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Another official with the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) has resigned over the group’s discriminatory and anti-Israel actions. Brahma Mohanty, who served as the club’s disabilities officer, says that the society has been reduced to a “shadow of its former glory,” the Telegraph reports. He explained his feelings in a resignation letter, saying: “I took on the roles…

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday blasted the United States and claimed that Washington has continued its animosity toward Tehran, despite a friendly message by President Barack Obama marking Persian New Year, The Associated Press (AP) reported. “From one hand they send a New Year message and on the other hand they have…

The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, headed by MK Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), announced an unprecedented initiative Sunday at a special ceremony during the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. The $12.5 million project is designed to provide 5,600 women from 26 countries around…

Belgian authorities say that Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect from November’s ISIS attack in Paris, received more help from his friends and neighbors than from ISIS, Reuters reports. “Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw…

Israeli chain Osher Ad will be the first Israeli supermarket to open a foreign branch as they prepare to open their New York store, according to Bloomberg Business. The kosher store purchased a 5,700 square-meter (70,000 square-foot) plot in Brooklyn from the Pathmark supermarket chain. The Jerusalem-based company is seeking to cater to the Borough Park Haredi…

Today (Monday), Israel completed a secret operation to rescue some of Yemen’s last remaining Jews. The plane landed early this morning with 19 new olim, including the heads of the local community. Rabbi Saliman Dahari, who came with his parents and wife, also brought an Torah scroll dating back to the fifteen or sixteenth century. Five of…

The parents of Tzafrir Bar-Or, who was killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014, were flooded with emotion as they watched the latest investigative report against Breaking the Silence, which was aired on Channel 2 last week, and have asked the prime minister to intervene personally in the matter. The report showed the ultra-leftist group…

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has published his review of the “Mikveh Bill,” saying that it is unconstitutional and violates individuals’ freedom of religion. The bill in question was submitted by MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) and is aimed at preventing Reform groups from using public Mikvaot (ritual baths) for their conversions which do not adhere to Jewish law.…

A group of pro-Palestinian Arab activists on Sunday interrupted Arutz Sheva’s crew as they were reporting from the protest outside the AIPAC policy conference, blaming Israel and Arutz Sheva for “killing babies”. The masked protesters claimed they were from the Anonymous group of hackers and said they came to protest outside the conference “to support…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday sent a letter to his Israeli counterpart, President Reuven Rivlin, in which he expressed his condolences for the death of three Israelis in the terror attack Saturday in Istanbul. “I was greatly saddened to learn that unfortunately, 3 Israeli citizens also lost their lives and 10 Israeli citizens…

President Barack Obama on Sunday afternoon arrived in Cuba, the first official visit to the country by an American president after decades of hostility. “¿Que bolá Cuba? Just touched down here, looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people,” the President tweeted shortly after his arrival in Havana. Obama will meet Cuban…

United States Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday evening criticized Israel’s so-called “settlement expansion” and personally called out Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over this. Biden was speaking to the 18,700-strong crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, where he started by saying “we’re all united by our unyielding commitment to the…

The lawyer for Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam launched a furious legal fight Sunday to avoid his client’s extradition to France, after Europe’s most wanted fugitive spent his first night in a Belgian jail. At the same time Belgium’s foreign minister suggested that Abdeslam was also plotting “something” in Brussels, where he was caught Friday…

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved Sunday an amendment regarding Israel’s “Flag, Emblem and Anthem” law, proposed by MK Nava Boker (Likud). The bill seeks to harshen the punishment for burning flags by increasing the prison sentence to three years, as well as imposing a 50,000 shekel ($13,000) fine. Another section of the amendment, which calls for denying…

Israel’s government on Sunday warned against travel to Turkey after three of its citizens were murdered in an Istanbul suicide bombing the previous day. The country’s anti-terrorism office raised its threat assessment and “recommends avoiding visits to Turkey,” it said in a statement. “Yesterday’s deadly attack in Istanbul, in which a group of Israeli tourists was hit, underscores the threat against tourist targets throughout Turkey.”…

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and Judea-Samaria district police spokesperson on Sunday issued a joint statement, according to which the latest arson in the Arab town of Duma doesn’t appear to have been committed by Jews. “Following on the media gag order regarding the investigation of the Duma fire that took place on the night…

The Arab terror wave that has been plaguing Israel since last September continues unabated, and in a sign of how haredi children are dealing with the tensions, many are dressing up as first-responder medics in honor of Purim. It is traditional to dress up in costume for the holiday, in honor of how God’s role…

A body that was found on Saturday in the Hudson River has been confirmed to be that of Rabbi Duvid Mordcha Arenowitz who went missing two months ago. After weeks of searching, the 46-year-old father of three was confirmed dead after his dental records were matched at the medical examiner’s office. Despite astronomical expenses to…

IDF forces were rapidly dispatched on Sunday night to the town of Elon Moreh in Samaria, after a Palestinian suspect was discovered trying to infiltrate into the town. An IDF surveillance point spotted the suspect approaching the town from the south and called up the forces. The suspect attempted to flee the scene towards the adjacent…

One thing’s for sure. When it comes to politics, American Jews have no Einsteins. It’s one folly after another. We constantly get it wrong. We keep producing great medicines but nothing to cure our political stupidity. Yesterday (and still today) we loved FDR even though he did practically nothing to stop the trains heading to…

A stone’s throw from its picture-postcard canals and medieval buildings, the scenic city of Bruges has an altogether darker secret: one of Belgium’s largest and most high-security jails, housing some of its most-wanted terrorists. The Bruges Penitentiary Complex on Saturday received the tourist town’s latest high-profile “guest” when Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam arrived at the modern facility, following his dramatic arrest in…

Around 300 residents joined MK Oren Hazan (Likud), Samaria Regional District head Yossi Dagan and Samaria Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon in a protest march on Sunday evening, from Ariel Junction to Gitai Avisar Junction down Highway 5. The protest comes in the wake of a stabbing attack last Thursday in which a female soldier was moderately…

Israel’s El Al airline signed a strategic deal with British automobile maker Rolls-Royce last week during a ceremony in Jaffa (Yafo). The agreement was signed as a part of a renewal program, in which 15 new Dreamliners will join El Al’s fleet by 2017, with the option of acquiring an additional 13 thereafter. Rolls-Royce will be the supplier…

Ibrahim Dawabsha a key witness in the Duma arson trial which began earlier this month, told police that unknown assailants set his house on fire overnight. A relative of the three Dawabsha family members killed in an arson attack last summer, Dawabsha is set to testify in the trial of Amiram Ben-Uliel and a 17-year-old…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to discuss on Sunday a controversial proposal from former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that would enable courts to sentence convicted terrorists to death. Lieberman, who made a campaign slogan promising the death penalty for terrorists, proposed the bill last year. If passed, the legislation would enable military courts…

Former Minister of Religion Ya’akov Margi (Shas) has brought a proposal to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation which would lower the voting age in Israel from 18 to 17. The Committee, which meets every Sunday, will decide today whether or not to offer the bill full coalition backing. The proposal has already won support from…

Police are investigating reports that a man brandishing a knife attempted to stab a soldier on HaRoeh Street in Ramat Gan this afternoon (Sunday). Security forces have been called to the area to search for the suspect involved in the alleged incident. No injuries have been reported. The circumstances surrounding the incident have yet to…

Turkish authorizes reported on Sunday that DNA tests have confirmed the identity of Saturday’s Istanbul suicide bomber who killed three Israelis and one Iranian citizen. Mehmet Ozturk, a 23-year-old terrorist affiliated with ISIS, has been named as the attacker in the deadly blast that rocked a popular Istanbul shopping center. Initially Turkey had named Kurdish…

The bodies of the three Israelis murdered in Satuday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul are on their way to Israel, carried aboard an Israeli Air Force transport plane. Of the 11 Israelis wounded in the attack, five returned to Israel early Sunday morning, with another five now en route to Israel. The three Israelis killed in…

The horrifying suicide bombing that rocked a shopping center in Istanbul on Saturday came as a shock to many in the West and in Israel. But few in Turkey were surprised by the attack, says Eyal Peretz. Peretz who heads Arkadash, an organization representing the Turkish Jewish community in Israel spoke to Arutz Sheva about the…

Shmuel Meidad, director of the Honenu legal aid organization, on Sunday condemned the media gag order placed by police on an arson in the Arab town of Duma in Samaria, which targeted relatives of the Dawabshe family that was murdered in an arson attack last July. The arson early Sunday morning targeted Ibrahim Dawabshe, a witness in…

One of the Israelis who were murdered in Saturday’s terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey, has been identified as 60-year-old Simcha Damari, a mother of four from the city of Dimona in southern Israel. Two other Israelis were murdered in the attack, but their names have not yet been cleared for publication. 10 Israelis were wounded…

Israel has cancelled permits for Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza to travel to Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the Temple Mount, and Hamas is unhappy about it. On Saturday, the terrorist group condemned Israel’s decision, branding it “an escalation of the Israeli blockade on Gaza and call on the international community to intervene and…

A delegation of Israeli doctors and paramedics from Magen David Adom landed in Istanbul on Saturday night, where it will assist in treating Israelis who were injured in the terrorist attack in the city. The delegation is equipped with advanced medical equipment that enables the doctors to provide treatment to the victims even during a…

A week of Geneva peace talks on Syria has proved fruitless, a source close to the Damascus government said Saturday, blaming UN pressure to end the five-year war. “We have seen no progress these past five days,” the source told AFP, criticizing UN mediator Staffan de Mistura for urging Damascus to unveil a detailed transition…

A federal judge in New York ruled last week that the Iranian regime is liable for damages in the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001. The ruling by George Benjamin Daniels, Judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, ordered Iran to pay almost $11 billion in compensation to families of…

