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MK Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu) said Sunday that legislation to strip MK Hanin Zoabi of her Israeli citizenship would soon be introduced. Ilatov slammed Zoabi for her equation of the IDF with ISIS, the Islamic State, which has conquered large portions of Iraq and Syria. In an interview Sunday on Channel Two, Zoabi said that…

Hamas’s so-called “military wing”, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is claiming that Israel is holding the bodies of two of its field commanders, the Turkish Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday, citing a Palestinian Arab source. According to the report, the two went missing during Israel’s self-defense Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer. After…

The tensions between Hamas and Fatah continued Sunday, as Hamas urged the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Fatah’s Mahmoud Abbas, to facilitate the entry of construction material into Gaza. “Reconstruction of Gaza is one of the most important tasks the PA should carry out according to the reconciliation agreement, but on the condition that there…

The talks between world powers and Iran “are moving in the wrong direction”, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz warned on Sunday. In an opinion piece entitled “Don’t Make a Bad Deal With Iran”, which was published in The New York Times, Steinitz wrote that Israel “is deeply concerned about the trajectory of the ongoing negotiations concerning…

On Sunday morning, Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – were appalled to find that Muslim worshippers had daubed anti-Semitic graffiti equating the Jewish Star of David to the Nazi swastika. Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick first uploaded a photo of the shocking graffiti onto his Facebook account, along…

The Jewish community of Hungary has expressed great concern in recent days, following the results of local elections, where far-right party Jobbik has become the second largest party in Hungary, after winning control of fourteen cities and towns. This represents a significant achievement for the party – which, in the previous local elections four years…

Benjamin Disraeli once said “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of Earth and of Heaven” – and indeed this city embodies Mankind’s aspiration to a higher cause. Unlike other ancient cities Jerusalem is very much alive, full of activity and offering unrivaled possibilities to…

Residents of the Binyamin region community of Dolev (54km/33 miles outside of Jerusalem) protested over safety cutbacks on Saturday night, demanding that the IDF increase patrols in response to a local outbreak of terror.  Several fires and incidents of vandalism have been reported in the area, as well as break-ins by Palestinian Arabs in nearby…

“Code red” sirens heard early Sunday morning have been declared as ‘false alarms,’ by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), as no rocket was found to have hit Israel. Sirens sounded throughout the Negev and Ramat HaNegev Regional Councils, as well as in the Gaza Belt area.  This is just one incident in a series of…

Spain will begin training Iraqi forces later this year to battle Islamic State (ISIS) forces, Associated Press reported. However, Spain has ruled out taking part in ground operations in Syria, officials said Saturday. Defense Minister Pedro Morenes made the announcement in Washington, after meeting Friday with US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. “We could be starting up by…

The phenomenon of biker gangs joining the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) has become international, the British Daily Mail reports Sunday, after a German motorcycle club has pledged to go to Kobane, Syria, to fend off the Islamist invasion.  The Cologne-based Median Empire Motorcycle Club has strong Kurdish links, according to the daily, and have recently posted…

A survey by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs demonstrates the resistance of a vast majority of Israelis to Palestinian statehood, the division of Jerusalem and giving up the Jordan Valley, Israel Hayom reports Sunday.  The newspaper reported that in response to the question of whether the spread of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq altered one’s…

Ten civilians have allegedly been killed by US airstrikes in the last several days, a rights group said, but Washington claims there is “no evidence” to back up the report.  According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), seven civilians were killed on Friday when an air strike hit a gas plant near…

Two of the most destructive anti-Semitic blood libels of the Middle Ages have been brought back to life by the Palestinian Authority to promote hatred of Israelis, reports the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). In July, the official PA daily wrote that Jews use the blood of Palestinian children as the ingredient in matzah – unleavened…

Planning councils in northern Israel on Sunday approved a plan to develop a major tourist center in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. The project will include hotel rooms, places of entertainment, retail and service centers, and transportation services. The plan was developed last year by the Kiryat Shmona local council, in an attempt to…

The partnership holding the license for drilling at the Tamar natural gas site on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding with Egypt to export Israeli gas to the world’s largest Arab state. Israel will sell as much as 2.5 billion cubic meters (BCM) of gas to Egyptian industrial, non-governmental customers. The gas will be shipped…

Anat Ariel, whose daughter, Captain Tamar Ariel z”l, was killed in an avalanche in Nepal’s Annapurna Ridge last week, said that she had not worried when Tamar went on the trip, because she knew her daughter was a very responsible person. “I was not worried on her trip to Nepal,” she told IDF Radio. “The…

The latest “survivor” of the Holocaust has been discovered by the Shem Olam Institute in Kfar Haro’eh. A parchment of the Scroll of Kohelet, a tome written by King Solomon and traditionally read on the Sukkot holiday, was recently found, and will be put on display by the Institute. The scroll, researchers said, was apparently…

Politicians and community leaders slammed the Bnei Sakhnin soccer team for its support of ex-MK Azmi Bishara before a game over the weekend. MK Amnon Cohen (Shas), head of the Knesset State Control Committee, said that he would personally head an investigation into where Bnei Sakhnin was getting its funding. “We must re-examine the criteria…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have showed incredible bravado, boasting to the Western world that they would “overcome” an international coalition and military campaign hours after airstrikes pummeled their Syrian stronghold. But even ISIS became unnerved over the weekend, after multiple security breaches were shown to have revealed sensitive intelligence on the group to the international…

While tensions remain high in South Tel Aviv between Jewish residents and illegal immigrants from Africa – with many Jews saying they fear to go out because of the high crime, anti-social behavior and other issues the illegals have brought in their wake – a group of about 150 members of the Young Leadership of…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman responded on Saturday night to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett’s fiery response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s linking of peace talks with ISIS. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Liberman said Bennett’s criticism was harmful and did little more than gaining him a few more votes. “We’ll go to the facts:…

A plane carrying seven Israelis who were injured in Tuesday’s avalanche along the Thorong La mountain pass in Nepal landed at the Ben Gurion International Airport on Saturday night. From the airport, the injured were taken by ambulance to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and to the Tel Hashomer Hospital for treatment. 30…

The Bnei Sakhnin soccer team, a team based in the Arab-Israeli city of Sakhnin, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) east of Akko in northern Israel, caused outrage on Saturday night when it honored former MK Azmi Bishara before a game. Bishara fled to Qatar several years ago, after it was revealed that he had passed information…

Military forces in Egypt arrested the leader of the military wing of the Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis in north Sinai, the website of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper reports. The arrest took place on Friday, according to the report. An official source said that the leader, Walid Attalah, is suspected of orchestrating an RPG attack late Thursday in…

U.S. President Barack Obama revealed over the weekend that his credit card was “rejected” at a New York restaurant last month as he was visiting the United Nations, USA Today reports. “It turned out I guess I don’t use it enough — so they thought there was some fraud going on. Fortunately, Michelle had hers,”…

The man behind the controversial Facebook movement to encourage Israelis to move to Berlin for economic reasons is “shocked” at the ripple effect his campaign has caused, Channel 10 reports Saturday night.  Naor Narkis, 25, began the Facebook page exposing the lower cost of living in the German capital earlier this year. But he never imagined…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) called Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas an “anti-Semite” on Saturday, after Abbas called to stop Jews from visiting the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – “by all means.” Abbas is trying to “inflame” tensions in the region, Liberman said.  “The words reveal, again, the true face of…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman called Jews visiting the Temple Mount a “herd of cattle” on Saturday, less than 24 hours after he incited violence against Jews visiting Judaism’s holiest site and called to prevent their access “by all means.”  “The Palestinian leadership will be taking the necessary legal measures, at the international level, regarding the aggression…

A shirt design has caused more than a fashion faux pas, Channel 10 revealed Saturday, after similarities were drawn between the pattern printed and the symbol for the Nazi SS. Mango, a popular European women’s brand, has debuted a shirt covered in tiny lightning bolts reminiscent of the SS logo.  Ironically, outrage over the shirt broke due…

The US State Department highly disparaged the remarks of Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) against Secretary of State John Kerry’s linkage of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and ISIS, claiming that Bennett was “distorting” the remarks for his “own political purposes.”  “I would take issue with the part of your question that Israeli leaders, plural, have…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized Economic Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Saturday night, after the latter issued a fiery response to the words of US Secretary of State John Kerry Friday linking peace talks with ISIS.  According to Ya’alon, Bennett’s criticism lacks respect for the financial and diplomatic support the US has provided for…

Thirty-nine people have been killed and sixty people are missing after Tuesday’s avalanche along the Thorong La mountain pass in Nepal, military and police officials said Saturday night. Meanwhile, 36 Israelis have yet to contact their families since the disaster, which occurred roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) northwest of the capital city of Katmandu. Alarm for their…

Three teenage girls from Toronto attempted to join ISIS, the Toronto Daily Star reported Friday, in order to become the brides of Islamist terrorists.  All three girls, aged 15-18, are of Somali heritage, according to the daily; two were sisters.  The three attempted to enter Syria via Turkey – boarding a flight from Toronto to Cairo, then…

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday encouraged Islamists to continue efforts aimed at preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, calling on Palestinian Arabs to prevent “settlers” from entering the site using “all means” necessary. His comments came days after Israeli police once again clashed with Muslim extremists protesters violently demonstrating against…

An Israeli citizen feeling unwell arrived Saturday at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where he was rushed into isolation after he said he had recently returned from Africa.  The hospital staff decided not to take chances and took “Ebola procedures” for fear that the man had contracted the disease.  However, the man was admitted…

Manal Mousa (25) and Haitham Khalaily’s (24) attempt to win ‘Arab Idol’ is no less dramatic than the obstacles they need to overcome just to participate in competition which takes place in Lebanon, where Israelis are barred from traveling. Their goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world’s premiere television song competition. But the…

US hits Islamic State positions in Syrian town of Kobani after US general says US’ mission was to ‘defeat and ultimately destory’ Islamic State by aiding Iraqi army. US fighter aircraft launched six air strikes on Islamic State positions near Kobani, Syria, and its allies hit militant targets in Iraq, the US military said on…

