jerusalem where Israeli police fired tear gas, percussion bombs and rubber bullets to disperse Arab rioters…

A young Frenchman whose father is Jewish died last month while fighting for terror organization Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, according to a Tuesday report in Israeli daily Maariv – illustrating the diverse nature of recruits streaming to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamist group. Raphael Amar, 22, was killed in October during fighting in Deir…

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said Thursday that he believes the current wave of violent terror attacks will continue. “I assume there will be more attacks and incidents in the near future,” Aharonovich told the crowd at the inauguration ceremony of the new Jerusalem District Commander.   “I have noticed though a decrease in the number of…

A mosque allegedly torched in a “price tag” attack near Shiloh may have been staged, one reporter revealed Wednesday.  On Wednesday night, a Channel One reporter visited Al-Mughayir, the village where the entire first floor of a mosque was allegedly targeted in a revenge attack against Arabs by “settlers,” as international media reported early Wednesday.  After visiting, the correspondent…

A university professor accused of the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue will learn Thursday whether Canada’s Supreme Court will hear his final plea to avoid extradition to France, AFP reports Wednesday.  Canada’s highest court is expected to decide Thursday morning whether it will hear Hassan Diab’s appeal of a lower court ruling and a government order to extradite him. The 60-year-old Diab, who…

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is to meet Washington’s top diplomat to discuss the upsurge in violence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, his spokesman told AFP on Wednesday.   The meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry will take place in the Jordanian capital at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) on Thursday, Nabil Abu Rudeina…

Thousands of Jewish Israelis were expelled from their homes during the 2005 Disengagement – but soon, some of them may have a chance to return. MKs Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) and Orit Struk (Jewish Home) have drafted a bill to restore Homesh and Sa-Nur to its former Jewish residents, Walla! News reports Wednesday night, as well as to…

MK Ahmed Tibi (Raam-Taal) on Wednesday once again verbally attacked an MK. This time, the target was MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home). The argument between the two occurred during a special discussion about last weekend’s incident in the Arab town of Kafr Kana, when 22-year-old Hir Alhamdan was shot and killed by police  after he lunged…

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Ukraine, Russian officials have insisted over the past several months – but local Jewish leaders say that life for Ukrainian Jewry is actually “safer and easier” than in the West.  Shmuel Kaminetsky, a rabbi in Dnipropetrovsk, noted that anti-Semitism in Ukraine is much lighter than in Britain or France,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a special meeting in his office between Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen Wednesday afternoon, after Gantz wrote Netanyahu complaining of mistrust between the IDF and ISA. Netanyahu instructed all parties to cease…

Israel has reportedly prevented members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel, set up to investigate “war crimes” allegations following last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, from entering the country. According to Channel Two, three members of the Schabas commission were refused entry into Israel from Jordan on their way to Gaza. The three UN-appointed…

Border Police officers were able to foil an attempted stabbing attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs on Wednesday night. The officers identified a suspect approaching them. They called on him to stop and found a commando knife in his possession. The man, an Arab resident of Hevron in his 20s, was arrested and taken…

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including three Jewish civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Mississippi in 1964, according to the Mississippi-based Clarion-Ledger. “From activists who fought for change to artists who explored the furthest reaches of our imagination; from scientists who…

The Egyptian military said one of its navy vessels came under a “terrorist” attack in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, leaving eight servicemen missing at sea, according to AFP. The military said in a statement that four boats used by the assailants were destroyed and 32 of the suspected militants were arrested. The Egyptian government is…

An Iranian official on Wednesday commented on recent reports that U.S. President Barack Obama had sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to the Al-Monitor news website, the official said that not only had Obama written letters to Khamenei, but that some of the letters were replied to. “The letters of…

Emergency crews on Wednesday rescued two window washers who were trapped on a hanging platform dangling perilously at the 68th floor of the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan, CNN reports. Rescue workers used a diamond saw to tear through three layers of glass panes — the thickest nearly two inches —…

The United States Wednesday sharply condemned Israeli plans to build 200 new Jewish homes in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, according to AFP, warning such moves would only “exacerbate” spiraling tensions in the city. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also denounced the alleged torching of a mosque blamed on suspected Jewish extremists calling it a “hateful and provocative” act and urging officials to investigate.…

