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A man who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) group late Monday night stabbed a French policeman to death before being killed, The Guardian reports. The man’s wife was also found dead when police stormed the house, and a three-year-old boy was rescued alive. The attack took place in the Paris suburb of Magnanville…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that President Barack Obama sometimes “seems more in support of Muslims than Israel”. “For example the Iran deal, which was one of the worst deals in history, gave $150 billion dollars to a radical regime, which will allow them to fund terrorist activities as well as pursue…

JTA – The Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee tussled over whether to use the word “occupation” in addressing the Israeli-Arab issue, reflecting divisions between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps that could play out at the convention. The Democratic National Committee held two days of open hearings this week in Washington, D.C., on the…

The vicious massacre at an Orlando nightclub on Sunday has left Americans reeling from the worst act of terrorism on American soil since 2001, and what has been declared the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The shooter, Omar Mateen, the son of Afghani refugees, reportedly pledged allegiance to the ISIS terror network years prior…

JTA – Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs called on authorities to identify and punish high school pupils who during their graduation ceremony sang about burning Jews. The incident happened last week during the graduation gala of the Elde College in the town of Schijndel, 70 miles southeast of Amsterdam, the Brabants Dagblad daily reported on…

Search and rescue units have been called out along New York’s Atlantic Beach, looking for a paddle boarder last seen Sunday afternoon. The 41-year old man, a Nassau county resident, was spotted by lifeguards on Atlantic Beach at 3:30 p.m., wearing a white t-shirt and blue shorts. At 6:15 the US Coast Guard was notified…

50 killed in Orlando gay nightclub massacre – ISIS takes credit A lone Muslim gunman went on a killing spree at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning. The Islamic State terrorist group took credit for the attack, though it is not yet known whether it had any operational links to the attacker.…

On Monday, Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon made history, becoming the first Israeli representative ever chosen to lead a permanent committee at the UN. Following months of diplomatic efforts, Danon was elected to lead the United Nations Legal Committee.  The UN Legal Committee, the international organization’s sixth committee, manages all of the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday lifted the ban on Knesset Members and cabinet ministers visiting the Temple Mount. The Likud’s newest MK, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, praised the Prime Minister’s decision, adding that he hopes Arab Knesset Members from the Joint List party won’t take advantage of the lifting of the ban to spread anti-Israel…

Jay Shapiro thinks that the two-state solution has solved many employment problems. Diplomats, foreign affairs experts, newsmen and many other so-called experts rely on the income from the two-state solution to feed their families. But who needs it in Israel? Loading… Click here to download the podcast

The head of the Palestinian Authority’s “Prisoners’ Society” has said that terrorists who murder Israeli civilians are “heros,” underscoring the ongoing culture of incitement within the PA. Qadura Fares is a senior member of Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party, and has served as a minister in the PA government.  The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society advocates and lobbies for…

In a rare event, what is believed to be a fin whale was spotted Sunday afternoon just 20 meters (65 feet) off the coast of Caesarea and Ma’agan Michael. Dr. Aviad Scheinin, chairman of the Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center (IMMRAC), told Channel 2 News that the whale is estimated to be a few…

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, has escaped numerous assassination attempts by US forces since declaring his so-called “Caliphate” over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Until recently, US intelligence officials believed the wanted jihadist leader – who has a $25 million bounty on his head…

Loading… Firefighters are battling a massive blaze which has engulfed a 15-story residential building in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan. The fire broke out early Monday afternoon along Bialik Street, and quickly spread throughout the building, engulfing the top 10 floors. Police and paramedic also responded to the incident, though it is not known at…

Citizens in two of America’s two most important Arab allies have a dim view of President Obama, but overwhelmingly prefer his choice of successor – Hillary Clinton – over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. A study published on Monday by the Institute of Policy and Strategy at IDC Herzliya polled 935 Egyptian and Saudi citizens…

Reports of wild celebrations in Arab villages and neighborhoods following last week’s deadly terror attack in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv left many shocked and horrified. Yet such expressions of joy and satisfaction following murderous acts of terrorism are hardly new, and have become a frequent occurrence after such attacks. Perhaps the most well-publicized…

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) said he was shocked by the hateful massacre against the LGBTQ community in Florida. “Our hearts are with the American people who must deal with radical Islamic terrorism that not only threatens them and Israel, but the entire Western civilization.” He called on the Palestinians to learn how to condemn terrorist…

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump responded on Monday to the deadliest mass shooting in American history, which rocked Orlando, Florida on Sunday, leaving 49 victims dead and 53 wounded. Describing the immigration of Muslim refugees into the US as the “all-time Trojan horse”, Trump blasted local Muslim leaders for not exposing “bad apples” with…

JTA – The Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee tussled over whether to use the word “occupation” in addressing the Israeli-Arab issue, reflecting divisions between the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton camps that could play out at the convention. The Democratic National Committee held two days of open hearings this week in Washington, D.C., on the…

[Be advised that the following video contains language that some viewers may find offensive] JTA – A Fox Sports sideline reporter has been fired for making racist and anti-Semitic comments on a live Facebook broadcast Thursday. In the broadcast Thursday on Barstool Sports’ Facebook Live, Emily Austen, 27, said Jewish people are stingy and expressed…

(JTA) — Summer is upon us. And that means swimsuits, summer camps, sticky temperatures — and food trucks. True, many of these trendy restaurants-on-wheels are known to ply their wares in the depths of winter. But as the weather warms, everyone from office workers to tourists find themselves beckoned outside for lunch. Sadly, kosher options…

A compromised has reportedly been reached in the “Mikveh Law” proposed by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism). The law states that public Mikvaot, baths used for the purpose of ritual immersion, will only follow the guidelines of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. According to the compromise, Conservative and Reform movement converts will be permitted…

The IDF has slightly eased its lockdown of the Arab town of Yatta near Hevron, where the two terrorist gunman who murdered four people in Tel Aviv last Wednesday came from. The army began allowing residents to enter and exit the town after undergoing security checks on Monday morning, with the exception of men aged 15-25,…

Hundreds of people attended Sunday night the funeral of Shimon Yochai Lasri, son of Rabbi Michael Lasri – a prominent Israeli Kiruv (Jewish outreach) rabbi. Shimon, a 21-year-old yeshiva student, reportedly went to ritually immerse in the sea off the coast of Ashdod on Friday afternoon, but for reasons which at this point are unclear he…

Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) denied Monday morning reports of a compromise on the issue of Mikvaot (ritual baths) in an interview with Kol Barama radio. MK Gafni stressed that he wanted the “Mikvah Law” to be approved Monday by the law committee. “I hope the committee will vote on my proposed…

While Israel has cracked down on Muslim incitement on the Temple Mount – jailing a number of clerics who incited violence and banning several violent Islamist groups – it appears that anti-Semitic preaching is still continuing in the Al Aqsa Mosque. In footage translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), preacher Ali Abu…

Among the victims seriously wounded in last week’s terrorist shooting attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, Assaf Bar considers himself particularly fortunate to be alive. Shot twice in the head and left for dead by the Islamist attackers, one of the bullets still remains lodged in his skull. But miraculously, Assaf has made a rapid…

Thousands of Jewish children worldwide are completing studies from 6,250,000 Mishnayot (part of the Talmud) as part of special learning program in memory and for the salvation of the millions of Jews slaughtered by the Nazis, and to those who risked their lives in the war against the Nazis as part of the Allied armies and…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu again related to Sunday’s terrorist attack at an Orlando gay nightclub, and called for united action against Islamist terrorism. “We are all shocked at the horrific massacre in Orlando,” Netanyahu stated at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, which was postponed from Sunday in honor of Shavuot. “On behalf…

Police lifted the gag order on the investigation regarding the attack which took place two weeks ago in the Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood in Tel Aviv, according to a Channel 2 report. The investigation revealed that the 17-year-old Palestinian stabbed a soldier with a screwdriver in order to be reunited with his deceased cousin. A few…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group’s official media wing has released a statement claiming credit for the deadly shooting attack at an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub on behalf of the jihadist organization. In a statement published in the last few minutes, the al-Amaq agency – which functions as ISIS’s propaganda and media wing – claimed…

Presidential nominees took to Twitter to issue their first statements following the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting that left 50 people dead early Sunday morning. While offering his condolences to the victims and their families, Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump called for toughness and vigilance. He then posted a tweet saying he was right about “radical…

A Muslim gunman has killed at least 50 people and left 53 others wounded in a shooting spree at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In what President Barack Obama has since described as an act of terror, the killer – named by police as Omar Mateen – stormed the Pulse Club and took hostages before being…

A heavily-armed man stopped by police in Los Angeles was heading towards a gay pride march, police say. The incident in Santa Monica came just hours after a deadly gun rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, by a Muslim terrorist. Police responding a call about the reported “prowler” in Santa Monica stopped the car in…

Haggai Klein, one of the victims of the Tel Aviv Sarona Market terror attack, is showing significant improvement and is now in light condition, Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hosptal announced Sunday evening. 32-year-old Klein confronted the terrorists and threw various objects at them to prevent them from continuing to shoot. The hospital further reported that Assaf Bar,…

Video has surfaced showing the frantic scenes as the worst gun rampage in American history unfolded at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday. The footage – apparently taken by a club-goer who managed to escape – shows emergency services flocking to the scene. In the video, the distinct sound of rapid gunfire can…

The son of a prominent Israeli outreach rabbi died over the Shavuot festival following a tragic accident. Shimon Yochai Lasri was the son of Rabbi Michael Lasri, a prominent rabbi in the haredi city of Bnei Brak and considered one of the leading figures in the kiruv (Jewish outreach) movement in Israel. Shimon, a 21-year-old yeshiva student, reportedly went to…