Organizers of the Facebook protest urging Israelis to move to Berlin have claimed there are 9,300 Israelis who want to emigrate to Germany – but the statistics tell a different story, in which the number of Israeli émigrés is in fact rapidly shrinking. In 2012, just a year after the massive wave of social protests…

In the heart of Tel Aviv’s secular club scene, Jews rejoiced in the Torah on Thursday night for the second hakafot, a set of additional celebrations at the end of the Simchat Torah holiday that comes after Sukkot. Arutz Sheva was on scene to witness the rejoicing taking place in Tel Aviv’s iconic Barby Club, where Yoni Genut…

Israel last Wednesday asked the UN to demand the disarmament of the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon a day after it wounded IDF soldiers with two explosives set on the border – instead, this Thursday the UN sent an envoy to chat with the terror group’s deputy leader. UN special envoy to Syria Staffan…

Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is outraged after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials dismissed Ebola after a “cursory” exam of an African man, who died on a plane to JFK Airport Thursday in a fit of vomiting. The unnamed 63-year-old had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria the night before,…

The US is working directly with Kurdish fighters in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, the State Department announced Thursday, in order to defend the city of Kobane along the Turkish-Syrian border.  The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, part of Democratic Union Party (PYD), is in contact with US officials outside the tumultuous region, State Department…

With the self-imposed deadline of November 24 looming over the negotiations between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) and Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and effective ruler, tweeted a graphic last week which outlined Iran’s 11 “Red Lines for Nuclear Talks.” These included a “red line” of…

In a touching tribute to one of Israel’s 66 fallen soldiers during last summer’s 50-day war, the town of Benei Re’em in Israel’s central Nahal Sorek region held its fifth annual charity run, and dedicated it in the memory of IDF soldier Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin h”yd. Goldin, an officer in the IDF’s elite Pulsar…

The search continues on Friday for hikers still missing since the lethal avalanche on Nepal’s Thorong La mountain pass Tuesday, in which three Israelis have already been confirmed among the 27 dead found until now. Nepalese rescue teams are trying to rush the search for those stranded in the deep snow drifts amid fears that…

The Jerusalem Light Rail should not go through Arab neighborhoods, a former Jerusalem District Police Commander claimed Friday – after multiple incidents with the system have led to an influx in intracity terror.  “I wish there was someone on the Israeli police that would make a decisive move regarding this,” Commander (ret.) Aryeh Amit stated…

Arab terrorists hurling molotov cocktail firebombs at Jewish homes, trying to burn entire families as they sleep – it has become part of a routine of terror in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, where a “silent intifada” has been raging under the radar of major news outlets. A new video shows just shocking and potentially…

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed on Friday that the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has begun training pilots on three captured fighter jets, relying on the knowledge of Iraqi pilots who have joined the group. Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the monitoring group, said witnesses in northern Syria have seen the…

Members of the Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, part of the Islamic Front coalition, blew up a Syrian army post on Tuesday by digging attack tunnels in rocky terrain – similar to that of the Israeli-Lebanese border – in an incident further raising fears that Hezbollah may use the same techniques. Al Jazeera Arabic reported on…

The UK’s National Union of Students (NUS) has rejected a motion condemning the radical Islamic State terrorist group – also known as ISIS or ISIL – on the grounds that it could be considered “Islamophobic,” sparking a row over the dominance of radical-left groups within the student body.  The decision by NUS’s National Executive Committee…

Anticipating yet another Muslim “day of rest” on Friday punctuated by the explosions of fireworks, rocks and general mayhem on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, Jerusalem District Police Chief Yossi Pariente decided to limit entry for Muslim visitors. Muslim male visitors will be limited to those over the age of 50, in…

France moved closer Thursday to adopting a new, tough anti-terrorism law which would slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate approved the draft law, AFP reports. The bill comes as authorities are increasingly wary about the number of French citizens and residents travelling to fight…

The Jewish neighborhood of Kidmat Tzion, located in eastern Jerusalem adjacent to Abu Dis, celebrated ten years on Thursday with a surprise guest – Israeli mizrahi (“oriental”) music superstar Kobi Peretz, one of Israel’s top singers. Peretz highlighted the festivities that were attended by many figures leading the struggle to maintain a Jewish presence in…

The Israeli army is to investigate the reported killing of a Palestinian teen during a clash near Ramallah Thursday.  The youth, 13, was killed Thursday by IDF gunfire in the course of an attack on soldiers at Beit Lakia, northwest of Ramallah. A military source told Arutz Sheva that the confrontation began after an IDF…

Parents in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood called Magen David Adom paramedics to their home on Thursday during the Shemini Atzeret holiday, after their three-year-old daughter showed signs of being poisoned. The toddler was defined as being in lightly wounded condition, after apparently suffering the effects of a recent application of pesticides that were sprayed in the…

Once of the main sources of information coming out of Nepal after the recent deadly avalanche has been the country’s Chabad Center in the country’s capital, Kathmandu. Israeli Rabbi Hezki Lifshitz, who runs the center, has been following developments closely; at least three Israelis are among the dead and 13 others were wounded in the…

Fuel-tank problems on his US Air Force plane forced Secretary of State John Kerry to fly home from Vienna on a commercial airliner. The grounding left Iranian negotiators in Vienna chuckling at what they said was the irony of the situation, reports Washington Wire. “So it is not just our planes,” Iranian Foreign Minister Javad…

Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane, along the Syrian-Turkish border, say they have succeeded in pushing out Islamic State forces from most of the city. Intensified US airstrikes are said to have played a decisive role in enabling Kurds to mount a counterattack after holding out against the odds for over a month…

Former US President Jimmy Carter established an office of his Carter Center human rights group in Egypt in 2011, when Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood movement was voted in as president – now he is pulling out amid a crackdown on the Islamist group. In addition to closing the office in the Nile state,…

An Israeli woman killed in the Anapurna Ridge avalanche in Nepal has been identified as Lt. Tamar Ariel, 25, of Masuot Yitzchak. Ariel had made history in 2012 when she became the IAF’s first religious female navigator. She had served in that capacity in the Ha’emek Squadron, based at Ramat David in the Galilee. She…

A senior IDF commander responsible for the Gaza region has revealed that the IDF was caught off guard by the number of Hamas terror tunnels leading into Israel – and warns that there likely are more tunnels remaining, ready for use in attacks. An engineering unit captain in the Gaza Division identified only as Lt.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an evaluation on Thursday evening to check state agencies’ preparedness for the Ebola epidemic currently spreading around the globe. Present at the consultation were Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid), Health Ministry Director Gen. Prof. Arnon Afek, and Ben Gurion International Airport Director Shmuel Zakai. In the meeting, a briefing…

The Palestinian Arabs will not have a “state” but rather an “autonomy”, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the Israel Hayom daily newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. “Our efforts to create shortcuts over the last two decades — from Oslo until present day — have all failed,” he said. “We know how to live with…

The U.S.-led military mission against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) now has a name – Operation Inherent Resolve, The Hill reports. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, announced the name on CNN on Wednesday, according to the report, ending months of uncertainty over what to call the operation which began in…

Gunmen have assassinated a Syrian lawmaker in the restive central province of Hama, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday, citing Syria’s state-run news agency and a government official. The Syrian news agency SANA said the parliamentarian, Waris al-Younnes, was gunned down while travelling on a road linking the city of Hama with the town…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday evening that one Israeli was among the dead in an avalanche in Nepal. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the victim’s family has been notified and that local search and rescue operations will resume at dawn on Thursday. The Department of Israelis abroad, the Foreign Ministry’s situation…

U.S. warplanes hit Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists with 18 bombing raids near the Syrian town of Kobani Wednesday and Tuesday, to support besieged Kurdish militia there, Central Command said, according to AFP. The latest raids targeted several ISIS positions and 16 buildings occupied by the group, the military said. U.S. fighter jets and attack aircraft…

A senior member of Hamas said on Wednesday that ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arab factions will resume in Cairo later this month. The announcement by Khalil al-Haya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, was reported on the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network. The Egyptian-mediated talks are meant to cement an open-ended ceasefire agreement announced…

A senior U.S. official said on Wednesday that a deal on Iran’s nuclear program was still possible by late next month and there were no talks now about extending the deadline, Reuters reports. Speaking before a meeting between the U.S., Iranian and European Union foreign ministers, the State Department official said “we’re working on creative…

Anti-Israel British MP George Galloway will not be prosecuted over remarks in a speech during which he declared that his constituency, Bradford, was “an Israel-free zone”, reports Jewish News Online. The comments, made by the Bradford West MP in August, caused an outcry on social media and complaints were made to West Yorkshire Police. On Wednesday, the…

Hundreds of Jews began ascending to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – on Wednesday, in honor of Hoshana Rabba, the seventh and final day of Sukkot. However, the police closed off the Mount to visitors at 10:15 a.m., because of Muslim rioting that was led by Arab Knesset members.  Police said…

Four hikers were killed in an avalanche in Nepal on Tuesday, in a natural disaster that claimed the life of an Israeli tourist along with two Polish tourists and a Nepalese guide. The avalanche occurred on the Thorong La mountain pass, located roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) northwest of the capital city of Katmandu, Nepalese…

Arieh King, Jerusalem councilman and director of the Israel Land Fund, told Arutz Sheva about the struggle he has been engaged in over the last year to keep a block of buildings in the “Eshel Avraham” Georgian neighborhood area of eastern Jerusalem in Jewish hands. The site in question consists of a dunam of property, and three…

After it was revealed last Friday that a Jewish girl was among 100 French women and girls joining the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, another Jewish girl has been revealed as having joined ISIS – and trying to blow up her parents’ shop for jihad. The girl, a 17-year-old identified…

Women FOR the Wall (WFW), a grassroots organization of traditional women dedicated to preserving the sanctity of the Western Wall, has issued a challenge to the most recent campaign launched on Jerusalem city buses by the ultra-liberal group Women of the Wall (WoW). While the signs call on young girls to celebrate their Bat Mitzvot…

