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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked toured the Har Hevron area Monday morning as a guest of local council chairman Yohai Damri. During the visit, Shaked discussed the impending demolition of Amona, the embattled Jewish community near Ofra in Samaria, saying the possibility of relocating the town to nearby state-owned land was being examined. Amona, home to…

Amar’e Stoudemire, the NBA basketball star who just signed with Hapoel Jerusalem, said that he has always wanted to be in Israel, and play basketball there – and he is now realizing his dream. In his first press conference since arriving in Israel at the end of last week, Stoudemire explained his transfer to Hapoel…

JTA – Hours after Israel’s Defense Ministry compared the Iran nuclear deal to the 1938 Munich Agreement — a failed bid by European powers to appease Nazi Germany — the Prime Minister’s Office scrambled to do damage control with the United States. While Israel still does not support the Iran nuclear deal, it still considers…

At least 63 people were killed and over 120 wounded in a suicide bombing in the city of Quetta, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The blast occurred in the entrance to the emergency room in a hospital, in what appears to have been a followup attack to an earlier assassination of a prominent lawyer. Earlier today…

Moshe Zar, who works to buy land from Arabs, interviewed with Arutz Sheva over the planned destruction of Amona, and the transfer of the town’s residence to an area nearby. “Who could touch Amona? Who could break even one stone there? If anyone were to prove ownership, let them give him compensation and throw him…

Last week we marked a month since the murder of our dear friend Rabbi Michael Mark. In the midst of the darkness of the terror attack, two Arab residents of the area helped rescue the other members of the Mark family who were in the car, while they waited for Israeli medical personnel to arrive…

Chavi Mark, seriously wounded in the terror attack a month ago in which her husband, Rabbi Michael Mark, was murdered, has been hospitalized in Hadassa Ein Kerem ever since. Today (Monday) Mark underwent head surgery and her condition is good. Professor Yigal Shushan – head of the Neurosurgery department in the hospital – took part…

Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan is moving to outlaw the “Hizb ut-Tahrir” organization and have it declared an illegal association. Erdan will discuss the matter with Jerusalem district officials in the coming days and will then turn to the relevant judicial authorities. Representatives of the Public Security ministry say the Hizb ut-Tahrir doesn’t recognize…

US-backed fighters savoring a momentous victory confidently roam the shattered streets of Manbij in Syria as they hunt down the last remaining Islamic State group jihadists holed up there. The Arab-Kurdish alliance known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expelled IS from the town over the weekend after more than two months of ferocious fighting.…

At the end of last week a group of tourists from Israel received permission to pray at the tomb of Aaron, brother of Moses, which is in Jordan. However, Jordanian officials refused to let them through with anything that marks them as Jewish, according to a Channel 2 news report. The visitors wanted to enter…

When FBI Director James Comey announced in July that the agency would not recommend charges be filed against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Clinton campaign staff and Democratic National Committee officials breathed a collective sigh of relief. An indictment of Mrs. Clinton over her mishandling of classified government material on her private server would…

The family of fallen soldier Hadar Goldin were distressed to hear that not a single government minister announced plans to honor their son’s death at a memorial ceremony tomorrow. Hadar Goldin was killed during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. His body is still being held as a bargaining chip by the Hamas…

The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne has ordered the Israel-controlled Trans-Asiatic Oil Company to pay a debt of $1.2 billion to Iran’s national Oil Company. According to Global Arbitration Review, which published the Swiss court’s ruling, Iran’s oil company has been removed from the sanctions regime, so there is no legal obstacle to paying it…

While the number of haredi recruits in the IDF has been on the rise, the number of haredim enlisting in the civilian national service has fallen sharply. According to figures provided by the National Service Authority, only 728 haredim volunteered for service this year. The number falls far short of the 1,800 set as a…

In the run up to the 2,849th annual commemoration of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Tisha B’Av), the Temple Institute has released a video proposing the rebuilding of the third Temple. The Temple Institute is dedicated to doing everything possible to build the third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. They have published…

After receiving massive complaints from delayed passengers around the world, Delta Airlines admitted on Twitter that their computer systems have gone down worldwide. Airports all over the globe are experiencing delays. Reports indicate that Heathrow Airport in the UK has resorted to manual ticketing in order to organize the growing number of waiting passengers. In…

Attorney and nationalist activist Itamar Ben-Gvir has initiated a lawsuit against haredi attorney and commentator Dov Halbertal, claiming recent statements by Halbertal against Ben-Gvir and an associate constitute slander. Halbertal, who is known for his antagonism towards Jewish nationalist movements, settlement of Judea and Samaria, earlier this year penned an article lamenting the absence of…

A Swedish organization ‘Ship to Gaza’ said Monday it will demand Israeli authorities to repair a Gaza flotilla ship impounded since 2012, after Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the ship’s release. Ship to Gaza spokesman Dror Feiler told AFP that the Finnish-flagged Estelle was in Israel’s northern port of Haifa, still afloat but unfit to put…

JTA – Canadian Jewish groups are protesting public sponsorship of an anti-globalization conference that is giving a major platform to anti-Israel and 9/11 conspiracy theory voices. The Aug. 9-14 World Social Forum is due to bring 10,000 delegates here, to Quebec’s largest city. Critics are pointing to at least 20 conference activities that promote boycotting…

“The Katif Conference,” marking 11 years since Israel evacuated Gaza, opened Monday morning with the issue of national responsibility. The conference is the initiative of the Katif Center to Commemorate the Legacy of Gush Katif and Northern Samaria. It was attended by government ministers, MKs and other dignitaries. The conference began with the blessing of…

MK Benny Begin (Likud) on Sunday fired back at controversial rapper Yoav Eliasi, also known by the stage name Hatzel, after the latter attacked Begin’s family in a radio interview last week. “The Likud is allowed to defend itself against a hostile entry of nationalistic thuggery,” Begin told Army Radio. “Anyone who loves his people…

A Syrian rebel alliance on Sunday announced the start of a battle to recapture the whole of Aleppo, the day after they broke a government siege on rebel-held areas in the country’s second city. The “Army of Conquest”, a coalition of rebels and jihadists including the former Al-Nusra Front, said in a statement it would…

A Saudi Arabian judoka on Sunday forfeited her first-round match at the Rio Olympic Games, in what is believed to be a move made to avoid facing Israeli judo fighter Gili Cohen in the second round. The Saudi judoka, Joud Fahmy, was to have faced off against Christianne Legentil from Mauritius, but the Saudi Olympic…

A satirical comedy about Adolf Hitler is one of eight titles that Germany is considering as its submission for next year’s foreign language film Oscar, the BBC reports. The film, entitled “Look Who’s Back” (Er Ist Wieder Da in German) imagines Hitler waking up in modern-day Berlin and getting his own television show. It is…

Iran has executed a nuclear scientist convicted of handing over “confidential and vital” information to the United States, a judicial spokesman said on Sunday, according to the AFP news agency. “Shahram Amiri was hanged for revealing the country’s top secrets to the enemy,” the spokesman, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie, was quoted as having told reporters in…

British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is under fire over an undeclared donation by a Palestinian Arab group whose founder once praised Hamas, the British Observer reports. The group, Friends of Al-Aqsa, held a fundraising dinner at which it collected £10,000 for Corbyn’s last leadership campaign, documents seen by the newspaper revealed. The organization gave…

Belgium’s Prime Minister on Sunday announced a terrorism probe into Saturday’s machete attack that wounded two policewomen, AFP reported. “We have been informed by federal prosecutors that an investigation has started for attempted terrorist murder… given certain elements (in the case),” Charles Michel told reporters. He was referring to the attacker’s cry of “Allahu Akbar”…

Canada’s Green Party on Sunday approved a resolution endorsing the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement at its annual convention in Ottawa. The resolution states that the Green Party “supports the use of divestment, boycott and sanctions that are targeted to those sectors of Israel’s economy and society which profit from the ongoing occupation…

As the Core Curriculum law was repealed in Israel, scuttling an attempt by the previous government to enforce teaching the Core Curriculum in haredi schools, a struggle over similar issues has been taking place in the US. Certain haredi and hassidic elementary and high schools in New York have been teaching secular studies at a…

The condition of Chavi Mark, who was seriously wounded in the terror attack on Route 60 in which her husband, Rabbi Michael Mark, was murdered, has improved markedly in the past day. The Mark family said in a statement: “First of all, thank you to all those who prayed! We have no doubt that your…

Chief Rabbi David Lau published an open letter to educators this evening (Sunday), in which he calls for them to “open their eyes” and deal with any and every instance of child abuse of any kind. “To my great pain we’ve recently been witness to horrific cases of abuse in our midst,” the Chief Rabbi…

A tourist from the Ukraine in her 30s who overstayed her visa was detained by immigration authorities today (Sunday), after an investigation had seen through her disguise as a haredi woman. The woman had come to Israel on a visa for a limited period of time and appears to have stayed in the country to…

On August 4, 2016, the Shin Bet revealed that Mohammed El-Halabi, manager of the Gaza operations of the international humanitarian NGO World Vision, funneled 60% of the World Vision Gaza budget to the terrorist group Hamas. The Israeli indictment reported that these funds were used in the construction of Hamas tunnels, military installations, and other…

Following is a list compiled by AFP of attacks on Western targets claimed by or blamed on ISIS after Saturday’s assault on two policewomen in southern Belgium: August 6: Machete attack in Belgium A machete-wielding man shouting “Allahu Akbar” attacks two policewomen in Charleroi, southern Belgium, badly injuring one in the face before being shot…

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Sunday discussed the proposal to reestablish the town of Amona on adjacent lands through the implementation of the Absentee Property Law. If implemented, the town will be evicted and then rebuilt on the adjacent land, which can be defined as “absentee property”. The Absentee Property Law grants the state of…