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis flooded the country’s national parks and beaches on Saturday and Sunday in honor of the Shavuot (Pentecost) holiday. The Nature and Parks Authority reported that the main tourist sites were Yarkon National Park, Ein Gedi Nature Reserve, Nahal Senir National Park, Beit She’arim National Park, Gan Hashlosha (Sachne) National Park. Likewise,…

Israel’s former Ambassador to the Unites States has said that the deadly shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando will strengthen Donald Trump’s presidential hopes, with the presumptive Republican nominee using it to bolster his anti-Islam campaign message. Michael Oren – who currently serves as a Member of Knesset for the Kulanu party – told…

Dozens of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv to voice their solidarity for the victims of Sunday’s deadly gun rampage in Orlando, Florida. The shooting, carried out by an Islamist terrorist, targeted a gay club in Orlando, and left 50 people dead and a further 53 wounded. Despite only recently having suffered a…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday called for the United States to strengthen its alliance with Israel. Speaking to Evangelical voters in Washington, Trump said, “We all have to deal with the threat of Islamic extremism and ensure the security of Israel.” “We must continue to strengthen our friendship with Israel,” he added. “We…

Hamas and Fatah will hold new reconciliation talks in the Qatari capital of Doha next week, the Ma’an news agency reported Friday, citing a statement by Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad. Al-Ahmad said that the focus of the talks would be to continue discussions on ways to implement the reconciliation agreement between the two…

Arutz Sheva is stopping its round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com at this time in honor of the Sabbath. Updates will resume Sunday night from Israel, following the conclusion of the Shavuot holiday at 20:27 Jerusalem time. In honor of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah and Divine Revelation at Mount Sinai, Jews throughout the world…

Arutz Sheva’s Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com at this time in honor of the Sabbath and the holiday of Shavuot. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 19:26 Summer Time (Friday). Arutz Sheva’s North American desk will continue to keep you informed until just before candle lighting time in New York at…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault warned on Friday that Israel’s decision to bar Palestinians from entering its territory following the Tel Aviv attack could raise tensions and lead to more violence, AFP reports. “The decision by the Israeli authorities today to revoke tens of thousands of entry permits could stoke tensions which could lead to…

A police officer shot a man Friday outside baggage claim at Dallas Love Field Airport, a witness told CNN. The condition of the victim is not known. The witness said it appeared the man was approaching the officer with a large rock when he was shot. An officer told the man to “drop the rock…

Arab-Kurdish fighters backed by the United States on Friday cut the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s main supply route between Syria and Turkey in a major setback for the jihadists. ISIS has come under growing pressure on various fronts in Syria and Iraq, where it established its self-declared “caliphate” in 2014. The extremists lost control Friday…

Hamas on Friday carried out a series of rocket firing tests in Gaza, Army Radio reported. Israeli officials quoted by the station estimated that the tests included the firing of more than 30 short-range rockets. The rockets were directed towards areas that are not controlled by Israel, according to Army Radio. Hamas conducts ongoing missile…

A new Fox News poll shows Hillary Clinton has a three-point edge over Donald Trump (42-39 percent) in a hypothetical matchup.  That’s within the poll’s margin of error. The poll was conducted Sunday through Wednesday and released Thursday. Clinton on Tuesday captured enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, and was endorsed by President Barack…

The Orthodox Jewish community of Monsey, a town in Rockland County north of New York City, is in an uproar following publication of alleged statements by a public official calling for the diversion of state funding away from the community, with the expressed purpose of reining in population growth among local Jews. At the center…

A group of hikers was detained by police Friday morning during a trip between Moshav Mei Ami and the Arab town of Umm El-Fahm. The hikers were released Friday afternoon. Members of the group say they were detained for some four hours before being released. Police, they said, made no accusations and freed them with…

David Levy survived his complicated childhood in a Jamaican neighborhood in Birmingham England. Always believing in God, he started reading the Bible. But the Bible had many versions. David started noticing that each version was a different translation of the original. He decided to go to the source: Hebrew. David started teaching himself the ancient, original language. Then…

Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski will arrive in Israel on Tuesday evening (June 14) for a three-day visit, during which he will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials. “The visit will focus on bilateral issues, and will enable us to deepen cooperation with Israel – our friend and significant…

Israel has slammed the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) for “using the murder of Israelis to attack Israel,” accusing it of “cynicism and double standards” in its response to Wednesday night’s deadly Palestinian terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. In a message given during a press briefing earlier Friday, United Nations rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al…

An attempted stabbing attack took place Friday afternoon near the Samaria city of Shechem. The Arab terrorist was Shot and neutralized before being able to carry out the attack on a group of soldiers stationed next to the Palestinian village of Beit Furik. He was transferred to hospital by ambulance.

JTA – Canada’s Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal in the case of a man whose will was overturned because he bequeathed his estate to a U.S. neo-Nazi group. On Thursday, the country’s highest court without explanation chose not to review two lower court rulings that blocked the transfer of Robert McCorkill’s estate,…

JTA – The father of one of the victims of Wednesday’s terror attack at a Tel Aviv shopping center criticized the Israeli government for not doing enough to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the funeral Thursday for Ido Ben Ari, one of four people killed when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire at the Sarona Market…

In February, representatives in California’s state assembly proposed AB 2844, a measure intended to weaken the growing BDS movement in the Golden State. The original version of the bill, proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Richard Bloom and cosponsored by Republican Travis Allen, barred all state agencies from doing business with companies participating in boycotts targeting Israel.…

Parshat Bamidbar starts a new chapter in Bnei Yisrael’s History. “Hashem spoke to Moshe in the Desert of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting on the first of the second month, in the second year after Exodus from the Land of Egypt, saying.” Parshat Behar in Sefer Vayikra in contrast opens with, “Hashem spoke to…

A synagogue in the town of Verdun near France’s eastern border was vandalized over the weekend, the European Jewish Press reports. Worshippers discovered swastikas and white supremacist slogans scrawled on the house of prayer, including the phrase “white power”. Similar graffiti was also found on the house of a local rabbi. This is the second…

Actor and comedian Joe Piscopo earned nationwide fame with his celebrity impersonations, Saturday Night Live skits, and roles in Hollywood films like the remake of King Kong and Wise Guys. Less well-known, however, is Piscopo’s ardent support for the State of Israel. Now hosting his own daily radio show, Piscopo airs his views on a…

Haaretz writer Uri Misgav launched a hyperbolic tirade in the paper’s Friday edition, blasting Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg for a ruling issued earlier this week barring alternative kashrut certifications from operating without license by the Israeli Rabbanut. But Misgav’s op-ed piece went far beyond criticism of the specific ruling in question. Entitled “The Israeli…

David Lev and Dr. Sam Minskoff are honored to be joined by a special guest for today’s show. Tzvi Fishman is the producer and director of the recently released film “Stories of Rebbe Nachman”. He is also an award-winning author of books including “Tevye in the Holy Land”. Now, Fishman argues that American Jews who forgo making…

Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, the two fallen soldiers whose bodies remain in the hands of Hamas, have been recognized by the IDF as captives missing in action. The move comes as part of a renewed effort to recover the bodies of the fallen soldiers, which have been held by Hamas since the 2014 Gaza…

Despite condemning Wednesday terrorist shooting attack in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, the State Department on Thursday said that Israel’s response to the attack should be designed in a way that does not punish innocent Palestinians. “We understand the Israeli government’s desire to protect its citizens … and we strongly support that right, but…

(JTA) — Myanmar’s only synagogue was recognized by a Yangon historical organization. The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, installed a blue heritage plaque Sunday given by the Yangon Heritage Trust. Only 11 other buildings in the city have received similar recognition, the Myanmar Times reported. “The synagogue was part of a once-flourishing Jewish…

A food aid convoy entered the Syrian town of Daraya on Thursday, the first delivery since the start of a siege there by the Damascus regime in 2012, a Red Crescent official told AFP. “Nine lorries are currently being unloaded in Daraya. They are carrying food aid, including dry goods and flour, non-food aid as…

MK Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List faction, recently sent a request through the Palestinian Arab representatives to the United Nations to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Israel’s mission to the United Nations revealed on Thursday.  In that request, Odeh asked that the Secretary General send a fact-finding mission to Israel to investigate the state…

The United States on Thursday declared a Syrian jihadist group known as the Yarmuk Martyr’s Brigade (YMB) a global terrorist threat, AFP reports. The YMB operates on war-torn Syria’s borders with Jordan and the Golan Heights and is accused of kidnapping UN peacekeepers. “The YMB was formed in August 2012 in Deraa, Syria and has…

Canada’s federal government has ordered Canada Post to stop delivering an anti-Semitic Toronto newspaper which repeatedly denied the Holocaust, praised Adolf Hitler and derided Jews as well as Muslims, The National Post reports. Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote, who oversees Canada Post, made the decision less than two months after a human rights…

(JTA) — Pope Francis will visit Auschwitz during a trip to Poland, the Vatican announced. The pope is scheduled to visit the Nazi death camp on July 29 as part of a five-day trip. He will deliver an address at the site. His immediate two predecessors – Benedict and John Paul II – also visited…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, spoke to Arutz Sheva at this week’s Israel Day event in New York. “Even though it was raining, we saw the love for the State of Israel. We know that we have people who support Israel unconditionally,” said Danon. “Being here at the UN knowing that we…