Pressure from the Chief Rabbinate and the Derech Emuna Rabbinic organization has succeeded in causing police to cancel an evangelical Christian prayer service, that was planned for Wednesday at the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, near the Hulda Gate. International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) organized the prayer vigil for the “restoration” of Jesus and called on…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has perpetuated another “drug libel,” Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday – a continuation of the anti-Semitic trope (“blood libel”) whereby Jews are accused of purposefully harming their neighbors in odd and counterintuitive ways.  In this round of Palestinian incitement against Jews, the Governor of Ramallah Laila Ghannam claimed in an official PA TV interview that Jews…

Former Chief Military Rabbi, Brigadier General Rabbi Avichai Ronski, who served as a company commander in Sayeret Shaked during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, recounted his experiences of Simchat Torah 41 years ago.  Tuesday night, the Rabbi led a Torah study in honor of Hoshana Rabbah, in Lod. As part of the night of…

Rescue forces are trying to locate missing persons after an avalanche Tuesday in the Annapurna Mountain Range – 160 kilometers northwest of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.  BBC reports that at least sixteen people, including 3 Israelis, were killed in the avalanche. Other deaths includes 3 Polish tourists, a Vietnamese and 9 Nepali guides. Fourteen tourists, including 4…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is apparently still very upset over Economics Minister Naftali Bennett’s direct contact with IDF officers during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas. In an interview with the ultra-leftist paper Haaretz, Yaalon attacked Bennett without naming him. “A certain minister received a report from the field and said that there was a brigade (Givati)…

Tragedy occurred Wednesday on Hoshana Raba, the last day of Sukkot, as a car crashed into a sukkah booth traditionally dwelt in during the holiday, wounding a father and his one- and four-year-old sons. The incident occurred on Jerusalem’s Menahem Meshiv Street, in the capital’s northern Kiryat Zanz neighborhood. Apparently the crash happened after the…

An extraordinary exhibition into the later works of Rembrandt opened at the National Gallery in London on Wednesday, AFP reports, revealing the energy, innovation and empathy of the Dutch master right up to his death. Featuring about 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints loaned from collections around the world, “Rembrandt: The Late Works” is the first in-depth exploration into the final stage…

Nahal Oz, a kibbutz in the South located near the Gaza Strip saw its share of tragedy during this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge.   On July 28, a group of Hamas terrorists emerged out of a tunnel near Nahal Oz and killed five IDF soldiers. Nahal Oz was also home to 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was killed…

Opposition Chairman and Labor Party Head MK Yitzhak Herzog said Wednesday on IDF Radio that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu profits politically from Israel’s increased diplomatic isolation, claiming it deflects attention from his failed social and economic policies, including the high cost of housing. Relations between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are at all-time low,…

The Judea and Samaria district police emergency call center received a call on Monday night around 9:30 p.m. from four family members from the central coastal region who were driving home from Jerusalem and took a wrong turn – ending up in Ramallah. The police receptionist who handled the call reported to her unit captain…

The Israel Police will restrict the entry of Muslim worshipers to the Temple Mount on Wednesday, due to intelligence information that was received about plans by Arabs to riot at the compound, as they have done several times already in recent days. The decision was made by the Jerusalem District Commander of the police following…

The World Health Organization released an updated projection on Tuesday of the Ebola epidemic gripping the globe, and warned that by December the lethal virus may infect as many as 10,000 new people per week in West Africa. That figure represents more infections each week that the total 8,914 reported cases overall up until this…

Counter-extremism and pro-Israel groups are protesting the first ever London-based conference to encourage European states to trade with Iran following the easing of sanctions. Several grassroots and communal organisations published a joint letter urging prominent business people to withdraw from the two-day Europe Iran Forum this week. Some 200 business leaders are currently expected to…

The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime. “Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it’s no longer forbidden,” public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP. “You just…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday that any recognition of “Palestine” as a state must be “helpful to peace” as part of a two-state solution, and not just symbolic – a not-so-subtle criticism of the UK’s non-binding vote Monday to recognize “Palestine.” Britain’s move came in the footsteps of Sweden, which shockingly announced recognition of “Palestine” on…

The Islamic State terror group (also known as ISIS or ISIL) recently released what it says was a letter written by murdered American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff just days before his execution, and justifies his killing by noting that he was a Jew. Sotloff was beheaded by ISIS days after the first such execution of another…

Does yesterday’s symbolic vote in Britain’s parliament to recognize a “Palestinian state” reflect a failure on the part of pro-Israel advocacy groups to make Israel’s case effectively?   That depends on who you ask. According to Paul Charney, Chairman of the UK’s leading Israel advocacy (or “hasbara”) group the Zionist Federation, the answer is no.…

MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am-Ta’al) responded on Tuesday evening to MK Miri Regev’s (Likud) demand that he be dismissed from the Knesset for flying to London to convince parliamentarians to vote in favor of recognizing “Palestine”. Tibi, in his response, sarcastically suggested that Regev forgot to take her medication when she made her demand. “I’m surprised…

A Libyan already behind bars was indicted Tuesday on new charges arising from the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, including crimes punishable by the death penalty, the Justice Department said, according to The Associated Press (AP). The new 18-count grand jury indictment, which includes multiple counts of murder, had been widely expected…

A final deal on Iran’s nuclear program is still possible despite the difficulty of the negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, according to The Hill. “I don’t believe it’s out of reach, but we have some tough issues to resolve,” Kerry was quoted as having told reporters during a press conference in…

U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters on Tuesday that the effort to dismantle the terror group ISIS “is going to be a long-term campaign,” CNN reports. Obama’s comments were made after a closed meeting with the heads of foreign militaries. “There will be days of progress and there are going to be periods of setback,”…

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, thinks the United States, Israel and the “wicked” British government are behind the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terrorist group, Al-Akhbar reports. According to the report, Khamenei’s comments were made Monday, in his first speech since undergoing prostate surgery last month. “America, Zionism, and especially the veteran expert of…

A large factory for manufacturing rockets in the Sinai was discovered and destroyed by Egyptian security forces, the blogger Elder of Ziyon reported on Tuesday, citing Egyptian media. Authorities said that the rockets were being manufactured for the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis jihad group. Five tons of explosive materials were discovered and destroyed, according to the…

An explosion rocked the area near Egypt’s High Court of Justice in central Cairo on Tuesday night, government officials have confirmed. According to Al Jazeera, Brigadier General Abdel Fattah Othman, a spokesman for the ministry of interior, said nine civilians were injured in the blast. Most of the injuries were minor, he said. Bomb experts…

As has been widely noted in Israel, but quite scantly elsewhere in the world, the demand that Hamas be relieved of its lethal missiles has been all but forgotten. Media analyst and policy expert Dr. Aaron Lerner, head of the IMRA news agency, proposes that Israel issue work permits to Gazan Arabs on a one-for-one…

Some 60,000 people came to the city of Hevron Monday and Tuesday, to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles).  Of those, a record 40,000 flocked to the city on Monday alone, to attend a rally featuring musical performances and speeches by public figures. Musical performances combined singers from a variety of worlds –…

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abe Foxman expressed on Tuesday the League’s deep dismay at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s “stunning” bias in his recent remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The Secretary-General showed a stunning lack of objectivity on the issues surrounding the reasons for the recent violence in Gaza and inexplicable silence when it came…

The British parliament passed a non-binding – but possibly monumental – resolution Monday night to recognize the Hamas-Palestinian Authority (PA) “unity government” as “Palestine.” However, many of the MPs abstained from voting, a source told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday – not due to apathy about Israel, but due to fear of conflict and political turmoil in largely…

Sweden recognized “Palestine” on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, and on Monday the UK followed suit in a non-binding vote – now “frustrated” European officials reveal that they are ready to take their diplomatic war on Israel to the next stage. According to European diplomats who spoke to Reuters, the European Union (EU) is looking…

A US government-funded September 2, 2014 scientific quantitative transmission analysis study (the Spread-Risk Ebola Study) wholly contradicts and refutes Obama’s statements on September 16 that the chances of a US Ebola breakout are “extremely low,” Arutz Sheva has discovered. The study also contradicts the anti-travel ban claims made by the US, UN, WHO and CDC.…

Five senior Taliban leaders in Pakistan swore allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier this week – the latest in a series of regional leaders of local Islamist extremist groups pledging to the international terror organization.  The organization’s spokesman, reading the oath on audio tape, noted that Pakistani Taliban…

Israeli news media on Tuesday morning headlined an alleged ‘Price Tag’ attack on a mosque in the village of Akraba, near Shechem. The mosque was set on fire overnight, according to Palestinian Arab sources, who reported the alleged attack to Israeli authorities. Police said that they were aware of the report but had no further…

Israel warned Tuesday that a vote by British parliament in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state risked undermining the prospects for peace. “Premature international recognition sends a troubling message to the Palestinian leadership that they can evade the tough choices that both sides have to make, and actually undermines the chances to reach a real…

One day after the UK voted for a non-binding recognition of “Palestine,” a process urged forward by radical Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List) who flew to London to convince British MPs to vote for the motion, a call has risen in the Knesset to dismiss the notoriously anti-Zionist MK. MK Miri Regev (Likud)…

Islamic State (ISIS) has published a new edition of the propaganda booklet Dabiq, which is again signaling its primary enemy – Christianity.  On the cover page of the booklet is a photo of the Vatican bearing the ISIS flag, along with the terror group’s desires to conquer Rome and “break the cross.”  According to some Islamic…

Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) and Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino made an attempt at reconciliation on Tuesday, after a very public spat erupted between the two defense officials earlier this week.  The meeting was held in “good spirits,” the Israel police announced after the meeting, and noted that a public hearing will be…

The British parliament on Monday recognized the Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government as a “state” in a non-binding vote, but apparently the unilateral move was not enough to satisfy either Hamas or the PA. PA foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Tuesday urged London to “immediately recognize the state of Palestine,” calling for the non-binding…

