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In preparation for the upcoming Passover holiday, President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday carried out the ritual selling of the chametz (leavened foods that are forbidden on the Jewish holiday) with Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Rabbi Shlomo Amar. In the brief ceremony, the President appointed Rabbi Amar to act as an emissary of the President in selling all…

Are Facebook and Twitter finally cracking down on Palestinian incitement? If the recent closure of multiple accounts linked to Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is anything to go by the answer is yes. On Friday, Twitter shut down the account of the al-Qassam Brigades’ official spokesman, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu…

After a massive fire tore through their homes two weeks ago, 23 families in Jerusalem found themselves penniless, in the streets and searching for help. Their children — 83 in total — are homeless. Some were placed in temporary foster families, some were taken in by friends, but all they want is to reunite with their…

Ibrahim Barda’aya, a 54-year-old single resident of al-Aroub to the north of Hevron in Judea, was recently shot dead by security forces as he attempted to conduct a stabbing attack armed with a butcher’s knife. The imam of Barda’aya’s mosque Abdallah Azam told the Hamas paper Palestine that the terrorist merited to be a “martyr” and to…

MK Nava Boker (Likud) reacted strongly on Sunday to reports that covert talks are being held between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to reach an agreement pulling IDF troops out of Judea and Samaria’s Area A. Area A is a group of regions designated as being under PA security and administrative control by the 1994…

In honor of “Palestinian prisoner day,” Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction has published an announcement declaring its absolute support of the Arab terrorists jailed in Israel, including serial murderers and those who sent suicide bombers. Abbas serves as the leader of Fatah, the PA, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – the…

The former head of the BBC has called on British Jews not to vote for the UK Labour Party, following leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to tackle anti-Semitism within the party. Speaking to The Times, Danny Cohen – who is himself Jewish – said the series of anti-Semitism scandals within Labour were “deeply troubling,” and compared Jews voting for…

A four-year-old boy tragically plummeted to his death on Sunday afternoon, falling from an apartment on the eighth floor of a building on Shaul Hamelekh Street in Be’er Sheva. The boy was critically wounded in the fall. Magen David Adom (MDA) medics evacuated him to Soroka Hospital in the city while trying to resuscitate him, but…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and the non-profit One Family, invited Natan and Renana Meir, the widower and daughter of Israeli terror victim Dafna Meir to visit the UN.  “We will show the world the truth about Palestinian terror,” Danon said. “It is time for the UN to condemn Palestinian incitement and make…

An agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to cease security cooperation in Judea and Samaria’s Area A may be imminent, a senior security official revealed to Army Radio Sunday.  The deal, which would be sealed ahead of the PA’s visit to the UN to push anti-Israel draft resolutions, would see the IDF pull out of…

A trivial dispute over a dessert dish nearly turned fatal in an Australian synagogue on Saturday. After an argument broke out between two of the congregants, one attempted to stab the other, only to wound someone else entirely, witnesses told BeHadrei Haredim. The incident occurred Saturday morning at the Rambam Sephardic synagogue in Melbourne. A…

Iran paraded its new S-300 missile system in Tehran Sunday, after weeks of uncertainty over when Moscow would deliver the system to the Islamic Republic.  The parade marks Iran’s annual Army Day celebration; photos of the haul appeared on social media and Iranian news websites.  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated at the event that the…

Ecuador’s central coast was rocked by a massive, 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday which left dozens dead. The tremor was the strongest to hit the South American nation since 1979, said the US Geological Survey. Initial reports claimed 41 had been killed in the quake, though the country’s Vice President, Jorge Glas, warned that figure…

When Shatila Abu Iyadh set out two weeks ago to murder Jews in Rosh Ha’ayin, she was acting on orders she had received – in a dream. The 22-year-old Kfar Qassem resident was indicted on Sunday on charges of attempted murder. Two weeks ago, Abu Iyadh left her home in Kfar Qassem, and made her…

A vigilant bystander caught shocking footage of the Israel Police arresting an English-speaking religious Jew Sunday, for saying a pasuk and attempting to give over words of Torah at Judaism’s holiest site.  In the footage, officers at the Temple Mount are seen arresting the man for expounding on the verse “אנא ה’ הושיע נא,” “Please G-d save me…

Hamas has stepped up its military presence in Gaza and in Judea-Samaria in recent weeks – reportedly, out of fear of an Israeli crackdown.  The terror group released a statement to Palestinian news agency Sama Sunday stating it had boosted security “out of fear of Israeli ties, or the kidnapping of activists from the organization.”  “A true information…

Residents of the Judea-Samaria town of Amona have been preparing to fight back against a planned eviction of their homes Sunday, with a full-fledged campaign underway against the order.  Amona officials met with decision-makers recently to impart a warning about the ramifications of such an eviction, noting that a “domino effect” of evictions of other…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to announce during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that the Golan Heights will remain in Israeli hands. The weekly meeting will take place at the Golan, in order to make clear to the international community that it is a strategically important region for Israel. Netanyahu will open the…

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Saturday won 14 of 14 Republican National Convention delegates up for grabs at the Wyoming state convention, CNN reported. “If you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, if you don’t want to hand the general (election) to Hillary Clinton, which is what a Trump nomination does,…

The Judean Rebels completed a successful title defense on Thursday night, overcoming a slow start to defeat the Tel Aviv ‘Hotel Gilgal’ Pioneers 32-14 in front of almost a thousand fans in Petah Tikva. The weather was perfect and it was a great atmosphere for a title game. Tel Aviv started off with a nice…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his government on Saturday. Days after accusing Netanyahu of holding secret talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Liberman blasted the government’s policy with respect to Hamas and Gaza, accusing Netanyahu of holding secret, indirect talks with Hamas.…

Syria’s opposition has rejected a proposal from UN envoy Staffan de Mistura that would have kept Bashar Al-Assad as president during a political transition, with three deputies of his opponents’ choosing, AFP reported Saturday. De Mistura told Syria’s opposition attending peace talks in Geneva that the proposal could end the “vicious cycle” of debate over…

French President Francois Hollande pledged financial and military support for Lebanon, AFP reports Saturday, and urged its paralyzed political class to elect a president, at the start of a regional tour. Deep political divisions have left Lebanon without a president since May 2014, and parliament has extended its own mandate twice since 2009. Beginning a four-day Middle East tour, Hollande met…

Hamas is still digging terror tunnels and rebuilding its arsenal, coalition chairman MK Tzahi Hanegbi (Likud) stated Saturday night – but the IDF is getting ready for it.  “It’s no secret that Hamas hasn’t changed its colors,” Hanegbi stated, during an interview with Meet the Press. “It’s been deterred but is strengthening.”  “What matters is not…

Energy Minister MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) caused an uproar Saturday, after admitting in public that he ate chametz (leaven – ed.) on Passover. “I am not observant, I love the tradition, but I do not keep from eating bread on Passover,” Steinitz stated, speaking at a cultural event in Holon.  The great majority of Israelis observe the basic rituals…

Yesh Atid chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid wrote a scathing letter to UNESCO over the weekend, stating to chairman Irina Bokova that a decision to divorce the Jewish people from the Western Wall and Temple Mount will lead to bloodshed.  “This decision is a shameful attempt to rewrite history, rewrite reality as part…

Police are investigating a suspicious stabbing Saturday, hours after a teenager was found fatally injured in Afula. Yuval Osidon, 17, was found with signs of violence on his body Saturday morning, on Gavriol St. in the city’s Moreh neighborhood.  He was taken to HaEmek Hospital, but died within hours of his injuries.  The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court…

The Arava Rescue Unit of the Israel Police’s Southern District saved 70 stranded hikers Saturday, after a group of Israelis – including children, adults, and the elderly – became overly dehydrated during a trip to Nahal Peres in the northern Negev. Medics at the scene treated five people for shock and dehydration, Walla! News reports; five were evacuated to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s third term may be his last – if a group of Opposition ministers get their way.  Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid, Zionist Union chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog, and Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman are promoting the advancement of a term limit bill this month which would see Prime Ministers limited…

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has warned that Europe can’t become “a new home” for millions of migrants, in a veiled criticism of incumbent Angela Merkel’s liberal asylum policies. His comments, published in Sunday’s Tagesspiegel daily, come as the ex-chancellor is set to meet Tuesday with Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fierce opponent of Merkel’s open-door stance towards migrants. “Europe cannot…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu blasted a UNESCO decision divorcing Judaism from the Temple Mount Saturday night, after a motion over the weekend only referred to the site with Arabic terminology.  “This is yet another absurd UN decision,” Netanyahu stated late Saturday. “UNESCO ignores the unique historic connection of Judaism to the Temple Mount, where the two…

One of the Brussels bombing terrorists starred in a Swedish documentary about Muslim integration, a Swedish newspaper revealed Friday – before becoming a jihadist nearly 10 years later.  Osama Krayem, 23, starred in the 2005 film when he was 11 about his successful integration into Malmo society.  The film, Without Borders — A Film About Sport…

The United States should not interfere in the Israeli-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace efforts unless both sides invite it to participate, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich told Haaretz in an interview on Thursday.  “I don’t think that’s our job,” Kasich said. “[PA chairman Mahmoud] Abbas is 80 years old. [Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu is trying…

Most states taking part in a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday denounced Hezbollah for spreading “terrorism” and for destabilizing the national security of its member countries, Al Arabiya reported. The summit took place in Turkey and was hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  The OIC is comprised of 57…

What is the very best moment of person’s life? How did an American Jew decide to make Aliyah without even knowing where Israel was on a map? How does child in a special education class grow up to become a regional supervisor for the Department of Education? How does a six week courtship in a language one barely…

