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Data released by the Bank of Israel on Monday showed the first meaningful decline in housing prices after a year and a half of nearly continuous increases. Housing prices in Israel fell by half a percent in January, the largest decrease since the summer of 2014. The Bank of Israel report noted that the consumer price…

MK Stav Shafir (Labor / Zionist Union) doubled down Monday on her claim that Jewish history began in Egypt – although she later changed “Egypt” to “Mount Sinai.” The statement was originally made in a tweet that argued with Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s assertion that Jewish history began in Jerusalem, as he announced his plan to…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) paid a visit on Monday to the American destroyer USS Carney, which is anchored at the Haifa port and taking part in the Juniper Cobra 16 joint training between Israel and the US. Ya’alon was met on board by US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, US military attaches in Israel, as…

Four Palestinian Arab women have turned heads in the Islamist-run Gaza terror enclave by doing what would pass unnoticed in many other places in the world: riding their bicycles. The women are bucking tradition in the enclave where the ruling Hamas terrorist organization has launched three wars since 2008, forcing the IDF and Egypt to implement a blockade…

Ron Yosef, an openly gay Orthodox rabbi and leader of the HOD organization seeking to provide a framework for homosexual religious Jews to stay within Judaism, was arrested on Sunday over suspicions of fraud and theft, NRG reported.  According to police reports, Yosef in the past allegedly stole 300,000 shekels from a building firm he was…

Congress has submitted a new measure urging the US to increase investment in Israeli security technologies and other sectors so as to counter the BDS movement that seeks to stir up an international boycott against the Jewish state. A copy of the measure was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which reported on the new move…

Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat in the Gush Etzion region of Judea, chided the European Union and British government on Monday against the backdrop of increasingly anti-Semitic rhetoric by the BDS movement. Responding to the vicious anti-Israel material pasted across the London Underground system on Monday, Revivi compared the dramatic surge in anti-Semitism in Europe…

The United States and Russia announced Monday that a cessation of hostilities in Syria will go into effect this Saturday on February 27 – after a previous attempt for a ceasefire last Friday failed miserably. In a joint statement, the two countries said Saturday’s partial truce would begin at midnight Damascus time and would apply to parties to the conflict that have committed to the deal –…

The IDF is rethinking its policy regarding letting soldiers take their guns with them when they go on leave – it took a tragedy for this to happen, however. First Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, a combat soldier from the Nahal Brigade, was forbidden by his commanders to take his gun with him when he went…

Hillary Clinton is losing among Democrats in the most recent national poll, yet she remains the odds-on favorite to win the nomination, thanks to some strange party rules and the unwavering support of party bigwigs. Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in the latest national polling, won the first Democratic primary by a huge margin, and…

Anti-Israel posters have been posted across London’s tube network as the annual “Israel Apartheid Week” begins. Posters bearing the title “Apartheid is Great Britain” claim that Israel used UK-made weapons to “massacre” Palestinians during Operation Protective Edge in which Israel fought the Hamas terror organization. Other posters suggest that the BBC presents biased reports in favor…

The Palestinian Authority envoy to Britain has attacked an invitation issued for the Speaker of the Knesset to speak in the British Parliament. The Speaker of the Knesset is Yuli Edelstein who, the envoy claims, lives in a “settlement”, in the Jewish town of Neve Daniel, which is located in northern Gush Etzion in Samaria. He is set…

MK Stav Shaffir (Zionist Union) tweeted a response to Minister of Education Naftali Bennett’s plan to celebrate Jerusalem in the coming educational year, in which she claimed the Jewish Home leader didn’t know the history of the Bible. “‘From Jerusalem our history began’ So said Bennett this morning. Excuse me for the pettiness, but it is…

The District Attorney’s office of Israel’s Central Region presented the Ramle Magistrate’s Court with an indictment letter against Modi’in resident Eliyahu Eliav Muallem, 27, who posted “inciting remarks on Facebook”. The indictment letter, which was ratified by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, accuses Muallem of multiple infractions of incitement to violence and racism and one count of harassment. Furthermore,…

Prosecutors filed Monday morning in military court an indictment against the 16-year-old terrorist who brutally stabbed to death Dafna Meir in her home in Otniel. It should be noted that the name of the terrorist has not been cleared for publication since he is a minor. According to the indictment, the terrorist decided to carry…

A string of bomb attacks on Sunday near a Shiite shrine south of Damascus which killed 120 people in total was the deadliest attack since Syria’s war erupted in 2011, a monitor said. At least 90 civilians were among those killed when suicide attacks claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS) ripped through the area…

Health Minister MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) told the Knesset Health Committee Monday that he intended to institute a change in regulation by including life-saving medicines in Supplementary Healthcare Services (SHS). “It is no secret that for several years the health fund sits at 300 million shekels (77 million UDS), when the requests…

Transport for London (TfL), the company which runs London’s underground train service, has said it will be removing the series of anti-Israel ads plastered throughout its trains. Dozens of the posters – which smear the State of Israel as an “apartheid state” – were hung in an apparently organized operation by anti-Israel activists in honor…

An Arab terrorist was thwarted in an attempted stabbing attack on Monday afternoon, but since fleeing the scene remains at large, raising questions about the IDF opening fire protocols. The attack attempt took place at Habitot Junction located in Samaria, near the Arab town of Huwara to the south of Shechem (Nablus). The terrorist ran at an…

Ron Evans aboriginal Chief and leader of the Norway House Cree Nation which hails from Northern Manitoba, believes that by exposing First Nations (aboriginal) youth to Israeli entrepreneurship it can help motivate them and enable them to succeed and achieve more in their own lives. That’s why Evans is running a First Nations’ youth trip…

There were conflicting reports on Sunday regarding a recent proposal for United States-North Korea peace talks which was allegedly made before North Korea’s recent nuclear test. The State Department insisted that Washington rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on…

Russia’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, on Sunday started a previously unannounced visit to Tehran, AFP reported, citing Iranian state media. According to the report, Shoigu met President Hassan Rouhani and delivered a “special message” from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. No further details as to the contents of that “special message” were provided. The minister…

