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Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen, whose son Neria Cohen was murdered in the Mercaz HaRav attack in 2008, was violently attacked by Arab youths as he visited his son’s grave on the Mount of Olives yesterday.  “Yesterday I went with my wife and children to my son’s gravesite,” the Rabbi recounted, in an interview with Arutz Sheva. “At…

A “maneater” tiger hunting for food in northern India has killed seven people in the past two weeks, according to local wildlife authorities. In response, thousands of villagers have locked themselves in their homes while armed hunters try to put the raging animal down. Rupak De, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, told Fox News Wednesday that the…

Umoove, an Israeli hi-tech start-up company, announced Tuesday the release of their first product on the App Store. The application, called Umoove Experience, will be available to download free of charge, on any modern iOS device January 14th, 2014. The Umoove Experience features a 3D avatar that flies through a village, enabling full user control…

Thieves tried to steal the ashes of Sigmund Freud, regarded as the father of modern psychoanalysis, and his wife Martha from a Jewish cemetery in London, police said Wednesday.     The ashes were contained in an ancient urn dating back to the third century BCE, which was severely damaged during the attempted theft sometime…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet) revealed Wednesday that a terror attack had been foiled in December whereby terrorists had attempted to build a military cell in Judea and Samaria with the specific intent to kidnap Israelis.  The twist: the terror cell was operated by terrorists who were already imprisoned. The terrorist operatives were…

It started with a phone call from Osnat Lester, a resident of Poriya Illit, to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). “Stored in my warehouse,” she said, “there are crates full of ancient jars that were left behind by a relative, a fisherman, who has passed on. I want to hand over the jars to the…

The President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, declared Monday that a charity managed by his mother Aimani would pay $1,000 to families naming their infants born that day Mohammed, after the founder of Islam. The privately sponsored charity decided to give the present in honor of the birthday of Mohammed according to the Sunni sect of…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Tuesday complained to the Security Council and to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over Monday’s rocket fire by Gaza terrorists after the funeral of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Shortly after Sharon’s funeral, Gaza terrorists fired two rockets at the Negev. The rockets hit an area north…

Egyptian officials say at least 11 were killed Tuesday in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and the State. The Health Ministry says the deaths occurred in Cairo, Giza, Bani Suef and Sohag, according to the Huffington Post. 28 people have been wounded in the attacks. The news surfaces in the wake of the beginning of the…

Four Palestinian Arab men from the town of Harabta were arrested Tuesday after one of them attempted to steal a car on Highway 446. The would-be thief was unaware that the car had been planted by police officers as part of a crackdown on theft in the region. Police in the Binyamin region put a…

Over 450 new Ethiopian immigrants to Israel cemented their connection to the Land of Israel in a unique way Tuesday: by planting tress in honor of the holiday of Tu Bishvat. The immigrants have just arrived in Israel, and are living in absorption centers funded by the Jewish Agency. The Agency sponsored the event, along…

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon clarified on Tuesday evening that he had no intention of offending U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “Israel and the United states share a common goal to advance the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians led by Secretary Kerry,” said a statement by Yaalon’s office. “We appreciate Secretary Kerry’s many…

The PLO – the Palestinian terrorist groups’ umbrella organization – has decided to authorize moves to join international bodies under UN auspices, and to sign international conventions – even though it had promised last year not to do so, in exchange for the release of 104 terrorist murderers from Israeli jails. In a session of…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he was ready to withdraw a contentious bill aimed at curbing the powers of the judiciary as he battled to contain the worst crisis of his 11 years in office. His about-face came as the country’s political tumult took yet another twist with police raids against an…

The celebration among Palestinian leadership over former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s death on Saturday has been gathering steam with Arab MKs joining the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PA media, reports Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). The bashing of Sharon included a picture of former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat dancing in joy above the text “an official announcement…

A series of car bombs near Baghdad has killed at least 21 people Monday, in the latest in a series of sectarian clashes ripping through Iraq. The attacks came just hours after the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged the Iraqi government to address the root causes behind the clashes, in light of escalating…

Police officers from Maaleh Adumim and border police have discovered an illegal weapons cache in the Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled village of Azariya, located off Highway 1, several minutes outside of Jerusalem on the way to Maaleh Adumim. During the police search, components of various weapons models were found, along with tools to clean and…

Dozens of people in the besieged southern suburbs of Damascus have died of starvation after spending months living on scraps of food, reports a British newspaper. For more than a year, nothing has been allowed in or out of a number of districts in the the sourthern suburbs of Damascus, according to the Telegraph. “It…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday that recent comments by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas were proof that he does not want peace. According to Kol Yisrael radio, Netanyahu made the comments during his dinner meeting with Biden at the Prime Minister’s Residence on Monday night. Netanyahu…

Hundreds of pro-Israel activists gathered in the Golan Heights Monday, to participate in a tree-planting program that included a special ceremony in honor of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.  About 500 activists participated in the tree-planting, an annual event sponsored by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the World Zionist Organization’s (WZO) Israeli branch, the…

Gazan Arab terrorists “saluted” Ariel Sharon on the occasion of his funeral Monday by firing two rockets at the Negev Monday afternoon. The rockets hit an area north of Sderot at about 4 p.m., several hours after Sharon’s funeral concluded. There were no injuries and no damage reported. “Two projectiles landed in an open area…

Members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, have reportedly raided Arab villages in “Area C”, just north-west of Jerusalem, opening fire with automatic rifles. The clashes are reportedly part of internal power struggles within the party “Area C” refers to areas within Judea and Samaria which are under full Israeli…

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be laid to rest on Monday, in a complex operation that will be secured by some 4,000 police officers. At 9:30 a.m., a state memorial ceremony for Sharon, who died Saturday at age 85, will be held at the Knesset. President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker…

Sharon is to be laid to rest at his Havat Hashikmim (Sycamore Ranch) in the Negev on Monday afternoon, next to his late wife, Lily. “Arik, you were the shoulder on whom Israel’s security rested,” said President Shimon Peres standing in the Knesset plaza, where Sharon’s flag-draped coffin stood on a black marble plinth. “The story of…

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during his visit to Israel as head of a U.S. delegation to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral on Monday, Biden’s office said, according to Reuters. Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be a chance for the vice president to try to…

Iran will receive the first $550 million installment of a total of $4.2 billion in previously blocked overseas funds on or about February 1, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday. The money will be transferred to Iran as part of the implementation of the nuclear deal reached with it in Geneva on November…

The Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has executed dozens of rival Islamists over the last two days, activists told Reuters on Sunday. The executions took place as the group recaptured most territory it had lost in the northeastern Syrian province of Raqqa, according to the activists. One of the activists, who…

US President Barack Obama confirmed Sunday that the clock starts ticking January 20 on a six-month nuclear deal with Iran, which has agreed to temporarily limit uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of sanctions against it. He also appealed to US lawmakers not to pass legislation slapping new sanctions on Iran. “We will now…

Security for the funeral of Ariel Sharon Monday is among the tightest for any funeral in Israel’s history. Hundreds of soldiers and police will be on hand, and helicopters, light planes, and drones will fly above the funeral procession as it works its way south from Jerusalem to Sharon’s Negev ranch. The Iron Dome system…

The Defense Ministry has agreed to compensate close to 100 soldiers who say they suffered long-term health damage due to their participation in Anthrax vaccine experiments in the 1990s. The soldiers, who had sought NIS 18 million in damages, agreed to the compromise offer. In addition, the Defense Ministry has agreed to establish a fund…

Russel Simmons, founder of hip-hop recording label Def Jam Records and clothing lines such as Phat Farm, eulogized former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Saturday after the former leader passed away, then took it back. Initially Simmons appeared to echo many world leaders in expressing sorrow over Sharon’s passing on his Twitter account. “R.I.P. my…

In a joint statement by JFNA Board of Trustees Chair Michael Siegal and JFNA President and CEO Jerry Silverman, the two called Sharon “a great Israeli leader.” “Ariel Sharon was a highly regarded military leader, but he was also a peacemaker,” read the statement. “One of the country’s most daring and celebrated generals, he was also…

New census figures released Friday by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveal that one out of every 10 babies and toddlers in England and Wales are born to Muslim families, indicating a rapidly growing and young Muslim demographic. The data shows a huge increase in the number of Muslims looming on the horizon,…

The polar vortex that recently struck North America left chilling snowscapes and massive damage in its wake. The storm froze the Niagra Falls with record breaking low temperatures. The frigid weather also cost the US economy $5 billion. Frozen work schedules and burst pipes needing replacement led to the hefty price tag, reports The Guardian, although…

At least 482 people have been killed in fighting between the Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group Islamist State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and other Syrian rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported. Eighty-five civilians were among the dead, along with at least 240 non-ISIS rebels and 157 ISIS members. The high death…

The Ministerial Committee on Symbols and Ceremonies, chaired by Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat, convened Saturday evening at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, to discuss funeral arrangements for former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who passed away Saturday afternoon at the age of 85. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Sharon family, Yisrael…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told a delegation on Saturday that there will be “no peace between us and Israel” without eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state, the Ma’an news agency reported. Speaking to a delegation from Jerusalem in his office in Ramallah, Abbas highlighted that the Arab Follow-up Committee…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away on Saturday at the age of 85. While Palestinian leaders heaped condemnation on Sharon following his death, world leaders were quick to send their condolences and praise of the former leader, who died after being in a coma since 2006. US President Barack Obama paid tribute to…

As Israelis mourn the passing of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Palestinian leaders from both the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and the Islamist Hamas movement celebrated his death, with a senior official labelling him a “criminal” and accusing him of being responsible for the death in 2004 of former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. “Sharon was a…