Channel 2‘s main investigative news program, Uvda, has vindicated Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, who has claimed that the operation the IDF launched against Hamas’s terror tunnels was largely a product of his insistence. Uvda’s report determines that it was Bennett who repeatedly raised the subject of the tunnels at cabinet sessions…

A Border Police officer was arrested Tuesday after new evidence in a six-month-long investigation indicated that the officer used live fire instead of a rubber bullet, to shoot a 17-year-old Palestinian Arab rioter, Nadim Nuwara, during this past year’s Nakba Day (lit. “Day of the Catastrophe,” a reference to Israel’s founding) demonstrations.  The officer will…

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) told a Knesset committee Tuesday that in two weeks, she will submit a bill based on the US’s Foreign Agent Registration Law, in an effort to make it more difficult for hostile NGOs to operate inside Israel. The bill would mandate greater transparency on the part of NGOs that are funded by foreign governments, and cancel…

An Arab video propaganda video that has been circulating on the internet since Tuesday shows an IDF jeep driving away as a mob of Arab youths descends upon it. The incident took place at Nebi Saleh, according to news site 0404. The site initially reported that the video shows the soldiers behaving in a disgraceful way.…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas does not want to take responsibility of the Gaza Strip, because he is afraid of entering into a conflict against Hamas, accuse senior Israeli officials.  One of the officials told Walla! News Monday that “Abu Mazen is afraid to take responsibility for Gaza. The international community’s great hope that Fatah will come…

Danny Magner, Chairman of the Student Association (ASAT) at the Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, spoke with Arutz Sheva about ongoing Arab student protests – outside the gates of the campus.  “The Technion is an apolitical institution and it usually very calm and quiet here, except for during major events such as Operation Protective Edge…

Senior police sources told Channel 2 News Tuesday night that in their estimation, “the riots will end soon.” Arab riots erupted and spread across the country in the wake of the police shooting 22-year-old Hir Alhamdan in Kafr Kana in the Galilee. Alhamdan was shot after lunging at a police car and making stabbing motions toward the car’s…

Last week, I spoke to King Abdullah of Jordan, and I reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintain the religious status quo on the Temple Mount. I will continue to make every effort to restore calm, to restore quiet and security, so that all may enjoy the religious freedom guaranteed by Israeli law. But I regret to…

Following a reported act of arson against a mosque, Arabs are rioting at the entrance to Al-Mughayir, a village near Ramallah, and preventing police from entering the village. Arab sources blame “settlers” for setting the mosque on fire. According to AFP, Palestinian security officials said that “Israeli settlers started a blaze in a mosque… overnight, setting the…

Judea-Samaria residents have registered their discontent over recent changes to the bus system, Arutz Sheva has learned Wednesday, noting that the routes which lead to Jerusalem purposely stop on the outskirts of the capital city, forcing them to travel through areas where much of the recent violence by Arab extremists has taken place.  Representatives from several communities…

The Canadian-Israeli woman who volunteered to fight ISIS – at least, according to Voice of Israel public radio – is Jill Rosenberg, aged 31. She made aliyah in 2006 and served in the IDF’s Home Front rescue unit. She was arrested in 2009 and extradited to the US, after being charged with taking part in…

Two radical anti-Israel activists have been banned from entering the German parliament building for chasing a senior left-wing politician into a lavatory after he cancelled a meeting with them. The pair – American Max Blumenthal and Canadian-Israeli David Sheen – were invited to the Reichstag by members of the socialist Left party. But the party’s…

Senior IDF officers met Tuesday with senior Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials, to discuss measures aimed at easing tensions in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew-language Walla! news site, PA officials expressed a desire to bring calm to Judea-Samaria and Jerusalem – but also warned that they would “find it difficult to cope” if…

Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) has accused right-wing MKs who voted for the “Israel Hayom” bill this morning of hypocrisy. The bill passed its first Knesset reading this morning by 43 votes to 23, with nine abstentions. It has been criticized by many MKs and analysts as being undemocratic, given that it is essentially tailor-made to…

The Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem approved 200 apartments for construction Wednesday afternoon in various neighborhoods – including some beyond 1949 Armistice lines.  This is the first stage of the three to finally greenlight 600 units. In addition – possibly to ‘balance out’ the construction tenders – tenders are also due to be…

The Ku Klux Klan – once the foremost hate group in America, known distinctly for their white hoods and cross burnings – have stepped up a leafletting campaign distributing racist fliers throughout neighborhoods in the United States  It is a maneuver that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling an attempt to camouflage their declining stature…

Arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving several successive life sentences in Israeli prison, was transferred to solitary confinement Wednesday, following his attempts to inflame the situation in Judea and Samaria and encourage terrorism from behind prison walls. The Israeli Prison System internal court sentenced him to seven days in solitary confinement and a fine of…

Director Suha Arraf was ordered to return a grant of 600,000 shekel ($157,115) she received from the Economics Ministry for the production of the film ‘Villa Touma,’ on Wednesday, after introducing the film at international film festivals as being from “Palestine.”  The decision to retract the grant money was made by the Economics Ministry, under…

The Knesset plenum approved Wednesday in a preliminary vote the “Israel Hayom bill” that would shut down the nation’s largest circulation newspaper, which is distributed for free.  The bill was proposed by MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) and a group of MKs, including Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home. The bill passed by a 43:23 majority…

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has decided to cancel plans to fire numerous “ravashatzim” – the plural form of the Hebrew acronym “ravshatz” that stands for “military security coordinator” – who serve the Gaza Belt communities as security officers. The Defense Ministry had planned to fired numerous ravshatzim and reduce others to part-time employment. Chief of…

Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj apologized Tuesday and denied any Nazi sympathies after she came under criticism for imagery that resembled the Third Reich in a video, AFP reports.  In the video for new song “Only,” Minaj is portrayed as a powerful totalitarian dictator with a massive army – like Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Third Reich – with all…

A resident of the town of Neve Tzuf in the Binyamin region complained that an Israeli appliance chain refused to provide promised service – because their service personnel refused to “cross the line” into Samaria. The customer, who calls himself S., had purchased a washing machine from the Machsanei Chashmal chain. Cognizant of the well-known…

Almost 40% of the Jewish population in Israel believes in changing government policy surrounding Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount – even at the cost of bloodshed, according to a survey by the “Peace Index” published Monday by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute and the Evens Program for Solution Conflict Resolution at…

Border Policemen apprehended a 17 and a half year old Arab teen in Jerusalem’s Old City Tuesday night, after he was caught carrying a knife.  The suspect was interrogated and generally made threats against police, saying “ISIS and Hamas will take care of you.”  Hours earlier, a Molotov cocktail was thrown from Issawiya onto a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a statement on the current security situation in Israel on Tuesday, 24 hours after Palestinian terrorists killed 20 year-old IDF soldier Almog Shiloni and 26 year-old Dalia Lemkos hy”d in two separate stabbing attacks.  “We find ourselves facing a wave of incitement and terror which we have faced since the…

Hackers claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous and other international organizations have declared Friday as a “day of attack” against Israeli web sites. A post on a site belonging to the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Information Center said that November 14 would “be another round in the cyber-war against Israel.” The information about the attack was reported…

Arab students protested outside Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) on Tuesday, in a demonstration of support and solidarity with the terrorists who carried out several rock-throwing attacks near the Mount Scopus campus, which is near Shuafat.  The demonstration was held under tight security and included calls for “the liberation of Palestine” and against police and…

Police on Tuesday arrested 42 Palestinian Arabs who were in Israeli illegally. Of the detainees, 21 were shipped back to PA controlled areas, while the rest were held for questioning. The detainees were arrested as part of the new “no-tolerance” policy on PA Arabs in Israel illegally, in the wake of the murder of IDF…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Israelis and Palestinians to do everything they can to reduce the simmering hostilities and continue, through dialogue, on the path to peace. Ban’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said the Secretary-General expresses his deep concern about the upsurge in violence and killings over the past few days in Israel…

