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Welfare Minister Moshe Kahlon is expected to announce Sunday that he has made a final decision not to run for a Knesset seat in the coming election. Instead, it is reported, he will go the United States and study at Harvard University.   He will remain in the Likud party. Kahlon made his decision after…

A group of divorced men confronted Jewish Home Chairman MK Zevulun Orlev in an election meeting last week. The men are fathers who have had their children torn away from them as a result of accusations leveled by their ex-wives. They claim that Israel’s policies regarding such complaints are informed by radical feminist perceptions that…

Jews confronted Arabs outside the Jerusalem neighbor hood of Maaleh Zeitim on the Mount of Olives Saturday evening, 24 hours after Arabs stabbed a Jewish man there. The stabbing victim is Avraham Tau, son of the President of Har HaMor Yeshiva, Rav Rzvi Tau, a venerated leader in the religious Zionist camp. Avraham Tau, whose…

Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized buffer zone in the central Golan Heights on Saturday, leading the IDF to raise its alert level in the area. The Israeli army has also lodged a complaint with UN forces enforcing the ceasefire in the Golan Heights. The Syrian tanks entered the village of Bir-Ajam, located just a…

Hamas slammed Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, in response to comments he made in an interview he gave to Israel’s Channel 2 News. In the interview, which aired on the network’s Friday evening news magazine, Abbas hinted he would be willing to give up on the so-called “right of return” and said that…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revived a plan to visit Gaza, the Turkish daily Todays Zaman reported on Friday. The report indicated that Erdogan once again demanded that Israel lift its blockade on Gaza as a precondition to restoring ties between the two countries. Erdogan told journalists on a plane en route to…

A 35-year-old Jewish man was stabbed and moderately wounded on Friday evening at the Ras al-Amud Square in eastern Jerusalem. An initial investigation found that the man was making his way with a friend from the Western Wall to his house, when suddenly two Arabs attacked them and stabbed the man in the back. His…

Defense Ministry security and diplomacy chief Amos Gilad warned on Friday against the radicalization of Egypt by its Muslim Brotherhood rulers. “A shocking dictatorship grew in Egypt out of the desire for democracy,” Gilad said in a speech in front of students in Herzliya. He said there is a disconnect between the political leadership in…

IDF forces were able to foil a terror attack on Friday morning when they opened fire towards a Palestinian Authority Arab terrorist, as he was trying to plant explosives near the security fence in central Gaza. The terrorist was seriously wounded and evacuated to a hospital in Gaza. The incident came ten days after IDF…

The IDF rabbinate has embraced new technology that will allow for rapid identification of the deceased in case of casualties. A wearable computerized system, already in use elsewhere in the military, will be able to identify bodies with a quick fingerprint scan. Previously such scans took up to 12 hours. “The improved technology will make…

Firebomb attacks continued to be the most common form of terrorism in Judea and Samaria during the month of October, according to the monthly report by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). The report, which reviews the number and nature of terror attacks each month, found that that 68 out of 70 terror attacks in…

The “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority”, a Salafist group in Egypt, has attacked a man for not allowing its member to use his private toilet and ordered to cut his brother’s tongue for “cursing” Islam, Al Arabiya reported on Thursday. The report quoted Ahmed Gharib, a resident of Egypt’s eastern city of…

Muslim clerics have claimed that Hurricane Sandy, which hit the United States this week, was a divine punishment for a film mocking the prophet Mohammed. In Egypt, radical cleric Wagdi Ghoneim described the hurricane as revenge from Allah for the “Innocence of Muslim” film made that sparked waves of violent protests across the Muslim world…

Britain is considering stationing warplanes in the Persian Gulf as the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program continues, The Independent reported on Thursday. The possible deployment of the Eurofighter Typhoons follows talks with the United Arab Emirates to bolster the UK’s presence in the region, said the newspaper. The decision on whether to send…

Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini arrived in Israel to launch the company’s $5 million investment in Israeli high schools over the next four years, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Globes news reported. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel, he said the projects aim is “to double the number of…

Ahead of his latest unilateral statehood bid at the United Nations, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is claiming that he will never allow a third intifada. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News, Abbas said, “There will be no intifada, and we will not, under any circumstances, return to using weapons or violence.” “As…

Dozens of IDF soldiers who are currently in the United States’ eastern seaboard area are unable to return to Israel as scheduled, due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. The IDF’s Service Conditions (Tash) array has issued a special update following the storm in order to assist these soldiers. According to the update, soldiers…

The Chairman of the Jewish Agency (JA), Natan Sharansky, announced Thursday that the JA has established a new fund to grant emergency assistance to Jewish communities abroad. Sharansky made the announcement as he accompanied Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on a visit to the Ohr HaTorah school in Toulouse, France, where an Islamist terrorist murdered three…

French President Francois Holland and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, met in Toulouse Thursday with the families of the victims of the March terrorist attack at the Ohr Hatorah (formerly Otzar HaTorah) school. Both Holland and Netanyahu pledged to fight anti-Semitism, both in France and globally. During the meeting, Netanyahu said, “The fact that we…

iVoteIsrael, the leading organization facilitating the ability of Americans in Israel to vote in the US elections, has successfully completed its campaign to make voting from Israel more accessible to as many Americans in Israel as possible. “iVoteIsrael is proud to announce that 80,000 Americans from Israel have already submitted their ballots to their local…

The Shabak announced Thursday that it, together the southern division of the Israel Police, several months ago arrested an Arab scrap metal dealer who raised millions of dollars for Hamas terrorists, and donated or sold for a very low price large amounts of metal to the terror group. The metal was used to build smuggling…

A new wave of radical Islamist attacks has prompted Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki to extend the country’s state of emergency through January. “Marzouki decided Wednesday to extend the state of emergency by three months from November 2012,” announced the official TAP news agency. According to the statement, the extension was recommended by military and security…

In an ironic turn of events, the new Noah’s Ark film has been delayed by flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy. The movie, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Russell Crowe and Emma Watson, was due to be filmed on Monday at locations in New York, but was postponed due to the torrential rains of the…

Israel will create a dual cyber security program to promote research and development to serve both civilian and defense goals, the PMO says. The government is to create a dual cyber security program to promote research development that will serve both civilian and defense goals, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Wednesday. The project, to be…

Huge swastikas were burned into the grass at a California golf course, CBS13 News reported. The culprits reportedly used herbicide to kill the grass at the Alta Sierra Country Club golf course in the shape of a large swastika, said general manager of the gold course John Renslow. The hate symbols reportedly cover the entire…

The United States said on Wednesday it was monitoring a visit by two Iranian warships to a Sudanese port this week, but had no details about it, AFP reported. The warships left Port Sudan on the Red Sea earlier, after a visit that coincided with Khartoum’s denial that Iran is making weapons in Sudan. Acting…

France on Wednesday expelled a Tunisian imam accused of anti-Semitism and of calling his followers to “violent jihad” and violence against women, the interior ministry said, according to a report by AFP. Mohamed Hammami was subject to “expulsion from French territory. He has been deported to Tunisia, where he is a citizen,” the ministry said…

PM Binyamin Netanyahu is set to visit a Toulouse Jewish day school where a radical Islamist terrorist slaughtered a rabbi and three children this year. Al Qaeda-linked Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah’s murderous rampage at the Otzar HaTorah school wounded several others. In the prior week, he had killed three French paratroopers of North African ancestry.  Merah’s…

Prices for food are going up in Israel, with the country’s largest supermarket chain, Shufersal, announcing Wednesday that it was raising prices across the board on thousands of products. The average price increase will be about 4% – although the chain said that the increases should be higher, because wholesale costs for products had risen…

French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday said he wanted to see Iran perform “concrete acts” to prove it was not pursuing a nuclear arms drive after his first face-to-face meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. At a press conference with Netanyahu, whose aim during a two-day visit to France is to seek more pressure…

The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) umbrella organization announced that it is establishing a Hurricane Relief Fund to contribute to recovery and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. “Jews have always wanted…to help, and the Jewish Federation is the voice of the Jewish community,” said Federation Executive Director Jason Moss. All funds collected…

The grandson of a wealthy Jewish businessman is demanding that a Swiss foundation return a Monet masterpiece that the family was forced to sell for a fraction of its value when they were forced to flee Europe during World War II, a Swiss newspaper reported Wednesday. Juan Carlos Emden, the Chilean grandson of Max Emden…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in France Wednesday for two days of talks with President Hollande on the Iranian nuclear threat and bilateral ties. It is Netanyahu’s “first opportunity to talk with President Hollande, and he hopes to build a good working relationship with the French leader,” a source close to the Israeli leader…

The Italian authorities have capitulated to hatred. Last week Italian education minister Francesco Profumo proposed that Islam be taught in public schools alongside the traditional teaching of Catholicism, while Bishop Mariano Crociata, secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, announced that the Vatican is in favor of building new mosques in Italy. Tthe European Bishops…