Because they call Walter’s World the program with a touch of class – not a lot, just a touch – I am today re-introducing an occasional segment dealing with books, which to my regret I have neglected for some time.    So today I begin by going intellectual and discuss two books with their authors.…

The remains of Jews murdered during World War II and found in the Danube river in 2011 were buried in Budapest on Friday, laying to rest a long-running saga over their identity and cause of death. The bones, some pockmarked with bullet holes, are now thought to have belonged to Jews shot on the banks…

Israel on Friday returned the body of the Arab terrorist who on Thursday attacked IDF forces in Gush Etzion with an ax, but it appears that move was erroneous. The IDF Spokesperson said on Friday evening that the returning of the terrorist’s body was the result of “an error stemming from a misunderstanding that will…

Thousands of Egyptians angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia held a protest in Cairo on Friday, in which they called for the government to fall, Reuters reported. Egyptian security forces detained about 50 protesters, according to two security officials. Police surrounded crowds at the press syndicate,…

MK Zuhair Bahloul (Zionist Union), who caused an uproar this week when he claimed that an Arab terrorist who stabbed a soldier in Hevron was not a “terrorist”, toned down his rhetoric in an interview with Channel 2 News on Friday. Asked whether he supports the stabbing of soldiers, Bahloul replied, “It is impossible to…

Five people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of terrorism offences as part of an investigation launched after the recent attacks in Paris and Brussels, West Midlands Police said Friday, according to the BBC. Three men, aged 26, 40 and 59, and a 29-year-old woman, were held in Birmingham on Thursday night. A fourth…

Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force special ops unit responsible for managing terror missions worldwide, has once again defied UN sanctions and traveled to Moscow to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin. The covert trip was meant to coordinate the next steps in Syria, according to multiple intelligence sources who spoke with Fox News on Thursday. The planning comes…

The European Union said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” by Israel’s construction of a new part of the security fence between it and Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled territories.  Cranes last week began erecting the fence in the Cremisan valley near the Palestinian town of Beit Jala south of Jerusalem after a legal battle. The EU said in a…

A year of uncertainty for Hisham Al-Sayed’s family finally came to an end this month when a grainy black and white photo appeared on a Hamas-affiliated television channel. Their 27-year-old son had disappeared a year earlier from his home in the Negev desert in Israel. But the image of Sayed’s face was the first time the Islamist terror movement…

As Ukraine attempts to bounce back from both a civil war with pro-Russian separatists and a difficult economic situation, Jewish refugees are looking for a place to recover.  The Kiev Jewish Community of Ukraine, headed by Rabbi Moshe Asman, established a village for those refugees – the Antebka village – and aims to bring them back to…

Magen Yehuda, a volunteer NGO to train first response teams to combat terror throughout Israel, held its most wide-scale drill yet on Thursday. The drill was meant to prepare emergency teams in the Gaza Belt region to prepare for terror threats from the Hamas enclave of Gaza. Thursday’s drill simulated an infiltration of terrorists into a…

North Korea has recently been even more openly belligerent, launching numerous missile tests while flaunting its nuclear arsenal, but on Friday it failed embarrassingly in a missile test on the birthday of its founder, Kim Il-Sung. The missile, said to have been a medium-range Musudan missile, disappeared from surveillance radar mere seconds after launch in what…

In a meeting with Orthodox Jews Thursday, Donald Trump named his two advisors on Israel – and the names bespeak good news for nationalists who believe in Israel’s right to the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria. The two are Trump’s chief lawyer, Jason D. Greenblatt, a real estate attorney from Teaneck, New Jersey, and…

A Kuwait University professor is being charged with “blasphemy,” The New Arab news site reports Friday, for stating that the Kuwaiti constitution holds legal dominance over the Koran.  “Anyone who believes the Koran or sharia [Islamic law] or any interpretation of these religious texts are above the constitution is betraying the state of Kuwait,” Sheikha al-Jassem stated, in…

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Friday against a terrorist who drove three others to Damascus Gate to murder Jews. Fifty-seven-year-old Khamis Slayameh, an Arab resident of Wadi Joz, drove three terrorists to Jerusalem in February, where they shot and fatally wounded 19-year-old Border Police officer Hadar Cohen and injured another.  Slayameh…

Winter finally will recede into the background, forecasters predict Friday – with a slow rise in temperatures and a return to summery weather. After several days’ worth of flooding and torrential rains, the weekend is due to see clear-to-partly cloudy skies overnight Friday and clear skies Saturday nationwide. Temperatures will rise Saturday to surpass the average…

A very weak earthquake was felt on Friday morning in Israel, in the Dead Sea region on the Jordan border and in the northern Negev city of Arad. The Geophysical Institute of Israel said that the quake was weak and it was not possible to measure it in numbers on the Richter scale, although the…

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, on Thursday harshly condemned the Reform group Women of the Wall (WoW), over the latter’s plans to hold a female priestly blessing at the Kotel (Western Wall) in a provocative and public breach of tradition. “In a civilized country they would need to put them (WoW) in…

The families of five Israeli Jews detained by the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) on suspicion of “Jewish terrorism” turned to Israel’s chief Rabbis late Thursday night, imploring them to speak to security officials on their behalf.  The five families asked Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau to ensure their…

Making the mistake all the more ironic is that Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by Jews, becoming the first new Jewish city in the ancient Jewish homeland of Israel. In her post Berg continued by saying the company that sent the package was a German branch of dbrand, which appears to be a Canadian-based company selling smart…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) called for the establishment of a seaport in Gaza Friday, as well as protesting poor conditions for Palestinian Arabs in the Palestinian Authority (PA). “Gaza residents have no international ports as of today,” Ariel stated, in an interview with Tel Aviv radio. “Why will they not get a harbor? What’s wrong…

Hamas has deployed additional security forces along its border with Egypt, a Hamas spokesperson announced Thursday night, in an apparent attempt to appease Cairo.  “National security forces started today to increase the number of its troops and double the security bases along all the southern border with Egypt to be able to control the border…

“This shall be the law of the Metzora on the day of his purification: He shall be brought to the Kohen” (14:2). Rabbi Nison Alpert T’ZL(1927-1986) brings down the Gemara in Arachin 15b quoting Resh Lakish to elaborate on this Posuk. “Resh Lakish said: “What is the meaning of that which is written, “This shall…

In response to fears that Mosul Dam in northern Iraq could collapse and wreak chaos on a catastrophic scale, a team of Italian technicians arrived at the facility on Thursday for desperate attempts to prevent it from failing. The advance team from Trevi Group, an Italian engineering firm, arrived ahead of other engineers set to…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has suspended his national Jewish outreach coordinator, Simone Zimmerman, after revelations that she had posted vulgarities about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Facebook, The New York Times reported Thursday. “She has been suspended while we investigate the matter,” Michael Briggs, a spokesman for Senator Bernie Sanders, wrote in an email…

Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and former chief negotiator with Israel, denied on Thursday the remarks by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman, who claimed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been holding covert negotiations with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas. “These things are not true. This is yet another lie…

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The Vatican said on Thursday that Pope Francis has no plans to meet with Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, when he speaks at a Vatican conference on Friday, The Associated Press reported. Sanders said last week he hopes to meet the pope while attending a conference on social and environmental issues, saying…

Hamas began deploying additional forces on the Gaza border with Egypt on Thursday, the interior ministry said, in an apparent effort to ease Cairo’s concerns about security. “National security forces started today to increase the number of its troops and double the security bases along all the southern border with Egypt to be able to…

Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara (Likud) told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no longer the central focus of the international community. Speaking from Paris, where he is currently visiting, Kara said that the war against radical Islam is an opportunity for cooperation between Israel and Arab countries. “We are promoting…

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that, during his recent trip to the Middle East, he heard many complaints about President Barack Obama’s leadership, Politico reports. Days after ruling himself out of White House contention, Ryan discussed his recent tour of the Middle East, which included a stop in Israel, and echoed complaints from foreign…

Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) offered a novel justification for the two-state solution Wednesday night, suggesting that the frighteningly high levels of anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Arabs validated her support for a Palestinian state. Livni’s comments came during a town hall meeting in Boston on Wednesday night. The event, which drew some 1,000…

JTA – Even before he was kicked out of Britain’s Labour Party for saying that Israel runs the Islamic State terrorist group, Bob Campbell was a marginal figure within the party. A former forest ranger and first-aid trainer from northern England, Campbell, 49, began his Labour career last year volunteering to help the campaign of…

Loading… A day after the IDF punished two soldiers for burning the PLO flag at the Awarta checkpoint near Shechem, rightwing activists demonstrated in front of army headquarters in Tel Aviv, burning the PLO flag and proclaiming their support for the two jailed soldiers. On Wednesday, Arab witnesses observed soldiers burning a PLO flag near…

A group of IDF air force, navy, and infantry cyber cadets recently took part in an intensive exercise modeled on the fantasy world of Harry Potter, the famous book series by J.K. Rowling, according to the IDF Blog. The IDF computer wizards were split into four groups, each named after one of the school houses…

Jewish tours of the Temple Mount have spiked in the last week, which is the first week of the Pesach vacation in schools countrywide. About 50 children visited the Mount Thursday, and almost 300 Jews ascended the Mount after ritual purification, including five grooms, a bride and a bar mitzvah boy, according to Temple group…

The IDF is operating inside of the Gaza Strip, according to reports by Arab media outlets. According to a report Thursday night by Ma’an, IDF heavy equipment was spotted just over the border with Gaza. Among the IDF assets reportedly operating in the area are D-9 combat bulldozers. At 5:54 warning sirens were heard in…

Since 2005 the Israeli Football League has hosted American-style football in Israel. Tonight the Judean ‘Rebels’ took on the Tel Aviv ‘Pioneers’, winning 32 to 14.