On Saturday afternoon an Arab stabbed a 30-year-old Hareidi-religious man in the neck by the Damascus Gate (Sha’ar Shechem) of the Old City in Jerusalem. The injured man was evacuated in moderate condition to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in the capital city. Police began an investigation to hunt down the stabber, who escaped after the attack towards the…

The wife of a Gaza terrorist serving time in an Israeli jail has given birth to a son after being impregnated by sperm smuggled out of the prison, reports the Waed Gaza prisoner association on Friday. While the unusual birthing method has been employed for prisoners from Judea and Samaria in the past, Saber Abu…

An IDF officer has died in a tragic accident during a holiday in Chile. 22 year-old Lieutenant Noam Rubinstein froze to death after breaking her ankle whilst hiking in the mountainous north of the South American country. Her hiking companion – also an Israeli citizen – left her to get help, but by the time…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has passed away aged 85. He passed away with his family at his side at the Sheba Medical Center where he had been treated since not long after slipping into a coma in 2006. “The Sheba Medical Centre in Tel HaShomer announces with sorrow the passing of former prime…

After eight years in a vegetative state following a severe stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel “Arik” Sharon has passed away at the age of 85. Although his condition had remained relatively stable for several years following the massive stroke which left him incapacitated in January 2006, the past few weeks saw a rapid deterioration…

Stanley Fischer, former Governor of the Bank of Israel, will be nominated to serve as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Obama administration said on Friday, according to Bloomberg. Fischer, 70, would replace Janet Yellen, who was approved by the Senate this week for the chairmanship of the U.S. central bank. Reports of his…

The bill initiated by the United States Congress to slap new sanctions on Iran is continuing to gain steam, it was reported on Friday. According to The Associated Press (AP), 59 senators now back a new U.S. sanctions package they say would increase the pressure on Iran to make nuclear concessions – just one short…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman turned some heads on Friday when he urged Israel to accept the peace deal currently being brokered by Washington. Liberman, who spoke to the British Telegraph newspaper, said that the offer being promoted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was “the best offer Israel will ever receive.” He told the…

Iran and world power representatives agreed on Friday on how to implement a landmark deal on containing Tehran’s nuclear program, but stamps of approval from each country are still needed before it can take effect, reports AFP. Two days of talks in Geneva between high-level Iranian and EU negotiators “made very good progress on all…

A volunteer arrived at a synagogue in the town of Ezer, located near the coast between Ashdod and Ashkelon, to find the house of worship broken into. Vandals had broken the Torah ark door off its hinges and torn Torah scrolls which were found thrown on the floor. The vandals also damaged other holy items, leaving…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to Israel to visit Israel and Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders next week to lend backing to nascent peace efforts, a spokesman said Friday. Ahead of a planned trip to Israel by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in late February, Steinmeier will visit Jerusalem Sunday and Monday for talks with…

The State Prosecutor turned to the Supreme Court Friday to appeal the decision to release from house arrest two suspects in a rock attack on an Israeli family which left a 2-year-old infant seriously injured. The appeal stated that perpetrators of ideologically-motivated crimes were rarely if ever trustworthy to be released before the end of…

Unknown vandals damaged the jeep of Samaria Brigade Commander Colonel Yoav Yarom Friday, in what appears to have been a “price tag” attack. His vehicle was attacked as it was parked in the Samarian community of Yitzhar, as Yarom was meeting with community leaders there. The meeting was called in light of a number of…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was described as being in “extremely critical” condition Thursday night, has had members of his former office and close friends visit his hospital room in quick succession, indicating the rapid developments in his failing health. The visitors are arriving at Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv, where Sharon is…

Caleb Jacoby, the son of Jewish Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, was found safe and sound in New York City on Thursday night. He had been missing since Monday The Brookline police department announced that they had been cooperating with other police departments, and passed information to the NYPD indicating the 16-year-old was in Times Square. At 9 p.m. on Thursday,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced to senior officials in his government that he won’t agree to any division of Jerusalem in framework agreements. Sources previously revealed that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals would divide the capital under international management. Netanyahu has claimed he won’t sign any document which in any way allows the establishment…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Israel at the end of February at the invitation of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, for annual talks between the two governments, a statement quoted by AFP said Thursday. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said the two leaders had a phone conversation Thursday in which Netanyahu “invited the German government for…

As Iran’s supreme leader slammed the United States as “Satan”, his country and world powers met Thursday to discuss how to implement a deal aimed at containing Tehran’s nuclear drive, less than two weeks before the agreement is due to take effect. AFP reported that Iranian, EU and U.S. negotiators gathered in Geneva for their…

63 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt were sentenced Thursday to three years in jail on charges including rioting, thuggery and weapons possession, Al Arabiya reports. It was the largest number of Brotherhood supporters sentenced in one case since the army-backed authorities began cracking down on the movement after former President Mohammed Morsi was deposed in…

Tunisia’s Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh resigned on Thursday, as part of a plan to end months of political deadlock which has fuelled mounting social unrest, AFP reported. His resignation sees the departure of Tunisia’s first democratically elected government, which came to power after former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in the…

MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) has asked Knesset members to join him in requesting an urgent plenum discussion regarding a video advertisement produced by nationalists, attacking US Secretary of State John Kerry for his attempts to foist what they say is a bad peace deal on Israel. Here is the video https://old.solveisraelsproblems.com/video-mocks-john-kerry%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98useless%e2%80%99-solutions/#more Horwitz noted that the…

Teva on Thursday named Erez Vigodman, 54, as new CEO of the company, after last October’s resignation of Dr. Jeremy Levin. Vigodman will succeed acting President and CEO Eyal Desheh, who will return to his previous position as Group EVP and Chief Financial Officer of the company. Vigodman is currently President and Chief Executive Officer…

The health of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon has worsened over the past hours, hospital officials said on Thursday, describing him as being in “extremely critical” condition. “Over the past hours, there has been a worsening of the condition of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. His condition is described as extremely critical and his family…

Russia has once again blocked a UN Security Council statement that would have expressed outrage at deadly airstrikes by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces and condemned the use of missiles and “barrel bombs” in towns, Reuters reported Wednesday. Russia, a staunch Assad ally, opposed a similar statement on December 19 that would have condemned attacks…

The Israeli Air Force struck terrorist targets in Gaza Wednesday morning, wounded two Palestinian terrorists in the south of the Islamist-controlled territory, medical and security sources said.   “Two Palestinians were hit and injured by an Israeli drone while they were riding on a motorbike east of Khan Yunis,” Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry spokesman Ashraf…

A French court on Wednesday convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country’s controversial burqa ban declared unconstitutional, AFP reports. Cassandra Belin, 20, was also convicted for insulting and threatening three police officers at the time of her arrest, which sparked two…

United States President Barack Obama invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington on Wednesday, hoping to mend fences after a row provoked by revelations of U.S. eavesdropping on her cellphone, AFP reports. Obama called Merkel to wish her a speedy recovery after her recent skiing injury and invited her to visit at a “mutually agreeable…

Syrian Islamist rebels from the Islamic Front have captured a key Al Qaeda base in the northern city of Aleppo. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, fighters found the bodies of several men who had apparently been executed, along with dozens of prisoners kept at a hospital in the Qadi Askar district. The…

Police conducting a routine traffic stop in Indiana on New Year’s Day got much more than they bargained for. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, was arrested on Interstate 70, west of Columbus, Ohio. Boguslawski was originally pulled over for going over 85 miles per hour (mph) in a 70 mph zone. However, investigators found two pistols,…

A dramatic development has been made in the investigation of the 2013 murder of a Toronto-based Jewish couple.  Rochelle Wise, 66 and David Pichosky, 71 were found strangled to death in their townhouse last January in Hallande Beach, Florida. They had only been married for about 4 years, and had successfully blended their two families,…

In a new memoir, former US defense secretary Robert Gates delivered bruising opinions about President Barack Obama’s leadership in the Afghanistan war. Gates said that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.” In…

The IDF has decided to let female soldiers serve as kashrut (Jewish dietary law) inspectors for the first time. Brigadier General Rachel Tevet Vizel, Advisor to the Chief of Staff on Women’s Issues, was behind the new move, although she notes female soldiers have yet to request the position. Vizel told Kipa that regarding standards of religious public…

Thousands of illegal infiltrators, protesting since Sunday over a new law allowing their detainment in facilities for up to a year as their status is clarified, took their masses from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and surrounded the Knesset building on Wednesday. The infiltrators apparently were following up on their demand Tuesday during a press conference to…

Jacoby, who stands at 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 140 pounds, has gone missing in the midst of a record-breaking cold chill striking the US. Ellen Pulda, a spokesman of the Maimonides School that Jacoby attends, reported that “the school is engaging all of its resources to aid Caleb’s parents and the Brookline Police. Our…

Syria has moved the first batch of chemical weapon materials out of the country after transporting it from two sites to the port city of Latakia and onto a Danish vessel, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Tuesday, according to Reuters. “The vessel has been accompanied by naval escorts provided by…

The United States on Tuesday accused Iran of helping “brutalize” Syria as Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to talk to Russia about Tehran’s potential role at a peace conference, AFP reports. Kerry will meet in Paris on January 13 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss whether Iran should take part in the…

A bill to slap new sanctions on Iran if it goes back on an interim deal under which it agreed to limit its nuclear program has gained support since it was introduced in December, aides to U.S. senators have told Reuters. The bill requires further reductions in Iran’s oil exports and would apply new penalties…