Some victims of the San Bernardino attack plan to file a legal brief in support of the U.S. government’s attempt to force Apple to unlock the encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters, a lawyer representing the victims said on Sunday, according to Reuters. The lawyer, Stephen Larson, told the news agency that the…

The Rebbe of Erlau, Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, passed away in the early hours of Monday morning at age 93 following severe pneumonia that caused the deterioration of his health. Rabbi Sofer, who is known as the “Elder of the Admorim”, was a fifth generation descendant of the “Chasam Sofer” (Rabbi Moses Sofer). After surviving the…

Former Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes both Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz “missed the mark” with their approach to the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict. Speaking Sunday to CNN, Clinton vowed to support Israel but also said she would insist on the “two-state solution”, that is the formation of…

The Knesset held a special discussion on Sunday regarding the meager wages and discriminatory treatment of employed haredi women as compared to other non-haredi workers. This discussion came following extensive research done on the topic which caused as MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism) to submit an urgent request to the Minister of Economy, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in which he wondered…

After all the coalition money was dealt out following the last round of elections, Ariel University received 24 million shekel from the Jewish Home faction at the head of which sits Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Army Radio reported on Monday that an initial agreement has been reached between the Finance Ministry and Ariel University will…

Rainfall will continue throughout the day in most parts of Israel with accompanying winds tapering off around 8:00 p.m. Temperatures are expected to stay between 8 and 15 degrees centigrade (46 -59 degree fahrenheit)  in most parts of the country. Highway 90 between Ein Gedi and Ein Bokek in the area around the Dead Sea…

The Berlin Jewish community celebrated the entrance of a new Torah scroll today (Sunday). The scroll was donated by one of the community members as a gift to her husband on their golden anniversary. Community rabbi and Chabad emissary Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal spoke with Arutz Sheva during the festivities. “More than 70 years ago, evil came out of here…

Onlookers applauded as a suspected arson fire destroyed a planned refugee shelter in eastern Germany, police said Sunday. The roof of the former hotel Bautzen, in the eastern state of Saxony, was undergoing renovation when a fire broke out overnight. Police said that no one was injured but reported that bystanders “commented with derogatory remarks”…

Former Minister of Education Rabbi Shai Piron (Yesh Atid) has congratulated current Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) for the culture basket reforms he presented last week. As part of the reform, the culture basket’s budget will be set at 22 million shekels ($5.6 million US) instead of the current 16 million shekels ($4 million US), and…

Michael Fragin talks Scalia and the Jews with Columbia professor Seth Lipsky and the view on the presidential primaries from Israel with Bar-Ilan communications professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig. To listen to previous shows go to N.S.N. – click here

Onlookers applauded as a suspected arson fire destroyed a planned refugee shelter in eastern Germany, police said Sunday. The roof of the former hotel Bautzen, in the eastern state of Saxony, was undergoing renovation when a fire broke out overnight. Police said that no one was injured but reported that bystanders “commented with derogatory remarks”…

Should we distinguish between ‘good’ Muslims and the ones who lead the Islamic extremist terrorist attacks on Jews and Israelis? International leadership is not always able to understand the difference, and it ultimately affects the ability to cope with the continuing Islamic terrorism. Click here to download the podcast

Most of the Jewish public in Israel does not support the remarks by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who said last week that IDF soldiers must not “empty magazines” into a 13-year-old female terrorist wielding scissors and trying to stab victims, a Channel 10 News poll published on Sunday evening finds. The poll found…

Reports on Sunday surfaced that 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would endorse current presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, but Rubio dismissed those reports as “false”, according to The Hill. The Huffington Post had reported that Romney would endorse Rubio at some point this week, citing two unidentified Republican sources. The report added that Romney had…

Israel is formulating an economic aid plan for the Palestinian Authority, Channel 10 News revealed on Sunday. According to the channel, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and his Palestinian counterpart led delegations that met several times in Jerusalem over the past few weeks in order to put together the economic assistance plan. The last meeting…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation decided to postpone the debate on the bill proposed by MK Miki Zohar (Likud) and MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), which prohibits forcing Israelis to work on Shabbat. The delay was approved in coordination with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is the acting Minister of Economy, to allow MK Zohar to reach agreement in…

The Chief Rabbinate Council is to hold a discussion on Thursday, in which it will discuss the transfer of authority in the recent government decision to create another Reform prayer space at the Western Wall (Kotel). That prayer space, which comes in addition to another egalitarian non-Orthodox space built in 2013, is to be removed from under the authority of…

Education Minister and Jewish Home chairperson Naftali Bennett gave surprising support to IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot on Saturday after the latter called a famed Talmudic dictum a “slogan,” but Bennett apparently felt the need to defend the comments again Sunday. Speaking to high schoolers in Bat Yam, Eizenkot had defended the exceedingly strict open-fire…

Yael Weissman, the widow of Tuvia Yanai Weissman who was murdered on Thursday in a terror attack by two 14-year-old Arab terrorists at the Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin, spoke with Arutz Sheva about her ordeal. Yael described her long relationship with her late husband, “He was my best friend since the ninth grade. We spend our youth…

Authorities have declared that another terrorist took part in the stabbing attack that occurred on Thursday at the Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin. This terrorist was arrested and interrogated by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Sin Bet) for participating in a terror attack along with the two 14-years-old terrorists from Bitunia, who were shot…

The former head of the prisoners and missing persons unit in the Mossad, Rami Igra, dismisses the testimony given by a Lebanese citizen claiming to have seen the missing navigator, and that Ron Arad was tortured and died in 1988. Igra told Arutz Sheva that the story is nothing more than an attempt by a Lebanese citizen…

It’s expensive to live nowadays and if you are like us, chances are you spending anywhere from one to three thousand dollars per month on your children’s tuition, grocery bills, gas and insurance, rent, utilities and other miscellaneous expenses. What if you could take that everyday spending and turn it into free hotels and vacations…

The joint exercise between the IDF and the United States European Command (US EUCOM) began Sunday in order to improve cooperation and coordination between the armies and improve their competence ballistic missile defense. The ‘Juniper Cobra’ exercise is being held for the eighth time since its initiation in 2001, and is conducted once every two…

The extreme right-wing activist Amiram Ben-Uliel, the main suspect in the Duma arson and murder, has released a special recording in which he describes undergoing torture at the hands of the Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak). Ben-Uliel claims that this torture led to his confession. “I didn’t sleep…