(JTA) — Italy’s Parliament approved a bill making spreading Holocaust denial illegal. The bill, which adds to an existing anti-racism bill, was approved Wednesday evening by the lower assembly of the Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 237-5, with 102 abstentions. The new law would go after those who deny genocide or…

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has “accepted” the fact that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential nominee, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday. The comments came after President Barack Obama endorsed Clinton in a web video, saying, “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. I want those of you…

MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) was shocked by the graphic footage on social media from the latest terror attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona compound, and is working on a bill that would prevent uncensored dissemination of footage and information from terror and disaster scenes. The Sarona terror attack was documented by security cameras, and footage…

CNN has retracted a headline that reported on Wednesday’s Tel Aviv terror attack and placed the word “terror” in quotation marks. “A previous – now removed – tweet appeared to call into question the Tel Aviv attack as an act of terrorism. It undoubtedly was,” wrote the network on its Twitter feed at 4:05 PM Thursday.…

Arutz Sheva was on hand to talk to Kenneth Abramowitz, co-founder of NGN Capital and founder of a blog about the threats facing the West called SaveTheWest.com, at the Israel Day event on Sunday. His comments can be seen at 6:00 in the video below. According to Abramowitz, important issues are not being properly addressed in the media and therefore Americans are not…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) expressed his satisfaction Thursday with the instruction issued by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman not to hand over terrorists’ bodies to the Palestinian Authority (PA), but stressed that defeating terrorism requires additional measures. Israel needs “to kill the hope” that Arabs have, for the establishment of a Palestinian state. “There are…

US President Barack Obama endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video. “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” Obama said in the video. “I want those of you who have been with me since the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to…

“Just as fast as the condolences arrive from the civilized world is the praise arising out of the uncivilized one. Hamas praised the attack, calling the attackers ‘heroes.’ Reports out of Hebron indicate that residents of the terrorists’ hometown lit up the night sky with celebratory fireworks. One Palestinian ‘news organization’ even referred to the shootings, in…

Leading American pro-Israel activist and concert organizer, Dr. Joseph Frager, and concert chair Dr. Paul Brody, spoke to Arutz Sheva at the Israel Day event on Sunday. Their comments can be seen at 0:44 and 10:48, respectively, in the video below. Dr. Joseph Frager discussed the multi-faceted message behind the concert. “The land of Israel is eternally belongs to the…

Following the shooting attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, Foreign Ministry Director-General Dr. Dore Gold on Thursday sent a letter to 38 foreign offices of his colleagues around the world. In his letter, Gold explained how radical terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and ISIS, take advantage of the Ramadan observance in order to escalate tensions. He…

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned Wednesday’s terror attack in Tel Aviv and “underlined the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice.” The condemnation came a day after Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon sent a letter to the Council asking that they…

The IDF Spokesman announced Thursday night that, in accordance with the instructions of the political echelon and following a military assessment after Wednesday’s shooting attack in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, a general closure was imposed as of midnight on Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria and crossings into Gaza were closed. The…

The IDF has announced it will deploy hundreds more troops to Judea and Samaria following last night’s deadly terror attack on Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, which left four people dead and over a dozen wounded at a cafe. “In accordance with situation assessments, the Judea and Samaria Division will be reinforced by two additional battalions,” the army said in a…

Radical anti-Zionists in the haredi neighborhood of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem scuffled with Jewish construction workers on Tuesday over an Israeli flag. The workers, who were renovating a property in the neighborhood, had hung an Israeli flag on the building. Several local anti-Zionist activists confronted the workers, demanding that they remove the flag, saying that…

More than 130 terrorists from the Islamic State (ISIS) have been killed in a US-backed offensive on the key jihadist-held city of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Thursday. US-led coalition air strikes supporting the assault by Kurdish and Arab fighters, launched on May 31, have also left 30 civilians dead, said the Syrian…

Words of condemnation and support continue to pour in from foreign leaders, following the deadly shooting spree by Arab terrorists in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday night. But one senior foreign diplomat in Israel felt words were not enough. On Thursday morning, Australian Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma announced that he and his entire staff would be…

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted on Wednesday that some foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation made during her tenure as Secretary of State were not disclosed to the State Department. Clinton’s admission is the first acknowledgement by the likely Democratic nominee that the foundation, chaired by her husband, former president Bill Clinton, received…

The village of Yata, from which the two terrorists who murdered four in Tel Aviv Wednesday came, has been surrounded by IDF checkpoints and no one will be allowed in or out without permission from the IDF. The work permits for members of the terrorists’ clan have been revoked, as have permits to visit Israel…

Even among some particularly outrageous media portrayals of Arab terror attacks on Israeli in the past, a strikingly hostile live discussion on MSNBC Wednesday night – as news of the deadly shooting spree in Tel Aviv broke – left many viewers stunned. Even as images of the carnage at Sarona Market played out on screen, after…

Jerusalem Police on Thursday completed their preparations for the first Friday of Ramadan, the holiday observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, with a special focus on the Temple Mount. Police are on especially high alert following Wednesday night’s shooting attack in central Tel Aviv. District Police Commander Yoram Halevy will lead thousands of officers…

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman instructed the IDF Thursday to desist from its policy of handing over terrorists’ bodies to the Palestinian Authority for burial. His instruction was given despite the recommendation of the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) to return terrorists’ bodies, because not doing so could cause Arab anger…

A policeman who lives near the Sarona Market, the scene of Wednesday’s terror attack, let one of the two terrorists into his house and gave him a glass of water without knowing he was a murderer. The terrorist approached the policeman’s house as he tried to flee the scene. He clung near a group of…

A fellowship of Christians and Jews will provide food aid to needy Israeli Arabs during the monthlong Muslim holiday of Ramadan. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews announced it would provide more than $260,000 worth of food vouchers to 3,000 low-income Arab-Israeli families. The families have been identified by welfare offices throughout Israel. The…

Bernie Sanders drove much of his campaign’s bitter rhetoric toward Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment in recent months, according to an expose. “At the heart of the rage against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the campaign aides closest to him say, is Bernie Sanders,” Politico reported in the article posted Tuesday night, just…

Erin Schrode and Alex Law, Jewish 25-year-olds running to become the youngest lawmakers in Congress, both lost to incumbents in their respective Democratic primary races Tuesday for a House of Representatives seat. Schrode, an environmentalist and entrepreneur, garnered 7 percent of the vote in Northern California’s 2nd District in falling to two-term incumbent Jared Huffman,…

White supremacist David Duke blamed the current controversy over Donald Trump’s now defunct unaccredited university on Jewish control of the media. Duke said Tuesday on his radio show that media coverage of the Trump University case is “very illustrative of the Jewish tribal nature.” Duke also said: “They’re like a pack of wild dogs when…

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging Germany to increase funding for Holocaust survivors. The nonbinding resolution, which passed by a vote of 363-0 on Tuesday, urges Germany to “ensure that every Holocaust victim receives all of the prescribed medical care, home care, mental health care, and other vital services necessary to…

Israeli-founded companies based in Massachusetts brought in $9.3 billion to the state last year, continuing to outpace the state’s economy in overall revenue and job growth, according to a new report released Wednesday by the New England-Israel Business Council. When factoring in the impact of spending on goods and services, such as office space, marketing…

A German-funded pilot program for protecting Eastern European Jewish cemeteries has helped preserve at least 70 graveyards since 2015, the effort’s initiators told Council of Europe delegates. The briefing Wednesday in Strasbourg about the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, or ESJF, came two years after its inception with an initial budget of $1.35 million, Yossi Beilin,…

Swiss Jews spoke out against a regulation that makes it illegal for schoolchildren to refuse to shake hands with their teachers because of religious reasons. A regional school board last month ruled that schools in Basel Country can fine parents up to $5,000 if their children refuse to shake hands with teachers, as is customary…

Jewish leaders in Austria denied a report in Israel that the community had prepared a program for normalizing ties with the far-right Freedom Party, which it now shuns. The Israeli Hebrew-language news website NRG on June 3 reported that the Jewish Community in Vienna had a roadmap for the Freedom Party to follow if it…

Police in London carried out a controlled explosion across the street from Israel’s embassy in the city after a suspicious vehicle was spotted there. Hundreds of commuters were evacuated from the surrounding area, and police temporarily shut down a nearby section of Kensington High Street, according to the Daily Star. Police determined that the car,…

Security cameras caught Wednesday evening’s shooting attack in Tel Aviv in which four people were murdered. Warning: Graphic footage below.