Is it for real this time? A Sinai-based jihadist group has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), a week after denying that it had done so. According to The Associated Press (AP), Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the jihadist organization that has carried out numerous attacks targeting Egyptian security forces, pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership is threatening to take individual Israelis to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. Speaking on Tuesday to the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, the PA’s envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, declared that the PA would take this action if it fails in passing its UN resolution calling for…

According to Forbes, ISIS tops the list with a $2 billion annual income and is the world’s richest terrorist organization – and the richest in the history of modern terrorism.  Experts estimate that ISIS currently controls 60% of oil reserves in Syria, and was able to take by force or negotiate with the seven major oil and gas reserves in…

While a fall in the price of oil is welcome to consumers around the world – and to consumers in Israel – it might not be all that great for Israel’s security, warn experts. That’s because the low price of oil is likely to drive Russia to make deals with countries that do not have…

Iran is not a friend of the United States and the sanctions against it should be maintained, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. Speaking by video to the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Netanyahu opened by responding to Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks at the same conference that he and…

In its latest showcase of military powers, Iran on Tuesday unveiled a new home-made long-range radar system, reported the semi-official Fars news agency. According to the report, Iran claims the new system, named Sepehr (Sky), has the capability of detecting satellite and space objects’ trajectories. “The Sepehr radar system covers a range of over 2,500…

The Almagor terror victims’ organization on Tuesday called on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch to take legal and administrative measures against arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, following his letter in which he called for “armed resistance” against Israel. In the letter to mark 10 years since the death of PLO leader Yasser…

Monday’s deadly stabbing attack in Tel Aviv – the first of two such attacks in a single day – in many ways marked an escalation in the recent campaign of Arab violence that has been simmering since the summer. Though all previous such attacks in recent months had taken place either in Jerusalem or the…

Police and the IDF have beefed up their presence in Judea, Samaria and the rest of Israel Tuesday, following two stabbing attacks Monday that have left two Jews dead and others wounded. On Tuesday morning, a Jewish man was lightly hurt when Arabs ambushed him as he drove his car on Highway 60 past Beit…

Arutz Sheva got the chance to speak with Nate Leipciger, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor who was honored on Sunday for his dedication to Holocaust education and spreading awareness about racism. Leipciger was given the first “Upstander Award” by Facing History and Ourselves, an organization that he says is dedicated to “tikun olam,” the Jewish concept of repairing…

One Palestinian was killed and two others injured Tuesday when a fuel truck exploded at the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in southern Gaza, medics said. “One worker was killed in the fuel area of Kerem Shalom and two others were injured, one seriously,” emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP. He said the victim was…

The Honenu legal aid organization has been leading the fight to defend IDF soldiers who face legal action for defending themselves in the line of duty, in addition to their representation of Judea and Samaria residents arrested for acts of self-defense, and nationalist activists who are wrongly accused by the courts. Now Honenu has launched…

Between secret letters and revelations made by American officials, there is a good amount of evidence suggesting US President Barack Obama’s administration is moving closer to Iran as part of an attempt for coordination against Islamic State (aka ISIS). To make sense of the complicated situation, Arutz Sheva spoke with Dr. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control and Regional Security…

At least 46 students have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a school assembly in Potiskum in the northeastern region of Nigeria. The suicide bomber was dressed up as a student, said police, when he blew himself up at a boys’ school in Yobe state. According to the BBC, police said that Islamist terror…

Mohammad Al Momani, Jordan’s Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications, says that official media in his country is dedicated to “extensively” covering Israeli “violations”, and that this coverage generally takes up to 70% of the reports, says official Jordanian news agency Petra. Momani met on Saturday with top officials of the political parties…

First Sergeant Almog Shiloni hy”d, who was murdered Monday by a terrorist in Tel Aviv, had always wanted to be a combat soldier. In an interview for the IAF website upon his induction to the military, Shiloni said: “I always wanted to be a fighter. I trained ahead of the enlistment, and ran for fitness.…

The Chief Rabbi of Holland, Binyamin Jacobs, was miraculously saved from being run over by an unknown driver. The incident occurred when Rabbi Jacobs exited his vehicle at a gas station to fill up. The Rabbi said that he was being watched by two youths “of Mediterranean extraction,” with one returning to his own vehicle…

