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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he would be supporting Donald Trump for president in the April 19 Republican primary. “I support Trump. I’m gonna vote for Trump,” Giuliani told The New York Post. Giuliani said he expects Trump will get more than 50 percent of the statewide vote and amass a…

The United States is open to a “new arrangement” with Iran for peacefully resolving disputes such as its recent ballistic missile tests, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, according to The Associated Press. Kerry’s comments came as he met with the foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council to advance a series of…

(JTA) — A 92-year-old survivor of seven German concentration camps participated in a Reddit Ask Me Anything question-and-answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story. Henry Flescher of Aventura, Florida, participated in the forum with the help of his grandson, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday. He had not heard of the social news-sharing…

An Egyptian court postponed on Thursday the third session in the final trial of former president Hosni Mubarak on murder-related charges after he failed to show up to the High Court building in downtown Cairo, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported. The court adjourned the retrial until November 3, and ordered that it be moved to a…

(JTA) — A former SS guard died a week before he was scheduled to go on trial for his alleged role in the murder of more than 1,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Ernest Tremmel’s death was announced Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Tremmel, 93, was scheduled to go on trial…

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli Scout Movement held a memorial service for Taylor Force, the American graduate student killed in a terror attack in Tel Aviv. The event Thursday marked 30 days — the shloshim mourning period in Judaism — since the March 8 death of Force, an MBA student at Vanderbilt University who…

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday denied that he claimed Israel killed 10,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, CBS New York reported. During an interview this week with the New York Daily News, the Jewish senator from Vermont said that “10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does…

(JTA) Afikomen hunts, a rambunctious pup and the catchy classic “Dayenu.” All are featured in a half-dozen new Passover books for children that will inform and entertain even the littlest kid – or a whole herd of ’em. The eight-day holiday kicks off this year on the evening of April 22. Why not pick up a new…

China’s Fosun International reported to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Thursday morning that it agreed to buy a 15% stake in the Dead Sea cosmetics manufacturer Ahava from B. Gaon Holdings Ltd. The 290 million shekel ($76 million) deal is expected to be signed on Sunday. Other major shareholders in Ahava include the US Shamrock Fund, the…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group was accused Thursday of kidnapping more than 300 employees of a cement factory in Syria, in the latest mass abduction by the jihadists. ISIS attacked the town of Dmeir, east of Damascus, after suffering a series of territorial losses at the hands of regime troops in recent weeks, including in the ancient city of Palmyra. In another…

After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu relented on Thursday to their protest by agreeing to have 1,300 Ethiopian Jews brought home to Israel this year, Likud MKs Avraham Neguise and David Amsalem celebrated the approaching aliyah. The two MKs refused to vote with the coalition in protest since early March, when Netanyahu’s office canceled the Knesset decision from last…

Administrative detainee Meir Ettinger – who has been jailed without trial or charges for over eight months – and his lawyer demanded the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) suspend an officer Ettinger claims abused him. Sources close to Ettinger claim that since Monday, the day of his firstborn son’s brit milah (circumcision), the officer in question abused Ettinger on a number…

How does somebody who has always been organized and plans things in advance spontaneously make Aliyah? What drives a person to become a professional organizer and life coach? How does a naturally organized person help people who have no such skills without judging them? Miriam Gold helps people get their lives and their homes together as the founder of Gold…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is taking action in the wake of a heated anti-Semitic student meeting at Stanford University, after an Associated Students of Stanford University discussion debated whether “Jews control the banks and the media” is a “valid” claim.   “ADL is consulting with students, faculty and other partners on campus who are directly impacted towards taking a number of…

Leah Hasno, the daughter of Avraham Hasno, is not consoled by the impending demolition of the home of the Arab terrorist who murdered her father. “It is absurd that they’re going to check the measurements of the house and what they can demolish and what not to demolish,” Hasno told Arutz Sheva on Thursday, after IDF engineering…

Parents and students from Princeton, New Jersey, have expressed outrage after a group of students posted photos on social media playing a game of “Jew vs Nazi” beer pong. The twisted game is similar to the popular drinking game except the cups are arranged in the shape of a swastika and a Star of David. Other…

The latest round of reconciliation talks between Israel and Turkey which was held in Europe on Thursday ended without any significant progress. Diplomatic officials told Arutz Sheva that the meeting between Israeli officials Yosef Ciechanover and Yaakov Nagel and officials in Ankara dealt with issues still in dispute between the sides, but no consensus was…

Officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education organized a “chain of readers”, a popular way in the PA to commemorate terrorist Bahaa Alian who together with another terrorist killed 3 Israeli civilians on a bus in Jerusalem last October, at a PA school for boys in Qalqiliya. According to Palestinian Media…

Senior sources in the Israeli security establishment accused Turkey on Thursday of playing a “double game” in rapprochement talks with Israel, even as the negotiating teams on both sides met the same day in an undisclosed location. “There isn’t really anyone to talk with in Turkey. At this point they’re using us to pressure the…

Israel’s five desalination plants along its coast produce more than 600 cubic meters of water each year, and 75% of water used in homes is desalinated. Given the water shortages threatening much of the world, what could be the problem with this method? The answer is: Heart disease and consequent higher death rates, caused by…

Vienna’s famous Leopold Museum on Thursday settled a long-running feud over five Nazi-plundered drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele with the descendants of the works’ Jewish former owner. The museum said it had agreed to return two of the watercolors – including a self-portrait of Schiele – to the New York-based heiress of Viennese art collector Karl Maylaender who was deported…

According to local media reports, vandals spray-painted swastikas on many tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Petrozavodsk, Russia. Dmitry Zwiebel, a community leader from the northwestern Russian city, announced that he would submit a formal complaint to law enforcement agencies. “Such acts have not happened in Petrozavodsk for several years. We thought that such behavior…

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjoern Jagland, has pledged support for the renovation of Jewish cemeteries during a visit on Tuesday to the to the newly fenced Jewish cemetery in the town of Frampol, Poland. Jagland visited the cemetery to show general support for Jewish cemetery preservation and specific efforts of the…

A key Likud minister said Thursday that the government is at risk of collapsing if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s narrow coalition of 61 MKs – the smallest majority possible – is not enlarged soon. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan’s comments came amid claims that talks have taken place between Netanyahu and the opposition Zionist Union on joining the coalition. Speculation over such a move began shortly…

Head of the Opposition and chair of the Zionist Union party MK Yitzchak Herzog responded Thursday to the comments made by MK Zuhair Bahloul of his party, who earlier in the day reiterated his claims that the Arab terrorist who two weeks ago stabbed a soldier in Hevron was not a “terrorist.” In the attack the…

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted in Israel on suspicions of sexual assault, was finally arrested in South Africa where he has been hiding out on Thursday. Israel is expected to request his extradition. Attorney Sharon Nahari, Berland’s representative who led to his release when he was previously arrested in Amsterdam around two years ago, said, “we…

In a talk to hundreds of philanthropists and foundation representatives, former Facebook spokesperson and marketing director Randi Zuckerberg credited Shabbat and other Jewish concepts for some of her main pieces of business advice. Zuckerberg told the crowd that she was bemused by those who viewed her emphasis on life balance as an innovative idea. “People…

NEW YORK (JTA) – Jared Kushner has many claims to fame. He’s married to Ivanka Trump, daughter of the Republican presidential front-runner. He’s the scion of a philanthropy-minded Jewish family from New Jersey that is one of the biggest names in New York real estate. He’s the owner and publisher of a storied weekly, the New…

Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents told AFP on Thursday.   “We haven’t been able to reach our family members since noon on Monday after an attack by Daesh on the factory,” said a resident of the…

Security agencies around the world are ramping up operations at airports and tourist sites ahead of the c holiday. With the security establishment predicting a wave of terror attacks against Jewish targets during the holiday season, officials in Israel and Europe are taking precautions to prevent the kinds of massacres that took place in Brussels…

(AFP) From Humphrey Bogart’s fedora in “Casablanca” to Harrison Ford’s lucky headgear in the Indiana Jones series, Italy’s Borsalino has been credited with producing some of the coolest hats in history. Michael Jackson loved them, trend-setting music star Pharrel Williams is a contemporary fan and David Bowie opted for one of the Italian company’s black…

The United States has carried out another raid against Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria, on the heels of a strike that killed the spokesman of the group’s Syrian branch, the Pentagon said Wednesday.   “I can confirm that the US struck a vehicle killing several Al Qaeda militants,” said spokesman Matthew Allen. “The results of this strike…

A Palestinian Arab from a village north of Jerusalem was indicted Thursday morning at Jerusalem District Court, for planning a shooting attack at the capital’s popular Malha Mall. Abed Al-Muatay Abu-Sneineh, a 22-year-old resident of Kfar Akib, contrived to carry out an attack while serving time at Ktziot Prison in southern Israel last July, together…

Israel signed contract for arms deals worth $5.7 billion last year, a slight increase over 2014 but down sharply from 2013 levels, Michel Ben-Baruch, head of Sibat, the Defense Ministry’s defense export agency, said on Wednesday. “Completing a challenging year, we succeeded through collaborative and determined work to preserve the scope of contract signings compared…

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, confirmed on Wednesday the death of its spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri in an American air strike earlier this week. In a statement circulated on Twitter, Al-Nusra Front said Suri and other members “were killed during a Crusader (Western) air strike… on April 3, 2016.” It said the raid had hit…

Cyprus said on Wednesday that it had approved a request from Cairo to extradite the man accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane last week and diverting it to Cyprus, sources told AFP. Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa, 58, is accused of using a fake suicide belt to seize the Alexandria-to-Cairo flight on March 29 and…