Palestinian Arabs on Wednesday evening celebrated the shooting attack in a market in Tel Aviv in which four people were murdered and at least six wounded. Palestinians in Tulkarem were handing out candy to passing cars in celebration of the terrorist attack. Senior Hamas terrorist and the deputy leader of the group, Ismail Haniyeh, also…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Wednesday night visited the Sarona Market in in Tel Aviv, the site of an earlier terrorist shooting attack in which four Israelis were murdered. “This is an incident of cruelty, murder and terrorism in the heart of Tel Aviv. The…

Divorce splits the family’’s finances into two. Sometimes the two halves aren’’t exactly equal.  Financial expert Peter Dunn discusses the most common money mistakes that arise during divorce: •Is it worth fighting to keep the house? •What should you do about your insurance policies? What is the best way to get up to speed with financial issues if your…

Western media on Wednesday continued to distort their coverage of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. The Russia Today news website was quick to publish a misleading headline on Wednesday that the terrorists who carried out the attack were “ultra-Orthodox Jews”. The Russian site headlined its report on the…

Jewish teens who were rescued from a beach in Dover after being trapped by the tide have raised 5,000 euro for the lifeboat station crew that saved them and are promising that more is to come, the British Jewish News reported Wednesday. The 34 strictly-Orthodox teenagers and their families raised the funds just hours after…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night condemned the shooting attack in Tel Aviv in which four people were murdered and five wounded. “I condemn the heinous terrorist attack in Tel Aviv today.  I send my deepest condolences to the families of those killed and I will continue to pray for the wounded,” she…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its anti-Israel campaign in international institutions. This time, the PA has filed a complaint against Israel with one of the UN bodies, claiming Israel violated an international treaty and deliberately dumped hazardous waste in Palestinian territory. In a statement, the PA claimed that Palestinian inspectors along with Palestinian police…

Hamas announced on Wednesday the start of registration for its annual summer camps, which this year are named “Al-Quds Intifada” and will be held throughout Gaza. The “Al-Quds Intifada” is the name that Palestinian Arab groups are using to describe the current wave of terrorism against Israelis. The camps in question are a summer camp…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday night condemned the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were murdered. Ban also criticized Hamas for praising the attack. “The Secretary-General condemns tonight’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in which at least four Israelis were killed by Palestinian assailants and another four injured. He conveys his…

Meir Ettinger, the right-wing activist who was recently released from administrative detention, gave an interview on Wednesday to express his attitudes and beliefs. “Our task is to remind others of the People of Israel’s mission, to clarify the difference between a Jewish country and what we have today, and especially to repeat over and over:…

Looking to defuse the latest coalition crisis threatening his government, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with Shas chief Aryeh Deri by phone Wednesday evening, scheduling a meeting between the two for Thursday. The Prime Minister, who is currently on a state visit in Moscow, called the Shas leader in response to his party’s threat to…

Police have opened an investigation into the Balad party over suspected illegal donations during the 2013 election campaign. Party officials claim that all of the money was collected in accordance with the finance laws. Senior Balad members told Haaretz that the investigation only began in the past few weeks and expressed suspicion that it is an intentional…

Eyewitnesses to Wednesday’s deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv said the terrorists responsible “slaughtered people”. “We were inside the Max Brenner restaurant, we sat at the table, suddenly there was someone in front of me and he fired shots,” one witness told Channel 2 News. “We did not know what to do, all the people…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, on Wednesday evening called on the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council to condemn terrorism in the wake of the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in which three people were killed and numerous people were injured.  “Today’s heinous attack sadly proves that when the international community refuses…

Terrorists opened fire at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv Wednesday evening, killing four people and wounding at least six. One victim is reportedly in critical condition, while two are in serious condition, Magen David Adom (MDA) reported. The victims were taken to the Ichilov Hospital. The venue of the attack, Sarona, an old Templar…

The State Department in Washington on Wednesday night strongly condemned the shooting attack in Tel Aviv in which four people were murdered. “The United States condemns today’s horrific terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in the strongest possible terms. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and our hopes for a quick…

After meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held a conference with the leaders of Moscow’s Jewish community where he spoke about Israeli activity in Syria. The event, which was held during Netanyahu’s official visit to Russia, was attended by around 100 community leaders and businessmen including Russian Chief…

A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured in an explosion in Tel Aviv, according to initial reports. Magen David Adom paramedics treated the young victim at the scene before transferring him to Ichilov Hospital. It is not yet known what caused the blast, which occurred next to a local kindergarten along Aliyat Hanoar Street. MDA sources claimed it…

The contractor responsible for repaving access roads in Gush Etzion has reportedly taken the excess asphalt and used it to pave a connection between Wadi Sair and the Beit Fajjar quarries. The quarries are primarily located on land run by the Civil Administration, and their operation has severely damaged the surroundings. The new road serves as a route to…

Controversial anti-Israel British politician George Galloway, who in the past declared his hometown an “Israeli-free zone”, bashed likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, saying that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was the lesser of two evils. Galloway, who in the past has praised the Hamas terror group and accused Israel of arming Al…

Israel charged four French immigrants with fraud on Wednesday over a $10 million scam of major companies in which they are accused of posing as representatives of firms including Chanel and Bosch. The defendants are accused of building “a worldwide network of fraud based in Israel,” with apartments, technological equipment and European bank accounts, the Justice Ministry said. Prosecutors charge that…

Police have announced that they will not allow terrorists’ funerals to take place in eastern Jerusalem. Instead, the terrorists will be buried in other Muslim cemeteries, as chosen by the police. Ynet reports that the decision came after a number of recent cases of incitement at terrorists’ funerals. In particular, about 200 attendees at the Ala’a Abu…

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has system for fighting hostile drone activities. The Drone Guard, as the project is known, focuses on detecting, identifying and disrupting drones, Ynet reports. It even has civilian uses, allowing people to prevent drones from entering their private property. “The use of small drones has increased dramatically over the years, making them a…

Speaking to Arutz Sheva in an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Education Minister and Jewish Home chief Naftali Bennett discussed a wide range of issues, touching upon the replacement of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon with Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman, his recent feud with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the future of his party’s partnership with…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara took part in an official ceremony for the return of a tank that had been captured by Syria during the 1982 war in Lebanon. The commander of Russia’s ground forces, Colonel General Oleg Salyukov, participated in the ceremony, which took place in the Patriot armor museum near Moscow.…

Three young men from Britain got the scare of their lives on Monday, when a night of binge drinking and parties ended with the trio finding themselves in war-torn Syria. Alex McCormick, a 19-year old from Essex, James Wallman, 23, from Hertfordshire, and 25-year old Lewis Ellis of Manchester, say their night of partying ended…

Rabbi David Shalosh, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Netanya, passed away at the Laniado Hospital in the coastal city after midnight on Tuesday night. He was 96 years old at his passing. Rabbi Shalosh had served as Netanya’s Chief Rabbi and a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council for the past 53 years. In the coastal city…

This week’s edition of Temple Talk was recorded on the first day of Sivan, the month dedicated to the Festival of Shavuot, the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at the Sinai Revelation that will be observed this Sunday (and Monday if you live in the Diaspora). Like all of Israel, our hosts Yitzchak Reuven and…

On the 40th anniversary of Operation Entebbe, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo wrote an article for Yedioth Aharonoth reenacting every step of the legendary rescue operation from his point as view as the communications officer of Sayeret Matkal. The elite special ops force, led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s heroic brother Col. Yoni Netanyahu, rescued over 100 Jewish…

The central witness against Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the fugitive head of the Shuvu Banim sect who was finally arrested in Johannesburg, South Africa two months ago, has spoken out on shocking details of the sexual abuse case against Berland. Berland fled from Israel in 2012 after several women as well as a 15-year-old girl laid charges of sexual assault against him. He…

For 72 Hours Only from Kupat Ha’ir: Receive a Special Blessing from the Gadol Hatorah on Shavuoy. CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME! Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, the distinguished Torah scholar, has recently promised to give a special “Me Shebeirach” blessing when he is called up to the Torah on Shavuot morning to all those who give to Kupat…

Nationwide blackouts are a daunting prospect, plunging millions into darkness and completely derailing the modern lives of an entire country. Usually severe weather is to blame for such failures – but not in Kenya on Tuesday, where a photogenic primate was the culprit. Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) sheepishly admitted in a statement on Tuesday that…

Coalition chairperson MK David Biton (Likud) met on Wednesday morning with Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, in an attempt to end the sudden boycott on parliamentary activity by his party. Shas’s boycott came in protest of statements allegedly made by Channel 10’s new chairman Rami Sadan, who entered his post on Monday and was immediately the subject…

A leading official in Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party recently celebrated stabbing attacks against Israelis, at the graduation ceremony for a UN sponsored school. Abbas Zaki, a leading member of the Fatah Central Committee, made the speech at UNRWA Ramallah Women’s Training Center and Educational Science Faculty’s graduation ceremony, which was held at the Palestinian Red…

An Arab activist of the radical leftist NGO B’Tselem who filmed Elor Azariya shooting a wounded terrorist in Hevron in March testified against the soldier at the Jaffa military court on Wednesday morning. The activist, Imad Abu Shamsiyeh, appeared in addition to other Arabs who filmed the event. In the incident Azariya shot the 21-year-old terrorist Abdul Fatah…

Channel 10’s new chairman Rami Sadan on Wednesday again denied have made the racist comments attributed to him in a Haaretz report after he took control of the channel’s directorate on Monday. In an interview with Walla, Sadan said he refuses to resign over the scandal which has sparked a backlash, after the paper alleged that in a closed directorate meeting…

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was under fire from Republicans on Tuesday after hinting that a judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his business was biased because of his Mexican heritage. The judge in question is federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit on Trump University. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell blasted…

Britain’s Foreign Office on Tuesday warned UK fans travelling to Paris for the Euro 2016 soccer tournament to remain “vigilant at all times” as busy areas could be “potential targets for terrorist attacks”, The Independent reports. The updated advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office highlighted stadiums, fan zones and other venues broadcasting the tournament…

Clinton wins New Jersey, clinches Democratic nomination Fox News projects that Clinton will clinch the Democratic presidential nomination after winning enough New Jersey delegates. Fox News is projecting that Hillary Clinton will clinch the Democratic presidential nomination after a win in the New Jersey Democratic party. With the win, Clinton becomes the first woman in…

NEW YORK (JTA) – Donald Trump sees enemies everywhere. The media is out to get him, he says. He has cast Muslims as a threat, proposing to ban them from the United States following last December’s deadly San Bernardino terrorist attack. And Mexican immigrants, in Trump’s view, are “rapists” who should be walled off from the United States. So it only makes sense, the…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday welcomed the rejection of a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions by the membership of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). In a statement, the ADL said the rejection was “an important milestone in the effort to counter the BDS movement and in support of academic freedom.” “The AAA is…