French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will visit the Ozar Hatorah school, in Toulouse, where terrorist Mohammed Merah murdered seven people, including a teacher and three Jewish children. Netanyahu, who arrived in France Wednesday for a two-day visit to the country, will participate in a memorial ceremony at the Jewish Ozar…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday the European Union will lose his nation if it is not accepted as a member by 2023. At that time, Turkey will celebrate its 100th anniversary as a republic, created following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Erdogan’s comment was the first indication of how much…

A military strike on Iran would benefit the Arab world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a French magazine. In an interview with Paris Match, excerpts of which were published on Tuesday ahead of his visit to France, Netanyahu said, “Five minutes after [the strike], contrary to what skeptics say, I think a feeling of relief…

Two Brooklyn Jews were among the 40 victims of Hurricane Sandy, The New York Observer reported on Tuesday. The report said that the victims, the daughter of a prominent local activist and her male friend, were crushed by a fallen tree and killed in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn. The female victim was identified…

A high-level Bahraini delegation will arrive in Gaza on Thursday to open two UNRWA schools, the Hamas government said on Tuesday, according to AFP. A Hamas spokesman denied, however, the delegation would be led by one of the royal princes. “A high-level Bahraini delegation will visit Gaza on Thursday headed by Mustafa al-Sayyed, Secretary General…

French officials said on Tuesday that criminal investigators will order to exhume former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat’s body from his Ramallah grave next month, to try to discover the cause of his death. According to the officials, they will visit Ramallah from November 26 to 28. The Palestinian Authority confirmed the scheduled visit and…

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) is warning that the federal government is ignoring a growing Hizbullah presence in Mexico, with the Lebanese terror group increasingly joining forces with drug cartels, Fox News reported. There are reportedly hundreds of thousands of Middle Easterners living in Mexico, many of whom may be radicals using routes established by drug…

Israeli students prayed for the United States on Tuesday as Hurricane Sandy hit America’s east coast, killing dozens and causing an estimated $20 billion in damage. Students read Psalms (Tehillim) as a prayer for those affected by the storm in each of the 100 schools affiliated with the AMIT educational network. AMIT director Dr. Amnon…

n an interview Tuesday with the Daily Telegraph, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel almost attacked Iran eight months ago – but that the “moment of truth” was postponed after Iran redirected part of its enriched uranium to civilian uses. Without that decision, a confrontation with Iran would have almost certainly developed, said Barak.…

Hurricane Sandy has killed 38 people, with deaths in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Toronto, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Seventeen of the victims lived in New York City. In Toronto, a woman was killed when a street sign was blown over by heavy winds and fell on her. Over 150 people were…

The Head of the Knesset’s Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Committee, MK Danny Danon, has written to Ukraine’s Ambassador in Israel, Hennadi Nadolenko, demanding that his country fight Islamist terrorism within its territory and provide protection to Jews from the anti-Semitic Svoboda party. The Ukraine must cooperate with Israeli security bodies in order to defeat Muslim…

Ancient wine presses have been found in Jerusalem – and will soon be part of a new park – thanks to a resident of Ramot who walked his dog several years ago. The dog fell into a hole and had to be rescued. It later turned out that there are more holes in the vicinity,…

The African National Congress said on Tuesday that its International Solidarity Conference resolved to support the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete told reporters that the conference had pledged solidarity with the “people of Palestine”, North and South Sudan, Western Sahara, and Cuba. “As the international relations sub-committee…

The Holocaust Memorial at Buttonwood Park, Massachusetts was vandalized sometime Thursday night or Friday morning, South Coast Today reported. Police said the vandal or vandals spray-painted the word “Sudan” on two sides of the monument, in what seemed to be an apparent reference to news reports blaming Israel for the bombing of a Sudanese ammunition…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will on Wednesday travel to France for talks with President Francois Hollande with the Iranian nuclear threat topping the agenda. Netanyahu will arrive in Paris during the morning and have a working lunch with the French leader. Later in the day, he will also meet with French Prime Minister Jean-Marc…

MKs from the Likud party welcomed Monday evening’s approval by the Likud Central Committee of the party’s joint election list with Yisrael Beytenu. The move was approved by an overwhelming majority. According to the agreement, details of which were revealed at the meeting, the heads of the list – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign…

The center of “Frankenstorm” Sandy aims at punishing New England after leaving behind 16 dead in the United States and virtually shutting down New York City. Two explosions at a power plant in the Big Apple contributed to blackouts that have left more than 700,000 people in the dark, but officials are thankful that the…

Syria has gone from bad to worse, with nationwide aerial bombings by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s warplanes and more bomb attacks by the opposition. The IDF remains on high alert at the Golan Heights border. Explosions shook Syria’s capital on Monday as warplanes launched their heaviest air raids yet and two car bombs struck, an…

Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) has proposed a resolution calling for the arrest and prosecution of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, The Hill reported. “President Ahmadinejad isn’t merely a pundit whose words can be dismissed: he is the leader of a country developing nuclear arms. He has called for the destruction of Israel and its people, and…

The Israeli Air Force and the Greek Air Force recently concluded a two-day joint exercise on Greek soil, Channel 2 News reported on Monday. According to the report, the Greek Air Force said that, as part of the exercise, F16i fighter pilots from both armies practiced dogfights, bomb raids and long term aerial refueling. As…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday sought to assure worried members of his Likud party that he is not going anywhere. Speaking at the Likud Central Committee meeting, where members of the party approved its joint election list with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beytenu, Netanyahu said, “I have been hearing talk about heirs. Well,…

Egypt rejected an Israeli request to upgrade the relations between the countries, according to a report on Monday in the Ma’ariv daily newspaper. The report indicated that Israel was interested in expanding the cooperation between the two countries and raising it to a level of ministerial talks between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his Egyptian…

The graphic in Ukraine’s English-language Kyiv Post said it all: The results of the parliamentary elections showed the East and South of the country, including cities with strong Russian populations such as Odessa, Sevastopol, Kharkhiv and Dnepropetrovsk, as a sea of blue – the color of president Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russia Party of Regions. Somewhere in…

The Likud’s Central Committee voted to approve the party’s joint election list with Yisrael Beytenu by an overwhelming majority at a meeting Monday night. According to the agreement, details of which were revealed at the meeting, the heads of the list – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, chairmen of the Likud…

Israel has taken the next step in the process of building new homes for retired police and IDF troops in parts of Jerusalem restored to the city in the 1967 Six Day War. A plan to build the new neighborhood is being marketed to potential developers, according to the leftist Peace Now organization. A spokeswoman for…

U.S. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency on Monday as Hurricane Sandy began to turn towards land. The Category 1 hurricane is speeding up and moving northwest at a speed of approximately 25-30 miles per hour. President Barack Obama spoke to reporters from the White House after a briefing in the  Situation Room. Millions…

Hareidi integration in the IDF and national service took another step forward Monday with the creation of a new program in which young hareidi men will serve in the Border Police. Dozens of young hareidi-religious men will form a new unit tasked with preventing Palestinian Authority Arabs from illegally entering Israeli territory in the Jerusalem…

The Jewish Agency for Israel will provide an additional NIS 40 million to the Israeli government’s proposed NIS 270 million in providing full protection for all Jewish communities 4.5-7 kilometers from the Gaza Strip. The funds will be used to build protected spaces in residential housing areas to protect Jewish residents against the barrage of…

Gaza terrorists fired 18 rockets at southern Israel Monday, with the armed wing of the ruling Hamas movement saying it was revenge after an IAF air raid killed one of their men. “At least 18 rockets were fired at Israeli territory, without causing injuries or damage,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, saying the count…

A charter flight carrying approximately 240 new immigrants from Ethiopia is scheduled to arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday. The flight is the first of a series of monthly flights planned as part of Operation Dove’s Wings, a government initiative to speed up the place of aliyah and bring the remainder of the Falash Mura, members of the…

Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan Harel said Monday that it is time for Israel to stop bearing the responsibility for the humanitarian condition in Gaza. Harel, who was Head of Southern Command during the 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza, told IDF Radio that before taking other measures to solve the rocket problem, the basic “equation of relations”…

At least ten people were killed and 41 others were wounded Monday in a car bombing on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The blast blew apart pieces of surrounding buildings in the Christian and Druze suburb of Jaramana.   Syrian state television said a “terrorist car bomb” was responsible for the deaths, which included…

The Shabak, along with the IDF and Israel Police, have uncovered extensive Hamas activity in the Binyamin area. A large group of Hamas terrorists have been working in recent months in the villages around Ramallah recruiting members, and terrorists, for the organization, it was released for publication Monday. The Shabak has been conducting a wide-ranging…

Gaza-based terrorists fired a barrage of 12 rockets at southern Israel on Sunday night. The rockets exploded in open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council, miraculously causing no physical injuries or property damage. Following the attacks, residents of the communities located near Gaza were asked on Monday morning to remain within 15 seconds from a…

Al-Qaeda has formed an all-female ‘Burkha Brigade’ to infiltrate and hit Western military bases and targets, as they are less likely than men to attract suspicion. A film posted online shows the all-female unit of al-Qaeda using an alarming array of weapons, including machine-guns, grenade rocket launchers and sniper rifles during their training session at…