A UN worker infected with Ebola has died in a Liepzig hospital Tuesday, after he traveled to Liberia to treat the disease as part of the organization’s relief effort.  The man, a 56 year-old doctor from Sudan, is the second person from the UN Mission In Liberia, or UNMIL, to have died of the disease.…

The Iranian negotiating team has left for a fresh round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear energy program scheduled to be held in Vienna, media reported Tuesday. The team is being led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to Iran’s Press TV. The Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported that Zarif is scheduled to meet European…

Israel began transporting construction materials into Gaza on Tuesday, in a “humanitarian gesture” to the Hamas-controlled territory which may be already rebuilding terror tunnels into the Jewish state.  The “aid” includes 600 tons of cement, 50 truckloads of aggregate and 10 truckloads of steel.  The office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories…

The British MP representing two of London’s primary Jewish neighborhoods resigned as a parliamentary private secretary on Monday, in direct protest of the UK’s vote to recognize “Palestine.”  Following the resignation – which he announced on Twitter – MP Mike Freer stated he had no regrets.  “I had to vote and it was therefore easy to…

On Monday, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal stated that “Iranian forces in Syria are occupying forces,” and that Iran must “pull its forces from Syria.” Prince al-Faisal made his statement at a joint press conference in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea city of Jeddah with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Al-Faisal’s legal designation…

Israel is joining a group of 41 countries, members of the World Trade Organization, that have agreed to drop all customs duties on goods that contribute to a cleaner environment. Among the participating countries are the US, China, Japan, and the EU countries. Combined, they account for nearly 90% of the trade in environmentally-conscious goods.…

The British parliament on Monday night officially voted in favor of recognizing the “state of Palestine”. The non-binding resolution was passed by 274 in favor to 12 votes against, to “recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel” as part of a “contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution”, according to AFP. The…

Prominent leaders of major Jewish and Christian global organizations announced a “historic” joint initiative on Monday, calling on world leaders to take urgent, determined actions to halt the brutal persecution of Christians in the Middle East in a Jerusalem press conference.  The joint initiative was unveiled at the Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) celebration sponsored by the International Christian Embassy…

A semi-public spat between Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) and Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino has sparked yet another scandal within the police, an anonymous officer related Monday – and provoked disgust for the system itself among its ranks.  Danino and Aharonovich traded barbs Sunday, after Danino stated in a Yediot Aharonot interview over the weekend…

Israelis seeking the latest and greatest in iPhone technology now have a date to look forward to. The iPhone 6 will be arriving here on October 23. The date was announced Monday by Apple’s official Israeli importer. The devices – both the iPhone and iPhone 6+ – are already being sold in Israel, by several…

President Reuven Rivlin addressed the annual conference of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, emphasizing the importance of interfaith cooperation after the announcement of a joint initiative to stop the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.    Rivlin delivered his speech in front of a crowd of 4,500 Christian supporters of Israel, who…

A new poll shows that two thirds of Israelis believe the women should have more of a role in negotiations with the Palestinians. A total of 75% of women and 59% of men said that including more women would have “a positive effect” on negotiations. The poll was initiated by a group supporting UN Resolution…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) told United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that it is important to oppose Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s unilateral moves to achieve statehood through the UN. Failure to do so, Livni told Ban, sends Abbas a message that he can avoid negotiations. “The Palestinians’ attempts to…

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz on Monday hosted representatives of all of the IDF’s military wings and divisions. The event took place at the Defense Ministry’s Sukkah in Tel Aviv. Those present included top officers and soldiers who had excelled in service from IDF land, sea, and air forces. Among those at the event…

The Israeli Embassy in London responded on Monday night to the British parliament’s passing of a non-binding motion to recognize “the state of Palestine”. In a statement, the Embassy said that Palestinian statehood can only be achieved through negotiations. “The road to a Palestinian state goes through the negotiating room. International recognition sends an alarming…

The sister of British hostage John Cantlie has appealed for “direct contact” with the “Islamic State” (IS or ISIS) terrorists holding him, the BBC reported on Monday. The journalist, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, has appeared in several videos released by ISIS. The latest video, the fourth in the series, was released on…

“Palestine” cannot be divided with the “descendants of apes and pigs”, said an imam in a recent sermon delivered in Denmark. The sermon, which was delivered by Sheik Muhammad Khaled Samha and posted to the internet in September, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). During the sermon, Samha said, “[Palestine] is…

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un has made his first public appearance for more than a month, AFP reported on Monday night, citing state media which said the leader visited a new housing complex in Pyongyang. It marked the first time Kim has been seen since early September an extended absence that fuelled intense speculation, including…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday a nuclear deal with the West was bound to happen and he believed it could be achieved by a November 24 deadline, Reuters reports. “We have reached consensus on generalities and there are only the fine details to be worked out: whether we would reach an agreement within…

Accusations are flying against both a doctor and the administrative staff at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, Channel 2 revealed Monday night, after miscommunication allegedly botched a liver transplant – killing the patient.  Six days ago, Dr. Hadar Merhav, the director of the Transplant Unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, received an alert that a patient…

The openly anti-Semitic Jobbik party in Hungary has made gains in local elections won convincingly by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling nationalist Fidesz, the BBC reported on Monday. Jobbik came second in 18 out of 19 counties, ahead of the Socialists, as in the May European elections, and won control of 14 towns and villages,…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has once again threatened to cut ties with Israel if his latest unilateral move at the United Nations (UN) fails. Speaking on Monday to reporters in Cairo, on the sidelines of the international donors’ conference on rebuilding Gaza, Abbas declared that his talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…

Yariv Oppenheimer, chairman of ultra-leftist group Peace Now, signed a police complaint Sunday alleging threats against his life by followers of nationalist activist Baruch Marzel. On his Facebook page, Oppenheimer wrote that he is “exiting the police station now, worried and pessimistic. The telephone won’t stop ringing and on the other end, human scum who…

“New Family,” an organization that promotes civil unions, gay “marriage” and adoption, single-mother families, sperm donations and other halakhically (Jewish legal) problematic endeavors in the realm of family, has taken down a controversial Facebook video against women’s ritual immersion in mikveh pools, reported Channel 2. The video that provoked intensely negative reactions showed a woman…

Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) on Sunday took part in celebrations at Itamar dedicating a new synagogue built in memory of terror victims from the Samaria town, and at the event vowed to end the construction freeze – not for the first time. Speaking at the dedication, the minister of housing said “enough of…

The Israel Navy has conducted a successful secret test of the Barak 8 missile, which is designed to defend ships from the much-vaunted Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles, reports Channel 2. The Yakhont missiles are one of the greatest threats to the Navy’s vessels, mostly because of their potential use by Syria and Hezbollah. The missile flies…

Three people were lightly hurt Monday morning as a result of a blast that occurred at a Paz gas station on Hahoma Hashlishit street in Jerusalem, not far from the Old City. Magen David Adom emergency rescue teams tended to the injured and evacuated them to hospital. The reason for the blast is not known,…

According to a senior diplomatic source in Jerusalem, the chances of a deal being reached on Iran’s nuclear program between it and world powers before the November 24 deadline are slim – but US President Barack Obama is liable to flex on several points, including the deadline. “When there’s a will on the part of…

New Israel Fund-linked groups have launched a two-pronged advertising campaign on Jerusalem’s buses; one by the Yerushalmit Movement, and the other by Women of the Wall – both NIF grantees. Women of the Wall’s ads encourage girls to have a Bat Mitzva ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel), featuring a girl wrapped in a tallit…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed “Palestinian extremists” for the constant barrage of Arab rioting on the Temple Mount Monday, vowing nonetheless to maintain the “status quo” of Jewish discrimination at Judaism’s holiest site.   “Israel is committed to maintaining the status quo exactly as it’s been for many decades. What we’re seeing is Palestinian extremists…

An Israeli Arab who has been missing and was rumored to be fighting for ISIS in Iraq has contacted his family. Mohammed Kalini, one of three residents of the Galilee village of Kfar Yafi’a, contacted the family, a relative said. Kalini confirmed that he and two other residents of the village had crossed the border…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fired at UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s insistence that the “occupation” justified Hamas’s launching over 3,600 rockets on Israeli civilians on Monday, in a series of remarks before a private meeting with the international figure.  Netanyahu began by noting that the entire concept of an “occupation” in Gaza has been…

A national-religious rabbinical organization has advocated the inclusion of women in Simhat Torah celebrations, ruling that women can – and, indeed, should – be allowed to dance in the women’s section of the synagogue during the hakafot prayer service.  The Beit Hillel (lit. “House of Hillel”) rabbinic organization released a ruling in its pre-holiday booklet earlier this week stressing…

Arabs on Monday were caught red-handed cooking up another “tree libel” against Jewish residents of Samaria. The Arabs were seen cutting down olive trees and demolishing fences in an Arab olive grove near Har Bracha in Samaria, apparently intending to blame the damage on Jews. Two volunteers working with the Samaria Residents Council caught the…

The brutal jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) terror group that has seized large portions of Iraq and Syria in recent months released the fourth edition of its English-language digital magazine “Dabiq” on Sunday, in which it encourages taking women as sex slaves as part of Islam. In the article in question from the digital publication, entitled “The…

Despite being a citizen of Israel and a member of the Israeli Knesset, radical Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List) is in London on Monday to take part in a diplomatic push urging the British parliament to recognize “Palestine” in a non-binding vote. Tibi is talking with British MPs of the Labor party, whose member…

President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady Nehama Rivlin opened their official home to the public on Monday morning, with this year’s Open Sukkah themed ‘Sukkot in the Environment” and hosted in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry for Environmental Protection. The aim of the event was to promote awareness of the importance…

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday ground troops will be a part of the campaign to combat Islamist terror group ISIS – but she repeated the Obama administration’s position that these must be Iraqi forces, and not U.S. troops, warning the effort to combat the terrorists who have seized large parts of both…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon toured sukkot booths in several communities in Judea and Samaria on Sunday, where he met with regional leaders on contemporary issues of government and defense.  Ya’alon visited the communities of Har Bracha, Beit El, and Eli – where he spoke with legislative and religious leaders, residents, and members of Likud.  During the…