A relative of one of the jihadist killers of journalists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Bulgaria after trying to get to Syria, a judicial source said Sunday, according to AFP. Mourad Hamyd, brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi who was behind the January 2015 attack in Paris that killed 12, was…

The world has watched in horror as the last year has brought hundreds of stabbing attacks to Israel. The wave of terror has challenged us to cry out to Hashem, to hold our loved ones close, and to do what we can to keep them safe. But there are some who run toward the danger…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed great satisfaction with the visit to Israel he led in which 11 UN ambassadors representing countries from four different continents had the opportunity to observe life in Israel for themselves. “It was a very effective visit. We managed to show them the chief challenges we’re dealing with…

An employee of France’s embassy in Tunisia claimed hackers posted anti-Semitic comments under his name on Facebook, including one about Adolf Hitler’s failure to “finish the job.” Selim Dakhlaoui, a consulting agent for the embassy, was responding to an outcry following the publication on a French-language blog of copies of anti-Israel messages made under his…

Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot has approved a recommendation by the General Staff citation committee to award a citation to the ‘Duvdevan’ unit for its outstanding service over the past year. “Duvdevan” (Hebrew for cherry tree) is an elite IDF unit that specializes in covert operations behind enemy lines, often employing disguises as Arabs. The…

Syrian regime forces were on the defensive around Aleppo on Sunday after a rebel alliance said it inflicted a major setback by breaking a three-week government siege of the battered city. A coalition of rebels and jihadists surged through regime territory on Saturday to open a new route into Aleppo’s besieged eastern neighborhoods, home to…

In a statement released by its “Amaq” media agency, ISIS claimed that the man who stabbed two female police officers in the southern Belgium city of Charleroi yesterday (Saturday) was a “soldier of the caliphate.” The attacker was identified by a Belgian prosecutor as a man of Algerian origin who was known to local police…

Minister Tzachi Hanegbi of the Likud has written a letter to Likud CEO Gadi Arieli demanding that popular rapper Yoav Eliasi, known as “Hatzel”, not be allowed to join the party. “Hatzel disrespects the Likud, makes fun of it and demeans it, and wants to impose his views on the movement by hostile takeover. Accepting…

Dr. Gabi Barkai, the archaeologist in charge of the “earth-sifting” project on the Temple Mount, in which dirt dumped by Waqf bulldozers is sifted to find the archaeological treasures within, told Arutz Sheva today (Sunday) about the recent incident in which archaeologists were attacked by members of the Jordanian Waqf. “I can only tell you…

Car crash in location of fatal accident last week as driver runs red light; this time only minor injuries to 3 people.

Some 1,200 participants from place throughout Israel came to the “encircling the gates” event around the gates of the Temple Mount, this time to mark the beginning of the month of Av and the Jewish period of mourning for the destruction of the Temple. The participants walked around the gates singing and dancing, while no…

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Tzachi Hanegbi declared Sunday morning that the Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi, popularly known as “Hatzel”, will never be accepted as a member of the Likud party, despite having formally joined the party last week. During an interview with Army Radio, Hanegbi said Eliasi “will not be a member of…

Israel’s Energy Minister on Sunday criticized a landmark nuclear accord between the Jewish state’s arch-foe Iran and world powers but said Tehran had so far respected the deal. The agreement, which was signed in July 2015 and came into force in January, saw Tehran accept curbs to its nuclear program in exchange for a lifting…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett is putting forth a new education plan aimed to improve Germany-Israel relations, by “fighting stereotypes and assumptions between the two states.” A study, conducted by the Ministries of Education of Germany and Israel from 2010-2015, found that most Israeli children think of Nazis and the Holocaust when they think of Germany.…

JTA – The ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’, which supports the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, released a statement unconditionally supporting the newly released platform of the Black Lives Matter movement, which in part accuses Israel of committing genocide. The platform, published Monday by a coalition of more than 50 groups called the…

The US government has given the start-up company Zipline rights to operate unmanned aircraft to drop medical supplies in rural locations. Since unmanned aircraft changed from war machines to hobby toys, companies around the world have been fighting to use the relatively inexpensive planes. Most countries in the world refuse to grant commercial permission, out…

Israel has detained a 13-year-old Arab over possession of a gun and two cartridge clips at a boarding school in Jerusalem, police said Sunday. “The police carried out a search in the room of a Palestinian minor aged 13 and a half years old living at a boarding school,” the police said in a statement.…

Former President Shimon Peres launched a new Snapchat account (Shimon_Peres) today. Snapchat is a rising social media platform which allows people to send each other videos – which delete themselves ten seconds after being read. Although it has developed a slightly shady reputation, Snapchat has become a real-time social sharing hub among teenagers across the…

On Saturday Scott Rigell, the Republican congressman who represents Virginia’s 2nd congressional district, became the third GOP member of the House of Representatives to pledge not to vote for his party’s nominee, Donald Trump. “I’ve always said I will not vote for Donald Trump and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton,” Rigell said in…

A new poll released Sunday has worrying news for the left-leaning Zionist Union, showing the party sinking to its lowest level ever. The poll, conducted by Geocartographia for Army Radio included 500 respondents. According to the survey, the Zionist Union led by Isaac Herzog falls to the lowest level shown in any polls since the…

Israel telecommunications company Bezeq has fired an employee for allegedly supporting Hamas and terrorism. The employee showed Channel 2 News a letter from the company, which accuses him of “using a poster of the terror organization of Hamas, announcing the ‘shahid’ deaths of the two terrorists who committed a terror attack at a synagogue in…

The Unilever company is claiming that the reason why contaminants had been found in its “Telma” cornflakes is that a warehouse worker took the bar-code off of one of a batch of uncontaminated cereal, and put it on a contaminated batch, sticking it one top of the code marking it as contaminated and not to…

Lebanese athletes refused to share a bus with Israeli counterparts to get to the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony, members of both teams said today (Saturday). Lebanon and Israel are officially at war and have no diplomatic relations. Friday’s incident happened as the Lebanese team sat on the bus waiting to head to Rio’s mammoth…

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) underwent emergency surgery this morning (Saturday) in Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Hazan had been rushed to the hospital after feeling sick on Friday night. Following various tests run throughout the night he was taken into surgery this morning. During the surgery, it was discovered that one of his veins was…

An Israeli company has hacked into ISIS secret online messaging group “telegram”, and has revealed lists of potential targets for attacks planned by the terror group, Channel 10 News reported on Wednesday. Only 500 people worldwide are members of the secret group, and new members are only accepted by recommendation by one of the existing…

In new ad, Trump campaign pokes fun at Hillary Clinton’s ‘robotic’ demeanor.

On behalf of Donald Trump, Republicans this week launched a get-out-the-vote campaign geared to Americans living in Israel. The initiative, which began Wednesday, has unprecedented funding and local strategic support. The effort by Republicans Overseas Israel, the main group supporting the party in Israel, reflects its leaders’ conviction that American Israelis overwhelmingly back the GOP…

A Hamas terrorist was killed on Saturday when a tunnel collapsed in Gaza, AFP reported. The spokesman of the health ministry in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qodra, identified the terrorist who was killed as Khaled al-Hoor, 22, according to the news agency. The incident marks the latest in a series of terror tunnel collapses in Gaza in…

MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) urged famous rapper Yoav Eliasi, also known as Hatzel, to tone down his rhetoric if he wants to be a member of the Likud. Glick condemned Hatzel’s attack on Likud MK Benny Begin, after he claimed in an interview with Kol Yisrael radio that Begin’s daughter converted to Islam. “To my…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu learned about the Defense Ministry’s statement that criticized U.S. President Barack Obama from the media, his aide told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on Friday, according to Haaretz. The newspaper reported that a senior aide to Netanyahu called Shapiro on Friday night and told him that Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman…

A barrage of air strikes near a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed at least 10 civilians, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitor said the raids targeted the town of Milis in Idlib province, which borders Turkey and is controlled by a rebel alliance led by Al-Qaeda’s former Syrian branch. The…

On behalf of Donald Trump, Republicans this week launched a get-out-the-vote campaign geared to Americans living in Israel. The initiative, which began Wednesday, has unprecedented funding and local strategic support. The effort by Republicans Overseas Israel, the main group supporting the party in Israel, reflects its leaders’ conviction that American Israelis overwhelmingly back the GOP…

Gunmen opened fire at former Egyptian mufti Ali Gomaa in a Cairo suburb on Friday, missing the pro-government cleric but wounding a bodyguard, the interior ministry said, according to AFP. Gomaa was on his way to a mosque near his home when the assailants hiding in a park started shooting, the ministry said. His guards…

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump has narrowed to less than 3 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. Polls released just at the beginning of the week found that Clinton had a larger lead, ranging from 7% in a CBS poll to as high as…

All About the shameful necessity for a Jewish State to need a government investigation and report into the extensive discrimination against our Ethiopian brothers and sisters, that permeates through all spheres of Israeli society. Our enemies never did, nor do they today distinguish Jews on the basis of ethnicity or colour. How dare we? All…

Israel’s Defense Ministry on Friday responded to U.S. President Barack Obama’s claims from a day earlier that the nuclear deal signed between Iran and the West had been successful in improving the security situation in the Middle East, and that even Israel acknowledges this fact. “The Israeli defense establishment believes that agreements have value only…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is expected to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan, two highly placed Republican sources told Fox News Friday. The endorsement comes just days after Trump declined to back Ryan when asked about it in an interview. Ryan will face primary challenger Paul Nehlen in next Tuesday’s primary election for his congressional…

Russia on Friday hit back at American criticism over Syria, accusing Washington of lacking trust in Moscow and not behaving as a true partner. “The United States sometimes don’t behave as partners when dealing with us on Syrian issues and are not always ready to negotiate on equal grounds,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told…