An event in Copenhagen celebrating cultural diversity deliberately excluded the Israeli flag, the Copenhagen Post reports. Organizers say they were motivated by safety concerns. Jewish community leaders were initially told that none of the groups participating in the Mangfoldighedsfest diversity festival would be waving flags. However, at the festival it was clear that most groups…

Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have donated another $10 million to a super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Adelson, 79, chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp, has emerged as one of the largest patrons of Republican causes, donating at least $47 million. The Adelsons gave $5 million each to…

This week, Chish Nofei Yisrael, Ltd. will sponsor a 3-day housing fair in the USA in three convenient locations in Brooklyn, Monsey and Los Angeles. Chish Nofei Yisrael, the leading Israeli housing and development company to represent the frum public, has gained worldwide repute for its personal, courteous and reliable service. The upcoming fair, which…

The IDF Spokesperson announced that IAF aircraft struck terror targets in Gaza overnight Sunday. The targets included a center of terrorist activity and a rocket launching area in northern Gaza, as well as a center of terrorist activity in southern Gaza, said the IDF statement. Direct hits were identified and all Israeli aircraft returned safely…

An anti-Semitic party has gained strength in Ukraine and has managed to pass the electoral threshold. The Svoboda (Freedom) party won 12% of the votes in Sunday’s elections and is expected to have anywhere from 21 to 37 seats in the 450-seat parliament. According to AFP report, Ukraine’s ruling party, the Regions Party of President…

Tel Aviv remains a very popular – and very expensive – place to live, with much of the high cost due to a severe lack of homes for all those seeking to buy. But those in the market for a Tel Aviv home are in luck: The government has authorized the demolishing of the Sde…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York City will suspend its bus, subway and commuter rail service Sunday evening ahead of super-storm Sandy. “You don’t want to be over panicked and overly prepared, but you want to be prudent and do what’s necessary,” Cuomo said. The transit system will close at 7 p.m.…

Captain Ziv Shilon, the battalion commander from Givati Brigade who was badly wounded when a terrorist explosive device went off at the Gaza security fence, has spoken to the Israeli press, and his message is an inspiring one. Shilon spoke to Channel 2 TV news as he was being transferred from the Intensive Care Unit…

Be’er Sheva children are home from school today (Sunday) due to ongoing rocket fire launched – again – from Gaza. The Popular Resistance Committees terrorist group, which is linked to the region’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization, has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The group’s Nasser Saladin Brigades said it had fired the rockets and issued…

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Muslims to increase efforts to kidnap Westerners in exchange for imprisoned jihadists, citing the success in the abduction of American aid worker Warren Weinstein in Pakistan. In an undated two-hour video posted on jihadist websites, al-Zawahiri called for the abductions as part of a vow not to…

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, on Thursday slammed United Nations special rapporteur Richard Falk’s call for a boycott of private companies accused of profiting from the so-called “illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank” as being “irresponsible and unacceptable.” Falk singled out U.S. companies including Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard along with…

Guerrilla fighters from Lebanon’s Hizbullah terrorist organization are fighting in Syria’s civil war together with loyalists for President Bashar al-Assad. In a special report, a soldier from the Free Syrian Army told The Independent newspaper, published Sunday in the UK, the Shi’ite Muslim terrorists are full military allies of the Syrian regulars. Hizbullah has for…

Tens of thousands of people arrived at Kever Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb) on Saturday night for the annual celebration of her life, which takes place on the anniversary of her passing. About 13,000 people had arrived at the compound from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon. A total of about 70 thousand people are expected to by…

Satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory this past week suggest the site was hit in an airstrike, a U.S. monitoring group said Saturday. The images released by the Satellite Sentinel Project to The Associated Press on Saturday showed six 52-foot wide craters near the epicenter of Wednesday’s explosion…

Gaza-based terrorists fired a Grad missile at the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva early Sunday morning. The missile exploded in an open area near the city and did not cause any physical injuries or damages. The city has announced that schools will be closed on Sunday because of the attack. Overnight Saturday, IAF aircraft…

Fighting raged across Syria and air raids struck near Damascus and in the north on Saturday, after a ceasefire declared for a Muslim holiday collapsed, AFP reported. At least 221 people have been killed since the ceasefire was due to take effect, the report said. The truce for the Eid al-Adha holiday that started Friday,…

Former Head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, landed in Israel Saturday afternoon and was transferred to a hospital in central Israel for recovery from a liver transplant operation he underwent in  Belarus, in early October.  Channel 2 said that he is conscious and in stable condition. Several days ago, Dagan’s condition was reported to be improving.…

Sudan’s Information Minister, Ahmed Bilal Osman, has warned that his country would take “resolute steps” against Israeli interests following the bombing of an ammunitions factory in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Osman told the BBC that his country now sees Israeli interests as legitimate targets for attack. He said that Sudan possesses proof that Israel is behind…

Israeli security forces on Saturday arrested senior Hamas MP Mahmud al-Ramahi at a military roadblock in Samaria (Shomron), an army spokeswoman told AFP. “He was arrested on suspicion of illegal activity” at Hawara checkpoint, south of Shechem, and taken for questioning, she said. Arabs in al-Ramahi’s home town of Ramallah said he was detained and…

The ceasefire in Syria shattered on Friday, just several hours after it began, AFP reported. Deadly car bombings and artillery fire shattered the already fragile truce between the warring parties in the country. State television blamed “terrorists,” the regime term for rebels, for a car bomb attack in Damascus that killed at least five people…

Former MK Haim Ramon, one of the founders of Kadima, on Friday called on Israel’s center-left parties to unite in response to the unity between the Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties. “Given the sense of emergency (because of the unity in the right –ed.), the center and the left should unite and place at the…

The British government reiterated on Friday that it does not believe military action against Iran would be appropriate at the moment, The Guardian reported. The statement was made following the disclosure by The Guardian that Britain has rebuffed U.S. requests to use UK military bases to support the buildup of forces in the Gulf. A…

Switzerland on Friday adopted new sanctions against Syria, AFP reported, falling into line with decisions taken by the European Union, a statement from the economy ministry in Bern said. It also took action against two men suspected of links with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Switzerland, which is not part of the EU, added 28 names…

About a quarter of the Likud party’s voters are against the unity agreement between Likud and Yisrael Beytenu, a Channel 10 News poll released Friday found. The poll found that 26% of Likud voters said they were opposed to the move. Of that number, 22% of voters indicated they would not vote for the Likud…

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi spoke on Thursday with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and condemned Tuesday’s airstrike on a weapons factory in Khartoum. During the conversation, Morsi told Bashir he condemned what he termed the “Israeli aggression against Sudan.” Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal also telephoned Bashir to condemn the “barbarian attack” by Israel. On Tuesday…

More than 13,000 people visited Rachel’s Tomb (Kever Rachel) on Thursday as the anniversary of the Biblical matriarch’s passing approaches. This year the anniversary of the matriarch Rachel’s passing falls on the Sabbath, when observant Jews do not travel. Those marking the anniversary are compensating by moving celebrations of her life to the days immediately…

The United Nations official responsible for investigating Israel-PA affairs has openly expressed support for a boycott of all companies doing business with Israelis east of the 1949 armistice line. In his latest report, UN special rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk has called for a boycott on all companies tied to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Thursday with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. The two signed a joint statement in which they noted the progress that has been achieved in bilateral relations and emphasized their determination to further enhance and expand cooperation in the fields of security, economics, social issues and culture. The two leaders…

Many hoped that the expiration of the Tal Law would mean more hareidi-religious men in military or national service. However, in the meantime the repeal of the law is having the opposite effect. When the law was repealed, the option of civilian national service was closed to hareidi youth in anticipation of their enlistment to…

Western diplomats said on Thursday that it appears as though Tehran is in its final stages of placing centrifuges in the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordow. The diplomats, who spoke to the Reuters news agency, noted that for some unknown reason the new centrifuges have not yet been activated. The sources said that they…

Israel carried out an unmanned drone raid on a convoy south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, last month, foreign intelligence sources told the Reuters news agency on Thursday. The sources claimed the strike destroyed 200 tons of munitions, including rockets, that were intended for Gaza. The report comes one day after a huge fire broke…

For the first, time a delegation from the European Jewish Parliament (EJP) made a landmark visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, one of the most dynamic economies in the Middle East, earlier this week. A statement by the EJP noted that the delegation was led by Vadim Rabinovych and Joël Rubinfeld, Co-Chairmen of the European…

Binyamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman announced Thursday evening in a joint news conference that they would join forces in a unified party. Netanyahu explained that Israel would be better off with a strong coalition that leans on a strong party. “We ask the public for a clear mandate to carry out the social and economic…

Hungary’s Foreign Ministry condemned the “desecration of an Israeli flag” outside of Budapest’s main synagogue Tuesday and other anti-Semitic attacks by supporters of the far-right Jobbik party, BosNewsLife reported. The incident reportedly took place during a perceived anti-Semitic rally at the Dohany Street Synagogue, Europe’s largest synagogue, on the day that Hungary commemorated the 56th…

President Shimon Peres was the first to begin a series of memorial ceremonies Thursday as the country marked the 17th anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir on November 4, 1995, a day when, as Peres put it, “the arrows of incitement and the spears of hatred, wrapped in…