A congressional ethics committee is keeping open its review of Rep. Alan Grayson after investigators alleged that the Florida Democrat violated ethics rules by running a hedge fund and working as an attorney while in office. The announcement Tuesday and the release of a damning report by the independent Office of Congressional Ethics complicates the…

Egyptian satellite company NileSat on Wednesday halted the broadcast of Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel. Hamdy Monunir, the chief technical officer at NileSat, told the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper that the administration of NileSat had sent official notices to Al-Manar after it had breached its contract several times. “We followed all the legal procedures and…

Sen. Ben Cardin said a letter from 11 fellow congressional Democrats asking the Obama administration to look into allegations of Israeli extrajudicial killing was “just wrong.” Cardin, D-Md., in an interview published this week by the Forward was asked about the letter sent in February by a slate of lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy,…

The number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in Austria increased more than 80 percent last year, the Austrian Forum Against Anti-Semitism said on Wednesday, according to the Reuters news agency. The group said that reported internet postings denouncing Jews more than doubled during that time. The forum, which began monitoring anti-Semitic incidents in 2003, said 465…

Islam is subtly invadeding the unsuspecting West with the intention to conquer its civilization and replace it by Islam and sharia law. Jay Shapiro claims that the West refuses to recognize that it is in a war of survival against Islam. Loading… Click here to download the podcast

London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has criticized Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and said he should be “trained about what anti-Semitism is” in order to crack down on it within his party, Newsweek reported Wednesday. Khan, the minister for Tooting in south London, said the Labour party’s failure to tackle anti-Jewish sentiment was “unacceptable”. The comments…

A Canadian boy who robbed a convenience store for money for a plane ticket to Syria was sentenced Wednesday to two years detention plus 12 months’ probation for terrorism offenses. The 16-year-old is already incarcerated for another related crime and will serve the sentence consecutively, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said. He had become…

Two Republican senators opposed to the Iran nuclear deal are trying to block an Obama administration proposal that would ease rules on using U.S. dollars in trade transactions with Iran, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mark Kirk of Illinois introduced legislation that would bar the Treasury from permitting foreign banks…

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s National Front (FN) party, was convicted on Wednesday of denying crimes against humanity for repeating an old claim of his, that the Nazi gas chambers are a “detail” of World War II. The 87-year-old politician, who was succeeded by his daughter, Marine, as head of FN in 2011,…

The Brazilian community of descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews published the first ever Passover Haggadah, titled A Hagadá de Pêssach do Sertão for other Anousim in Hebrew, Portuguese and Portuguese transliteration. “A self-aware, self-reliant and active community is vitally important for Jewish continuity,” said Ilana Kohler, editor of the Haggadah. “As the descendants of Spanish and…

Five years after she defeated death after being stabbed 13 times in a forest near Jerusalem, tour guide Kay Wilson has emerged victorious in another battle – the fight for meaningful compensation from the National Insurance Institute. “For 5 years and 4 months I have endured emotional abuse, humiliation, obtuseness, red tape and arguably intentional stalling…

Israeli police demolished on Tuesday an unauthorized community garden in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. The garden, which was dedicated to the memories of 47 dead terrorists, included pictures and memorial placards for each terrorist. The “Martyrs’ Garden” was established three weeks ago to honor Arab terrorists killed while carrying out violent attacks on…

Stereotypes asserting Jews “control the banks and the media” do not constitute anti-Semitism, a member of the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) Senate claimed this week. During a hearing on renewing a resolution banning anti-Semitism, Stanford senior Gabriel Knight insisted that a clause defining negative Jewish stereotypes is “irresponsibly foraying into another politically contentious conversation.” “Questioning these…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet France’s Francois Hollande in Paris later this month to discuss a new French push for peace, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Abbas “will have an important meeting with President Francois Hollande to discuss convening an international peace conference in accordance with the French initiative,” Palestinian Authority presidential spokesman…

Sergeant Robert Farah Usa only arrived in Israel two years ago, but he’s already been chosen to be honored at this year’s Independence Day ceremony. As part of this year’s theme of “courageous citizens”, honoring those who have prevented or stopped terror attacks, Usa is one of 14 honorees who will take part in the…

What should you take into consideration when choosing a financial advisor? When choosing a financial advisor, you must understand what his role is in helping you manage your money. Will he look at your investments on a daily basis? Who will make trading decisions? What does your financial advisor need to know about you, and…

One of the terrorists involved in Brussels’s Zaventem Airport bombing worked briefly as a janitor at the European Parliament, the Parliament stated Wednesday night.  “He held a summer holiday job cleaning at the Parliament for one month in 2009 and one month in 2010. Those were the only instances he worked at the Parliament,” it said in a…

Ted Cruz’s and Bernie Sanders’ victories in the primaries in Wisconsin Tuesday are not an indication of what’s to come, former Israeli Ambassador to Washington Yoram Ettinger told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday. “We must wait for the primaries in the major states, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California,” he said, adding that he believes…

Local leaders in Judea and Samaria have enabled construction freezes by repeatedly supporting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) asserted Wednesday.  “We differ on specific issues with the High Court for Justice, the Kulanu party and also with the Prime Minister, who not only freezes [active] construction, but also [long-term construction] programs,” Slomiansky said, in…

The government is reportedly planning a comprehensive aid package to strengthen Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. According to a report by NRG, the coalition will rule on a proposed plan this coming Sunday which would provide 40 million shekels ($10.5 million) in special assistance directly to communities across Judea and Samaria. The proposed aid…

Israeli security agencies are on alert over the potential for cyber-attacks by Anonymous on Thursday, after the hacker group previously targeted the Jewish state each April 7. The attacks in solidarity with the Palestinians have in the past succeeded in blocking government sites, including for the ministries of defense and foreign affairs, but have fallen…

Two workers from an Israeli intelligence company have been arrested in Romania for trying to intimidate the head of the national anti-corruption agency and hacking e-mails, officials said Wednesday. An arrest warrant was issued on Sunday for Belgian David Geclowitz and Israeli-born Ron Weiner, who holds a French passport. Both work for Israeli firm Black…

Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) approved the fourteen honorees for the annual Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) torch-lighting ceremony on Wednesday – this year, with the theme of “courageous citizens.”  “The uniqueness of courage is that it doesn’t distinguish between religion, ethnicity, or gender,” Regev stated. In 2015, the ceremony had centered around Israel’s most accomplished women. “The one parameter…

Israeli Jews are significantly healthier than Israeli Arabs both physically and emotionally, a Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) study released on Wednesday reveals. The CBS polled 200 experts from government ministries, the Bank of Israel, the academic sector, and the public sector for the study, which examines daily life in Israel.  Israel’s overall health shows improvement, the…

Fringe nationalist groups are resurgent in Germany in the wake of the ongoing refugee migrant crisis facing Europe. But while the migrants in question are predominantly Muslim and virtually all Arab, Neo-Nazis and other radical rightist movements in Germany aren’t limiting their rhetoric to immigrants. Tried and true staples of German radical nationalists have also…

While Israeli Jews have in recent years given strong backing to Republican presidential candidates over their Democratic rivals, that may be about to change in 2016. In 2004 the Tel Aviv University’s Peace Poll showed that Israeli Jews favored Republican incumbent George W. Bush by a wide margin, with 49% saying they preferred Bush compared…

The family of Muhannad Halabi, the Arab terrorist who murdered two Israelis in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October, bought a new villa north of Ramallah in Samaria on Tuesday. The new villa was bought with money donated by the Palestinian public in honor of the murderer. The purchase comes despite the…

Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Oren Hazan (Likud) responded on Wednesday to the news that the family of Muhannad Halabi, an Arab terrorist who murdered two Israelis last October, has purchased a new villa after the IDF demolished their home in January. The purchase of the massive mansion was made with money donated by the Palestinian…

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has reached a temporary resolution with senior sources in the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to which the PA will transfer 20 million shekels (over $5.2 million) on Wednesday morning to prevent a reduction in power supply. In parallel, intensive negotiations are to be held between the IEC and the PA…

Security Cabinet ministers are to receive an update on Wednesday on the formerly secret talks between Israeli representatives and the Palestinian Authority (PA), regarding the PA demand to remove IDF forces from Ramallah and Jericho. The Cabinet discussion comes around three weeks after Haaretz revealed that secret contacts were being held between top IDF brass and senior…

A Syrian fighter who appeared in a gruesome video cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it has been shot dead by rival rebels, a monitoring group said. Known by his nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, the rebel reportedly joined the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front about a year ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rival rebels “assassinated…

If you’re an Israeli business looking to gain ground in the U.S. market, a whole new window of opportunity is open.  The 2016 J-Biz Expo, which will take place on June 1st at the 150,000 square foot New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, unites Jewish community business, major corporations and elected officials from throughout the world to stimulate…

A Florida teenager accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi in Florida can remain out of jail on bail through the end of his murder trial, a judge ruled. Prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to keep Deandre Edwin Charles, 15, behind bars before the start of his trial, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jason Bloch ruled last…

The national Pesach tennis tournament of the Israel Tennis Centers (ITC) is to be held from April 14 to 21, and during the event the very first annual Anna Michael Kahan Family tennis scholarship will be presented to the top female and male player. The prize of 100,000 shekels (over $26,000) each will be awarded…

The parole committee on Wednesday rejected the request of former President Moshe Katzav, who asked to reduce by a third his seven-year sentence for two charges of rape and sexual crimes. Katzav’s attorney responded by saying they intend to appeal the ruling. In its decision, the committee pointed out that Katzav denies the crimes he committed…