Harry Styles of One Direction, considered to be the most successful pop group in the world, has started taking private Hebrew lessons in order to, among other things, be able to read from the Torah. “Harry took a mission on himself, to learn to speak and write Hebrew by the end of the year,” said…

Israelis living in the town of Itamar in Samaria (Shomron) were dismayed when their power suddenly went out Tuesday afternoon. While at first the power outage appeared to stem from a technical failure, an investigation revealed a more sinister reason: residents of a nearby Palestinian Arab town had deliberately cut power to their Jewish neighbors.…

French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday backed attempts to ban controversial comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala from performing a one-man show that has been widely condemned as anti-Semitic, according to AFP Hollande urged local officials to take a hard line in applying an interior ministry circular which authorizes city mayors or police prefects to cancel Dieudonne’s performances on public order grounds. “The…

Two Palestinian Arab men who were fleeing for their lives in Samaria (Shomron) late Monday night found shelter in the Israeli community of Beit Aryeh. The two approached Israeli residents at the gates of the community and explained that they were being pursued by members of the Palestinian Authority security forces. The PA officers were…

Israeli government officials were attacked by Bedouin rock-throwers during an official tour of Israel’s southern Negev region Tuesday morning. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told of the attack in a message posted on his official Facebook page. Liberman slammed the attack and vowed to put an end to the phenomenon of lawlessness which currently exists in…

Police opened fire on a car of suspected thieves as they attempted to break through a police barrier Tuesday afternoon in the Galilee, running over two police officers in the process. The officers were moderately wounded, and evacuated to Ziv Hospital in Tzfat. Shots were fired as the car ran through the barrier on highway…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa (religious edict) banning online chatting between unrelated men and women, Iranian media reported on Monday, according to Al Arabiya. Ironically, Khamenei’s ruling came a day after Iran’s Foreign Minister touted his country as a “model for democracy” in the region. “Given the immorality that often…

Most Israelis favor the possibility that President Shimon Peres will remain in his position for a second term, according to a Channel 2 News poll released Monday evening. 63% of respondents expressed support for Peres’s term, which is to end this summer, being extended by three years. 28% said they opposed extending Peres’s term in…

An Israeli-made rifle has been named the winner of the 2014 Golden Bullseye Award for American Rifleman Rifle of the Year. The rifle is the TAVOR SAR, which was introduced in 2013. The award will be given to Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), its American subsidiary announced, according to the American Rifleman magazine. The prestigious award,…

An American woman nicknamed “Jihad Jane” was jailed for 10 years on Monday, after plotting to carry out deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia including the murder of a Swedish cartoonist, U.S. justice officials said, according to AFP. Pennsylvania woman Colleen LaRose, 50, a convert to Islam, had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland, her spokesman said. She also suffered heavy bruising in the accident, which she suffered while on vacation in the alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland. She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in…

A Bedouin Muslim with Israeli citizenship was charged Monday in the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court for his part in a failed bus bombing in the city of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. The bomb was successfully planted in a bus and detonated, but serious casualties were avoided thanks to the passengers’ and driver’s alertness, and swift action by…

Pope Francis officially announced on Sunday that he will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority in May, reports Reuters. The May 24-26 trip to Amman, Jerusalem and Bethlehem will mark the 50th anniversary of a landmark trip there by Pope Paul VI in 1964, the first by a pope in modern times. Pope John…

The Post‘s headline read: “Who didn’t want him dead?” The story reported that “Although many neighbors described him as well-liked and charitable, Stark left behind a trail of angry tenants from more than a dozen residential properties, mostly in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, along with an untold number of unpaid contractors and angry business associates, investigators…

Investigators have found 12 weapons inside the Palestinian Authority’s mission in Prague, where an explosion last week killed its envoy, police said Sunday, according to AFP. At the same time, Prague police chief Martin Cervicek denied media speculation that an arsenal of more than 70 weapons had been kept at the embassy, but would not…

A deal for the sale of natural gas from Israel to the Palestinian Authority was signed Sunday. The deal was signed in Jerusalem by Israeli and PA officials. According to the deal, gas shipments will commence in 2014 and continue for 20 years. The gas will be piped to a power station to be built…

Rabbi Ze’ev Warren Goldstein, the Chief Rabbi of South Africa, recently spoke to Arutz Sheva about his new endeavor termed The Shabbos Project, which aims to unite world Jewry in observing one Shabbat (Jewish day of rest) together. The Project began as a campaign to urge South African Jews to keep one Shabbat together, observing the Jewish…

Security forces have arrested a suspect in the stabbing of a nine-year-old Jewish girl, Noam Glick, in the community of Psagot on October 5. The attack took place on a Saturday evening and was initially thought to have been a shooting attack. Magen David Adom paramedics gave Noam first aid as IDF forces began combing…

An Egyptian lawyer, Samir Sabri, has filed a lawsuit against Egypt’s president, prime minister and minister of interior, demanding that they declare Hamas a terror organization. The newspaper Al-Wafd reported that Sabri’s suit says Hamas has become a terror group and that it has maintained tight ties with the organization that spawned it, “the terrorist…

In her death, 11-year-old Yuval Nizri has helped bring life – to five other people, via the donation of her organs. Among the people who received organs from Yuval were four children and a 39-year-old woman. Yuval was killed in a tragic car accident in Rishon Letzion last week. Her parents, seeing that saving her…

A Brooklyn man named Barry Baldwin, 35, has been arrested and charged with five incidents in which Jewish women were viciously punched for no apparent reason. The incidents are seen as being connected to a sadistic game called the “knockout game,” which involves targeting unsuspecting victims on the street and knocking them out with a…

While terror attacks in general are on the rise, Israeli-Arab involvement in terrorism is not, according to Maariv Sunday.  Professor Sami Smooha, Professor of Sociology at University of Haifa, found in a study published in 2012 that Israeli Arabs are relating more and more to their Palestinian counterparts, in a decade-long quest to measure sociological changes in…

Last year the relatively young Har Bracha boutique winery made a name for itself at the DECANTER wine competition in Britain, coming away with two awards. Now the winery is adding to its line with two new wines: a 2011 cabernet sauvignon, and a 2011 port wine. Nir Lavie of the Har Bracha winery introduced…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made use of the weekly government session Sunday – the first of 2014 – to sum up his current coalition’s accomplishments in its first year, 2013. “In 2013, according to official statistics, there was the lowest number of terror victims in a decade,” he said. “This is not an accidental thing.…

The government on Sunday approved the transfer of responsibility for egulating illegal settlement of Bedouin in the Negev to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, headed by Ya’ir Shamir (Yisrael Beytenu). Working together to develop solutions with Shamir will be Rami Cohen, the ministry’s chief executive officer. The Prime Minister’s Office – which currently…

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s medical condition deteriorated over the weekend. Sharon has been in critical condition since last week. Doctors confirmed Thursday that Sharon’s organs were failing. They also confirmed that doctors would not attempt to save the former Prime Minister’s life with dialysis, saying, “because the problem is with several organs, there is…

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan on Sunday as part of a regional tour to seek support for a Middle East peace plan he said would be “fair and balanced,” AFP reports. On the fourth day of his tour, Kerry was to hold talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah II before heading on to Saudi Arabia to consult with its…

IDF soldiers were able to prevent a terrorist attack on Saturday night, when they arrested four terrorists who approached the fence surrounding the community of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, a religious kibbutz. The four were caught with makeshift weapons and three knives after IDF look-outs identified them and called the troops. Earlier on Saturday, it was…

The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the suicide car bombing last week in the stronghold of Shiite terror militia Hezbollah, reported Al Arabiya.. ISIL managed to penetrated the “security system of the Party of Satan (Hezbollah)… and crush its strongholds… in a first small payment from…

Egypt’s deputy prime minister and defense minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is expected to step down in the coming days to pave the way for his nomination in the upcoming presidential elections, Gulf News reported on Saturday. The report cited the Egyptian Al Wafd newspaper, which said that Sisi’s exit will be part of a…

The Prague district hosting the embassy of the Palestinian Authority wants it moved after the ambassador was killed in a mysterious explosion this past week, local officials told AFP on Friday. “We asked the Czech foreign ministry for the embassy to be moved out of our district,” Petr Hejl, senior councilor of Prague’s Suchdol district,…

A badly burned body found on a Great Neck dumpster outside a gas station is the millionaire Hassidic real estate developer who was kidnapped in Williamsburg Thursday, law enforcement sources confirmed to The New York Post. The NYPD released video Saturday morning that appears to show suspects forcing Stark into a light-colored Dodge Caravan after he had left the real estate offices…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said he will make a previously unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to consult its king on progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. “Tomorrow I will go to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah (II) and Foreign Minster Nasser Judeh, and from there I will fly to Saudi Arabia where…

Israeli officials Friday denied claims by a former ambassador that Israel had killed most of those behind the deadly bombings at its embassy and Jewish charity offices in Argentina in the 1990s, media said.     The July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Charities Federation (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires killed 85 people. Hundreds…

The bitter cold that gripped the US’s Northern Plains and Upper Midwest areas has killed at least 16 and shows no sign of easing, while another arctic blast approaching from Canada may drive weekend temperatures to all-time record lows, writes USA Today. The National Weather Service said “dangerously cold temperatures” will hit the region over…

Friday was a day of violent clashes in Egypt, between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the police at a level unparalleled in more than two months. Al Ahram cited the ministry of health as saying on Saturday that 14 people were killed and 62 injured in clashes across the country on Friday. Earlier on…