Donald Trump’s older sister, federal appeals court judge Maryanne Trump Barry, received a threatening letter in Philadelphia, sources told NBC News on Saturday. The letter arrived on Friday, according to the network, one day after Trump’s son, Eric Trump, received a suspicious piece of mail containing a white powder. There was no white powder sent…

Two of the three Israelis killed in Saturday’s suicide bombing attack in Istanbul were dual Israeli-American citizens, according to US State Department spokesperson John Kirby. Yonatan Suher was killed when a suicide bomber, believed to be affiliated with ISIS, attacked a popular shopping center. The name of the second Israeli-American dual citizen killed in the…

Police are investigating anti-Semitic and homophobic graffiti found on a Brown University residential building, Associated Press reports. The building is home to the Beta Rho Pi and Zeta Delta Xi fraternities. Beta Rho Pi is a Jewish frat, while Zeta Delta Xi is known for having many LGBT members. The graffiti was scrawled on the building’s walls, halls and…

Former Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as Shabak or Shin Bet) head Yuval Diskin claims that the ongoing wave of terror is caused by the lack of dialogue with the Palestinian Authority. “What’s happening on the ground now is not surprising,” he said in an interview with Channel 2. “For a number of years I…

The Arab leadership in Israel is conducting a new campaign to prevent Arab landowners from accepting compensation for property they owned in 1948. The secretary of the Displaced Union in Israel, Suleiman al-Fahmawi, told Hamas’s Falastin newspaper that the campaign is titled “No giving up our fathers’ and grandfathers’ land.” It is aimed at thwarting the Israeli government’s plan, with…

A member of Turkey’s ruling party who tweeted that she wished for all the Israelis who were wounded in the terrorist attack in Istanbul to die has been fired, Turkish media reported Saturday. Irem Aktas, a member of the Justice and Development Party, posted a tweet after the attack, in which three Israelis were murdered…

A delegation of Israeli doctors and paramedics from Magen David Adom landed in Istanbul on Saturday night, where it will assist in treating Israelis who were injured in the terrorist attack in the city. The delegation is equipped with advanced medical equipment that enables the doctors to provide treatment to the victims even during a…

A Palestinian teenager stabbed and wounded a Border Guard officer in Hevron today (Saturday) before being shot dead, Israeli police said, the latest in a series of attacks. One guard was lightly injured in the incident, which occurred near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and another officer killed the 18-year-old terrorist, police said in a statement. According to police,…

Three Israelis were killed Saturday in a suicide bombing on a major shopping street in Istanbul, Turkish media report. At least one other person, an Iranian national, was also killed. The victims were Simha Siman Demri, 60, Yonathan Suher, 40, Avraham Goldman, 70 and an Iranian identified as Ali Riza Khalman whose age was not given, the CNN-Turk broadcaster said.…

Kamil al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, is accusing Arab officials of giving a green light to “Judaizing actions” around the al-Aqsa Mosque. He also says that the officials incite against the Islamic Movement in order to ban its activities and neutralize the group in its struggle. During an interview with the Hamas newspaper…

British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held prisoner by ISIS, appeared in a new video released Saturday supposedly filmed in the jihadists’ Iraqi stronghold of Mosul. In the latest installment in a series of propaganda videos released by ISIS, Cantlie speaks to the camera in the style of a news report. It is unclear when it was shot, but Cantlie…

Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has released a statement about today’s (Saturday) attack in Istanbul, in which three Israelis were killed and another 11 wounded. Speaking from the Foreign Ministry’s situation room, Netanyahu said, “During the day I received updates about what happened in Istanbul. We can say with certainty that, sadly, two…

Hundreds of Russian-speaking Jews gathered to protest anti-Semitism in New York this pas Wednesday. The rally was organized by a number of the community’s leaders, including Ari Kagan, Margarita Kagan and Gregory Davidzon. Eugene Lekakh, the Director-General of the American Forum on Russian Jewry, explained that Islamist violence has been reaching New York and poses a…

Irem Aktas, a member of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, posted a tweet today, reading “I wish that the wounded Israeli tourists were dead.” She deleted the account shortly after posting it, but not in time to prevent a strong backlash over her lack of sympathy. Aktas, who is responsible for the party’s digital…

A ZAKA delegation will take off for Turkey this evening (Saturday) in order to care for the bodies of the Israelis murdered in today’s attack. Mati Goldstein, the head of ZAKA’s international unit, says, “As soon as Shabbat ended we began preparing to leave for Turkey. Our delegation includes five members of the team. “ZAKA…

ISIS killed a US marine in a rocket attack in northern Iraq Saturday, the Pentagon said, only the second American combat death in the fight against the jihadists. “Earlier today a US Marine providing force protection fire support at a recently established coalition fire base near Makhmur in northern Iraq was killed after coming under ISIL [ISIS] rocket fire,” a…

NGO Monitor, a watchdog which tracks extremist anti-Israel NGOs, on Friday revealed that the leftist organization Breaking the Silence received 78% of its budget between 2012 and 2015 from European governments, including Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, and the EU. Additional amounts came from the New Israel Fund, NGO Monitor revealed. During those years,…

A copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” owned by the Nazi leader himself and found in his Munich apartment sold for $20,655 in the United States on Friday, an auction house said. The book, which is bound in red leather, was discovered by American soldiers who liberated Munich at the end of World War II, said…

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Friday night said that three suspects were detained in a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, including Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in the November 13 attacks in Paris. Michel hailed the arrests as a success in the “fight against terrorism,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted him as…

Most if not all Russian warplanes have been withdrawn from Syria, a spokesman for the United States military said Friday, adding that Russia has staged no air strikes during the past week. However, the American military assessment contradicted assertions by the Russian military that its jets were flying as many as 25 sorties a day…

All the presidential candidates will be speaking at next week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference with the exception of the only Jewish candidate in the running, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. While earlier on Friday there was some hope that the Independent senator would attend the conference at the start of next week, he…

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced on Friday that he would caucus for Ted Cruz in Utah on Tuesday, CBS News reported. “This week, in the Utah nominating caucus, I will vote for Senator Ted Cruz,” the 2012 GOP presidential nominee said in a post on Facebook. The “only path” to block Donald Trump…

An IDF force and a police special forces officer on Friday afternoon thwarted a terror attack at the entrance to the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial region in Samaria, to the north of Jerusalem. The security forces spotted two Arab youths who got out of a car with Palestinian Authority (PA) plates at the entrance to the…

We are commanded to remember and never to forget – not Amalek per se, but what Amalek did to us on our way out of Egypt. This allows us to include in the “definition” of Amalek, those who are Amalek-like; those who behave like Amalek, and like his famous descendant, Haman. We should also keep…

The new region of social networking has created a hotbed of anti-Israel activity from actual terrorism to BDS. Israel has always shown itself able to respond to new threats and this threat is qualitatively different than any in the past. Jay Shapiro claims that Israel’s strategy has to be based on the new reality of the…

All the presidential candidates will be speaking at next week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference – with the exception, it appears, of the only Jewish candidate in the running, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. As of Friday afternoon, Sanders had not yet confirmed whether he will attend the policy conference which takes place early…

Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect from the Paris attacks in November 13 that killed 130 people, was arrested in Belgium on Friday, AFP reported. “We got him,” Belgian immigration minister Theo Francken confirmed, minutes after French police announced the arrest of Abdeslam in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, home to several of the Islamic State…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) has ordered the Military Advocate General to launch an investigation following the investigative report published by Channel 2 on Thursday regarding the radical leftist organization Breaking the Silence. The report by the nationalist Ad Kan group revealed how Breaking the Silence, which claims to be a “human rights organization,” tried to gather classified intelligence about…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has claimed the killing of five Russian troops in fighting near the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. “The soldiers of the caliphate, by the grace of God, have killed five Russian soldiers and six members” of the Syrian army, ISIS said in a statement. The group also claimed the killing of several members of…

Tensions are boiling over in the Western Sahara, a region Morocco has occupied since 1976, and local Sahrawi groups warn that if the UN pulls out its troops from the region in a concession to the Moroccan government, war will likely follow. Morocco has occupied the region since it was handed to its troops by Spain,…

Lotan was born four months premature – her family spent six months in the intensive care unit with her, and after two months she suffered oxygen deprivation, leaving her with cerebral palsy and a lifelong battle for normalcy. “All along, they warned us that she wouldn’t walk, wouldn’t dance,” relates her mother. “But all along…

Bashar Jaafari, the chief negotiator of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the Geneva peace talks, has said he will not talk to the chief negotiator of the Syrian opposition delegation Mohammed Alloush unless he “shaves off his beard.” Alloush, a devout Muslim and a senior leader of the Islamist rebel faction Jaish al-Islam, is the chief…

The Ramban calls Sefer Vayikra “Torat Kohanim.” The Sefer primarily deals with Korbanot (offerings) and maintaining the sanctity of the Mishkan.  Parshat Vayikra deals with Korbanot. “Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When a man among you brings an offering to Hashem: from animals-from the cattle or the flock shall you bring…

Kiryat Arba, located adjacent to Hevron in Judea, held its Purim carnival on Friday ahead of the holiday that starts there next Wednesday night, and featured an unusual treat for participants – the world’s largest grogger, a traditional holiday noisemaker. All of the Kiryat Arba educational institutions as well as residents of the town took part…

An IDF force and a police special forces officer on Friday afternoon thwarted a terror attack at the entrance to the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial region in Samaria, to the north of Jerusalem. The security forces spotted two Arab youths who got out of a car with Palestinian Authority (PA) plates at the entrance to the…

The Rosen family from Florida last November had to choose a name for their newborn baby boy – learn the amazing story about how they unintentionally brought Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his Netanel Litman back to life in name, just after they were murdered in a terror attack near Hevron.