A spate of attempted stabbing attacks were thwarted by alert IDF soldiers Sunday morning. The first attack occurred early Sunday morning, when a knife-wielding female teenage terrorist was arrested after an attempted terror attack at the Tapuach Junction checkpoint. Armed with a knife, the 17 year old terrorist, a resident of the Arab village of Qusra in Samaria,…

In spite of the slight improvements in his condition that took place over Shabbat, the Rebbe of Erlau, Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, took a drastic turn for the worse on Sunday, and doctors are now fearing for his life. In a statement made by his doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Sunday morning, the doctors said that “we…

Is online shaming digital vigilantism or constructive social work? That’s a question addressed in a new directive from the Tzohar Rabbincal Organziation. Online shaming is a dangerous weapon that can ruin lives, acknowledges Tzohar Ethics Committee Director Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, but it can also be harnessed for constructive purposes, he argues. With the explosion of…

(AFP) Double car bomb attacks killed at least 46 people in Syria’s central city of Homs on Sunday as international efforts tobring about a ceasefire in the war-torn country floundered. More than 100 people were injured in the twin bomb attacks in the Al-Zahraa district, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor. Syrian state television quoted Homs…

Vehement reactions have been heard in the European Jewish community following the Dutch ban on the export of Kosher as well as Halal meat, and on the slaughtering of animals used in the production of such meats. The ban, which was ratified on Tuesday, has been criticized for “ignoring evidence that it is a humane…

Security agents from the Transfer Authority – which monitors the transfer of all aid, supplies and goods that are imported into Gaza – together with Israel Security Agency (ISA) agents prevented the smuggling attempt of tens of drones into Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing last week. The drones are suspected of being intended for…

Police will likely instructed businessman Rami Levy to boost his security measures in the stores under his ownership in Judea and Samaria following Thursday’s deadly attack at the store in Sha’ar Binyamin. It is expected that the instruction will be issued by the police at a hearing which will be set today with the businessman…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu looked to turn the page on Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot’s controversial comments last week regarding the IDF’s open-fire policies. Netanyahu, who was on a state visit to Germany last week when the controversy erupted, weighed in today at the beginning of the cabinet meeting on Sunday. He brushed off criticisms leveled by…

A massive online campaign demanding that a Chicago advertisement agency remove an offensive pro-BDS billboard calling on motorists boycott the Jewish state has borne fruits, as the agency eventually relented and agreed to take down the offensive sign. Posted on the major highway I-294 by the Lamar Advertising agency, the huge billboard directed motorists to visit stopfundingapartheid.org,…

A Hamas terror cell operating out of eastern Jerusalem was planning a mass casualty terror attack in the capital, which incuded assassinating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to indictments filed last month against the cell, the terrorists planned to assassinate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as part of a huge terror attack in Israel’s capital. The…

MK Issawi Freij (Meretz) announced on Saturday night that he intends to file a complaint against Israeli rap star Yoav Eliasi, better known by his stage name Hatzel, for incitement to violence. The two had a back and forth on Facebook on Friday, after Freij published a post in which he urged Israelis to refrain…

Jeb Bush on Saturday announced that he is suspending his presidential campaign following a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary. “The people of Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken, and I really respect their decision,” Bush said, according to ABC News. “So I am suspending my campaign.” The decision comes after…

Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary, Politico reported Saturday night, giving the real estate mogul his second consecutive win and helping seal his status as the Republican front-runner. With 100% of precincts reporting, Trump leads the first-in-the-south primary with more than 32 percent of the vote. A poll released earlier this week gave…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad wants to be remembered 10 years from now as the person who saved Syria, he told the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Saturday. Assad, whose fate has been a key sticking point in efforts to end Syria’s bloody civil war as it enters its sixth year, left…

Israeli film director Udi Aloni, son of the late Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni, on Saturday won a top audience award at Berlin’s International Film Festival, but made headlines because of his remarks against the Israeli government that were caught on camera. Aloni’s film, “Junction 48”, which tells the story of an Arab rapper making his…

An unidentified gunman opened fire at a car dealership and Cracker Barrel restaurant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, killing at least six and leaving three wounded, reported Fox 17. The shooter fled in a Chevy HHR. Police reportedly have one possible suspect in custody. The gunman is also believed to be responsible for a later drive-by shooting…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who came under fire for comments made last Wednesday regarding the army’s open-fire policies, received backing Saturday night from Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home). Eizenkot, who rejected claims that the IDF’s new policies regulating use of deadly force are too rigid and endanger soldiers’ lives, came under a…

Following a week of summer-like weather, the time has come to bring back your umbrella. The temperature will continue to fall throughout the day on Sunday and skies across the country will be cloudy throughout the day. Israel is expected to be buffeted by moderately strong winds and rain will begin to falling the central…

The District Attorney will close the file that was opened against the police officer who was involved in the shooting of the “scissor terrorists” which occurred in November near the Mahane Yehuda Shuk. Moshe Nussbaum reported to Channel two news, that the decision was made taking into account the recommendation from the Internal Investigations Unit…

Sarah Sperling – the 20-year-old who was to be married in two weeks before suffering serious and horrific injuries in the lethal Egged bus crash on Highway 1 last Sunday regained consciousness over the weekend. A statement made by Assaf Harofeh hospital said that she is currently breathing on her own power. Her condition is…

A 50 year-old woman was killed on Saturday night in a deadly crash that took place near Navot intersection on Highway 675 in the North of Israel. Five other people were injured and taken to Ha’Emek hospital in Afula. One of the three critically injured people was immediately taken in for surgery while the other…

The head of the key High Negotiations Committee (HNC) opposition umbrella group said in statement that it would agree to a temporary truce only if regime backers halted fire. Riad Hijab said any ceasefire must be reached “with international mediation and with guarantees obliging Russia, Iran and their sectarian militias and mercenaries to stop fighting”. The statement said the opposition…

Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary, Politico reported Saturday night, giving the real estate mogul his second consecutive win and helping seal his status as the Republican front-runner. With a handful of precincts reporting, The Associated Press called the contest for Trump, who was leading with more than 33 percent of the vote.…