Responding to public pressure, the Israel Football Association announced Friday that it had taken back its newly-announced prohibition on soccer players’ wearing a kippah, or yarmulke, on the soccer field. “After a consultation carried out this morning between the Soccer Federation and the Referees’ Union, it was decided to maintain the status quo… until the…

Republican Senator John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Israel, said on Friday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has “serious, serious concerns” about Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for a framework for peace with the Palestinian Authority. McCain is in Israel along with Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Lindsey Graham…

A bloody Friday in Egypt has claimed the lives of at least 11 protesters in Cairo and several other cities, Al Arabiya reported. Clashes broke out between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and Egyptian security forces throughout Egypt, said the report. One demonstrator was shot dead by police in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia after a…

A 16-year-old female Arab terrorist tried on Friday afternoon to stab a border policeman at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Border Police officers who were at the scene prevented the girl from carrying out the attack. As they wrestled the knife away from her, one of them was lightly wounded in the leg. He did…

The US ordered its citizens to evacuate South Sudan Friday, after more than 1,000 people have been killed in clashes between rebels and government troops.  “On January 3, 2014, the Department of State ordered a further drawdown of U.S. Embassy personnel from Juba because of the deteriorating security situation in the Republic of South Sudan,”…

A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claims to have hacked Skype’s social medial platforms. The group posted a warning on Skype’s sites not to use Microsoft’s e-mail service because “they are monitoring your accounts and selling data to the governments.” Microsoft owns Skype. The hacked post, which has been removed, was placed…

Amid high tensions over the integration of hareidi-religious Jews into the IDF and the workforce, Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology has inaugurated a mechina (university preparatory) program specifically designed to attract more hareidim into its hi-tech programs. While hareidi schools are supposed to teach 55%-75% “core studies,” including science and math, the website No Camels reports that…

The arrest several days ago of Iranian billionaire Babak Zanjani, who reportedly helped Iran skirt oil sanctions over the country’s nuclear program, remains shrouded in mystery. Zanjani, who has a net worth of around $13.8 billion, admitted to using a web of 60 companies in the UAE, Turkey and Malaysia to sell Iranian oil for the…

The Ministry of Defense announced Friday morning that they have completed another successful test of the Arrow 3 missile interception system. The interceptor was launched and performed well during all phases of flight, officials stated. This is the second flight test conducted for the Arrow 3; the first, also successful, was conducted in February 2013.…

Hezbollah has been moving long-range missiles from Syria to Lebanon, analysts claimed to the New York Times Friday, in light of recent developments between Lebanon and Israel.  Israeli security analyst Ronen Bergman stated Thursday that the terror organization has dismantled many of its missiles – armed by Iran and Syria – and moved them closer to home…

The Director of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Professor Ze’ev Rothstein, stated Friday that the condition of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains critical. Sharon is literally fighting for his life.  “Over the last 24 hours we did not expect a slowdown in the deterioration [of Sharon’s condition],” said Professor Rothstein, noting that Sharon…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in his tenth visit to Israel since taking office, met on Thursday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, AFP reported. Kerry’s latest visit is an attempt to push a framework for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The two met in Jerusalem, launching what is expected to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday evening that the arrests of the 14 terrorists who were behind the bombing of a Bat Yam bus is proof that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is directly involved in planning and carrying out terror attacks. One of the terrorists was a member of the PA security forces. The…

Deputy Chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) energy authority, Fathi Al-Sheikh Khalil, said Thursday he had received “encouraging information” that Israel has agreed to supply 100 additional megawatts of electricity to Gaza. In the coming two weeks discussion regarding funding for the electricity will be held, Khalil told the Saudi Press Agency. Currently Israel supplies Gaza…

Brigadier-General Tamir Yadai, Commander of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division, on Thursday night praised the soldiers who were involved in nabbing the terrorists behind the Bat Yam bus bombing. The 14 terrorists, including members of the Islamic Jihad, Bedouin and a Palestinian Authority (PA) police officer, were arrested in a joint operation of the…

At least five people have been killed and 20 hurt in a car bomb which hit a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, media and officials say. The suburb is a stronghold of the Shiite terrorist militia Hezbollah. The BBC says the bomb is not one of the biggest of the recent incidents, but…

An ATM machine allowing conversion between hard cash and Bitcoins, a new digital currency, is set to arrive in Israel in March. The machine will be installed in Tel Aviv’s “Bitcoin Embassy.” The machine will be operated by two companies, Robocoin and Bitcoiniacs, and will support conversion between the virtual currency and more than 200…

An illegal arms cache was found Thursday in the home of the Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Prague, Jamal al-Jamal, who was killed there in an explosion the day before. Initially the PA claimed his death was a “work accident,” that occurred when he opened an old safe that had been untouched for 20 years.…

A 16-year-old Gaza terrorist, who was trying to destroy the security fence, was shot in the leg by the IDF on Thursday after he refused orders to desist. The IDF released a statement noting that soldiers had found a number of terrorists trying to destroy the fence. Despite being ordered to stop numerous times, the…

Mohamed Ibrahim, Egypt’s Interior Minister, on Thursday accused Hamas of being involved in the bombing of police headquarters in Mansoura last Monday that killed 16. Ibrahim announced that seven suspects have been apprehended, including Muslim Brotherhood members. The minister further said the bombers received logistical support from Hamas, detailing Muslim Brotherhood connections with the Gazan terror…

Human rights groups report that thousands of women have been raped by Syrian army soldiers in the ongoing war, which is now in its third year and has left 130,000 dead. That trend appears likely to only increase, as a deputy to the Chief Mufti (Islamic scholar) of Syria has given religious permission to rape. On…

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has arrested 14 terrorists, some from the Islamic Jihad organization, on suspicion that they were involved in the bombing of a bus in Bat Yam two weeks ago. A policeman was lightly hurt in the incident. A gag order on the arrests was removed Thursday. Four of those arrested…

Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are at a critical stage, President Shimon Peres said Thursday. He called on European countries to lend support to the process. “The negotiations between us and the Palestinians are approaching the moment of truth,” he declared. Peres spoke at a ceremony in which he received Letters of Credence…

Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian Authority ambassador to the Czech Republic, was not killed in a terror attack, but by what appeared to be a “work accident,” PA Foreign Minister Ri’ad al-Maliki said Thursday. Al-Maliki released details that are currently known about the death of al-Jamal, who died on Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when…

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood planned a series of bombings at Egyptian churches, according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, according to Channel 10 news. According to the report, the attacks were to take place on Christmas. Terrorists in Sinai had succeeded in gathering explosives for the planned attack. Egyptian intelligence reportedly foiled the…

Ariel Sharon’s medical condition stabilized somewhat overnight Wednesday, Israel Radio reported Thursday morning. With that, medical officials said, he is not likely to survive much longer. Doctors have told Sharon family members that they do not expect him to survive the weekend, although the end could come within hours. Sharon’s kidneys and urinary system collapsed…

The IDF is planning new combat training that will prepare soldiers to fight underground, in tunnels built by terrorists, Maariv/nrg reports. “The tunnels infrastructure has expanded and continues to expand. New, more technologically advanced tunnels have been found. So we cannot relate to this threat in the same manner we used to,” the paper quoted…

Experts from Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers have chosen January 20 to begin implementing the Geneva deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, AFP reported on Wednesday, citing the IRNA news agency. “One of the main proposals is to begin applying the agreement from January 20,” the report quoted Hamid Baeedinejad, head of the…

The IDF had a safer 2013, IDF spokespeople said Wednesday.  Statistics published by the IDF spokesperson’s office concluded that there has been a general decline in deaths and injuries in the IDF over the years, and 2013 is no exception.  Forty people were killed in 2013 in the course of military service. Of those, 5…

The trip was sponsored by the World Zionist Organization (WZO), and led by Rabbi Yechiel Wasserman, who heads the WZO’s Religious Affairs Department. The rabbis and community leaders were given a tour of the Biblical heartland of Israel which focused on the 3,500-year Jewish presence there from a number of different perspectives, including religious, strategic…

A memorial service for the 69 sailors of the INS Dakar was held at Mount Herzl Wednesday, marking 46 years since it sank into the Mediterranean.  The submarine disappeared in 1968, while en route from Scotland to Israel. After a decades-long search, the wreckage was found between Cyprus and Crete in 1999. The submarine had sunk to a depth of…

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s condition continues to worsen, Sheba Hospital in Tel HaShomer reported Wednesday to Channel 10.  Sharon’s condition has been on the decline since being hospitalized for renal failure. The former premier underwent kidney surgery last month to fix the problem, but the move backfired, causing a further breakdown in his vital functions.  Medical…

The US financial aid designated for the Palestinian Authority (PA) is set to grow considerably in 2014 to $440 million, up from $426 million in 2013. The aid aims to bail out the PA, which in June was revealed to owe $4.2 billion in internal and external debt. Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) representative in Washington DC, Maen Erekat,…

The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the Czech Republic has died of wounds sustained in an explosion which rocked his house in the capital Prague.  Jamal al-Jamal was rushed to hospital in a serious condition following the explosion, which apparently occurred as he was opening a safe or container of some kind. Contrary to initial reports…

Peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is elusive as ever, but not for United States Secretary of State John Kerry, who begins 2014 with a trip to the Middle East on Wednesday, bringing along his never-ending hopes of securing peace. This will be Kerry’s tenth visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority since he…

A 29-year-old Belz hassidic-religious Jew, who ran a store named Yossi’s Wine and Liquor on 18th Avenue in the Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, was stabbed on Tuesday night in the course of a robbery at the store. The stabber, who reportedly was a white male, possibly Russian, roughly 6 feet (1.82 meters) tall and…