On Thursday a hearing was held in the case of the soldier arrested for the shooting of a wounded terrorist in Hevron. The parents of the accused soldier met with their son in court, in an emotional scene which highlighted the difficulties the family has struggled with since the investigation into the shooting began last…

The United States refused to say on Thursday whether or not it would support a Palestinian Authority (PA) proposal for a United Nations resolution to condemn Israeli “settlement building” — but ruled nothing out. “We understand that there is an early draft that the Palestinians have shared informally in New York,” State Department spokesman John…

Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists have seized a string of opposition-held villages in Syria’s Aleppo province near the Turkish border, a monitoring group said Thursday.   Areas around Aleppo have seen a spike in violence on several fronts in recent days, sparking concern over a fragile six-week truce as a new round of peace talks gets…

Opposition head and Zionist Union chairperson MK Yitzhak Herzog on Thursday sought to deal with his criminal corruption investigation with a humorous Facebook post – but he soon found himself the butt of the joke. “I’ve been going through some difficult days. Both of us have. We’ll get through this,” he wrote, in a post humorously…

The father of the soldier currently on trial for shooting a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron last month spoke to the press on Thursday, after a hearing in which his son’s arrest was extended yet again by another five days. On Thursday morning the military prosecutor officially served an indictment on manslaughter charges against the soldier. He has…

Speaking at a pre-Passover toast in Tel Aviv with the Union of Local Authorities, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned of efforts to trigger another escalation in terrorism, and urged local leaders to help “calm the mood.” Netanyahu, who recently noted a sharp downturn in the number of Arab terror attacks, warned local heads against becoming complacent. “We…

The IDF is preparing for the possibility of a fourth Hamas terror war from Gaza, drawing on the lessons learned in Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. A senior IDF officer in the Southern Command on Thursday said that the army is running drills to prepare for combat against Hamas forces. “Since the…

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid had some choice words for the newspaper Ha’aretz after the left-wing daily ran a ferociously anti-Israel article by left-wing extremist Gideon Levy. The piece, entitled “After me, for murder” – a mocking satire of the IDF slogan “after me” – offers the same sort of anti-Israel, anti-IDF screed that Levy has…

Color red rocket warning sirens were sounded on Thursday afternoon in the Gaza Belt region just adjacent to the Hamas-enclave of Gaza, even as IDF bulldozers reportedly were working just inside the security fence. Reports have yet to come in regarding how many rockets were fired or where they may have fallen. Security sources were…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas may have claimed to Israeli TV two weeks ago that he “extends his hand in peace,” but his Fatah movement made clear that terror remains its true goal. Fatah just this week and two weeks ago took to its official Facebook page to glorify two female Fatah-member suicide bombers,…

The Philippines Thursday dismissed as “propaganda” a claim by the Islamic State (ISIS) group that its terrorists had slaughtered nearly 100 soldiers and established a base in the mainly Muslim south where local militants are battling government forces. The US-based SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday ISIS said its “mujahideen blew up seven troop transports and killed nearly 100 enemy forces.” Earlier this week the Philippine…

Israel ought to go rogue on Iran, suggested a prominent British military expert on Tuesday, saying that the Jewish state was “an outpost of strength” that should target Iran’s nuclear program. In an address to the Gatestone Institute on Tuesday, Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp presented some of the most serious security challenges facing the West, praising…

Modern Portfolio Theory is important strategy that many financial advisors use to minimize risk and maximize returns for their clients. Today’s guest on The Goldstein on Gelt show is Dr. Harry Markowitz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Economics, who invented Modern Portfolio Theory.  Find out what Modern Portfolio Theory is and why it…

Security forces and civil administration arrived Thursday morning to the “Shchunat Gal” outpost near Hevron and demolished a fence, foundations for a barn and a building that served as a synagogue. As a result, clashes broke out between the demolition team and locals. Two minors were details but released shortly thereafter. Yisrael Bramson, acting mayor…

The Military Prosecution on Thursday morning officially served an indictment for manslaughter against the soldier who shot dead an injured terrorist in Hevron last month. The indictment requests an extension of the soldier’s remand under “open arrest” at his base. Defense attorneys petitioned the judge to release their client entirely, insisting he does not pose a…

Actor Morgan Freeman on Wednesday posted a Facebook profile photo in which he was smiling against the background of Jerusalem’s OId City, captioned as “Jerusalem, Israel”.  However, on Thursday the actor appeared to cave into anti-Israel attacks and removed “Israel” from under the photo description. Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was similarly attacked two weeks ago…

A popular Norwegian rap duo was accused of mainstreaming anti-Semitism by using “Jew” and Ariel Sharon as insults in its latest single. Karpe Diem, which has sold hundreds of thousands of CDs in Norway since its creation in 2000, released “Attitude Problems” last week, the online edition of the Verdens Gang daily reported Wednesday. “I…

Israeli forces raided a money changer in Ramallah early on Thursday, blowing up a safe and sparking a fire, which led to minor clashes, the army and witnesses said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said the pre-dawn raid was to “confiscate terror funds” held in the shop. She said the money changer “failed to comply with…

An American-made Iraqi army tank that locals have fondly nicknamed “The Beast” is playing a major role driving the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) from a town on the frontlines, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.   Baghdad-based spokesman Colonel Steve Warren recounted the exploits of the M-1 Abrams tank in Heet in response to a question…

Yisrael Beytenu chairperson MK Avigdor Liberman on Thursday responded after the military prosecutor officially indicted on manslaughter charges an IDF soldier who last month shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron. The soldier has testified he shot over concerns that the terrorist – who minutes earlier with an accomplice stabbed and wounded a soldier – was moving to detonate a hidden bomb…

Welfare and Social Services Minister Chaim Katz (Likud) on Thursday morning revealed that over 20,000 Holocaust survivors did not have their rights implemented, meaning they lost out on over 100 millions shekels (over $26.4 million) worth of welfare services. At a press conference that he organized, Katz called for an immediate plan of action to…

Belgians Interior Minister Jan Jambon made a controversial statement during his appearance on Belgian’s VTM News. When asked how it was possible that the terrorist network which was behind the attacks in Brussels, could hide for a long time in the heart of Brussels, Jambon replied: “Someone who is hiding and receiving support from the…

Amos Gilad, the director of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau at Israel’s Defense Ministry, on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that Hamas would start another war with Israel in the foreseeable future. Speaking at a conference at Hebrew University which dealt with the economic aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gilad estimated that a war will not…

Less than a year after he accepted a position at the American University of Beirut, it appears that Steven Salaita is out of work again. Salaita, who specialized in Native American studies, lost his job at the University of Illinois last year following a series of virulently anti-Israel tweets. Among other things, Salaita referred to…

A Florida prosecutor has decided not to prosecute Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski for battery after a March run-in with former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The decision not to press charges against Corey Lewandowski is scheduled to be announced on Thursday afternoon by Palm…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday met with Fox News host Megyn Kelly in New York City, the network said. According to the announcement, Kelly requested the meeting with Trump, which was held at Trump Tower, and would discuss the outcome of the meeting during her show. “FOX News Chairman CEO Roger Ailes has…

Former MK Eli Yishai on Wednesday evening related for the first time to the investigation against his longtime rival, Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri. Yishai was speaking at a special event for the holiday of Passover held by his current party, Yachad. Yishai left Shas before the last election and ran for the…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq and Syria is on the defensive and “their cause is lost,” President Barack Obama claimed Wednesday after meeting with CIA chiefs and other security officials. Obama paid a rare visit to CIA headquarters in Virginia to discuss progress of Operation Inherent Resolve, the 20-month-old American-led campaign against ISIS…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has notified Israel that it intends to begin issuing passports which bear the inscription “State of Palestine”, Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Currently, passports issued to residents of the PA bear the inscription “the Palestinian Authority”. A PA official quoted by Army Radio made clear that the move would go ahead…

Russia and China want the UN Security Council to demand states report when terrorists are developing chemical weapons in Syria, Reuters reported on Wednesday, but some diplomats dismissed the move as a bid to distract from accusations the Syrian government uses such arms. Russia and China circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member body which…

The IDF will place large concrete blocks on sidewalks and roads throughout Judea and Samaria, it announced Wednesday night, following an analysis of the current terror wave. The blocks will function much in the same way as ‘mile markers’ along major US highways: to provide additional information about a motorist’s – or potential terror victim’s…

Following remarks by The National Secular Society’s Executive Director on LBC Radio last week about government’s attempts to close Jewish faith schools, leading UK haredi community figure Rabbi Avrohom Pinter has called on Mr. Porteous Wood to resign his position. Wood claimed the classic anti-Semitic trope that ‘there is a very, very strong Jewish Lobby…

A revelation in the ongoing corruption case against Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) – the investigation has now been expanded to include the minister’s brother, Shlomo Deri. According to a report released Wednesday night, Shlomo Deri is suspected of two high-level financial crimes. Shlomo Deri was interrogated under warning on Tuesday in connection with the…

Russia on Wednesday pushed for measures at the United Nations to monitor extremist groups fighting in Syria, warning of a “clear and present threat” that they could stage chemical attacks, possibly in Europe. Russia and China presented a draft Security Council resolution that calls on all countries, in particular those neighboring Syria such as Turkey…

(JTA)  “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” is far more than a Jewish Horatio Alger story. It is that, of course — the film documents the story of an immigrant baker who came to the United States and started what ultimately became the largest (and now only) privately owned matzah company in the country. But…