Hillary Clinton on Saturday defeated Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses. With 78.7% of precincts reporting, Clinton had 52.1% of the vote to Sanders’ 47.8%, according to The Guardian. The results follow a race that initially appeared to be neck-and-neck. Sanders conceded the election to Clinton at around 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, writing on Twitter,…

An 18 year old Arab teenager attacked police officers outside the Damascus gate in Jerusalem just as Shabbat was coming to a close.  From initial reports the teen aroused police suspicion and they began to approached him. The teen seeing the police coming toward him took out a knife and attempted to stab them. The officers quickly…

Samuel Willenbeg, the last survivor of the Treblinka death camp passed away at the age of 93. Willenberg left behind him a wife a daughter and three grandchildren.   Willenberg was born in Poland and was the last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp prisoner revolt that took place in 1943. He was also a participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and recieved the highest  national…

Ron Arad, the Israel Air Force navigator who went missing in 1986 after his plane crashed in Lebanon, was tortured to death by his captors just two years later, according to a report in Lebanese media. Arad’s disappearance has long haunted Israel, as his precise fate was never uncovered. It is known that he ejected…

Democrats and Republicans head to their third primary election today. While the Democratic party is holding their primary in Nevada, in what is being called a must-win scenario for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Republican party primary will be held in South Carolina where Donald Trump hopes to continue to gather momentum. The…

The White House announced on Thursday that U.S. President Barack Obama will make history as he will be the first U.S. President to visit Cuba in over 80 years. The state visit is a direct continuation of the Obama’s historic achievement from last year when he initiated diplomatic relations between the two countries. Diplomatic relations…

A Kurdish group on Friday claimed the suicide car bomb attack on a military convoy in the Turkish capital Ankara that killed 28 people on Wednesday, threatening new attacks targeting the crucial tourism sector. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), who have been linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), said the attack was revenge…

The UN special envoy for Syria is warning that the planned resumption of troubled peace talks next week is “not realistic”, a Swedish newspaper reported Friday. “I cannot realistically call for new Geneva talks starting on February 25,” the envoy, Staffan de Mistura, was quoted by AFP as telling the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. “We need…

Hamas claimed on Friday it has captured an Israeli vehicle for monitoring tunnels under the border with Gaza, AFP reports. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, said that 10 days ago the group’s armed wing “discovered an underground vehicle on which were installed cameras and sensors to monitor tunnels and fighters.” Speaking in a sermon…

The Vatican on Friday sought to clarify Pope Francis’s tiff with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, reports the BBC. The back-and-forth began after the Pope blasted Trump’s plan to build a wall with Mexico to halt immigration into America as “not Christian”. Trump later responded and said, “No leader, especially a religious leader, should have…

The United States condemned on Friday the stabbing attack at a branch of the Rami Levy Supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin in which Tuvia Yanai Weissman, an American citizen, was murdered. In a statement, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms”. “There is no justification for terrorism. This…

Usually, the Kohein Gadol is not really seen as a “regular” person, whatever that is, but rather as a symbol of the holiest of those who are part of MAMLECHET KOHANIM V’GOI KADOSH, a kingdom of kohanim and a holy nation. In this week’s sedra, Aharon takes center stage, even with Moshe Rabeinu stepping back…

A Palestinian Arab terrorist was shot by security forces on Friday afternoon as he tried to stab a Border Policemen near the village of Silwad, which is located near Ofra in the Binyamin region. According to reports from the scene, the terrorist drove his car towards the Border Police officers who were stationed in the…

Tali Tarlow was working as a writer when she was asked to prepare a tour for Jerusalem, appropriate for those who had seen all the usual sites. What followed was the creation of the Jerusalem Scavenger Hunts. Tali involves her groups not only in the story of Jerusalem, but also makes them think about their…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama for being a “disgrace” in his treatment of Israel, just a day after Trump raised concerns for promising to be “neutral” and “unpredictable” in forcing peace talks on Israel. Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News, the real estate mogul said, “Israel is so important.…

Parshat Tetzaveh discusses the eight garments of the High Priest. The Eighth “garment” which is actually an accoutrement is the Tzitz. In Judaism the number eight always carries special importance and significance. It always stands out. It is always above the norm and above the natural. The Tzitz no doubt has a special role to…

Russia’s envoy to the UN on Friday warned long-term ally President Bashar al-Assad over his vow to retake all of Syria, saying he faced dire consequences if he did not comply with Moscow over the peace process. “Russia has invested very seriously in this crisis, politically, diplomatically and now also militarily,” Vitaly Churkin told Kommersant newspaper, referring to an international agreement to cease…

Even as a stabbing attack took place at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, roughly 1,000 indomitable Israelis on Friday morning took part in the Sixth Begin Run, which is held annually by the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. Men, women and children who arrived from around the country to take part ran through various…

Not your regular drunk bar fight: a ruckus broke out at a bar in Brazil earlier this month, that began when a monkey chugged a glass of rum and went on to grab a kitchen knife and go on a rampage. Firefighters in Patos, Paraiba, were called to the bar on February 5 after the monkey began chasing…

IDF forces on late Thursday night mapped out the homes of the two 14-year-old Arab terrorists who murdered 21-year-old Staff Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman earlier in the day at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin. Weissman, who was shopping with his wife and four-month-old baby daughter at the time, was stabbed as he tried to…

The stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday morning was caught on film and published by Al Jazeera, showing how Border Police officers shot the Arab terrorist dead after he stabbed two of them. Viewer discretion is advised. In the attack one officer was lightly wounded and another lightly to moderately…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) on Friday rebuffed IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who made controversial statements on Wednesday discouraging the use of “excessive” force against terrorists. Speaking to high schoolers in Bat Yam, Eizenkot had said IDF soldiers must not “empty magazines” into a 13-year-old female terrorist wielding scissors and trying to stab victims.…

An El Al airplane with 150 passengers and crew on board had an accident at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on Friday morning, in which its wing broke. The plane was due to take off from Holland and fly back to Israel, but it was delayed at the airport due to the accident. While being brought to the takeoff…