More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday, according to AFP. In a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011, among them 46,266 civilians. They…

Terrorists in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday blew up a gas pipeline that feeds an industrial area in the region, security officials said, according to AFP. The officials said there were no injuries in blast that targeted the domestic pipeline. The gas pipeline in Egypt has been attacked more than a dozen times since…

The first milestone in plans to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal by mid 2014 was missed on Tuesday, as shipments of the country’s most dangerous chemicals did not make it to the Mediterranean port of Latakia, from there to be shipped to their destruction. The December 31 deadline for the most deadly weapons was reportedly…

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza conducted a test using long-range M-175 rockets on Tuesday evening. Rockets of this type are able to reach the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv and even beyond that when fired from Gaza. During the test, the terrorists fired the rockets ​​out to sea, but the explosions were heard in towns…

A senior Egyptian Justice Ministry official said on Tuesday that the assets of more than 500 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which the country’s ousted president hails, have been ordered confiscated. According to The Associated Press (AP), Abdel-Azzem el-Ashri said that a ministerial inventory committee ordered the “movable and immovable properties” of 572 Muslim…

A Jordanian-Palestinian dissident has voiced his fears over a politically-motivated indictment by a Jordanian court, issued in reaction to his vocal opposition to the ruling Hashemite monarchy there. Mudar Zahran, who hails from the Palestinian Arab majority in Jordan, has been charged in absentia by a military court on numerous charges for his outspoken stances…

The military court in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday convicted Ali Saada, of the Hevron area, in the murder of Asher Palmer, 25, and his baby son Yonatan, in September of 2011. Saada’s conviction joins that of another participant in the murders, Wael al-Arjeh, who was sentenced to two life sentences and 58 additional years…

The Jewish commandment to tie tzitzit (fringes) to four-cornered garments, as a reminder of all the commandments, includes the precept to tie a thread dyed “tekhelet,” a shade of sky-blue. The secret of this dye was lost for millennia – until recent discoveries that is, which may be reviving the ancient commandment. Tekhelet dye was…

A resident of Tel Aviv has been arrested for vandalizing a synagogue with Nazi graffiti. Worshippers arriving at the city’s Gr”a synagogue this morning were horrified to discover swastikas and Nazi slogans daubed on the wall and floor. Among other things, the word “Death” was spray-painted on the front wall of the building, and a…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared Monday that an Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley would be a “red line” as far as he is concerned. Abbas told the Bethlehem-based Arab Ma’an News Agency that “the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank is a ‘red line’ for the Palestinians, in spite of Israeli plans to…

A Sunday New York Times article shows why Israel must never cede control of Judea and Samaria, according to Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. The report cites a newly-published analysis by Theodore Postol, an MIT professor, and Richard Lloyd, a Telsa scientist, which concluded that the rockets used in Syrian chemical attacks on civilians in…

Egypt, which has blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, on Monday urged other members of the Arab League to follow suit. AFP reported that Egypt called on Arab League members to enforce a counterterrorism treaty that would block funding and support for the Muslim Brotherhood. Cairo also wants the League’s members to hand…

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz holds the Lebanese Army directly responsible for Sunday’s rocket attacks on Israel, Maariv reported Tuesday.  “Occasionally we get a kinetic reminder of our environment, which reminds us of the need to be alert and ready for any action necessary as such,” Gantz stated. 5 rockets were fired at Israel Sunday morning, but only…

As Israel released 26 terrorists who murdered Israelis on Monday night, the United States was quick to welcome the decision, AFP reported. Secretary of State John Kerry “expresses his appreciation for Prime Minister (Binyamin) Netanyahu’s decision to release the third tranche of prisoners,” State Department  deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf was quoted by the news agency…

Jabhat Al Nusra, an Islamist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, maintains an infrastructure of governance as one of the central opposition forces. Aside from managing religious courts based on Islamic sharia law, the group has opened new schooling programs emphasizing Islam and jihad. In the southern Syrian town of Daraa, a school established by the…

Israel on Monday filed a complaint with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council over recent acts of terrorism coming from Lebanon. These include the murder of 31-year-old IDF Master Sergeant Shlomi Cohen by a Lebanese soldier earlier this month, and the firing of a Katyusha rocket at northern Israel on Sunday…

NBA star Tony Parker has apologized for his use of the “quenelle” gesture that is widely considered to be anti-Semitic and similar to a Nazi salute. The New York Daily News reported Monday that the San Antonio Spurs guard pleaded ignorance about the meaning of gesture that described by critics as a reverse Nazi salute.…

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino awarded a certificate of honor to two police officers, whose actions saved many lives in the Bat Yam bus bombing on December 22. The award was decided on following an investigation of the incident. The incident occurred on a Dan Bus Company 240 line bus on its way from Bnei Brak…

If all goes to plan, the government will release 26 terrorists late Monday, in the third round of terrorists releases Israel promised to undertake last summer, as the price for the return of the PA to the negotiating table. The High Court rejected a last minute petition against the release of the terrorists filed by…

 At a special reception held at Ben Gurion Airport, Taglit CEO Gidi Mark and Tourism Minister Dr. Uzi Landau welcomed the young participants. “It is exciting to be able to bring to Israel thousands of young Jews, many of which have never been here,” said Mark. Meanwhile, Landau had a message for the young visitors. “When you return home,…

Experts from Iran and six world powers (known as the P5+1, or sextet) are gathering in Geneva for a third round of nuclear talks later in the day, aimed at setting a framework to implement last month’s landmark interim deal. Two rounds of talks have been held so far since Tehran agreed on November 24 to…

The body of a 17-year-old hareidi youth who had gone missing Saturday evening was found Monday morning in a grove on Hatzvi street, in Bnei Brak’s Kiryat Herzog neighborhood. It is not yet known if the youth was the victim of a criminal assault. The search for the youth began Saturday evening. Police and volunteers…

India will purchase 15 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Israel, news outlets reported Monday.  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the purchase at a Cabinet meeting, according to Defense Update. The goal: to boost India’s line of surveillance against northern border countries and regional rivals Pakistan and China. The purchase will cost about 1,200 crores / 120 million…

An attack on a military post in Yemen’s Lahj province left 10 dead Monday, in the latest in a series of skirmishes in the Arab country.  Southern secessionist gunmen approached the military post on trucks with machine guns, according to the Business Standard, and opened fire. A military official confirmed that the attack took place in…

At least 15 people were killed Monday and 23 others hurt in a suspected suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, officials say. The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the central train station in the city. The BBC reported that security has been…

The head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expressed opposition towards the academic boycott of Israel that is being promoted by the American Studies Association (ASA), the Israel Hayom daily newspaper reported on Sunday. In justifying its decision to boycott Israel, the ASA said the boycott was “in solidarity with scholars and students…

Lebanese troops opened fire on Syrian warplanes violating Lebanese airspace on Monday. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the incident occurred as the Syrians raided Khirbet Daoud, which lies between Homs and Damascus on the Lebanese side of the border. The Lebanese response is thought to be the first of its kind in the Syrian war. Lebanon…

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is calling on NBA star Tony Parker to apologize for his past use of the “quenelle” gesture that is widely considered to be anti-Semitic and similar to a Nazi salute. French media reports earlier this year showed a picture of the San Antonio Spurs player backstage at a French theater making…

There is no way to separate Judaism from the state of Israel, President Shimon Peres said Sunday. On a visit to the Machon Lev Jerusalem Technology College, Peres said that despite the efforts of secularists, Israel would always remain a Jewish state. Peres addressed a question from a student who said that “in recent months…

Gaza’s only power plant returned to life on Sunday, hours after Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing and resumed fuel deliveries, AFP reported. “The plant resumed functioning with the provision of fuel, which restarted with the reopening in the morning of the Kerem Shalom crossing,” an official with the Palestinian Authority told the news…

Nicolas Anelka, the French soccer player who has caused outrage over his post-match gesture that appeared to be a modified ‘Nazi-style’ salute, on Sunday insisted that he is not anti-Semitic. “I am neither anti-Semite nor racist,” AFP quoted him as having said, as British soccer authorities mulled possible punishment over the incident. The 34-year-old striker thrust…

Hezbollah is reportedly paying the families of its fighters killed in Syria to keep quiet about the circumstances surrounding their relatives’ deaths. According to a source in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, which has been wracked by deadly clashes between militias supporting different sides in the Syrian civil war, the Iranian-backed group is paying…

Saudi Arabia has pledged $3 billion for the Lebanese army to buy equipment from France, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman announced on Sunday. The kingdom “decided to provide generous assistance to Lebanon in the form of $3 billion for the Lebanese army to strengthen its capabilities,” Sleiman said, adding that it was the largest grant of…

Hamas declared Sunday, on the 5th anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, that it would continue to “fight the Israeli occupation” and “advance national goals,” no matter what the outcome of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) might be.  “Our nation (the Palestinians) did not authorize a single person to negotiate with the Occupation,”…

The government will increase its subsidy for the medical treatment of Holocaust survivors. Although their numbers are dwindling, there are still tens of thousands of survivors in Israel, and on Sunday, Finance Minister Yair Lapid allocated an additional NIS 30 million for their medical treatment. The allocation came after discussions with organizations representing survivors, who…

The violence in Egypt continued on Saturday, as a student was killed and 101 arrested following clashes with police, reported AFP. According to the report, the clashes occurred between officers and students who set fire to a Cairo university building. The unrest followed nationwide repression of Islamist protests on Friday, two days after the military-installed…