JTA –  Like many before him, Asaf Galay will never forget the first time he heard Bob Dylan. It was right around the time of his bar mitzvah and Galay, who grew up in this city in a family of classical musicians, was a nice Jewish boy who was learning the violin. But once he…

Jewish-British playwright Arnold Wesker, a member of the “Angry Young Men” movement of the 1950s which pushed for more social theatre about working-class lives, has died aged 83, his family said on Wednesday. Prime Minister David Cameron and leader of the main opposition Labour party Jeremy Corbyn paid tribute at a weekly debate in parliament,…

Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, the rabbi of Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills in Queens, NY, and a member of both the Queens Rabbinical Council and the Rabbinical Council of America, gave a special Arutz Sheva interview this week about his community. The Kew Garden Hills community “has been growing since the 1950s,” he began, noting his father opened the…

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (JTA) — Like many Ukrainian mayors, Vlodymir Groysman used to visit his local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and Hanukkah. But unlike most of them Groysman, the former mayor of Vinnytsia, did not visit the synagogue as a political gesture. He was going in his private capacity as a member of his central Ukraine…

A group of IDF soldiers burned a Palestinian Authority (PA) flag at the Awarta checkpoint, near the Huwarra military base, on Wednesday, causing an uproar. Palestinian Arab witnesses have submitted a formal complaint to the IDF following the incident, Maan news reports.  IDF sources confirmed that the incident, which was reported in the Palestinian media, did indeed occur and…

Spanish police said Wednesday they had detained a French national suspected of heading a weapons trafficking ring that provided arms to Amedy Coulibaly, who staged a deadly attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris last year. In a statement, police said Antoine Denevi, a 27-year-old originally from the northern French region of Pas-de-Calais, was detained on Tuesday in the southern Spanish area of Malaga…

Israel is exporting $48.5 million in matzah and wine to Jewish communities across the globe, the Economy and Industry Ministry revealed Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.  The US imports the most matzahh – $7 million worth – with European countries importing a total of $5 million. Among the European importers the UK leads, at $1.7…

The terror wave may be slowing down, but IDF officials fear it may be the quiet before the storm, anticipating a spike in attacks during the Pesach holiday season and month of Ramadan. Since the so-called “knife-intifada” began last September, the number of terror attacks has dwindled, falling to nearly zero in the past few…

With the recent “wave of terror” in Israel beginning, by all accounts, to wind down, much of the media’s attention has already begun to shift away, onto the next story. But in areas worst-struck by Arab terrorism, residents and local businesses are only beginning the road to recovery. For Israelis this is a sadly familiar process, one they have become…

The Passover holiday brings with it a sense of cultural pride and an opportunity to rejoice with family. During this annual celebration, the Jewish nation unites to commemorate liberation from slavery in Egypt, to mark the gift of freedom in the Land of Israel, and to pay tribute to a glorious heritage. But for the…

The government may be in the hands of Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri – so says Professor Avi Diskin, head of the School of Management, Governance and Law at the Sha’arei Mishpat and Mada Academic Center. “These are two levels of crime, involving two very different allegations,” Diskin began. “From what we know, the accusations against Deri…

The current terror wave is national-religious magazine Mekor Rishon‘s fault, journalist Reno Tzror claimed Wednesday.  ”This ‘Intifada of the few’ with knives and scissors – which is fading away these days, at least to the naked eye – began after a large increase of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount,” Tzror said, during an Army Radio broadcast. “This was the match. It…

Israel’s police department welcomed its first Muslim Deputy Commissioner, Jamal Hachrush, in a ceremony on Wednesday. A native of the village of Kfar Kana, Hachrush has served in the Israeli police since 1978. Less than five years ago, Hachrush made another first, becoming the first Muslim Assistant Commissioner in the Israeli police. But the promotion…

A poll carried out by the Ruderman Family Foundation has found that only 6% of Israelis see Ted Cruz as the most pro-Israel candidate in the 2016 presidential race. About 33% of Israelis see Trump as the most pro-Israel candidate, while 31% see Hillary Clinton that way, 5% think Bernie Sanders is the most pro-Israel…

IDF Civil Administration forces accompanied by police officers arrived at Beit El in the Binyamin region of Samaria in the middle of the night on Tuesday night, where they demolished the home of the Aloni family. Arutz Sheva has learned that at 3 a.m. the forces knocked on the door of Uri and Inbal Aloni’s home,…

The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) recently broke the news that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had hired an avowed anti-Zionist as his national Jewish outreach director. Simone Zimmerman is a supporter of the extremist Jewish Voice for peace – which the ADL named as one of America’s top 10 anti-Israel hate groups – and an advocate for…

Hundreds of college students gathered across North America and Israel Saturday to conclude Shabbat with #SolidarityHavdalah, a campaign to show unity with their European peers facing anti-Semitism. The students came together at Brandeis University in suburban Boston, as well at more than a dozen other locations in North America, from Harvard to Emory, along with…

Three top members of Congress petitioned Iran to let them enter the country and inspect nuclear sites to ensure compliance with the nuclear deal, ahead of a speech by a leading Iranian diplomat in Washington, DC this Friday. The letter by the three Congressmen – Representatives Mike Pompeo (R-KS) who is a member of the House…

India’s approximately 5,000-member Jewish community is renewing its request for official government recognition as a minority group, submitting an application to the country’s minority affairs ministry. Official recognition would make it easier for Jews to register marriages, establish educational institutions and “practice and promote our culture,” Rabbi Ezekiel Isaac Malekar, the Delhi Jewish community’s head,…

A Tel Aviv high school principal will no longer send pupils on an annual educational trip to former concentration camps in Poland because of its perceived “ultranationalist” influence on the students. Zeev Dagani, principal of the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, also cited high costs and declining participation in explaining his decision, Haaretz reported Sunday. “Some of…

A number of UK Labour Party activists are pushing to change party rules to make it easier to ban anti-Semites from the party, which has been battered by a series of anti-Semitism controversies. Despite strong condemnations by leading Labour officials of the seemingly never-ending list of anti-Semitic incidents within the party – including Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell,…

Panic ensued in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning as an Egged bus caught fire, causing all passengers to be evacuated. The bus lit up while driving along Harozmarin Street, located in the Gilo neighborhood of southern Jerusalem, reports Channel 2. Firefighter teams and Magen David Adom (MDA) medics rushed to the scene, where they found that the…

A hundred members of Iraq’s parliament held a sit-in on Wednesday, demanding that the volatile country’s president, prime minister and parliamentary speaker all be removed. The parliamentary sit-in comes after a vote on a cabinet reshuffle the day before on Tuesday turned chaotic, amid outrage over how Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s promises to reform the…

The public reenactment of the Passover Sacrifice, which has become a popular spring-time event over the past few years, will be getting closer to the actual site of the Temple Mount next week. This year’s reenactment may prove to be an even more festive event than ever, as many new participants are planning to arrive…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group’s ranks have been pared back by international and local military action in Iraq and Syria to their lowest level since Washington began monitoring the group, a senior official said Tuesday. The comments from deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken came one day before President Barack Obama was due to convene…

The United States on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to peacekeeping efforts in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the White House said, amid reports that the Pentagon has is planning to cut the number of American peacekeeping troops in the peninsula, partly because of the growing threat from the Islamic State group White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Washington…

(JTA) — A Nazi-looted painting by the Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani is being sequestered in Geneva after its ownership was revealed in the Panama Papers. The ownership of the 1918 painting “Seated Man with a Cane” was disclosed earlier this month as part of the leak of the Panama Papers, some 11.5 million documents from…

The United States military is dropping “cyber bombs” on the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group for the first time as part of a stepped-up coordinated effort that has put increasing pressure on the militant group, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.  “Those guys are under enormous pressure. Every time we…

A day after cutting the funding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian Authority (PA) has done the same to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Ma’an news agency reported Tuesday. Sources in the DFLP, who spoke on condition of anonymity, condemned the decision, telling the…

(JTA) — Hillel International will launch operations in Poland, the organization serving Jewish college students announced. The opening of Hillel Warsaw is scheduled for April 18, on the eve of the 73rd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A delegation of Hillel International leaders and Jewish dignitaries from around the world will…

Iran and Italy signed a series of bilateral agreements during a visit by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to Tehran on Tuesday, signaling both countries’ desire to restore ties following this year’s implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, The Associated Press reported. The agreements included plans for cooperation between Italian electricity and gas company Enel…

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told The Jewish Week in an interview on Tuesday that “it is unfair to put the onus on Israel” for the lack of progress on the Middle East peace front. In a signal to Jewish voters she would be more openly supportive of Israel and tougher on Iran than President…

The Abayudaya community of Uganda is one step closer to being recognized as Jewish by the Israeli government. The community are not Jewish according to Halakha (Jewish law), as they converted in the early 2000s under the auspices of the US Conservative Movement, which does not follow traditional Jewish law. However, they have been openly identifying as…

A Boulder man accused of sending letters containing a suspicious white powder to two Jewish organizations in the Colorado city pleaded guilty. Jeffery Thomas Klinkel, 34, pleaded guilty late last month to one count each of felony menacing and using a hoax chemical or biological weapon, the Daily Camera reported Monday. He will be sentenced…

Anti-Semitism is “repulsive,” former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband stated Tuesday, amid an ongoing controversy surrounding rampant hatred of Jews in the country’s Labour party.  “It should not be the Jewish community’s fight alone. It is everyone’s fight, everyone’s responsibility,” Miliband stated, speaking at a dinner for the UK Jewish group, the Board of Deputies. The…

The Pentagon has confirmed reports it plans to cut the number of US peacekeeping troops in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the growing threat from the Islamic State group, an official said Tuesday. About 700 US troops participate in a UN operation established after Israel and Egypt signed a 1979 peace deal and agreed for…