The Burgas suicide bomber who left five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver dead in July had up to five foreign helpers, a government minister said Thursday. The attack, carried out on July 18, blew up two tourist buses in the parking lot outside the Burgas airport. It was planned abroad, and the helpers were…

A mortar shell fell in an area of the Eshkol Regional Council Thursday morning, hours after a cease fire by Gaza terror groups was supposed to come into effect. Southern Israel remained on high alert Thursday after some 80 rockets were fired on Wednesday, with residents spending the night in bomb shelters. The rocket fell…

Israel hit back at Sudan Thursday, after Khartoum on Wednesday accused Israel of attacking a military installation in the country. A top Israeli defense official told Army Radio that Sudan was a terrorist state, and that its accusations that Israel engaged in terrorism against that country could not be taken seriously. “Sudan is a dangerous…

Israel’s Heron UAV has passed its latest flight test, a long-range mission across the Andes. The drone, produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), performed the demonstration last month using satellite communications for control and activation, the firm said. During its flight, the Heron carried a synthetic aperture radar payload, electro-optical/infrared sensor and a communications intelligence system.…

A special ‘Think Israel’ conference organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh and The Jewish Agency for Israel, took place at the UJA-Federation of New York in Manhattan this week. The conference, geared for Jewish students and young professionals, focused on careers and life in Israel, and featured various workshops addressing Jobs in Israel, Higher Education, Building your…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, sent a strong letter of complaint to the UN Secretary General and to the Security Council on Wednesday evening, in which he called for the international body to condemn the continuing rocket fire from Gaza. Prosor’s letter was sent after Gaza-based terrorists fired more than 80 rockets…

The main suspect in the shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the teenage activist who spoke out against the Taliban, has been identified and arrested, Pakistani police said Wednesday. A group of men who allegedly facilitated the attack against the 15 year-old schoolgirl have also been arrested, police said. Atta Ullah, a 23-year-old chemistry student from the…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) blasted the European Union for its one-sided criticism of Israel regarding the lack of progress in achieving a negotiated resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton characterized Israeli construction in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo as threatening “to make a two-state solution impossible.”   Ashton,…

As part of this week’s meetings of the U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG), U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Israeli Finance Ministry Director General Doron Cohen on Wednesday marked the extension of the U.S.-Israel Loan Guarantee program in an event in the Diplomatic Room of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. According to a…

Hamas and other terrorist groups struck back in Round Two of Wednesday’s missile war, causing widespread property damage and prompting President Shimon Peres to question Tuesday’s $250 million check from the Qatari emir. As of 2 p.m. Israeli time Wednesday, southern Israeli residents were pounded with more than 70 mortar shells and rockets since the…

The Syrian government and “most” rebel leaders have reportedly accepted a truce brokered by United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. The ceasefire, which reportedly is to be in effect during this week’s Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, has not yet been signed, however. Syrian Army leaders are “studying the proposal,” they said, and indicated they would announce a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Gaza terrorists Wednesday that if the rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel do not stop, “deeper activity” in the region lies ahead. The prime minister issued the grim warning during a visit to the missile-battered south on Wednesday, even as Gaza terrorists were continuing to fire missiles at the…

Donald Trump’s much-touted “bombshell” regarding Barack Obama is a dud. Trump has released a video in which he says that if Obama provides his college records and applications, and if he provides his passport applications and records, Trump will give to a charity of Obama’s choice $5 million. “The check will be given within one…

Four military planes attacked an arms factory in Khartoum where there was a huge fire overnight, a Sudanese minister said on Wednesday, blaming Israel for the air strike. “We think Israel did the bombing,” Culture and Information Minister AhmedBilal Osman told a news conference. “We reserve the right to react at a place and time…

The IDF retaliated — again — against Gaza terrorist rocket and mortar attacks Wednesday morning with tank fire and air strikes, as Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowed to “return the quiet to the south.” Two explosions struck Gaza City, according to Palestinian Authority Arab witnesses in the area quoted by local media. It was not…

Hamas and allied terrorist groups take to heart the Qatari emir’s call for “resistance” and pummeled southern Israel with more than 50 rockets and mortar shells, wounding several people, two of them seriously, and scoring direct hits on three homes. At least two of the wounded were reported to be foreign agricultural workers. An Army…

Thousands of Israeli children were ordered to stay home from school on Wednesday to keep them safe from Gaza rocket fire. School was cancelled in the Eshkol region due to a barrage of rocket attacks in that district, making it unsafe to transport the children on the roads. Classes also were cancelled in the Sdot Negev…

The European Parliament has approved a trade pact with Israel after a two-year delay, and foiling efforts by the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign to block it again. The Agreement on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (ACAA) passed Tuesday in a vote of 379-230. As a result, technical trade barriers will be removed, allowing Israeli pharmaceutical…

As many as 50,000 Americans in Israel, if not more, began voting for president this week, and Republican candidate Mitt Romney is expected to win a majority. The absentee voting precedes the balloting in the United States by two weeks. It is estimated than more than 150,000 people in Israel with American citizenship are eligible…

Jordan’s king on Tuesday said being in power was never for the sake of control and brings “no gain” for his ruling Hashemite family, Al Arabiya reported. King Abdullah II said his goal was to stimulate reform away from “negative” political power struggle, in reference to recent mass protests led by the country’s Muslim Brotherhood…

IAF aircraft struck a terror squad in southern Gaza early Wednesday morning, as it was preparing to fire a rocket at southern Israel, the IDF announced in a statement. The statement said that a direct hit at the terrorists was identified. It was the third time in one night that the IDF retaliated against the…

Despite a wave of public backlash over the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousefzai, Taliban terrorists in Pakistan are continuing to target schoolgirls. Teenager Hina Khan’s family recently received a phone call warning, “Hina will be next after Malala.” Hina Khan, like Malala Yousefzai, has spoken publicly about the need for girls’ education and women’s rights.…

The emir of oil-rich Qatar visited Hamas-controlled Gaza Tuesday, laden with a new weapon – money. The visit was accompanied by bitter condemnation for Israel while upsetting secular Arabs, particularly the Fatah movement led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His visit was the first by a foreign leader to Gaza since Hamas overthrow Fatah…

Terrorists from Gaza fired seven rockets at Israel Tuesday night. The rockets came in three rounds – with one round landing in one town in the Eshkol Regional Council, a second round landing in another town, and the third round landing in an open area. No one was injured and no damaged was reported in…

IAF aircraft struck a Gaza-based terror squad that was preparing to launch rockets at southern Israel on Tuesday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. According to the IDF statement, a direct hit at the terrorists was identified. “The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers and will continue to…

The Turkish Foreign Ministry rebuffed an Israeli peace proposal saying there is “no change” in Turkey’s stance toward the Jewish state, The Hurriyet Daily News reported. According to the report, Israeli Foreign Ministry adviser and former Israeli ambassador to Ankara Pinhas Avivi proposed a deal, saying the two countries have to negotiate in order to…

Billionaire Donald Trump said on Fox News that he will deliver a bombshell on President Barack Obama on Wednesday, but he refused to reveal details. He assured viewers the news could change the outcome of the presidential election. Trump has endorsed Mitt Romney after having considered running for president, and he has been one of…

Canada’s top diplomat blasted Iran for human rights violations and religious intolerance at a meeting of world parliamentarians, drawing an angry response from Tehran’s delegation. As the European Union continues to send mixed signals about its stance vis-a-vis Iran, Canada has been consistent in its message – the world needs to stand up to Iran.…

The Simon Wiesenthal Center reiterated its call to President Obama to publicly condemn Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, after he attended a sermon where the preacher called for the “destruction and dispersal of the Jews.” A video emailed by the center showed Morsi at a mosque in the Mediterranean town of Marsa…

An IDF soldier was moderately wounded on Tuesday morning during an operation in the Gaza area. Soldiers were engaged in counter-terror activity near the security barrier dividing Gaza from southern Israel, when the soldier was hurt. The officer was given medical care in the field then evacuated by helicopter to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva.…

A 75-year-old woman was hit by a car on Tuesday morning on Ussishkin Street in Bnei Brak. Passersby who saw the woman run over took immediate action, lifting the vehicle off her before paramedics arrived. Paramedics from Ichud Hatzalah arrived a short time later and took the woman to a local hospital. The woman was…

Twenty Holocaust survivors belatedly celebrated their coming-of-age Monday in a moving Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel). The men had all turned 13 during the genocide of Europe’s Jews and were hard-pressed to survive, let alone celebrate. Dozens of students and soldiers accompanied the men as they publicly showed joy in their obligation…

“The 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back,” was President Barack Obama’s first attack on his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, at Monday night’s third and final fiery presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida. Obama vowed that Iran would not develop nuclear weapons so long as he is president and pledged full support…

Opening his campaign for the Knesset as head of the Hatikvah party, MK Aryeh Eldad told students at the Ma’oz pre-military academy Monday that his “Jordan is Palestine” campaign was Israel’s best policy move at this time. Recognizing the historic fact of the division of Palestine by the British into an Arab state and a…