The former principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne is being sued by one of her alleged victims. The lawsuit filed last week against Malka Leifer in Victoria’s Supreme Court in Melbourne was launched by the sister of a victim of Leifer who was awarded $1.27 million by the court last year, the Australian reported…

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has pulled into a statistical dead heat with front-runner Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll showed on Tuesday. Cruz’s gains mark the first time since November that one of Trump’s rivals has threatened his lead in support among Republicans, noted Reuters. The gains coincide with recent missteps by Trump…

The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Tuesday met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow as he looked to lay the groundwork for peace talks expected to resume next week. The visit came as the UN said the talks will likely restart in Geneva on April 11, but that regime negotiators…

Arutz Sheva was on hand as emergency personnel participated on Monday in a drill simulating a tsunami wave, meant to raise public awareness and practice appropriate and effective responses in the event that a tsunami hits Israel’s Mediterranean coastline.  Dubbed “Nachshol Kachol” (Blue Tidal Wave), the exercise included evacuating citizens from the beaches of Ashdod…

CNN is projecting that Ted Cruz will win the Republican primary in Wisconsin, while Bernie Sanders is holding a lead on the Democratic side. Sanders is hoping to pull off his sixth win of the past seven state contests to undercut frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s claim that she has already amassed a decisive lead in the…

Senior Republican lawmaker John McCain warned Tuesday that the United States-led coalition is headed for “slow, grinding failure” unless it scales up the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq. “I bore witness to the failed policy of gradual escalation that ultimately led to our nation’s defeat in the Vietnam War,”…

The Obama administration on Tuesday designated Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect of last November’s terror attacks in Paris as a “global terrorist,” The Hill reported. The decision means that sanctions freezing any assets in U.S. jurisdiction and forbidding Americans to do business with him will be impose. Abdeslam was arrested in Brussels on March…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he is ready to work with Israel to stop the “mutual incitement” between the sides, the Ma’ariv newspaper reports. Abbas made the comments as he spoke to a group of journalists from Romania who visited his office in Ramallah. During the meeting, Abbas called to…

The United States military is considering pulling troops from a base in the northeastern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the increasing threat from Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists, CNN reported Tuesday. The Obama administration may order the movement of some American and international troops into the southern Sinai, and is discussing such…

A Syrian rebel group allied with Al Qaeda said it had downed a warplane over northern Syria on Tuesday, with the pilot reportedly captured. In a statement on Twitter, Ahrar al-Sham, a hardline Islamist group that fights alongside Al Qaeda’s local affiliate, said it “shot down a warplane (over the town of Al-Eis) that was conducting…

(JTA) After three firebombs hit the synagogue of this poor and heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its profile. Like dozens of attacks on French synagogues since 2000, the January 2009 incident at the Chabad House of Saint-Denis, which did not result in any injuries, was believed to have been…

The military court on the Kirya army base in Tel Aviv denied the prosecution’s request regarding the remand of the IDF soldier who shot a seemingly neutralized terrorist dead in Hevron. The court decided that the soldier will not return to the full terms of his arrest, but rather will remain under open “house arrest”…

The New York Observer said its editor would no longer consult with the campaign of Donald Trump, whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns the weekly. The statement Tuesday, reported Monday by the Huffington Post, came a day after a New York magazine profile of the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nod said that…

A Scottish college student was accused of violating “safe space” rules and told she risked being expelled from a meeting after she spoke out against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel movement. Imogen Wilson, 22, the vice president for academic affairs at Edinburgh University Students’ Association, told Britain’s Telegraph she was accused of making…

Belgium’s Defense Ministry denied reports that some soldiers had guarded synagogues in Brussels without ammunition in their rifles. The denial last week by the ministry’s press department came in response to a claim that a senior Brussels rabbi, Menachem Hadad of the Shomre Hadas haredi Orthodox community, made on March 24 following a series of…

Czech and Jewish community officials on Tuesday signed a memorandum to boost the security in and around Jewish institutions due to increased concern over global terrorism.   “The problem in Europe has been growing and we feel that Jewish institutions are threatened. An attack on our institutions may come any time,” Petr Papousek, head of…

Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has taken aim at controversial comments by one of his own party’s MKs, who spoke in support of separate rooms in maternity wards for Jewish and Arab mothers. Speaking at the start of the Jewish Home party conference in Yad Binyamin, Bennett began his address by deriding left-wing politicians and…

In a culinary first, a British Jewish celebrity chef created English dishes, including a bacon sandwich, for consumption in space. Heston Blumenthal spent two years preparing the dishes for the English astronaut Tim Peake, who ate the bacon one on his very first day in space in December, Channel 4 revealed in “Dinner in Space”…

(JTA) Six years after a White House religious advisory panel grappled with how the government should fund faith groups, its recommendations are being implemented. The Orthodox Union on March 31 praised the Obama administration for issuing regulations based on recommendations made in 2010 by its Faith-Based Advisory Council, which included three leaders of Jewish groups among…

David Keyes, Prime Minister Binyamn Netanyahu’s new spokesperson, has been accused of sexual assault, Army Radio reports. The accusation came in the form of a Facebook post which was quickly deleted. The author, who was not been named, claimed that the incident took place in Keyes’ Manhattan apartment in November 2013. “This man, Israeli Prime Minister…

During a hearing on the IDF soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist on Tuesday, military judge Brigadier General Doron Piles revealed that the soldier’s platoon commander, who was at the scene, admitted to suspecting that the terrorist had an explosive. This testimony contradicts the prosecutor’s claim that there was no such suspicion and that the soldier had…

A Palestinian official on Tuesday denied Israeli charges of syphoning off cement imports to Gaza and warned of a potential “explosion” unless a cement ban is lifted. Earlier, Israel announced it had stopped private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave, accusing Imad al-Baz, deputy director of the Economy Ministry, of diverting supplies. Baz now denies any offense, saying the imports…

The Civil Administration has destroyed several illegal Arab buildings at the Khirbet Marjam archaeological site, near Kochav Hashachar The site contains archaeological findings from the time of the Bible, as well as a system of hidden tunnels dating back to the end of the Second Temple and the Bar Kochva revolt. Due to its significance, Great…

(JTA) Israel and the United States agreed to enhance energy cooperation between the two countries. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources, signed an amendment on Monday in Jerusalem to an existing agreement between the two energy departments, the U.S. Energy Department said in a…

A military court has heard testimony for the first time from the soldier who shot dead a wounded terrorist in Hevron, sparking an ongoing controversy and triggering a manslaughter suit against him. Defense Attorney Eyal Baserglick presented the testimony on behalf of the soldier, who remains under arrest on base pending the verdict. In his…

Ancient implements dating back to the Second Temple period has been discovered at Magdala, a 2,000-year-old Jewish town in the Galilee region. The implements – a decorated bronze incense shovel, used for transferring embers from place to place, and a bronze jug – were recently uncovered in archaeological excavations in Magdala, on the western shore of the Sea of…

Two Jewish men in their early twenties sought a novel way of getting round draconian restrictions on Jewish visits to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: dressing up as Muslims. The pair were stopped close to one of the Temple Mount gates in the Old City of Jerusalem, after attempting to ascend Judaism’s holiest site dressed as religious Muslims.…

A senior official involved in the investigation against opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) told Channel 10 that the case could soon turn into a criminal investigation. According to the official, mounting evidence suggests that Herzog violated party financing laws. The Zionist Union chair maintains that the entire investigation is no more than a political attack and that…

The Kulanu party, which campaigned on economic reforms and lowering the cost of housing, is subtly changing its goals. Rather than lowering the cost of housing in general, it is focusing on giving benefits to young couples who do not own an apartment. As Housing Minister Yoav Galant told Army Radio on Tuesday morning, “My goal…

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), General Yoav Mordechai, has announced that Israel will freeze its transfer of cement to the private sector in the Gaza Strip. The decision came after it was found that a senior Hamas member seized the cement and building materials that were intended as humanitarian supplies. The Hamas…

(JTA) Nine people, Israelis and Palestinians, have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling unsafe meat into Israel from the Palestinian Authority and selling it, with forged kashrut certifications, to Israeli restaurants. The arrests Monday followed an investigation by the Israel Police and three Israeli ministries: agriculture, finance and health, Ynet reported. Additional arrests are expected. Officials…

The head of the Israel Bar Association, Efi Naveh, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the left-wing attack on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), following her criticism of the Supreme Court on Monday. “The attack on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is inappropriate,” said Naveh. “If this is a democracy then it’s a democracy in both directions. It needs…

Numerous maternity wards around Israel separate Jewish and Arab women, even though such a practice is completely forbidden by the Ministry of Health. Reshet B reported Tuesday morning that the hospitals in violation of Ministry instructions include Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek, Hadassah Ein Kerem and Hadassah Mount Scopus; Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital; and Kfar Saba’s Meir Hospital. The…

(JTA) Hundreds of Israeli companies and some 850 Israeli shareholders are listed as having offshore accounts in a dump of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers. The 11.5 million documents were published Sunday following a yearlong investigation of their contents led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.…

(JTA) A “Game of Thrones” actor added his star power to an elaborate April Fool’s joke by SodaStream. Hafthór “Thor” Björnsson, who stars as giant Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in the popular television series, appears on a YouTube video pushing what he calls his favorite brand of soda water, called Heavy Bubbles, which is packaged…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) has cleared for publication the details about a shooting attack in the Samaria community of El Matan that it prevented. About two weeks ago, an Arab terrorist from the nearby village of Azzun was arrested near the fence surrounded El Matan. He was caught with an…

