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Twin suicide bombings hit a Syrian air force compound near Damascus killing dozens of people on Tuesday, monitors said, as rebels took a key town on the road between the capital and second city Aleppo. Turkey, meanwhile, again warned Syria it would not hesitate to retaliate for any strike on its soil as the country’s…

A spokesman for the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat Valley confirmed the terror organization was behind the shooting of a 14-year-old activist Tuesday. Malala Yousafzai was targeted by the Taliban because she is an outspoken advocate and supporter of education for girls. She was shot in the head on her way home from school in the…

According to Foreign Policy magazine, America and Israel are considering a joint surgical strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. A source “close to the discussions” says the strike could possibly consist of drones and bombers. The attack is expected to last less than a few days or possibly just “a couple of hours”, it was reported…

For five days in October, dozens of disabled veterans from the IDF will join sixty disabled veterans from Canada, America and Australia as they ride across Israel strengthening the bond between the countries and the veterans and sharing stories of personal heroism and bravery in their struggles with rehabilitation.  Starting in the North and ending…

The French Interior Minister warned that “dozens, even hundreds of individuals who are capable of organizing themselves” into groups similar to a radical Muslim cell whose leader was killed in a police raid on Saturday. Following the warning, Richard Prasquier, the head of the CRIF that represents most French Jews, said Monday that Islamic radicalism…

A Patriot anti-missile battery has been installed in the north, atop Mt. Carmel near Haifa. However, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, deployment of a Patriot battery “is not an unusual thing.” The system, operated by the IDF Air Defense Command, is capable of intercepting flying objects (balllistic missiles, aircraft and other threats) at ranges…

France is cracking down on terror after a sting operation in connection with an attack on a Jewish supermarket left one dead and 11 arrested. French President Francois Hollande announced just prior to the start of the Jewish holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah that France would take steps to “fight all terror threats.”…

To dance in celebration of the Torah, and then to dance again: the People of Israel were out in force Monday night for Second Hakafot. Israelis danced at locations all around the country to join together with Jews in the diaspora who had only just begun to observe the Simchat Torah holiday. The “Second Hakafot” event…

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday affirmed that as president of the United States he would prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. In a major foreign policy speech, titled “The Mantle of Leadership”, in Lexington, Virginia, Romney warned that under President Barack Obama Iran is “closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability,”…

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — A troop carrier overturned on a mountain road in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula early Monday, killing at least 21 members of the security forces stationed on the border with Israel, officials said. Health Ministry official Tarek Khater said the driver of the vehicle was speeding downhill on the badly maintained single-lane road…

Terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip fired some 55 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel early Monday morning. The shells landed in communities in the Eshkol Regional Council. There were no reports of injuries, although two buildings were lightly damaged and several goats were killed due to an explosion in an animal corner. Hamas’…

An Israeli air strike in Gaza on Sunday evening targeted two terrorists, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. The statement named the two as Talat Khalil Muhammad Jerbi, a Global Jihad member from Rafiah and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Makawi, a member of the Shura Council, a terror organization based in Gaza. The operation was…

Syrian mortar fire again struck a Turkish border village on Sunday, prompting artillery retaliation for the fourth day, AFP reported. The Syrian mortar round hit Akcakale, the site of a similar strike on Wednesday, as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said President Bashar al-Assad should be replaced by Vice President Faruq al-Shara. The mortar round…

Iran’s Foreign Minister is offering the West a compromise regarding his country’s nuclear program. In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel which will be published on Monday and of which excerpts were published Sunday, Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran would be willing to limit its uranium enrichment if the international community agrees…

French President Francois Hollande vowed tough anti-terror laws and tighter securityon Sunday, as police Sunday staged more raids after a crackdown that saw one man killed and 11 arrested over an attack on a Jewish store, AFP reported. “The state is totally mobilized to fight all terror threats,” Hollande said after meeting Jewish leaders at…

U.S. army officers have begun arriving in Israel ahead of joint military maneuvers between the countries’ armed forces, the Yediot Achronot newspaper reported on Sunday. The officers will supervise the arrival of hundreds of U.S. troops on October 14 for joint maneuvers that will take place the following week and last for three weeks, the…

The Air Force carried out “mock raids” at medium altitude over southern Lebanon Sunday, hours after Israel said all indications are that Hizbullah launched a drone that was downed inside Israel on Saturday, according to the Arabic language Nahar newspaper. Israel previously has carried out surveillance flights over southern Lebanon, which is under control of…

A Saudi Arabian man faces 600 lashes and five years in jail for making an indecent sex proposal on Facebook, local news site Sabq reported.   The man, in his early 30s, admitted that he posted “an indecent proposal to offer himself for sexual acts” on his Facebook account. Saudi Arabia frequently punishes people for…

Three years from now, the Israel Space Agency will host the federation’s International Astronautical Conference, the International Astronautical Federation announced Thursday. Israel’s agency was selected to host the conference over its counterparts in Mexico and Thailand, and Istanbul Technical University, according to a report Sunday by Army Radio. The event has attracted more than 3,000…

The eight day festival that consists of Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret/Simchat Torah comes to an end Monday night, bringing an end to the month long holiday season and starting the regular year. In Israel, a popular expression is “Acharei Hachagim” – lets’ wait till after the holidays – as the entire country seems to put…

Police in Budapest said they have arrested two men after a Jewish community leader was attacked after leaving synagogue Friday night, AFP reported. Andras Kerenyi, 62, president of the local branch of the Budapest Jewish Faith Community, was verbally and physically assaulted on the night of Oct. 5, as he was leaving the Sabbath prayer…

Iran has withdrawn 275 of its elite Revolutionary Guard forces from Syria due to an economic crisis at home, reports The Sunday Times. Hundreds of Iranian soldiers from the elite “Unit 400” brigade have been fighting alongside Syrian government troops in the civil war against opposition forces hoping to topple President Bashar al-Assad. According to the…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a full-page ad in The New York Times on Friday warning of the anti-Semitic lies that have spread in the aftermath of the release of the anti-Islamic film that has been widely accused of sparking the recent surge of protests throughout the Muslim world. Under the headline, “All it Takes…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak met for an hour and a half on Saturday night and discussed Barak’s recent meetings in the U.S., which were made without Netanyahu’s approval and consent. Channel 2 News quoted a statement on behalf of both which Barak’s office published after the meeting and which read,…

A Swedish ship with activists from several countries aboard sailed from Naples on Saturday, in the latest bid to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, AFP reported. The report said that a crowd of well-wishers saw off the sailing vessel Estelle as it left the Italian port as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement. “We think…

A man shot dead by French police Saturday in a nationwide crackdown on terror suspects was linked to an attack on a Jewish store last month, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said, according to AFP. The man killed in an exchange of fire in Strasbourg was “a delinquent who had converted to radical Islam” and his…

Fighting in Syria between Damascus and the rebel militias continues to drag on and the violent rebellion has now come to involve Turkey, Iran and the West.  The civil war continues to entangle Turkey in violence, as Saturday marked the fourth consecutive day in which Syrian shells fired by the rebels landed in the neighboring…

More and more members of the Knesset are calling for Defense Minister Ehud Barak to be ousted as tensions grow between the DM and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At a “Cultural Shabbat” event in Ramat HaSharon MK Faina Kirschenbaum attacked DM Ehud Barak for his recent behavior and the recent trouble he has been causing. …

The IDF suspects that the small UAV intercepted Saturday morning by IAF jets over the northern Sinai was launched by Iranian proxy militia Hizbullah. The drone may have been searching for targets for Iranian attacks. The defense establishment has been looking at the fragments of the UAV, which fell in the area of southern Mount…

PARIS (AP) — Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery story led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam. The man whose DNA was identified, named by police as Jeremy Sydney, was killed by police…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli jets scrambled to intercept a drone that crossed into Israeli airspace Saturday from the Mediterranean Sea, bringing it down without incident in the south of the country, a military spokeswoman said. Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich said Israeli systems on the ground alerted the air force to the drone Saturday morning. She…

Thousands of Islamists demonstrated in central Amman to demand reforms on Friday, just hours after King Abdullah II dissolved parliament and called early polls without any major political change, AFP reported. “We demand constitutional reform before the people revolt. The people want to reform the regime,” the demonstrators chanted in the demonstration held outside Al-Husseini…

As the economic crisis in Tehran worsens and Iran’s currency continues to drop in value, members of the U.S. Congress are exploring possibilities to toughen the sanctions on the Islamic Republic even further, it was reported Friday. The sanctions currently being imposed on Tehran mainly include a prohibition of trade with the Iranian central bank…