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced controversial television presenter Tawfiq Okasha to four months in prison for defaming President Mohammed Morsi, state media reported, according to AFP. The court in the southern province of Luxor sentenced Okasha, who was not present at the trial, to four months in jail and ordered him to pay a…

A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. The organization revealed its findings in a report on its website on Sunday. Court documents and other records have identified many of these…

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter condemned Israel on Monday, saying the prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are fading into a crisis. Carter told a news conference in Jerusalem on Monday said the Israeli-PA peace process has reached a crisis point and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was not interested in…

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is in the Middle East, arriving in Israel at midweek for meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Ashton was scheduled to start her five-day tour on Monday with a stop at the Za’atary refugee camp in Jordan, home to some 36,000 Syrians, her office told the AFP news agency.…

Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest known survivor of Auschwitz, passed away on Sunday at age 108. He died in the northwestern Polish town of Debno, according to sources in Poland. Dobrowolski, who was not Jewish, was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz for his activities in the Polish underground. He was later transferred to…

The September 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, targeted more than just a State Department consulate. One of the buildings hit was a covert CIA installation, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday. The now-abandoned American consulate in Benghazi was set a little more than a mile away from the CIA base, the officials said. Up…

The Saudi coast guard has arrested 14 Iranians trying to infiltrate on an Iranian boat. The official Saudi version of the incident denied reports the Iranians were carrying weapons and claimed they got lost on their way to Kuwait. The boat, captained by an Iranian, dropped off 13 passengers on the shore near the northeastern…

The Labor party has hired Stanley Greenberg, a leading Democratic political strategist, to direct its campaign in the upcoming elections for Knesset. The move may be part of a Democratic plan to topple Binyamin Netanyahu’s government and replace it with a leftist one, although there is no proof that Democratic politicians are involved. Greenberg, along…

The Air Force struck at terrorists twice Monday morning, eliminating two Hamas terrorists and hitting a targeted terrorist cell that fired on soldiers Monday morning. Two other terrorists were wounded in the aerial counterterrorist operation in northern Gaza. The IAF also targeted a terrorist cell that fired a mortar shell towards soldiers at the Gaza security…

The IDF continues to escort and provide safe passage for foreign aid to Hamas-controlled Gaza, days after stopping a ship trying to break the maritime blockade. After the boat named “Estelle” was guided to the port of Ashdod, military inspectors discovered that all that was on board the ship were activists, but no aid. Israel…

Ephraim HaLevy, the formerly close-mouthed director of the Mossad, who is a critic of Netanyahu and against striking Iran, continues to make up for lost time and speaks out again on Iran, this time criticizing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for making the Islamic Republic’s nuclear threat an election issue. HaLevy also urged direct Washington-Tehran talks on the…

While the polls have been infuriatingly inconsistent in terms of predicting who is leading in the battleground states and by how much (some differ on the question whether some states are secure or still tossups), in a recent Pew Research Poll , American public opinion appears more decisive on a number of key issues. By…

One of the most important moments in a Jewish man’s life is his Sabbath Chatan, called an “Ufruf” in Yiddish – meaning being called to the Torah. This is an honor given to a prospective groom the Sabbath before his wedding in Ashkenazic synagogues – and the Sabbath following the wedding in Sephardic ones – the congregation…

Irene Pollin, founder and chairman of Sister to Sister, an organization dedicated to preventing heart disease among women, has donated $10 million to Hadassah Medical Organization to establish a cardiovascular wellness institute in Jerusalem. The center will be named in memory of Pollin’s daughter, Linda Joy, who was born with a congenital heart defect and…

Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited the scene of the Turning Point 6 emergency drill Sunday and said that the scenario of a missile attack on central Israel is a “very practical” one. While the drill is supposedly meant to rehearse an earthquake situation, Barak was not trying to hide the fact that he was more…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he is not aware of direct negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on the latter’s nuclear weapons program. “Israel doesn’t know about these contacts and I can’t confirm that they’ve actually taken place,” he said at the weekly cabinet session. “I can say that Iran used the talks…

Jordanian officials uncovered plans for a major combined islamist terrorist attack that would have included a bombing at a shopping center in Amman and assassination attempts on Western diplomats, Jordanian state television reported Sunday. With weapons and explosives smuggled from Syria, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell aimed to destabilize the country by carrying out a…

A French female television reporter was sexually assaulted during a protest near Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday. Sonia Dridi, a correspondent for France 24, was surrounded by a group of young men, who began to grope her, during a live television broadcast. The attack lasted several minutes before a male colleague managed to pull her…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came out swinging on Sunday after the European Union criticized approval for 800 new homes in the southern neighborhood of Gilo, and he told the Cabinet,” We are not imposing any restrictions on construction in Jerusalem. It is our capital.” Last week’s approval for new building in Jerusalem includes construction of…

Israel received a surprise gift with Australia’s winning a temporary seat on the UN Security Council, with the help of spies and candy. Pro-Israel Australia was selected along with Argentina, Luxembourg, Rwanda and South Korea to join the Council for a two-year term starting in January. They replace Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal, South Africa. A…

Former US Senator George McGovern, who ran for president three times in his life, has died at the age of 90. A spokesman for the family told The Associated Press by telephone the longtime lawmaker had died peacefully at a Sioux City hospice, surrounded by family and friends, early Sunday morning. The South Dakota Democrat…

A Kosher restaurant in Montreal was firebombed on Thursday night, according to a report on the website of the Shalom Toronto newspaper. The report said that, the restaurant, Resto Bar Chops which is located in the city’s Snowdon district, was attacked by two masked men who arrived at the restaurant at four in the morning,…

The IDF has confirmed that there was no humanitarian aid whatsoever on the Estelle, the boat which sought to break Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza. Earlier on Saturday, Israeli troops boarded the boat, which was carrying 17 passengers, among them five parliamentarians from Europe and a former Canadian lawmaker. The IDF said the boarding was…

Lebanese opposition figures on Saturday accused the Hizbullah-led government of involvement in Friday’s car bomb murder of General Wissam al-Hassan, the internal intelligence chief who uncovered a Syria-linked plot to carry out deadly bombings in the north of Lebanon. Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea told Al Arabiya that “Wissam al-Hassan was killed because he stopped…

Israeli troops on Saturday boarded a boat carrying anti-Israeli politicians and activists seeking to run Israel’s naval blockade on the terrorist enclave of Gaza, the IDF said. The operation, which the military said was concluded peacefully, ended the latest bid by activists to breach Israel’s maritime embargo on Gaza which prohibits all naval traffic in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, praised the IDF Saturday for its interception of the Estelle, a ship that tried to run the blockade of the Hamas-controlled terror mini-state of Gaza. “Even the people who were on the ship know that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “Their entire objective was to create a…

A Jewish professor in the university in Lviv, Ukraine, was murdered by three Arab students, Arutz Sheva has learned. According to initial details, the three students had failed in their studies and sought revenge for their dismissal from the university. They decided to murder their Jewish professor. These details have not been confirmed by other sources.…

A day after saying it blocked a neo-Nazi account in Germany in a global first, Twitter on Friday agreed to remove anti-Semitic posts in France, a lawyer said, according to AFP. The company did not immediately confirm the move, but the lawyer for a French Jewish student union said that after it threatened legal action,…

In a change of direction from the current situation, a new Arab party being formed for the upcoming elections will support the State of Israel and will not be nationalistically Arab in its nature, Channel 2 News reported on Friday. According to the report, the members of the new party will be well-known public figures.…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took his first lead in electoral college predictions this week, according to Real Clear Politics. The website shows that Romney has a 206 to 201 advantage over President Barack Obama and that 151 electoral votes left as toss-ups. The toss-up states are Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, Michigan, Wisconsin,…

An Iranian military official warned Israel on Friday that it should expect more unmanned drones to enter its airspace, such as the one that was shot down by Israel two weeks ago. “Zionists must expect hundreds of other drones in 25 different models with new flying systems that they won’t know how to confront them,”…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad changed his security team several times in recent months, fearing one of his own security guards may kill him, Western officials told the Al Arabiya network on Friday. According to the officials, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are taking part in guarding Assad, as well as in guarding other senior officials in…

A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and wounded another 78 on Friday in mainly Christian east Beirut, in the first such attack in Lebanon’s capital since 2008, the National News Agency reported. The agency, citing civil defence figures, said the blast was only 200 metres from the headquarters of the Christian party,…

A top security official linked to the anti-Damascus camp in Lebanon was among those killed in a powerful car bomb in Beirut on Friday, officials told AFP. The rush-hour bombing in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafieh killed at least two other people and wounded 96, Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil told reporters at the…

The government does not plan to adopt the Levy Report, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor declared Friday. The groundbreaking report found the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is legal by international law. “Ramallah and Hevron are not part of the state of Israel, and I don’t think that Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to change…

The European Union is going ahead with sending a delegation to Iran, despite Israeli efforts to stop it. Kol Yisrael radio reported on Thursday night that after a heated debate in Brussels, the EU parliament decided to send representatives to Tehran on an official visit next weekend. A source in the European parliament was quoted…