A California man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for seeking to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group and wage holy war, authorities said. Nicholas Michael Teausant, a 22-year-old convert to Islam, had pleaded guilty in December to a charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Helen Mirren testified to the U.S. Senate about the importance of restoring art stolen by Nazis to its rightful owners. Mirren, the Oscar-winning British actress, appeared Tuesday at a hearing on a bill that would grant claimants more time to reclaim stolen art works. Mirren said she became steeped in the issue…

Despite tensions between his own country and Turkey, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told a Moscow news conference with visiting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he supports reconciliation between Israel and Turkey, Haaretz reported. The Russian president’s comments are seen as providing a substantial push in wrapping up efforts on a reconciliation agreement between…

Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee, on Tuesday blasted President Reuven Rivlin over what he termed his “visit to the Israeli settlements”. He was referring to Rivlin’s tour on Monday of the Binyamin region of Samaria, as a guest of Yesha Council leader Avi Roeh. The Yesha Council represents…

Despite her comments opposing “settlements”, U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice promised Israel that the new military aid agreement between the two countries that is currently being negotiated will constitute “the single largest military assistance package — with any country — in American history,” Haaretz reported Tuesday. The comments came during Rice’s address on Monday…

Channel 10’s CEO has confirmed reports that the company’s recently-appointed chairman told the board of directors that he hates the Sephardic haredi Shas party and its leader, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, and made racist comments about Mizrahi Jews. “After a firestorm that’s lasted for hours, it should be stated clearly: Rami Sadan told the members…

Bangladesh police on Tuesday launched a deadly crackdown on Islamist militants as a 70-year-old Hindu priest became the latest victim in a series of gruesome killings by jihadists. As a government minister tried to portray the recent attacks as part of a conspiracy involving Israel’s Mossad spy agency, security forces waged deadly gunbattles with members…

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group burned 19 Yazidi girls alive after they refused to have sex with its fighters, according to reports. The girls were locked in cages before being publicly executed in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, according to the Kurdish ARA news agency. The gruesome spectacle took place in front of…

Controversy over contributions to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by a French tycoon on trial for fraud deepened on Tuesday after the Frenchman disputed the premier’s version of events.   With the issue receiving widespread coverage in Israel and the country’s attorney general examining it, Netanyahu acknowledged on Monday that Arnaud Mimran, currently on trial in…

The Netherlands is investigating media reports that a sleeper cell of the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) has been hiding among migrants in a Dutch refugee camp, officials said Tuesday. “We have heard these reports and an inquiry is being undertaken into this,” Justice Minister Ard van der Steur told MPs during a parliamentary session. He…

The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland’s former communist regime. “In most cases, these are the last personal belongings of the Jews led to death in the gas chambers upon selection at…

Last week in San Jose, California, supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump found themselves surrounded by violent far-left protesters, most of whom were apparently supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Several Trump supporters were assaulted amid ugly scenes – but apparently they weren’t the only ones “feeling the Bern.” In fact, video footage…

The Communications Ministry has concluded following an investigation that anti-Mizrahi comments attributed to Channel 10’s new chairman, Rami Sadan, were not made by him, the Director-General of the Ministry said Tuesday night. “An investigation by the Second Authority for Television and Radio with state representatives on the board of Channel 10 found that the comments…

NEW YORK (JTA) — Ivanka Trump will be publishing a book next spring to help professional women. Titled “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success,” the book by the daughter of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will help professional women “create the lives they want to live,” according to Portfolio, the business imprint…

Ex-Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s camp claimed victory Tuesday in Peru’s photo-finish presidential election, but polarizing rival Keiko Fujimori said it’s not over till the last vote is counted. With more than 97 percent of the ballots in from Sunday’s runoff, the Oxford-trained economist known as “PPK” had the edge in the race to…

A delegation of the Yesha Council in Judea and Samaria has arrived in Moscow for the first time, in a joint project with the Strategic Affairs Ministry to present produce from the Biblical heartland of Israel to Russian consumers. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who arrived with his wife Sarah Netanyahu in Moscow on Monday night, attended…

Rami Sadan, who was appointed as chairperson of the Channel 10 directorate on Monday, responded on Tuesday to quotes attributed to him by Haaretz and cited by numerous politicians calling for his immediate resignation. Sadan, who is to manage the cash-strapped Channel 10, insisted that he never made the controversial quotes. The TV channel is supervised by the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority.…

Democratic presidential frontrunner – and by now presumptive nominee – Hillary Clinton could be facing another potentially damaging scandal, as a former Secret Service agent stationed at the White House prepares to release a book which he claims reveals damning evidence that she “lacks the integrity and temperament” to be president. Gary Byrne, who guarded…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had some of his social media accounts hacked. Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked Sunday by a hacker group called OurMine, according to reports. The group reportedly discovered Zuckerberg’s password during a breach in the LinkedIn database. His password reportedly was not very strong – the hackers said it was…

The Obama administration will continue to object to Israeli and Palestinian unilateral actions, Susan Rice said, while also resisting outside attempts to impose a solution. Rice, the U.S.  national security adviser, told the American Jewish Committee’s annual Washington conference on Monday that “we continue to strongly oppose Israeli settlement activity,” referring to growth in Jewish…

(JTA) Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch were among the few who invested in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and won. Now, the Republican megadonors may have to return that money. An important ruling is expected in coming weeks on a lawsuit demanding they give back the $21.5 million they made on their investment. Whether the lawsuit will mean anything…

Loading… As he continues to familiarize himself with the realities on the ground, freshman Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman conducted his first official tour of the IDF’s Northern Command since taking office, together with IDF Chief of Staff General Gadi Eizenkot. During his trip, Liberman heard security assessments from the Chief of Staff, as well as…

The “demographic argument” is often used by those advocating for Israeli territorial concessions – namely, that the Arab population will surpass the number of Jews in Israel unless it withdraws from all or most of Judea an Samaria. However, recent studies have cast doubts upon the Palestinian Authority’s alleged population figures, which some experts claim…

Following legal action by supporters of Israel, four Spanish municipalities dropped their former policy of support for boycotts of the Jewish state. Occurring amid an unprecedented judicial crackdown in Spain against the phenomenon, three of the four reversals last month came following court-issued injunctions that suspended municipal motions passed in support of a boycott, ACOM, a…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their fourth meeting in just nine months Tuesday afternoon, as the Israeli premier continued his official trip to Russia. Netanyahu left for Moscow on Monday, and is scheduled to stay for two and a half days in total. The trip is officially meant to…

Rabbi Elie Abadie, the rabbi of Congregation Edmond J. Safra at 11 East 63rd Street in Manhattan, spoke to Arutz Sheva at the Israel Day event on Sunday. His comments can be seen at 8:26 in the video below. The rabbi spoke about the history of his synagogue, noting that it is a center for Jewish life in the Upper East Side.…

An Arab terrorist opened fire on two military vehicles early Tuesday morning as they rode on Highway 465 adjacent to Halamish, located in the Binyamin region of Samaria to the northeast of Ramallah. None of the soldiers were wounding by the shooting attack, although one of the vehicles was damaged by the gunfire. In response a Jewish…

Asael Shabo, 22, who lost his leg and much of his family in a horrific 2002 terror attack in Itamar in Samaria, moved the crowd during a basketball semifinal match on Monday night when he proposed to his girlfriend. Asael stepped on to the basketball court during halftime in the match between Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Eilat – Jerusalem went…

A Federal Judge on Monday ruled that the US government can hand in a classified ex parte submission to the court, not allowing Jonathan Pollard’s lawyers to see the state’s evidence in arguing for his strict parole limitations. The case relates to the harsh parole conditions imposed on Pollard, who was released last November after spending half…

Members of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) seeking to boycott the Jewish state as part of the discriminative BDS movement failed on Tuesday, as a boycott resolution was narrowly shot down by the organization. The resolution banning collaborations with all Israeli universities and research institutions was defeated by 2,423 votes against as opposed to 2,384 votes in…

The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed on Tuesday that it unearthed a hoard of silver coins from the Hasmonean period (126 BCE) back in April, during ongoing excavations near Modi’in with the participation of local youth. The dig is being held ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood at the initiative of the Modi‘in-Maccabim-Re‘ut…

Controversy over contributions to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by a French tycoon on trial for fraud deepened on Tuesday after the Frenchman disputed the premier’s version of events. With the issue receiving widespread coverage in Israel and the country’s attorney general examining it, Netanyahu acknowledged on Monday that Arnaud Mimran, currently on trial in Paris, had given him $40,000. Netanyahu said however that all had…

Lesley Sachs, director of the provocative Reform group Women of the Wall (WoW), was detained for investigation by Jerusalem district police on Tuesday over suspicions of smuggling a Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Kotel (Western Wall) Plaza. Kotel Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz himself complained to the police and reported that WoW had smuggled…

The Israeli army rejected on Tuesday claims alleging that a second Palestinian terrorist killed in March was shot dead while already wounded, rebuffing allegations by the radical leftist group B’Tselem. The new B’Tselem claim follows the court case it sparked with footage filmed by one of its Arab activists in March, showing IDF soldier Elor Azariya shooting a wounded Arab…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that in just one or two meetings a rapprochement deal with Israel will be reached, indicating that the normalization talks started last December are reaching a close. Even as he made the assessment in an interview with state broadcaster TRT Haber, Cavusoglu said Israel must lift obstacles against aid for…

MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) said on Monday he believes that the chances of his party entering the coalition have diminished. “I don’t know of negotiations and I hope there aren’t any. For me, there’s no door, no window and no cracks, but a cement wall separating between us and the government,” he told Haaretz.…

Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday hailed the groundbreaking Executive Order signed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo which “unequivocally rejects the BDS campaign and stands firmly with Israel.” Cuomo announced the Executive Order on Sunday, and also said that he plans to put out a list of…

President Barack Obama could officially endorse Hillary Clinton as early as this week after she secures enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, The Hill reported on Monday. The exact timing of an endorsement remains unclear, according to administration officials. The president reportedly spoke with the other Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, over the…

The Associated Press is reporting that Hillary Clinton has captured commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. Clinton, the former secretary of state, New York senator and first lady, reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto…

The upcoming presidential election in the United States will focus heavily on security-related issues, opined John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the UN. Bolton spoke to Arutz Sheva at the Israel Day event in New York on Sunday. “We’ve seen the continuing threat of international terrorism, the nuclear deal with Iran leaves Israel, the United…

American tax laws originally enacted to combat money laundering and terrorism adversely affect the millions of American citizens living abroad. Colleen Graffy, a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Law at Pepperdine University, explains why FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) restrictions are unfair to law-abiding…

North Korea appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday, according to Reuters. North Korea vowed in 2013 to restart all nuclear facilities, including the main reactor at its Yongbyon site that had been…

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi on Monday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of taking advantage of the Arab Peace Initiative in order to avoid the French peace initiative. Speaking to the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper after attending this past Friday’s Paris convention dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Al-Arabi claimed that the Israeli Prime Minister’s real motives…

The Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Ali Larijani, on Monday claimed that Iran has information proving that Saudi Arabia shared intelligence with Israel during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Speaking to the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network which is associated with Hezbollah, and quoted by the Hebrew-language Walla! news website, Larijani also claimed that during Israel’s counterterrorist Operation…

Deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday night expressed hope that Palestinian Arabs will soon be able to pray in the “liberated Al-Aqsa Mosque”. “The first day of Ramadan will be the day that Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque will return, the Israeli occupation will end and all of us will pray at the courtyard…

(JTA) – For the sixth year in a row, the seven synagogues in Krakow’s historic Jewish district, Kazimierz, opened their doors for 7@Nite – or the Night of the Synagogues, a one-night mini-festival aimed at bolstering Jewish pride and promoting Jewish awareness among the public. Each synagogue – from the Gothic Old Synagogue, now a Jewish…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday to find a solution for Sergeant Yehuda Yitzhak HaYisraeli, who was severely wounded while fighting in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. “Sergeant Yehuda Yitzhak HaYisraeli,” Netanyahu wrote in a letter to the Defense Ministry, “was critically wounded during Operation Protective Edge…

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) has long sought to foster understanding between Jews and Christians in North America, and now in a new campaign it is looking south to Brazil’s growing evangelical Christian population. IFCJ founder and president Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is currently in the middle of a two-week trip to a…

Women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving by the Muslim kingdom, and a new deal by the government with the Uber car service that is seen as exploiting their lack of rights has ignited an online protest. Uber announced last week it had received a $3.5 billion investment from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi…

In recent weeks the Health Ministry aired a new campaign calling on the public to avoid sodium saturated snacks, and as part of the effort it aired a video exposing the health hazards of popular Israeli junk food. Channel 2 reported on Monday that an agreement was made between the state and the food companies that produce the…

When three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away last Friday, media outlets were swamped with eulogies for the 74-year-old former boxer, highlighting his cultural impact at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Indeed, Ali’s legacy goes far beyond the ring. His conversion to Islam in 1964 marked his metamorphosis from…

Police commissioner Roni Alsheich revealed in a closed conversation just after he was appointed to his post that Prime Minister Binyamin Neatnyahu had promised to name him as the next Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) director in the future. Journalist Raviv Drucker exposed on Channel 10 on Monday night that in convincing Alsheich to take…

Jordanian security forces on Monday night arrested a suspect in the attack on a security office in a Palestinian Arab camp that left five dead, including three security officers, Jordanian state television said, according to Reuters. Security forces said a major manhunt was launched following the attack at the Baqaa camp early on Monday. The…

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — As we approach Shavuot, there’s a battle going on in our garden over who — or what — will get our first fruits. In ancient days in Israel, beginning at Shavuot — the holiday that marked the wheat harvest as well as the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai — people brought to the…

The Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, on Monday released a statement in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. “The United States has encouraged the worst tendencies of the Israeli government as it pursues policies of occupation, apartheid, assassination, illegal settlements, demolitions, blockades, building of nuclear bombs, indefinite detention, collective…

Deputy president Elyakim Rubinstein and judge Noam Solberg of the High Court overruled the opposing opinion of judge Ori Shoham on Monday, and rejected a petition submitted by business owners in Jerusalem regarding kashrut (Jewish dietary laws). The business owners had petitioned against having the law banning misappropriation of kashrut being enforced against them. In…

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman spoke on Monday at the weekly meeting of the Yisrael Beytenu party, welcoming the faction’s newest MK, Yulia Malinovsky. Malinovsky was placed seventh on the party list for the 2015 elections, leaving her without a Knesset seat when the party won just six seats. After his appointment to the Defense Ministry,…

Odaya Weingott, the mother of 15-month-old Eliya who tragically died last week after being left in the family car in Ashdod, wrote a moving letter to her son marking the completion of shiva, the traditional seven-day period of intense mourning. The bereaved mother’s letter reads as follows: My God, Father in heaven, my merciful Father…I accept…

The rabbi of Kibbutz Gesher Ziv, Rabbi Yosef Haim Hassan, disappeared Monday morning after leaving his home to immerse himself at the nearby Achziv beach. Rabbi Hassan went to Achziv prior to morning prayers, intending to ritually immerse in the sea. Unfortunately, however, it appears that while at the beach Hassan was swept under and…

Arutz Sheva was on hand in New York City on Sunday as over 30,000 supporters of Israel marched despite the rain in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade. Marchers were unified in their message: “Come rain or shine we stand with Israel.”

Bangladesh has seen a bloody string of murders targeting secular bloggers and religious minorities, with most of the killings claimed by Islamist groups – but according to Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Israel is to blame. In accusing Israel of inexplicable involvement in the local murders, Khan noted that opposition MP Aslam Chowdhury, a joint…

The Meretz party, whose formal registered name is “Meretz – the Israeli Left,” has pushed its rhetoric even further to the left, openly condemning the liberation of Jerusalem as “occupation,” and blasting Jerusalem Day celebrations commemorating the reunification of the city. As Israelis celebrated Jerusalem Day on Sunday, marking 49 years since the liberation of eastern Jerusalem…

Coalition chairperson MK David Biton (Likud) warned the Jewish Home party on Monday that Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s barbs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Jerusalem Day the day before are liable to split the coalition. Speaking at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Bennett insinuated that Netanyahu is “in favor of the Land of Israel in…

A week after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expanded his coalition, bringing Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party into the government, Israelis are satisfied with the addition, and prefer the inclusion of the nationalist party over the left-wing Zionist Union party led by Yitzhak Herzog. According to a survey conducted by Tel Aviv University and published by…

Archaeological evidence has long disproved any historical claims of Palestinian peoplehood, but the facts did not deter Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas from spuriously claiming Palestinians were in Israel from before the Biblical Abraham. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Monday exposed repeated statements by Abbas and his religious adviser on official PA TV in recent…

(AFP) Peru’s presidential vote faced a tight finish Monday as early results gave Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a lead over his rival Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of a jailed former president.   Kuczynski is the son of a Jewish doctor from Germany, while Fujimori is the granddaughter of Japanese immigrants. Both have vowed to unite the…

The Norwegian Ambassador to Israel’s chauffeur was arrested on the Allenby Crossing between Israel and Jordan, as he attempted to smuggle ancient artifacts out of the country. Customs Authority agents discovered some 10 kilograms of antique sculptures, coins and other items concealed in cardboard boxes and hidden in the walls of the Norwegian Ambassador’s Mercedes late last month. The precise…

An American photojournalist was killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan Sunday, together with his Afghan translator. Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) journalist David Gilkey, 50, is the first American journalist outside of the military to be killed in the Afghan conflict. He was traveling with 38-year-old local journalist and translator Zabihullah Tamanna in an Afghan army convoy in the…

A rabbi detained by police just outside the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day has been released without charge, after a judge ruled there was no evidence to support police accusations. The rabbi – who heads a women’s midrasha Torah college – was one of two people arrested yesterday (Sunday). The second individual was arrested for saying…

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has canceled a planned visit by his Yisrael Beytenu party to the Jewish town of Amona in Samaria, raising fears that the new “nationalist” defense minister will act to demolish the community despite previous statements of solidarity. Amona is slated for destruction by the end of 2016, in accordance with a Supreme…

Israel Police Chief Inspector Roni Alsheikh is reportedly looking to finally fill the currently vacant position of Police Chief Rabbi.  According to reports his Alsheikh’s favored choice is the Rabbi of the Samaria community of Talmon in the western Binyamin Region, Rabbi Rami Rahamim Barkheihu. Rabbi Barkheihu currently heads a special program to encourage religious Jews…

Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, legendary head of the Migdal Ohr Institutions in Migdal HaEmek in the Jezreel Valley – known as the “Disco Rabbi” because of his practice of entering noisy nightclubs to find potential returnees to Torah – related the following extraordinary incident in his most recently column in the weekly BaKehillah. In the…