The UN’s Syria envoy wrapped up a week of fragile peace talks Friday with plans to meet both sides, after urging the regime put forward clear plans for political transition. Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations mediator at the Geneva negotiations, has said agreeing on a unity government to lead Syria out of five years of civil war was the most daunting roadblock…

Israeli politicians from both left and right were fuming on Thursday evening, after a Channel 2 investigative report revealed that members of the leftist organization Breaking the Silence apparently tried to gather intelligence about sensitive IDF operations along the border with Hamas. Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) said he was “shocked by the findings of the…

Many people do not know or care about who Amalek is or what he represents. They may not realize that Amalek, first mentioned in the Torah, is God’s eternal enemy, and therefore, the nemesis of the Jewish people. More importantly, they have little idea of how Amalek affects them today, and how dangerous he is…

A group of U.S. Republican senators on Thursday unveiled legislation that would require the Obama administration to impose stricter sanctions on every sector of Iran’s economy that supports the country’s ballistic missile program, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, is a reflection of longstanding exasperation among Republican lawmakers who…

Poland on Thursday opened its first museum in tribute to Poles who lost their lives helping Jews during World War II, on the exact spot where Nazis executed a young family for providing shelter. President Andrzej Duda honored descendants of the Polish rescuers who he said had made “dramatic choices”, before cutting the ribbon at the…

One of the most senior figures in the British Jewish community warned on Thursday that the country’s Jews “can’t trust Labour”, dealing a blow to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. The President of the Board of Deputies, Jonathan Arkush, told the British Evening Standard that the party’s growing anti-Semitism scandal is poisoning relations and now damaging…

The New York Police Department (NYPD) are investigating a suspicious piece of mail containing a white powder that was sent on Thursday to Eric Trump, the middle son of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. NYPD sources told NBC News that initial tests on the powder found that it was non-hazardous, although initially there were concerns it may have been…

The radical leftist organization Breaking the Silence responded to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s announcement Thursday night, according to which they will be investigated after having “crossed another red line.” Netanyahu’s announcement was sparked by a Channel 2 investigative report, which revealed that members of the organization apparently tried to gather classified intelligence about sensitive IDF operations along the Gaza border with…

For the first time the IDF has refused to approve having the Chief Rabbis take part in an event, in this case a welcoming ceremony for a new Torah scroll at the IDF commando unit base next Monday. Channel 2 reports that every invitation of the Chief Rabbis is issued by the military rabbinate to the upper…

A special poll marking a year since elections was published in Maariv on Friday morning, and indicated that the “centrist” Yesh Atid is nearly catching up to the ruling Likud party. The poll found Likud dropping from 30 mandates down to 26, while Yesh Atid jumped from 11 all the way up to 21, coming within a…

Channel 2 news broadcast highly incriminating video evidence Thursday evening filmed with hidden cameras by nationalist group Ad Kan, which shows ultra-leftist group Breaking the Silence engaged in what appears like espionage activity against the IDF. ‘Breaking the Silence has crossed another red line,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said after the report was aired. “The…

Nominations for the 2016 Marcos and Adina Katz Award are now being accepted.  The four award winners will receive $25,000 each, at a ceremony to be held in Jerusalem in late summer. The selection will be made by a committee comprised of former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, noted Talmudic scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Hebrew…

North Korea on Friday morning (local time) fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its eastern coast Friday, just days after its leader Kim Jong-Un ordered further nuclear warhead and missile tests, AFP reports. The report was based on South Korea’s defense ministry, whose spokesman said the missile was launched from Sukchon in the…

While driving the other night, I noticed a couple in the distance. They were taking a relaxing evening stroll. How great that this couple took the time and decided to enjoy each other’s company, I thought to myself. Then as I drove by, I noticed that both of them were on their BlackBerries, texting away. Today we…

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s victory in Missouri’s primary was made official on Thursday, when her rival Bernie Sanders said he would not seek a recount of results in that state. “I think it’s unlikely the results will impact at all the number of delegates the candidate gets, and I would prefer to save the taxpayers…

Ohio Governor John Kasich will speak at next week’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference. AIPAC made the announcement on its Twitter account on Thursday. Kasich just this week won his first state in the Republican presidential primaries, taking his home state of Ohio on “Super Tuesday 3”. In speaking at the AIPAC…

David Shire, who grew up in Glasgow Scotland, studied biology like a nice Jewish Scottish boy should. But when he made Israel his home and began his PhD studies, he realized that he couldn’t connect with today’s views on science which focus on the minuscule and often ignore the big picture. He opened his own landscape…

The White House on Thursday said it was ready to support an investigation by the International Criminal Court into alleged genocide carried out by ISIS in Syria and Iraq. “The United States will cooperate with independent efforts to investigate genocide,” said spokesman Josh Earnest, adding that the administration is willing to support the ICC in gathering evidence.…

Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders have announced a plan to protest Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred, CNN reported Thursday. Trump is scheduled to address the AIPAC conference Monday night, and…

An American man was sentenced on Thursday to 22.5 years in prison Thursday after trying to recruit FBI informants to the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria. Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, from Rochester in upstate New York, pleaded guilty in December to attempting to provide material support to the extremists and was described by prosecutors as…

Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson recently expressed his willingness to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president in 2016. Israeli political blogger Tal Schneider reportedly obtained video of Adelson at a gala event in Las Vegas stating: “Trump is a businessman. I am a businessman. He employs a lot of people. I employed 50,000…

The Kurds – whose representatives on Thursday declared a unified, federal region in northern Syria that was objected to by the state’s regime, opposition and the US – number an estimated 25-35 million people in four countries. Mountain people The Kurds inhabit mainly mountainous regions that cover almost half a million square kilometers (200,000 square miles), spanning from southeast Turkey through northern Syria and…

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate held a ceremony on Thursday at the Yeshurun synagogue in Jerusalem where 382 recipients were issued a “Yoreh Yoreh” semikhah (ordination) certificate, which is equivalent to an undergraduate degree. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel also known as the Rishon LeZion, welcomed the new rabbis: “May you be privileged to…

On the second day of his official visit to Moscow, President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and discussed the prospect of expanding bilateral ties between the two states. Following the meeting, Presidential Residence Director Harel Tobi spoke to Arutz Sheva and summarized the discussion between the two. “Israel and Russia have…

In a rare public and direct diplomatic assault on Israeli policy, the European Union (EU) on Thursday issued a statement condemning Israel over its decision to designate unclaimed land in Judea and Samaria as state land. The condemnation, which rounds out the deluge of criticism on the matter from the US and the UN, refers to…

Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon is expected to cause major traffic jams, prompting transportation for special education institutions in the city to cancel their Friday routes. The move has angered parents of affected students, who do not understand why their children are being wronged. “Why does the Jerusalem municipality burden those who are not running (in the…

MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) was involved in besmirching three male District Court judges when she was serving as Justice Minister, according to the News1 website. The respected investigative website published a follow-up report Thursday after revealing earlier in the week that Roni Aloni-Sedovnik, a lawyer who specializes in representing victims and alleged victims of sexual…

The terrorist behind a double shooting in Copenhagen last year had intended to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks when he attacked a cultural center, a man accused of helping him told a court Thursday. Instead the Palestinian-Danish terrorist Omar El-Hussein, 22, murdered a Danish film-maker in the attack on February 14, 2015, before later murdering a Jewish security guard at a synagogue. Vilks,…

A new report released today by grassroots Zionist movement Im Tirtzu names and shames the Israelis who participated in “Israeli Apartheid Week,” which recently took place in over 150 campuses and cities worldwide. “Israeli Apartheid Week” (IAW) has been held annually for the past decade on college campuses and in cities throughout the world, and…

Former Mossad Director Meir Dagan passed away on Thursday, following a years-long battle with cancer. He was 71 years old. Dagan, who was first appointed to the Mossad by Ariel Sharon, served from 2002 to 2011, undertaking some of the agency’s most ambitious anti-terror operations. Dagan was widely believed to be responsible for numerous assassinations…

More five years ago, Kay Wilson was the victim of a brutal terror attack committed by three Palestinian Authority residents. The December 2010 attack, which occurred in the Mata Forest near Beit Shemesh, left Wilson wounded. Her friend, Kristine Luken, was murdered in the attack. Wilson only managed to survive the brutal assault by playing…

After Donald Trump swept four of Tuesday’s five state primaries, party bigwigs are set to meet on Thursday to lay out a plan to derail the frontrunner’s path to the nomination. According to Politico, the meeting was organized by former Bush administration official Bill Wichterman, conservative activist Erick Erickson, and Bob Fischer, a prominent GOP…

Russia’s withdrawal from Syria is already underway and will likely be completed within a few days. The move, which surprised observers when it was announced this Monday, came with no formal explanation from the Russian government, and has left regional power scrambling. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in…

Terrorists struck near the entrance to Ariel on Thursday morning, leaving one wounded. At 11:13 this morning, a female soldier was attacked by two terrorists near a bus stop at the entrance to Ariel near Route 5 in Samaria. One of the terrorists stabbed the soldier in her throat, leaving her in moderate-to-serious condition. Security…

Five Jewish youths, including four minors, were indicted on Thursday in Jerusalem on charges of racially motivated aggravated assault. The gang consisted of one 19-year-old and four 17-year-olds. According to indictment, one week ago at around 7 a.m., the five decided to seek out an Arab target for random acts of violence. The gang, which was…

After an eight-month standoff with Brazil over Israel’s choice of ambassador, Israel’s Foreign Ministry indicated on Thursday morning it was withdrawing the nomination of Dani Dayan. Dayan, a native Spanish-speaker who grew up in Argentina, was chosen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last August to serve as Ambassador to Brazil. Brasilia, however rejected, the appointment,…