Israel has told the United Nations that it will suspend private imports of cement in Gaza after some of the supplies were diverted, a UN spokesman said Monday. UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov is working with Israeli and Palestinian authorities to try to resolve the issue. “Anyone who seeks to gain by deviating construction material in Gaza is stealing from its own…

Croatian Jews said Monday they would boycott a commemoration ceremony for victims of the country’s most notorious World War II death camp, accusing authorities of failing to respond to a revival of pro-Nazi ideology. “Jewish municipalities in Croatia decided not to take part in the commemoration for the Jasenovac camp victims,” the country’s main Jewish association said in a statement. Instead of attending the…

Who Really Owns YOUR Credit Card Miles Points? As we mentioned in one of our previous columns, one of the great perks about using credit cards is the ability to earn miles and points whenever they are used for purchases. This earning potential is so significant that there are actually many forums, blogs, groups and…

Following yesterday’s knife attack in Rosh Ha’ayin in which a 30-year-old mother of three was wounded, the Arab Israeli suspect’s mother denies the incident was a terror attack, claiming that the knife her daughter was brandishing was “for making salad.” The mother, a resident of the town of Kfar Qassem close to the scene of the…

The probe into alleged corruption by opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog may turn into a criminal investigation, a senior official involved in the probe told Channel 10 News on Monday. Last week it was cleared for publication that Herzog is under investigation on suspicions of accepting illegal donations while running for the leadership of the…

Negotiating teams from Israel and Turkey will meet on Thursday in Europe in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps standing in the way of a reconciliation agreement between the two countries, Haaretz reported on Monday. Senior Israeli officials noted that in recent weeks, and since the latest round of negotiations between the two countries, several…

The Pentagon on Monday confirmed it had targeted “senior” Al-Qaeda leader Abu Firas al-Suri and other jihadist fighters in an air strike in Syria, AFP reported. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the military carried out the strike in northwestern Syria on Sunday, resulting in several enemy fighters being killed. “We assess that Al-Qaeda senior…

The family of Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, the terrorist who was shot by a soldier in Hevron last week after a stabbing attack against Israelis, on Monday threatened the IDF with legal procedures, the Ma’an news agency reported. In a press conference at the Hevron governor’s office, al-Sharif’s uncle Fathi al-Sharif also urged the Palestinian Authority…

Hamas is continuing its calls for violence against Jews, with one official threatening on Monday to “slaughter” Jews who are “harming” the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Faiza Al-Nashar, who heads Hamas’s women movement in Rafah, told the Hamas newspaper Palestine that “today’s generation waves his knife and his father’s old rifle and goes out to cut off…

A Swiss museum is to exhibit works from a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard it inherited two years ago from a German recluse, gallery managers said Monday. The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern said the exhibit of works from the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt would run through the 2016-2017 winter season, in parallel with a…

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been able to circumvent international sanctions and fund its war effort through shadow companies, according to leaked “Panama Papers” seen by French daily Le Monde. The newspaper reported on Monday that three Syrian companies, Pangates International, Maxima Middle East Trading, and Morgan Additives Manufacturing, used the services of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca to create shadow companies in the Seychelles.…

Israel has authorized 500 Jordanians to work in hotels in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat ahead of the vacation season, the Tourism Ministry said Monday. “The need for workers in the hotel industry is growing as the summer season approaches,” Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said in a statement. “These are day workers who…

A Palestinian NGO funded by UN bodies and foreign governments held a tree planting ceremony last Friday for “Land Day,” in which it honored 209 “martyrs of the intifada” in a mass celebration of the recent terror wave. The event held by the NGO, Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), was exposed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on…

Amid a spate of controversies over alleged anti-Semitism by party members, leaders of the UK’s Labour Party have admitted the party has a serious problem and called upon colleagues to confront this danger to Labour’s “soul.” In recent months the Labour Party has been beset by a seemingly endless series of scandals relating to anti-Semitic…

A new exhibit commissioned by the Israeli Mission to the UN opened on Monday at the UN headquarters in Manhattan. But the display was not the one originally prepared by the Mission in conjunction with StandWithUS, a pro-Israel non-profit. On Sunday the UN moved to ban three of the exhibit’s displays, including one on Zionism.…

(JTA) The Israeli Supreme Court decision on Jewish conversion changes almost nothing. But down the line, it could change a lot. Under the March 31 ruling, the state of Israel must recognize Jewish conversions performed in private Orthodox conversion courts not run by its Chief Rabbinate. A network of such courts, called Giyur Kahalacha, or “conversion by Jewish…

Arutz Sheva was on hand Sunday at the annual CHAZAQ event held in Queens College, New York, where leaders of the American Jewish community provided their insights on the challenges of the day. At the event pro-Israeli activist Dr. Joseph Frager interviewed Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, who spoke about his confrontations with Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour who this week…

MK Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union) has called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to fire Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), following the latter’s criticism of the Supreme Court. “Shaked’s lashing out at at the Supreme Court is a dangerous act of violence,” she claimed. “Shaked is trying to destroy the justice system’s independence, to scare…

Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has written a blistering oped slamming modern-day anti-Zionism as the “new anti-Semitism.” In his Newsweek article, published Sunday, Rabbi Sacks refers to figures showing how escalating anti-Semitism has left many Jews considering leaving Europe (“as high as 46 percent in France and 48 percent in Hungary”), and noted…

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, spoke at the Knesset on Monday. He began by noting that the relationship between the US and Israel is “more important than ever,” and that the two countries must work together against threats like Iran and ISIS. This is Ryan’s (R-WI) first trip abroad since…

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday met at his residence with Foreign Minister of Czech Republic, Lubomír Zaorálek, who is visiting Israel. The two discussed strengthening bilateral cooperation in the fields of security, economy and trade. President Rivlin welcomed the Foreign Minister and his delegation and asked he convey his warm regards to the Czech President and Prime Minister,…

A man and a woman aged in their 70s were lightly to moderately wounded by a massive fire, which sprang up on Monday afternoon in a building located in the “Warsaw homes” region of the haredi neighborhood Meah She’arim, which is situated in central Jerusalem. Loading… A portion of the roof of the building collapsed due…

A senior official in Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has labeled the United States as “the number one enemy of the Palestinian people.” Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen made the comments in a recent interview with official PA TV, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), during which he also espoused the anti-Semitic…

Iran has deployed a contingent of special forces “commandos” to Syria, according to a senior Iranian military commander. Speaking to Iran’s official Tasnim News Agency, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force for Coordination Brigadier General Ali Arasteh said Tehran had dispatched a group of military “advisers” from the army’s elite 65th Brigade. Iran is the…

The Trump dynasty welcomed a new member on Sunday, with the brit of Donald Trump’s eighth grandchild. The latest addition to the Trump family, Theodore James Kushner, was named during an Orthodox Jewish ceremony on Sunday in Manhattan. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, converted to Judaism in 2009 when she married businessman Jared Kushner. Trump himself did…

The Jewish anti-missionary group Yad L’Achim on Monday submitted a complaint to the police, charging Christian missionaries as being behind an “assault causing actual wounds” against its activists. The incident occurred during the weekend at a missionary event in Jerusalem. Every day teams of Yad L’Achim activists conduct outreach activities for Jews who visit the missionary centers…

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition by Meir Ettinger – who has been held without trial on administrative detention for eight months since last August 3 – asking that he be allowed to attend his firstborn son’s brit milah (circumcision). Due to the decision Ettinger was not present at the brit, in which his son’s name was…

In wake of the recent terror attack in Brussels, and due to concerns over similar attacks occurring in the United States, the New York Police department prepare to protect Jews and synagogues during the upcoming Passover holiday. Following a gathering of religious leaders and representatives of Brooklyn’s Shomrim Patrol, the NYPD and US security officials…

A private Muslim school in England is again drawing attention, this time for teaching anti-Semitism and a strong anti-European ideology. The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy, located in the northern town of Dewsbury, offers classes for 140 children, as well as hosting an after-school religioous program and adult education classes. It is still run by its founder, Mufti Zubair…

In an effort to tackle propaganda, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday morning an international video competition in which two selected winners will serve as the Jewish State’s new Hasbara, or outreach, films. The competition, initiated by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), will include two categories – a national category in which every person could…

The 435-year-old Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine, was ruined by the Nazis in 1943 and remains in its destroyed state as a testament to the dangers of anti-Semitism. Some, however, seem to have missed the significance of the lesson. A restaurant called Pid Zolotoju Rozoju (“At the Golden Rose”) now lies next to the synagogue and…

IDF forces in cooperation with the Border Policemen and Civil Administration demolished the homes of terrorists Ahmad Nagah Ismail Nasser, Ahmed Najah Abed Alalatif Abu-Alaroub and Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Kamil in the Arab town of Kabatiya. The demolition was issued following a shooting attack carried out by the three terrorists at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate killing…

Mofiq Matar, a journalist for the PA daily al-Hayat al-Jadida, claims that Israel was behind the attacks in Paris and Brussels. Though ISIS claimed responsibility for both, Matar argues that the terror organization does not have the means to carry out such strikes. Matar is convinced that Israel infiltrated ISIS and that the jihadist group is…

Half a year after the start of the “limited popular uprising,” as the security apparatus calls the current wave of terror, the attacks seem to be ebbing away. By looking at the security data for September through March, a clear and strong drop in all aspects of terror can be seen. The most notable figure is in…

Air France’s female flight attendants have declared that they will not work on flights to Iran, in protest against instructions to cover their hair while in the Islamic Republic. The airline suspended its Paris-Tehran route eight years ago as part of the international sanctions on Iran. But as Western nations warm to new relations with Tehran…