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited the Sinai Peninsula on Friday to meet with and reassure Coptic families who fled from the town of Rafiah after receiving death threats, his Facebook page said, according to AFP. This “will not happen again,” Morsi told a group of local Bedouin tribal chiefs and other residents of the town…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly placed fear into the hearts of Iranians, a Muslim woman from Tehran told Israel’s Channel 2 News on Friday. The woman, Shahanaz, agreed to be interviewed to the Israeli channel despite the risks involved. She was first interviewed two months ago and was interviewed again…

A radical Islamic leader has claimed that the suicide bomber who killed five Israeli citizens and a Bulgarian bus driver in the city of Burgas in July was his disciple. Omar Bakri, the founder of the group ‘Al Muhadzhirun’ who currently lives in Lebanon after leaving Britain following the attacks at the London Underground, made…

Turkey returned fire once again on Friday after a new Syrian shell landed in on its territory close to their common border, the Turkish private news channel NTV reported. The Syrian shell landed in the Turkish town of Altinozu in Hatay province near the border, triggering an immediate response fire from Turkish forces, said an…

Police have named the gunman who opened fire in an Eilat hotel on Friday, killing one person, as 23-year-old William Hershkovitz. The victim of the shooting has been identified as Armando al-Abed, a 33-year-old Arab Israeli from a Christian village in the northern Galilee region. Hershkovitz, who came to Israel from Poughkeepsie, New York, had…

The United Nations Security Council condemned on Thursday a mortar attack by Syria on a Turkish border town that killed five people, NBC News reports. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the shelling by the Syrian armed forces of the Turkish town of Akcakale, which resulted in the deaths of…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II dissolved parliament and called early elections on Thursday, the royal palace announced, according to AFP. “The king has decided to dissolve the chamber of deputies from this Thursday and to call early elections,” a statement quoted by the news agency said. It gave no date, but the monarch has said he…

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Thursday that a decision to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities should be an American decision. In a video interview with The Washington Post, Kissinger was asked whether he believes the U.S. should join Israel and set “red lines” for Iran, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did in…

Iran offered a “nine-step plan” to defuse tensions over its unsupervised nuclear program, but the compromise offer was rejected by the United States, the New York Times reports. American officials said it required too much from the West, including a complete end to sanctions. The proposal would see the U.S. and Europe gradually end sanctions…

A tourist opened fire in the Leonardo Hotel in Eilat on Friday morning. Witnesses say the man stole a gun from a hotel guard and began shooting in all directions. A 50-year-old worker was critically wounded and died of his injuries shortly thereafter. Several people suffered shock. Three were taken to Yosephtal Hospital. The shooter barricaded…

A rocket fired from Gaza crashed into southern Israel on Thursday night, without causing casualties or damage, an Israeli military spokesman said. “The rocket landed in the Ashkelon area without causing any casualties or damage,” the spokesman told AFP. The attack comes after a similar incident on Monday. The last major flare-up in and around…

Classified documents obtained by the Al Arabiya network and released Thursday have revealed that the Syrian regime moved a chemical weapons stockpile with the help of Iran and knowledge of Russia. Furthermore, additional documents also reveal that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has also sought cross border cooperation with the State of Israel. The confidential files…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey would never want to start a war and parliament had authorized foreign deployment of troops as a deterrent after the fatal Syrian shelling of southeast Turkey. “We could never be interested in something like starting a war,” Erdogan told reporters at a news conference,…

The leader of the Islamic Jihad terror group, Ramadan Shallah, said on Thursday that it is time to re-examine the ceasefire with Israel, which terrorists from Gaza usually break in any case. In a recorded speech to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Jihad, Shallah said that all arrangements with Israel…

The Turkish parliament has authorized cross-border military action into Syria, if deemed necessary by the government. The mandate, valid for one year, was passed by 320 votes in the 550-seat Turkish parliament, the Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday. Besir Atalay, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said that the authorization of the use of force in…

Cheers of “We love Israel” were heard throughout the streets of Jerusalem Thursday as thousands of Christians from all over the world paraded down the streets to show their support for the State of Israel.  The flags of over sixty countries waved alongside the blue and white flag of Israel as confetti poured down and…

In what appears to be another one of the Israel Police’s inexplicable decisions, an Arab taxi driver who rammed into a military vehicle Tuesday, injuring four soldiers, and then fled the scene, was freed by police Thursday after he turned himself in and was questioned. Police said the incident was an accident and not a…

An Arab-Israeli resident of the village of Majdal al-Krum has been charged with spying for and aiding the Hizbullah terrorist organization. The suspect, Mil’ad Mohammed Mahmoud Khatib, was arraigned Thursday at the District Court in Haifa on charges of espionage, contact with a foreign agent, aiding the enemy and conspiracy to assist the enemy in…

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an American citizen of Syrian descent who allegedly has ties to Al-Qaeda and has been plotting to kill U.S. military personnel overseas. Ahmad Abousamra, 31, was indicted in 2009, after taking multiple trips to Pakistan and Yemen, where he attempted to…

A showdown is shaping up between Jordan’s monarchy and Islamist forces, with rival demonstrations scheduled for this Friday. At least 200,000 demonstrators are expected to appear in the capital of Amman on Friday to support King Abdullah II, as some 50,000 protesters from the country’s sole opposition bloc, the powerful regionwide Muslim Brotherhood organization, do…

The Jerusalem Police closed off the Temple Mount to Jews Thursday after receiving intelligence that Muslims intended to attack Jewish visitors there. Earlier in the day, police limited Jews to a narrow strip between the Mughrabim Gate and the Shalshelet Gate. Jews were then told to leave that area too. Muslims hurled rocks at a…

For the third morning in a row, Arabs rioted on the Temple Mount, attempting to attack groups of Jews who sought to visit the holiest site in Judaism during the Sukkot holiday. Police again Thursday deployed large numbers of officers to keep the Arabs from attacking the Jews. Police have reported that there were mild…

Scuffles broke out Wednesday in central Tehran, in the first sign of unrest over Iran’s plunging currency, which has lost more than half its value since last week. Hundreds of police in anti-riot gear stormed the currency exchange district of Ferdowsi, arresting illegal money changers and ordering licensed exchange bureaus and other shops closed, witnesses…

Explosions at a Hizbullah weapons cache in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed nine people on Wednesday, among them Hizbullah members, AFP reported. A local security official told AFP that nine people were killed and seven wounded in the blasts. He said four Syrian migrant workers were among the casualties, adding that one or…

Rabbi Dovid Price, a renowned and beloved member of the Flatbush community and one of the first members of Flatbush Hatzalah, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 77. Rabbi Price, who was the principal of the Prospect Park Yeshiva Girls School in Brooklyn for many years, also served as coordinator of Flatbush Hatzalah.…

In the most recent attack in the name of Islam, Muslim protesters attacked Buddhist villages in Bangladesh, after an image portraying a burnt Koran was posted on Facebook. Witnesses said angry crowds set fire to homes and temples in the Cox’s Bazar district, forcing families to flee the area, BBC news reported. Hundreds of protesters…

Iranian officials claim cyber attackers targeted their country’s infrastructure and communications companies Wednesday, disrupting Internet access across the country, in what was most likely an attack aimed at stalling their nuclear operations.  Ever since Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges were hit by a computer worm in 2005, Tehran has taken extraordinary measures to tighten its cyber…

Vandals desecrated a middle school in Colllier County, Florida with anti-Semitic graffiti, in what parents and students are calling a hate crime.  Parents saw the hateful graffiti when they went to drop off their children at school on Tuesday morning, ABC 7 news reported. “There were three Nazi signs saying ‘we will burn you piece…

Six Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs took part in an attempt to ambush rape a Jewish Galilee woman Tuesday, police suspect. The woman went on a morning walk in the fields near Sharona, not far from the Sea of Galilee, where she walks every morning. She then found herself in what appeared to be a planned…

The Turkish army attacked several targets in Syria on Wednesday evening, officials in Ankara confirmed. The incident, the first of its kind since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad began in March of 2011, came several hours after a mortar shell fired from Syria exploded on Turkish territory and killed five people. “Our military…

UN Raises Syrian Refugee Estimate – Again The United Nations has again raised its estimate of the number of Syrians who will flee their country by the end of this year. At least 710,000 Syrians will have abandoned the nation by the end of 2012, estimates the U.N. agency for refugees. The figure was raised…

While an Israeli threat of an attack against Iran is speculated daily in the international media, classified Pentagon intelligence papers reveal that it was actually in 2008 that Iran was so fearful of an Israeli attack they mistakingly fired at their own airliners.  The New York Times reported that between 2007 and 2008 tensions were…