An infant boy aged one-year-and-three-months-old drowned on Friday in a tub of water and died in Shima, in the Har Hevron regional council at the very southern edge of Judea. Magen David Adom (MDA) medics and paramedics provided the baby with medical treatment and continued advanced resuscitation, but in the end were forced to pronounce the infant’s…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday welcomed an initiative put forward by France to hold an international Middle East peace conference, AFP reported. France, which announced the initiative late last month, has threatened to unilaterally recognize the “State of Palestine” if its peace efforts fail. “We definitely welcome the French initiative, we see it as…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed new sanctions on North Korea into law, punishing the regime after its nuclear and missile tests as well as suspected cyber-hacking incidents, CNN reported. Obama stamped his approval on the sanctions bill after Congress overwhelmingly passed the measure earlier this month. The two Republican senators running for president,…

The Obama administration said on Thursday that a proposed Russian sale of fighter jets to Iran would violate a UN arms embargo on Tehran, The Associated Press (AP) reports. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that transferring the Sukhoi-30 jets, comparable to American F-15E fighter bombers, requires the UN Security Council’s approval. The comments come…

A storm is brewing in the Windy City, as a massive anti-Israeli Chicago billboard has sparked a massive campaign calling for it to be taken down – but the advertising company adamantly refuses to apologize for the discriminatory sign. The billboard, posted on the major highway I-294 by the Lamar Advertising agency, directs motorists to visit stopfundingapartheid.org,…

Denmark’s parliament has announced a new medal of civil valor that will honor Israeli security guard Dan Uzan, who was killed last year while protecting the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen during a terrorist attack, JNS reported on Thursday. The medal is for “citizens who demonstrated unusual courage, while risking their lives in an attempt to…

The UN envoy for the Middle East peace process on Thursday blasted Israeli “settlements” as being an obstacle to peace. The envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, made the comments in an address to the Security Council today in which he urged both Israel and the PA to end the long-standing conflict. According to a UN statement, Mladenov…

A new poll published on Friday shows a slight drop for the ruling Likud party, and a complete free fall for the leftist Zionist Union which challenged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the last elections. The poll, conducted this week for Maariv by the Panels Politics research institute, indicates Likud dropping from its current 30 mandates down…

The funeral of Staff Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, the 21-year-old combat soldier of the Nahal Brigade who was murdered while shopping by knife-wielding 14-year-old Arab terrorists on Thursday, began at 8 a.m. on Friday at Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. While shopping for Shabbat at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin northeast of…

A stabbing attack took place at the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday morning. Two Border Police officers were lightly to moderately wounded in the attack with stab wounds to the upper body, and the terrorist was eliminated. Magen David Adom (MDA) teams provided medical treatment to the wounded at the site prior to…

Hours after the lethal stabbing attack at a Rami Levy supermarket branch in Sha’ar Binyamin, in which a 21-year-old shopper was murdered and another 36-year-old was moderately wounded, the “Jerusalem Belt Forum” issued a warning. In the attack two 14-year-old Arab terrorists from nearby Bitunia got past security with knives brought from home before going…

The Spanish Jewish community is seeking legal action against the satirical left-wing magazine El Jueves over a comic strip published in its latest issue featuring anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic images. The cartoon depicted various images with an anti-Semitic stereotype, including one of Israeli soldiers with grossly protruding noses urinating on Palestinians and pushing a beaten Jesus. A caption reads,…

The 21-year-old shopper who was murdered on Thursday in an Arab terror attack at the Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin was identified by the IDF as Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman. Weissman was a combat soldier in the Nahal Brigade and lived in Ma’ale Mikhmas in the Binyamin region of Samaria, according to an IDF Spokesperson Unit…

Nazareth-based Father Gabriel Naddaf, spiritual leader of the Israeli Aramean Christian movement, blasted Palestinian Evangelical Christians Thursday after they signed a pact of “reconciliation” with some Israeli “Messianic” Christians. Writing on Facebook, Naddaf asked why Israeli Christians are “partaking in a conspiracy of silence with anti-Israel church leaders.” He accused the Palestinian Evangelicals of denouncing…

The 21-year-old shopper who was murdered on Thursday in an Arab terror attack at the Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin was identified by the IDF as Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman. Weissman was a combat soldier in the Nahal Brigade and lived in Ma’ale Mikhmas in the Binyamin region of Samaria, according to an IDF Spokesperson Unit…

Pope Francis questioned the Christian faith of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump Thursday while criticizing his stance on immigration. Speaking with reporters on a flight to Vatican City at the end of a five-day visit to Mexico, Francis said in a reference to Trump that “a person who thinks only about building walls…and not building bridges, is…

Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050, but the disease cannot be detected before it has already caused loss of memory and function. Even then, a long series of tests is required to accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, including costly brain imagining scans and even, sometimes,…

President Reuven Rivlin responded on Thursday evening to the stabbing attack at a Rami Levy supermarket at the Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone in Samaria, in which Tuvia Yanai Weissman was murdered and another Jew was wounded. “A man returns from his daily labors, stops to buy groceries for the Sabbath, and is taken forever by…

The Yesha Council is demanding that the Israeli government take active steps to stop the Palestinian Arab incitement which has directly caused the latest murderous terrorism wave. On Sunday, the Yesha Council will hold a protest outside the Cabinet meeting, entitled “The Incitement Can be Stopped”, in which its members will demand that Israel shut…

President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday addressed the delegates of the 42nd annual Conference of Presidents’ Leadership Mission to Israel, and said that Israel should not become a divisive topic in this American election season. “Support for Israel has never been and must not become a partisan issue,” Rivlin told the delegation. Noting the worldwide rise…

Two Arab terrorists conducted a stabbing attack late Thursday afternoon at a Rami Levy supermarket at the Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone in Samaria, located just northeast of Jerusalem. Two people, one aged 36 and the other 21, were wounded in the attack, one critically and the other moderately with both suffering stab wounds to the upper body. The 21-year-old…

Arutz Sheva on Thursday evening spoke with Ben Hamo and Hanamel Even Chen, the two heroic civilians who shot two 14-year-old Arab terrorists just hours earlier as they went on a lethal stabbing rampage at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin northeast of Jerusalem. In the attack a 21-year-old victim was murdered and a 36-year-old was…