A stabbing took place on Thursday afternoon, at the Achim Yisrael Mall in the Talpiot industrial area in the southeast of Jerusalem. Magen David Adom (MDA) medical forces provided treatment to one 25-year-old victim who was lightly wounded in the incident, and evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in the capital. He was suffering stab wounds to…

Iran has cut back its assistance to Hamas, the group’s leader Khaled Mashaal is admitting. Speaking in an interview with French television, Mashaal said that “Iran was once a main supporter of the movement, but today the scope of its support has changed and we are striving to diversify the sources of official and popular…

Hours before Wednesday’s Champions League match against Juventus, the German Bayern Munich soccer team had to apologize after a graphic posted on their Twitter account was misinterpreted as having links to a Nazi-era concentration camp, AFP reported. The controversy erupted after the Bavarian giants’ official Twitter feed posted an image of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, their…

The way that you invest is very individual, as what may be good investment choices for one person may not be appropriate for someone else.  It’’s easy to find articles about successful billionaires and their investments on the internet. But are articles such as “Top 5 Positions in T. Boone Pickens’ Portfolio” relevant to you…

Japan on Wednesday expressed its support for a French initiative that would see an international peace conference in an attempt to reach an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Ma’an news agency reported. According to the report, PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, during a meeting with the Japanese envoy to the Middle East,…

The United States on Wednesday accused North Korea of jailing an American student for political reasons and called for his immediate release, after Pyongyang sentenced him to 15 years’ hard labor for stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel, AFP reports. Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old student from the University of Virginia, was convicted of subversive…

Three terrorists responsible for two terror attacks in Jerusalem last week entered Israel legally under the guise of family reunification, the Shin Bet reported on Wednesday. The three attackers were involved in shooting attacks in the capital last Tuesday and Wednesday, including an attack that left two Israeli Border Police officers seriously wounded. Last Tuesday,…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is already dealing with rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich, but he might soon have to deal with another threat: The group of hackers known as Anonymous. The hacking group is urging its followers to launch a barrage of cyberattacks on April 1 to take down Trump’s websites and expose…

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday ahead of a planned Russian withdrawal from Syria. Rivlin conveyed to the Russian leader Israel’s concerns about Iranian activity in Syria, and the active role the Hezbollah terror group has assumed in the Syrian civil war. The Israeli leader also…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) met with Chief Rabbi David Lau today (Wednesday). Among other topics, the two discussed the furor surrounding designating part of the Kotel plaza for Reform ceremonies. Ariel is an outspoken opponent of the Kotel agreement and is supported by his party mates Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet…

US lawmakers are worried that loopholes in last year’s Iran nuclear deal could enable the rogue nation to acquire advanced Russian weaponry and develop sophisticated long-range ballistic missiles. As part of the deal, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929, which placed heavy sanctions on Iran’s military, was replaced with Resolution 2231. One of the key…

The Knesset Assembly has approved the initial reading of MK Moshe Gafni’s (UTJ) bill on mikvehs, which would establish that the use of a public mikveh is conditional on abiding by halacha and the Chief Rabbinate’s instructions. Speaking at the plenum, MK Gafni claimed that the bill is not intended to prevent Reform and Conservative…

While the US State Department’s refusal to recognize Jerusalem as being part of the State of Israel is well-known and was even the subject of a US Supreme Court case, it seems that the official US visa information and appointment services website has erased Israel completely. Elder of Ziyon notes that the visa application website is run…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will miss a deadline imposed by Congress to rule on whether ISIS’s murders of Christians in Syria and Iraq amount to genocide. Lawmakers set Thursday as the day on which the State Department would have to confirm whether the US government regards the brutal ISIS persecution of religious minorities as a crime against humanity. But…

An administrator in Israel’s largest and most dominant radical feminist Facebook group, “Feminist discourse” (“Siah feministi” in Hebrew), has announced a ban on “deniers of the Occupation.” “My patience has ended,” wrote an administrator in the group, according to a screenshot provided by Sapir Barabi, who was a member but left in protest. “Deniers of…

The United Nations on Wednesday said that Canada will resume contributing funds to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN relief agency that aids and protects “Palestinian refugees”, The Associated Press (AP) reported. In a statement, the UN said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pleased that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government decided to…

David Lev and Dr. Sam Minskoff discuss the unthinkable! Can the nations still exist once every Jew makes Aliyah? We certainly hope that’s put to the test very soon. Click here to download the podcast

The Bell Works Building in Holmdel, New Jersey is essentially a high end city of its own. With over 2 million square feet of space, and cavernous parking lots and roads surrounding it, you feel business innovation and energy upon approach. On Thursday evening, the path through the main entrance to the building was adorned by…

The Republican presidential debate that was scheduled for Monday in Utah has been canceled in the wake of Donald Trump’s announcement that he would not attend, FOX 13 in Salt Lake City reported Wednesday. Trump had earlier announced that he would not attend the debate and would instead focus on his speech at the AIPAC…

The IDF held a ceremony at a secret base today (Wednesday) to reward two top units for their recent work. Sayeret Matkal, the army’s premiere special forces unit, received a commendation from Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, while the Intelligence Branch’s technological unit was given a certificate of appreciation. Lieutenant General Eizenkot and Major General Herzi…

A collection of 34 human rights organizations have asked the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to continue examining human rights violations in Iran. “When a country has about 900 political prisoners and 1,000 annual executions and refuses to cooperate with nearly every UN mechanism, the Human Rights Council needs to monitor it closely,” said…

Hamas has acknowledged that one of its members was involved in a car attack on Monday. Qassem Ouda Jabar, a 31-year-old man from Hevron, joined the group in 2004. He was arrested in 2006 and spent three and a half years in prison for being part of a terror organization. It is not known whether Jabar was acting on…

On Wednesday, the Finance Committee voted in favor of a proposal which would cap executive salaries for those working in the financial industry. The move, which limits the pay of executives of financial institutions to 2.5 million shekels ($640,000 US) a year, marks the first time in Israel that the government has regulated executive wages. According…

The Jordanian parliament has passed a law prohibiting the sale and rent of real estate in the ancient city of Petra to Israeli citizens, reported Ammon News Tuesday, citing the Jordanian daily al-Rai. The law supposedly followed a growing wave of reports about Israelis buying land in the city, and differentiates between Israeli and other…

French authorities have detained four people suspected of planning an “imminent” terror attack in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told Reuters. The group includes three men and one woman, who were arrested early this morning (Wednesday). All four are believed to have connections with radical Islam. The arrests occurred in Paris’s 18th arrondissement, the same…

Israel has reason to fear that the ceasefire declared in Syria could end up strengthening Iran, Assad forces, and Hezbollah. A position paper by the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies posits that Israel has acted prudently and wisely during the recent hostilities in Syria. The Jewish State chose to remain uninvolved, yet maintained…

The widow of a Palestinian terrorist who died under mysterious circumstances in Bulgaria last month accused authorities on Wednesday of keeping her in the dark about their investigation. Omar Nayef, who was wanted by Israel over the murder of a Jewish yeshiva student three decades ago, was found dead in the courtyard of the Palestinian…

A book of fairy tales owned and signed by German-Jewish diarist Anne Frank before she perished in the Holocaust will go on sale in New York valued at $20,000 to $30,000, an auction house said Wednesday. The well-worn edition of Grimm’s fairy tales in German, which includes favorites Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, belonged to Frank and her sister Margot…

(AFP) Kurdish-led parties are preparing to declare a unified region in areas under their control in northern Syria, representatives said Wednesday, as they push a federal model for governing the country. The move, which would expand an already existing system of self-administration, is likely to anger Turkey which is wary of any bid by Syrian…

The parents of children at three out of four kindergartens in the Har Homa neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem on Tuesday launched a strike, refusing to send their kids to kindergarten due to what appears to be a severe security failure. Just adjacent to the kindergartens, which do not have security guards stationed at them, Palestinian laborers are…

A closed conference was recently held in San Diego between local officials and Israeli representatives, in which participants discussed the possibility of cooperation in the field of water technology innovation. The conference was organized by Prof. Robert Sullivan, dean of the UC San Diego Rady School of Management, and San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer together…

Hevron district police detained nationalist activist Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday morning, after he stood at the stairway adjacent to Hazon David synagogue located in a part of Kiryat Arba near Hevron, in Judea. Police officers who approached Ben-Gvir demanded that he evacuate the area. In response, Ben-Gvir explained to them that the police allow residents to use the…

During a protest march in Judea Tuesday calling on the government to keep Palestinian traffic off the roads as a deterrent step, MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) spoke to Arutz Sheva and condemned Opposition head MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union). Smotrich, a member of the coalition government, criticized Herzog for his comments made during a tour of the…

Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the Temple Institute, on Wednesday condemned the police decision to ban Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer, the Chief Rabbi of Mitzpe Yericho and the dean of Hara’ayon Hayehudi Yeshiva in Jerusalem, from visiting the Temple Mount. Speaking to Arutz Sheva on late Tuesday, Rabbi Kroizer explained that last Wednesday when he tried to ascend…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) spoke on Wednesday afternoon with 50 law students from Harvard University’s honors program. As part of her ongoing efforts to campaign for Israel’s rights in its Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, Hotovely took the opportunity to speak to the students about the criticism against Israel over it’s presence…

A special court will try the brother of Mohamed Merah, who murdered seven people in a terror spree in the French city of Toulouse in 2012, for complicity in the attacks, judicial sources said Wednesday. Merah, a self-described Al Qaeda sympathizer who had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, shot dead three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher at Otzar HaTorah Jewish school in Toulouse as…