Standard Poor’s (SP) Ratings Services on Friday affirmed Israel’s credit ratings as ‘A+/A-1’ with a stable outlook. The agency said it assumes Israel’s economy will grow at an average rate of about 2.5% in 2016-2019, despite risks of weaker global demand. According to SP, the issue of housing is a major challenge in Israel and…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated on Friday that Israel rejects the Iran nuclear deal, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama said that the deal was a success and asserted that even Israel feels that way. “While Israel’s view on the Iran deal remains unchanged… it firmly believes that Israel has no greater ally than…

An employee of France’s embassy in Tunisia is under fire over anti-Semitic comments posted under his name on Facebook, including one about Adolf Hitler’s failure to “finish the job”, JTA reported Friday. The employee, Selim Dakhlaoui, said however that hackers took over his account and posted the comments. Dakhlaoui, who works as a consulting agent…

Efforts by Shas and United Torah Judaism to shutdown supermarkets on Shabbat could lead to a secular backlash that may propel Yair Lapid to the premiership, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) warned earlier this week. Levin’s comments, which were publicized by NRG on Friday, came in the midst of an effort by the haredi factions…

With more than 1.7 billion active users worldwide, Facebook has become ubiquitous in the tech-oriented industrialized world. According the Pew Research Center, 71% of American adults with internet access use Facebook, and 96% of social media users regularly log on to Facebook. Having reached a ceiling among Western users, the social media giant is looking…

Why does a successful fashion designer and illustrator choose to drop her career and move to Israel, becoming religious? Why would a mother become completely appalled by her daughter’s coloring book? What comes up when trying to look for material for teaching others to draw faces? Meet Yocheved Nadell, who was born in South Africa,…

Some 400 Jews entered the Arab village of Awarta in Samaria early Friday morning to pray at the tombs of Elazar and Itamar – the sons of Aharon and nephews of Moses – as well as cave which, according to tradition, is the burial site of the members of the original Sanhedrin – the 70…

“These are the journeys of the Children of Israel by which they went forth out of the Land of Egypt by their Legions under the hand of Moshe and Aaron.” “And Moshe wrote their goings forth stage by stage at the bidding of Hashem and these are their stages and their goings forth.” (32:1-2) Rashi…

A week after it was revealed that Unilever, the producer of Telma brand cornflakes products, had destroyed tens of thousands of boxes of cereal amid fears of contamination, company officials have advised the public to dispose of any cornflakes not in their original box. Last Thursday Unilever issued a public statement at the behest of…

Despite pledges early in the primary season to maintain neutrality in dealings with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Donald Trump has since emphasized his pro-Israel bona fides and hinted at a major deviation from policies supported by presidents of both parties since the 1967 Six Day War, including the two-state solution, Israeli construction in Judea…

Senior IDF officers are increasingly seeking out male staff members for bureau chiefs and other management positions, according to a report Friday morning by Yediot Ahronot’s army correspondent Yossi Yehoshua. The driving force behind this trend, says Yehoshua, is the recent spate of accusations of sexual misconduct by male commanders with female subordinates; most notably…

A DHL cargo plane skidded off the runway in a northern Italian airport, crashing onto a nearby road early Friday morning. Officials say the Boeing 737-400 aircraft overshot the runway at the Orio al Serio international airport in Bergamo, Italy, smashing through the runway perimeter before careening into a road. The cargo plane, which was…

Jay Shapiro believes that life in Israel is made of many small things, each of which do not on their own merit headlines but which provide the spice that characterizes the society. Loading… Click here to download the podcast

Both U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday vehemently denied that the United States paid Iran ransom in return for the release of American hostages. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the Obama administration secretly funneled $400 million in cash to the Iranians in January, around the time…

A man wounded in the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice died of his injuries on Thursday, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from the massacre to 85, AFP reported. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, rammed a 19-ton lorry into revellers enjoying a July 14 fireworks display on Nice’s seafront Promenade des Anglais…

Israel’s Ministry of Health has issued an advisory for pregnant women and women planning to get pregnant on travel to southern Florida, where several cases of the Zika virus have been reported. The Health Ministry issued the warning on Wednesday, citing reports in recent days by the U.S. Center for Disease Control that people in…

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) met this week with Jewish leaders in Atlanta after apologizing for likening Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to termites, JTA reported Thursday. “Appreciate meeting w/ @AJCGlobal today to open important dialogue,” Johnson said in a tweet after the meeting with the local office of the American Jewish Committee, which was…

A Jordanian court on Thursday sentenced a man to death for killing five intelligence agents in their office in a Palestinian Arab “refugee camp” in June, AFP reported, citing state media. Amman’s state security court “sentenced the criminal Mahmud Masharfeh to death by hanging for his terrorist act against the intelligence agency,” the kingdom’s official…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday vowed to continue attacking Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Iraq and Syria, but acknowledged that pressure on the jihadists was prompting them to lash out beyond their self-proclaimed caliphate. Speaking after meeting security and military officials in the Pentagon, Obama also blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy in Syria,…

The Likud fired back on Thursday evening at popular Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi, known by the stage name “Hatzel”, after he claimed in an interview with Kol Yisrael radio that Likud MK Benny Begin’s daughter converted to Islam. “There is no place for an attack against MK Benny Begin, a man with many rights who…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said the nuclear deal signed between Iran and the West had been successful, and said that even Israel acknowledges this fact. The comments by Obama were made during a press briefing at the Pentagon, which largely focused on the report that Washington paid $400 million to Iran. Obama denied…

A group of 80 terrorists who are serving prison terms in the Rimon Prison in Israel will on Friday begin an indefinite hunger strike in protest of the Israel Prison Service’s policy of “oppression”, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced Thursday. The alleged “oppression” is expressed in the form of guards allegedly “breaking into” prisoners’ cells…

With Parshat Mas’ei being read in Israel and also outside of Israel together with Matot, we find an Irony with the sedra and the calendar. The sedra contains the mitzva to live in Israel. The calendar is all about the attitude of the Spies, and the adult males of that generation, and of the community…

Eric Greitens, a Jew and former Navy SEAL, is the Republican candidate for the Missouri governorship for the November elections. For service in the Iraq War, from 2003 to 2007, Greitens was awarded the prestigious awards of Bronze Star for bravery, and Purple Heart for injury in battle. This past Tuesday, he was victorious in…

Why do investors need to know about the central banking system? Have the banks learned anything from the 2008 market crash? Neil Irwin, The New York Times economic correspondent and author of The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, discusses whether the economy is on the verge of another crash. What is…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) received word today that the Ariel 1 well is in operation, and pumping 120 cubic meters (4238 cubic feet) of water per hour. Samaria has been suffering a severe water shortage, due to a lack of infrastructure and illegal Palestinian water siphoning. Minister Ariel has been pushing for solutions,…

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford awarded IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot today with the Legion of Merit, commander degree. The unexpected medal was given in front of the Pentagon, in Washington D.C., to honor Eizenkot’s “exceptionally meritorious service.” The award was a “surprise,” the IDF says. Eisenkot is on…

Attorney Noga Weisel, a legal expert in representing suspects of sex crimes, asserted that Elor Azariya’s chance of receiving a fair trial is very low – due to the lack of professionalism on the part of military judges. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Weisel asserted that “military judges were not trained as lawyers […],…

Australia has suspended funding to humanitarian NGO World Vision, pending investigations into the nature of its funding to the Hamas terror organization in Gaza. Israel exposed World Vision’s Gaza branch leader Muhammed al-Halabi for funneling 60 percent of his annual humanitarian aid budget into Hamas’ military wing. Although al-Halabi has already been arrested, the extent…

In an interview with Kobi Sela, Attorney Rivka Schwartz, a haredi woman who represents victims of sexual abuse, noted how attitudes about reporting sex abuse have changed in recent years for the haredi public. “In the past it was generally just older people, talking about what happened in the past, now there’s talk in every…

British detectives questioning a 19-year-old Norwegian of Somali origin over Wednesday night’s stabbing spree in London said on Thursday that they had found no evidence of terror motives or radicalization, AFP reported. Assistant commissioner Mark Rowley told reporters the one woman killed in the attack in central London’s Russell Square late on Wednesday was a…

First Time in Israel: Business Degrees Studied in Ramat Gan and in New York! The College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan now offers an undergraduate business degree track where after studying two years in Ramat Gan and one year at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, students graduate with two bachelor’s degrees in business…

Yovel Levkowski, the 18-year-old Israeli woman who was wounded in the Russell Square knife attack on Wednesday night, described on Thursday how she mistakenly tried to help the knifeman and then watched him kill a helpless tourist. Levkowski was injured when she went to assist the 19-year-old attacker, thinking he was running away from a…

The Clinton campaign has announced that it will not travel abroad to garner support, claiming that Clinton simply has to much to do on the home front in terms of campaigning, according to a report by ABC news. “[I]f we had more time, it might be something that we would do. But at this point…

The reenactment of the siefe of Jerusalem, it can affect us today spiritually and emotionally. Hear Dr. Minskoff personal reflections and feelings of an Oleh (Israeli immigrant) psychologist, living through the magical time of the scared three weeks in Jerusalem. Loading… Click here to download the podcast

Former president Moshe Katzav will not appeal the Parole Board’s decision to keep him in prison. The Parole Board today refused to release Katzav to community service, after he served two-thirds of his prison sentence for rape. The board’s decision flew in the face of the most recent recommendations of the Prison Rehabilitation Authority. Even…

A German rapper who became an Islamic State jihadist apparently survived an October air strike in Syria that the US military previously claimed had killed him, the Pentagon has acknowledged. Denis Cuspert, also known by his artist name Deso Dogg, used to rap in Berlin and became one of the most famous Western fighters for…

The Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi, popularly known as Hatzel (‘The Shadow’) launched a counterattack against Likud MK Benny Begin in an interview with Reshet Bet, after the latter criticized Eliasi’s recent registration with the Likud party. “Who is he that he can preach to me? His daughter converted to Islam and his son throws rocks…

Police arrested the caretaker of a handicapped woman, whom she had strapped to a fence in a neighborhood of Bnei Brak, after a picture of the incident circulated on social media. Police have opened an investigation. One pedestrian related how she had noticed the woman strapped to the fence yesterday. “I saw this old woman…

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director Dore Gold condemned the NGO World Vision’s transfer of funds to Hamas. In a published statement, Gold expressed his horror that “one of the largest charitable and humanitarian aid organizations in the world” gave “approximately $7.2 million to the military wing of Hamas…mainly to strengthen its terrorist arm.” That adds…

The body of a gay Syrian refugee was found mutilated and beheaded two days after he disappeared in central Istanbul, a local rights group has said. Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the conservative Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity…

A Danish Muslim organisation on Thursday denied media reports that it had offered to bury one of the jihadists who murdered a French priest, after the group was slammed by politicians. Jyllands-Posten, one of Denmark’s main newspapers, on Wednesday reported that the Danish Islamic Burial Fund was willing to bury 19-year-old jihadist Adel Kermiche in…

Security forces and members of the “Matzada” unit stormed into Nafha Prison this week, after receiving intelligence that Hamas terrorists held there were planning an attack from within the prison. The terrorists have been transferred and divided between several prisons in Israel. Similarly, all terrorists in the Eshel Prison have been transferred to the Ohalei…

More than 1.3 million refugees applied for asylum in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland last year, the Pew Research Center reports, nearly twice the previous record year of 1992, when 697,000 refugees sought asylum. The dramatic spike in refugees pouring into Europe correlates with the exodus of hundreds of thousands of people from three…

ILTV speaks with Holocaust expert Efraim Zuroff, who has co-authored a book on the mass murder of Jews in Lithuanian during World War II

Last night, some 1000 Russian-speaking Birthright Israel participants celebrated Israel as a land of diversity and opportunity as they came together for a special event honoring the country’s pioneering spirit and showcasing opportunities they can take advantage of to pursue their own dreams and goals in Israel. “Many faces – One Israel,” held Tuesday night,…

After he was brutally attacked by an axe-wielding Arab terrorist, doctors predicted Tzvika Cohen might never recover. Comatose for three weeks and suffering severe injuries across his body, the staff at Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem initially struggled just to keep Cohen alive. But this week, Cohen beat the odds, receiving a green-light to return…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked posted a statement on her Facebook page this morning (Thursday), with complementary words for famous singer Gali Atari on the latter’s decision not to cancel her performance at the “Meholelot Bacramim” festival scheduled to take place in a few weeks at the site of the Biblical city of Shiloh, in Samaria.…

Security guards protecting the Jerusalem light rail train apprehended a suspicious man standing near the train station on Herzl Boulevard. The guards later discovered the man was carrying a concealed knife. Police were called to the scene and have taken the man into custody. Initial reports indicate the 17-year old suspect entered Israel illegally. On…

The Olympic Committee of Israel (OCI), sent an urgent letter to Facebook last night (Wednesday), urging the mammoth social media company to add Israel and its flag to a list on the site of countries competing in the upcoming Rio Olympics, Ynet reported today. Pending a response from Facebook, it is yet unclear whether the…

Speaking at a special event in the Knesset marking the 76th anniversary of the passing of Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned of the dangers of Islamic terrorism, drawing direct comparisons with the threat Nazism and Communism posed to the free world in the 20th century. “Nazism and Communism threatened free societies…

Israeli company Biondvax has come up with a new vaccine to heighten immunity against the most common of all viruses – the flu.

One of the world’s largest humanitarian charities has been duped for years into funding the Hamas terror organization, the Shin Bet security agency revealed on Thursday. The World Vision group, a multi-billion dollar Christian charity with more than 45,000 employees, unknowingly funded the Hamas terror group in Gaza for roughly a decade after a member…

The debate in British media about anti-Semitism within the Labour Party coincided with an 11-percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the first six months of 2016, a watchdog group said Wednesday, according to JTA. The Community Security Trust (CST) registered 557 anti-Semitic incidents in that period, compared to 500 in the first half of 2015.…

Eric Greitens, a Jewish former Navy SEAL, won the Republican Party primary for Missouri governor. Greitens, who served in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 and is the recipient of seven military awards including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, defeated three opponents in Tuesday’s primary. He will face Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster in…

The deputy leader of the Hezbollah terrorist group stressed on Wednesday that Hezbollah, Iran and Russia would stand by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad “until the end”, Reuters reports. Speaking to the news agency, Sheikh Naim Qassem, who is the deputy of Hassan Nasrallah, said the sacrifices of Hezbollah prevented the ultra-hardline jihadists of Islamic State…

The Church of Scotland and the Scottish Jewish community are planning formal talks to “repair the damage” caused by a report, issued by the church in 2013, that said “scripture” provides no basis for Jewish claims to Israel. The Church and the Jewish community are to form a group of 10 to discuss interfaith issues…

The United States and Israel have closed many of the remaining gaps in their negotiations over a new multibillion-dollar military aid package, and the two sides hope to reach a final deal soon, a senior U.S. official told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. Three days of talks on the issue between Jacob Nagel, acting…

An Oberlin professor whose anti-Semitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty earlier this year has been placed on paid leave. Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric, will not teach any courses at the Ohio liberal arts school until an internal investigation is completed, Oberlin President Marvin Krislov announced, the Cleveland Jewish News…

One woman was killed and five other people injured in a knife attack in central London on Wednesday night, Sky News reports. Police were called to reports of an armed man attacking people in Russell Square, at around 10.33 p.m. (local time). The woman who was killed was treated at the scene for her injuries…

Joseph Wilf, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor and founder of one of the country’s largest real estate development companies, has died at 91. He and his brother Harry founded the Wilf Family Foundation in 1964 and have since contributed over $200 million to Jewish causes. Joseph was a founder of the American Society for Yad Vashem,…

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the world’s chemical weapons watchdog, voiced concern on Wednesday over reports of a chlorine gas attack near the Syrian city of Aleppo, AFP reports. Some 24 people reportedly suffered breathing difficulties in Saraqeb, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Aleppo, after a barrel bomb…

An Israeli cyberintelligence company claims it has hacked Islamic State communications and learned about the group’s plans to attack U.S. air bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Intsights, which is run by former Israel Defense Forces intelligence officers and based in Herzliya, said Wednesday it had hacked the forum on which ISIS operatives publish…

Two women and a baby were killed Tuesday night when a truck driven by Kamal Diab, a resident of the northern city of Haifa, collided with a passing car at an intersection on Route 4. Video recording of the incident shows Diab speeding through the red light – and crashing into a private car carrying…

The home of Muhammad Tarayra, the Arab terrorist who stabbed 13-year old Hallel Yaffa Ariel to death as she slept, will be only partially demolished, following a ruling by the Supreme Court. In rendering their decision, the justices partially accepted the argument made by attorney Leah Tzemel on behalf of the Tarayra family, who had…

In honor of an unknown milestone, Fatah yesterday posted a list of its achievements on behalf of the Arabs living in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. The Palestinian Media Watch organization reports that Fatah did not cite even one peace-seeking or peace-promoting achievement, and instead listed only its acts of violence and terror. Fatah even boasted…

A Danish Muslim group has offered to bury one of the jihadists who murdered a French priest, after Muslim leaders in France refused to do so, a newspaper said Wednesday. Adel Kermiche, a 19-year-old jihadist, was shot dead by French police on July 26 after he and another assailant attacked a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvroy in…

The official Palestinian Authority television station screened on Monday the now-famous video of an Arab father who sent his son to be shot by IDF soldiers – but it edited out one of the main parts, and then lied about its existence. The father sent his 4-year-old son to the soldiers carrying a PA flag,…

Market volatility is affected by current events. What’s an investor’s best response to unexpected headlines? Financial advisor Joe Saul-Sehy returns to The Goldstein on Gelt Show to talk about what to expect as financial markets react to the upcoming U.S. elections. Roger Whitney, “The Retirement Answer Man,” joins host Douglas Goldstein, director of Profile Investment…

Three people were run over Wednesday night in southern Israel on Route 316 between the Bedouin town of Hura and the Yattir forest. Initial reports indicate the incident is likely a hit-and-run, as the driver appears to have sped off after wounding the three. Two of the three victims are minors, ages 9 and 10.…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted the Obama administration over a report in the Wall Street Journal which said it secretly funneled $400 million in cash to the Iranians in January, around the time four American prisoners were released from Tehran. Trump called the incident a “scandal”, and pointed out that negotiations opened…

The family of 13-year-old Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered by a terrorist as she slept, expressed outrage on Wednesday night over the Supreme Court’s ruling that the home of the terrorist, Muhammad Tarayra, will be only partially demolished. While the IDF had originally planned to destroy the entire structure following the attack, according to the…

The Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of the “Ohr Elhanan” yeshiva, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Hadash, passed away today at the age of 75. Rabbi Hadash was diagnosed with a serious illness several months ago and spent the time since in and out of the hospital going through difficult and draining treatments. In the last week his condition…

According to briefings of US and European officials, the Obama administrations secretly funneled 400 million dollars in cash to the Iranians back in January, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The revelation was particularly notable in that it coincided with the release of four American prisoners being held by the Iranians, leading to speculation…

The Knesset plenum hosted an event marking the anniversary of the death of Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky today (Wednesday), resulting in passionate arguments between the participants. Jabotinsky was the leader of what was know as the “revisionist” movement in early Zionism, which is seen as the forerunner of the right wing in Israeli politics. Prime…

Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, head of the Crossroads Center for Jewish Law and Technology, has proposed a fast and easy solution to the current debates raging about the legitimacy of privately officiated Orthodox conversions. The debate was triggered when the Chief Rabbinate of Israel refused to accept the Jewish status of a woman seeking a marriage…

The proposal initiated by MKs Itzik Shmuli (Labor) and David Bitan (Likud) which would require that an electronic warning device be installed in cars to prevent children being left in vehicles, will be adopted and promoted by the Ministry of Transport. Shmuli, who co-heads the security lobby together with MK Bitan, told the Transport Ministry…

An Oslo court on Wednesday jailed two jihadists of Pakistani and Chechen origin for six and seven and a half years respectively for joining the so-called ISIS in Syria. Adam Idrisovich Magomadov, a 23-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, and Hasan Ahmed, a 46-year-old Norwegian of Pakistani origin, were convicted of belonging to IS and of…

A law which will allow Israel to imprison terrorists under the age of 14 was voted on in the Knesset today, and was passed into law. The new age limit has been set at 12 years old. “The ‘Youth Bill,’ which will allow the authorities to imprison a minor convicted of serious crimes such as…

The radical “Black Lives Matter” movement released a formal platform on Monday, singling out Israel for what it calls the “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs and “Israeli Apartheid”. BLM, which emerged in the summer of 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man who shot and killed an African American teenager in self-defense, aims…

Attorney Marc Zell, chairman of the Republican Party’s Israel branch, suggested that despite a post-convention bump for Hillary Clinton, Democrats are beginning to panic over their nominee’s performance and the chances Donald Trump could win this November. Speaking with Arutz Sheva, Zell defended Trump from criticism over his recent dustup with Khizr and Ghazala Khan,…

Two prominent American Jewish historians sparked controversy this week with a scathing opinion piece in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper attacking Zionism and Jewish support for the State of Israel. The article, published on the paper’s online edition on Monday, was co-authored by Hasia Diner, Director of New York University’s American Jewish history center, and Marjorie…

Two young women and a baby were left dead last night after a collision between a truck and a private vehicle on Highway 4 in northern Israel. The victims have been identified as Angelik Naim, 32 years old, her daughter Kloe Naim, 2 years old, and her sister Olga Ashkar, aged 38. Their husbands remain…

A 65 year-old man lost control of his car while driving alongside Lake St. Clair in Michigan. Local landscapers jumped in to rescue him. ‘The landscapers were using a rock and weren’t really getting any good hits on it, so I retrieved an ax from my vehicle, and Keith Colombo got his baton, and that’s…

As the US election campaign heats up following both parties’ conventions, the spotlight on the candidates and their personalities is sure to intensify. For a polarizing candidate like Republican nominee Donald Trump, this is sure to mean even more incidents with even more media scrutiny about his temperament and personality. At a campaign rally yesterday…

As part of the coalition agreement between the haredi-oriented United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and Likud, the Knesset has passed a law that promises aid for Torah students with families, as well as those of meager means. The law stipulates that a Torah student with a family of at least three children, whose income does not…

Yona Weinberg, a convicted sex offender from the United States who is now living in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, is stepping up litigation against Rabbi Ya’akov Horowitz, an American Rabbi who’s been warning people living around Weinberg of his past. Rabbi Horowitz is slated to give a lecture in a Har Nof community…

This week those in the Diaspora catch up with their brethren in the Land of Israel, with the Torah readings of Matot and Ma’asei and, this Friday we shall all welcome the new month of Menachem Av, the Consoling Father. As the month of Av enters, our traditional customs of mourning are ratcheted up, and…

MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) addressed a recent assertion by Asst. Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan that the IDF hasn’t barred Torah-scroll dedication ceremonies on army bases, claiming that this is simply not the case. “I value my friend Rabbi Ben-Dahan, but I suggest he check the facts on the ground,” Yogev said. He related that…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took time today (Wednesday) to address the video that shows a Palestinian father asking Israeli Border Police to shoot his son. “I’ve just watched a video that shook me to the core of my being. In just a few seconds, it shows why our conflict persists,” opened the Prime Minster. “A…

An Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash-landed in Dubai after it caught fire mid-air. At around 12:50 p.m. local time, Emirates flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram, India, crash-landed in Dubai airport, when its engines caught fire mid-air. The pilot sent out a distress signal beforehand. Emirates airline said that there were 275 passengers on board including crew members.…

Syrian regime forces backed by heavy Russian air raids recaptured a series of hilltops and villages on the southwest edges of Aleppo city from rebel groups, a monitor said Wednesday. The advance rolls back the short-lived gains from a rebel offensive launched on Sunday to ease the regime’s siege of eastern opposition-held districts of the…

Twenty-eight Muslim, Christian and Jewish teenagers from Jerusalem and throughout the United States took to Capitol Hill in support of a bill to encourage peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The teens from the Kids4Peace organization were scheduled on Tuesday to visit 14 Congressional offices to show their support for HR 1489, a bill that…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday accused Israel of thwarting the implementation of the nuclear deal his country signed with the West a year ago, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Speaking on state TV, Rouhani claimed that world powers have not fulfilled their commitments under the landmark nuclear deal, thus harming Iranian economic growth. “If…

The flurry of polls in the United States continued on Tuesday, with the latest one showing that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to eight percentage points. This is according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The bump for Clinton followed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week…

On the fifth anniversary of the death of singer Amy Winehouse, a foundation in her memory will open a home for female addicts. The half-way house sponsored by the Amy Winehouse Foundation will be called Amy’s Place after the six-time Grammy Award winner and will house up to 16 residents. It will help the recovering…

An ancient Jewish site located just 30 miles from Islamic State-controlled Mosul is at risk of collapsing, a representative of Kurdish Jewry says. Sherzan Omer, Kurdish Jewry’s representative in the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs at Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said the biblical prophet Nahum’s tomb, which is in the town of Alqosh, is…

French President Francois Hollande issued a scathing criticism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, describing him as “sickening.” “His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when — as was Donald Trump’s case — he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier,” Hollande told journalists in…

Three high-ranking staffers at the Democratic National Committee have resigned amid the email controversy that forced their boss, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to resign last week. Chief executive Amy Dacey, Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda will leave later this week, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The three were involved in…

The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. condemned Donald Trump’s “objectionable remarks” about the family of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. In a sharply worded news release issued Tuesday, the group joined a growing chorus of individuals and groups speaking out about the Republican presidential nominee’s response to the speech Humayun Khan’s father gave…

The Temple Institute, dedicated to reestablishing the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, announced it is opening a school for training Levitical priests for their eventual service in a new temple. The institute ran several pilot programs in recent years and now “is embarking on a mission to teach Kohanim all the practical skills required to serve…

The Hamas terrorist organization is continuing to encourage Palestinian Arabs to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel, but is also criticizing Israel for killing terrorists who harmed Israelis. In recent days, the organization has distributed video guides on how to kill Jews by stabbing them, and educating the younger generation in schools and summer camps…

President of the United States Barack Obama strongly attacked Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump this evening (Tuesday), saying that Trump is constantly supplying evidence that he’s “unfit” for the job. “The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,” Obama said at a joint White House news conference together with the Prime Minister of Singapore.…

The summer wave of Aliyah continues. 145 new Olim from France have landed today (Tuesday) at Ben-Gurion airport, arriving with the assistance of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ). The Olim, consisting of 38 families, come from different cities through France, including Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse, and Nice, which last month experienced a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been attacked since the day of the most recent election, on which he told media that “Arabs are going out to the voting booth in droves.” One of the most frequent attacks has been the claim that Netanyahu was simply lying in order to get people out to vote for…

German flag carrier airline Lufthansa warned Tuesday that “horrific” terror attacks in Europe were having a “tangible impact” on business, with second-quarter profits down 17 percent. Advance bookings were down sharply, the airline said, as net profits for the three months ending in June came in at 437 million euros ($488 million). “Horrific terror attacks…

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — When the 2016 Olympic Games open on Friday, August 5, the eyes of the world will be on Rio – the first South American city to host the quadrennial event. True, the build-up to the massive event – which will feature a record number of countries competing in a record…

A one and a half year old baby drowned in a bathtub in her house in Jerusalem tonight (Tuesday), her condition is very serious. An MDA ambulance crew performed CPR on the baby and only evacuated her to the Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital when her pulse had returned. MDA paramedic David Yelinick who arrived at…

For the first time, a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist was on Tuesday deported from Israel, Channel 2 News reports. Soon after she landed at the Ben Gurion International Airport, the activist from Switzerland, who is a member of a Christian organization which works in cooperation with the BDS movement, was taken in for…

NEW YORK (JTA) — Hasia Diner is one of the most acclaimed American Jewish historians in the country. A product of the Habonim Dror Zionist youth movement, she is a former Fulbright Professor at the University of Haifa in Israel. Now, she’s calling Zionism a “naive delusion” and says she feels uncomfortable entering a synagogue…

JTA — The Yesha Council has represented Israel’s communities in Judea and Samaria for nearly five decades. They’ve helped create what appears to be an irreversible reality to both critics and champions: Some 400,000 Israelis live in communities where they enjoy their own wineries, Israeli chain stores, a university and a security infrastructure staffed by…

Teva Pharmaceutical on Tuesday completed its $40 billion acquisition of the generics arm of rival Allergan, a move the Israeli firm hailed as confirmation of its intention to become one of the world’s largest drugmakers. “Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Allergan plc today announced that Teva has completed its acquisition of Allergan’s generics business (Actavis…

In an interview with radio station Kol Hai,Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) clarified her remarks where she said that haredim should become journalists. “There is one thing which this government agrees on, which is that the media of the state of israel, especially the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, needs to represent all populations of Israel:…