A Brooklyn teenager who went missing after Yom Kippur has been found alive and in good health. New York police reported that 17-year-old Tzvi Stolzenberg was in good condition when he was located. They did not reveal the teen’s whereabouts, nor details about the circumstances in which he was picked up. Stolzenberg went missing a week ago…

Israeli President Shimon Peres welcomed the citizens of Israel into his sukkah today and spoke to the crowd about the past, present and future of the State of Israel, expressing hope that the new year will bring what Israelis have longed for since the establishment of the state – peace.  Peres tried to keep things…

The annual Priestly Blessing from Jerusalem, chanted by thousands of Kohanim, male descendants of Moses’ brother Aaron the Levite, the first High Priest, went forth Wednesday from the Jerusalem’s ancient Western Wall (Kotel). The participants, members of the ancient priestly class of Jews, echo Israel’s chief rabbis in blessing the Jewish People — a ritual which takes place…

Around 200 people demonstrated in the city of Ramallah on Tuesday to demand the resignation of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, AFP reports. Waving flags and shouting “Abu Mazen (Abbas) leave,” the protesters marched from the central Al-Manara Square towards the presidential headquarters. They were blocked by police and there were some scuffles before the…

Jordan’s main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, sharply criticized on Tuesday the naming of a new ambassador to Israel, AFP reported. The group reportedly said the move was not in the kingdom’s interests. “In an act of provocation towards Jordanians, the government has named an ambassador to the Zionist entity within the framework of the…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces parliamentary questioning as Western sanctions help sink the “rial” currency by 20 percent in two days and Iranians run scared. The rial took a nosedive of 2-to-6 percent Tuesday following a dizzying 17 percent fall on Sunday in the wake of the threat of even tougher sanctions by the United…

A Palestinian car ran over four soldiers today in the area of Gush Etzion in Judea, outside a town barely ten minutes south of Jerusalem..  Four soldiers were standing on the side of the road in the community of Neve Daniel  in Gush Etzion when a Palestinian Arab owned vehicle hit the group and proceeded to run off.  The injured…

A rally is now under way outside of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, as Israelis attempt to express support and solidarity with the United States, amidst the growing sentiment that the U.S. is waning in its support of Israel. Organized by Im Tirzu (If you wish) the pro-America rally aims to let the United…

Swedish home and furniture retailer IKEA, which has two branches in israel,  has been criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its catalogue. The Sweden-based Metro newspaper printed side-by-side images of the Swedish and Saudi issues of the catalogue, showing that women had been airbrushed out of the Saudi version. In…

Some 6,000 Christian friends of Israel from over 100 countries, led by Evangelical community leaders, have arrived in Israel to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov will welcome the thousands of Christian visitors to the feast in a special broadcast at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. The International…

A prominent Pakistani is, once again, offering a six-figure monetary reward to anyone who kills the producer of the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” that has gained notoriety for allegedly sparking the violent protests that have spread throughout the Muslim word. While the allegation has been proven to be baseless, it has nonetheless become a…

Police ignored threats by Arabs to butcher Jews ascending the Temple Mount but arrested an Arab for trying to stab a police officer. The police also arrested Likud nationalist Moshe Feiglin for attempting to pray there. A number of Jews, including those from the Our Land of Israel movement, went up to the holy site on…

The Obama administration has warned European Union countries that granting the Palestinian Authority Non-Member Observer status in the United Nations would have “significant negative consequences.” A private memo secured by the London Guardian, advises that recognition by the General Assembly “would be extremely counterproductive,” and it openly hinted that such a move could result in…

A small group of protesters, most of whom were reported to be women, destroyed an Iranian police post protecting the French embassy in Tehran on Tuesday and threw stones at visitors before being arrested, a diplomat inside the embassy told AFP. The violent demonstration lasted 90 minutes and involved around 15 people, the French diplomat…

A new Hizbullah video highlights the terrorist organization’s latest campaign – “liberating the Galilee.” On the agenda is Hizbullah’s conquering of key sites and cities like tourist centers, refineries, and the Haifa port. The video was posted on a Hizbullah site Monday, the same day that Israeli Arab politicians led a protest commemorating the deaths…

Amazon, which sells nearly everything under the sun, has a new specialty item that has raised eyebrows – and ire – among many in thew Jewish community: A puzzle of the Dachau concentration camp. The $24.99 232 piece puzzle is recommended for children eight years and older, the product description at the site says. The…

Thousands of Arabs protested on Monday on the 12th anniversary of the “Israeli Arab intifada,” in which Arabs rioting in northern Israel in October 2000 faced off against police and security forces. Twelve Arabs were killed during those riots. The 2000 riots, in Nazareth and other largely Arab towns in northern Israel, were held in…

Thousands of people were left without power for hours during the first day of the Sukkot holiday on Sunday night and Monday. High winds blew down power lines in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Bnei Brak, causing power failures throughout the center of the country. Power failures were also reported in some spots in northern…

The Iranian economy is finding it difficult to cope with the economic sanctions, but the extensive financial aid to Syrian President Bashar Assad has not stopped – and is creating a rift at the top of the Iranian regime. The London-based Times newspaper reported Monday that Tehran has transferred some $10 billion in support of…

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of downplaying the significance of the Iranian nuclear threat, and calling for improved relations with Israel. In an opinion piece published Sunday in the Wall Street Journal, Romney discussed the American policy toward the Middle East. He began his op-ed by reviewing the “disturbing…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated on Sunday Ankara’s conditions to improving relations with Israel. “We will never reconsider restoring our relations with Israel,” until Israel lifts its Gaza blockade, apologizes to Turkey and pays compensation for the nine Turkish nationals killed on a Gaza-bound vessel by Israeli commandos in May 2010, Erdogan said,…

International sanctions could trigger a popular uprising in Iran like the revolt in Egypt that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman predicted on Sunday. “The opposition demonstrations that took place in Iran in June 2009 will come back in even greater force,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with the Haaretz…

The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was behind a pair of car bomb attacks which killed 55 people outside a military intelligence complex in the Qazzaz area of Damascus on May 10, newly-leaked documents obtained by Al Arabiya and published on Sunday reveal. The documents are part of some highly-classified Syrian security files obtained…

Azerbaijan has looked into the possibility of assisting Israel with a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a report Sunday by Reuters reveals. The report, published by correspondent Thomas Grove, is based on “local officials with extensive knowledge of Azerbaijan’s military policy.” According to these sources, Azeri authorities have, along with Israel, looked into how Azeri…

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday discussed several pressing regional issues in an address delivered at an annual conference of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party. “Our history, hopes and goals bind us together to achieve the freedom and justice that all nations are struggling for,” Morsi said during a short visit to Ankara, according…

A senior adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that classified documents published Saturday by the Al-Arabiya network were fake. The documents allege that Turkish pilots killed in Syria after Syrian forces shot down their plane were deliberately executed following consultation between Damascus and Moscow. “It is crystal clear that the…

Extremist Muslim rioters torched Buddhist communities in southeastern Bangladesh Sunday over an “offensive” photo on Facebook. The rioting was ignited over a photo uploaded to the social networking site by a Buddhist man from the area that allegedly defamed the Qur’an, according to district administrator Joinul Bari. Some 25,000 Muslims stormed a Buddhist hamlet in…

A Palestinian Authority mother from Gaza is home with a healthy baby thanks to Israeli doctors in Kfar Sava, after a complicated surgery. After losing three babies to rare birth defects at Egyptian hospitals, Jian Abu Agram, 31, was faced with a difficult decision last year after another child was born last April with the same…

For all of the criticism and praise that President Barack Obama has received for his handling of international relations with the Muslim world, the president has never launched an official campaign aimed at obtaining the Muslim vote in America. Now, a website that purports to do exactly that has been unearthed, the implications of which…

A Palestinian Authority terrorist tried to kill a Jewish driver in Samaria early Sunday morning. The vehicle sustained damage, but the driver escaped injury. The IDF is searching for the attackers. The attempted murder was on or near the terror-ridden highway that connects the outskirts of Kfar Saba, on the northern edge of metropolitan Tel…

Iraq is determined to stop and search flights from Iran over its territory which are suspected of carrying weapons to Syria, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in comments reported on Sunday. “We have assured US officials that the Iraqi government is determined to land (Iranian) flights and carry out random searches,” Zebari said, quoted by…

The United States has warned American female missionaries that they are targets of terrorists in Egypt, where Christians are on the run from Islamists. “The Embassy has credible information suggesting terrorist interest in targeting U.S. female missionaries in Egypt,” a State Department travel warning stated. It added, “U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance, taking necessary precautions…