Russia’s withdrawal of forces from Syria is a “positive step” that will help the ongoing Geneva peace talks, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Wednesday. Russian warplanes began leaving Syria on Tuesday after Moscow’s surprise decision to withdraw most of its forces from the war-torn country where they had been propping up Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “The Russian announcement represents an important…

Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman stood up in the Knesset Assembly today (Wednesday) and strongly criticized the institutional haredi opposition to civil marriage. “We are talking about 666,000 people who are not allowed to get married in this country. Ninety percent of them serve in the army ad pay taxes,” he said, during a discussion on…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday responded to questions from visitors to his Facebook page, and stated that Israel would continue to fight the Palestinian Arab incitement which is directly responsible for the latest wave of terrorism against Israelis. Asked why inciting Arab MKs are permitted to continue to serve in the Knesset, Netanyahu replied, “First…

A British Islamist who goes by the name “Abu Haleema” recently posted a video to the internet in which he said he would rather see a president like Donald Trump, who “openly tells the Muslims that he hates them”, over Barack Obama, to whom he referred as “a snake who hides it.” In a subsequent video,…

In a hospital in northern Israel, wounded Syrian rebel Malek is waiting until he is well enough to pick up his gun again to battle President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. “I will return to Syria and fight until Assad is gone,” the 22-year-old told AFP in a treatment room guarded by Israeli soldiers. Five years into Syria’s civil war, Israel…

The Victims of Arab Terror organization (VAT) on Tuesday night issued a message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in response to reports that his dog Kaiya has bitten a fourth victim. Noting that this is the fourth time Kaiya has bitten a Jew, VAT wrote in a statement that it “calls upon Netanyahu to immediately…

Following on the heels of condemnation by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon late Tuesday against Israel’s designation of territory in Judea and Samaria as state land, the US State Department lost no time in following suit and criticizing the Jewish state. It was reported by Army Radio on Tuesday that Israel declared 234 hectares of territory to be state land…

Discipline – Not Just for Trouble Makers Discipline has become a dirty word. It’s what we as a society dole out to poorly-behaved children, misguided politicians and criminals. And “disciplinary action”, ranging from verbal reprimands to imprisonment, is the realm of principals and law enforcement officials. But true discipline does not have to involve punishment.…

Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer, the Chief Rabbi of Mitzpe Yericho and the dean of Hara’ayon Hayehudi Yeshiva in Jerusalem, is currently banned from ascending the Temple Mount – because he wrote a booklet on the Jewish legal facets of the Temple offerings ten years ago. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Rabbi Kroizer said, “last Wednesday I…

After a blustery Tuesday, the heavy winds and wintry weather are continuing full force on Wednesday, joined by local rains and snowfall which began in the morning on Mount Hermon in the north, Israel’s only ski site. The snow began falling from a height of 1,800 meters on Mount Hermon before starting on lower segments…

A primary school teacher from El Bireh, in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority, won a $1 million prize for teaching excellence on Sunday, beating out 8,000 other applicants from around the world. Hanan al-Hroub, who educates her students about non-violence, was awarded the second annual Global Teacher Prize during a ceremony in the city…

The first of Russia’s warplanes to leave Syria received a hero’s welcome back home Tuesday, starting a surprise withdrawal the West hopes could boost peace talks by pressuring Damascus. In a sign of potential progress, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced he will travel to Moscow next week for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to “try to take advantage of…

Marking a full five years since the horrific massacre of the Fogel family at their home in Itamar, Samaria, hundreds of friends, family members and residents of the town gathered on Tuesday night at Itamar’s Mishkan Ehud Torah academy to learn Torah in their memory. At the memorial the parents of the murdered couple Ehud and…

CHAZAQ (with a “Q”) has become a household name in the Queens community since its inception nearly 10 years ago and their sphere of influence is slowly expanding beyond their borders. “Kiruv rechokim and chizuk lekrovim is our motto,” says operations manager Yaniv Meirov, “and every community can use a bit of that”. Their wide array of…

This week the people of Israel begin the book of Vayikra, Leviticus, which deals primarily with the widely-misunderstood concept of the Temple offerings. Our sages refer to this book as “the heart of the Torah,” and this week’s passionate and erudite episode of Temple Talk finds Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Richman exploring the concept of the korbanot,…

Belgian police are continuing their anti-terror operation in Brussels after four officers, including a French policewoman, were lightly wounded in a raid on an apartment, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference on Tuesday evening, according to Reuters. He gave no details of the operation, which began on Tuesday afternoon, nor did he…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are headed towards victory in the Florida primary, while Clinton and Governor John Kasich appear to be winning Ohio. CNN said after 29 percent of the votes were counted that Trump was ahead with 45%, followed by Florida Senator Marco Rubio with 27, Ted Cruz with 15 and Kasich with…

A group of left wing radicals disrupted a lecture given Tuesday by Ilana Dayan, a journalist and legal expert, at Tel Aviv University. Lizi Hameiri, a nationalist activist who attended the lecture, reported on her Facebook page that Dayan, who is the chief editor and presenter of Channel 2 television’s investigative show Uvda, was giving…

Minutes after losing the primary in his home state to Donald Trump, Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday night suspended his presidential campaign. “After tonight it is clear that while we are on the right side, this year we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio said, according to the Politico news website. With…

Vicki Kirby, a former parliamentary candidate for the Labour party in the UK, was suspended Tuesday by Labour for a second time over an investigation into a series of anti-Semitic tweets she made. The activist was previously suspended temporarily in September 2014, after writing on Twitter that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler might be the “Zionist…

Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders rapidly got on board with French plans to force peace talks on Israel, during a meeting with a Paris envoy on Tuesday. Pierre Vimont, France’s point man on efforts to hold an international peace conference by the summer, held talks Tuesday in Ramallah, Samaria with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, PA foreign minister Riad al-Malki and chief…

Opposition head MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) fired his public relations adviser Moti Moral on Tuesday morning, after the Supreme Court found that Moral took part in fabricating a false case accusing an attorney of rape. “The raped women project” is how the campaign came to be termed that Moral and female complainants in his…

A female suicide car bomber who murdered at least 35 people in Ankara had links to Syrian Kurdish rebels, Turkey’s interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The ministry, which identified the bomber as Seher Cagla Demir, born in 1992, said she had been affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since 2013 and then “crossed into Syria and received terror…

Russia’s surprise withdrawal from Syria has boosted the morale of rebels, jihadists and activists living in opposition-held areas who see the move as a major blow for the Damascus regime. “Our morale is sky high. The regime will not be able to survive alone,” said Raed al-Elewi, a commander for the Jaish al-Tahrir (Liberation Army) rebel group in Hama province in…

In the half year of the current wave of terror attacks since last September-October, 230 Arab terrorists have tried to murder Jews – but the homes of only ten of them have been demolished. IDF figures cited by Yedioth Aharonoth on Tuesday reveal that only five terrorist homes have been completely destroyed since early last…

Around 500 residents of Judea and Samaria on Tuesday evening took part in a protest march on Highway 60, between Karmei Tzur and Gush Etzion Junction in Judea, passing through the Arab villages of Bayt Umar and Al Aroub. At the head of the march were Yesha Council members and the heads of regional councils…

Russia’s surprise withdrawal from Syria has boosted the morale of rebels, jihadists and activists living in opposition-held areas who see the move as a major blow for the Damascus regime. “Our morale is sky high. The regime will not be able to survive alone,” said Raed al-Elewi, a commander for the Jaish al-Tahrir (Liberation Army) rebel group in Hama province in…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged Israel on Tuesday to reverse its “confiscation” of land in Judea and Samaria, describing the decision as “an impediment to the two-state solution” that calls to divide Israel. Ban’s words came after Israel declared 234 hectares of territory to be state land, in a process of designated unclaimed land in Judea and Samaria as property of the state. “Such…

A married father committed suicide Tuesday by shooting himself in the head, apparently after he found out that his wife has been cheating on him and that she intends to prevent him from seeing his children. “What kind of people are there in the world,” the man – whose initials are I.B. – wrote on…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s annual net salary is about $150,500, but his net earnings are $54,000, or about $4,500 per month, according to pay stubs released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Last month, Netanyahu paid about $5,540 to income tax, $680 to National Insurance Institute and $530 for health insurance. About $3,200 are deducted…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday night his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, Reuters reported. Kim made the comments as he supervised a successful simulated test of atmospheric re-entry of a ballistic missile that measured the “thermodynamic structural stability…

The Arizona legislature on Monday overwhelmingly passed anti-boycott legislation in both houses, a move welcomed by StandWithUs. The Arizona legislation (HB/2617), introduced by Majority Leader David M. Gowan, prohibits the investment of state funds in companies that boycott Israel, and requires parties contracting with the state government to certify that they do not participate in…

Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), who is a member of the Defense-Security Cabinet, expressed outrage on Monday over reports in the Haaretz newspaper that Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) had held secret talks about transferring the security control for cities in Judea and Samaria to the PA. “I am…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) on Monday warned that unless his “separation plan” is implemented, Israel may lose its hold on Jerusalem. “If we do not separate from the Palestinian villages – we will lose Jerusalem. If not we do not separate from the Palestinians, Jews will continue to be murdered here by terrorists…

The White House said Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin discussed Russia’s planned military drawdown in Syria on Monday, hours after a shock announcement that could signal a new phase in the five-year-old conflict. “They discussed President Putin’s announcement today of a partial withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria and next steps required to fully implement the cessation of hostilities,”…

The residents of a New Jersey town are concerned that a haredi “invasion” will soon take over their neighborhoods. As the predominantly-Orthodox town of Lakewood continues to grow, some of its residents are looking to new homes, including in nearby Toms River. Mayor Thomas Kelaher, however, is leading an effort to show the haredim that they would not…