(JTA) – Jewish voters are all over the map when it comes to their plans for voting in New York’s presidential primary on April 19. Except for New Square, the all-Hasidic village of 8,000 in Rockland County, about 30 miles north of Manhattan. In this insular haredi Orthodox community led by the Skverer rebbe, David Twersky,…

As the ‘Great Shabbat’ preceding Passover arrives this week, the nation of Israel is busily preparing for the glorious festival of Pesach,  marking the redemption of Israel from Egypt and their birth as a nation. But lest we forget that we are missing the entire point of the Passover seder, the Temple Institute has come…

Israel should attempt to make a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority (PA), Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz stated Tuesday night, or else it will remain “stuck.”  “Even if it doesn’t work, we at least have to try,” Gantz opined, during a Tel Aviv conference at the Institute for National Security. He added…

Twelve members of a France-based jihadist network that sent fighters to Syria were given prison sentences on Tuesday, including a woman who had taken her three children to join her husband there, AFP reports. The court in Paris heard that the group had become radicalized after attending a mosque in Villiers-sur-Marne in the Paris suburbs…

The massive influx of refugees into European Union countries and the resulting problems can have very problematic consequences for European Jews. As far as Israel is concerned it opens up new challenges and opportunities in its relations with Europe. This was the theme of a lecture given to a capacity audience that included former Amb.…

(JTA) — Twelve members of the New York City Council’s 14-member Jewish caucus have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The City Council members signed a joint statement on Tuesday, Jewish Insider reported. The signers are David Greenfield, Stephen Levin, Alan Maisel and Mark Treyger from Brooklyn; Barry Grodenchick, Daniel Garodnick, Karen Koslowitz and Rory Lancman…

Belgian prosecutors have charged two more men involved in last month’s Brussels bombings Tuesday, of participating in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder as perpetrators, co-perpetrators or accomplices. The men, identified as 32 year-old Smail F and 27 year-old Ibrahim F, rented out an apartment in the Etterbeek neighborhood of…

National Security Council (NSC) Counter-Terrorism Bureau, has issued updated travel guidelines for Israeli citizens during the upcoming Passover holidays. The guidelines extend from Passover to the festival of Shavuot 50 days later – a festive period which also includes Israel Independence Day and Lag Ba’Omer, and during which terrorist groups tend to exhibit a higher motivation…

MK Shuli Muallem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) made adamantly clear that Judea and Samaria are part of Israel Tuesday, during a meeting with German ambassador Dr. Clemens von Goetze. “The State of Israel is supported in totality by Germany, and it’s important not to lose that [support],” Muallem-Refaeli qualified, in a special interview with Arutz Sheva. “Germany supports Israel, and…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon will not be leaving Likud despite threats and incitement against him, he stated to the press Tuesday evening.  “There are among us kippah-wearers [i.e. national-religious Jews – ed.], some not – but there certainly are many who have wished evil upon us,” Ya’alon began. “We nevertheless will continue to lead the…

A senior official in Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has been killed in an apparent targeted assassination in Sidon, south Lebanon. General Fathi Zaydan was responsible for running the Palestinian camp of Mieh Mieh on the outskirts of the city. Lebanese security officials said he was killed by a bomb planted under his car. Pictures circulating on social…

Iran told visiting UN envoy Staffan de Mistura of its alarm Tuesday about what it said were ceasefire breaches in Syria on the eve of fresh peace negotiations in Geneva.   De Mistura’s visit to Tehran – a key backer of President Bashar al-Assad – coincided with an announcement of more Iranian military deaths in Syria.…

The only power plant in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip was at a standstill on Tuesday due to an ongoing shortage of fuel caused largely by a dispute over taxes, officials said. The plant has been closed since Saturday night when it ran out of fuel, said Ahmed Abu Al-Amreen, an official in the energy ministry.…

The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon rejected an appeal against the demolition of the home of the Arab terrorist who murdered an Israeli woman last January. Shlomit Krigman was stabbed to death in the attack, which also left another woman seriously wounded, outside a supermarket in Beit Horon. Two terrorists carried out the attack, armed…

A Palestinian Arab author condemned anti-Semitism last month, Palestinian Media Watch reports Tuesday – defying, on Palestinian Authority (PA) official television, the constant undercurrent of hatred against Jews the PA instills in its national consciousness.  “The world is trying to split us apart,” author Ounallah Abu Safieh stated in a March 14 interview. In his novel, Servant of the…

Corruption allegations against Opposition leader and Zionist Union chairman Yitzhak Herzog may cause a dramatic change in Israel’s political climate, MK and longtime Labor party leader Shelly Yechimovich opined Tuesday.  “There is no doubt that the situation is not good,” Yechimovich stated to Channel 2. “It’s causing damage to the party.”  “I’m sure Yitzhak will look…

Two Orthodox teenagers were verbally attacked in London on Monday. The pair, one aged 14 and the other 17, were walking in the Stamford Hill neighborhood when a strange man came at them yelling “Allah Akbar! F—ing Jews! Kill the Jews!” Though the assailant did not physically harm the two, he remained in the area…

In 2015, a 12-year-old female terrorist set out, knife in hand, to murder Jews in the Gush Etzion town of Carmei Tzur, near the site where three Israeli youths were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in 2014. Local security forces captured the young terrorist on the outskirts of town before she was able to…

More than one out of every three Muslims in the UK believe that “Jews have too much power,” a new survey has found. The poll, which was carried out by Britain’s Channel 4, found that anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are much more common among Muslims than among other Brits. In particular, British Muslims are more likely to…

The organization Kav Lachayim helped 22 sick children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs at the Kotel on Monday. Nine boys and 13 girls from all around Israel came to Jerusalem’s Old City, together with their families, mentors and assistants, in order to accept the mitzvot and responsibilities of being full-fledged Jews. The festivities began…

Two officials at the Haifa religious council have been suspended following revelations of misconduct. It has been alleged that the two officials systematically denied marriage registration requests from couples who had signed up through the Tzohar rabbinical organization. According to an investigation conducted by Channel 2, more than 100 couples from the Haifa area who…

A federal appeals court in New York will look into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) appeal against last year’s ruling that it must pay compensation to 10 families of terror victims with US citizenship. The earlier ruling, which took 11 years to achieve, ordered the PA to pay $665 million to the victims of terror attacks during the Second…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said there is an “urgent” need for a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, in an interview with AFP ahead of a multi-country diplomatic tour. “The Security Council is a very important subject because it has now become urgent due to settlement activities and…

Speaking at a security conference in Yad Binyamin, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) says that he is working to allow more Israeli citizens to receive gun licenses. His latest proposal is to relax the military background requirement to anyone who served in an infantry unit in the IDF. He also intends to ease the…

Two Russian military pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed near the central Syrian city of Homs, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, adding that the aircraft had not been under fire. “Two crew members died,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The crash of the Mi-28 attack helicopter happened in the early hours of Tuesday, the Ministry…

Dubai’s Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department has published a fatwa (Muslim religious ruling) forbidden Muslims from using open WiFi networks without permission, Associated Press reports. The official ruling declares that “There is nothing wrong in using the line if your neighbors allow you to do so, but if they don’t allow you, you may not use…

(JTA) — A major Jewish donor to Britain’s Labour Party said no big Jewish donor has given money to the party this year because they are “concerned about the direction the party is taking.” Michael Foster, whose family gave the party more than $570,000 during the 2015 general elections, wrote in an Op-Ed in the…

Vice President Joe Biden will address J Street’s annual gala next week, The Washington Post reports, marking the second time he has spoken to a national gathering of the organization. The gala dinner will take place on Monday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m., and will bring together more than 900 supporters of J Street. J…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, and Cyprus’s Ambassador to the UN Ambassador, Nicholas Emiliou, on Monday volunteered at a shelter in New York as part of International Good Deeds Day. “Reaching out and helping those less fortunate is deeply ingrained in the value system of the Jewish people,” said Danon, who added,…

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — The number of Brazilians who have “liked” Israel’s Ministry of Tourism Facebook profiles in Portuguese has exceeded 2 million. Israeli officials in Brazil said the achievement is the result of a strategy that puts strong effort on countries like Brazil, which has one of the world’s largest Christian populations. Today,…

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that he would “like to see a woman elected”, though he refrained from endorsing Hillary Clinton for the role, CNN reported. Speaking in an interview with Mic, which will be published in full on Tuesday, Biden stressed that both Democratic candidates are “totally qualified” to become the next president.…

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli cosmetics firm Ahava will be fully acquired by a Chinese investment group for $77 million. The Fosun Group on Sunday night in Jerusalem signed an agreement to purchase the Dead Sea skin care products company, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Ahava has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment…

Egypt informed Israel in advance of its intention to transfer the sovereignty over two islands in the Gulf of Aqaba to Saudi Arabia, Haaretz reported Monday night.  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had ceded the Sanafir and Tiran islands, off the coast of Eilat, to Saudi Arabia. The two islands provide Israel’s only access to…

Can you avoid stringent U.S. tax legislation aimed at Americans living abroad by renouncing your American citizenship? On today’’s show, Doug answers a letter from a listener asking how to deal with U.S. tax obligations and whether it is worthwhile to renounce American citizenship. Listen to the show for the link to an interview with…

New York City police have taken a man into custody in connection with the stabbing of an Israeli man last Friday. Marvin Taylor, a 24-year-old homeless man, was arrested on Sunday night in Manhattan. Taylor is suspected in Friday’s stabbing incident, which left 55-year-old Israeli tourist Abraham Fekete lightly wounded. Fekete had gotten lost trying…