Turkish pilots killed in Syria were deliberately executed following consultation between Damascus and Moscow, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya news reported Saturday. The news station says it has obtained classified Syrian documents proving the story, that will be published online, true. In June, Syrian forces shot down a Turkish plane, sparking outrage in Turkey. The plane’s pilots…

Several weeks ago the historic Levy Report declared that Judea and Samaria are not “occupied,” and that Israelis have the legal right to live in the area. The ground-breaking report was welcomed by the political right. However, in the weeks since, it has been quietly pushed aside. The report’s findings have not been the subject…

Police in New York have been searching for 17-year-old Tzvi Hersh Stolzenberg, a Brooklyn resident who has been missing since the end of Yom Kippur last Wednesday night. The officers are being assisted by volunteers from Shomrim, Jewish patrols in hassidic and hareidi-religious neighborhoods who, among other things, help locate missing people. Stolzenberg was last…

Iran’s currency, the rial, dived six percent to a new low of around 28,600 to the dollar in open trading on Saturday, deepening a month-long sell-off, AFP reports. The new rate was sharply lower than the 26,900 rials per dollar fetched on Thursday, the last day of trading. The plunge — and a steep rise…

Israel cannot make peace with the Palestinian Authority while it is led by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said. Lieberman spent his time at the United Nations General Assembly last week meeting with dignitaries from around the world and – despite previous backlash – told them that Abbas is the primary obstacle to…

Israel has already breached its own red line set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by acquiring “dozens of nuclear warheads,” Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday, the AFP news agency reports. “If having the atomic bomb is passing the red line, the Zionist regime, that possesses dozens of nuclear warheads and weapons of…

Light rain fell across the country Saturday as Israel’s dry summer season drew to a close. The rain began in the south, and by the evening had spread as far as the Golan, although some areas remained dry. Occasional thunderstorms were reported in the Golan, and weather forecasters say storms may hit elsewhere in the…

The Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency believes that the significant cut of some NIS 14 billion ($3.5 billion) in Israel’s State Budget will be implemented regardless of upcoming elections. The agency’s economists, who visited Israel in the summer and met with the finance minister and Bank of Israel governor, affirmed the country’s A+ rating…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of a leading Islamic organization Saturday called for a global ban on offending the character of the Prophet Muhammad, saying that it should be equated with hate speech. Such a ban would demonstrate how an interconnected world respected different cultural sensitivities, said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization…

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by phone on Friday, a day after his dramatic speech on Iran’s nuclear program before the UN General Assembly. According to the White House, Obama spoke with the prime minister for about 20 minutes. They discussed a “range of security issues”, including Iran, said a…

The United States on Friday unveiled $45 million in new aid to Syria, as Syrian grassroots activists preparing for the fall of President Bashar al-Assad appealed to world leaders for help, AFP reported. Hosting a meeting of the Friends of Syria group, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington was unleashing new funds to meet…

The Syrian regime has moved some chemical weapons to safeguard the material as it wages war against rebel forces but the main storage sites for its arsenal remain secure, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday. “There has been some intelligence that with regards to some of these sites there has been some movement …in…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hinted on Friday that his position regarding Iran’s nuclear program is similar to that of his rival, President Barack Obama. CNN quoted Romney as having told reporters, after a phone call with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, that the two “spoke about his assessment of where the red line ought to…

The Palestinian Authority will submit a resolution seeking enhanced UN observer status for ‘Palestine’ later this year after the U.S. presidential election, a Palestine Liberation Organization official said on Friday. “We have begun consultations on the format of the text that will be presented to the General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian status to an…

An explosive device was set off outside a Jewish community center in Malmo, Sweden late on Thursday night. Nobody was hurt in the blast, but the building sustained damage. Local police said it appeared that someone had tried to break in the door. Two 18-year-old men have been arrested in connection to the attack. The…

A coat worn despite the summer heat gave away a terrorist, 26, who planned an attack at the Hizme checkpoint, in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist arrived at the checkpoint at noontime Friday. The fact that he was wearing a coat despite the great heat aroused the Border Police’s suspicion. They conducted a search and found…

Two Israelis are reportedly among those killed in a Minneapolis shooting Thursday, involving a gunman who shot four dead people and committed suicide inside a sign-making business. According to TV Channel 2, co-owners Reuven Rahamim and Rami Cox were both killed. Cox’s daughter Shiri said that the shooter was an employee who had been fired…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed solidarity on Thursday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, after he called for a “red line” on Iran to stop it from reaching nuclear weapons capability. “I stand with Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Romney said in a statement quoted by AFP, after the Israeli Prime Minister told the UN General Assembly…

Three Azerbaijani men have been convicted of planning to murder Chabad rabbis at a Jewish school in Baku. The three have been named as Rasim Farail Aliyev, Balagardash Dadashov, and Ali Alihamza Huseynov. The planned attack was to be revenge on Israel for the death of an Iranian nuclear physicist. Iran suspects Israel of being…

The foreign ministers of Argentina and Iran met on Thursday at the United Nations to discuss the deadly 1994 attack on a Jewish association in Buenos Aires, officials said. Argentina has charged Iran of masterminding the bombing that killed 85 people at a building housing Jewish charities and NGOs in Buenos Aires. Both sides agreed…

The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, will meet with his Israeli counterpart Binyamin Netanyahu Friday in New York City. Harper is in town as the UN General Assembly convenes but he will not address the assembly himself. Instead, his foreign minister John Baird will deliver a speech to the assembly Monday. Harper was invited…

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the alleged filmmaker behind the video that sparked protests across the Muslim world, was arrested Thursday, the Los Angeles district attorney’s office said. “I can confirm he’s in custody, scheduled to make a court appearance as we speak, in federal court in downtown LA,” Thom Mrozek of the United States Attorney’s Office…

The Obama administration remained unimpressed on Thursday after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations and reiterated that the President would not set “red lines” for Iran. “As the prime minister said, the United States and Israel share the goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” spokesman Tommy Vietor of the…

France announced Thursday that it will expel any foreigners who pose a threat to the country’s security at home or abroad, either in the name of Islam or by refusing to respect the country’s secular traditions, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday.  France will be “intransigent… and I will not hesitate to expel those who…

Every day, about 1,000 U.S. citizens living in Israel are registering to vote in the upcoming U.S. elections, according to Eli Piepsh, Director of I Vote Israel. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, the organization has made contact with immigrants (olim) to Israel and with dual citizens. “We’ve held meetings at synagogues, we’ve appeared at lessons…

With less than two months until the U.S. presidential election, the Republican party is making an aggressive last bid attempt to win over Jewish voters in important swing states.  Focusing on the key areas of South Florida, Ohio and Nevada, the Sheldon Adelson-backed Republican Jewish Coalition has begun spending $6.5 million on both on-air and…

President Barack Obama will likely speak to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by phone on Friday, as the White House faces heat over the lack of a meeting between the leaders in New York. Obama spent only 24 hours in New York for the UN General Assembly earlier this week before Netanyahu arrived, and the…

A new proposed German law is set to approve ritual circumcision (known as brit mila or bris mila in Judaism) hopefully ending the debate – and the threat – to the ancient custom practiced by Jews and Muslims. German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger presented the proposal to the state governments and associations throughout the country on…

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared for the second time in a month in an online video, in which he revealed new information about his late predecessor Osama bin Laden, who he said was blind in one eye. In the almost hour-long video, the third in a series entitled “Days with the Imam,” Zawahiri said “for…

The United Nations agency for refugees is predicting that up to 700,000 Syrians will flee their homes to other lands by the year’s end. The UNHCR appealed Thursday with 51 other aid groups for half a billion dollars in aid to help the “rapidly increasing” numbers trying to cross the borders into neighboring countries daily.…

A bipartisan group of Unites States senators wrote a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro, urging him to release Alan Gross, a Jewish-American contractor who has been imprisoned in Cuba since December 2009. The group of forty-four senators, led by led by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), called Gross’ detention “a major…

A court ruling allowing Turkey to ban access to the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” that sparked outrage worldwide has been finalized, the country’s Transportation, Maritime and Communication Minister Binali Yıldırım said Wednesday. The Anatolia news agency reported that the ruling will now allow Turkish authorities to ban any webpage that shows any portion of…

Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) today released a 30 minute video showing how Northeastern Professor Denis Sullivan and other Northeastern faculty abuse academic freedom to promote anti-Israel lies and anti-Semitism as defined by the U.S. State Department. Sullivan is a tenured professor and director of the Northeastern Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and…