While Israelis are still recovering from shock after it was revealed that their government has been holding secret talks with the PA about keeping the IDF out of Palestinian cities, the US is dismissing the story. State Department Spokesperson John Kirby says that the US has no knowledge of such discussions. “All of the sides are…

The UK’s Labour Party has given a local executive committee position to one of its members, even though she was suspended for her anti-Semitic statements in 2014. Vicki Kirby, the new vice-chair for the town of Woking, has tweet a number of offensive statements and conspiracy theories over an extended period of time. She called Hitler a “Zionist…

Michael Fragin discusses the takeaways from this week’s primaries and he interviews Dr. Asher Mansdorf about his recent encounter with the top levels of New York’s political system. To listen to previous shows go to N.S.N. – click here

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich is not backing down from a decision he announced last week, that the police will no longer investigate anonymous complaints alleging sexual harassment by policemen. Channel 2’s website noted this fact with some degree of wonder on Monday, since Alsheich has predictably drawn fire from “women’s groups.” However, it also cited an…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) has offered a strong response to reports of Israeli officials holding secret talks with the PA. The talks focused on an Israeli offer to remove the IDF from cities in Area A of Judea and Samaria. “As a member of the Security Cabinet, I protest the existence of a…

One person was injured on Monday evening in a collision between two trains near the entrance to the city of Dimona in southern Israel. The victim was taken for treatment at the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. His condition is unclear. Bromine began leaking in the area as a result of the collision between the…

Are you as confident as you’d like to be? No? Would you like to give the impression you’re more confident than you really are? Of course! Who wouldn’t? Confidence is something that you either have or don’t. But even if it’s something you struggle with, there are a lot of ways to gain some, improve…

Two American officials confirmed to CNN on Monday that senior Islamic State (ISIS) operative Omar al-Shishani is dead. The officials said he was injured in a U.S. airstrike last week and then died subsequently, though they would not say how they know he is dead. Shishani, who has been described as ISIS’ “defense secretary” was…

A rocket fired by Gaza terrorists shortly after midnight on Monday night exploded in an open area in the Shaar Hanegev region of southern Israel. There were no physical injuries or damages. On Friday night, four rockets from Gaza hit open areas in the city of Sderot. In this incident, as well, there were no…

A man described as a Hamas “field commander” died Monday in a “tunnel accident” in Gaza, the terrorist group said in a statement. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, said that Abd al-Salah al-Butnaji died while he was working in a tunnel in Gaza. Al-Butnaji, 36, was from the al-Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza…

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Monday in Toronto, Canada, after allegedly stabbing two members of the Canadian Forces in the northern part of the city, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported. Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said the unprovoked attack took place at around 3:30 p.m. Local at a military recruitment center. A man…

The radical anti-Israeli organization Zochrot will host a conference in Tel Aviv next week, thanks to funding from European governments and US organizations. The event is titled “The Third International Conference on the Return of Palestinian Refugees.” It will focus on how to make Israel give citizenship to all Palestinians around the world, and how such…

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani believes an Israeli-American cyber security alliance would be unstoppable, and says Israeli resilience and security innovation has always been an inspiration to him. Giuliani made the comments to Arutz Sheva during his current visit to Israel on behalf of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, which he recently joined as a…

A stabbing attack was foiled on Monday evening in Jerusalem. Two female terrorists from the village of Abu Dis were arrested at the HaZeitim Crossing in eastern Jerusalem. A search of their belongings revealed that they were carrying knives. Upon interrogation, the 24 and 29-year-old terrorists admitted that they had traveled to the capital in order…

The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigration Absorption put on a celebration to welcome dozens of new olim from Brazil today (Monday). Dozens of people from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Manaus landed at Ben Gurion Airport, ready to start their new lives as Israeli citizens. The group’s members included a trained chef, an orthopedist…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have been holding secret talks about transferring the security control for cities in Judea and Samaria to the PA. Haaretz reports that these discussions have been going on for the past month. Senior officials say that Israel has offered to cease its actions in Area A almost completely, with the exception of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Defense Ministry to begin the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria from Tuesday. “The task that was set before our Defense Ministry and armed forces has as a whole been completed and so I order the Defense Ministry to from tomorrow start the withdrawal of the main part of our military contingents from the Syrian Arab…

A federal judge in Argentina has rejected a request to reopen an investigation into allegations by the late special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, according to which former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner covered up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, a separate investigation into Nisman’s own death,…

Bernie Sanders may be the first Jew to have won a presidential primary, but his Jewishness is not going to help him in Tuesday’s Florida contest, according to pollsters and other experts. This, despite the fact that the Florida primary is the first one in this race where Jewish voters could determine the results. Nonetheless,…

For the first time in history, an Israeli rabbinical court has sentenced a man to prison because his son will not grant his wife a divorce. The court ordered that a Jewish-American tycoon be sent to jail for 30 days in jail after his son refused to give his wife a get. According to Jewish religious law,…

The Knesset has passed a bill against illegal Arab infiltrators for its second and third readings, by a vote of 44 to 16. The new law focuses on punishing those who employ or assist infiltrators. MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) attempted to sabotage the bill by linking it to a vote of no confidence in…

Oops… she did it again: Kaiya, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s dog, bit a security guard stationed at the prime minister’s residence. The incident, which is hardly the first, occurred recently and was hidden from the public, according to a report by Yedioth Ahronoth. The security guard required medical treatment as a result of the bite.  Netanyahu’s…

Human Rights Watch urged Egypt on Monday to annul the jail sentences handed to four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking Muslim prayers.   In February, a court in the central province of Minya sentenced three teenagers to five years and a fourth to a juvenile…

Israeli Sociological Association, which includes over a thousand professors and researchers, announced Monday plans to impose an academic boycott on Ariel University, Army Radio reported. President of the Association, Professor Uri Ram  of Ben-Gurion University, said that the Ariel University “is not located in Israeli territory”, and therefore, “we will not cooperate with the institute”.…

(AFP) One in three Syrian children have known nothing but a lifetime of war, UNICEF said Monday, as the country’s conflict enters its sixth year this week. Forced from their homes and schools, orphaned by violence and drafted into work or fighting, a generation of Syria’s children is being shaped by the conflict, UNICEF said in…

Despite its small size and relatively few natural resources, the State of Israel has forged a reputation as always being among the first to send emergency aid or rescue workers to countries in need. From combating natural disasters in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South Pacific, Southern and Central America and the Caribbean, to helping…

Since the start of the five-year conflict, chemical weapons have been used at least 161 times in Syria, according to the Syrian-American Medical Society (SAMS) report released Monday. According the report, 133 other chemical attacks were also reported in Syria during the period, however, they have not been fully substantiated. The 161 documented attacks through…

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) discussed Monday the ongoing wave of terrorism, as well as the Ministry of Finance’s activities and goals it set for itself. In regards to the security situation, Kahlon, a member of the security cabinet, said to Arutz Sheva that while the wave of terror was still ongoing, he did not…

An Israeli researcher at Ariel University in Samaria has discovered a revolutionary new method to stop the uncontrolled bleeding common in victims of stabbings – a medical innovation which could save countless lives in Israel and worldwide. Over the past several months Israel has been engulfed by a wave of Arab terrorism, the majority of which have involved stabbings, as well as…

The Torah contains lists of commandments given to guide every single aspect of Jewish life. A disproportionate 5% of these mitzvot are specific to Passover: that means 1 in every 20 commands relates to just one week of the year! As well as these very specific commandments, our springtime festival is shrouded in age-old traditions…

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging Uruguay to take action, following last week’s murder of a Jew by a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar”. The Jewish merchant, David Fremd, was stabbed to death by a convert to Islam in the town of Paysandu, near the border with Argentina. The Uruguayan government later said the attacker…

In what could be interpreted as another sign that rapprochement with Turkey is close, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night issued a statement condemning the suicide car bombing in Ankara which killed more than 30 people. A statement from his office said that Netanyahu “condemns the large-scale terrorist attack in Ankara in which innocent…

A delegation from Hamas began an official visit to Cairo on Saturday, meeting with Egyptian Intelligence Service officials upon arrival at a hotel in the capital, the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper reported. Aِِccording sources who spoke to the newspaper, the General Intelligence Service, which manages the Palestinian-Israel conflict file, is seeking to break…

Two attacks occurred within a mere 30 minutes in Kiryat Arba, next to Hevron in Judea. In the first attack, at around 6:45 a.m., two Arab terrorists in a car attempted to run over soldiers and civilians at a popular hitchhiking stop. They then reportedly opened fire. An IDF soldier was lightly injured in the attack…

The Interior Committee headed by MK Dudu Amsalem (Likud) the proposed “illegals law” on Sunday. The law aims to administer harsher punishment on employers who hire illegal Arab infiltrators, and to extend the temporary order prohibiting the transportation of illegal aliens by two years. The bill is in fact two separate legislative proposals. The first was…

Indonesia has detained 14 people, including several children, as they allegedly tried to travel to Syria, police said, where hundreds of their countrymen have joined extremist groups like ISIS. The Indonesians were stopped Sunday at the international airport serving Jakarta as they tried to board a flight to Bangkok, from where they planned to continue on to Syria, Jakarta police spokesman…

After filling a petition to the Supreme Court, the Women of the Wall are asking for a response document to allow them to bring a Torah scroll to the traditional prayer section of the Kotel  plaza on Mondays and Thursdays and not only on Rosh Hodesh, in a “temporary” arrangement. The petition was filed after the…