Is Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat planning a takeover of the Likud? According to newly released recordings of a closed-door meeting, Barkat may have ambitions to become much more than just a Knesset member. The two-term mayor ran in Jerusalem municipal elections three times – 2003, 2008, and 2013 – as an independent, though he maintained…

The full testimony of the IDF soldier who last month shot dead a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron reveals the reasons he decided to shoot the attacker, who mere minutes earlier together with an accomplice stabbed and wounded a soldier. On Monday night Channel 2 published the transcription of the soldier’s testimony, which details his concerns that the…

Academia has long debated how much of the Tanakh (Torah, Prophets and Writings) was written before the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Babylonian exile, with exact dates of the compilation remaining a serious question for academic scholars. However, a new Tel Aviv University (TAU) study published in PNAS suggests that widespread literacy was…

(JTA) When I walked into the house through the back door one day as a young man, I was shocked to see my mother in the kitchen. To put it mildly, this was not one of her favorite places. When I asked her why she was there, a look of panic crossed her face. “Now…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Monday accused Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of cutting off its monthly funds, which it receives from the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Palestinian National Fund. PFLP, a Palestinian Communist terror organization, is the second largest faction in the PLO after Abbas’ Fatah. Unlike Fatah…

Yousuf Abd Al-Karim Al-Zinkawi, a writer for the Kuwaiti-based Al-Seyassah newspaper has called for Arab and Muslim countries to “immediately recognize Israel,” telling them to drop monikers used to maintain the pretense of non-recognition such as “the Zionist entity.” Al-Zinkawi, a frequent critic of religious intolerance within the Arab world, dedicated his column on Saturday to the…

It is the fascinating tale of a young frum entrepreneur who utilized his childhood experiences tracking predatory animals around his native Johannesburg, into a business philosophy that placed him onto the highest echelons of the speakers circuit for Microsoft and other corporate giants around the world. On June 1st, Kivi Bernhard will be at the…

(JTA) It might have been the last place you’d expect anger to erupt against the Bernie Sanders campaign. But at a Jews for Bernie brunch in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood on Sunday, the frustration seemed to boil over when some silver-haired Jewish supporters of Sanders began deriding what they described as the campaign’s lackluster response to…

A Stanford student who said that stereotypes asserting Jews “control the banks and the media” do not constitute anti-Semitism has announced that he would not run for re-election after his comments caused an uproar. During a hearing on renewing a resolution banning anti-Semitism last Tuesday, Stanford senior Gabriel Knight insisted that a clause which defines…

Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate and allied rebels pushed offensives around northern, central and coastal Syria on Monday, triggering a spike in violence that could threaten a truce ahead of peace talks, a monitoring group said. The Islamic State (IS or ISIS) group also took back control of the town of Al-Rai near Turkey, which rival rebels had…

A UK Labour Party councilor has resigned after being suspended for a series of anti-Semitic tweets, which included her enthusiastic praise of Adolf Hitler. Aysegul Gurbuz – a 20-year-old Muslim from Luton who was the town’s youngest ever councilor – stepped down despite denying the messages on her Twitter account were posted by her. Yet she also took…

Motti Yogev (Jewish Home), chair of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Judea and Samaria blasted Israel’s inaction over illegal Arab construction, and called upon the government to begin actively fighting the European Union’s campaign to establish facts on the ground. Citing the recently released comptroller’s report on the Civil Administration’s failure to enforce construction laws…

While the Turkish Foreign Ministry last Friday vowed that a rapprochement deal would be signed with Israel in the next meeting, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said Monday that Ankara won’t drop its demand to end the naval blockade on Gaza. “What happens in Gaza is unacceptable, the occupation by Israel must…

Hundreds of Israeli police officers and Border Police raided dozens of homes across the Israeli Arab towns of Taibe and Tira Monday morning in a massive operation targeting illegal weapons dealers and the gun smugglers who supply them. With the aid of tracking dogs, police uncovered massive arms caches stashed in the homes of suspected…

The Israel Tax Authority said Monday it was imposing a value added tax on local sales by international Internet-based firms, a change that could affect multinational giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. Prior to the new directive, a foreign company’s income from sales in Israel would be taxed only if the product was produced locally.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took a tour on Monday to the Golan Heights to see a drill by the reserve soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade, and during his visit he stopped at an outlook overlooking Syria. At the start of his tour Netanyahu was given an update on the drill by Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.…

Yehuda Valed, a member of the Liba Center working to strengthen Jewish identity in Israel, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday about the recent decision to bring 1,300 Ethiopian Jews to Israel this year. Those being brought in the aliyah are members of the 9,000 remaining Jews in the country, a number which primarily consists of Falash…

In recent years a number of Israeli rabbis have gained prominence for their work returning Jews to religious observance. These “kiruv” rabbis revolutionized the use of social media for religious education, and made a point of speaking to irreligious audiences, looking to bring them back to the faith. Now, however, two of the leading kiruv…

Michael Abramov, eulogized his 10-year-old son, Shimon, after he was hit by a bus while riding his bicycle in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. “He was always smiling and full of life, he respected his parents, was sensitive and full of kindness,” said Michael. “We haredim believe that the Almighty has a plan…

In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan made it clear that his agency will not engage in harsh “enhanced interrogation” practices, including waterboarding, even if ordered to by the next president. “I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques…

A surprising proportion of the population supports segregating Israeli Jews and Arabs in hospital maternity wards, a new poll reveals Monday.  69% of respondents to a TACK poll on the subject viewed the idea as “legitimate”; just 31% believe the segregation is “illegitimate.”  90% of haredi and national-religious respondents supported the move, as did 74%…

The oldest glass kilns ever discovered in Israel were unearthed at the foot of Mount Carmel near Haifa – exposing an ancient, global glass-production center which serviced the entire Roman Empire. The extraordinary archaeological discovery was revealed during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation prior to the construction of a road being built at the initiative of the…

During a rally in Rochester, New York, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump publicly declared his plan to outwit Iran. He began by noting that the US handed over Iran’s frozen assets following last year’s nuclear deal, yet the Islamic Republic was not able to spend that money in the US because of Washington’s sanctions against Tehran. “Now…

Every year, Magen David Adom (MDA) teams treat injuries that occur during cleaning and preparation for the Passover holiday. In 2015, MDA paramedics treated 2 children for chemical burns caused by cleaning supplies, and a 40-year-old woman died after she fell from her balcony while she was cleaning windows. In order to look after your safety…

Two Israeli Jews were arrested overnight Sunday/Monday, as part of an ongoing investigation by the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet). One of the arrestees, an IDF soldier, was arrested by Military Police while on base.  Both detainees have been prohibited from meeting with legal counsel, legal rights organization attorney Hai Bar stated Monday, under…

Iran received its first shipment of S-300 long-range surface-to-air missiles from ally Russia, Tasnim news agency reported Monday.  “We had already announced that despite several changes in the time of delivery, the deal is on its path of implementation and today I should announce that the first part of this equipment has arrived in Iran and delivery of…

Palestinian arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas have already set plans for the “next intifada,” Walla! News reports Monday – even as Barghouti sits in an Israeli prison cell.  Plans to overthrow “the Israeli occupation” include “non-violent” moves to retake lands Israel liberated after the 1967 Six-Day War – i.e. Judea, Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem – and make…

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau will be celebrating his 79th birthday in less than 3 months – and according to a report by Merkaz Hainyanim newspaper, he declared that when reaches the age of 80, he intends to step down from his position as the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv. A number of candidates hoping to win…

Lebanese authorities have detained two Lebanese employees of a Beirut airport service company over contacts with “terrorist parties”, security sources said on Sunday, according to Reuters. Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter said last month that Beirut airport needed at least $24 million to address pressing gaps in security, including a new perimeter wall…

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A new provision in the bill funding assistance for the elderly directs the federal government to issue guidance to states on serving Holocaust survivors. The Jewish Federations of North America lobbied for the inclusion of the provision in the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act, which was first approved in 1965. In…

All sides in Yemen’s year-long war have pledged to honor a UN-brokered ceasefire which took effect at midnight Sunday, AFP reported. Fighting over the past year has killed thousands, displaced 2.4 million, and drawn in Yemen’s neighbors. The chief of staff of forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi confirmed “the ceasefire has taken effect”…

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) on Sunday night welcomed the decision to close the investigation against Binyamin Brigade Commander Col. Yisrael Shomer, who last July 3 shot dead an Arab rock thrower who attacked his car as he drove through Kalandiya in northeastern Jerusalem. “The decision is very important because it makes clear to…

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has won the European Museum of the Year Award. The 2016 winner was announced at a ceremony on Saturday in San Sebastian, Spain. The museum opened to the public in April 2013. Its core exhibition, presenting the thousand-year history of…

(JTA) — The Italian Jewish community is making available low-cost Passover care packages to aid struggling families. In cooperation with several kosher food producers, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, is putting together 500 cartons containing seder fixings and other kosher-for-Passover products — among them matzah, wine, cold cuts and sweets. The packages…

The World Food Program said on Sunday it had carried out its first ever successful high-altitude airdrop, to deliver 20 tons of food aid to the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. A previous attempt to drop aid to the city where 200,000 people have been living under siege by the Islamic State (ISIS) group…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is hoping that the United States will not veto its UN resolution condemning Israeli “settlements” with President Barack Obama in his last months in office. Speaking to The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday, PA Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the hope is that Obama, freed of re-election concerns, will break with…

(JTA) In January 2015, Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff was stuck in Buenos Aires when his phone rang. He’d been planning a trip to New York but a storm had canceled all flights, and Polakoff, the rabbi of Cordoba, a province in central Argentina, was cooling his heels at his sister’s house. A woman he didn’t know…

Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Oren Hazan (Likud) has proven to be outspoken since joining the Knesset, and on Sunday he made a serious accusation, charging Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) with planning a leftist breakaway party. Speaking to Walla, Hazan said, “in recent days I hear from sources close to him (Ya’alon) that he is on his…

The father of the IDF soldier who shot dead a wounded terrorist in Hevron last month condemned incitement against Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud), and then continued by criticizing Ya’alon’s incitement against his son. In a letter to the Defense Minister, the father wrote: “I find it appropriate to oppose the incitement campaign being waged against…

Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Bernie Sanders both scored weekend victories against their front-running rivals in a tightening race as the two major parties prepare to pick their White House nominee. Cruz, the Texas Senator, chipped away at Donald Trump’s lead by taking all 13 Colorado delegates at stake in a state Republican convention Saturday, notching his fourth win in a row…

The Palestinian Authority’s “anti-economic crimes unit” in Ramallah filed Sunday an indictment against two Palestinian companies that marketed Israeli products. The PA has banned the goods for sale in PA-controlled territories. The names of the two Palestinian companies were not disclosed. The indictment is based on the PA government’s decision to impose a ban on five…

Four men were arrested in connection with an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish family in London on Friday. According to reports, a 28-year-old Jewish man was driving with his family through London’s Blackwall Tunnel, when the four occupants of a car driving alongside him began shouting vile racist death threats and threw eggs at their car. The…

According to Arab reports five diggers were killed on Sunday in a tunnel collapse at the city of Rafiah, located in southern Gaza on the border with the Sinai Peninsula. The deaths were reported by Palestinian media cited by Walla, and mark the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months. The last collapse, which came in mid-March,…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday called for a more “balanced” American Middle East policy, deeming Israel’s actions in the 2014 Gaza war “disproportionate.” “The only way we succeed (in the Middle East) is that if the United States plays the role which is of course we are going to support Israel, but you…

Israel just last Friday eased shipping limitations for Gaza despite the threat of weapons smuggling, and the very same day a senior Hamas head threatened naval commando attacks against Israel from the sea. The Gaza fishermen’s union last Friday announced Israel had promised to extend the distance off the southern Gaza coast that Gazan fishermen can sail…

The chief military prosecutor has decided to close the investigation against Binyamin Brigade Commander Col. Yisrael Shomer, who last July 3 shot dead an Arab rock thrower who attacked his car as he drove through Kalandiya in northeastern Jerusalem. The IDF, along with other Israeli officials, had initially backed Shomer over his actions, noting the danger to his…

  Loading… An 8-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood on Sunday afternoon. A Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedic that arrived at the scene described how “A boy of about 8 years of age was lying on the side of the road near a bus and a…

A Saudi Arabian TV host has urged Muslims to face up to the fact that Islamic terrorists are indeed Muslims, and do more to combat the phenomenon instead of denying it. In a rare – and scathing – moment of introspection for an Arab TV host, Nadine Al-Budair insisted no one should be surprised that Islamist terrorists…

At a Cabinet meeting on Sunday a senior Israeli Security Agency (ISA) official spoke about the ongoing Arab terror wave since last September that has already claimed the lives of 34 victims, and echoed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in hailing a decline in the attacks. The official said that in general there has been a meaningful decline…

Department for Education (DfE) officials in the United Kingdom are under investigation, after it was revealed that documents which allegedly contained evidence about Jewish boys being sent to illegal religious schools were destroyed, according to The Independent. The report claims that officials shredded documents which contained records of haredi boys leaving mainstream education in the…

Ahead of the Passover holiday coming up in just under two weeks, the Israeli PJ Library reading readiness program is distributing a special new version of an old classic holiday song. Arutz Sheva spoke to the program’s education director Sylvia Kamowitz-Hareven to learn more. Kamowitz-Hareven explained that Israeli PJ Library is putting out a special book version of…

The Ministry of Health issued a warning on Sunday regarding consumption of specific alcoholic beverages that are considered dangerous and pose health risks. Joint operations carried out by the Department for Enforcement and the Ministry of Health discovered several fake alcoholic beverages in kiosks in Rishon Letzion and Tel Aviv. The beverages include Stopka vodka,…

Police in Orlando, Florida conducted a massive search with helicopters and search dogs to try and locate two Jewish high school girls from Miami, who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. Later on Sunday the two were found by a helicopter alive and well. Rivka Moshe and Bracha Katz, both 16-year-old students at the Lubavitch Educational Center’s…

An IDF force conducting routine operational activities adjacent to the security fence in northern Gaza came under fire by terrorists in the Hamas enclave on Sunday afternoon. Fortunately no soldiers were wounded in the incident. The IDF is conducting searches in the area to try and locate the assailants. The shooting on Sunday comes after a…

In new research published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) investigative reporter Pinhas Inbari unveils the power hierarchy ruling the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism – and reveals that a relatively unknown group is actually calling the shots. Inbari spoke to Arutz Sheva about his research, which found that it isn’t the Palestinian Authority (PA)…

Social Welfare Minister Haim Katz (Likud) intends to oppose a comprehensive aid package to strengthen Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, he announced last week – stating that the aid package, while helpful, does not do enough to strengthen the region or provide housing for its citizens.  “Of course the program itself is welcome and necessary,”…

Ted Cruz is making a play for Jewish Republicans, hoping to pick up support from donors and bundlers disaffected by Donald Trump’s statements on Israel and support from white supremacists like David Duke. On Saturday the Texas Senator spoke at the annual meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Cruz warned listeners that…

A local councilor in England has been suspended from the Labour Party after posting a string of virulently anti-Semitic tweets, in the latest in a seemingly unending list of anti-Semitism scandals to hit the left-wing party. Aysegul Gurbuz’s Twitter message lauding Adolf Hitler as the “greatest man in history” was exposed by Britain’s Daily Mail, and provoked…

Israeli farmers are destroying their produce en masse and calling on the government to shut down imports in a bid to raise prices. According to TheMarker, Israeli farmers growing cucumbers, one of the country’s most popular vegetables, began destroying their own produce last Wednesday in an effort to restore prices to the levels reached last…

Adolf Hitler’s house will become Austrian state property, Vienna announced Saturday – in a move for the public’s protection. Hitler’s image has become an icon of white supremacy for neo-Nazi groups – getting stronger, like aging wine, as the decades pass.  As such, seizing Hitler’s home prevents neo-Nazis in Austria from using the home as…

Alleged separation between Israeli Jews and Arabs in hospitals is a “cancer” which will infect Israel’s international standing, Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) opined Sunday – and called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yaakov Litzmann (United Torah Judaism) to stop it.  “The cancer of racism makes a mark on the…

Former Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer issued a formal response in court via his lawyers, to charges of bribery leveled against him. Prosecuting attorneys were not present at the hearing Sunday morning due to a prosecution service national strike. The indictment against Ben-Eliezer, who served as a Labor Party MK between 1991-1999 and again from 2001-2014,…

A freak fireworks accident during a Hindu New Year festival has killed at least100 people Sunday, injuring 200 more.  One stray firework caused a chain reaction, provoking a rack of fireworks to explode inside the Puttingal temple in Paravur, Kerala, India at about 3:30 am local time, officials said. A section of the building collapsed; electrical lines were also knocked…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened his weekly Cabinet meeting with a positive note Sunday, stating that terror attacks are on the decline after months of escalation.  “We will hear today an Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet – ed.) study which shows a significant drop in terror,” Netanyahu began. “I say this with great…

Bentzi Gopshtain, head of the controversial Lehava anti-assimilation organization, was acquitted on Sunday by a Jerusalem district court of assault charges. The charges stem from an incident in 2008 in Gopshtain’s home town of Hevron. Leftwing activists and local Arabs climbed a security fence separating the Givat Avot community from the surrounding Arab neighborhood. Among…

Michael Fragin gives you insight and analysis on the circus that people are calling the 2016 Presidential Primary. Loading… To listen to previous shows go to N.S.N. – click here

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming caucuses on Saturday, giving him eight wins in the last nine contests, The Hill reports. The state awards just 14 delegates on a proportional basis, but the win is another jolt of momentum for Sanders heading into the critical New York primary April 19. With 96 percent…

Iran’s defense minister on Saturday blasted Secretary of State John Kerry’s for what he called his “foolish” accusations that Tehran is “destabilizing” the Middle East, AFP reports. If the United States seeks “stability” it should “leave the region and stop supporting terrorists,” Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said, quoted by the website of state television. “If…

MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) made clear on Saturday night that she against her party joining a unity government headed by Binyamin Netanyahu. “I object to joining this government,” she wrote in a letter to party members. “We have nothing in common with the government, and those who are members of it are partners to…

A third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could turn their backs on their party in November’s presidential election if he is denied the nomination in a contested convention, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Saturday found. The poll, conducted between March 30 and April 8, asked Trump’s Republican supporters two questions: if Trump wins the…

Belgian authorities have filed charges against four people suspected of being involved in the terror attacks in Brussels. On Friday, the “suspect in white” who escaped after the airport attack was also caught. Police had been searching for him since last month’s attack. He is believed to have worked with the suicide bombers as well as…

A four-year-old child died on Saturday, after a large television in the family home fell on her. Anan Halaf, an MDA paramedic who was at the scene, explains: “When we arrived at the house we saw a large, broken TV on the floor. Near it was an unconscious girl with a bad injury to her…

Belgian authorities say that a suspect arrested on Friday has admitted to being the “man in the hat” filmed with two suicide bombers only minutes before they attacked the Zaventem airport. “He confessed his presence at the crime scene. He explained having thrown away his vest in a garbage bin and having sold his hat afterward,”…