Anti-Semitism strikes in Australia as vandals painted swastikas on Maroubra Synagogue in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The rabbi of the synagogue, Rabbi Yossi Friedman, was furious over the incident and described the graffiti as an “assault on the Jewish People.” Apart from desecrating his synagogue, Rabbi Friedman said that a nearby bus stop was also covered…

George Papdopolous, whom Donald Trump has named as one of his foreign policy advisors, will be taking part Monday in the Hadera Energy Conference in Israel, alongside Director of the Prime Minister’s Office, Eli Groner, and other senior Israeli officials. Papadopolous, an expert on energy who was born in Greece, has contributed several articles to…

We found in the Library of Congress a picture of the inaugural broadcast. Note where the transmission was made from. Library of Congress caption: Photograph shows radio engineer Moshe Rubin transmitting the special broadcast during the opening of the Palestine Broadcasting Service, Ramallah, March 30, 1936. For more history in pictures, click here

The spokesman for Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in air strikes Sunday in the northeast of the country, a monitor said. “Abu Firas al-Suri, his son and at least 20 jihadists of Al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa and jihadists from Uzbekistan were killed in strikes on positions in…

The IDF’s “Roim Rachok” (“Watching the Horizon”) program, which integrates soldiers on the autism spectrum into the IDF, has expanded to the Ordnance Corps, reported the IDF Blog Saturday evening. The Ordnance Corps is now welcoming its first eight autism spectrum volunteers, as part of Roim Rachok. After testing and interviewing approximately 70 candidates, eight men were…

British charity War on Want denied on Sunday reports that the British government had cut off its funding to the group due to the fact that it had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a front for anti-Israel activists. “War on Want has dismissed the story in today’s Sunday Telegraph suggesting that it…

Over five years ago, Ayelet Hashachar (“AH”) began working in Kibbutz Sde Nechemia, one of the various Kibbutzim in Emek HaHula (Hula Valley).  It all started with a phone call from a resident looking for a place to daven. “I’m davening under a street lamp by myself,” he explained. Two weeks later he called back and…

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated and released a video of radical Sheikh Raed Salah delivering an inciting speech late last month. In the sermon, delivered on March 25 in Jatt, Salah, who heads the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel which was recently outlawed, called for “jihad” and promised…

A delegation of American Republicans visiting Cairo on Sunday said that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was the “right man at the right time” for Egypt, AFP reported. The six-member delegation, led by Senator Lindsey Graham, said it backed Sisi in the fight against the jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) group, though it was cautious when…

Results from the 2016 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, which took place in Boston, ranked American-Jewish figure skater Max Aaron and Israeli Alexei Bychenko at eighth and thirteenth overall, respectively. Aaron, a national champion, scored 254.14 points in his third appearance at a World Championship. “This is truly special. It’s a moment I will never…

For many years, there has been a tendency to ridicule any attempt to claim that the radical left wing is connected with the gender movement and false allegations filed by women against men. It seems, however, that two developments in the last two weeks lend credence to this very suspicion. Journalist and TV-radio presenter Jacky Levy…

In comments that are bound to be seized upon by her Republican rivals, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton declared unborn children “have no constitutional rights,” during a Sunday interview with Meet The Press. Clinton was asked by host Chuck Todd, “When or if does an unborn child have constitutional rights?”, to which she responded: “Under our laws, currently,…

Deputy Attorney General Raz Nazri together with MKs Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid), Osama Saadi (Joint List) and Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) participated Sunday afternoon in a panel regarding administrative detentions during an Israel Bar Association conference. “I am here today, both as a jurist and as a representative of the state, to say that we…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hinted quite clearly on Saturday that Donald Trump’s rhetoric endangered Muslims in the US in the same way that Adolf Hitler had endangered Jews, but Sanders denied Sunday that he had compared Trump to Hitler. “Some of you know I’m Jewish,” Sanders said during a town hall in Wisconsin on…

Israel’s Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau has responded to a letter sent by the wife of administrative detainee Meir Ettinger, in which she appealed for her husband to be released to attend his firstborn son’s brit milah (circumcision). Ettinger has been held without charge for more than seven months, as security officials accuse him of…

The IAF is set to begin sending its pilots to train on F-35 stealth jets in the US and according to Brigadier General Tal Kalman, Head of IAF Staff, media criticism of the jet is not justified. The IAF is supposed to receive its first F-35s in December. Speaking at a conference sponsored by Israel…

Yisrael Beytenu chair MK Avigdor Liberman took to social media on Sunday to criticize the politicians who rushed to accused a soldier of murder for shooting a neutralized terrorist and are attempting to find him guilty through any means necessary. Liberman posted the following statement on his Facebook page: “The ethical dilemmas in the struggle for…

The EU Ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, participated last week in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper’s anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference where he reiterated the EU’s stance that Israeli “settlements” are “illegal under international law” and are “a hindrance to the peace process.” Faaborg-Andersen additionally termed the 1949 armistice line an “internationally recognized border” even though the…

Israeli Supreme Court justices accepted Sunday three petitions against demolishing the houses of three terrorists who were accused of hurling rocks at Alexander Levlovich’s car on the first night of Rosh Hashanah, resulting in his death. However, the judges rejected the petition against the fourth terrorist, Abed Dawiat, who is accused of throwing the specific…

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has restored full power supply to the Palestinian Authority (PA) city of Jericho in Judea to the east of Jerusalem after reducing it over an enormous outstanding debt, officials said Sunday. The cut last Thursday led to blackouts, but full supply was restored later the same day, according to Mansour Nassar of the Palestinian Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO). IEC had…

Moriya Ettinger, the wife of Merit Ettinger who has been held on administrative arrest without trial for the past eight months, wrote to the Chief Rabbis on Sunday, asking that they help her husband attend their firstborn son’s brit milah (circumcision) on Monday. Her letter to Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef…

(AFP) Syrian troops on Sunday seized the key Islamic State group (IS or ISIS) bastion of Al-Qaryatain, dealing the jihadists a new blow in the country’s center a week after expelling them from Palmyra, state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group however said fighting was still raging in the east and…

Reut Weitzman, a 30-year-old mother of three from Kfar Saba, was named as the victim in the stabbing attack that took place on Sunday in the industrial region of Rosh Ha’ayin. In the stabbing, which police have yet to officially define as a terrorist attack, a 23-year-old female Arab assailant from the adjacent Arab Israeli…

Investigators in the case of the soldier who shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron last month have concluded that the soldier arrested over the incident did indeed fire the fatal shot, according to sources close to the investigation. In should be noted, however, that the forensics team at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute who are conducting…

An Arab terrorist attempted to conduct a stabbing attempt at Tapuach Junction not far from Ariel in Samaria on Sunday, but apparently lost his nerve when the soldiers he intended to murder reacted to his approach. The terrorist came towards IDF forces from the direction of the hitchhiking station at the junction and drew a knife.…

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activists on Sunday vandalized and tore up signs on the Paris subway advertising the “Open Door a to Israel” exhibit, currently on display at the Louvre museum. “BDS activists have once again shown their true colors. They are not human rights activists, but a group of extremist law-breakers whose…

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) on Saturday reacted for the first time to the police probe against the chairman of her party and leader of the opposition, MK Yitzhak Herzog. On Wednesday, it was cleared for publication that Herzog is under investigation on suspicions of accepting illegal donations while running against Yechimovich for the leadership of…

Belgium on Saturday charged a third suspect with terrorist activities over a foiled plot to attack France, AFP reports. Federal prosecutors named the suspect only as 35-year-old Y.A., but provided no further details. “He has been charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding…

A number of female Air France cabin crew are resisting an airline ruling that they should wear a headscarf while in Tehran, when flights to the Iranian capital resume on April 17, a union representative told AFP on Saturday. “Every day we have calls from worried female cabin crew who tell us that they do…

The British government will no longer fund the War on Want organization, following reports that the group had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a front for anti-Israel activists. Founded in 1951, the War on Want organization was initially geared towards fighting poverty around the world. Because of its humanitarian work overseas, the…

The UN has disqualified key sections of a special exhibition about Israel which present information about Zionism, Jerusalem and Arab Israelis. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, who together with the NGO StandWithUs initiated the exhibition, expressed disappointment about the censorship, demanding that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon reverse the move. “By disqualifying an exhibition about Zionism…

One holiday that is celebrated by Jews on all levels of observance is Passover. All around the world Jewish families get together to make a Seder, most following the traditional outline found in the Passover Haggadah. On one hand, there is nothing complicated about it. The Jewish people were enslaved by the Egyptians and hopeless.…

A protest was held on Saturday night at Jerusalem’s iconic Chords Bridge by around 30 family members of Meir Ettinger, who has been jailed on administrative detention for eight months without any trial or charges brought against him. The protest called on the government to allow Ettinger to take part in his firstborn son’s brit milah (circumcision), which…

The dean of the Brisk Yeshiva in Zichron Moshe, Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, passed away on Saturday. Rabbi Soloveitchik had suffered a serious stroke in March, and had been hospitalized since the incident. He was 87 years old. The funeral procession is scheduled to leave Rabbi Soloveitchik’s house on Hazanowitz Street in Jerusalem at 11 a.m. Police…

Is former Interior Minister Eli Yishai about to make a political comeback? According to a report by Yisrael Hayom, Yishai is planning a return to the Knesset – but not as part of his Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party. Yishai, who led the Shas party from 2000 to 2013, bolted ahead of the 2015 Knesset election to form Yachad.…