A Hamas delegation to Cairo has asked Egyptian authorities to stop destroying its tunnels leading out from the Gaza Strip. The Hamas representatives, led by senior member Moussa Abu Marzouk, tried to convince Egyptians intelligence and security officials that Cairo is mistaken when it speaks of connections between local terror groups in the Sinai Peninsula and the…

The head of a major international advertising agency made crude anti-Semitic remarks, racist comments, and jokes about raping female colleagues, an employee’s lawsuit alleges. Gustavo Martinez, CEO of J. Walter Thompson, allegedly called African American airport workers “black monkeys” and “apes” and said he does not like living in Westchester County, in suburban New York, because he…

At least 14 civilians and two soldiers were murdered by terrorists armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles in a shooting attack in Africa’s Ivory Coast on Sunday, which targeted the Grand Bassam beach resort that is often frequented by Western tourists, according to reports. Several witnesses revealed the attackers shouted “Allahu akbar” (“Allah is greater” in Arabic)…

Avi Solomon, a 32-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday about his incredible story and his dream to represent Israel in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics – even though he is blind. Solomon tragically lost his eyesight at the age of 16 due to glaucoma, but he hasn’t let his blindness stop him…

After the Foreign Ministry decided to “boycott” Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom, MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) met with her anyway in Stockholm.  In an issued statement, Livni stressed during the meeting the need for clear and public support by the Swedish FM for Israel’s right to defend itself, as well as her expressing…

A court in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday evening ordered a ban on access to Facebook and Twitter, after images from the deadly car bombing earlier in the day in the city were shared on the social media platforms, Reuters reports. Several local users reported difficulty in accessing the sites, according to the…

General Zhao Keshi, member of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and director of the Logistics Support Department under the CMC, met with a logistics delegation of the Israel Defense Forces in Beijing last week. Zhao Keshi welcomed the delegation Tuesday and said that the friendly exchange between the Chinese people and the Jewish people goes…

Germany’s leading right-wing party was elected to three state parliaments in regional elections throughout Germany, reported JTA Sunday. Its strong showing is attributed to backlash after the recent influx of Muslim immigrants, and their tendency to violent and criminal behavior. The party, Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is now eligible to field candidates for the…

Egypt’s Prime Minister, Sharif Ismail, on Sunday sacked the country’s justice minister after he said on television that he would arrest even “a prophet”, in remarks deemed to be insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, AFP reports. “Prime Minister Sharif Ismail decided to dismiss justice minister Ahmed al-Zind from his post,” a statement from the premier’s…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night vowed to bring “terrorism to its knees” following the car bombing attack in Ankara. In a statement quoted by AP, Erdogan said Turkey would use its right to self-defense to prevent future attacks. “Our people should not worry, the struggle against terrorism will for certain end in…

The Boston Catholic Memorial high school, whose students chanted “You killed Jesus” during a playoff basketball game against largely-Jewish Newton North High School, alleged Sunday that the chant followed slurs from the Newton crowd. The Washington Post cited parents of the Catholic Memorial students who said that they heard Newton North High School fans shouting…

France said on Sunday that Iran could face European sanctions over its recent launch of ballistic missiles, the BBC reported. The country’s Foreign Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, said sanctions would be taken “if necessary”, following talks in Paris with American and European counterparts. Iran drew strong criticism earlier this month when it launched several missiles as…

Animals petitioning to the Supreme Court sounds like a strange concept? Head of the Legal Department of the Hotam Torah Organization attorney Moshe Polsky argues that if an animal rights law by MK Eyal Ben-Reuven (Zionist Uamp) passes, such petitions won’t be far-fetched at all. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation discussed Sunday the proposed bill by MK…

At least six victims were murdered by gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles in a shooting attack in Africa’s Ivory Coast on Sunday, which targeted the Grand Bassam beach resort that is often frequented by Western tourists, according to reports. Several witnesses revealed the attackers shouted “Allahu akbar” (“Allah is greater” in Arabic) during the…

US Secretary of State John Kerry told a press conference in Paris on Sunday that America is still set on forcing Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) into a peace deal, but that “global” efforts would be needed. “Obviously we’re all looking for a way forward. The United States and myself remain deeply committed to…

Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes has apologized for suggesting some security guards at the Bataclan Theater in Paris knew in advance that Islamist terrorists intended to attack it last year. He called his own suggestions “absurd.” Hughes apologized on his Facebook page for comments he made to Fox Business Channel last week, according…

A Torah scroll used for years by Jews in Gush Katif was forced out along with its owners in the 2005 Disengagement Plan that saw all Jews expelled from Gaza and four towns in Samaria. In a miraculous turn of events, after being relocated in the Golan Heights the scroll was found to be invalid – even…

Since his call to temporarily block Muslim immigration, numerous figures have been comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler – the genocidal Nazi leader. On Thursday, Sarah Silverman pushed the Trump-Hitler comparison when she appeared on TBS’ “Conan” dressed as the German Fuhrer. After walking on stage wearing the Nazi leader’s trademark military uniform, mustache and swastika armband, the…

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US MK Dr. Michael Oren (Kulanu) on Sunday denied US President Barack Obama’s recollections of a tense meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as published in an interview with Atlantic magazine last week. In the interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama described a meeting with Netanyahu in 2011, in which he claimed the Israeli…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Fatah faction celebrated the anniversary of the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history by glorifying female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the 1978 “Coastal Road Massacre.” In the attack, Mughrabi and other terrorists hijacked a group bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway. When the terrorists were confronted by the Israeli…

American-Arab lobbyist-pollster James Zogby has accused the New York Times of conducting “apologia” on behalf of Israeli Jews, following a Pew poll that found 48% of Israeli Jews supported a statement regarding the expulsion of Arabs, while 46% opposed it. The Times article that Zogby objected to, written by Isabel Kershner on March 8, reported…

A senior Islamic Jihad official called upon followers to carry out mass murder of Jews “inside their settlements”, during a mass demonstration the group held on Friday. The Islamic terror group, which killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and shooting attacks across the country, is now pushing for a new wave of attacks. Ahmed…

Al-Qaeda fighters and allied jihadists clashed with a western-backed rebel faction overnight in northwestern Syria after storming its weapons depot, the group and a monitor said Sunday. In Tweets posted Sunday morning, Division 13 said it had failed to push back an attack by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, and allied faction Jund al-Aqsa.  …

Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman’s father never spoke about his family’s painful past as Jewish refugees from Soviet brutality. But in a recent episode of PBS’s Finding Your Roots, the 78-year-old star finally uncovered the truth. Hoffman broke down in tears as show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. showed him medical records belonging to his great-grandmother…

A senior Islamic Jihad official called upon followers to carry out mass murder of Jews “inside their settlements”, during a mass demonstration the group held on Friday. The Islamic terror group, which killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and shooting attacks across the country, is now pushing for a new wave of attacks. Ahmed…

As Sunni and Shi’ite militias slaughter one another across the city, in the heart of terror-ridden Baghdad there are eight residents hiding a dangerous secret. Eight Baghdadi Jews are believed to be the last Jews in Iraq, a community that once number well over 130,000 and was one of the oldest Jewish Diaspora communities in…

The government is considering a number of pieces of legislation to curb the ongoing terror wave, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed during the coalition’s weekly meeting on Sunday. One proposal under consideration would enable Israel to relocate the families of terrorists from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria. The measure would be an alternative to the…

The Israeli government barred Indonesia’s foreign minister from visiting Ramallah, after she refused to similarly meet with Israel officials, according to a report in Haaretz. Israel and Indonesia – the world’s most populous Muslim country – have no formal diplomatic relations, and Jakarta regularly strikes a hostile tone vis-a-vis the Jewish state. At a meeting…

A second Gazan was found dead Sunday after the collapse of a tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in the Islamist Hamas-run enclave said. On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been trapped in the collapse.   Five were rescued, but on Sunday the ministry said they had retrieved the body of…

A report released on Sunday by the Inspector General of Israel’s police department addressed wide-spread criticism of how Israeli police handled a terrorist man-hunt following a series of terror attacks by Nashat Melhelm in January. At the crux of the investigation was the alleged failure of a police call center to properly handle information it…

The security situation in Israel may be tense, but that won’t be stopping yet another wave of North American olim from making Israel their new home soon. Arutz Sheva spoke to some of the soon-to-be-Israelis making aliyah with Nefesh B’Nefesh at last week’s aliyah event in New York – many of whom said the current…

Syria’s opposition on Saturday declared that President Bashar Al-Assad must leave power, dead or alive, if looming peace talks to end five years of civil war are to succeed. UN-brokered talks are set to begin in Geneva on Monday, in the latest international push to end a conflict that has killed more than 270,000 people…

Hillary Clinton on Saturday won the Northern Mariana Islands’ Democratic caucuses, according to the commonwealth’s Democratic Party. The Northern Mariana Islands, consisting of 15 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, is one of two territories with U.S. “commonwealth” status, the other being Puerto Rico. According to an ABC News report, Clinton won four delegates in…

A Gazan was found dead on Saturday and another remains missing after the collapse of yet another tunnel on the Egypt border, the interior ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said, according to AFP. On Thursday, rescue services said seven men had been trapped in the collapse of a tunnel. Five were rescued, but “the body of Fadi…

Pope Francis will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as part of his visit to Poland in July when he will chair World Youth Day, organizers announced Saturday, according to AFP. He will visit the former Nazi death camp in southern Poland on July 29, on the third day of his visit to the country, according to…

United States President Barack Obama on Saturday gave a mocking rebuke of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for his incendiary language on the campaign trail, AFP reports. Speaking at a Democratic party fundraising event in Dallas, Texas, Obama offered a blunt condemnation of what he claimed was the “divisiveness” fomented by Trump on the campaign trail,…