Facebook temporarily banned an Australian gym called IDF Training after the owner responded to an anti-Semitic message. The Australian news site The Age reports that someone posted an offensive comment on the gym’s Facebook page, calling the owner a “pig f—-er” and declaring that “Australia is against israel [sic].” The owner, Avi Yemini, responded by sharing a the post, with the…

MK Eitan Broshi (Zionist Union) has commented on recent statements made by his fellow party members. “The Labor-Zionist Union party is the movement that created the State of Israel and it represents an alternative to the government. It is a movement whose basic values include security; a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state; a prosperous society; education and culture for…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) is denouncing the threats made against Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud), though she claims they came from Ya’alon’s own party. “I understand that those who are publishing the incitement come from the Likud. They should put things in order,” she told Channel 2. Ya’alon was threatened for condemning the soldier who…

A survey by Channel 2‘s Meet the Press found that 34 percent of respondents support separating Jewish and Arab women in hospital maternity wards. Sixty-one percent opposed the practice, while five percent were undecided. Despite this, 82 percent said they are comfortable with being treated by an Arab doctor and only 13 percent said they would…

The US Air Force on Saturday deployed Cold War-era B-52 bombers to bolster the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, stepping up efforts to defeat the extremists. The B-52 Stratofortress aircraft, which arrived in Qatar, were based in Saudi Arabia and last flown operationally in May 2006 as part of the war in Afghanistan, air force officials said. “The B-52…

An explosion in Istanbul has wounded three people, official Turkish news reports. All three are now hospitalized. The incident occurred near a bus station in the central Mecidiyekoy district, only hours after the US released a new travel warning about “credible threats” in the country. Israel issued an even more severe notice on Friday, advising…

With Passover just weeks away, Jewish households around the world are purchasing or making their matzot (unleavened bread) for the festival. One of Judaism’s oldest customs, the baking of matza goes back to the Jewish exodus from Egypt.  Ever since, Jews often went to great trouble to bake their cracker-like bread. Jewish communities in Europe and…

Russia has secured the release of an American citizen detained in war-torn Syria and has handed him over to American authorities, Moscow’s foreign ministry said Friday, according to AFP. Meanwhile in Washington, the State Department thanked Russia for its assistance in the case of a man who was abducted in 2012 after crossing the border…

Israelis are being warned to leave Turkey “immediately”, according to a new warning issued Friday evening by the Counter-Terrorism Bureau. The warning calls on Israelis staying in Turkey to leave the country immediately, due to concrete information about the intention by terrorists to carry out an attack against Israelis. This is the third travel warning…

Dr. Sam Minskoff reacts to a survey that suggests Jews belong in the Diaspora rather than in Israel. We invite you to have your say on this controversial subject.    Loading… Click here to download the podcast

Belgian authorities have arrested a fugitive suspect in the November 13 Paris attacks, French police officials said on Friday, according to The Associated Press. The suspect was nabbed after a raid Belgian authorities said was actually linked to the deadly March 22 Brussels bombings. The suspect, Mohamed Abrini, is believed to be the mysterious “man…

A Hasidic man was slashed in the face and the arms during a robbery at a Nolita train station early Friday, The New York Daily News reported. The victim, who is in his 50s and only speaks Yiddish, was on the southbound No. 6 platform at the Bleecker St. station about 3:30 a.m. when a…

Syrian mediators reached an agreement Friday for the release of some 300 cement workers kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, a monitor said, but it was unclear exactly how many were freed. ISIS abducted the employees on Monday from Al-Badia cement factory outside the town of Dmeir, around 50 kilometers (30 miles) east…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ambassador to the UN on Friday confirmed reports that the Palestinians are discussing a new draft UN resolution with Arab countries to confront Israel over its construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, AFP reported. The UN Security Council failed in 2011 to adopt such a resolution after the United States…

A Lebanese military court sentenced former information minister Michel Samaha to 13 years in prison with hard labor on Friday for attempting to carry out “terrorist acts,” a judicial source told AFP. He was convicted of transporting explosives to carry out attacks and assassinations of political and religious figures in Lebanon with the help of Syrian security services. Samaha, who was information…

New testimony has been received in the case of the soldier who two weeks ago shot dead a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron, minutes after the terrorist and an accomplice stabbed and wounded a soldier. The soldier’s commander, who is the Kfir Battalion Commander, gave testimony strengthening the soldier’s version of events in an investigation by…

For a hard-core segment of travelers to Jerusalem, when the sun sets at the Sabbath, the magic in the air is not just the serene image of a peaceful dusk in an enchanted land. It is the empowering knowledge that the sun still shines on a Jewish State surrounded by fiery military and diplomatic turmoil.…

Russian army sappers in bulky protective suits slowly sweep their mine detectors through the ancient ruins of the Syrian world heritage site of Palmyra following its recapture from jihadists. Just over a kilometer (half a mile) away a sudden explosion sends a cloud of smoke and dust into the air as experts working in a specially dug blast pit detonate the latest abandoned…

Yesh Atid chairman and former Finance Minister MK Yair Lapid published a scathing critique of US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday, following Sanders’s claim that Israel “killed 10,000 Palestinians” during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in 2014.  “The problem with the claim made by the senator isn’t so much the factual mistake —…

Pope Francis, who has long revealed his liberal positions through interviews, came out on Friday in an official statement calling on Catholics to be more accepting of homosexuals as well as divorced Catholics. While he didn’t change official church doctrines in his paper, which is an “apostolic exhortation” instructing Catholics on how to live, the pope…

A stabbing attack was prevented by alert Border Police officers in Jerusalem on Friday, as they arrested an Arab terrorist on his way to the Damascus Gate of the Old City. The terrorist, aged around 25, aroused the suspicions of the officers as he walked along Hanevi’im Street towards the Damascus Gate. The officers checked him…

Arutz Sheva’s Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com at this time in honor of the Sabbath. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 18:24 Summer Time (Friday). Arutz Sheva’s North American desk will continue to keep you informed until just before candle lighting time in New York at 19:10 EDT. The time posted…

Law enforcement officers typically save citizens from crime – and danger to the public.  But one Indiana State Trooper took his job to a new level: trying to “save the souls” of the motorists he pulled over.  Senior Trooper Brian Hamilton of Connersville was dismissed earlier this week, the Associated Press reports, over two separate incidents of…

The leader of a major Jewish organization in the UK has called on Labour to take responsibility for a stream of anti-Semitic remarks Thursday, after multiple incidents with MPs and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.  “In the last few weeks we have witnessed a stream of clear cut cases of anti-Semitism in the Labour party, which can’t just…

Two El Al international flights were delayed on Thursday night and Friday morning, and inconvenienced passengers report they were told the pilots simply didn’t show up to work – a report that the airline quickly denied. An El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Barcelona that was scheduled for take off at 9 a.m. on…

Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) sources revealed on Friday that covert talks being held with Israel are not only discussing a pullout of the IDF from Ramallah and Jericho, but indeed from all Arab cities in Judea and Samaria.  Early last month, Haaretz revealed that secret contacts were being held between top IDF brass and senior PA sources about removing the…

“Speak to the Children of Israel, saying: When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male, she shall be contaminated for a seven-day period as during the days of her separation infirmity shall she be contaminated.”(12:2) The first question that arises is why is there any type of Tumah (contamination) at all in one…

If you were to visit quaint Harakefet Street, located in the Ramat Menachem Begin neighborhood of southeastern Tzfat (Safed), your eyes would behold a puzzling spectacle – the street sign can’t make up its mind what the small and quiet residential street is called. The baffling typo was reported by Channel 2 on Friday, which revealed that while…

Debates on abortion in the US show how far behind Israel remains regarding women’s issues, Dr. Eli J. Schussheim, head of the Efrat organization, opined in an Arutz Sheva interview Friday.  Schussheim, who returned recently from a tour in the US and Canada promoting his Efrat organization to save fetal lives, lamented that Israeli politicians “hide” from the…

Anti-American sentiment in Iraq remains strong, a State Department report revealed this week, to the point of widespread belief in conspiracy theories.  One-third of Iraqis believe that the US “supports terrorism in general or ISIL [ISIS] specifically,” the report, based on information from October and November 2015, reveals. About 40% believe that the US is “working to destabilize…

An Egyptian court has handed a life sentence to a local man for burning a police station in violent riots back in 2013. There’s only one problem – the man was shot dead by security forces during the riot. According to a report by The New Arab on Friday, the court sentenced Ahmad Abdel Wahed Safawy this…

Albert Einstein quietly fumed at the US for not doing more to stop the Nazis, a letter being auctioned later this month reveals.  “You can imagine how the new crimes committed by the Nazis in France make me suffer, crimes assisted to by the ‘fascist’ Vichy-traitors,” Einstein wrote, in a letter dated September 3, 1942.…

Revital Smotrich, the wife of MK Betzalel Smotrich (Jewish Home), issued an open letter on Friday morning following the backlash she and her husband have received for calling for Jewish and Arab women to have the option of separate pregnancy wards at hospitals. On Tuesday Smotrich said separate rooms should be an option while noting on noisy…

(JTA) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has not followed through on promises to investigate Hasidic Orthodox yeshivas accused of not educating its students in basic subjects, an advocacy group has charged. On Wednesday, the Young Advocates for Fair Education accused the de Blasio administration of delaying an investigation out of fear that…

When we read it in Parshat Bo this year, it was still about three months away. When we read it this Shabbat – and we say THIS MONTH, we really mean it. 28% of the years – Shabbat IS R”Ch Nissan.  The molad of Nissan – as announced last week – is/was Thursday, April 7th,…