Despite ongoing rocket attacks by Gaza-based terrorists at southern Israel, Israel will allow fuel donated by Qatar to be pumped into Gaza via an Israeli crossing starting on Sunday. The information was disclosed by a Palestinian Authority official who spoke to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency on Thursday. Delivery of Qatari fuel began in July,…

The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists has called on the United Nations to strip an Arab attorneys’ association of recognition following its praise for an Arab suicide bomber who murdered 21 Israelis. The international Arab group honored female terrorist Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year-old attorney from Jenin. Jaradat carried out the suicide bombing of…

Syrian fighter jets blasted the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan, killing at least 49 people, including 23 children, in a further escalation of violence in the war-torn country, the AFP news agency reports. Amid the bloodshed, UN peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi pressed for a truce during a key Muslim holiday later this month, while the…

Gaza Arabs fired a rocket at southern Israel late Thursday, which exploded without causing damage or injuries. According to a police spokeswoman, the rocket was fired toward Kissufim, east of Gaza. “It hit an open field,” she said. Early on Thursday morning, the Israeli Air Force attacked a Hamas terror site south of Gaza City.…

A letter from the desk of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is sparking controversy in Egypt leaving people in disbelief that the Muslim Brotherhood leader had actually referred to the Israeli president as a “great friend.” Yet skeptical Egyptians who have called the letter a “Zionist fabrication” have now been silenced, as a spokesman for Morsi confirmed…

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly criticizes the Hizbullah terror group in a new report to the UN Security Council, it was reported Thursday. In the report, Ban wrote that Hizbullah threatens the stability and security of Lebanon. As an example, he cited the drone that Hizbullah recently sent into Israel as an act…

The United States posted a reward of up to $12 million on Thursday for help in tracking down two Iran-based Al-Qaeda financial backers, accused of funneling money to extremists in Syria, AFP reported. The State Department named the men as Muhsin al-Fadhli and his deputy Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi, saying both “facilitate the movement…

Cypriot authorities appear to have foiled an attempt to carry put a terror attack against Israelis, according to the newspaper Alithia, as quoted by Voice of Israel public radio Thursday. The paper reported that security forces in Cyprus have foiled a plot by terrorists to strike Israeli targets – most likely ships carrying tourists. According…

Elance, the leading global platform for online work, is just the latest global tech company to realize Israel’s importance as a premier place for investment and growth.   The company, which aims to form successful online work relationships between global businesses and freelancers, announced Thursday that it is launching a presence in Israel and is…

Fifteen terrorists released in the Shalit deal last year have since been rearrested, according to a senior IDF source in the Judea and Samaria Division quoted by the IDF Website. The unnamed military source said that the concerns that releasing a large number of hardened terrorists into Judea and Samaria would cause a spike in…

Security has been raised significantly around the hospital room in which former Mossad head Meir Dagan is recuperating in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Israeli officials have asked for the increased security, after Belarus President Alexander Lukasehnko revealed on Tuesday that Dagan was in his country, recuperating from a liver transplant he had undergone several…

The IDF is continuing to prepare for an influx of Hareidi soldiers, an influx that has already begun, in the wake of the expiration of the Tal Law in August. There has been an increase in positive response to draft notices sent out to 18 year old Hareidi recruits, and the army expects a similarly…

With all the places in the world for Western tourists to visit, why choose Israel? A study released by the Tourism Ministry indicates that for many people, it’s the positive experience friends and relatives had in a previous visit to Israel. When asked about what the most influential factor was in their decision to visit…

In the ongoing saga of the circumstances of the death of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, French investigators probing his death have questioned his widow Suha, AFP reported. A source told AFP on Wednesday that Suha, a resident of Malta, had met three investigators back in mid-September in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where…

The Facebook social networking site has removing Hizbullah terrorist pages following a series of articles published by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute. The publicity campaign was aimed at persuading Facebook to close the terrorist group’s multiple pages. In August, the social networking site closed Hizbullah and Al-Manar TV pages, but the terror group…

One year after more than a thousand imprisoned PA terrorists were exchanged for a single IDF soldier, Arabs say life has returned to “normal.” For some that has meant returning to the families, fields and jobs they had before they were persuaded to join the terror groups that got them into trouble. For others, it…

Iran has added more uranium enrichment centrifuges at its underground Fordow nuclear plant, diplomats report. The facility is buried deep underground in order to minimize the risk of an attack on its operations. A Western diplomat registered with the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said this week it is believed Iran continues to…

The Chief of the IDF’s General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, awarded the Technological Array Prize to ten IDF officers in a ceremony held Tuesday, the IDF Website reported. In the first such ceremony in a decade, the Chief of Staff honored the accomplishments of the prize recipients, all of whom are leaders in technological…

Germany’s Federal Minister of Education and Research recently announced that Germany is read to start contributing 10 million euros this year to the endowment that supports the Minerva Centers, at the opening of the first Minerva German-Israeli Science Festival at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The festival, which showcases the accomplishments of Minerva Centers and…

On Wednesday night, a twenty year old Christian Arab is set to make history, as she becomes the first female Arab commander of an IDF combat unit.  Mona Abdo, who grew up in Haifa, but now lives in Kiryat Haim, will take her place at the graduation ceremony for the IDF commanders training course, where surrounded by family and…

IAF aircraft struck a terror activity center in northern Gaza on Wednesday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced. According to the statement, direct hits at the target were detected. All Israeli aircraft safely returned to their bases. The attack came in response to the ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli territory. On Wednesday afternoon,…

Former car salesman Manssor Arbabsiar pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring with the Iranian military to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States, AFP reported. Appearing at the New York federal court where he had been due to stand trial in January, the Iranian-American entered a surprise guilty plea. He faces up to 25…

Some 300 guests and dignitaries attended a ceremony on Tuesday in advance of the grand opening of the Menorah Jewish Community Center and Holocaust Museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The complex hosts an Institute for Jewish Culture and a gallery that features photographs of 40 major synagogues in Dnipropetrovsk before the Nazi occupation, as well as video…

Egypt’s new Ambassador to Israel Atef Salem confirmed Wednesday to President Shimon Peres that Cairo intends to keep its peace treaty with Israel. In a conversation at the presidential residence in Jerusalem, Salem made the point clear upon presenting his credentials to Israel’s elder statesman just prior to Jordan’s new Ambassador, Walid Obeidat. The Jordanian…

An Al Qaeda recruiter who allegedly mentored Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah has been killed in Pakistan, the SITE jihadist monitoring service reports. A post on an extremist web forum Monday announced the death of Belgian-Tunisian terrorist Moez Garsalloui, according to SITE. Garsalloui had claimed responsibility for the attack on the Otzar HaTorah Jewish day school by…

Gaza terrorists continued to target Israelis Wednesday afternoon, firing the 506th missile or mortal bomb this year. Missiles or shells have hit at a rate of almost two a day. The rocket fell in an open area in the Western Negev, and no damage was reported. Terrorists, who still are called “militants” by foreign news…

Egypt’s Interior Ministry has raised the alert level for its security forces in southern Sinai due to a warning over possible jihadist operations in the area. The ministry warned local police stations and security personnel Tuesday to be alert to potential attacks on tourists in the area by terrorists from the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group.…

Police evacuated the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday after staff received a letter with “unknown content.” Inside the envelope was “an unidentified white powder,” according to Swedish media. Emergency services and police officials were on the scene, witnesses said. Staff members were allowed to remain on the property, although they were told to evacuate…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor has asked the international organization to convince pro-Arab activists not to try to sail the “Estelle” boat to Gaza and try to break the maritime embargo on Hamas. Syria is need of the aid, he added. The Swedish ship carrying activists is expected to reach Gaza by…

Apple’s pricey new iPhone 5 is selling like hotcakes in the Gaza Strip despite inflated prices and is being smuggled into the Hamas-ruled enclave even before it has reached Israel. The latest version of Apple’s sought-after iPhone is being sold for almost double its price in the United States, ranging from 4,500 Israeli shekels ($1,170)…

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza fired a barrage of at least seven rockets at the city of Sderot and the nearby area on Tuesday night. Kol Yisrael radio reported that one of the rockets exploded next to a local kindergarten. No one was physically injured but damage was caused to the building. The other rockets exploded…

On Tuesday, a three-judge bench at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington revoked the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan – who was jailed at Guantanamo – saying material support for terrorism does not constitute a war crime, the AFP reported. The Yemeni citizen’s appeal in civilian court could have “ramifications…

Former Mossad head Meir Dagan has undergone a complicated operation – a liver transplant, to replace the diseased organ that had effectively stopped functioning in his body. The operation took place in, of all places, Belarus. Information about the operation was revealed Tuesday by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, during a press conference. Dagan…

A firebomb was thrown on Tuesday evening towards a bus carrying IDF soldiers near the community of Ofra in Binyamin. No one was injured and no damage was caused to the bus. IDF troops began searching the area to locate the perpetrators of the attack. Earlier Tuesday afternoon, Palestinian Authority Arabs pelted an Israeli vehicle…

A Qassam rocket attack by Gaza Arab terrorists on southern Israel prompted a “red alert” Tuesday evening, Channel 2 reported. The alarm was sounded after terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired an anti-aircraft missile at an Israeli aircraft. Officials said terrorists fired a Strela shoulder-fired missile at an IDF helicopter, however, missed the target. In…