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Saturday admitted to the New York Times that he made a “mistake” two weeks ago by retweeting an unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz, the wife of his rival Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Yeah, it was a mistake. If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it,” he told journalist Maureen Dowd of…

Just days after the UK Labour Party suspended one of its members who claimed Israel had created ISIS and was responsible for the attacks in Brussels, a former mayor quit the party over an investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism. Khadim Hussain, who had previously served as the Mayor of Bradford, was suspended by the Labour…

Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone Friday, discussing among other things recent allegations of human rights violations levelled by a group of US lawmakers. A letter signed in February by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and 10 other Democratic lawmakers calling upon Kerry to investigate alleged “gross…

Netanyahu’s coalition government is on its last legs, said former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday. The Yisrael Beytenu chief spoke in Modi’in on Saturday regarding criminal investigations targeting Aryeh Deri (Shas) and Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union), arguing that Netanyahu’s already narrow government was too weak to survive scandal. Liberman reported that he had spoken…

Syrian troops have found a mass grave containing the bodies of 42 people executed by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Palmyra, it was reported on Saturday. ISIS has in recent months claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in Brussels and Paris, but has lost ground in Syria and Iraq. Days after Syrian troops backed by Russian…

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s federal intelligence agency, has been spying on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for years, according to a report publicized Saturday in the Der Spiegel magazine. Israel was not the only friendly nation targeted by the BND’s spying activities. The report reveals that along with the Israeli Prime Minister, Germany’s top intelligence…

World leaders gathered on Friday in Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss the growing threat of nuclear terrorism. Noting the chilling possibility of a nuclear attack, US President Barack Obama remarked that Islamic State terrorists have already made use of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and that there is evidence…

US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters on Friday that the US was “concerned” by Israel’s recent demolitions of illegally built Arab structures in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. In March Israel security forces demolished an illegal Arab building in the village of Khirbet Tana in the Jordan River Valley, Reuters reported. The structure, which…

During a meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday, French President Francois Hollande made remarks that apparently some White House officials deemed unfit for translation. Speaking about the Brussels attack and the growing threat of nuclear terrorism, Hollande made a reference to “Islamist terrorism” in connection to ISIS violence in Syria and…

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Friday sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking if Iran may now be provided access to the American financial system in the wake of the nuclear deal it signed with the West. The letter comes amid reports that…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu this week called for Israel and Indonesia to develop bilateral relations, but Indonesia has rejected the call. Netanyahu’s call came during a meeting on Monday with a delegation of senior Indonesian journalists. At the meeting, Netanyahu told the journalists that “the time has come for official relations between Indonesia and Israel.…

The Hamas terrorist group on Friday lashed out at Twitter, after the social media giant allegedly closed a number of its accounts, AFP reports. The party’s so-called “military wing”, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, said its English and Arabic-language accounts had been closed for the third time in two weeks. One of the closed accounts had…

How can a three hour conversation move a man raised as an Evangelical Christian to examine the truth of Judaism? What happened on the streets of Chicago to make a person view Israeli terror as a safer option? Tune in to meet David Yehuda Yates tell of his journey from Christianity to Judaism. Listen to…

Just a light way to present some ideas about the Para Aduma. As enigmatic as Para Aduma is reputed to be, many commentaries have attempted to explain the symbolism of many of the features of the Para Aduma. One of the most well-known ideas is that the Para Aduma is the metaphoric mother of the…

France on Friday accused the Syrian regime of violating a fragile ceasefire in the five-year war that has devastated the country. The French foreign ministry also accused President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime of trying to undermine efforts by the international community to resolve the conflict. A spokesman said civilians had been targeted in the aerial bombardment…

Hamas on Friday branded Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as a “liar”, and declared that the “occupation” would have to pay a price for the return of two soldiers and two civilians which Hamas is holding in Gaza. The comments by Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida mark the first time that Hamas has acknowledged that the four…

President Barack Obama on Friday boasted of the nuclear deal that world powers reached with Iran last year. Speaking at a nuclear summit in Washington and quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Obama highlighted the benefits the deal would bring to Iran’s economy. “It will take time for Iran to integrate into the global economy,…

A 72-year-old South Korean retired farmer was on his way home from Hawaii with his wife after celebrating their 40th anniversary, when he suddenly decided to do yoga on the plane – things only got worse from there. Hyongtae Pae forced the United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Narita Airport in Japan to turn back to…

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Friday vowed that Tehran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, will continue to focus on backing Palestinian terrorists who attack Israel. “Supporting Palestine is the top priority of the Muslim world and terrorist crises in the region must not divert attention from the cause of Palestine and al-Quds…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Friday warned that the international community must be ready to take military action in Libya to help the unity government, even as Islamic State (ISIS) gains ground in the North African state. Ayrault spoke after Libya’s UN-backed unity government prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj arrived in the capital city of…

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) on Friday responded to the surprising comments made by former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy, during a speech at a college in London. During his speech, Halevy spoke about his role as Mossad head and said, “I studied law – which helped me to learn how to breach the…

The Palestinian press reported on Friday in time for April 1 that during the previous month of March, over 1,114 “Jewish settlers” went and “breached” the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism. Of the 1,114 Jewish visitors, 846 were labeled “settlers” by the Palestinians, while 268 were “students and guides.” The report added…

“And the fats and the kidneys, and the diaphragm with the liver of the Sin-Offering, he caused to go up in smoke on the Altar, as Hashem had commanded Moshe.” (9:10) Why are the fats completely burned and why is the blood of the sin-offering sprinkled on the Altar? What is the deeper meaning behind…

Amnesty International accused Turkey on Friday of illegally forcing groups of Syrians to return to their conflict-torn country, saying the alleged expulsions showed the “fatal flaws” in a migrantdeal agreed with the EU. The claim by Amnesty comes just days before Turkey is due to start taking back migrants expelled from the EU under an…

For 15 years, Yariv Oppenheimer has been the face of the left-wing activist group Peace Now. According to a report by NRG, however, the secretary general and former director general is not only stepping down from his position, but leaving the organization altogether. Formed in 1978, the organization has been a staunch supporter of a…

Meir Ettinger, the primary suspect in the Duma arson and murder, submitted an urgent appeal on Thursday evening. He asked the court to order the prison service to let him leave next Monday, in order to participate in his son’s brit milah. Ettinger made his appeal through his lawyer, Sima Kochav from the legal defense…

The soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist in Hevron will be released to serve his jail sentence at the Idan division headquarters, near Kibbutz Nahshonim. In making its decision, the military court turned down the prosecutor’s request from Thursday evening to keep the soldier where he is. The Chief Military Prosecutor, Colonel Sharon Pinhas Zagagi,…

What are the necessary qualities for successful investing? Very often, investing success comes from making the right decisions. On today’’s show, find out how you can improve your decision making skills, what “decision fatigue” is, and why you should choose the sources of financial advice carefully. Another important tool for achieving investment success is self-discipline. Rory…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he still sees Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as a partner for peace. Speaking to journalist Ilana Dayan on Channel 2’s “Uvda” program, Abbas also claimed that the PA’s security forces fight terrorism and go as far as to search backpacks of Palestinian children for knives that can…

The United States said Thursday it was “appalled” by Syrian government air strikes Thursday that killed more than 30 people – including children – in a key rebel bastion east of the capital of Damascus. The raids took place in Deir Al-Assafir, a town in the opposition stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, one of the areas in Syria where a fragile ceasefire brokered by the…

What are the necessary qualities for successful investing? Very often, investing success comes from making the right decisions. On today’’s show, find out how you can improve your decision making skills, what “decision fatigue” is, and why you should choose the sources of financial advice carefully. Another important tool for achieving investment success is self-discipline. Rory…

Russia on Thursday denied reports earlier in the day, according to which it had reached an agreement with the US to dethrone Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad who it currently is propping up. The report by the UK-based Arabic-language Al-Hayat cited a UN Security Council diplomat who leaked the basic outline of the agreement, indicating that Russia had agreed to have…

A new study conducted by the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Policies revealed that no fewer than 86% of Turkish women have suffered physical or psychological violence at the hands of their partners or family, and pursued legal proceedings afterwards. The shocking results, reported on Friday by Hurriyet Daily News, show the massive prevalence of…

A 40-year-old man was killed on Friday morning after his car flipped, in a lethal traffic accident on Highway 6 heading south, adjacent to the Kiryat Gat interchange. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics rushed to the scene, but they were forced to pronounce the driver’s death on site. “This was a serious accident,” said MDA…

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds a wide lead over real estate mogul Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primaries in Wisconsin to be held next Tuesday, according to a Fox News poll released on Thursday. Cruz is expected to get the support of 42% of GOP voters in the state, outpacing Trump (32%) by a full ten…

Shira Roth, a 21-year-old Israeli tourist from Ma’ale Adumim, died due to as yet unknown causes in Peru on Thursday during her travels in Huaraz in the western region of the South American state. The Foreign Ministry on Friday morning confirmed her death, and said the Israeli embassy is working with local authorities to get information about the…

The petition court on Friday morning began hearing the military prosecutor’s petition against Judge Lt. Col. Ronen Shor’s decision the night before, when he ordered to release the soldier who shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron last week from jail to an open base. That release was postponed and the soldier was left in jail overnight, so as…

Despite the heavy concerns of weapons smuggling by terrorists in Gaza, Israel is to extend the distance off the coast that fishermen in the Hamas enclave are allowed to operate from Sunday, their trade union said. Fishing boats working out of ports in the southern part of Gaza will be allowed up to nine nautical miles off the coast, the…