Large IDF and police forces are fanning out in Israel’s large cities to head off “a very large terror attack” that the genocidal Islamist Hamas organization is believed to be planning against Israel. The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet) is also trying to prevent it by locating possible terrorists. Minister of Public Security,…

A Health Minsitry poll showed that while the large majority of Israelis are satisfied with the care they get in hospitals, about a quarter are not – because the staff, the feel, does not treat them properly. The poll of 500 representative Israelis was conducted by the Ministry between May and July of this year,…

The subcommittee for the Judea-Samaria’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee met Monday to discuss the demographic situation in the region – after studies revealed that it is unclear, exactly, how many people live in Judea-Samaria in total.  Panelists included representatives from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), representatives from Coordination of Government Activities in the…

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused the Islamist movement Hamas of trying “to destroy” efforts to broker “national unity” through a series of bomb blasts in Gaza last week. Hamas quickly hit back, describing the allegations as “lies, insults and disinformation.” In a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the death his predecessor Yasser…

Arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti urged the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership to give its backing to “armed resistance” against Israel in a letter published Tuesday as a wave of violence surged, according to AFP.  The call came after months of clashes in and around Jerusalem and a growing number of deadly terror attacks by lone individuals. So far, the Palestinian leadership has been…

MK Basel Ghattas (Raam-Taal) attacked Economics Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett Tuesday, after Bennett said that the Israeli Arab who was shot dead by police at Kafr Kana after lunging at them with a knife was a terrorist. Ghattas blamed the man’s death on Minister of Public Security, Yitzhak Aharonovich, who said…

US Vice President Joe Biden addressed the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America Monday, and took the opportunity to try to smooth over tensions between Jerusalem and Washington following the infamous “chickensh**” comments made about Israel’s prime minister by a senior Obama administration aid. Although he didn’t address the specific article in The…

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman reacted to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s comments at a rally marking 10 years since the death of Yasser Arafat, saying the two PA leaders are very similar – but that Abbas is “more dangerous.” During his speech in Ramallah, Abbas declared that “the Muslim world will not accept Israel’s…

The defense establishment is preparing for a scenario in which rockets will be fired from Gaza into Israel in identification with the terror attacks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Security officers in the Gaza Belt communities have been briefed, as have Iron Dome battery operators, and Iron Dome batteries have been deployed in…

Renowned Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz made it clear that the case must not be closed regarding the Obama Administration officials who personally attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with various epithets. The insults were widely reported in the international press after having been first reported in the New Yorker. Speaking with Newsmax TV this past…

At a Knesset discussion of the state budget MK Ahmed Tibi (Raam-Taal) lashed out at Jewish Home Chairman and Minister of Economy, Naftali Bennett. Tibi ranted: “Even Uri Ariel has testified that the fiery Naftali Bennet has in his room pictures of leaders and members of the Jewish underground, terrorists, suicide bombers – he calls…

Yishai Katz, the 50-year-old man lightly injured in the stabbing attack in Gush Etzion Monday spoke to press several hours later about his ordeal.  “I realized I was in mortal danger, and I realized that I should run. I defended myself with my bare hands,” Katz, a resident of Alon Shvut told Walla! News Monday.…

An Israeli woman is making world headlines after she joined the Kurdish fighters in Iraq. “I have decided to contribute my share to the Kurdish national effort,” the woman told Voice of Israel public radio. She has been identified as a 31-year-old olah (immigrant) from Canada who served in the IDF. She told Voice of…

The young woman murdered Monday evening has been identified as 26 year-old Dalia Lemkos from Tekoa in Gush Etzion.  She will be laid to rest Tuesday morning at 10;00 a.m., in Tekoa. She was stabbed to death and two other people were wounded in a terrorist attack at a hitchhiking station outside the town of Alon Shvut…

Only hours after a firebomb was hurled at a kosher restaurant in the 17th district of Paris, a group of French teenagers assaulted a Jewish boy outside of his school.  The attack took place Thursday in the 3rd district, outside of private high school Progress – known for having a large number of Jewish students.  The…