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza last week fired a missile, smuggled from Libya, at an Israeli aircraft but missed it, the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported Tuesday. Military intelligence previously has said that Hamas and other terrorist organizations have stockpiled a large number of anti-aircraft missiles, but have not used them in order not to spark…

A fire seriously damaged a historic synagogue in Connecticut on Sunday morning. Flames consumed the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont in Milford, Connecticut, at approximately 9:30 Sunday morning. No injuries were reported. “It’s massive destruction. The building will have to be totally redone” congregation president Joel Levitz told The Connecticut Post. While the synagogue’s two Torah scrolls…

Egyptian security forces raided the home of a man who planned to assassinate Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi during his visit to Alexandria last Friday, the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported Tuesday. The motive for the attempted murder of the Muslim Brotherhood president is not yet known. Police arrested the suspect and confiscated ammunition, explosives, maps…

The New York City Police Department and the Brooklyn district attorney’s office have both launched separate investigations into allegations of police brutality after reviewing video that shows two officers repeatedly beating a young man who was sleeping inside a Jewish community center in Brooklyn, officials said on Monday, according to The New York Times. The…

About 100 residents of the Arab village Beit Ur a-Tachta intermittently blocked traffic Tuesday morning on Route 443, a major highway leading to Jerusalem from Lod and the coastal area. Large police and IDF forces arrived on the scene of the disturbance, near Bet Horon, and dispersed the Arabs, making one arrest. PLO flags that…

The grave of former defense minister Moshe Dayan was defaced before dawn Tuesday. Vandals, whose identity is not known, entered the cemetery at Nahalal, in the Galilee, and used red paint and black spray paint to deface the tomb. They wrote: “The Minister of the Failure – in the name of the fallen.” “The Failure”…

The Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood at the United Nations next month would jeopardize the peace process with Israel, U.S. ambassador Susan Rice said Monday during a Security Council debate on the Middle East. The United States was able to stop the PA’s bid for statehood last year by threatening a veto at the Security…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, called the Security Council on Monday to take strong measures against the Hizbullah terror group, after it launched a drone into Israel. “Some countries that are sitting around the Council’s table continue to provide free rein to Hizbullah to raise money as if it were the Red…

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday urged Israel not to launch a military attack on Iran over its contested nuclear program and said sanctions should be given time to work, AFP reported. In a speech to the United Jewish Israel Appeal in London, Cameron said that a military strike against sites in Iran would…

A new cyberespionage tool linked to the Flame virus has been infecting computers in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, security researchers said Monday, according to AFP. Kaspersky Lab, which was credited with revealing the Flame virus earlier this year, dubbed the new malware “miniFlame,” and said it was “a small and highly flexible malicious program designed…

Hizbullah is working to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and its fighters are part of his “killing machine,” the U.S. ambassador to the UN said on Monday. “[Hizbullah leader Hassan] Nasrallah’s fighters are now part of Assad’s killing machine and Hezbollah leaders continue to plot with Iran new measures to prop up a murderous…

Just days after Lebanon-based Hizbullah terrorists boasted of sending an Iranian drone to spy on Israel, the Jewish State unveiled its new and improved UAV, the “Shoval.” The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and is being used in sea surveillance by the Israeli Air Force and Navy. The announcement…

Security personnel discovered a pipe bomb Monday in an Israel Electric Company installation located in a Jewish town in Judea. Sappers from the police bomb squad unit were sent to dismantle the device, which was found in an IEC installation in the town of Beitar Illit, located barely six miles (10 kilometers) south of Jerusalem.…

An estimated 10,000 Muslims protested outside of Google’s offices in London in an attempt to force the company to remove “Innocence of Muslims,” the anti-Islam film that has gained notoriety for mocking the prophet Mohammed, from YouTube in the United Kingdom, The Telegraph reported. Masoud Alam, the organizer of the London protests, told the newspaper…

The IDF will begin to draft hareidi-religious 16 to 19-year-olds, but “will wait till after elections” for 20 to 28 year olds, says Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The IDF will send out the orders within the next few weeks, summoning about 15,000 hareidi-religious Jews for interviews at induction centers, Barak said at a Knesset committee…

Motorists driving vehicles with Israeli license plates in Judea, Samaria and the Binyamin region are warned to be extra vigilant tonight (Monday): rocks are flying on the roads. Israeli vehicles were targeted by Palestinian Authority Arabs hurling rocks near Talmon in the Binyamin region. Skillful drivers managed to escape the attackers, however; no one was…

Iran’s Air Defense Base Commander has announced it has built an new unmanned long-range drone (UAV) that can carry a bomb. Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili broke the news one week after Iranian-financed Hizbullah launched a drone that entered Israeli air space before it was blown up by a missile from an F-16 jet. Esmaili did…

Two thousand Hadassah members from around the world are arriving in Israel to celebrate the organization’s centennial and will stage a festive parade through Jerusalem on Tuesday, followed by the dedication of the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower, a 19-story state-of-the-art medical facility at the Hadassah  Medical Center at Ein Kerem. Hadassah’s highest award,…

The IDF has drawn lines around land that will be used to absorb a potential flood of Syrian refugees fleeing from the civil war, and prevent a spillover of violence into Israel, Voice of Israel government radio reported. Military sources said the areas were designated “in cooperation with the United Nations and according to human…

Security camera footage at the ALIYA Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, shows police inexplicably pummeling a young Jewish man who had been sleeping at the center, which is a synagogue and outreach center for troubled youth. According to the CrownHeights.info website, on Monday evening, October 8, police were called about a man who was sleeping in the…

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) terror group vowed to retaliate against Israel on Sunday after announcing that two men killed earlier in an IAF air strike were members of the group, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The group confirmed that Izz Addin Abu Nuseira, 23, and Ahmad Abu Fatayir, 22, were affiliated with its…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel is facing an increasing number of cyber attacks, “just days after Washington issued a veiled warning to Iran over digital attacks on its interests,” reported the AFP. “There have been increasing efforts to carry out cyber attacks on Israel’s computer infrastructure,” Netanyahu said at his weekly cabinet…

Unidentified gunmen seized a vehicle belonging to the Egyptian army in Arish, North Sinai, a security source told the state-run news agency MENA on Sunday evening. The source told the news agency that a group of gunmen in an SUV without license plates stopped the army vehicle in the Gisr al-Wadi district of Arish. After…

Major General Tal Russo, the commander of the IDF Southern Command, referred on Sunday to the latest events in Gaza and predicted that the latest escalation is far from over. In the past week, Gaza-based terrorists have fired dozens of rockets at southern Israel. The escalation in rocket attacks began after an Israeli air strike…

ADF Steel, a Canadian steel company is holding materials “hostage” which are needed to build the antenna on the new World Trade Center for millions of dollars. The move puts hundreds of jobs and the building completion date in jeopardy, according to court papers. The Port Authority’s WTC 1 LLC says that the 1,776 floors…

The Israel Air Force struck targets in the terrorist haven of Gaza for the fourth time in 24 hours Sunday afternoon. The IAF said the target was a terror squad that had fired a rocket at Israel a short time earlier, and was about to do so again. Sources in Gaza reported that two people…

Meir Shovovits was spending a year of Torah study in Israel three years ago. Afterwards, he enlisted and now has been awarded with a citation of excellence from his unit defending Israelis from Gaza terrorists. Staff Sgt. Shovovits told the IDF Website in an interview he had not planned to enlist. “It was very sudden;…

Iran jeered at Israel’s air defenses Sunday while confirming that Tehran had provided Lebanon’s proxy Lebanese militia Hizbullah with the sophisticated drone that passed over the skies of the Jewish state earlier this month. Iran’s “capabilities are very high and are at the disposal and service of Islamic nations,” said Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi when asked…

Topics for the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were announced by the moderator and debate commission on Saturday.  Bob Schieffer, CBS News anchor and mediator of the debate on issues of foreign policy, has selected five topics, which, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates, are…

Syria’s Foreign Ministry has announced that Turkish aircraft are prohibited from entering the country’s airspace, according to Syria’s official SANA news agency, the Turkish Hurriyet newspaper reported Sunday morning. The ban was formally enacted at midnight Saturday night. The move came in retaliation for last week’s interception of a Syrian plane by Turkey. The Syrian Airbus…

The Israel Air Force struck targets in the terrorist haven of Gaza for the fourth time in 24 hours Sunday afternoon. The IAF said the target was a terror squad that had fired a rocket at Israel a short time earlier, and was about to do so again. Sources in Gaza reported that two people…

The radical Islamic Revolution is encroaching on Israeli cities and scares none other than secular Arabs in the “Triangle” area near Netanya. Arabs with Israeli citizenship in the city of Tira fear it will become a second Umm el Fahm, the home of the radical Islamic Movement’s northern branch and located between Afula and the…

“Cyber terrorists” try to attack Israel’s computer infrastructure on a daily basis, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday. So far, Israel is winning, but more time is needed to build the “high-tech defense system.” “There is an increase in attempts to carry out cyber attacks, and every day there are incidents…