Designated Consul General in New York Dani Dayan took back on Thursday his comment that referred to the leftist Jewish organization J-Street with the term “un-Jewish.” “Contrary to the headlines, I never called [J Street] ‘un-Jewish’ but only a specific action it took. Nevertheless, it was wrong,” Dayan tweeted. During an interview with i24News, Dayan said: “I prefer…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu intends to go ahead with the appointment of Ran Baratz as head of the country’s public diplomacy strategy, which was put on hold after harsh comments Baratz made on Facebook against President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and President Reuven Rivlin came to light. Channel 2 News reported on…

Argentinian-Spanish soccer megastar Lionel Messi inadvertently caused a scandal when he offered a pair of his used soccer shoes as a donation during an Egyptian television program on the private network MBC Masr. “One of the things he does is give charity all over the world and these will be among the donations he gives,”…

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The Obama administration is considering easing financial restrictions that prohibit U.S. dollars from being used in transactions with Iran, officials said on Thursday, sparking anger among Republicans as well as some Democrats. While no final decision has been made, officials told The Associated Press that the Treasury Department has prepared a general license permitting offshore…

The Palestinian Authority has joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and the United States should respond by cutting funds to the body, note senior researchers Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves in The Daily Signal. The PA officially became the 197th party to the UNFCCC on March 17, 2016, 90 days…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement this week said that “the land is at the heart of our conflict with the Israeli occupation”. The declaration, made in a statement on the occasion of “Land Day”, also expressed support for a “popular struggle” against Israel. Land Day commemorates the initial government takeovers of land…

Federal law enforcement officials are on the ground in Brussels, the White House confirmed Thursday, according to Politico. “Belgium has accepted our assistance,” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters at a news conference, after the Obama administration offered assistance to Belgian authorities following last week’s terrorist attacks that killed more than…

Seif Eldin Mustafa, the man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane on Tuesday, used to brag about having murdered three IDF soldiers, The Guardian reports. His ex-wife Marina Paraschou revealed this fact, as well as his fanatical support for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in an interview with the Phileleftheros newspaper in Cyprus. Their five-year marriage began when she was 20-years-old…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday evening with the father of the soldier who shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron last Wednesday, after the family of the soldier asked that Netanyahu do so. Shortly after the phone call, a hearing on an extension of the soldier’s detention came to a conclusion, and it was…

Opposition chair and Zionist Union head MK Yitzhak Herzog issued a statement on Thursday about the corruption investigation being led by police against him, which was revealed the day before. Herzog is suspected of accepting illegal donations while running for the leadership of the Labor party in 2013. On Tuesday night, it was revealed that Shas chairperson…

The Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs (JACPAC), a pro-Israel Jewish PAC with a liberal domestic agenda, has announced that it is throwing its support behind Hillary Clinton in her bid for the presidency. It noted that women’s votes will be “critical” in electing Clinton and promised to make an effort “to get the vote out.”…

Police are concluding the preparations for their recommendations to try Chaim Biton, the Egged bus driver who was behind the horrific crash on Highway 1 in early February in which six passengers died and dozens of others were wounded. Biton is to be charged with negligent manslaughter for the six victims and causing the wounds…

In direct response to a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) report revealing how the Fatah faction actively promotes terror, Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen refused to reassess the Palestinian group as not being “moderate.” PMW announced on Thursday that earlier this month it sent an open letter and a report, which can be seen here, to Jensen…

Limmud FSU, an organization for Russian-speaking Jews, on Thursday honored noted Holocaust survivor Roman Kent for dedicating his life to helping fellow survivors and those who rescued them. Kent, now aged 86, is the president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which helps Righteous Gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and currently are in…

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit ordered on Thursday night that a criminal investigation be launched against Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, upgrading the previous preliminary corruption investigation that he was subject to. The decision was made at the end of a meeting that took place today in Mandelblit’s office, after the conclusion of the preliminary…

The British-based foundation that awarded a Palestinian Authority schoolteacher a $1 million prize for teaching nonviolence will not change its decision, despite revelations that the woman’s husband participated in a horrific terror attack that murdered at least six Jews, reports the Associated Press. The Varkey Foundation awarded Hanan al-Hroub of El Bireh its Global Teacher Prize…

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Minister of Education Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) announced on Thursday the recipients of the 2016 Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievements. Both Eli Mechina (pre-military) Academy founder Rabbi Eli Sadan and Major General (retired) Doron Almog were chosen for this year’s prize. The two were nominated by the Israeli Prize committee and approved by Bennett. Bennett…

Embattled Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s key ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin, may be preparing to turn his back on the Syrian president. According to the Al-Hayat pan-Arab newspaper in London, Russia has agreed to a long-standing demand of Syrian opposition forces that Assad be removed from power. The report comes as negotiators representing Syrian rebels…

A serious military training accident occurred in Israel’s Golan Heights, during which an IDF tank was struck by a shell fired from another tank. According to an initial investigation, one tank operating team requested permission to fire into an open area, received the green light, and fired – only for another tank to emerge uphill…

US rap star Wiz Khalifa is set to perform in Israel this summer, becoming the latest international musician to announce a performance in the Jewish state in 2016. 10-time Grammy nominee Khalifa will perform at Rishon Letzion Park on June 25. Wiz Khalifa has released six albums in total, and is considered one of the most…

During a hearing on Thursday on the extension of the detention of a soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded Arab terrorist, the military prosecutor announced that the murder charges that were leveled against him last Friday in a similar hearing have been dropped. Instead the soldier is being charged with manslaughter, and not murder. The hearing…

MK Nava Boker (Likud) responded on Thursday shortly after the military prosecutor in court dropped the murder charges against the IDF soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded Arab terrorist. “It is good that the military prosecutor dropped the murder clause,” said Boker, welcoming the move. “After a week of an unprecedented uproar and criticism (against the…

Eyal Shviki, the chief of staff for Zionist Union chairperson MK Yitzhak Herzog, spoke out Thursday about the corruption investigation led by police against Herzog. Herzog was named on Wednesday as being the second senior politician under investigation, after the night before it was revealed that Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri is also…

France’s women’s rights minister faced growing criticism on Thursday, including calls on social media to resign, after she compared women who wear the Muslim headscarf and veil to “negroes who supported slavery.” An online petition that collected nearly 18,000 signatures within hours urged Prime Minister Manuel Valls to punish Laurence Rossignol, while a leading French Muslim group made the unlikely accusation that he…

Both Germany and the European Union on Wednesday rejected protests by Turkey over a satirical German television show that mocked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters reports. Turkey’s foreign ministry had summoned Germany’s envoy to explain an NDR broadcast including a two-minute song that poked fun at Erdogan. The clip, entitled “Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan”, ridiculed the…

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Tuesday he thinks Israel ought to conclude negotiations over a defense aid deal with the United States as soon as possible.  Speaking at a conference at Tel Aviv University and quoted by Haaretz, Kahlon acknowledged that even after Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel this month and Defense Minister Moshe…

Affirmative action for immigrants and haredim? A new bill aiming to achieve just that is poised to become law, after passing its first reading in the Knesset on Wednesday with no opposition. The bill, proposed by United Torah Judaism MKs Uri Maklev and Moshe Gafni, would extend existing affirmative action laws to both recent immigrants…

Missiles, and not negotiations, will be a part of Iran’s future relations with the outside world, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday, according to The Telegraph. The comments are an apparent rebuke to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who has become a close ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, and…

3 Steps to work on Before it is too late. After decades of marriage, couples are splitting up later in life. Experts call this ‘grey divorce’ and tell us that one in four divorces in the U.S. occurs among people ages 50 and above. No matter your age, it would be wise to understand why…

Immigrants from the former Soviet Union living in Israel are overwhelmingly secular, notes a new Pew Research Center poll, but their children are increasingly embracing religion. A new Pew study released on Wednesday reaffirmed what has become common knowledge in Israel – that immigrants from Russia and other ex-Soviet states are far more likely to…

A Carmei Tzur synagogue built to commemorate the three young Israelis who were kidnapped and murdered in 2014 was demolished overnight by the IDF’s Civil Administration enforcement division. Residents were shocked to discover the ruins of the destroyed house of prayer on Thursday morning. The synagogue was built in 2014, near the site where Eyal…

Israeli security forces conducted a series of raids across Judea and Samaria overnight in a sweeping operation to pick up wanted terror suspects. A total of 16 suspects across the Palestinian Authority were captured, including five near Tulkarem, one near Jenin, one in the Eit Beit al-Ma refugee camp in Shechem, one near Qalqilya, seven…

A United Nations specialist has expressed his condemnation for the IDF soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist last week, Reuters reports. Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, declared that the video clip of the shooting shows it to be an extrajudicial execution. “The images shown carry all the signs of a clear…

In June 2002, terror struck the Shabo family. Two PFLP terrorists infiltrated the town of Itamar and broke into the Shabo’s home. Asael Shabo, who was 9 years old at the time of the attack, was sitting watching television with his younger brother, Avishai. When the terrorists entered the house, they began firing wildly. Asael…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is sure to ruffle some feathers with comments regarding abortion he made on Wednesday. Speaking to MSNBC, Trump said he believes there should be punishment for women who undergo abortions if the procedure was outlawed, though he indicated he has yet to determine what that punishment should be. During the…

The United States on Wednesday condemned last week’s United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that calls for setting up a blacklist of businesses operating in Judea and Samaria. Speaking to reporters at his daily briefing and quoted by Reuters, State Department spokesman John Kirby criticized the motion. “We continue to unequivocally oppose the very existence…

A laptop used by one of the bombers from last week’s attacks in Brussels contained images of the Belgian prime minister’s home and office, an official said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. The government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said that “it is alarming that they were…