Syrian regime troops and loyalist militia advanced on Syria’s largest dam with Russian air support on Monday, threatening to cut off the jihadists’ bastion Raqa from the Turkish border, a monitor said.  The advance took the army to within 24 kilometers (15 miles) of Lake Assad, the vast reservoir in the Euphrates Valley contained by…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Monday that he had received contributions from a French tycoon on trial for alleged fraud, but said they were not political and were used for promoting Israel. During his trial in France, Arnaud Mimran said he had given one million euros ($1.1 million) in campaign contributions to Netanyahu in…

Three Jordanian intelligence officers and two civilian employees have been killed in a terrorist attack on a security forces headquarters at a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. According to Jordanian government officials, the attack took place at an office of the General Intelligence Department in Baqa’a, located on the outskirts of the capital Amman. Jordanian television cited by Reuters…

(JTA) — Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, may have a university named for him. But Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first female Jewish justice on the high court, now has an entire species — even if it is a rather small one: the leaf-dwelling Ilomantis ginsburgae. The newly identified type of praying mantis…

Officials in the Likud were outraged on Sunday night after Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett implicitly criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over his recent statements in support of a Palestinian state. While he did not mention Netanyahu by name, Bennett, who spoke at a Jerusalem Day rally at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva said, “There are…

After a bill against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) was rejected by the Ontario parliament, Premier Kathleen Wynne plans to work with members of the opposition to draft a new motion on the issue, The Canadian Jewish News reports. Wynne made the pledge in response to the controversy surrounding “The Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will visit Moscow Monday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, the premier’s office said, with the two having held talks in recent months over the conflict in Syria. Netanyahu’s two-day trip is his third to Russia since September and also comes as the two nations mark 25 years since the…

Hillary Clinton will win the Puerto Rico Democratic primary, CNN projects Sunday night, putting her on the cusp of clinching the party’s presidential nomination. Clinton is not expected to win all 60 delegates that were at stake in Puerto Rico, which would have put her over the top in the nomination battle against rival Bernie…

The race begins to heat up: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remove the gloves and begin an aggressive campaign against each other. Michael Fragin explores vital election questions: “Can Trump pivot? Can Hillary be trusted?” Loading…

French President Francois Hollande acknowledged on Sunday there was a threat of an attack during the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer championship, but said the country must not be intimidated. “This (attack) threat exists,” he was quoted by AFP as having told public radio France Inter. “But we must not be daunted. We must do everything…

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Jewish Theatre building in Warsaw was closed at the request of the district construction supervisor’s office. The official reason given for the closure last Friday night is the poor physical condition of the building. For the past several months, however, a private developer who wants to build an office skyscraper…

Deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has made clear that the group will not back down from its demand that a seaport be established in Gaza. Haniyeh’s comments came at a sermon this past Friday in a Gaza mosque. “The construction of a port in Gaza is the hope of the Palestinian people to break the…

Iran on Sunday rejected the U.S. State Department annual report which concluded that the Islamic Republic remains the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said the report is “false” and further evidence of the “lack of credibility of reports by the U.S. State Department,” reported The Associated Press. As in…

The Jerusalem police on Sunday asked the city’s Magistrate’s Court to issue an order blocking five activists of the anti-assimilation organization Lehava from entering the Old City, just in time for Jerusalem Day. The five were detained for investigation last week during a protest against missionary activity in the Old City, and were forced to sign…

A platoon leader in the IDF paratroopers is facing a military court trial for throwing a tear gas grenade into his soldiers’ tent earlier this year, Yedioth Ahronoth reports. The commander says he wanted to punish the soldiers for oversleeping, but also that he chose his actions out of consideration for their feelings.  “I am a commander…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated his call for a peace deal on Sunday during a Jerusalem Day ceremony at Ammunition Hill in the capital city, even as he said he would not agree to redivide Jerusalem as it was until the 1967 Six Day War. “For 49 years Jerusalem has been liberated from its handcuffs and…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) gave a speech at the central Jerusalem Day rally, held at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva. During his talk, he criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the latter’s statements supporting a two-state solution. “There are those, both in Israel and abroad, who are working to advance the various Arab peace…

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has appeared more appeasing vis-a-vis Iran than Republican nominee Donald Trump, publicly endorsing the controversial nuclear deal – but according to Iran’s Parliament Speaker the two are the same. Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday that Tehran doesn’t see any difference between whether Clinton or Trump win the elections,…

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich commented on criticism over the police’s handling of today’s flag march in Jerusalem for Jerusalem Day. “Nothing got by the police this past week. Whatever the media said, we in the police are working and are pleased with our progress,” he said. Despite this, Alsheich added: “We all have the same…

A full 300 warriors of the Kfir brigade’s Netzah Yehuda battalion, better known as the haredi battalion, conducted a massive march in Jerusalem on Sunday in honor of Jerusalem Day, marking 49 years since Israel liberated all of the capital. The soldiers marched along the major streets of Jerusalem towards the Kotel (Western Wall) to “reconquer”…

Arab terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying Jewish students as it passed near the Arab town of Huwara in Samaria on late Sunday. No one was wounded in the attack, although the bus was damaged. Huwara is located between the community of Yitzhar and Tapuah Junction. It remains unclear what is the status of a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night spoke at the Jerusalem Day celebration at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he vowed that Jews would never be removed from their land. “The love of Jerusalem unites all of us as one man with one heart. I remember the divided city of Jerusalem with the…

Dear Beautiful Jewish Students, This school year (2015-2016) was one of the roughest years security-wise in decades that Israel and Jerusalem have known. As young and old Arab terrorists launched stabbing attacks in the streets and ran over unexpecting, Jewish pedestrians with their cars, a casual walk outside became an act of courage.  Some of…

Kfir Brigade combat soldier Yigal Chaim Legativi, a resident of Karmiel in the north who was critically wounded in a shooting attack in Hevron last October, got engaged last week. Legativi was shot in the head by a 16-year-old Arab terrorist and left with critical injuries. He fought for his life for many long weeks, and…

Rabbi Avraham Sherman, a former member of the Great Rabbinical Court and a student of former haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Elyashiv, on Sunday joined those voicing opposition to prenuptial agreements. The rabbi signed off on a joint letter recently published by a group of haredi rabbis strongly opposing prenuptial agreements, which in recent years have become…

Prosecutors in Lod have filed charges against Omar Riyad Abd al-Razak Uda, a 21-year-old man from Qalansawe in central Israel, for contacting a foreign agent and providing services for an illegal organization. According to the statements, Uda periodically visited the al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. On three occasions in 2015, he allegedly took…

Israel on Sunday released a correspondent in the Golan Heights for Iran’s Arabic-language state television after four days of detention, police said.   Bassam al-Safadi, a journalist for the Al-Alam news channel, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of “supporting a terrorist organisation and incitement to violence and terrorism,” police said. A court in Nazareth in…

Jerusalem Day on Sunday marks 49 years since Israel miraculously liberated eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights against all the odds in the 1967 Six Day War – but Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairperson Mahmoud Abbas was busy mourning the day. Abbas sent out a statement on “Naksa Day” as the Palestinian Arabs term it,…

Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi, the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Sunday for Jerusalem Day about his book “The Six-Day War Scroll,” commemorating the liberation that took place 49 years ago in the 1967 Six Day War. The historian began by noting that he wrote his book as a scroll in the format…

Arutz Sheva was on hand as the traditional rikudegalim flag march began on Sunday for Jerusalem Day, starting at the dance stage in the center of the ancient capital with marchers continuing on to the Old City and the Western Wall (Kotel), adjacent to the Temple Mount. The flag march, which is part of celebrations marking 49 years since the liberation of the 1967…

The Israeli Security Agency’s (ISA or Shin Bet) Judea and Samaria district nationalistic crime unit on Sunday investigated nationalist activist Noam Federman of Hevron, on claims that he “incited violence” in statements made over half-a-year ago. The investigation was spurred by a complaint submitted against Federman by the radical leftist group Peace Now. Federman was…

Ron Weinreich has released a new song and music video in celebration of Jerusalem Day. Weinreich, who was born in Israel and raised on Long Island, New York, was severely injured during the Second Lebanon War. He has since been confined to a wheelchair, but remains outspoken about his love for his homeland. His latest work, entitled Tribute…

Google has removed an app that allowed users to surreptitiously identify Jews online after a tech website brought the tool to widespread media attention and spurred a backlash. Coincidence Detector, the innocuous name of the Google Chrome internet browser extension created by a user identified as “altrightmedia,” enclosed names that its algorithm deemed Jewish in triple parentheses. The symbol — called an…

An only-in-New-York story about a public swimming pool that offered women-only swim periods for the area’s Orthodox community turned into a full-blown media firestorm when the New York Times weighed in on the subject. The pool, located in the heavily Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, had been offering women-only hours since the 1990s to accommodate…

The current Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammed Ahmad Hussein, declared on October 25, 2015, that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was a mosque built on the site “3,000 years ago, and 30,000 years ago… since the creation of the world.” Temple Mount, 1915. Al Aqsa Mosque on the left, Dome of the Rock on the right. The…

A young haredi man was accosted by a large group of gay parade marchers on Friday, who verbally assaulted him and attempted to bait him into a fight. Itzik, who asked that his last name not be revealed, found himself confronted by a large group of marchers as he made his way home from Tel…

A native of South Africa now living in Atlanta, Georgia, Kivi Bernhard has become a fixture at elite business events throughout the world. Arutz Sheva caught up with Bernhard following his speech at the 2016 J-Biz B2B exposition in New Jersey, touching upon the important role of business and finding a “holy parnassah” has in…