Florida Senator Marco Rubio won Saturday evening’s Washington DC Republican caucus, narrowly beating Ohio Governor John Kasich. With the vote count complete, Rubio leads Kasich 37.3% to 35.5%. New York real estate mogul Donald Trump came in a distant third with 13.8%, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz placed fourth with only 12.4%. Saturday’s win provided…

Donald Trump doubled down on his controversial statements calling for restrictions on Muslims entering the United States during an extended interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday. When asked whether he felt Islam was “at war with the West,” the GOP frontrunner told Cooper “I think Islam hates us.” “There is something there,” Trump continued,…

Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, told listeners during his weekly Torah class that it was a “mitzvah” to kill terrorists during attacks. The Chief Rabbi also said that in the heat of the moment, one should not worry about potential legal problems. “If a terrorist comes after someone while brandishing a knife, it’s a…

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned the Hamas terror group on Saturday night against further escalations, following a spate of violence over the weekend. On Friday night Hamas terrorists fired four rockets into Israel, from the Gaza Strip. Hours later, Israeli fighters bombed four Hamas targets inside Gaza. Hamas claimed that two civilians were killed…

Friday night viewers of Channel Two TV in Israel were treated to four minutes of terrorist propaganda. It turned out that precisely as Hamas terrorists were firing rockets into Israel – there were no casualties – another arm of Hamas or an associated terrorist organization was breaking in, live, to the satellite broadcast on live television.  The pirate footage featured videos…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Saturday sent an urgent letter to the Security Council calling for a strong condemnation of Iran for their latest violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement. Last Tuesday the Iranian regime claimed it had fired a number of ballistic missiles in tests across the country.…

With two thirds of the Wyoming caucus votes counted, Texas Senator Ted Cruz leads by more than two-to-one with 60.5% to 28.4% for Florida Senator Marco Rubio. New York real estate mogul Donald Trump is in a distant third with 5.6%, with another 5.6% uncommitted. Ohio Governor John Kasich has yet to earn any votes.…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu turned to French President Francois Hollande to help put a stop to incitement on official Hamas TV, according to reports. The TV station in question, Al Aqsa TV, is broadcast via EUTELSAT, a French broadcast company. On Saturday those efforts reportedly bore fruit, with the French government notifying Israel’s embassy in…

The Israeli air force struck four targets inside Gaza on Saturday, in retaliation for rocket fire which hit Israel late Friday night. Four rockets were launched into Israel on Friday, but no casualties were reported. The IDF strikes targeted Hamas training camps across the Strip. Following the surgical strikes, Hamas officials claimed that two children…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu turned to French President Francois Hollande to help put a stop to incitement on official Hamas TV, according to reports. The TV station in question, Al Aqsa TV, is broadcast via EUTELSAT, a French broadcast company. On Saturday those efforts reportedly bore fruit, with the French government notifying Israel’s embassy in…

The Hamas terrorist organization which rules the Gaza Strip has vowed revenge for an Israel Air Force airstrike which killed two people on Friday night, after terrorists fired rockets into Israeli territory. The airstrikes targeted a Hamas military base embedded next to civilian homes in the northern Gazan village of Beit Lahiya. Two children were…

The Israeli air force struck four targets inside Gaza on Saturday, in retaliation for rocket fire which hit Israel late Friday night. Four rockets were launched into Israel on Friday, but no casualties were reported. The IDF strikes targeted Hamas training camps across the Strip. Following the surgical strikes, Hamas officials claimed that two children…

An Israeli tour guide leading a group of Israeli tourists in Jordan was seriously injured on Friday as the group hiked through the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan. While ascending the Jebel Rum mountain, the tour leader slipped and fell, suffering serious injuries which left him unable to move. The Israeli Foreign Ministry was…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed on Saturday to retaliate against the Islamic State group after it launched a chemical attack on a town near Kirkuk. The suspected mustard gas attack on Taza left a three-year-old girl dead and hundreds wounded. The Iraqi Prime Minister vowed the attack “will not go unpunished”, he said in…

The Hamas terrorist organization which rules the Gaza Strip has vowed revenge for an Israel Air Force airstrike which killed two people on Friday night, after terrorists fired rockets into Israeli territory. The airstrikes targeted a Hamas military base embedded next to civilian homes in the northern Gazan village of Beit Lahiya. Two children were…

Protesters descended on a massive campaign rally for the GOP frontrunner on Friday night in Chicago, clashing with supporters and police outside of an auditorium on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. Hundreds of demonstrators, many of them students of the University of Illinois, showed up ahead of the planned rally to protest against…

Protesters descended on a massive campaign rally for the GOP frontrunner on Friday night in Chicago, clashing with supporters and police outside of an auditorium on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. Hundreds of demonstrators, many of them students of the University of Illinois, showed up ahead of the planned rally to protest against…

An Israeli tour guide leading a group of Israeli tourists in Jordan was seriously injured on Friday as the group hiked through the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan. While ascending the Jebel Rum mountain, the tour leader slipped and fell, suffering serious injuries which left him unable to move. The Israeli Foreign Ministry was…

After two days of extensive ballistic missile tests by Iran last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu demanded on Saturday that the P5+1 powers punish Iran for its development of nuclear-capable missiles and belligerent behavior. Last Tuesday the Iranian regime claimed it had fired a number of ballistic missiles in tests across the country. It was…

Rocket sirens were heard on Friday night in the city of Sderot and in the Gaza Belt region of southern Israel. Reports say three or four rockets that were fired from Gaza exploded in Sderot. They hit open areas, and there were no physical injuries or damages. While the volume of rocket attacks from Gaza…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference later this month, The Hill reported Friday. AIPAC announced Trump’s participation at the conference, to take place March 20-22. Other speakers at the event will include Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin…

MK Dov Khenin, the sole Jewish representative in the Joint List party, on Friday said that his party’s statement this week which backed Hezbollah after Gulf states blacklisted it as a terrorist organization was “badly written”. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Khenin who is a member of the Hadash faction of the Joint List also criticized Prime…

Two IDF soldiers were wounded on Friday night (Israel time) in a shooting attack on a military checkpoint on Route 443, near Beit Horon in the Binyamin region. Initial reports say a Palestinian Arab terrorist arrived at the checkpoint and opened fire from his vehicle before fleeing the scene. The soldiers were lightly injured and…

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said on Friday that he doesn’t believe conditions currently exist for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. “I just don’t see the conditions right now for that,” Rubio was quoted by Reuters as having said at a news conference with members of the Jewish community in West Palm…

This is another packed program about items that you may have missed. You will be amazed to hear about a university debate in which the motion that “Israel is a Rogue State” is being used by the proposer – to turn the vote in Israel’s favor.  If this sounds to you impossible, then don’t miss this,…

A 112-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor who lived through both world wars is now the world’s oldest living man, Guinness World Records said on Friday.   Yisrael Kristal was born in what is now Poland on September 15, 1903, three months before the Wright brothers took the first airplane flight.   He lived in the country…

The Arab League on Friday formally branded Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, The Associated Press reported, citing Egypt’s state news agency MENA. According to the report, the decision came during the league foreign ministers’ meeting. The move aligns the 22-member league firmly behind Saudi Arabia and the Saudi-led bloc of six Gulf Arab nations, which…

A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Islamic State (ISIS) group died in hospital Friday, medical sources and officials said, according to AFP. “She died of respiratory complications and kidney failure… caused by the mustard agent used by Daesh (ISIS) in Taza,” said Masrour Aswad, of the Iraqi Commission for Human…

Syria’s war enters its sixth year next week with a glimmer of hope that a landmark ceasefire and a push for peace could help resolve a conflict that recently has sent hundreds of thousands to Europe. Analysts say the past 12 months have been transformative – with Russia’s military intervention and pressure from the migrant crisis pushing world powers into renewed peace efforts.…

Does giving charity actually help the poor get out of the ruts they are in? Is there a better way than paying the bills of those in debt? Lemaan Achai is a unique organization which turns poverty on its head. Their policy is to reanalyze the situation of those in need and help raise them up…

The Women of the Wall (WoW) group held a Rosh Hodesh prayer session at the Western Wall (Kotel) on Friday morning, and once again smuggled a Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Kotel Plaza in breach of their agreements with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. During the negotiations over the establishment of a second…

HaShem first told us of His command to Moshe to tell the People of Israel to donate gold and silver (and other materials) back in Parshat T’ruma. Before Moshe had a chance to transmit that command to the People, the Eigel HaZahav happened. Donation of gold, let’s call it, for the WRONG PURPOSE. Then in…

Responding to the apparent anger of the UK, the White House on Friday backtracked from US President Barack Obama’s comments in a recent interview with the Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg. In the same interview Obama recalled berating Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for being “condescending” – but no similar statement to minimize the damage has been issued regarding the comments…

Aside from siphoning off international aid for its missile and tunnel programs, Hamas has been cynically manipulating the residents in Gaza by imposing unreasonable taxes to prop up its terror activities, even while deceiving the world into blaming Israel for the bleak situation. Hamas continues to complain of the “Israeli blockade” in the international press and…

Elections in Syria observed by the United Nations should be held in 18 months, the UN’s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency on Friday. “New elections…should be held 18 months from the start of talks, that is from March 14. The elections, both presidential and parliamentary, will be under UN observation,” de Mistura said in an interview translated into…

A new UN report Friday reveals that children and the disabled have been burned alive in South Sudan, and that members of the pro-government militia have been allowed to rape women in lieu of wages. The report described the conditions in South Sudan as “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world.”…

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva Eviatar Manor issued strong criticism Thursday against the UNHRC for its biased stance towards the Jewish state. Speaking before the UNHRC, Manor said, “I have by now realized that this Council suffers from an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with Israel, which it cannot control, and that it repeatedly…