This week we read the Torah portion of Shemini, which opens with the dedication of the desert tabernacle and the magnificent and indescribably joyful experience of the dwelling of the Shechina, the Divine Presence, in this world. As Bob Dylan said, “You can be in my dreams, if you’ll let me be in yours”. As…

Egypt on Wednesday asked Cyprus to extradite a man accused of hijacking an EgyptAir flight and diverting it to Larnaca where he was arrested a day earlier, AFP reported. The state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Egyptian Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa, 58, should be remanded into its custody for questioning under a 1996…

The White House on Wednesday indicated that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad should not be part of any transitional unity government, echoing views from regime opponents inside the war-shattered country. Responding to an interview in which Assad argued his regime should take part in a transitional government, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Assad’s own participation…

IDF troops, Border Policemen and the Civil Administration demolished overnight Wednesday the home in Hevron of the terrorist Ihab Fathi Zakaria Masudi. Masudi carried out the stabbing attack outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron on December 7, critically wounding Ganedi Kofman, who succumbed to his injuries three weeks later. Throughout his hospitalization Kofman,…

The White House on Wednesday indicated that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad should not be part of any transitional unity government, echoing views from regime opponents inside the war-shattered country. Responding to an interview in which Assad argued his regime should take part in a transitional government, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Assad’s own participation…

The President of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages, Rabbi Shlomo Cohen, has offered his encouragement to party head Aryeh Deri, as reports come out of a new police investigation into Deri’s activities. “G-d protects those who do good for the public,” Rabbi Cohen told Deri, adding that “you have no better protector than the Holy One.…

Im Tirtzu, a Zionist activist organization, held a special ceremony this week in recognition of the work of Sara Zoabi on behalf of the IDF and the Zionist movement. But Sara Zoabi doesn’t exactly fit the profile of the typical Zionist activist. A devout Muslim, Zoabi is a relative of the staunchly anti-Zionist MK Hanin…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded to a letter in which US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for an investigation into claims that Israel carries out extrajudicial killings against Palestinians. “The IDF and the Israel Police do not engage in executions. Israel’s soldiers and police officers defend themselves and innocent civilians with the highest moral standards…

Yair Farjun, the head of the Ashkelon Beach Regional Council, has revealed the sad reality of the families evacuated from Gush Katif to senior members of the Hemed religious education administration. Farjun told Arutz Sheva that it’s important for the Israeli education system to deal with the big question of why the state did not uphold its promises.…

Syria’s main opposition High Negotiations Committee on Wednesday flatly rejected a demand from President Bashar al-Assad for any transitional government to include his regime. “International resolutions speak of… the formation of a transitional body with full powers, including presidential powers,” HNC senior member Asaad al-Zoabi said, adding “Assad should not remain for even one hour…

New indications that the Republican Party could be headed for a split came on Tuesday during a town hall meeting in Milwaukee a week before Wisconsin’s GOP primary on April 5th. Despite signing a pledge last September to support the eventual party nominee, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump walked back the promise during the CNN town…

Arutz Sheva spoke with several new arrivals from Ukraine, to understand their perspective on their new home. All of the olim shared their joy as they looked forward to the freedom and security that await them. Some also emphasized their thankfulness towards Israel for its support and guidance over the last few years. “I am so…

Help can come from the unlikeliest of places, particularly when spies and assassinations are involved. In the 1960s a number of former Nazi scientists were assisting Egypt develop advanced rockets, which then-President Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened to use against Israel. There was even evidence that Israel’s strongest enemy was building 900 rockets and possibly planning to fit them…

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month ordered the “main part” of his forces out of Syria in a surprise withdrawal – but according to a Reuters analysis on Wednesday, he has since increased the deployment of equipment to the region. Putin has continued his campaign to prop up Bashar al-Assad’s regime even after the withdrawal announcement on…

Hamas on Wednesday called to “saturate” the ground in blood during a large ceremony held on the border of Gaza for “Land Day,” in the 40th annual marking of the event. Arab citizens of Israel for their part held a general strike, protesting how the Israeli government took control of land in the Negev and Galilee in 1976,…

Attorney Binyamin Malka, one of two lawyers defending the IDF soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about the ongoing court drama. At a military court hearing last Friday the soldier was accused of murder, but on Tuesday the military prosecutor made no mention of murder, and the judge…

French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday he was scrapping contested constitutional reforms proposed after the Paris attacks, in an embarrassing U-turn for his already beleaguered government. The reforms included a plan to strip convicted terrorists of their French nationality which led to howls of protests from the left flank of his Socialist party. Hollande also wanted to enshrine in the Constitution…

MK Amir Ohana (Likud) has submitted an urgent query to Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) about the latest revelations of NGOs acting against the IDF from within Israel. Ohana asked Ariel, who is also responsible for disqualifying organizations’ from National Service, what steps could be taken to reduce the government’s support for such groups. “Do these organizations use…

The Associated Press news agency cooperated with the Nazi regime during the 1930s, a German historian has exposed. In an article for the Studies in Contemporary History journal, historian Harriet Scharnberg revealed archival material which detailed how AP struck a deal with Adolf Hitler’s regime for access inside Nazi-ruled Germany. In return for that exclusive access – by…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot sent a letter Wednesday warning troops to use “appropriate force,” after a soldier was caught on video shooting dead a wounded Palestinian terrorist. The soldier – who shot the terrorist in the head last Thursday in Hevron following a stabbing attack, after the attackers had already been shot and seriously wounded –…

The Mukosieiev family is eager to be starting a new life in Israel. The family consists of  Serhii (age 46), Elena (age 44), their son Davyd (age 14) and Serhii’s mother Alla (age 78). They will be making aliya from their native city of Dnepropetrovsk where they’ve lived for most part of their lives.  Elena had been…

The head of the Jewish Home party’s Anglo Forum is vying for a place on the party’s Presidential Board. Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) Anglo Forum Chairman Jeremy Saltan announced his candidacy yesterday for a spot on the seven-member Central Committee Presidential Board. The board sets the agenda for and governs all Central Committee meetings. The election will take place…

With European Jewry on edge after a series of terror attacks that have rocked the continent, one of the victims personifies a growing trend among Jews in Europe. Walter Benjamin, who was seriously wounded in last week’s twin suicide bombings at the Zaventem airport in Brussels, has decided his future belongs in Israel, and is…

The FBI told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in last week’s suicide attacks in Brussels, the Dutch interior minister said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Ard van der Steur was responding by letter to questions from Dutch legislators about Belgian brothers…

France on Tuesday hailed the recapture by Syrian forces of the ancient city of Palmyra as “positive news”, but stressed that Damascus bore the main blame for the war in Syria. “The advances against Daesh today cannot erase the fact that the (Syrian) regime bears the main responsibility for the conflict and its 270,000 dead…

In 1945, Aleksandar Lebl returned to Serbia after escaping the attempted genocide of all Jews in World War II and reclaimed his family’s confiscated house. But the 93-year-old is one of the very few of Serbia’s Holocaust survivors who came back to recover their homes. Many thousands of others were murdered or left no heir and their property, seized by the…

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has apologized for using the label “occupation” – no, not in the context of Israel’s presence in its Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria which he regularly condemns, but rather in Western Sahara. Ban’s change of heart came after the government of Morocco turned hostile on his “occupation” comments, made earlier this month…

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) was revealed on Tuesday night to be the subject of a corruption investigation, but according to reports another senior politician is also being investigated in the case. Deri’s investigation was approved by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, and while further details remain under a gag order, no criminal investigation has been launched against…

Action film legend Jean-Claude Van Damme is currently in Israel on a five-day visit to the Holy Land, but the famous martial arts star apparently let opponents of Israel get the best of him in a short bout on Facebook Tuesday. Van Damme began his private holiday in Tiberias, and on Tuesday went to the…

MK Mickey Rosenthal of the Zionist Union party’s Labor faction on Wednesday morning criticized Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after it was revealed the night before that he is being investigated in a new corruption scandal. “Deri shouldn’t have returned to serve as a minister after he was convicted of corruption,” said Rosenthal,…

Yaffa Deri, the wife of Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, expressed optimism on Wednesday morning regarding the police investigation against her husband on suspicions of corruption, which was revealed the night before. At the entrance to their home in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, she noted on the current timing between the Purim and Passover…

Attorney Ilan Katz, who is heading the defense team for the soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, said on Wednesday that the soldier’s lawyers will not agree to him being stood on trial for homicide. In the incident, the soldier was filmed by an Arab activist for the radical leftist NGO B’Tselem shooting…

Western powers are demanding that the UN Security Council take actions over Iran’s repeated ballistic missile tests, Reuters revealed on Tuesday. In a joint letter to the Security Council seen by the news agency, the United States and its European allies say that by launching nuclear-capable missiles, Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council…

An investigation has been launched on matters pertaining to Shas chairman and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, at the approval of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday night. A gag order has been imposed on the exact details of the investigation and, therefore, further information cannot be made public at this…

Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) said Tuesday that the compromise between her office and the Al Maidan Theater was forced upon her by the Legal Advisor to the Government / Attorney General. The Arab-owned theater caused outrage when it performed a play that glorifies Walid Daka, the terrorist who abducted and cruelly murdered 19-year-old IDF…

All passengers who were aboard EgyptAir flight MS181, which was hijacked early on Tuesday, arrived safely in Cairo on Tuesday night after spending several hours in Cyprus, Egyptian media report. The flight was hijacked shortly after taking off from Alexandria on Tuesday morning and was diverted to Cyprus. The single hijacker, who was named as…