A Katyusha rocket fell in northern Israel’s Sunday. No casualties have been reported.  The rocket fire was heard at about 7:00 a.m., near the city of Kiryat Shmona, close to the Lebanese border.  Local residents reported explosions and alerted security forces, who then combed the area to locate the points of impact and the launch site.…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated Sunday that the IDF will continue to fight against rocket fire from Lebanon. “We will not tolerate firing at us from Lebanon, or to allow a threat of any kind on the lives of Israeli citizens,” Yaalon warned. “We see the government of Lebanon and the Lebanese army as responsible…

Politicians and Jewish leaders expressed outrage as French soccer player Nicolas Anelka Saturday, after he made a post-match gesture many interpret to be a modified ‘Nazi-style’ salute. The 34-year-old striker thrust his straightened right arm downwards while tapping his bicep with the other hand after scoring a goal in a game in Britain between his West Bromwich Albion team…

In the last few minutes the cabinet has approved the third “installment” of the 104 convicted terrorists scheduled for release as a “goodwill gesture” to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during US-brokered talks. The announcement comes despite protests by the families of victims of terrorist and their supporters, who have held rallies outside of the Prime…

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) made public on Saturday night the list of 26 terrorists who will be freed as a “gesture” to the Palestinian Authority during the ongoing peace talks. This batch of 26 terrorists is the third out of four groups of terrorists that Israel agreed to release. The list was made public…

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Saturday night ordered that the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza be re-opened for the passage of goods as of Sunday morning. The crossing had been closed since Tuesday after Gaza terrorists fatally shot an IDF civilian worker. Kerem Shalom is the crossing through which humanitarian aid and other supplies enter…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the Middle East next week for talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israeli officials, a PA source confirmed to AFP Saturday.  “Mr. Kerry has told the Palestinian Authority he will return to the region on January 4, 2014 to discuss the peace process and negotiations with Israel,” the official stated, on condition…

Controversial French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala is facing a ban by French authorities, who say he has gone “too far” in promoting anti-Semitism and holocaust denial. Dieudonné has a long history of anti-Semitic comments and performances – from branding “the Jews” as “a sect, a fraud”, and referring to Holocaust commemorations as “memorial pornography”; to appearing on stage…

An airstrike by Syrian government forces has killed at least 21 people in a busy market in Syria’s hotly disputed second city Aleppo, according to activists. Dozens more were reportedly wounded in the strikes, which come as pro-regime forces continue to battle for control of the city against rebel forces. It also comes amid a…

Two New York lawmakers are fighting an anti-Israel boycott with a campaign of their own: to stop the flow of public funds to schools involved in the scandal.  The New York Daily News reported Friday that Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein and Assemblyman Dov Hikind are proposing a bill that would give colleges and universities in the state…

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shook Cyprus Saturday night, with the effects felt as far east as Northern Israel. The two areas primarily affected were Haifa and the Krayot.  The quake’s epicenter was about 50 kilometers deep in the Mediterranean Sea, and about 80 kilometers from Antalya, Turkey.  No casualties are reported…

The operation to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons program will miss its December 31 deadline, Mail Guardian reported Saturday.  Franz Krawinkler, head of logistics for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), confirmed to Austrian state television Saturday that bad weather has delayed the transport of crucial supplies for the mission. The shifting front lines in…

A federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of data on nearly every phone call made in the United States is legal, reports CNN. The ruling contrasts with another ruling last week by a federal judge in Washington, who called the same program “almost Orwellian” and likely…

United States Secretary of State John Kerry has offered Israel the release of Jonathan Pollard, Channel 10 News reported on Friday. According to the report, Kerry’s offer was made as part of the discussions surrounding the upcoming planned release of 26 terrorists from Israeli jails as a “gesture” to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Kol…

The Lebanese Hezbollah terror group denied on Friday that it was responsible for the assassination of Mohammed Shatah, a former minister and an adviser to Future Movement leader Saad Hariri. Shatah was killed in a car bomb explosion in downtown Beirut on Friday morning. Five other people were killed and at least 15 were wounded…

Hebrew University research teams have found how bacteria can survive treatment with antibiotics – even when the strain is not inherently antibiotic-resistant.  The discovery, which was published this week in prestigious science journal Nature Communications, could possibly improve treatment methods for bacterial infections. Hebrew University’s medical school and department of developmental biology and cancer research coordinated…

The Israeli government has been planning a new program to encourage French Jews to make Aliyah, Maariv reports Friday.  The program, which will be implemented over a 3-year period, is intended to help French Jews emigrate to Israel on a large scale – following reports that French Jewry has been leaving en masse due to anti-semitism. The program will…

Tears flowed freely as a group of 38 Bnei Menashe, descendants of a Lost Tribe of Israel, were greeted by relatives at Ben Gurion Airport after making Aliyah yesterday from India. The immigrants, who hail from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, were brought to Israel by the organization, which recently received permission from the Israeli…

A powerful explosion has rocked downtown Beirut Friday, according to the Washington Post, shattering windows and killing an unknown number of people. It has been confirmed that former Lebanese minister Mohammed Shattah, adviser to former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and a staunch critic of Iranian-backed Hezbollah, was killed in the blast. Hariri and 21 others were killed in…

A powerful explosion has rocked downtown Beirut Friday, according to the Washington Post, shattering windows and killing an unknown number of people. It has been confirmed that former Lebanese minister Mohammed Shattah, adviser to former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, was killed in the blast. Hariri and 21 others were killed in a car bomb attack in Beirut…

Iraq’s rising violence and concerns of an all-out sectarian war appears set to flare up even further, as Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki recently ordered Muslim prayers to be directed to the Shi’ite holy city Karbala, instead of Mecca. Karabala is where Imam Al-Hussein, a Shi’ite “martyr” who refused to surrender the Islamic Caliphate to Sunni…

Iran is developing a “new generation” of centrifuges, the head of its Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, said Thursday. According to Press TV, the Iranian nuclear chief said there are currently 19,000 centrifuges in the country. He added that “a new generation of centrifuges is being built, but they should undergo…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delieverd a threatening message to Hamas and probably to Iran, too, on Thursday, although he specifically mentioned only the former. “The secret operations that the Air Force carried out in recent years are evidence to the fact that we will not hesitate to strike those who threaten our existence,” he said…

A video message from Warren Weinstein, an American hostage held by Al Qaeda, was sent anonymously to the Washington Post on Wednesday. In the video a bearded and dejected looking Weinstein appealed directly to US President Barack Obama to negotiate his release. Weinstein, now 72 and in poor health with a heart condition and acute…

A Kassam rocket was fired from Gaza Thursday evening, the second in as many days. The rocket fell in open ground right near a community in the south, causing no injuries or damage.  In response, the IAF struck several targets in Gaza. According to an IDF statement, the sites including a weapons production site in central Gaza,…

A report in a Kuwaiti newspaper Thursday said that Hezbollah terrorists are traveling the world freely, seeking opportunities to carry out terror attacks against Israelis and Jews – using passports issued in Australia, Canada, and a variety of European countries. Quoting a Western intelligence source, the report said that Hezbollah has already used these passports…

A terrorist from Gaza was arrested in early December in connection to shooting attacks and other terrorist activity targeting Israelis, the Shin Bet revealed Thursday. The terrorist was identified as 32-year-old Mohammed Abu-Amshah, a resident of Beit Hanoun and a member of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. He is accused of several terror-related offenses, including…

Gaza terrorists fired one rocket at southern Israel on Wednesday night. The rocket exploded within Gaza. The attack follows Israeli strikes in Gaza, which came in response to a terrorist attack that killed an IDF employee. A source in Israel’s defense establishment told Arutz Sheva that Hamas’ relatively low-key response to the airstrikes should not…

A government committee is set to meet Thursday to discuss the names of terrorists Israel will be releasing from its prisons next week, in the third batch of releases Israel committed to over the summer as the price for luring Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas back to the negotiating table. The release of 20 terrorists,…

One person has been killed and at least four people have been injured after a bomb was thrown at a bus in outside the Azhar University in Cairo Thursday morning. The site of the explosion has been cordoned off and is being investigated by police, according to Egyptian media reports.   The apparent terrorist attack…

The Egyptian Army announced Wednesday that it had apprehended a Hamas terrorist in the northern Sinai Desert, Al-Arabiya reports.  The terrorist was named as Jumaa Khamis Mohammed Brayha, who claimed to stem from a family powerful in Hamas’s ranks.  During interrogation, according to the Egyptian army, the young man admitted that he was intending to blow…

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will speak at the Knesset during his upcoming visit to Israel, which will begin on January 20, Shalom Toronto reported on Wednesday. Harper will lead a delegation of some 200 people, including Canadian journalists, the report said. During the visit, Harper will also visit Ramallah and Jordan. This is Harper’s…

The IDF deployed an Iron Dome anti-missile system in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva on Wednesday night. The decision to deploy the system was made following a security assessment and in the wake of the recent escalation in terror attacks in the region. Earlier on Wednesday, the IDF deployed the Iron Dome in…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced half the ministers in his cabinet on Wednesday evening, hours after three ministers resigned over a corruption and bribery investigation, reports Today’s Zaman. Erdogan introduced 10 new names to ministries in a major cabinet reshuffle. He presented his new cabinet to President Abdullah Gul. Erdogan said before announcing…

The Egyptian government has designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, one day after a deadly attack on a security building in the city of Mansoura killed 14 people and wounded more than 100 others. “The Cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation,” Deputy Prime Minister Hossam Eissa…