The Palestinian Authority Winter has reached Gaza: some 500 protesters called to overthrow their Hamas terror rulers late Tuesday. The demonstration was ignited by the death of a little boy who died in a fire that resulted during a power outage in Bureij. His baby sister was left in critical condition, with burns over a…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said in an interview Thursday that while there were still significant differences of opinion on how to handle Iran, the gap between the two sides was closing. While the impression one would get from President Barack H. Obama’s speech at the UN General Assembly was that the United States was…

The death toll in Syria’s civil war on Wednesday was more than 300, the highest in a single day since March 2011, said human rights activists. According to UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman, more than 305 people were killed across the country – “and this is only counting those whose…

Hizbullah has increased the size and scope of its assistance to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as he fights to retain his position as leader of Syria in the face of a wide-ranging rebellion. According to a report in Thursday’s Washington Post, Hizbullah has sent special advisors to Syria in order to assist…

Egypt’s new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process, AFP reports. President Mohammed Morsi received a rousing ovation for his first speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly since becoming Egypt’s first civilian, democratically elected leader in…

The anti-Islam film that is being used as an excuse for violent protests in many countries had “nothing to do with” a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi earlier this month, Libya’s leader told NBC News. This assertion flies in the face of the view expressed by President Barack Obama, that the attack…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a letter to the citizens of Israel Wednesday just before he boarded a flight to New York, where he will address the UN General Assembly. In it, he castigated the UN delegates who chose to remain in the UN General Assembly hall as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke there earlier…

Protesters gathered outside the United Nations on Wednesday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he made his last speech as Iranian leader to the UN General Assembly. “Ahmadinejad, no, no, no!” the crowd of several thousand mostly Iranians chanted. Protesters also praised the US government for its plan to remove an Iranian exile group…

Two suicide bombs struck the heavily guarded Syrian Army headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday, killing four guards and sparking a gun battle between troops and rebels, state media said. A rebel officer and a rights group said the audacious attack which also left 14 people wounded was an inside job, while an…

Pop diva Madonna urged fans to vote for President Barack Obama in America’s November election, reports AFP, but may have caused him damage by calling him a “Black Muslim,” according to a video posted online Tuesday. In the clip reportedly shot during a concert Monday night, she listed American icons Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther…

Unknown vandals have tipped over and broken 26 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the village of Prudice in the southwestern corner of the Czech Republic, police said Wednesday “The vandalism occurred during the last two months. The damage has been evaluated at 100,000 koruna ($5,140),” police spokesman Miroslav Doubek said. “Police experts on combating…

Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel does not require amendments at the present time, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Wednesday. Egypt has the ability to control the Sinai Peninsula and restore security in its territory, he added. Security operations were still ongoing against militants in the region, he said, and they would continue until their goals…

NEW YORK (AP) — After an hour of fielding questions about Syria, sanctions and nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to choose the topic – his “new order” which will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying. Continuing his hectic pace of…

Police in Bangor, Maine are investigating reports of swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti that were found spray-painted on two city synagogues on Friday evening. The front staircases and pillars of the Beth Israel Synagogue and the Beth Abraham Synagogue were defaced with swastikas and an upside-down cross with the numbers “666” positioned on the top…

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday accused President Obama of undermining the recent turmoil in the Middle East and showing a lack of regard for the Jewish state. Cantor (R-Va.) stressed Obama’s interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” during which the president referred to Israel as “one of our closest allies in the region.” “That…

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a Divinely-designated day that the Torah explains “will atone for you [plural] to purify you from all your sins before G-d.” Such atonement, however, is not automatic and must be accompanied by teshuvah, a serious process that must include introspection, admission of sins, remorse, and a commitment not…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “has no place in the world,” said Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor, who apparently found it redundant to even suggest that there is a question if Ahmadinejad has a place in the “World to Come.” Both expressions are common in Jewish thought concerning a person’s reward while living and…

German authorities have opened a war crimes investigation against Johann “Hans” Breyer, a former Nazi camp guard who has been living in the United States for 60 years. Breyer, an 87 year old retired toolmaker living in Philadelphia, admits to having been a guard at the Auschwitz death camp, but claims that his post was…

Former Israeli delegate for Congressional matters in Washington and a top expert on relations with the U.S., Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, thinks Israeli fears of a hostile second term Obama presidency are overblown. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Ettinger explained that contrary to popular perception, “The bottom line is that a second term president…

Israel will be victorious over Iran, with or without the help of the United States, says Chief Rabbi Metzger, who asked Jews to focus on good relations with others. Speaking in a special Erev Yom Kippur with Arutz Sheva, the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi pleaded for Jews “to be careful to observe mitzvos relating to others”…

U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya’s Benghazi was clearly more than a “mob action,” amid lingering dispute about the nature of the assault. Obama also said, in an appearance on the ABC talk show “The View”, that the best way to deal with a film deemed…

Iran announced on Monday it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the “intolerable insult” of the “Innocence of Muslims” film that has angered Muslims in several countries. “I am officially announcing that in reaction to the intolerable insult to the Great Prophet of Islam we will refrain from taking part in…

Arab leaders have rejected Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s proposal to turn over most of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority. Barak said in an interview with the Hebrew language Yisrael HaYom newspaper that the time has come to unilaterally declare a Palestinian Authority state in Judea and Samaria except for major Jewish population centers,…

Several mortar shells from Syria was fired on the Golan Heights Tuesday morning, causing damage but no injuries. The IDF is on high alert. At least one of the shells exploded in a community in the northern Golan Heights. “Earlier this morning several mortar shells landed in the Golan Heights, causing no damage or injuries,” an…

Israel has consented to an Egyptian request to allow Egyptian Air Force reconnaissance planes to patrol the skies along the border with Israel, writes Yisrael Hayom Tuesday, quoting an unnamed senior security source in Cairo. The newspaper notes, however, that the report has received no corroboration from any official source in Cairo. Jerusalem told the…

President Barack Obama will tell world leaders the United States “will never retreat from the world” when he speaks at the UN General Assembly, the White House said on Monday, UPI reported. Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Obama will offer context to the international situation and put forward a vision of U.S. leadership. “He will…

Firefighters called to deal with a fire in the outlying northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat were thanked for their efforts on Monday by Arabs hurling rocks at them. The neighborhood is a middle class, well-to-do suburb of mostly Arab-Israelis, situated next to a lower class neighborhood and adjacent to the mostly Jewish Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood.…

Iran blocked access to YouTube, Google and Gmail over the weekend citing the anti-Islam film that has gained notoriety for allegedly sparking the deadly protests that have spread throughout the Arab world. According to Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency, the sites were restricted “because of public demand.” “Google and YouTube continued to carry the film…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz told a memorial gathering to commemorate fallen soldiers Monday that our enemies are trying harder than ever before to attack the State of Israel. Speaking during an annual ceremony that takes place at Kfar Bilu for paratroopers who have fallen in the line of duty, Gantz said “the…

Iran has tested an array of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, the Islamic Republic’s elite Revolutionary Guards announced Monday. The display comes as a show of military readiness for a war with Israel that General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the elite unit, says is inevitable. Medium-range surface-to-air missiles designed…

The Yom Kippur fast day on Wednesday will be accompanied by relatively comfortable weather in most of the world but much warmer in Israel. Temperatures will rise in Israel on Wednesday, reaching the upper 20s Celsius (mid-80s in Fahrenheit) but reaching a scorching 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in Be’er Sheva, the largest city in the…

A bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution that calls on the Obama administration to pressure the United Nations to prevent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Yom Kippur, The Hill reported. “[I]t would not only be offensive, but insensitive for the United Nations…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a clear “red line” over Iran’s nuclear ambitions to “noise” he tries to ignore, AFP reports. Interviewed for Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes” on broadcaster CBS, Obama said he understands and agrees with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s insistence that Iran not be…

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called on the international community Sunday to stop donating money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if that money goes to terrorists and their families. Ayalon spoke at the United Nations, addressing a meeting of 27 nations that donate to the PA, which included representatives from global financial institutions and from…

Hamas’ politburo chief, Khaled Mashaal, is not seeking re-election, a Hamas official told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency on Sunday. Senior Hamas official Salah Bardawil told Ma’an that Mashaal will remain in Hamas but has decided not to run for re-election as party chief. “When Mashaal said he was not seeking re-election, a message was…

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the “potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East.” So far, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has continued to thumb his nose at the West and Israel and told CNN “Zionists are at the end…

Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi is announcing prayer times through SMS as well as on television to encourage the Jewish community to attend synagogue on Yom Kippur. “Every year, more and more people arrive” to synagogues from Ukraine’s 300,000-member Jewish community, Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman told Arutz Sheva. “The atmosphere is very good,” he said, noting…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) said on Sunday it was ending restrictions limiting the number of traders who can import Israeli goods into the territory, in a bid to reduce spiraling prices. “The system of exclusive agencies and exclusive distributors for goods and products manufactured in Israel or foreign goods imported through an Israeli agent is…

Israel has held new talks with the Palestinian Authority over the development of a gas field off the coast of Gaza, the Israeli foreign ministry said in a new report released on Sunday. According to AFP, the report, prepared for submission to a New York gathering of donors to the Palestinian Authority, describes meetings and…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that should Israel attack his country, the Islamic Republic will retaliate. Ahmadinejad made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan. The full interview will air on Monday, but excerpts were released on Sunday. Asked by Morgan what his country’s response will be if it is attacked by…

Britain, France and Germany have officially called for new European Union sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats told AFP on Sunday. The foreign ministers of the three countries wrote to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last week calling for tougher measures as the showdown with Iran becomes more tense, a European diplomat…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed pride in the government’s recent investment in health during a meeting Sunday. “We’re adding 1,000 beds in hospitals, after a decade — prior to this government — in which not a single bed was added,” he declared. “We established a medical school in Tzfat, after nearly 40 years in which…

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday assured the country’s Jews that they could wear their kippas “with pride”, in a dismissal of far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s call for a ban. “Yes, France’s Jews — as the interior minister is doing today — can wear their kippa with pride,” Valls said at a traditional Jewish…

Pikuach Nefesh, the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, has sent a congratulatory message to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, praising him for accurately stating the opinion of Jewish Halakhah regarding the Land of Israel. The rabbis noted that during his visit to Israel, Romney received a Halakhic opinion signed by 350 rabbis, which states that any…

A Canadian diamond firm says it has designed a diamond that that can be cut to show the six-pointed Star of David. Embee Diamond Technologies, based in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, announced it is offering the design to any manufacturer who is willing to make a 1 percent contribution to the Israeli-based Magen David…

Rep. Joe Walsh, an incumbent Republican congressmen running for reelection in Illinois, issued a statement Saturday vowing to “pursue and expose” the radical Islamic threat, following the arrest of a terror suspect from Hillside, Illinois. Prosecutors announced Saturday that the terror suspect had been arrested on the previous night, in Chicago. The suspected left Villa…

A Palestinian Authority official has expressed outrage over Jewish bar mitzvah celebrations at the Western Wall (Kotel). Ahmed Kariya, head of a PA committee on Jerusalem affairs, told Al-Ayyam that the coming-of-age celebrations are an attempt to complete the Israeli “occupation” of Jerusalem. A Muslim group called the Al-Aqsa Organization agreed, and told Al-Ayyam that…

Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike if Israel prepares to attack it, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told broadcaster Al-Alam on Sunday, a day after his boss warned that conflict was inevitable, the AFP news agency reports. Should Israel and Iran engage militarily, “nothing is predictable… and it will turn into World War III,” Brigadier General…

A hidden interceptor transmitted valuable information at the Fordow site and apparently self-detonated when it was discovered, the Sunday Times of London reported, quoting Western intelligence sources. The mid-August explosions have been covered up by Iran until last week, when it announced that “terrorists” blew up electric cables from the city of Qum to the…

Pakistan’s foreign minister on Friday thanked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for criticizing the anti-Islam film that has been widely accused of sparking the protests that have spread throughout the Muslim world. While the widely accepted notion that the amateur video somehow justifies the bloody attacks remains farcical, America is, nonetheless, spending $70,000 in TV…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, together with a high-ranking delegation, arrived in New York Saturday evening to attend the 67th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, IRNA reported. In an eerie coincidence, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to address the UN on Wednesday, September 26, which happens to also be Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the…

A restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side was defaced by vandals, who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls, The New York Post reported Friday. “It was like someone came in and went wild. Vandalism is one thing, but it was a total defacement. They urinated everywhere,” said David Ruggerio, 50, owner of Lansky’s Old…

The Libyan authorities said late Saturday they had decided to dissolve all militias and armed groups that do not come under State authority, AFP reported. The move, a day after Benghazi residents rebelled against the militias in violence that killed at least 11 people and wounded over 70, was announced by Mohammed al-Megaryef, head of…

A large archaeological site in the north has uncovered an extensive treasure chest of ancient finds, including flint tools, during excavations for a highway. Some of Israel’s most interesting historical discoveries have resulted from digging on routes of proposed roads. The latest site of 40 acres (approximately 200 dunam) uncovered finds dating from the early…

Friday’s terrorist fire that killed an IDF soldier was at least the 23rd major attack since the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the “New Middle East,” a phrase coined by U.S. President Bill Clinton 15 years ago and echoed by President Barack Obama. Most of the attacks have taken place since the Muslim…

Israel has rejected the idea of any modification to its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed any possibility of altering the treaty during a radio interview in Israel Sunday morning. “There is not the slightest possibility that Israel will accept the modification of the peace treaty with Israel,” he said, according to…

German judicial authorities officially announced for the first time Friday that Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim, known as “Doctor Death”, died in Egypt in 1992. A regional court in the southwestern town of Baden-Baden, Heim’s last known residence in Germany, said it was abandoning an investigation because “no doubts remained” that the criminal, who had…

Thousands of supporters of the Shiite Hizbullah movement protested on Saturday in the southern Lebanese town of Bint J’beil against the film mocking Islam that has been blamed for the violent anti-American riots that are sweeping the Muslim world. The amateurish film, produced by a Coptic Christian,t got almost no attention for the year that it was on youtube, but became a target of…

A war with Israel is practically inevitable, Iranian General Mohammad Ali Jafari said Saturday. At a meeting of the top echelon of the Revolutionary Guards, which Jafari commands, the general said that “the shameful and cancerous tumour that is Israel is seeking war against us, but it is not known when that war will happen.…

An IDF soldier who was injured in a terror attack Friday on Israel’s southern border was much improved Saturday, doctors said. The soldier is being treated at Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, where his condition was upgraded. He was hospitalized after the attack with moderate injuries, doctors said. Meanwhile, the funeral for the soldier killed in…

WASHINGTON – The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week’s UN General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech there on Wednesday…

At least 15 people died in Pakistan on Friday, as fresh protests erupted across the Muslim world on Friday against a U.S.-made film and French cartoons mocking Islam. AFP reported that tens of thousands took to the streets after the main weekly prayers in Middle Eastern and Asian countries to vent their anger, with little…

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen called Friday for a ban on the wearing of Muslim veils and Jewish skullcaps in public, adding to religious tensions sparked by cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, AFP reports. Speaking in an interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Le Pen called for religious headwear to be banned “in stores,…

Friday was a sad day for the residents of the religious community of Nof Ayalon in central Israel, where IDF soldier Netanel Yahalom, who was killed in a terror attack near the border with Egypt, had resided. Yahalomi’s family, who was struggling to digest the news of his death, told Channel 10 News before Shabbat…

Lebanese Muslims, both Sunni and Shiite, took to the streets on Friday to protest against an anti-Islam film and French cartoons insulting the prophet Mohammed, with radical clerics issuing death calls. AFP reported that protests were staged in several cities across Lebanon, including in the capital, the southern port of Sidon, Tripoli in the north…

Corporal Netanel Yahalomi, 20, is the soldier who was killed in Friday’s terrorist attack near the Israel-Egypt border, it was cleared for publication on Friday afternoon. Another IDF soldier was moderately injured in the attack. The attack occurred when three armed terrorists opened fire at IDF soldiers who were patrolling along the Israel-Egypt border. Yahalomi,…

Steps by Gaza’s Hamas rulers to crack down on Salafist radicals have created tensions within the enclave that some fear may turn into an armed confrontation, AFP reported on Thursday. In recent weeks, Salafist groups say they have come under renewed pressure from Hamas over Egyptian allegations they may have been involved in a deadly…

NATO does not believe that military intervention in Syria would bring any improvement in the security situation there, a senior alliance official said Friday, according to AFP. Germany’s Manfred Lange, Chief of Staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), said the military was telling leaders that there was no good case for military action…

Israel and Egypt have agreed to jointly investigate Friday’s terror attack along the Israel-Egypt border, in which IDF soldier Netanel Yahalomi was killed and another soldier was moderately wounded. According to a report in the Egyptian newspaper Masrawy, a delegation of senior Egyptian military officials would meet with IDF officers to learn the details of the…

Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel, AFP reports. The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and missiles borne on trucks, marked the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988…

The Palestinian Authority  “wouldn’t last one day” if Israel withdrew from Area B and C of Judea and Samaria, asserted Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon (Yisrael Beytenu). Hamas would take over the PA just as it did in Gaza. Fresh off a trans-oceanic flight, the Deputy Foreign Minister gave a far-ranging briefing on Thursday to…

Daily newspaper Maariv reports that National Security Adviser Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror is in Washington DC, and has been secretly meeting senior White House officials over the last two days, in the hope of arranging a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when Netanyahu visits the United States next…

Pro-Israel posters will go up in 10 New York City subway stations Monday, after a federal judge ruled that the city must put them up. The ads read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” New York’s MTA transportation agency barred the ads last…

An Israeli soldier was killed and another was lightly to moderately injured when terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula opened fire on an IDF patrol in the Mount Sagi area, on the Israel-Egypt border, at around noon Friday. Heavy exchanges of fire ensued, during which the terrorists were killed. One of the terrorists reportedly detonated himself…

At least 30 civilians were reported killed on Thursday in a massive explosion in northeast Syria, AFP reported. State media blamed a helicopter gunship crash on an accident but monitors said rebels shot it down, according to the report. Dozens more people were wounded in the blast at a petrol station in the northeastern village…

U.S. officials recently warned Israel that Egypt and Jordan could annul their peace treaties with the Jewish State if it carries out a preemptive strike against Iran, AFP reported on Thursday based on a report in the Yediot Achronot daily newspaper. Quoting a high-level Israeli official, the newspaper said Washington had warned the Jewish state…

The nephew of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said Thursday that he opposed French plans to exhume Arafat’s body to check claims he was poisoned, favoring instead an international commission of enquiry. “We have always thought that it was death by poisoning with unknown substances, there was evidence in this direction, and we have…

U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated on Thursday night that his policy is not to allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. “We’re still threatened by an Iran that is pursuing nuclear weapons and I’ve been absolutely clear that our policy is not to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon,” Obama said during a campaign event…

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi on Thursday downplayed Israel’s threats against the Islamic Republic, warning that Tehran is capable of wiping the Israeli regime off the earth. The Iranian-based Fars news agency quoted Vahidi as having told reporters that Iran’s defensive power against Israel’s threats has become so developed that it “would easily…

That old saw, “my son (or daughter), the doctor,” is alive and well in modern Israel. A report published this week by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shows that more kids in Israel hope for a career in medicine than in any other OECD country. A total of 14.3% of 15 year…

As the search continues for those directly involved in last week’s killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, it has been revelaed that a former inmate of the Gunatanamo Bay detention facility may have been the leader of the attack. Former inmate Sufyan Ben Qumu, one…

The United States sternly warned Iran Thursday that “time is running out” for its unsupervised nuclear program in what may be thinly-veiled support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has badgered President Barack Obama to set a “red line” for Iran. “We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations that fail to produce…

A new ad featuring only Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to hit the airwaves in select Florida markets Thursday, Politico reported. Speaking about the Iranian threat, the prime minister is seen saying, “The fact is that every day that passes Iran gets closer and closer to nuclear bombs. The world tells Israel: ‘Wait,…

Social protests are escalating within the Palestinian Authority territories with rising unemployment and no economic relief. Demonstrators castigating PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas at a protest had their microphones suddenly silenced by authorities on Wednesday during a live broadcast from Tulkarem. The move did little to quench the rage of what is fast…

Israel’s “national” baseball team beat South Africa late Wednesday in the opening qualifying game of the World Baseball Classic, being held in Florida. With a good combination of pitching and hitting, Israel beat South Africa 7-3, with Israel going on to the next leg of the tournament. Israel’s next match will be on Friday, against…

The Danish cartoonist whose caricature of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed sparked global Muslim riots seven years ago says he has no regrets, and wants no censors.  Speaking in an interview this week with the Austrian magazine “News,” Kurt Westergaard said that freedom of speech is too precious to relinquish. “Should we in future let ourselves be…

France, home to the largest Muslim community in Western Europe, is bracing Thursday for what they expect to be a sea of backlash after a French magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, fuelling the flames of protest that are already raging across the Muslim world over a US-made anti-Islam film. The French satirical magazine,…

A new pro-Israel advertisement is set to make its debut on New York City’s subway system next week. “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man,” the ad reads. It concludes with the words, “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,” written in between two Stars of David. After initially rejecting the…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, criticized the international body on Wednesday over what he termed its “unilateral decisions” regarding the Palestinian Authority. Prosor, who spoke for the first time in his new role as Vice President of the General Assembly, was quoted by Channel 10 News as having said, “We oppose the…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated his refusal to heal his breach with the State of Israel, but the tone of the remarks as reported in the daily Hurriyet seemed softer than in the past — and than those reported in other more extremist media. “Asked about the current state of Israeli-Turkish relations,…

One of the thousand-some terrorists who were released last year in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit will be returning to prison. Ali Jumah Ali Zidat, who had been serving a multi-year sentence for terror offenses when he was released in the Shalit deal, was caught in Israel illegally, and he will be going…

Egyptian security services announced a state of high alert in Sinai on Wednesday evening, after receiving information about possible attacks on officers in the peninsula, security officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. Egyptian intelligence warned that “unprecedented attacks” were planned by jihadist groups against security headquarters in north Sinai over the next 48 hours,…

Iran has been sending large quantities of weapons to the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria using civilian aircraft, an intelligence report obtained on Wednesday by the Reuters news agency indicates. According to the report, the Iranians have been moving the weapons through Iraqi airspace to help Assad fight the rebel forces in the country.…

An adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said on Wednesday that amending the 1979 peace treaty signed with Israel is “a matter of time,” the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. The adviser added that such a move is necessary to restore full Egyptian control over Sinai. Mohamed Essmat Seif al-Dawla, who has been publicly advocating…

Thousands of supporters of Hizbullah protested Wednesday in the southern Lebanon city of Tyre against a U.S.-made film mocking Islam and cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, hours after gunmen fired at a KFC restaurant. “America, America, you are the great satan!” and “Israel is the enemy of the Muslims!” the protesters chanted as they poured…

The IDF’s Chief Artillery Officer, Brig. Gen. Roi Riftin, said Wednesday that the surprise exercise being held in the Golan Heights is one of the largest the IDF has held recently and that two divisions are taking part in it. Syria was reportedly informed in time that the drill is just an exercise and that…

“Team Israel” fields a team of mostly non-Israeli Jews in the World Baseball Classic that may bring players closer to Judaism and Israel. The “Israeli” team is favored to beat a South African team in the first playoff in Florida on Wednesday, on the way to decide who will win the four spots open for…

The IDF, in a joint operation with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), was able to foil a planned terror attack in Israel on Wednesday evening, as IAF aircraft struck and killed two terrorists in southern Gaza. The two terrorists, Ashraf Saleh and Anis Abu Elenein, were members of a group calling itself “The Al-Aqsa…

France will temporarily close its embassies and schools in around 20 countries on Friday, fearing a violent reaction to a French magazine’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. “We have indeed decided as a precautionary measure to close our premises, embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools,” a Foreign Ministry…

The Syrian government has already considered using chemical weapons on rebel forces and civilians “as a last resort” – despite protestations to the contrary. According to a report published Wednesday by The London Times, President Bashar al-Assad’s regime discussed the option at least three months ago. The report quoted as its source a former high-ranking Syrian…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s 52-year-old sister Bushra has reportedly fled the country with her children, defecting to Dubai. The family is said to have escaped after an argument in which Bushra disagreed with her brother over his management of the current civil war in the country. It is believed that she and her children  will remain…

The Syrian army is believed to have tested missile systems for poison gas shells at the end of August, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday. The report was based on statements from various witnesses indicate. The tests took place near a chemical weapons research center at Safira east of Aleppo, witnesses told Der…

Two unknown attackers hurled firebombs (Molotov cocktails) at a Jewish supermarket in Sarcelles, near Paris, France on Wednesday. According to JSS News, only one of the homemade firebombs actually exploded; the second proved to be a dud. “It happened around noon,” Moshe Cohen-Sabban, president of the Jewish communities of Val d’Oise, told the AFP news…

Saudi Arabia has threatened to block YouTube in the kingdom if Google does not respond to a request to deny access to an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, the official SPA news agency reported Tuesday. “Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission has ordered host companies in the kingdom to block this movie…

An Israeli law center that defends victims of terror is suing an upscale Manhattan hotel that has agreed to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to New York City next week, when he will address the United Nations General Assembly. Ahmadinejad is set to address the UN on Sept. 26, the day of…