Almog Shiloni, the 20-year-old IDF soldier who was critically wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack at the entrance to Tel Aviv’s Hahagana train station on Monday, has died of his wounds. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics tried to resuscitate the victim at the site before sending him to Tel-Hashomer Hospital where he was brought to…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday appointed a five-member panel to investigate Israeli strikes on UN shelters during the Gaza war, as well as the discovery of Hamas weapons at UN sites. Ban announced plans to set up a probe during his visit to Gaza last month after describing the three alleged Israeli shellings…

India and Israel Monday successfully tested the Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LRSAM) in Israel, an official statement said. The test was done by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in the presence of scientists of India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and officials of the Indian armed forces. The LRSAM system has been jointly…

Israeli officials have reacted strongly to the two terrorist stabbing attacks that occurred Monday – the first in Tel Aviv and the second in Gush Etzion – with MKs calling on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to truly fight Arab terrorism. In an official statement, President Reuven Rivlin urged national unity in the face of ongoing…

Dr. Craig Spencer, who was diagnosed with Ebola in New York City last month, is now free of the virus and will be released from the hospital Tuesday, city officials said Monday, according to CNN. “Dr. Spencer poses no public health risk and will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow,” the New York City Health…

Shocking footage has emerged showing the moment an Islamic Jihad terrorist launched a murderous attack on a group of civilians waiting at a bus stop outside the town of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion. The video shows how Maher Hamdi al-Hashalmoun first drove his car into the bus stop, knocking over and injuring his victims. Chillingly,…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said on Monday that a UN envoy’s proposal to implement a ceasefire in the embattled northern city of Aleppo was “worth studying,” reports The Associated Press (AP). The envoy, Staffan de Mistura, first raised the idea of small-scale, localized and negotiated truces in Syria at the United Nations in New York…

There were conflicting reports on Monday regarding FIFA’s position on Qatar’s hosting the 2022 World Cup. While the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that FIFA president Sepp Blatter told members of the Norwegian FA that “the 2022 World Cup won’t take place in Qatar” during a dinner held in October, the international federation later denied…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Monday urged the international community to condemn the latest terrorist attacks against Israelis, saying that ignoring terrorism is the same as supporting it. “I will be perfectly clear: Ignoring incitement and terrorism is similar to supporting terrorism,” Prosor told reporters in New York, hours after two…

The United States on Monday condemned the two stabbing attacks in Tel Aviv and in Gush Etzion, while urging both Israelis and Palestinian Arabs to ease rising tensions. “We strongly condemn the stabbing today in the West Bank, and we deeply regret the loss of life,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, in a statement…

An Iranian official said on Monday there was no progress in two days of nuclear talks with the United States and the European Union in Oman, Bloomberg reports. Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, said that “after hours of talks we are still not in a position to say we have made progress and we…

The Knesset approved on Monday night the first reading of the state budget for 2015. 58 MKs voted in favor of the proposal, and 46 voted against. No one abstained. The budget is to be taken to the various Knesset committees which will discuss it and prepare it for its second and third readings, but…

Gaza’s “marine intifada” has escalated further, AFP reports Monday, after the Israeli navy apprehended six fishermen who were smuggling weapons into Gaza from Egypt.  The Israeli navy fired on two boats off the coast, officials from the Hamas-run security services told the news agency, leaving two fishermen wounded and four missing. It was not immediately clear whether the four…

Rapper Nicki Minaj is under fire Monday, after the racy video for her latest song “Only” that features rappers Lil Wayne, Drake and Chris Brown was revealed to be peppered with Nazi symbolism.  In the video, Minaj is portrayed as a powerful totalitarian dictator with a massive army – like Adolf Hitler, the leader of…

In a sign of the continually flagging security situation, an explosive was found on the side of the road Tzir Hazevel just north of Jerusalem in Samaria, which leads between Psagot and Beit El. The bomb was located by IDF forces who were conducting a brigade drill in the area. The road was closed to…

Residents of the Givat Assaf community in Samaria objected to the IDF’s conduct toward them Sunday, after the defense establishment allegedly ignored a serious threat to the Jewish residents from Arab terrorists.  The community, which has warned that the government has recently betrayed its position on recognizing it, received a report last Friday afternoon that…