Hizbullah’s CFO has fled to Israel with him large sum of stolen money, classified documents and maps, local news media reported on Friday. According to a report in Now Lebanon, Hizbullah officials said that the 29-year old telecommunication engineer, Hussein Fahs, has crossed to Israel carrying with him $5 million in embezzled money from the…

The international community is practically giving a green light to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to kill hundreds of people every day in his country, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. “So what is the source of this attitude? If we have to wait for what one or two of the permanent members…

Last week, Moscow declared it will not be renewing a 1991 agreement with Washington on dismantling chemical and nuclear weapons when it expires next year, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said Wednesday. “The basis of the program is an agreement of 1991 which, by virtue of the time when it was conceived, the way it…

The Israeli air strike on Gaza Saturday night killed a key Salafist leader and a fellow activist, sources in the Palestinian Authority told AFP. The two were identified as Jordanian national Sheikh Hisham al-Saedini, 43, also known as Abu Al-Waleed Al-Maqdissi, of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, and Fayek Abu Jazar, 42. A 12-year-old boy was…

Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades has released a promo for a new movie in which actors reenact the attack in 2006 in which then-IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped. The promo for the movie, which will air later this week, comes as the movement marks one year since Shalit was released in exchange for 1,027…

Israel has warned Finland that it will stop a boat with activists on board by force if it tries to break the blockade on Gaza, a spokesman for Finland’s foreign ministry said Saturday. “The foreign ministry has been informed by Israel that it would intervene if the ship Estelle which is flying the Finnish flag…

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a weekend interview that recent press reports notwithstanding, Israel did not offer Syria the Golan Heights in secret negotiations. The reports, which were also denied by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, appeared in anti-Netanyahu newspaper Yediot Aharonot. Speaking on Channel 2‘s Meet the Press, Barak admitted that there were contacts with Syria.…

Muslim Arab vandals continue to desecrate the tombs at the Mount of Olives cemetery on Jerusalem, despite the supposedly heightened security presence there, according to eyewitnesses. Participants in a funeral procession that took place at the ancient Jewish cemetery at week’s end said that they saw a significant number of recently vandalized tombs at the…

Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban said in a TV interview that Israelis have gotten used to American presidents who exude warmth toward Israel, including Bill Clinton, and that is why they do not feel comfortable with President Barack Obama. “Obama is not a warm person,” he said, but “the claims that Obama has thrown Israel under the…

Two Mujahideen Shura Council operatives who planned to carry out a terrorist attack during Sukkot were killed Saturday in two Air Force strikes in Gaza. One of the terrorists was involved in the firing of a rocket that hit a backyard in Netivot on Friday and the other helped carry out the border attack that…

The calm of the Sabbath was disrupted on Friday evening as two Grad missiles fired by Gaza-based terrorists exploded in the city of Netivot, Channel 2 News reported. At around 7:30 p.m., residents of the city, some of whom were in the midst of their Shabbat dinner, heard the “red alert” siren. Shortly afterwards the…

Iran’s minister of economic affairs and finance on Friday warned that the West would “pay a price” for sanctions on his country, AFP reported. The minister, Shamseddin Hosseini, added that Iran’s foreign exchange reserves are in a “good position”. He echoed Tehran’s regular criticism of the sanctions, saying they were part of an “economic war”…

CBS News and “60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan has lambasted the Obama administration for pushing what she called the “major lie” that the Taliban has been weakened in Afghanistan by the U.S. military. According to a Fox News report, Logan spoke last week to a crowd of about 1,100 at last the Better Government Association…

The war of words between Syria and Turkey escalated on Thursday, when Ankara said it had found military supplies on a passenger plane it intercepted en route between Moscow and Damascus. AFP reported that the Syrian foreign ministry accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of lying after he said the jet had been carrying…

Nearly a year after he was released from Hamas captivity, Gilad Shalit gave his first interview to Israeli television on Thursday. In the interview, which aired on Channel 10, Shalit recalled that while he was in captivity, he would sometimes draw a map of Israel and of the community of Mitzpe Hila where he lives.…

Torah scholar Zechariya Brashi was born in 1900, and recently celebrated his 112th birthday. He spoke to Arutz Sheva about health, diplomacy, and his hopes for the future. The secret to long life, Brashi said, is proper eating. “Eating just enough,” he said. “One should wake up early and eat a slice of bread with…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced that the Peace Prize for 2012 will go to the European Union. “The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe,” said chairman Thorbjorn Jagland. “Over a 70-year period, Germany and France had fought…

An advisor to the Hamas government in Gaza urged his movement this week to refrain from emulating the PLO in making political concessions and adopting pragmatist policies. Instead, he called upon Hamas to declare that it was created to eliminate the State of Israel.   The advisor, Kana’an ‘Obeid, made the call in an October 8…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the drone aircraft which flew some 35 miles (55 km) last weekend into Israeli territory before being shot down by the IDF was sent by the Lebanese militia Hizbullah, an Iranian proxy force. Hizbullah boss Hassan Nasrallah was quoted a short time later as saying that his…

A Danish man claims he worked with the CIA to infiltrate al Qaeda as a double agent and helped track radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a prominent al Qaeda propagandist, until Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike. The 36-year-old Dane, who calls himself Morten Storm, told Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that he cultivated a relationship…

The head of the Hizbullah terror group, Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Thursday that his group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by Iran, AFP reported. The Israeli Air Force shot down the drone on Saturday morning after it entered the country’s airspace from the Mediterranean Sea. “A…

There is ongoing concern within the New York Police Department over an Iranian-sponsored terrorist attack in New York City, due to the area’s large Jewish population, Commissioner Ray Kelly said Tuesday, according to The New York Post. “We’ve been concerned about Iran for a while, and I think the history of those events throughout the…

According to a news story on the respected Worldnet News Daily (WND) web site – with an accompanying array of photos as evidence – U.S. President Barack H. Obama has been wearing, since his days in college, a ring on which is inscribed the Shahada, the main Muslim prayer. The report quoted Egyptian-born Islamic scholar…

A day that began with a hike in the woods ended late last month with the sad discovery of human remains, and the knowledge that a seven-year search for IDF soldier Majdi Halabi had come to an end. The Israeli civilian found the body not far from where the long-missing soldier was last seen near…

Five French Islamist terror suspects have been released, with seven others due to be arraigned Thursday, according to a judicial source. The suspects will face an anti-terrorism judge on unspecified charges in connection with the bombing of a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles and plotting other anti-Semitic attacks. The two masked men hurled grenades into the…

There has been an increase of 45% in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in France over the past year, according to official data released this week. The data show that the anti-Semitic incidents increased after terrorist Mohammed Merah attacked the Otzar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse six months ago, killing a rabbi and three children.…

IAF aircraft struck a center of terrorist activity in northern Gaza on Wednesday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. According to the statement, direct hits at the target were identified. All Israeli aircraft returned safely to their bases. The attack is a response to high trajectory fire into Israeli territory, said the…

The IDF’s Sagi Brigade is training soldiers with tools to deal with new threats at the border with Egyptian, ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Once considered a quiet border with Egypt, which officially is at peace with Israel, the area has become a prime target for Bedouin, Al Qaeda, Hamas and Egyptian terrorists. A new…

A 17-year-old Arab terrorist stabbed a bus driver Wednesday evening, causing him light wounds. The driver, who is about 50, was evacuated to Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. The attack took place at the entrance to Betar Illit, barely twenty minutes from Jerusalem. The terrorist was arrested and was searched to make sure he was not carrying…

Yemeni authorities have arrested another jihadist American Muslim suspected of being an Al Qaeda terrorist. The unidentified man appeared on a list of wanted Al-Qaeda suspects, a security official told AFP. He was detained in Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, a jihadist stronghold in the south of Yemen, the official said. The suspect spoke in…

A Syrian writer and political researcher, known for his virulent anti-Semitic writings, has been killed by state security services, his family and opposition groups said on Sunday. Mohammed Nimr al-Madani, 51, was killed 10 days ago under torture but his body is still with the intelligence security, a relative told AFP on condition of anonymity.…

IAF aircraft hit a terror tunnel in northern Gaza on Tuesday night, the IDF spokesman said in a statement. According to the statement, a direct hit was identified and all Israeli aircraft returned safely to their bases. The attack came in response to high trajectory fire into Israeli territory, said the statement. Earlier Tuesday night,…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met Tuesday in Ramallah with representatives of EU countries in the Palestinian Authority and discussed with them the regional situation following the Arab spring and the PA’s position towards the peace process with Israel. Abbas told the European representatives that the PA is ready to resume negotiations with Israel on…

Dozens of armed men invaded the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month, setting it on fire and hunting down staff, U.S. officials said on Tuesday in a dramatic, detailed account of the deadly assault in Libya. According to an AFP report, the officials said there had been no intelligence to warn that an attack was…

U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign has come up with an ad saying Romney is not an appropriate choice for global leadership. “His actions have proven that, on every measure, Romney has already failed the commander-in-chief test,” said a statement from the campaign. The ad harps on Romney’s “reckless, amateurish” trip to England last July, before…