Police reported on Thursday evening that two Arab suspects were arrested during a routine security check of a bus driving through a checkpoint, after it was discovered they were carrying explosives. The arrest came as Border Police officers were checking a bus passing through Al-Zaim Checkpoint near Ma’ale Adumim to the east of Jerusalem, as it…

The twin sister of the 18-year-old woman stabbed to death in Tel Aviv Thursday admitted to carrying out the murder together with her boyfriend. The motive is not clear. The investigation revealed that the woman sent a photo of her sister’s body to a friend through her cellphone and wrote that she had been stabbed.…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah and PA once again demonstrated their vision of “the State of Palestine” encompassing the entirety of Israel – this time drawing it with the blood of terrorists. As revealed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), Fatah’s official Facebook page illustrated “Palestine’s” borders with a macabre photo of a dying terrorist in…

Arutz Sheva on Thursday evening spoke with Ben Hamo and Hanamel Even Chen, the two heroic civilians who shot two 14-year-old Arab terrorists just hours earlier as they went on a lethal stabbing rampage at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin northeast of Jerusalem. In the attack a 21-year-old victim was murdered and a 36-year-old was…

Famed French writer Michel Houellebecq defended Israel in an interview he gave to the popular magazine Le Point, which devoted a journalistic project to the Jews of France. According to news site Walla, Houellebecq – who is not Jewish – has identified as pro-Israeli for several years. He reconfirmed this position in the interview, and explained:…

Russia is accusing Turkey of helping jihadists recruit fighters from the Caucasus and Central Asia to fight in Syria, according to a letter sent to the UN Security Council. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in the letter dated February 10 that recruiters from the Islamic State (ISIS) group had reportedly established a network in the Turkish city of Antalya for foreign…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Thursday with representative members of bereaved families who lost loved ones in the current Arab terror wave that has raged since last September. The meeting in Jerusalem came just hours before two 14-year-old Arab terrorists murdered a 21-year-old shopper at a Rami Levy supermarket in Sha’ar Binyamin and moderately…

Famed French writer Michel Houellebecq defended Israel in an interview he gave to the popular magazine Le Point, which devoted a journalistic project to the Jews of France. According to news site Walla, Houellebecq – who is not Jewish – has identified as pro-Israeli for several years. He reconfirmed this position in the interview, and explained:…

Hamas has been warned by its own senior members to stop boasting of its military prowess. Middle East Newsline (MENL) quotes Ahmed Yusef, a leading Hamas political operative in Gaza, as having said, “We, as Palestinians, have been using expressions that the enemy [Israel] could use as a pretext for its aggression and as a…

Turkey has blamed a devastating bomb blast targeting a military convoy in Ankara on Kurdish rebels, and has vowed to respond sharply, raising concerns of an escalation in ongoing violence both at home and in Syria. 28 soldiers were killed and scores more were injured in the attack, which occurred early Wednesday evening. Notably, on…

Student protesters broke into a Brooklyn College faculty meeting on Tuesday, issuing demands and verbally abusing staff members. One faculty member who spoke to the JTA on condition of anonymity described the protest’s anti-Semitic rhetoric. Protesters called a Jewish professor present at the meeting a “Zionist pig” and demanded that the school throw “Zionists off…

A mysterious campaign in Berlin to stoke fears of “Jewish terror” is spreading and becoming increasingly sophisticated. According to a report by the Department of Research and Information on Anti-Semitism (RIAS), flyers, cards, and notices warning of “Jewish terror” threatening “attacks on Berlin’s citizens” have increased around the city since October of 2015. No organization…

Does Bernie Sanders really have a shot at winning the Democratic nomination? The Vermont senator’s dark horse candidacy, once dismissed as a political sideshow, is now expanding beyond its traditional base of support in New England, threatening what was once considered a “coronation” for Hillary Clinton. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, Sanders was in a…

Motti and Libi Gromach are Chabad emissaries to a picturesque rocky, temple-filled village in India called Hampi. The couple buried their daughter, Devorah Leah Geulah, two years ago at the age of eleven after she was misdiagnosed by local doctors who overlooked a lung infection that killed her. Two years after the event the Gromachs…

The son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is under investigation in Italy as part of a probe into a major political corruption scandal. 35-year-old Bilal Erdogan is suspected of money laundering, according to Bologna’s public prosecutor. The investigation was apparently opened after a key political opponent of his father – Turkish businessman Murat Hakan Uzan – accused Erdogan…

In a speech made on Thursday morning, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon backed statements made by the IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot yesterday, in which he said “the IDF cannot speak in slogans like ‘when someone comes to kill you – kill him first.” “I fully support what the Chief of Staff said with regards to…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) slammed the left-leaning Hebrew daily Haaretz Thursday afternoon, saying that an article it published on Tuesday “cheapened” the memory of the Holocaust. The offending article, written by Tel Aviv University professor of anthropology Moshe Shoked, compared the behavior of Israel’s academia today with the passivity of Germany and Austrian…

A young woman in Tel Aviv was killed on Thursday afternoon in Tel Aviv. Magen David Adom (MDA) Paramedics were called to the scene of a young woman who was found unconscious on Simtat Neta street in the heart of Tel Aviv. The woman bore signs of being involved in a violent struggle and the…

Calls are growing for the British government to review its funding of the Palestinian Authority, in light of the PA’s continued incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism. According to the Jewish Chronicle, Labour MP Joan Ryan has written directly to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, to demand his government stop giving what she described as “a blank…

Singer Ariel Zilber received on Wednesday evening his lifetime achievement award from the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA), which was not without controversy after leftist singer Achinoam Nini quit the IUPA in a call to boycott Zilber due to his nationalist views. After accepting the award, Zilber told the audience, “When I got the news…

The last installment of “Talking About Eretz Yisroel” is called “Wanting To Want,” because for some people that is the first hump to get over in terms of making aliyah. After that, it is time to get into Purim mode with a discussion about some important Purim numbers followed by a discussion of this week’s…

Hundreds of millions of dollars are believed to have been destroyed in coalition air strikes targeting cash hoards used to finance the Islamic State group, a spokesman for the American military said Wednesday, according to AFP. Coalition aircraft struck ten more of the cash collection points over the weekend, said Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman…