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that the “occupation” is responsible for the recent war in Gaza. Ban, who spoke at the international donors’ conference on rebuilding Gaza in Cairo, was quoted by The Associated Press (AP). “We must not lose sight of the root causes of the recent hostilities: A…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have released a fourth propaganda video showing abducted British journalist John Cantlie delivering a message under duress, the Guardian reported on Sunday. In the 6 minute 53 second video, posted online by the group’s Al Furqan media outlet, Cantlie, who has been held prisoner for almost two years, said Islamic State…

Top federal doctors acknowledged Sunday that a “breach in protocol” resulted in a Dallas hospital worker getting Ebola while treating the country’s first patient, Fox News reported. According to the doctors, changes in the handling of such cases are being made. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,…

The son of a Hezbollah leader who was eliminated in Syria in 2008 is following in his father’s footsteps and has received a senior role in the Lebanese-based terrorist group, Israel’s Channel 10 News reported on Sunday. The report, which cited an interview given by an official in the Syrian opposition to CNN Arabic, said…

Turkey will let U.S. and coalition forces use its bases, including a key installation within 100 miles of the Syrian border, for operations against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq, American defense officials said Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP). The Obama administration had been pressing Ankara to play a larger role…

The widow of Dror Hanin, who was killed during Operation Protective Edge from a Gaza mortar as he gave out gift bags to soldiers, was a victim of a rock terror attack on Sunday. Arabs threw rocks at the widow’s car as she was making her way towards the city of Modi’in with her children…

Russia announced on Sunday that it will back Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s plan to ask the United Nations to impose a deadline for Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. “I cannot see any reasons to cavil about this text, or about the Palestinian people’s wish to say once again ‘let’s have a…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Cairo, following the international donor’s conference for Gaza, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The two discussed international efforts for rebuilding Gaza and reviving the Israeli-PA peace process, according to the report. Other officials were present at the…

The international donors’ conference on rebuilding Gaza, which began on Sunday in Cairo, left out Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s key demand for Gaza to be demilitarized. During Israel’s self-defense Operation Protective Edge in Gaza this past summer, Netanyahu demanded that the rehabilitation of Gaza be linked to its demilitarization. However, officials admitted to Channel 2…

Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin (Likud) attacked the Israeli police’s decision to close the Temple Mount to Jewish worshipers on Sukkot. Sukkot is one of the three Jewish pilgrimage holidays that in ancient times required Jews to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem – a practice maintained today.   The decision to bar Jewish worshippers comes following an onslaught…

Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya insisted that Hamas “would not abandon its weapons” on Saturday, boasting that the group is allegedly closer to defeating “the Israeli entity and its leaders” more than ever. “We say to those who brought the Jews [to Israel] from all over the world, we are now confident and believe more than…

The management of the Jerusalem Light Rail has long been faced with the phenomenon of rock-throwing Arab youths in eastern Jerusalem.  The damage caused to Light Rail trains in recent weeks has also caused significant traffic disruption in Israel’s capital. Saturday night saw four separate incidents of rock throwing in Arab neighborhoods. No one was hurt, but the…

Nefesh B’Nefesh is now receiving nominations for the second annual Bonei Zion Prize. The $10,000 award recognizes Olim from English-speaking countries who have made significant contributions to the State of Israel in the fields of science and medicine, community and non-profit, education, IDF and national service, entrepreneurship and technology, and culture, sports, and art. From…

In the past three years, more than 35 people were killed in accidents on Route 31 in the South of Israel.  Shmuel Aboav, Executive Director of Or Yarok – an association for safe driving in Israel – stated that there are no lights in many parts of the road, and that entrances and exits to communities…

A wildfire which broke out Friday night at 10 p.m. in the Golan Heights blazed for 12 hours until it was extinguished Saturday afternoon. The fire destroyed 750 acres of forested land, and killed numerous wild animals in the area. “I arrived at the area around midnight and realized that if we didn’t stop the…

The same “conditions” that “provoked” Hamas into waging a war on millions of Israeli civilians still apply, spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri claimed Saturday night.  “The conditions for the situation in Gaza exploding still exist,” Abu Zuhri stated to Al-Jazeera. “On the contrary, they are even tougher now than they were before the Israeli aggression in Gaza.”  Abu…

Thousands of Israelis and Jews from around the world gathered in the Western Wall (Kotel) plaza on Sunday morning, for the traditional Birkat Hacohanim (Priestly Blessing) ceremony held on Sukkot (the Feast of the Tabernacles).  Morning services began at 8:45 a.m. Mussaf services – including the ceremony – commenced at 10:15 a.m. Several public dignitaries, including Ashkenazic…

Leonard Petlakh, a local Jewish leader in New York City, was attacked by pro-Palestinian protestors outside the Barclay’s Center on Tuesday night, following a pre-season game between the Brooklyn Nets and Maccabi Tel Aviv. The event also included a dinner sponsored by Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF) in honor of the IDF.  Petlakh,…

Former Commander of the Israel Police’s elite Lahav 433 investigative unit, Menashe Arbiv, arrived at the Department for Investigations of Policemen on Sunday, where he will be interrogated for the first time over his alleged involvement in the Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto bribery case. Arbiv has been linked with the case for months. However, new investigations into his role in the corruption scandal…

The Airports Authority is gearing up to keep the Ebola virus from entering Israel, following a discussion of the international health emergency in the Prime Minister’s Office Sunday. The instructions to all authorities are to prevent unmonitored entry of passengers from countries with a high risk of spreading the Ebola disease. The Airports Authority has…

Students at Sapir College, headquartered in the missile-scarred city of Sderot, got a special gift for Sukkot. The Rothschild Caesarea Foundation, a family fund that seeks to promote education in Israel, said Sunday that it was awarding all Sapir students who fought in Operation Protective Edge this past summer a special grant of NIS 5,000.…

Palestinian Authority and Fatah leaders continue to assure Palestinians that participating in a peace process does not mean the end of Palestinian warfare against Israel, but only that the use of violence is on hold. This is the official position of the PA leadership, according to Palestinian Media Watch. Palestinian Media Watch has documented that…

Thirteen soldiers completed the IDF’s Climbing, Rappelling and Rescue course last week, after facing a slew of diffficult challenges both high above the ground and deep inside it. Now they will train the IDF’s elite units in rescue through the use of ropes, and tactical actions. The Climbing, Rappelling and Rescue instructors – referred to…

Israeli homebuyers are sitting on the fence, waiting for the passage of the zero-VAT initiative proposed by Finance Minister Yair Lapid – and the latest evidence of that fence-sitting was a sharp fall in the number of mortgages taken out by Israelis in September. Israeli banks wrote NIS 3.9 billion in mortgages in September, compared…

Masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh will be among 300 works displayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Emirate said Sunday, as it aims to become a leader in fine art. The museum, built at a cost of 500 million euros ($630 million) and set to open in December 2015, will feature…

President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday visited the central Israeli city of Lod, where he met with members of the Religious Zionist ‘Garin Torani’ )Torah seed group community). The visit was part of Rivlin’s “traveling Presidential Sukkah” program, in which he plans to visit communities around the country. The Religious Zionist Torah seed group community was…

After reports that an Israeli Arab had been killed fighting for Islamic State (aka ISIS) in Iraq, Israeli police said that the rumors that at least three other Arabs had gone to fight for the Islamist group were correct. The identities of the three are known, police said and the information on their identities and activities…

A report Sunday said that Muslims had attempted to kidnap a Jewish child on the island of Djerba, in Tunisia. The report said that three Muslim brutes had attempted to kidnap the 12-year-old Jewish child in the center of the Jewish neighborhood on the island last Wednesday, on the eve of the holiday of Sukkot.…

International envoys pledged about $5.4 billion in aid for the Gaza Strip at a meeting in Egypt on Sunday, Norway’s foreign minister said. “The participants pledged approximately $5.4 billion (4.3 billion euros),” said Boerge Brende, reading out a closing statement at the Cairo conference which Norway co-hosted. Half of the pledges will go for reconstruction…

Turkey said Sunday that using Turkey as a corridor to transfer weapons and assistance to Kurdish fighters trying to defend the border city of Kobane from Isis was “unrealistic.” Speaking to French media, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that a “more comprehensive” approach was needed to stop ISIS. “Turkey cannot actually give weapons and the civilians and…

About 3,000 people attended the traditional Sukkot reception at the home of Transport Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud). Among those attending was Culture Minister Limor Livnat, Coalition Chairman MK Yariv Levin, Deputy Transport Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin, Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee Chairman MK Haim Katz, and…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Sunday visited towns in Judea and Samaria, including Har Bracha, Eli, and Beit El. He met with residents and spoke with community leaders, while sampling the Sukkot hospitality of families in the towns. Among those Ya’alon visited were Yoni Yisraeli, chairman of the Har Bracha local secretary and a Likud…

Arab vandals destroyed the gravesite of the Hassidic leader, the Grand Rebbe of Modzitz, according to Modzitz hassidim who visited the site. The gravestone of the leader, Rabbi Yisrael Dan Taub, who died in 2006, was destroyed, along with dozens of others, including several well-known rabbis. The destruction took place at a special section of…

The head of extreme leftist group Peace Now, Yariv Oppenheimer, asked Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon Sunday to forbid IDF soldiers to eat at the home of nationalist activist Baruch Marzel in Hevron. “Recently,” wrote Oppenheimer in the letter to Yaalon, “the Facebook pages of several soldiers in mandatory duty and the reserves have featured photographs…

There’s “no indication” that North Korean autocratic leader Kim Jong-Un is no longer in power, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Sunday on NBC‘s “Meet the Press.” “Obviously, we are watching very carefully what’s happening in North Korea. It’s a country that we monitor with great attention,” Rice said in response to a question…