President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin, visited the IDF’s draft absorption center in the Tel Hashomer base near Tel Aviv this morning (Tuesday) to meet with the new August draftees into the IDF. Accompanying him were Brigadier-General Eran Shani, commander of “Meitav”, the army name for the unit in charge of absorbing the draftees, Head of the…

The Knesset has passed, for its second and third reading, an amendment to the Firearms Law which would allow all soldiers who finish their military service to get a gun license, even if they’re released before they turn 21, the minimum age for firearms licenses. The amendment, initiated by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), would…

The Rabbinate has come out in criticism of a new campaign circulating on “Voice of Israel” radio, which advertises wedding ceremonies not in line with traditional Jewish law that are presented as an alternative to the ceremonies officiated by the Chief Rabbinate, according to a report by Ynet. The “equal wedding” radio campaign, put out…

The Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) has opened an official inquiry following the publication of a video showing a Border Policeman grabbing a little girl’s bike in Hevron. The video was filmed a week ago, and shows the policemen grabbing the bike from a little Palestinian girl who had most probably walked into an area…

The Education, Culture and Sports Committee decided to recognize the Armenian genocide on Monday at a meeting initiated by Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon. “It is our moral obligation to recognize the holocaust of the Armenian nation,” said the committee Chairman MK Zehava Galon (Meretz) in a joint statement with MK Yaakov Margi (Shas). A…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked opined on Tuesday that despite the internal cat-fights between Jewish Home and Likud this past week, the coalition will survive until the next term. In a press conference, Shaked commented that “The coalition is expected to finish its time. It’s homogenous. Its members see eye-to-eye on most matters. I don’t see…

During a lecture this morning, former President Shimon Peres, who turned 93 today, was interrupted for a surprise birthday celebration in front of hundreds of soldiers and officers of the Military Intelligence Research Division: the soldiers took to the stage, sang “Happy Birthday”, and presented him with a cake with candles shaped like a 93…

A series of special events are being held in the Knesset today (Tuesday), marking 11 years since the uprooting of the towns of Gush Katif and northern Samaria, as part of the disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said at one of the events that “the uprooting was done against the will…

The Knesset Ethics Committee leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev for appearing in a promo for a TV show. MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), had recently filed an official complaint with the Ethics Committee regarding the promo in which the Culture Minister enthusiastically promotes a show starring singer Eyal Golan, ahead of the start of…

A special Knesset committee convened this morning to discuss the rights of a boy from the village of Yitzhar, who has been legally distanced from his parents’ home, on the basis of claims of violence against Palestinians. For several weeks now, the boy has been forced to wander from home to home, since his sentence…

In the latest round of Hillary versus Donald, the Republican presidential nominee called Hillary Clinton “the devil,” referring to her abuse of competitor Bernie Sanders in her race to the top. At a Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump made fun of former Democratic contestant Bernie Sanders for capitulating and endorsing Clinton: “He made a deal with…

Prosecutors have filed an indictment in the Jerusalem District Court against Muhamad Alkam, 18, who lives in Shuafat, for premeditated murder in an argument over change at the grocery store. According to the indictment, the deceased arrived at the grocery store owned by Alkam’s father, in order to buy a few necessities. When he was…

A new study put out by the University of Haifa, which assessed the level of fear among Israeli Jews and Arabs during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead, found an interesting result: Arabs generally feared more from the rocket attacks of fellow Arabs, than Jews did. The research, conducted by Dr. Penina Ron…

A young woman who returned home to The Netherlands with her two children after fleeing Syria has been arrested on suspicion of links to the jihadist Islamic State group, officials said Tuesday. Identified in Dutch media reports as 20-year-old Laura Hansen, the woman was detained late Monday at Schiphol airport as she arrived back in…

Russian warplanes pounded the southern edges of Syria’s Aleppo city overnight, slowing a “last chance” rebel offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a monitor said Tuesday. Jihadists and rebel groups launched a major assault Sunday on the southern edges of the divided city in a bid to break a government siege of eastern opposition-held neighbourhoods.…

The EU on Tuesday named top British diplomat Julian King to the new post of security commissioner tasked with fighting terrorism, organised and cyber crime as London prepares to quit the 28-nationbloc. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said King, currently Britain’s ambassador to France, takes office as Europe faces up to a series of deadly…

At the end of their investigations into the attempted a terror attack on the Jerusalem Light Rail, Israel Police and Shabak have submitted a joint prosecutor’s statement against the Arab student who masterminded the incident. Ali Abu Hasan, 12, a resident of Beit Ula, is an industrial engineering student at a university in Hevron. Abu…

A 60-year-old woman has given birth at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot to a healthy baby girl, Channel 10 reported this morning (Tuesday). The girl weighed 2.2 kilograms (4.8 pounds). Dr. Yael Naaman, one of the doctors who oversaw the birth, noted that “the baby was born healthy and strong, and has been passed…

The intense heat of the Jerusalem summer has arrived. For many families it is a time for relaxation and fun. But for an impoverished family with two children and an infant, it is a time of shame. Unable to pay their rent, they now live in a sukkah (temporary booth) on the street. The mother…

Shells fired by Syrian rebel groups killed at least 28 civilians in southwestern districts of the battleground city of Aleppo over the last 24 hours, a monitor said late Monday. Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said those killed “included six children and eight women” in two government-controlled neighborhoods of…

The police is recommending that the criminal investigation against opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) be closed, Channel 2 News reported on Monday. According to the report, the police told the prosecution it has no evidential basis to prosecute Herzog over suspected illegal donations to fund his election campaign during the 2013 Labor party…

Alon Day could make history as the first Israeli to drive in a NASCAR national series race. Day, a 24-year-old from Ashdod, Israel, is poised to make his debut in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on Aug. 13 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, USA Today reported Saturday. The Xfinity Series is NASCAR’s second-tier league, behind…

A new CNN/ORC Poll has found that Hillary Clinton has a 9% lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump. The poll was released hours after a CBS poll found that Clinton had a 7% lead over Trump, the largest she’s had in months. In a two-way head-to-head matchup, found the CNN poll, Clinton tops Trump…

The diary of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler was discovered filed in an archive in Russia. The diary, actually a service calendar including dates, meetings and military decisions, was discovered earlier this year in the Russian Military Archive in Podolsk . It was filed under Dnewnik, which is Russian for diary, the Daily Mail reported.…

A letter written by Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved some 1,200 Jews from the Nazis, to his bookkeeper Itzhak Stern is for sale online. The letter is on sale for $32,500 on the website MomentsinTime.com, which deals in rare original autographs and historical documents. It was put up for sale by a descendant…

A Chinese consortium has agreed to purchase the Israeli social media games company Playtika for $4.4 billion in cash. The consortium is buying the company from Caesars Interactive Entertainment, which acquired Playtika in 2011, for about $170 million. Caesars reportedly is selling the unit to pay down debt. The deal is one of the largest…

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres appeared to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that carrying out his isolationist foreign policy vision would be “a very great mistake.” In an interview with Bloomberg quoted by JTA, Peres did not refer to the Republican presidential nominee by name. But when asked about Trump’s statements on foreign…

A leader of French Jews criticized Muslim intellectuals whose petition against local jihadists omits any mention of anti-Semitic violence. The petition, signed by dozens of academics and celebrities, appeared Sunday in the Journal de Dimanche under the title “We, French-Muslims, are ready to assume our responsibilities.” In it, the cosignatories lamented the perceived weakness of…

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has published a new ad accusing the Democratic Party of being “stridently anti-Israel” and featuring a string of attendees at last week’s Democratic convention criticizing Israel, JTA reports. Released Friday and titled “This Isn’t the Old Democrat Party Anymore,” the ad claims that “anti-Israel Democrats are on full display at…

Is the demise of the Donald Trump movement finally beginning? After polls taken in the wake of the Republican National Convention (RNC) showed Republican nominee Trump with a lead over Democratic party nominee Hillary Clinton, the trend now seems to have completely reversed, with a new CBS poll showing Clinton with a 7% lead over…

The Knesset Ethics Committee decided today (Monday) on the punishment of a severe reprimand for MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) for her inflammatory comments in a plenum debate around a month ago regarding the rapprochement deal with Turkey. Zoabi started a brouhaha in the Knesset when she “celebrated” the Turkey deal, which included the…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and a delegation of eleven UN ambassadors from around the world visited the Max Brenner restaurant in the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, the site of a terror attack this past June in which four people were murdered. The visit was meant to show the ambassadors firsthand…

A 7-year-old girl was bitten by a snake this evening (Monday), in a Kibbutz in the Jordan Valley Regional Council. Her condition was termed moderate. MDA medics and paramedics administered initial treatment upon arrival at the scene and evacuated the girl to the Poriya hospital in Tiberias. Last month a 22-year-old man was bitten by…

MK Avi Dichter, Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, spoke today (Monday) about the matter of the Gaza terror tunnels, which has resurfaced as a subject of controversy of late with MK Yair Lapid and Minister Naftali Bennett claiming that the Cabinet had not seriously addressed the tunnel threat in its meetings…

Palestinian Authority government Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said today (Monday), that the PA is in contact with all relevant international bodies, including consuls and ambassadors, asking them to put pressure on Israel to release prisoners serving terms for terrorist activity in Israel, and chief among them those prisoners who are on hunger strikes. Hamdallah made…

When the 2016 Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro on Friday evening, Israel will proudly show off its largest delegation ever, with 47 athletes competing in 17 sports. Among them are golfer Laetitia Beck, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor; Lonah Chemtai, a Kenyan-born marathoner, and Ron Darmon, the first triathlete to represent Israel…