Three senior Turkish ministers have resigned as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist government continued to reel from the fallout of an ongoing and controversial corruption scandal. Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan, Interior Minister Muammer Güler and Environment and Urbanization Minister Erdoğan Bayraktar all officially announced their resignations today. Urbanization Minister Bayraktar called on Erdogan to…

Six members of the French Jewish Defense League – the Ligue de Defense Juive (LDJ) – were arrested after allegedly beating up Neo-Nazis. The group reportedly the group tracked down the Neo-Nazis from photos on the internet, showing them making Nazi salutes at anti-Semitic demonstrations. The 6 were arrested over suspected connection to the string of attacks…

Fearing rocket fire from Gaza, the IDF deployed the Iron Dome anti-missile system Wednesday to protect the Western Negev city of Sderot.  On Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck multiple terror enclaves in Hamas-controlled Gaza, in response to the murder of 22 year-old Salah Shukri Abu Latyef earlier that day. Laytef had been fixing damage to…

Iran is considering moving its capital from Tehran. The city, which houses 12 million Iranians, suffers from heavy pollution, overcrowding and severe earthquake dangers. Iran, located on several geological fault-lines, reportedly has one light earthquake per day on average. The Iranian parliament accepted the outlines of a proposal to establish a council tasked with finding…

Two Israelis, a man and woman in their 30s, suffered minor injuries on Tuesday night, after Arab terrorists threw rocks at their cars as they drove near the Western Shomron (Samaria) community of Oranit. The two were taken to the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for treatment. Earlier in the same area, an Israeli bus…

Syria accused rebels on Tuesday of recently attacking two sites where chemical arms were stored, AFP reported, citing the state news agency SANA. A source in Syria’s foreign ministry claimed the attacks on December 21 came just as preparations were being made for the arms at the sites to be destroyed outside Syria, under a…

The Israeli police officer wounded Monday in a terrorist attack north of Jerusalem is now awake and responsive, but has lost a kidney, doctors say. Officer Rami Ravid was stabbed by a terrorist at the Adam checkpoint north of Jerusalem. He suffered moderate injuries, and was unconscious and on a respirator until Tuesday morning. His…

The ultimate goal of the Hamas movement is to establish Islam worldwide, Hamas minister Fathi Hammad declared during a recent public address in Gaza. “We shall liberate our land, Allah willing. We shall liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque, and our cities and villages, as a prelude to the establishment of the future Islamic Caliphate. Therefore, brothers…

A senior IDF commander spoke Tuesday evening about the fatal terrorist shooting near Gaza earlier in the day, and the IDF’s expected response. A Gazan terrorist shot and killed 22-year-old Salah Abu-Latif of Rahat, a civilian IDF employee who was working on repairs to the Gaza security fence. The IDF views the incident as particularly…

An Israeli bus driver was injured Tuesday evening when Palestinian Arab attackers hurled stones at his bus as he drove in Samaria (Shomron). The driver suffered a head injury in the attack, which took place on the road between Alei Zahav and Oranit. Despite his injury he managed to drive to the nearest checkpoint to…

Recent reports reveal that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime has been supported by Iraqi crude oil imports, which for the past 9 months have slipped into the country via the Egyptian Sidi Kerir port in violation of Western sanctions. While Syria has been primarily relying on Iran for oil, Al Jazeera reports that a Reuters investigation based on commercial…

A civilian worker for the IDF was shot fatally by sniper fire near Gaza, where he was working between Nachal Oz and Kfar Aza. The worker was evacuated to Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The worker was fixing the security fence that was revealed to have holes and damage in it, caused…

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has struck multiple terrorist sites throughout Gaza, in response to the fatal shooting of a civilian IDF worker by terrorist snipers from the Islamist-controlled territory. AFP claims that one of the targets was a “Hamas base” in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis. Hamas has apparently ordered its fighters to evacuate positions…

Two more universities have withdrawn their membership from the American Studies Association (ASA) in protest of decision to support an academic boycott of Israel. The two universities, Kenyon College and Indiana University, thus joined Brandeis and Penn State, which were the first universities to announce that they reject the boycott and quit the ASA. In…

The National Library will hold a special event next week to debut ancient texts found in an Afghanistan genizah, or storage area for old Jewish texts. The texts are estimated to be over 1000 years old and include writings from post-Talmudic Jewish leader Rabbi Saadiah Gaon. Professor Hagai Ben-Shammai, academic director of the National Library spoke…

Edward Snowden, former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor turned whistleblower, recently spoke with the Washington Post in Russia, where he has been given asylum. According to Snowden, his “mission is accomplished.” Snowden’s leaking of US spying secrets revealed a global surveillance system of unprecedented proportions, and sparked controversy between the US and foreign leaders that had their…

A terrorist prisoner who went on a hunger strike in order to pressure Israel to release him was released on Monday from an Israeli prison. According to The Associated Press (AP), Samer Issawi returned home to a joyous welcome from friends and family. Issawi’s on and off hunger strike lasted for more than eight months,…

Britain has been revoking the citizenship of its nationals who join the Syrian civil war, several British news outlets reported Monday. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism first broke the story, reporting that Home Secretary Theresa May has revoked the citizenship at least 37 Britons since May 2010.  An explicit link has not been confirmed between the rise…

Syrian rebels from Al-Qaeda are systematically forcing Syrian Druze communities to convert to Islam – or die, Walla! reported Monday. Syrian opposition forces have reportedly declared to the Israeli daily that at least 14 Druze villages have been forced to convert to Islam by the Islamist group so far. The information has apparently leaked from representatives of…

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned yesterday’s attempted terrorist attack in Bat Yam. One person was lightly wounded in an explosion aboard a number 240 bus heading from the central city of Bnei Brak to Bat Yam on Sunday afternoon. Police later confirmed the bombing was an attempted terrorist attack, and that only the…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has ruled out the possibility of extending peace talks with Israel beyond their nine-month timeframe, according to the PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erakat. “We turn down any extension,” Erakat told the official Voice of Palestine radio station on Monday, adding that some of his recent remarks about the matter had been…

Israel’s Security Agency (ISA or the Shin Bet) statistics show that terror attacks are on the rise, Maariv reported Monday. The cause: resumed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). The numbers for November 2013, which were released this week, show the highest number of terror attacks this year: 167, up from 82 in July. …

The Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiating team has revealed some of contents of the secretive peace talks it has been holding with Israel, under American auspices. Independent journalist Baruch Yedid, who has maintained ongoing contact with official and unofficial PA sources, described to Arutz Sheva the situation taking place behind the smoke screen. According to Yedid, talks are…

The remains of a Kassam short-range terror rocket fired by Hamas Sunday night were located by police sappers early Monday morning. The rocket had exploded next to a transport station in a community in the Hof Ashkelon region, south of the port city of Ashkelon. No one was hurt. The “Color Red” siren that warns…

Both the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups welcomed Sunday’s attack on a bus in the central Israeli city of Bat Yam. Neither group, however, claimed responsibility for the bombing, in which one officer was lightly wounded. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement quoted by the Palestinian Authority-based Ma’an news agency that the…

Iran’s foreign minister and the European Union’s top diplomat have agreed to postpone talks on implementing a landmark nuclear agreement until after the Christmas holiday, Iran’s chief negotiator said Sunday, according to Reuters. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton spoke on the…

Western diplomats are increasingly saying that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad keeping power is a better option for Syria than the country being ruled by Islamist rebels, Gulf News reports, citing Russia’s foreign minister. “Not only in private meetings but also in public comments, the idea is occurring to some Western colleagues that … Assad remaining…

A Qassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in Egyptian regional waters Sunday, an Egyptian military official told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. The official said the rocket landed 300 meters off the coast of Egypt’s Rafiah and exploded in the water. There were no injuries reported, Ma’an said. Hamas told Egyptian intelligence that the rocket…

Amid reports that the United States is planning to present a framework agreement for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) within a month, the PA’s chief negotiator said on Sunday that the sides have not even had any direct talks for weeks. NRG/Maariv quoted Saeb Erekat as having said that the only talks…

President Shimon Peres on Sunday evening phoned and thanked bus driver Michael Yoger and passenger David Papo, whose actions saved lives in the explosion on the 240 bus in Bat Yam earlier in the day. Peres asked to hear the details of the event and thanked Yoger and Papo for their actions in discovering the…

MK Orit Struk of the Jewish Home (Bayit Yehudi) party called on the Israeli government to stop releasing Arab terrorist murderers from jail, following the terror attack Sunday on a bus in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv. The release of the murderers has been presented to the public as a “gesture” accompanying “peace talks”…

The attempted attack took place at the police roadblock at Mishor Adumim Junction, near Maale Adumim. Three Arab men got off a taxi mext to the roadblock and began advancing toward the police checkpoint. One of them held a knife. One of the policemen saw the knife and warned his colleagues. They succeeded in overcoming…

During the recent winter storm that hit Israel, tens of thousands of families went without electricity for several days – because of the many power lines that were downed by either the high winds or the weight of the snow that piled on them. The Israel Electric Company worked 24 hours a day for nearly…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the highly publicized infiltrators’ march on Jerusalem in his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday. “Illegal migrants cannot be allowed to take the law into their own hands,” Netanyahu stated. “We will enforce the law and we will deport them according to law.”  Residents of southern Tel Aviv, Eilat, and many other cities…

The International Red Cross released an estimate Sunday stating that at least half a million people have been injured in the Syrian Civil War.  “At least half a million people have been wounded across the country and millions remain displaced and tens of thousands detained,” ICRC chief Magne Barth said in a statement. “The wounded are…