A Republican senator threatens a filibuster to suspend aid to Egypt and other countries where Americans have been attacked. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (not to be confused with Mitt Romney’s running mate Ron Paul), wrote fellow senators on Tuesday that they should consider “cutting all foreign aid to any country that fails to secure our…

Ari and Sari Horowitz, a husband and wife who were returning home from synagogue in East Brunswick, New Jersey, this past Shabbat, were struck by a car and killed.  According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, the accident occurred on Dunhams Corner Road, just past the curving intersection with Hardenburg Lane in East Brunswick. The report…

Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday that comments by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that the PA did not want peace were “absolutely unacceptable.” “We consider these statements absolutely unacceptable,” he told AFP. “No one has an interest in peace more than the Palestinian people, because peace for the Palestinian people and the…

Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, proposed cancelling the Oslo Accords with Israel at a weekend meeting of the PA leadership, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) told AFP on Tuesday. PLO Executive Committee member Wassel Abu Yusef said Abbas raised the idea of “cancelling the Oslo agreement as well as the associated…

An Arab terrorist was caught Tuesday night attempting to infiltrate the town of Ginot Shomron in central Samaria. The Arab was caught at about 6:20 PM Tuesday evening, after several people reported seeing a suspicious looking character hanging around outside the town’s security fence, the Tazpit news service said. According to the report, IDF troops…

Haim Hefer, who wrote over 1,000 songs and poems and was awarded the Israel Prize, passed away over the Rosh Hashanah holiday. He was 86. Hefer was born in Poland in 1925, and immigrated to Israel when he was 11 years of age. Hefer served in the Palmach and was one of the original members…

Hundreds of thousands of Jews worshipped at synagogues all throughout the country in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. One of the focal points of worship for Jews over the holiday was the Kotel, the Western Wall. No security incidents were reported there, or anywhere else in Israel. The Rosh…

In a Rosh Hashanah greeting to Russian Jews, President Vladimir Putin praised the holiday and the values of Judaism. “The traditions of the holiday include good deeds, concern for others, assisting the poor, and supporting those in need,” Putin wrote in the greeting. “The values of Judaism are based on eternal values of good and…

Anti-American protests over a film deemed offensive to Islam, which have started in Cairo and spread across the Muslim world, have reportedly stalled negotiations to provide US economic assistance to Egypt, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. According to the report, Egypt’s “clumsy response” to the storming of the US Embassy in Cairo has resulted in…

And the hits just keep on coming: Mother Jones Magazine released more quotes by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as said at a private fundraiser held May 17, this time deeming the Israeli-Palestinian peace process virtually impossible. Earlier Tuesday, Mother Jones released footage of Romney at the fundraiser, criticizing voting sectors that favor President Barack…

KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide attack on a minibus in the Afghan capital killed 12 people on Tuesday, including seven foreigners, and the Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group claimed responsibility, saying the blast was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad. “A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video,”…

El Al said it is discontinuing its weekly flights to Cairo. In a letter published in the daily Maariv, El Al Airlines CEO Eliezer Shkedi said Israel’s official airline cannot afford the high security and operating costs for the nearly empty flights, according to news reports. The airline declined comment. Irena Etinger, spokeswoman for Foreign…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed turned violent in the Afghan capital early Monday. And in Jakarta, Indonesians angered over the film clashed with police outside the U.S. Embassy, hurling rocks and…

Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called for a week of angry protests across Lebanon over the U.S.-produced film mocking Islam that triggered uproar in the Muslim world. The low-budget movie, entitled “Innocence of Muslims”, has sparked fury across the Islamic world for mocking the prophet Mohammed and for portraying Muslims as immoral and gratuitously…

An Iranian foundation has increased a bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, AFP reported on Sunday. The foundation has reportedly said that if the British writer had previously been killed for blasphemy, an anti-Islam film currently enraging Muslims would never have been made. Iranian media quoted Hassan Sane’i, a cleric heading the 15 of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted once again on Sunday there must be “red lines” on halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a stance the United States has rejected, AFP reported. “They’re moving very rapidly to completing the enrichment of the uranium that they need to produce a nuclear bomb. In six months or so they’ll be 90…

It was a good day for Israel at the Davis Cup on Sunday, as Amir Weintraub pulled off his second upset victory this week to give Israel a 3-2 win over Japan, AFP reported. The win helps Israel move up to the Davis Cup World Group next year. With the two teams tied at 2-2,…

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Sunday joined the list of American officials who have rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s request that the U.S. set a clear “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program. “We’ve been very clear. The United States is not interested and is not pursuing a policy of containment. President…

Libya’s parliament chief announced on Sunday the arrests of some 50 people in connection with the killing of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi last week, AFP reported. “The number reached about 50,” Mohammed al-Megaryef, president of the Libyan National Congress, was quoted as having told CBS News.…

The U.S. military has no major plans to bolster its forces in the Middle East despite a week of violent protests targeting diplomatic outposts, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday, according to AFP. With a substantial force already deployed in the region coupled with two U.S. Marine counter-terrorism teams sent to Libya and Yemen,…

Three Egyptian security officers were wounded Sunday morning in a surprise attack by jihadists on Egyptian government headquarters in northern Sinai. The terrorists shelled the security base with a barrage of heavy artillery, firing mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. The attack apparently came in response to an assault in the wee hours of the…

Representatives of rival Muslim streams showed viewers of Egypt’s Al-Shabab TV just how disunited the Muslim world in a program streamed via internet on Sunday, September 9. Sunni activist Walid Ismail attacked Shi’ite activist Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud, after the latter made less-than-complementary claims regarding his wife’s morals. This followed a claim by Ismail that Mahmoud…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan has denounced the obscure video that mocked the life of the Prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam – but also insisted that protests against such insults cannot justify terror. Erdogan called the video a “clear and serious provocation” and a “hostile act” while speaking at a conference in Yalta, Ukraine…

The U.S. military is positioning troops in as many as 17 or 18 locations in the Middle East and North Africa that the Pentagon is “paying particular attention to,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in an interview with Foreign Policy on Friday. He cautioned, however, against writing off the region’s recent steps toward democracy. “[O]ne…

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet on Sunday in an unannounced meeting, The London Telegraph reported Sunday. There has been no confirmation or denial from Washington – but the Prime Minister’s spokesman Mark Regev told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that the newspaper’s report they will meet on Sunday is “incorrect.” Concerning a…

The United States has ordered non-essential embassy employees to flee Tunisia and Sudan, while Al Qaeda urges worldwide terrorist attacks on the American and Western targets as the fundamentalist Islamic backlash spreads over the “Innocence of Muslims” film posted on the Internet. Sudan has refused an American request that it send Marines special forces to…

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday warned of retaliation against the Gulf’s strategic Strait of Hormuz, U.S. bases in the Middle East and Israel if his country was to be attacked. According to a report by AFP, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, speaking in a very rare news conference in Tehran, also said that…

Egypt’s prime minister said some of the thousands of people involved in days of protests near the U.S. Embassy got paid to riot, state news reported Saturday. Prime Minister Hesham Kandil said “a number” of those involved in the violent protests, which began Tuesday, later confessed to getting paid to participate, according to the state-run…

Four NATO troops were killed Sunday in an insider attack “suspected to involve members of the Afghan police” in southern Afghanistan, officials said. No further details have been provided. At least 51 foreign military personnel have been killed in a series of insider attacks across Afghanistan in recent months. The incident came a day after…

On Saturday, Egyptian police cleared out protesters who have been clashing with Egyptian security forces for some four days near to the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Protests have spread to 20 countries in the Muslim world. In Cairo, the first Egyptian was killed in a Tahrir Square protest since President Morsi was elected to office…

Early Saturday, one of the men who made the anti-Muslim film trailer on YouTube that is responsible for shaking Muslims in the Middle East, North Africa and even Australia into a violent frenzy, was taken in for questioning by federal probabtion officers. He was not placed under arrest, but Nakoula Basseley Nakoul, 55, is being…

Taliban armed with suicide vests, guns and rockets stormed a heavily fortified airfield in Afghanistan where Prince Harry is deployed, killing two U.S. Marines and attacking aircraft in a major security breach. The militia, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against 117,000 NATO troops, said it carried out the assault to avenge a U.S.-made film…

Three Jews were lightly injured on Saturday night when they were attacked by Palestinian Authority Arabs who tried to reach the village of Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin area. IDF forces dispersed the Arabs. The Tatzpit news agency reported that that some 100 Arabs armed with sticks, axes and rocks up tried to make their…