The Almagor terror victims’ association on Monday sent a letter to the government urging it to reconsider the policy of releasing terrorists from Israeli prisons. “I call on the ministers to go to the cemetery here in Jerusalem and visit the grave of Colonel Baruch Mizrahi, who was murdered by a terrorist who was released…

The Palestinian Cup in soccer will be decided on Tuesday night in the rescheduled final between Hevron’s Ahly al-Khalil and Shabab Khan Yunis, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) confirmed Monday, according to AFP. The match had originally been slated to take place on Saturday, but it was postponed when Israel did not allow several players…

The family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of Oscar-winning Holocaust film “The Pianist” said Monday they had won an appeal against defamation over claims in a book that he was a Nazi collaborator. Wladyslaw Szpilman’s widow and son brought the case in Warsaw’s appeals court after losing the initial complaint in September 2013. The family…

The Supreme Court has ruled that Otzma Yehudit party members will be allowed to march from Ara to Arara, in a predominantly Arab area in the north, if they follow certain conditions for the march proposed by the Coastal District Police. The main adjustment includes a new route for the march, suggested by the Coastal…

The International Police Association (IPA) cancelled a scheduled performance of the comic Adir Miller at an upcoming event in Jerusalem honoring police forces, after he made offensive jokes about police on his TV show, “Miller’s Corner.” Eran Yisrael, representing the IPA, explained the decision: “Miller, a well-known and respected artist with good humor, was supposed…

The internal bickering in the Cabinet has brought Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to the point of suggesting a creative solution aimed at calming tempers. “We need to send this government on vacation. Send them out, urgently, before we have to institutionalize them, the whole government,” Kahlon told Army Radio this afternoon (Monday). Minister Kahlon’s exasperated…

Has Donald Trump finally gone too far? After Khizr Khan told the heart-rending story of his soldier son’s death while speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Trump’s response was to ridicule the immigrant’s origins, asking if his Muslim wife was even allowed to speak. Khizr had challenged Trump: “Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery?…

The Palestinian Authority and members of the Israeli Arab population slammed the Education Ministry for its “Israelizing” policies in education in the eastern part of Jerusalem. The Palestinian Ministry of Education criticised the Jerusalem policies in a statement published on July 30. The statement was signed by Palestinian Education Minister Sabi Saydem, by several Israeli…

Opposition head Yitzchak Herzog opened the Zionist Union faction meeting today by addressing the comments made by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to the effect that the government needs a vacation before it ends up institutionalized. “They say that the Opposition never backs up the government or agrees with it. Well, this time there is consensus…

Rina Ariel, mother of Hallel-Yaffa who was murdered in her bed in by a Palestinian terrorist a month ago, told Arutz Sheva about the new memorial project the family is launching. “We’re raising 450,000 NIS through a Headstart campaign to establish a visitors center that will display the connection between our family winery and the…

The ongoing fight over the proposed Public Broadcasting Corporation, which would replace the government-run Public Broadcasting Authority, has led to some of the fiercest rhetoric between coalition allies Jewish Home and the Likud. Jewish Home leaders Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked blasted a proposal endorsed by a number of Likud ministers which would delay the…

Israeli NBA star Omri Casspi is scheduled to land in Israel this Thursday, accompanied by fellow players in the NBA, as part of a public relations campaign to improve Israel’s image in the US and fight BDS, Yisrael Hayom reports. He is to be accompanied by other fellow NBA and WNBA players, who have enlisted…

Arabs across Israel and on both sides of the Green Line are increasingly willing to sell to Jews, says a Jerusalem city councilman, calling it a golden opportunity for Jewish buyers to redeem property in the Holy Land. Jerusalem councilman Aryeh King, who has worked for years to redeem Jewish properties in what are now…

Speaking Sunday night on Kol BeRama, MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) discussed the challenges he faces in presenting the haredi public to journalists from outside of the community. While engaging with secular journalists requires bridging a sometimes formidable cultural gulf, Eichler claims national-religious journalists are frequently the most difficult for haredi representatives to deal…

Loading… 30 days after Rabbi Michael Mark was murdered, his family visited his graveside for a final farewell. Mark was driving with his wife and two of his children in early July when a terrorist shot at the vehicle, killing him and wounding his family. His wife was in a coma for several days. Loading…

In an interview on his flight back from World Youth Day in Poland, where he also visited the Auschwitz death camp, Pope Francis related to the issues of terrorism and capitalism in the world today, even implying a comparison between the two, as reported by NBC News. He said that it is “unfair” to equate…

My father first crossed an international border inside a potato sack, his mouth muffled with a cloth. The year was 1921 and he was barely six months old. He and his family – my family – were fleeing pogroms in the Ukraine to the relative safety of Poland. His parents put him in that bag…

Last night, a brutal flood in Ellicott City, Maryland killed two people and left more than 100 injured, NBC News reported. Between 7 and 9 pm, 6 inches of rain fell – the equivalent of the amount of rain that generally falls in a month in that area. Amidst the destruction, one scene that was…

The heartwarming story of a simple act of kindness that went viral just became much more complex. Social media outlets were abuzz this weekend when a Facebook post by a young Muslim mother in the United States on Saturday spread, recalling a chance encounter with an elderly Jewish man in a local Barnes Noble bookstore.…

Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett arrived Wednesday morning at the introductory convention for Israeli “emissaries,” those that will be sent around the world in coming weeks to serve Jewish communities in need of strengthening. “If I think of the major challenge facing world Jewry today, it’s that we’re losing millions of Jews…

UN deputy Syria envoy Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy on Sunday invited Damascus to new peace talks with the opposition at the end of August, drawing a positive response from the government. On Tuesday, the world body’s special envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters in Geneva he wanted “to proceed with a third round of intra-Syrian talks…

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday accused her Republican rival Donald Trump of scapegoating the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, after Trump took issue with remarks the soldier’s father made at the Democratic National Convention, Reuters reports. Trump, in an ABC interview that aired on Sunday, questioned why Ghazala Khan,…

The head of the Palestinian soccer federation, Jibril Rajoub, on Sunday submitted a complaint to the international soccer governing body, FIFA, after Israel prevented seven Palestinian Arab soccer players and staff from traveling from Gaza to Judea and Samaria. Rajoub said the Shabab Khan Younis players were attempting to attend the final Palestine Cup match…

Pope Francis is the newest member of the Krakow Jewish Community Center. JCC Executive Director Jonathan Ornstein presented the pontiff with a JCC membership card and an acid-green JCC T-shirt during a reception Sunday at the residence of the archbishop in Krakow. Francis was concluding a four-day visit to Poland to mark the Roman Catholic…

A New Jersey housing community with a majority haredi Orthodox population is angering some homeowners with its stepped-up gender-segregated swimming pool hours. In yet another example of tensions between the Lakewood area’s growing haredi Orthodox population and non-Orthodox residents, several non-Jewish residents at A Country Place are speaking out about the housing complex’s swimming pool…

Donald Trump lashed out against former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Twitter, calling him “little” and terming his mayoral stint a “disaster.” The Republican presidential nominee took aim at Bloomberg, who is 5-foot-8, last Friday morning, two days after Bloomberg said at the Democratic National Convention that Trump is “a risky, reckless and radical…

A terror attack in the UK is a matter of “when, not if”, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police warned Sunday, according to the Independent. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said he cannot promise an attack will not take place, despite being the man in charge of preventing them. He said instead he could offer reassurance by…

Amar’e Stoudemire, who retired from the NBA last week, reportedly has closed a deal to play with the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem, which he co-owns. International sports journalist David Pick tweeted the news on Sunday evening. Stoudemire has called a news conference for Monday, where he is expected to make the announcement that he…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would remain neutral in the U.S. presidential election campaign and avoid any intervention on behalf of any candidate. The remarks were made in a press conference with diplomatic correspondents and quoted by Haaretz. Netanyahu told the reporters that although he is attending the United Nations General…

Jewish immigration from France to Israel decreased by 32 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the corresponding period last year. The decrease in French immigration is part of a 10-point drop in overall Jewish immigration to Israel, or aliyah, according to a Jewish Agency for Israel interim report obtained last week by…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a press briefing today (Sunday), during which he addressed Israel’s role in helping other countries prevent terror attacks. “On the subject of terrorism, we are a powerhouse of information,” he said. All countries use our intelligence [for fighting terror]. Israel supplies it, and it has prevented many attacks around the…

Israel’s first stealth fighter, a Lockheed Martin F-35 “Adir”, took its maiden flight, passing all of the tests with flying colors. The flight, which lasted some 20 minutes, is the first operation of an Israeli stealth aircraft since the plane was formally “delivered” to Israel at a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas in June. The…

JTA – There are athletes, and then there are Olympic athletes. And then there are Jewish Olympic athletes. When the 2016 Summer Olympics open Friday, we’ll of course be cheering the American athletes — all 555 of them — and we’ll be rooting for Israel, too, which this year is sending its largest ever cohort…

Loading… Labor Party chief Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) was greeted by the jeers of angry hecklers as he addressed a party meeting on Sunday ahead of the Labor Central Committee’s decision regarding the date of the next primary election. Herzog, who has recently faced criticism from within the party over comments seemingly rejecting the feasibility…

Charlie Azariya, the father of Elor, the soldier currently on trial for killing a wounded terrorist, was admitted to Assaf HaRofeh medical center this evening, after he suspected that he was suffering a minor stroke. He is currently undergoing testing; he is conscious and able to speak with his family. Charlie has accompanied his son…

A delegation from the radical “Black Lives Matter” movement arrived in Israel last week to promote what the group called “the fight for dignity, justice and freedom”. Founded with the aim of raising awareness about fatalities among African Americans resulting from encounters with law enforcement officers, the Black Lives Matter movement has argued that American…