A Lebanese politician recently denied the Holocaust in a televised interview, claiming that the Holocaust was “shrouded in unclarity” and that the Jews “always fear exposure about the Holocaust.” The politician, Vera Yammine of the political bureau of the Marada Movement, also accused “Zionism” of having “taken hold of the West” and claimed that jihadist…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continued his verbal attacks on Israel on Wednesday, this time claiming that the “global Zionism network” dictates the United States’ and many EU members’ policies vis-a-vis Iran. The comments, quoted by the semiofficial Fars news agency, reportedly came in an address Khamenei gave to what was described as “a…

The ongoing back and forth surrounding Russia’s sale of advanced S-300 missile systems to Iran continued on Wednesday, as the Defense Ministry in Moscow denied reports that the system would be delivered later this week. Earlier this week Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaberi Ansari claimed that a shipment of the S-300 missile defense systems…

Canadian F-18 fighter jets have flown their last raids against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, fulfilling the promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, authorities said Wednesday. The final airstrikes were against an ISIS “fighting position in the vicinity of Fallujah,” Iraq, a Defense Ministry statement said. The planes flew their last sortie…

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump by two points among Republican voters, according to a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday and cited by The Hill. Trump had held the top spot in the previous 31 consecutive national polls, posting a double-digit lead in all but four. In last month’s NBC…

A volunteer police officer arrested and tried for growing marijuana in his home was freed without conviction despite having accepted a plea bargain agreement including conviction and punishment. While Beer Sheva Judge Ron Solkin had prepared a punishment for the accused, he reversed his decision and freed the man after discovering that the defendant was…

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, submitted a letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon calling for the condemnation of the threats made by Hassan Nasrallah against Israel. Hezbollah leader Nasrallah said on Tuesday that he would attack the chemical manufacturing plants in Haifa in order to achieve the type of devastation…

ZAKA head Yehuda Meshi Zahav has come out with strong criticism against the ethical and moral statements that have been expressed by some doctors in Israel. During a medical ethics conference in Jerusalem this evening (Wednesday), Meshi Zahav spoke about the order of treating terrorists and their victims. After a number of doctors expressed their…

Reining in illegal Arab construction is simply “not a top priority” for the government, according to a statement the state conveyed to the Supreme Court. The state was responding to demands that it carry out demolition orders issued against an illegally built Arab school just outside of Jerusalem. The school’s construction was funded by the…

A senior police officer has been voicing political opinions on his private Facebook page, and he appears to be in some trouble, though it is not clear how much. Channel 2‘s Mako website featured screenshots from the Facebook account of Chief Superintendent Meir Namir, the commander of the Jerusalem District Police’s Yasam SWAT unit. After…

“Senior Jerusalem police officers” are angry over IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot’s remarks today (Wednesday), Channel 10 reports. While talking to high school students in Bat Yam, General Eizenkot casually dismissed concerns that the army’s new rules of engagement endanger the lives of security forces. In particular, the officers who were involved in the attack by…

Israel’s newest political party was launched this week with the formation of the Tor HaZahav movement. Founded by 60 journalists, educators, entrepreneurs, and social activists, the party eschews all traditional partisan labels. We’re “not right, not left – and not center” one of the group’s founders told Walla News.   But if the movement rejects…

ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are a popular investment tool. Today’’s show is devoted to ETFs and gives you an idea what these investments are and how they work. Instead of a guest interview, get a taste of a financial podcast with a twist. The Rich As A King financial podcast is based on Doug’’s bestselling…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is claiming that Israel on Wednesday evening struck military outposts in Syria, near the capital Damascus, Reuters reports. According to the organization, Syrian army outposts south of Damascus were hit by three Israeli rockets. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a British-based organization which mostly documents human rights…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday night that his country’s fight against “pawns” carrying out attacks and the forces behind them will grow more determined, Reuters reported. The statement came after a car bomb in Ankara killed at least ten people and wounded another ten. The attack hit an area near the country’s parliament,…

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday received the “Annual Ketzaleh Report on the Development of the Settlement Enterprise in Judea and Samaria” authored by former MK Ya’akov “Ketzaleh” Katz. The president said he was happy to read about the large number of Jews living in Judea and Samaria and thanked Ketzaleh for his dedication in reporting about…

The Knesset Assembly has approved the initial reading of the Foreign Agents bill, submitted by Yisrael Beytenu party chair Robert Ilatov. The proposal was filed as an amendment to the government’s Transparency bill and would require every NGO that receives funding from a foreign government to register as a foreign agent for that government. Each quarter,…

The UK Ministry of Defense says that two Russian bombers are currently nearing British airspace. The Royal Air Force Typhoons have been sent to intercept them. Authorities say that the bombers were in an “area of interest” over the Atlantic Ocean, though they did not specify further on the location. A country’s airspace extends 22 kilometers from…

The Palestinian Authority continues to glorify terrorists, this time in a Ministry of Education ceremony honoring the 18-year-old terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Monday. MEMRI reports that Kalzar al-Awiwi was a student at the Wadad Natzer al-Din high school for girls and that the Palestinian Ministry of Education published…

Former British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has postponed an event at the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) following allegations of anti-Semitism at the student organization. Miliband, who is Jewish, was due to address the club’s annual John Smith Memorial Dinner on March 4. A spokesperson for Miliband told the New Statesman: “Ed is deeply…

Rock star and gun advocate Ted Nugent offered an apology this week for a Facebook post that drew broad media attention – and accusations of anti-Semitism. Nugent is no stranger to controversy, but when he reposted an image originally produced by an anti-Semitic website, even many of his traditional allies joined in the media dogpile.…

At least ten people were killed and another ten wounded in a car bombing in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. The attack hit an area near the country’s parliament, as well as a number of military buildings. According to local police reports, the blast occurred while a vehicle carrying soldiers passed nearby. It is not…

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away on Feb. 13 at the age of 79, is being remembered fondly by Chabad rabbis as a defender champion of freedom of religious expression with a deep appreciation for Jewish law, who also participated in numerous legal symposia on Jewish and American jurisprudence over the years.…