Canadian and US authorities are on the lookout for Abderraouf Jdey, a Quebec jihadist said to be fighting on behalf of the Somalian Al-Shabaab terror group. Jdey, born in Tunisia, lived in Montreal between 1991 and 1999. He was last seen in Canada in 2001, but officials fear that he is set to return. Jdey…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Saturday night held a coordination meeting regarding the Ebola outbreak, as well as the outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS) which originated in Saudi Arabia. The meeting, led by the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea and Samaria, Major General Yoav) Mordechai, was attended by…

A senior Iranian negotiator says nuclear talks with world powers could be extended again if no deal is reached by the November 24 deadline, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Saturday. The negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency late on Friday as saying that an extension is under consideration and…

A top leader of Egypt’s most active Islamist terrorist group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, was killed by Egyptian soldiers in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. The Reuters news agency, citing a military spokesman, reported that the incident took place on Friday. The spokesman said the leader, Shehata Farhan, was implicated in operations targeting police and…

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and his staff have received death threats from the “Islamic State” (ISIS) group, Costolo told Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit on Friday. According to the Vanity Fair magazine, after shutting down some of the group’s Twitter accounts, Twitter management dealt with calls for their “assassination.” “That’s a jarring thing for anyone…

The UK is anticipated to pass a non-binding vote on Monday recognizing “Palestine,” but members of the Labor party which proposed the move are reportedly holding an internal revolt against the forced vote. MP Ed Miliband is head of the Opposition and the Labor party, whose member Grahame Morris proposed the vote. His shadow Foreign…

In four separate incidents, Arabs threw rocks on Saturday night at the Jerusalem Light Rail, as it passed near Arab neighborhoods in the capital. No one was hurt but the windows of the trains sustained damage. In another incident in the capital, Arabs from the Abu Tor neighborhood hurled rocks at Border Policemen on the…

French intelligence revealed on Friday that 100 girls and young women have left the country to join Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Syria in recent weeks – and that shockingly, one of them was a Jewish girl. How the Jewish girl was ensnared by ISIS recruiters with their extremist anti-Semitic jihadist ideology remained unexplained by…

While many Israelis were outraged by a recent anti-IDF poster campaign by hareidi extremists in which religious soldiers were portrayed as pigs, the campaign has received an enthusiastic endorsement from another group of anti-Zionists: Hamas. On Saturday morning, a Hamas-aligned Twitter account retweeted the image, which showed a “pig” in an IDF uniform wearing a…

Arab Bank on Friday formally requested a re-trial from a US federal court in New York after a jury found the Jordan-based multinational liable for 24 Hamas terrorist attacks. The bank claimed the September 22 verdict was “the inevitable consequence of a series of incorrect and prejudicial rulings” and called for a new trial “to correct this miscarriage of…

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on Saturday warned the US that if America and its coalition tries to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, Israel will be attacked, reports Associated Press. In fact, this is not the first time Abdollahian has made such a warning against deposing Iran’s ally Assad; last September he likewise said…

Dr. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet promised while visiting Rambam Hospital in Haifa last week to issue an apology for the anti-Semitic flap his journal raised recently – on Friday he delivered with the response. In July Horton published an anti-Israel “Open Letter for the People in Gaza”; two of the primary authors of…

Arab terrorists attacked the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maaleh Hazeitim about 3:00 p.m. Friday, targeting Jewish residents with fireworks and rocks. The fireworks caused a fire in the nearby brush, which spread quickly but was extinguished by the residents and private security guards before the fire department showed up. Local residents have decided to begin reporting…

The UN remains staunchly opposed to travel bans to countries affected by the recent deadly Ebola epidemic. At last Thursday’s United Nations Headquarter’s daily briefing, in response to Arutz Sheva‘s question as to whether UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s stance against a travel ban to and from Ebola-infected countries was based on a quantitative…

The body of a second Israeli tourist who went missing after a rafting accident in Peru has been discovered, according to reports. The 21-year-old man’s body will be flown back to Israel for burial. He has not yet been named but is reportedly from Tel Aviv. It comes after the body of the first missing…

Ahmad Shurbaji (23) of Umm al-Fahm may have become the first Arab citizen of Israel to be arrested for joining the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Syria last month, but Ahmad Havshi had the “honor” of being one of the first Israeli Arabs killed fighting with them. Havshi, also 23-years-old and hailing from…

US Secretary of State John Kerry may have had his efforts to force peace talks on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) foiled in April when the PA signed a unity deal with the Hamas terror group, but officials say that won’t stop him for calling for a return to talks on Sunday. Kerry is…

Hours after NBA player Danny Green faced a firestorm for his “Holocaust selfie” in Berlin, a British soccer player made a similar blunder in merry old England.  Liverpool defender Jose Enrique posted his tweet on Wednesday, showing his “new beard” – and what is characteristically called a “Hitler mustache.”  “Surprised my girlfriend with a new…

Police located an explosive left adjacent to a bus stop at the Rehalim Junction in Samaria, located near Kfar Tapuach and not far from Ariel. There is currently confusion as to the nature of the device, after Judea and Samaria district police said it was a dummy bomb. IDF Border Patrol sources emphasize, however, that…

Outgoing Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) on Wednesday said his successor will decide whether supermarkets will be open on Shabbat in Tel Aviv, but the Headquarters for the Struggle of Small Businesses and Supermarkets in Tel Aviv says there’s no room for debate. Sa’ar rejected the Tel Aviv Municipality plan to have stores open on…

Just last Friday, Arutz Sheva published an article explaining how the IAEA in November 2011 reported that it had received “highly credible” information that Iran had tested “neutron initiators” at the site, and that Iran had told it that it had exploding bridge wire technology. The same November 2011 IAEA report also reported that Iran had…

Kim Jong-Un, the autocratic leader of North Korea, missed a key anniversary of his Workers’ Party at a mausoleum on Friday according to state media, for the first time since taking power in 2011. Kim hasn’t been seen in public since attending a concert on September 3. In his last filmed appearance in July he…

The 42-year-old Briton who spewed anti-Semitic curses on September 16 on a London bus filled with Jewish schoolchildren was found guilty of his crimes on Thursday. The man, Ian Campbell of Bowes Road, N11, was arrested in late September and charged with “using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior to cause harassment, alarm or distress”…

The mother of an IDF Golani Brigade soldier who fell in battle is waging her own war on Friday: the war to keep her son’s memory alive on Facebook.  Ben Vanunu, 19, fell fighting terrorists during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. But Vanunu’s mother told Yedioth Aharonoth Friday that she would like to continue operating his Facebook…

Toronto saw the dawn of “Black September” in 2014, according to the Toronto Star – with the most murders in one month over a 25 year-period.  Twelve people were killed in September 2014, the most since 1990.  On average, the Canadian metropolis sees just 5-7 murders per month, and September 2014 breaks a previous record of…

The Jewish Home (Bayit Yehudi) party has announced the formation of a new English Speakers’ Forum, to expand the party’s outreach to Israel’s sizable “Anglo” population. The Forum, part of wider efforts to increase representation within the party from different sectors of Israeli society, was created with the goal of increasing activity in the party…

As the storm rages around the Facebook protest calling for Israelis to migrate to Berlin for supposed lower costs of living, organizers say they have received 9,300 Israeli requests to move to Germany – and one German IDF soldier can’t understand why. Cpl. Anshel Holzapfel, a 19-year-old Jewish lone soldier from Germany who left his…

Three leading Christian clerics in Israel on Friday called on more European governments to recognize “Palestine” as a state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital. The call from the Arab Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Lutheran prelates came after EU member Sweden last week announced its intention to recognize Palestinian statehood late last Friday during Yom Kippur. The UK…

A conference that aims to raise billions of dollars to “rebuild Gaza” after Hamas’s latest terror war on Israel faces “donor fatigue,” an insider told AFP on Friday.  The United Nations’ Palestinian Arab “refugee” agency, the UNRWA, has described the financial needs as “unprecedented” ahead of the Cairo meeting, which follows Hamas’s third war on Israeli civilians in six…

Islamic State (ISIS) could be planning to use biological warfare against the West, a military expert stated earlier this week – by introducing the Ebola virus into the camps of its enemies.  While the theory sounds like it was ripped from the script of the 2002 horror classic 28 Days Later, it is feasible, experts say. …

Hareidi extremists have launched a fresh campaign of incitement against religious IDF soldiers, just over a month since Israel’s 50-day war with Gazan terrorists, which saw more than 60 soldiers give their lives in battle. Posters appeared in several hareidi neighborhoods over this week portraying hareidi soldiers as pigs. One particularly provocative poster shows a…

The Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo selected children’s rights advocates Pakistani 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai and Indian Kailash Satyarthi as winners of the prize for 2014. Yousafzai gained recognition after being shot in the head by Taliban terrorists in 2012 for her stance of advocating women’s education. She miraculously recovered from her wounds, but her struggle…

South Korea on Friday said it returned artillery fire after being shelled by its northern neighbor, reports the South Korean Yonhap News Agency. Apparently the clash came as South Korean activists launched balloons condemning North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, after North Korea threatened “catastrophic” consequences if the activists weren’t stopped. This is not the first time…

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Kotel (Western Wall) and Holy Sites, decried the Arab attempts to wreck the week-long Sukkot holiday by launching violent riots against police and Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, the rabbi argued that the Arab rioters are intentionally trying to…

Apparently Israel’s “gesture” to allow 500 Gazans to pray on the Temple Mount on the Eid al-Adha “sacrifice of Ishmael” – which fell on Yom Kippur and Shabbat – wasn’t enough to appease the terrorist group Hamas. Hamas on Thursday threatened to attack Israel on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, this Friday…

Sivan Bar Or, whose husband Major Tzafrir Bar-Or hy”d was killed in the IDF’s Gaza counter-terror operation Protective Edge, gave birth Thursday night to a baby boy in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital. Tafrir was Deputy Commander of the Golani Brigade’s Reconaissance Battalion. Siven was in her 26th week of pregnancy when she learned that her…