A bomb exploded on a bus in Bat Yam Sunday afternoon. No passengers were reported injured, but one police officer with the bomb squad was injured as he attempted to disarm the device. According to reports, passengers noticed a suspicious object on the bus and reported it to the driver, who quickly removed all passengers…

Passengers on a bus in Bat Yam where a bomb exploded Sunday afternoon attributed the fact that no one was killed to a miracle. Police said that based on their initial investigation, the explosion on the number 240 bus from Bnai Brak to Bat Yam was due to a bomb placed by Arab terrorists. One…

Israeli leaders’ criticism of Western powers recent agreement with Iran has been good for America, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, according to Maariv/nrg. Clinton reportedly said in a closed meeting in Washington that Israel’s open concern that the plan would be ineffective has kept the pressure on Iran and its…

IDF forces foiled a terror attempt from Gaza on Saturday, shooting and wounding a 22 year old terrorist who was trying to place an explosive on the border. According to the IDF: “this morning terrorists attempted to conceal an explosive device in order to attack IDF soldiers who operate in the proximity of the security fence in the…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan haas threatened to expel foreign ambassadors over “provocative actions,” as his government faces unprecedented pressure over a major corruption scandal. “Some ambassadors are engaged in provocative actions … Do your job,” Erdogan said in televised remarks Saturday. “We don’t have to keep you in our country.” The harsh words…

Former Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia was arrested on Saturday by police at the entrance to Maaleh Adumim, just east of Jerusalem. Qureia’s Mercedes car was racing at 145 kilometers per hour (90 mph) on a road with an 80 kph (50mph) maximum speed limit. The car’s driver ignored requests by Judea and…

A new missile sporting a 200 kilometer (124 mile) range was successfully tested by Iranian Air Force fighter jets on Saturday during ongoing wargames. Reports of the test, released by Islamic Revolutionary Guards’s Fars News Agency, note that it is the first in simulated combat. The long-range Qader cruise missile was tested in southern Iran, during two days…

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Lawrence Korb on Saturday night said that Jonathan Pollard’s ongoing imprisonment, in light of new revelations of US spying on Israeli leaders, is “absurd” and a “moral embarrassment.” Korb’s comments come as US President Barack Obama omitted Pollard from the 13 pardons he issued last Thursday. In addition to the 13, 6…

The Arab League on Saturday rejected the US proposal, by which IDF soldiers would remain in the Jordan Valley for a 10 year period as part of peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Nabil Al-Arabi, secretary of the Arab League and initiator of many anti-Israel UN resolutions, said in Cairo that any…

Anonymous vandals took advantage of the recent massive snowstorm to desecrate King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem. All of the newly donated religious holy books were stamped with the name “Academy – King David.” The incident was reported by the office of Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites. After the vandalism was…

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday that his terror group will “punish” Israel for the killing of a top leader earlier this month, AFP reports. “The killers will be punished sooner or later… Those who killed our brothers will not know safety anywhere in the world,” Nasrallah said in a televised tribute to Hassan al-Lakiss,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his predecessor Ehud Olmert were among those spied upon by the National Security Agency (NSA), documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden show. According to reports Friday in the British Guardian, the New York Times and the German Der Spiegel, Britain’s eavesdropping agency, known as GCHQ, was also involved in the…

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian Authority Arab in northern Gaza near the border with the Jewish state on Friday, emergency services and the news agency of the Hamas government said, according to AFP. The man’s body was recovered east of Beit Hanun, the emergency services said. The local Al-Rai news agency confirmed “the martyrdom…

The White House refused on Friday to respond in detail to reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) had spied on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former Defense Minister Ehud Barak and current Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Leaked documents by Edward Snowden which were exposed by various news outlets show that spies monitored the email…

Britain will provide a navy ship to secure the removal of chemical weapons from Syria and will also destroy 150 tons of its industrial grade chemicals, the Foreign Office said Friday. The military vessel will “assist in the safety and security of Danish and Norwegian cargo ships in international waters when removing the entire chemical…

US Secretary of State John Kerry appears to be pressing a national plan, devised in Washington DC, upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The proposal comes as part of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), and includes uprooting Jewish communities from the Jordan Valley. Kerry’s staff rented 50 rooms at a luxurious Jerusalem hotel for…

Michael Reagan, son of former US President Ronald Reagan, spoke in a special interview with Arutz Sheva about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the PA, the situation with Iran, and Israel’s security needs. Reagan spoke from the Young Israel in New York, at an event dedicated to the memory of the Righteous Gentile Raoul Wallenberg, who saved…

Journalist and satirist Didi Manousi passed away Friday morning, at the age of 85, in his home in Ramat Gan. He is survived by a wife and three children. At around 9:00 am, the family found Manousi unresponsive. They called Magen David Adom (MDA) medics to the scene, where they were forced to confirm his…

UN human rights investigators accused the Syrian government of a campaign of “enforced disappearances” against thousands of civilians in a recent report. The UN notes the phenomenon may constitute a crime against humanity. In response, rebel groups such as the Al Qaeda affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have started capturing people as…

A pact was forged between Moscow and Jerusalem to ensure Israel’s security during a private meeting last month, according to a Friday Maariv report.  The report claims that a 90-minute conversation took place between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin during Netanyahu’s last-minute attempt to prevent an interim nuclear deal between Western powers and…

The diplomatic rift between India and the US has escalated, as India demands an American apology for the arrest and strip-search of its deputy consul general in New York last Thursday. Devyani Khobragade, the diplomat in question, was accused of falsifying a visa application for her household help Sangeeta Richard, also an Indian national. In…

Saeb Erekat, chief of the Palestinian Authority’s negotiating team, declared to journalists in Bethlehem Friday that the PA is ready to accept a 12-month interim deal with Israel – as long as demands regarding borders, land swaps, security arrangements, Jerusalem, and “refugees” are met.  “The deal is much more than a declaration of principles,” Erekat…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continued its promotion of murder and hatred of Israel at a December 9 event, broadcasted live on PA official TV. The event was under the auspices of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and featured the participation of the PA Minister of Culture Anwar Abu Aisha. Aisha opened the “5th Festival of the…

The White House on Thursday threatened to use its veto power against legislation that would impose new sanctions on Iran, as senators continued to promote such legislation in defiance of President Barack Obama. The threat came hours after a bipartisan group of senators filed a new Iran sanctions measure, according to the Washington Free Beacon.…

A rescue operation was under way Thursday night after part of a balcony or roof at London’s Apollo theater collapsed in the middle of a show. Several people were trapped by the debris, but all were freed as of 9:35 p.m. London time, said the London Fire Brigade. Eyewitnesses said some people were leaving the…

In what has become routine since the start of the Syrian civil war, Russia on Thursday night once again blocked a UN Security Council statement on Syria. This time, the U.S.-drafted resolution condemned the Syrian government’s increasing military offensive on the city of Aleppo, according to AFP. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead of a…

Pope Francis is to make a brief visit to Israel and the territory occupied by the Palestinian Authority on May 25, Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot said on Thursday. This will be his first to the Holy Land. According to the daily newspaper, which published what it said was a preliminary papal program, Israeli authorities are…

Infiltrators to Israel continued to make a mockery of authorities Thursday, as a group of about 100 illegal immigrants from Eritrea and Sudan walked out of the open detention facility constructed for them in the Negev, and began walking toward Be’er Sheva. Inspectors from the Immigrations Authority, aided by police, began chasing after the Africans,…

Nahal Hareidi (Netzach Yehuda), the IDF’s Hareidi-religious combat brigade, has made IDF history by winning the Chief of Staff’s Prize for the first time. The brigade is also showing a sharp increase in enlistment, despite the ongoing political tension over haredi IDF service. The prestigious prize was awarded for the unit’s extraordinary achievements and operational…

Nebojsa Radmanovic, a member of the three-man presidency of Bosnia Herzegovina, visited the Jewish state this week for a series of meetings with senior Israeli officials. Under the terms of the 1995 Dayton Accords which ended the war in Bosnia, the presidency of the country was divided among the three largest ethnic groups: Croats, Serbs…

A Palestinian Authority minister came under attack on Wednesday, the Bethlehem-based Maan news reports. Minister of Islamic Endowments Mahmoud Habbash was targeted by unknown gunmen shortly after arriving at his office in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah. The masked men opened fire in the direction of the office. Al-Bireh’s guards returned fire, and the shooters fled the…

IDF officials expressed concern Thursday over recent anti-army activities by Arabs in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria as soldiers attempt to round up terror suspects. In several recent incidents, Arabs rioted when soldiers entered towns and villages to arrest suspects, and in some cases, terrorists shot at soldiers, forcing them to respond with…

Syrians are being tortured and killed in secret prisons run by an Al Qaeda affiliated group, Amnesty International has warned in its latest report. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which has seized control of territory in northern Syria, has reportedly committed horrific abuses in its prisons in the region. Sources told…

IDF soldiers eliminated a terrorist in the Arab town of Kalkilya early Thursday. The armed terrorist opened fire at an IDF unit that was attempting to apprehend another terrorist, and soldiers shot back, eliminating the shooter. Soldiers discovered several weapons and a large amount of ammunition on the terrorist’s body. Arabs rioted as the soldiers…

IDF officials announced Wednesday that security restrictions will be relaxed during Christmas to allow Palestinian Authority residents who celebrate the holiday to enjoy the festivities, and to visit family in Israel. The decision was coordinated with Palestinian Authority officials, PA security personnel, and representatives of various international bodies. Christians living in PA-controlled regions in Judea…