Following a failed coup against him, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has introduced new measures that increasingly tie the army to the powers of government, further consolidating army powers under his control. Sky News reports that new orders allow the prime minister and president to issue direct orders to the chief commanders of the army, air…

In addition to the list of hygienic products that soldiers traditionally receive as a present upon induction into the IDF, draftees are now apparently receiving contraceptives in their care packages. This new inclusion is not universally appreciated, however. Especially among religious draftees, it is often offensive. “What kind of message does a gift like this…

Security guards at the Trans-Samaria Crossing identified on Sunday night four pipe bombs in the car of an Arab with Israeli citizenship who was on his way back from Judea and Samaria. The vehicle was inspected and a police sapper was called to the scene to neutralize the bomb. Highway 5 was blocked to traffic…

Jihadist forces allied to rebels attacked regime forces south and southwest of Aleppo Sunday in a bid to ease the siege of Syria’s second city, rebels and a monitor said. Since July 17, President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces have surrounded rebel-held districts of Aleppo city, one of the main front lines in the conflict ravaging the…

JTA – Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders referenced his family’s Jewish history in condemning GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attack on the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq. “I’m Jewish. My father’s family died in concentration camps. I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain…

JTA – Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot arrived in the United States to meet with his U.S. counterpart. Eizenkot traveled to the U.S. on Sunday for an “official work visit” with U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, the IDF said in a statement. Eizenkot also is…

JTA – The head of Berlin’s troubled Jewish community is condemning allegations in a German news report that he obtained his position by voter fraud. With the opposition party demanding that he step down, Gideon Offer is calling the accusations “utter nonsense” and part of a “dirty campaign” against him. His office reportedly is considering…

Nine new Supreme Rabbinical Court judges sworn-in Sunday at Presidential Residence in Jerusalem.

The Israeli cabinet weighed on Sunday the possible postponement of the implementation of a new public broadcasting corporation that would replace the current government-run Broadcasting Authority. Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev was among those that voiced opposition to implementing the new broadcasting authority prematurely: “It’s a big mistake to pass the law in…

The watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch has identified an anti-Semitic cartoon published by no less than the Fatah Party’s Information and Culture Commission website, underscoring the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to anti-Semitic incitement. In the cartoon, a hook-nosed Jew, representing Israel, is shown about to detonate a big bomb containing two figures, representing the Sunni and…

Residents of the embattled Samarian community of Amona have rejected an offer to relocate the town north to the Shilo bloc, Amona’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yair Frank, said on Sunday. Amona, a small town near Ofra, north of Jerusalem, is slated for demolition by the end of the year. The Supreme Court ruled that the…

The Knesset Legislation Committee approved a bill that, if passed, would encourage investment in renewable energy by granting tax breaks to suppliers of electricity that is generated from alternative sources of energy. As per the instruction of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, the new law will also apply to suppliers in Judea and Samaria. This marks…

Two residents of the predominantly Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in Jerusalem were arrested in June in a joint operation of Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency. The two suspects have been accused of multiple firebomb and stone-throwing attacks on the city’s Light Rail train and on security forces. Aside from the attacks, the…

Relating to the situation of the Jewish community of Amona, whose residents stand to be uprooted, MK Shuli Mualem-Rafaeli of the Jewish Home party made clear this evening (Sunday) that expelling citizens from their homes is unacceptable. “The destruction of the community of Amona, and the relocation of its residents elsewhere is not a solution,…

“The Brothers Solomon” have put out an album with their best of the best, in Hebrew and English, topped by theirlatest “If I Am Not For Me.”

Producer Naftali Shnitzler has done it again with another vocal compilation, titled “Classics,” of artist Shimi Angel.

Ephraim Menashri, child of Gush Katif, sings of his loss and the fight for his home, in a new single titled “Homeward.”

Former Army Radio commander res. Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu revealed in an interview with Yediot Aharonot that during the period leading up to the 2005 disengagement from Gush Katif – when all Jewish residents were forcibly evacuated from the Gaza Strip – MKs who opposed the evacuation were intentionally denied air time on the Kol…

At least 5 people have been killed in an attack involving a suicide car bombing and subsequent gunfights in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu. In addition, 4 of the terrorists associated with the al-Shabaab Islamist group were also killed. A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the gates of the Criminal Investigation…

A shooting incident in Austin, Texas, has resulted in the death of one woman, and multiple people with gunshot wounds. According to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services, a woman in her 30s was pronounced dead at the scene, and 3 more, two women and a man, were evacuated to the UMCB hospital. One more man…

French Muslim leaders of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray have refused to bury Normandy church-killer Adel Kermiche. The 19-year-old Algerian, together with Abdel Malik Petitjean, attacked a local church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray last Tuesday. The two young terrorists took six people hostage at the church before killing Father Jacques Hamel, 86, during a morning mass. In a video published by…

Songwriter Naama Sodheart presents a heartbreaking memorial to terror victim Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, who was murdered in her bed in Kiryat Arba.

MK Erel Margalit (Zionist Union), who is running for leadership of the Labor party, has outlined a plan that is as much business as politics, for uniting the Middle East. Called the “Plan of Converging Interests,” the plan was published in Arabic and translated into Hebrew. The plan’s target is to unite the region’s countries…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Sunday, 31 July 2016), at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, addressed the comments made by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls to the effect that he is open to banning foreign funding for mosques in France in the wake of the terror attack in the church in Normandy…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday said that any reboot of peace talks with Israel should happen within a clear timeframe and under international supervision. Abbas made the comments after his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris, reported the AFP news agency. Abbas also held talks with French Foreign…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published emails from the Democratic National Committee, says his website has more material related to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaign,” Assange told CNN, adding the material is “extremely interesting”. Assange insisted that the publishing of material on Clinton is not from…

Some 7,000 police officers in heavy vehicles overnight Saturday surrounded the Incirlik air base in Turkey, which is used by NATO forces in Adana, in what a Turkish minister called a “security check”, Russia Today reports. While there was no official explanation for the move, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police had…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday fired back at accusations from the father of a slain Muslim soldier who said that the billionaire has “sacrificed nothing” for his country, AFP reports. Khizr Khan — whose son died in Iraq — accused Trump of vilifying American Muslims in a steely rebuke that electrified the Democratic…

Sixteen people riding a hot air balloon over Lockhart, Texas were killed on Saturday when the balloon caught on fire and crashed. While the cause of the accident is as of yet unknown, the crash site was reported to be located directly underneath high-capacity power lines. Local officials say there were no survivors from the…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked denied rumors she is considering a departure from the Jewish Home party due to growing tensions between herself and Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Speaking on Israel’s “Meet the Press”, Shaked responded to questions regarding the conflict within the cabinet during the 2014 Gaza conflict, and claims a split between her and…

JTA – There was a thrill ride on Jewish Democratic social media Wednesday night when Bill Clinton was spotted at the Democratic National Convention sporting a button backing his wife – in Hebrew. Robert Wexler, a former Democratic congressman, indulged in a little partisan kvelling when he appeared Thursday with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer on…

The Lebanese television station Al-Mayadeen, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, aired the first segment of a three-part series on the abduction of two IDF soldiers at the outset of the 2006 Lebanon war. The program, which was aired on Saturday, included never-before seen footage from the terror operation which kidnapped IDF soldiers…

A leader of the Druze population of the Golan Heights disputed the assertion of a United Nations committee that accused Israel of imposing economic and social hardships on his community. Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, the largest Druze town in the Golan, told Makor Rishon that the U.N. Economic and Social Council’s recent…

For nearly a decade, residents of the villages of Nilin and Bilin, located near the haredi town of Modiin Illit, have held fiery, often violent demonstrations against the construction of the security fence every Friday. The demonstrations, which often include stone-throwings, draw anarchists and opponents of the Jewish state from around the world. While provocations…

Pope Francis on Friday walked alone through the notorious wrought-iron “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) gate as he visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Free for once of his security entourage or cardinals, he sat on a bench among the trees and bowed his head in prayer, remaining at length in silent…

This program is absolutely packed with news, views and interviews. The feature interview shows clearly that African grassroots are firmly with Israel unlike the South African government. In contrast to last week, you will hear the view that we can harmoniously live together with our Palestinian Arab neighbours. Hear the audio how Prime Minister Netanyahu…

A senior commander in the Syrian army recently escaped unharmed an Israeli assassination attempt in the Golan Heights, the Iranian semiofficial Fars news agency reported Friday. According to the report, the man in question is Majid Heymoud, who was visiting the town of Eastern al-Samdaniya. Heymoud’s convoy, according to the report, came under two missile…

Israel on Friday rejected the international criticism over its planned construction in Jerusalem as “lacking any factual basis”. Earlier this week, the U.S. State Department used unusually harsh language in condemning Israeli plans to build 770 new housing units in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, describing them as “corrosive” to peace. In response, the…

Four individuals in the Miami-Dade and Broward counties in Florida have been infected with the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, state health officials said Friday, according to CNN. These are the first known cases of the virus being transmitted by mosquitoes in the continental United States. “While no mosquitoes trapped tested positive for the Zika…

A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children was bombed Friday in an air raid in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, causing casualties and damage, the Britain-based charity said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a jihadist from Al-Nusra Front, which has changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham after disassociating itself from Al-Qaeda, was…

Two men thought to be connected to the terrorists who carried out the Paris attacks in November have been extradited to France from Austria, the prosecutors’ office in the city of Salzburg said on Friday, according to Reuters. The two men, an Algerian believed to be 29 and a Pakistani thought to be 35, were…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday blasted Saudi Arabia for its alleged “normalization with Israel.” “Saudi Arabia has taken advantage of the ailing Arab situation, only to build relations with Israel. The price will be at the account of the Palestinians,” he warned, in comments quoted by Lebanon’s National News Agency. “This is free normalization…