An Israeli rescue expedition will land in Lima, Peru, Thursday night, and help look for the two Israelis who went missing in a rafting accident Tuesday. The mission includes three soldiers from the IDF’s elite 669 rescue unit, who brought along advanced mechanical equipment. There is growing concern for the fate of the rafters, a…

NBA player Danny Green, a shooting guard for the San Antonio Spurs squad that won the NBA Championships last season, sparked outrage on Wednesday for an insensitive “selfie” picture posted on Twitter and Instagram at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The Spurs were playing Alba Berlin as part of the NBA Global Games. On the…

Kuwaiti newspaper A-Rai reported Thursday that the explosion that took place earlier this week at the Iranian nuclear site in Parchin was not the result of a malfunction, but an intentional act of sabotage. The report relies on European diplomatic sources in Washington, DC, who said that a foreign country carried out the attack in…

After the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US, and the first case of the virus being contracted in Europe, the Ebola outbreak gripping the world continued to expand its grasp Thursday as a British citizen reportedly died of the disease in Macedonia. The Macedonian Health Ministry said the man started showing symptoms while staying…

British lawmakers on Monday will take part in a non-binding vote to recognize “Palestine,” after Sweden made a storm by likewise pledging its commitment to recognize a Palestinian state late last Friday on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. The symbolic vote, which is being followed closely as a barometer of greater European pressure on the Jewish state, is on…

Hamas “political wing” official Muhammad Nazal on Thursday announced his terrorist organization is preparing for the start of a channel of negotiations with Israel, meant to release hundreds of terrorists in exchange for the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul hy”d. Nazal said the talks will begin very soon, and apparently…

Intelligence officials told NBC News that Canadian authorities have heard would-be terrorists discussing potential ISIS-inspired “knife and gun” attacks against U.S. and Canadian targets inside Canada. While the intelligence officials said that some of the discussions raise the possibility of attacks on U.S. citizens and other U.S. and Western targets in Canada, they have not…

State Department spokesman says while US would want to see more permanent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, US aid is not necessarily contingent on that. Israel must play a role in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, a top US official said Wednesday ahead of key donor talks in Cairo, also pressing all sides…

US official says Ankara can do more to help Syrian Kurds in Kobani, but is ‘using excuses not to do more’ out of political desire to weaken Kurds. As United States generals and Secretary of State John Kerry warn that a strategic Syrian border town could fall to Islamic State militants, the Turkish military has…

Tehran denies entry to American member of UN nuclear watchdog delegation, fails to respond on time to questions about alleged research activities into explosives testing and neutron calculations. The UN nuclear watchdog appears to have failed in talks with Iran this week to substantively advance a dragging investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by the…

The cabinet of the Palestinian unity government will meet for the first time on Thursday, and the meeting will take place in Gaza. The Ma’an news agency reported on Wednesday that over 50 members of the presidential guard will accompany Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on his visit to Gaza for the cabinet meeting. The security…

Switzerland has joined a growing list of countries that have banned the Islamic State (ISIS) group and related organizations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The move that comes as the Alpine nation steps up measures to prevent Swiss citizens from traveling to the Middle East to fight for the extremist group. The Federal…

Satellite evidence has been received that refutes the denials of the Iranian government regarding this week’s mysterious explosion at the military compound in Parchin, Israel Defense reported on Wednesday. Satellite images of the area, to the east of Tehran, prove that the explosion reported by the Iranian media had, indeed, occurred inside the military compound…

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna on October 14, Reuters reported Wednesday. The two will be joined the next day by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the EU said in a statement. Iran and major powers are seeking to settle a dispute…

Hours after Arab rioters attacked Israeli security forces at the Temple Mount, Jordan criticized Israel on Wednesday over security forces’ conduct in reaction to the riots. “The forces of the occupation … prevented religious officials entering (the compound) and cleared it of all Muslims, while at the same time enabling Jewish extremists to storm it,…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Ron Prosor, on Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to act to disarm the Hezbollah terrorist group, following its attack on Israeli soldiers along the border a day earlier. In a letter to the Security Council, Prosor pointed out that the Lebanese-based group blatantly violates the ceasefire…

A 17-year-old Jewish teenager, who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem, was attacked on Wednesday afternoon by two Arab minors. He did not require medical treatment. Police launched an investigation and, with the assistance of two surveillance cameras, arrested two suspects in the assault, Arab youths aged 15 and 16, residents of the Old…

Similar protests were held across Europe Tuesday by Kurds attempting to draw greater attention to the Islamic State’s continued attack on the town of Kobani in northern Syria. In Brussels, 50 activists forced their way into the parliament to demand Europe do more to aid the beleaguered forces fighting ISIS. In Turkey, where Kurds make…

Canada’s House of Commons has voted in favor of sending Canadian aircraft and personnel to join coalition airstrikes in Iraq against the “Islamic State” (ISIS). The vote took place on Tuesday night, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). “We do not take this step lightly. The threat posed by [ISIS] is real,” said Prime…

Turkey has asked the United States to step up airstrikes to keep “Islamic State” (ISIS) fighters from seizing a key Syrian Kurdish border town, a senior Turkish official was quoted by Reuters as saying on Tuesday. “Our government and our related institutions have emphasized to U.S. officials the necessity of immediately ramping up air bombardment…

Former President Shimon Peres has become one of a few leaders to have a neighborhood named after them while still alive. On Tuesday, Peres inaugurated a new neighborhood named after him in Haifa. The neighborhood, Neot Peres, is located in the southern part of Haifa, the third largest city in Israel. The inauguration ceremony was…

The owner of a new Facebook page urging Israelis to move to Berlin fired back at Finance Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday evening, after Lapid gave a series of interviews to Israeli media outlets in which he criticized the campaign. “Today, Yair Lapid referred to the supporters of the Berlin protest as anti-Zionists,” the owner…

London police have arrested four suspected Islamic terrorists in several raids throughout the British capital, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday. The report quoted local police who said that officers fired a stun gun at one 21-year-old suspect, but he did not need medical treatment. The four suspects are aged 20 and 21. Police…

MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) appealed on Tuesday to the High Court, asking that it issue an injunction against the Knesset’s Ethics Committee’s decision to bar her from the Knesset committees and plenum for six months. The punishment, handed down to Zoabi in July, followed complaints filed against Zoabi by several MKs, including Knesset Speaker MK Yuli…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) has taken Israel’s stance to the Swedish people on Wednesday, publishing an article on his opposition to Stockholm’s announced intentions to recognize a “Palestinian state.”  The article, entitled “Unilateral Action Does Not Solve Everything,” was published in Dagens Nyheter Wednesday morning in Swedish.  Liberman began by emphasizing that he believes the…

The deputy leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, Naim Qassem, said on Tuesday evening that his group is prepared to fight Israel if necessary. Speaking hours after Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a bomb attack along the Lebanese-Israeli border which wounded two IDF soldiers, Qassem was quoted by the Daily Star as having said the attack…

Syria has declared four chemical weapons facilities it had not mentioned before, a special representative of the UN secretary-general told the Security Council on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press (AP). The news heightened concerns that the Syrian government hasn’t been fully open about its chemical weapons program. Diplomats said the official, Sigrid Kaag, told…

Cabinet Approves 2015 Budget Following Marathon Talks After 10 hours of discussion, the Cabinet approved the state budget proposal for 2015. The Cabinet approved the state budget proposal for 2015 on Tuesday night, following a 10-hour marathon discussion on the issue. All the ministers in the Cabinet voted in favor of the budget, with the…

According to Playbill, The Metropolitan Opera has canceled its scheduled talk for “The Death of Klinghoffer”, the play about 69-year-old New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer, who was killed by terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Front (PFLF). The event was slated to have featured directors and stars of the production, which premiers later this month. In an…

Congressman Brian Higgins (NY) and Representative Doug Collins (GA) on Tuesday led a bipartisan effort in writing to Secretary of State John Kerry regarding the use of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facilities to maintain rocket stockpiles during the conflict between Israel and Hamas. In the letter, Higgins and Collins urge the State…

Crowdsourcing may be the key to prosecuting foreign nationals fighting in Syria, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) revealed Tuesday, as it asked for the public’s help identifying an Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist. “We need the public’s assistance in identifying U.S. persons going to fight overseas with terrorist groups or who are returning home from…

The European Union and several countries have decided to no longer participate in UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions that single out Israel as a violator of civil rights. The decision has many Islamic countries up in arms. Agenda Item 7 of the UNHRC is entitled, “The Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied…

Look for Levi Duchman on a bike. Not just any bike, though; the 21-year-old Chabad yeshiva student of Brooklyn is riding around on a modified pedi-cab – an adult-sized tricycle that instead of having a set of seats in the back attaches to various holiday accoutrements. For example, there’s a sukkah for Sukkot, a giant dreidel for Hanukkah, and a year-round customized display…

The mayor of Nazareth Illit, Alex Gadalkin, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the trove of Islamic State (ISIS) flags found in his city earlier this week, noting that he hopes the incident will soon be resolved – and forgotten.  “We hope that security forces quickly find who did it, and that we can put this incident…

New details in connection to the arrest of four Islamic terrorists on Tuesday reveal that the cell was affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS), and planned a brutal beheading – or beheadings – on the streets of London. MI5 (British intelligence) and police monitored the four, arresting them while they were in the “early stages” of…

Masked Arab rioters threw fireworks and rocks at security forces on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, in what has become a tradition of riotous violence before the major Jewish holiday of Sukkot.  Riot police pushed the attackers back by setting up roadblocks, but it was not enough to deter the unrest.  The rioters continued to…

While there has been public controversy over the ceasefire ending to the 50-day Operation Protective Edge, the IDF has been lauded for its brave actions in the war fighting Hamas terrorists embedded deep in the civilian population of Gaza. That heroism was displayed by the elite Duvdevan special operations undercover unit, which was in Gaza…

An unidentified man was killed Wednesday afternoon in a car explosion on Geva Street in Netanya.   Rescue crews took the man out from the burning car, already dead. A preliminary police examination revealed that the car, a BMW, belonged to a senior criminal in Netanya, who was not inside the vehicle at the time…