Ordinary Israelis have raised nearly 1.4 million shekels (approximately $364,000) to renovate the home in the case of a severely injured Israeli war hero, after the government refused to do so because he lives in a “settlement” in Samaria. Yehuda Yitzhak HaYisraeli was left in a coma for over a year after being critically wounded in…

25-year-old Erin Schrode is a rising star in the Democrat Party. She is hoping to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the youngest person in the House of Representatives. But her ambitions have also attracted the attention of neo-Nazi online trolls, who have targeted her in a vile campaign of hate, prompting the young Jewish-American…

For more than a decade, haredi students from leading yeshivas have flocked to predominantly national-religious communities over the “Green Line”, with Judea and Samaria becoming some of the most popular Shabbat destinations for young haredi men. While this phenomenon initially went unnoticed – and was later ignored – now for the first time haredi educators…

Jerusalem District Police Commander Yoram Halevi told a court in the capital that left-wing extremists planned to disrupt the annual Jerusalem Day Flag Dance (Rikudgalim) through the Old City today. “We have intelligence on left-wing activists who want to disturb (the march),” Halevi told the Supreme Court during a hearing regarding a petition by leftist groups for the march…

While the Jewish community in the neighborhood of Silwan (Shiloach) in eastern Jerusalem has elicited fierce criticism from the Israeli left and even the American government, descendants of the original owner of the “Kfar HaTeimanim” (Yemenite Village) area in Silwan celebrated the planned construction of an additional apartment building for the growing Jewish population. Yair…

It was a day full of action and opportunity for the crowd at the 2016 J-Biz Expo and Business Conference, which was held on Wednesday at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison. A diverse crowd of men and women can from far and wide – throughout the United States and around the…

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) on Saturday called on opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog to join the coalition, telling Channel 2 News in an interview, “At the end of the process there will be two states for two peoples here.” “At times like this people need to have the courage to show leadership despite the political…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is projected to win the Virgin Islands caucuses, The Hill reported Saturday night. However, Clinton’s win does little to pad her delegate lead over Bernie Sanders, as the state offers only 7 pledged delegates. At the same time the victory is a small boost to her pivot toward taking on…

German prosecutors have launched legal proceedings against 180 suspects linked to jihadist groups in Syria, the Justice Ministry said Friday, a day after police arrested three Syrians suspected of planning an attack. “The chief prosecutor is currently carrying out 120 proceedings targeting 180 suspects in connection with the civil war in Syria, for their membership in, or backing of, a…

Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali passed away Saturday morning, after he was hospitalized with severe breathing problems. Seventy-four-year-old Ali’s relatives were called to his bedside in order to say their goodbyes. The legendary athlete suffered from Parkison’s, which caused numerous respiratory complications. US President Barack Obama said that he and his wife “pray that…

(AFP) Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State group’s bastion province Raqqa Saturday, threatening to catch the jihadists in a pincer movement as US-backed Kurdish-led fighters advance from the north. The lightning advance from the southwest with Russian air support brought the army to within dozens of kilometers  of the Euphrates Valley town of Tabqa,…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) has attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) over their support for a Palestinian state and the need for a political process with the Palestinians. “We will take down the government over anything that would lead to a division of the Land of Israel and…

Veteran journalist Dan Margalit has criticized extreme-left Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy for questioning why IDF soldiers shot an armed terrorist who approached them. Margalit wrote, “A Palestinian with a knife approached the checkpoint, and Palestinian mouthpiece Gideon Levy wonders why – because she is a good student and wanted to study abroad, so it’s unlikely that…

Retired police deputy commissioner Yoav Seglovich, who joined Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party last week, has commented about the investigation into Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu). “I still think we could have put him on trial under aggravated circumstances, but the attorney general thought differently,” he told Channel 10. “In a law-abiding state, the police’s…

Last week, communication and strategy consultant Roni Rimon attended a conference focused on fighting BDS, which was organized by Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon. While there, he guided groups of students in how to oppose the phenomenon. “We need to actively go after members of BDS,” he told Arutz Sheva, adding: “We need to fight…

Due to the large number of lawyers who have visited former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in prison, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) has decided to change its policies on visits. Under the new rules, prisoners will be allowed three lawyer visits per week, and no more than one per day. In addition, each visit will be…

Israelis are out celebrating Jerusalem Day as the Jubilee year of Jerusalem’s unification begins, led by students at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva (for film of dancing, click here) in the capital city.. The holiday commemorates the liberation and unification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War on the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Sivan.. The…

Recent comments by Opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) and Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union) suggest that their party may still join the government coalition. On Saturday, both politicians said that they would reconsider joining a unity government, should there be any diplomatic initiatives. MK Herzog presented new conditions to joining. “If Netanyahu kicks the Jewish…

Since I was named as one of Mr. Trump’s Israel advisors a few weeks ago, people have been sharing amazing insight and emotions with me about Israel. I have had the good fortune of speaking to, meeting with, and hearing from many people around the world, Jewish and non-Jewish, who care deeply about Israel and…

Feridun Sinirlioglu, Turkey’s deputy foreign minister who was in charge of reconciliation talks between Turkey and Israel in recent years, has been removed from office, Channel 2 News reported Friday. According to the report, Sinirlioglu will be appointed Turkey’s Ambassador to the United Nations. He has in the past served as Turkish Ambassador to Israel.…

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir, on Friday said the Arab Peace Initiative is the best solution for the Israel-Palestinian Authority (PA) conflict, and rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the initiative be “updated” to reflect the changes that have occurred in the Middle East over the past several years.  The initiative, unveiled in…

The Road Not Taken (Poem by Robert Frost, 1916) It’s a fairly well-known and beloved poem, which comes to mind each year as we begin the Book of Bamidbar and with Shavuot coming up fast. And Yom Yerushalayim gets into the thought process, as well. The poem doesn’t match the issue at hand perfectly, but…

Daniel Luria’s family has a tradition of making Aliyah. In fact, his parents and both sets of grandparents made Aliyah, but returned to Australia. Daniel, whose first attempt at Aliyah was as a young boy with a backpack, has no intention of leaving the Land of his Forefathers. In fact, his life’s work is to rebuild, rebuild…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday spoke to French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, in the wake of the international peace summit that was held in Paris. A diplomatic source said that Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s positions and stressed that it would be better if France and its partners would encourage Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas…

American warplanes on Friday conducted “combat sorties” in support of the ongoing campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS) group from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, the Navy’s Sixth Fleet announced. The statement did not specify if the planes had carried out strikes or hit any possible targets after taking off from the USS Harry…

Syria has agreed to allow access for ground convoys to deliver aid to 12 besieged areas during the month of June, the United Nations said Friday. Damascus has also agreed to restricted aid deliveries to three more areas but rejected requests for two others, the UN office of humanitarian affairs said. The approvals came as…

Israel on Friday announced a series of gestures to relax restrictions on the movement of Palestinian Arabs during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The measures, similar to those of previous years, were announced by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the unit which manages civilian affairs in Judea and Samaria under…

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) secretary-general Saeb Erekat hailed Friday’s international meeting on the Middle East peace process held in Paris as a “significant step” on the path to peace. “The Paris meeting is a very significant step and its message is clear: if Israel is allowed to continue its colonization and apartheid policies in occupied…

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, a Reuters poll released Friday found. Some 46 percent of likely voters said they supported Clinton, while 35 percent said they supported Trump, and another 19 percent said they would not support either, according to the survey of 1,421…

Freshman Likud MK Yehuda Glick spoke with Arutz Sheva on Friday after speaking at Oz VeGaon nature preserve in Judea, a site established by Women in Green in memory of the three teens who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists in June 2014. Glick began by praising Women in Green directors Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Friday spoke with Arutz Sheva in honor of Jerusalem Day this coming Sunday, and said he hopes the building freeze implemented by the government on the eastern part of the capital will be lifted. According to Barkat, Jerusalem has significantly developed in the past year despite the Arab terror wave that has…

The Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) sent a sharp message to new Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) Friday, chastising him for his first statements as he took up the post this week. “You can’t bribe G-d by going to pray at the Kotel and immediately afterwards announcing your acceptance of a two-state solution which endangers the Jewish…

Religious Zionist and haredi rabbis, alongside politicians, took part on Thursday night in the sheva brachot wedding blessings for Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s youngest daughter, following her wedding at Jerusalem’s Binyanei Hauma. The sheva brachot was held at the Prima Kings Hotel in the capital, where Rabbi Yosef praised Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu for his work in strengthening the…

History books provide glimpses of nearly a century of ties between Hashemite rulers and Jewish leaders, starting with the pre-state of Israel.   Dr. Chaim Weizman of the Zionist Organization met with Emir Faisal in January 1919 and signed an agreement of understanding. T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) was the interpreter for the meeting, but it is not…

A 38-year-old Arab man from Shechem in Samaria was arrested in Kafr Kassem on Friday, with two knives on his person.  He stated to the police officers who arrested him that he was preparing to carry out an attack against Israeli Jews in one of the Sharon-area cities, Channel 2 reports.  The police were in the midst of…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out Friday at the United States, Britain and Israel as the Islamic republic’s “main enemies,” accusing Washington of procrastinating over the controversial nuclear deal. “It’s the US, the evil Britain, and the damned and cancerous Zionist regime. These are the main enemies,” Khamenei said in a televised speech marking the 27th anniversary of the death of his revolutionary…

Hamas and three other Palestinian terror groups on Friday condemned Paris talks aimed at restarting moribund peace negotiations with Israel. Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement have thrown their weight firmly behind the French initiative, which hosts representatives of some 25 countries, the United Nations, European Union and Arab League, on Friday. Israel has rejected the initiative and…