“The health care system has no money and patients are paying the price,” the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) wrote in strongly-worded letter sent to Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Health Minister Yael German Wednesday, warning that the hospital’s financial deficit is putting patients in jeopardy.  Walla reported that the letter, signed by the chairman of…

The U.S.-led coalition has carried out sustained air strikes against the terrorist group Islamic State (aka ISIS), as the battle for control of Kobani on the Syrian-Turkish border intensifies. According to Euronews, while coalition aircraft attacked from the sky Syrian Kurds launched a ground offensive against the extremists’ positions. Dutch warplanes attacked an ISIS convoy…

Outgoing Interior Minister Gideon Saar announced Wednesday morning that his successor will make the final decision on the issue of opening supermarkets in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath.  In June the Likud politician rejected the municipality’s plan to legalize the opening of market stores on the Sabbath. The municipality responded that it would appeal to…

Recent clashes with terrorist group Hezbollah along the Lebanese border have spiraled out of control, security sources told Israel Radio Wednesday, warning they could potentially lead to another conflict in the north in the near future.  Two charges detonated inside Israeli territory along the Lebanese border at Har Dov left two soldiers wounded on Tuesday.  Hezbollah claimed responsibility for…

The U.S.-Israel alliance “is crumbling” due to waning support for Israel among Democrats and “total disrespect” for the Obama administration among segments of the Israeli government, according to President Barack Obama’s former Middle East envoy Martin Indyk, in what was described as “a frank off-the-record talk” at the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington, D.C., during the…

Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has expressed “great concern” about developments in Lebanon, “where there is an immediate risk for Cyprus if ISIS or Jihadist terrorists advanced to the shores of the Mediterranean,” reports the Famagusta Gazette. Kasoulides also “stressed that due to its geographical position, the Republic of Cyprus is at the forefront and is the…

More than two days have passed since all contact was lost with two Israeli tourists who went missing in a rafting accident in Peru; on Wednesday, fears deepened that the two 20-year-olds from Israel’s central coastal region may have drowned. The six other tourists in the accident on Peru’s Apurimac River were rescued on Tuesday, and…

Three soldiers from top secret IDF Intelligence Corps units were arrested Monday on suspicion of carrying out computer-related offenses, reports Online 2 news. The investigation into the case has been carried out for some time by the Investigative Military Police. Two of the soldiers were brought before a judge Tuesday and the third was to…

Israel’s Histadrut trade union federation warned Tuesday of potential strike action against state-owned companies in response to government plans to privatize some of them. According to AFP, the action could affect defense manufacturers, airports, the railway and the national electricity corporation, among others. Histadrut “announced industrial disputes with 11 government companies,” saying the action was…

The IDF has slammed today’s attack on its soldiers along the border with Lebanon as “a blatant breach of Israel’s sovereignty,” as the UN called for “maximum restraint” following the bombing. Two soldiers were wounded earlier Tuesday in a bomb blast inside Israeli territory along the country’s northern border with Lebanon. Security sources said one…

Sheffi Paz, a resident of a southern Tel Aviv working class neighborhood, was a member of the ultraleftist Meretz party for 40 years. ”Now I won’t go near you,” she told Meretz MKs in a heated debate following the High Court decision to strike down the Infiltrators Law. Meretz supports the decision, which makes it…

Events in the eastern Mediterranean waters south of Cyprus are escalating rapidly, as Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades’ suspended reunification peace talks with Turkey and Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus, after Turkey issued an unusual Navigational Telex, or NAVTEX, and a Turkish frigate violated the Cypriot Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) in Cyprus’s southern waters. A government spokesman in Nicosia…

There is a deep-seated controversy currently raging in Israel over the status of the Conversion Authority, over who should supervise conversion to Judaism, sit on the Rabbinic conversion courts and have the initial and final say on the criteria under which a convert can be accepted as a Jew. Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and its Rabbinic…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a discussion Tuesday on the continued problem of illegal immigrant workers, as legislators scramble to react to a controversial decision by the High Court to scrap the so-called “Infiltrator Law” aimed at tackling the problem. Attending the discussion were Interior Minister Gideon Saar, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Public Security Minister…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu plans to move up the Likud’s next primaries to an earlier date than planned, and will start taking steps in this direction right after the holidays end, according to Channel 2. The report went on to say that Netanyahu seeks to change the Likud constitution and strengthen his standing within the…

The inscriptions were deciphered by Assaf Peretz, an archaeologist and historian of the Authority. “Among other things, two names were identified inscribed into the rock in English: Cpl Scarlett and Walsh,” said Peretz. “Adjacent to the names, the abbreviation RAE was carved with two numbers, NX9168 and NX7792. Under the writing appears the date 30/05/1940.”…

Three of the attorneys defending Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto have filed for withdrawal from the corruption case in the Tel Aviv District Court on Tuesday, after the rabbi violated terms of his plea agreement.  The attorneys, all of whom hail from the law offices of Zeligman-Goldfarb, have been named as Moshe Mazor, Ro’i Bichler and Eli Zahar,…

SWIFT, the Belgium-based financial transfer services giant, announced on Monday that it has received calls to disconnect Israel from its network – calls by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which it will ignore. The massive system, whose name stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, and which connects over 10,500 banks, financial institutions and…

The postal crisis is due to end after weeks of strikes, Channel 2 reports Tuesday, and a final agreement between the Finance Ministry and the Postal Workers’ Union is due to be announced at a 1 p.m. press conference.  Early details about the agreement indicate that the number of days workers will be sent on rounds will…

On Friday, October 3, a day after US Vice President Joe Biden pontificated about Turkish President Recep Ayyip Erdogan’s “desire” to have “no Turkish soldiers” remain in Cyprus, Turkey sent Turkish-Greece-Cyprus tensions soaring by issuing a Navigational Telex, or NAVTEX, according to which Turkey was sending a seismographic vessel to explore areas in the Cypriot…

Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack along the Lebanese-Israeli border which injured two IDF soldiers Tuesday afternoon. Hezbollah terrorists “detonated an explosive device on the Shebaa hills against a motorized Israeli patrol causing a number of injuries among the occupation’s soldiers,” the group said in a statement A second explosive charge was also…

The Iron Dome has proven to be an effective weapon against rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon and the Sinai desert, with a success rate of about 90% in intercepting projectiles – and its unrivaled capabilities have no competition in the global arms market. But despite the Dome’s boon for international security and trade, industries from…

Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) fired criticism at a Facebook page urging Israelis to move to Berlin, saying that the issue is not just a matter of prices, but a matter of national loyalties.  “This is a discussion on the identity, history, and purpose of our country,” Lapid stated, in an interview on IDF Radio‘s…

Two residents of the coastal city of Petah Tikva were arrested on Tuesday, over suspicions that they were running a cocaine laboratory in their apartment. The two, aged 33 and 37, were suspected of importing liquid cocaine, and then working on the illegal drug in a laboratory established in their apartment in the city to…

Twenty-five Islamic State (ISIS) flags were found in Nazareth Illit, Walla! News reports Tuesday, giving further rise to concerns over the jihadist terrorist group’s popularity with Arab citizens of Israel. City employees found a bag filled with the tiny black flags on the side of a highway, according to the daily, and turned it over to…

Japanese professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were announced by the Nobel Prize committee in Sweden as the 2014 winners of the physics prize, for their invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the conference by phone “it’s unbelievable.” Akasaki hails from Meijo University…

The Israeli consul in Peru is investigating the fate of two Israeli tourists who disappeared in a rafting accident on the country’s Apurimac River, which passes near the city Cusco. A popular tourist site, the river is located in the southern mountain ranges of the country and feeds the Amazon River; it also includes many…

A 29-year-old Palestinian Arab woman, serving eight years in prison on charges of being involved in her husband’s “honor killing,” capitalized on Islamic State (ISIS) hysteria Sunday by simulating a stabbing and claiming the group would “take the whole Land of Israel.” The woman interrupted Yom Kippur services for Jewish inmates by screaming “I am…

Accusations of anti-religious prejudice have been raised at the Maccabi health center in Bnei Brak, IDF Radio reports Tuesday, after multiple women told the news agency that one particular doctor has mistreated them based on their background.  Tzila (not her real name) alleged that she was humiliated multiple times at her OB/GYN’s office in the city,…

The IDF Spokesperson Unit announced that two soldiers were wounded on Tuesday afternoon by an explosive set on the Lebanese border in the Har Dov (Shabaa Farms) area. The two soldiers were defined as suffering from moderate and light wounds following the blast. “Two soldiers were injured by an explosive device. It was activated against them…

Overall, Israel’s recent 50-day war with Gazan terrorists had a remarkably minor effect on the country’s economy. However, one sector which was relatively hard-hit was tourism, with many vacationers canceling their trips at peak time over the summer. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, last summer was predicted to continue record-breaking trends set in February,…

Israeli ministers were meeting on Tuesday to discuss a new law to deal with illegal immigrants from Africa, after the High Court shot down the so-called “Infiltrator Law”, which allowed authorities to detain illegals indefinitely prior to deportation. The discussion – between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, outgoing Interior Minister Gidon Sa’ar…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take part in a conference on rebuilding Gaza following this past summer’s war with Israel earlier this year, a U.S. official said Monday, according to AFP. Kerry “will be attending the conference” to be held in Cairo on October 12, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. The…

British lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote next week on whether the government should recognize “Palestine” as a state, Reuters reported on Monday. The motion due for debate in Britain’s lower house of parliament on October 13 will ask lawmakers whether they believe the government should recognize the state of Palestine. It is unlikely…

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said that military action is “critical” to the U.S.-led fight against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, but is “not sufficient” on its own. “I think military action is critical. In fact, I would say essential to try to prevent their further advance and…

Woolworths of South Africa on Monday expressed concern about the safety of its customers and employees following claims of abuse by Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) activists. “Our employees of all faiths and cultures tell us that they are feeling increasingly threatened by the protests in and around some of our stores,” it said in…