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) called on haredi lawmakers on Wednesday to condemn attacks against soldiers from the Haredi community. While responding to a question regarding the series of violent attacks targeting haredi soldiers, Ben-Dahan argued that the silence of haredi politicians in the face of such incidents was tantamount to an endorsement…

The Dutch government said Wednesday that it plans to limit Jewish and Muslim methods of slaughter through new measures, including supervision of the production of kosher and halal meat, and a ban on its export. Agriculture Minister Martijn van Dam announced the plan in a letter to the lower house of the Dutch parliament. JTA…

The reporter Gadi Soknik has published a video of the driver responsible for last week’s Highway 1 crash, Chaim Biton. The clip shows that he was involved in another accident between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv several months ago. Biton had struck a private vehicle, without legitimate cause, and could be seen exchanging information with the driver.…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot made a surprising statement on Wednesday morning during a visit to Bat Yam, in which he defended the army’s controversial open-fire orders and brushed off the teachings of the Jewish sages. During his visit to the city’s cultural center which was attended by high school students, he said, “the…

On Monday an “angel” on a train helped out a soldier in need on a train by paying her family’s debt of 1,950 shekel to the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). According to an eyewitness report, the soldier was crying hysterically into her phone while arguing with the IEC not to cut off the power to her…

The European Jewish Congress (EJC) on Wednesday praised the UK government for announcing it will advance legislation blocking public institutions in the UK from boycotting Israel. “This is a very important act by the British Government,” said Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the EJC. “The British Government has long said it opposes boycotts of Israel…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) came out against the initiative of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to establish casinos in Eilat and promised to torpedo the project. “The establishment of a casino in Eilat is unacceptable in my eyes, both from a moral standpoint as well as a practical one,” Bennett explained. “It is morally…

The Israeli Embassy in London has issued a scathing condemnation of reports of rampant anti-Semitism within a left-wing student society in Oxford University, as Britain’s Labour Party says it backs an official inquiry. It comes after the head of Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) resigned when the Club endorsed Israel Apartheid Week, saying he had come…

An ancient prehistoric village dating back 12,000 years has been found by Hebrew University archaeologists during excavations in the Jordan Valley. The site has been dubbed NEG II, and is located in Nahal (wadi) Ein-Gev at the middle of a perennial stream flowing west to the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Excavations there have found human burial remains, flint…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday vowed Turkey would not allow the creation of a Kurdish stronghold in northern Syria, saying there was no question of Turkish forces stopping their bombardment of Syrian Kurdish fighters. “We will not allow a new Qandil on our southern border” with Syria, Erdogan said in a televised speech in Ankara, referring to the…

Last week a British soldier from the elite Special Air Service unit used an Israeli made rifle to decapitate an ISIS instructor who was showing new recruits how to behead prisoners. “One minute he was standing there and the next his head had exploded.” reported an eyewitness to the Mirror. The irony of the situation…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was put on the spot Tuesday by Interim Opposition head Rona Ambrose over reports that he plans to give UNRWA $15 million, despite its well-documented ties to the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. But as video from her question in Canada’s parliament shows, Trudeau gave a truly baffling response to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s daughter, Noa Roth, has given birth to a baby girl. This is the Prime Minister’s third grandchild. “Sarah and I are happy that my daughter Noa had a girl; a sister to Shmuel and David, and niece to Yair and Avner,” he said. He also noted that “The mother and the daughter…

Martin Oliner, philanthropist, Chairman of Religious Zionists of America, editor of “The Jewish Word”, and mayor of the village of Lawrence, spoke to Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the gathering of the Conference of Presidents in Jerusalem. Israel, he said, “politically and economically, in every which way, has become the center of the world.…

Martin Oliner, philanthropist, Chairman of Religious Zionists of America, editor of “The Jewish Word”, and mayor of the village of Lawrence, spoke to Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the gathering of the Conference of Presidents in Jerusalem. Israel, he said, “politically and economically, in every which way, has become the center of the world.…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised address from his bunker in Lebanon, on Tuesday evening appeared to have threatened to hit Haifa’s ammonia tank with a missile. “Hezbollah has a ‘nuclear bomb’ – Haifa has 15 tons of ammonia, and any Hezbollah missile attack will turn them into a nuclear bomb will that would…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised address from his bunker in Lebanon, on Tuesday evening appeared to have threatened to hit Haifa’s ammonia tank with a missile. “Hezbollah has a ‘nuclear bomb’ – Haifa has 15 tons of ammonia, and any Hezbollah missile attack will turn them into a nuclear bomb will that would…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised address from his bunker in Lebanon, on Tuesday evening appeared to have threatened to hit Haifa’s ammonia tank with a missile. “Hezbollah has a ‘nuclear bomb’ – Haifa has 15 tons of ammonia, and any Hezbollah missile attack will turn them into a nuclear bomb will that would…

Martin Oliner, philanthropist, Chairman of Religious Zionists of America, editor of “The Jewish Word”, and mayor of the village of Lawrence, spoke to Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the gathering of the Conference of Presidents in Jerusalem. Israel, he said, “politically and economically, in every which way, has become the center of the world.…

The United States is coming under increasingly bitter criticism for its perceived lack of leadership over Syria as the country’s brutal civil conflict heads toward new levels of intensity. Washington appears unable or unwilling to prevent its ally Turkey from bombing Kurdish fighters inside Syria, its critics say. And it has done little to rein in Russia’s mounting military involvement on…

The United States is coming under increasingly bitter criticism for its perceived lack of leadership over Syria as the country’s brutal civil conflict heads toward new levels of intensity. Washington appears unable or unwilling to prevent its ally Turkey from bombing Kurdish fighters inside Syria, its critics say. And it has done little to rein in Russia’s mounting military involvement on…

The United States is coming under increasingly bitter criticism for its perceived lack of leadership over Syria as the country’s brutal civil conflict heads toward new levels of intensity. Washington appears unable or unwilling to prevent its ally Turkey from bombing Kurdish fighters inside Syria, its critics say. And it has done little to rein in Russia’s mounting military involvement on…

Dutch F-16 fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (ISIS) targets for the first time in Syria since broadening its mission in the American-led air campaign, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. “Dutch F-16s carried out around 10 missions over Iraq and eastern Syria,” the Hague-based ministry said in its weekly summary of operations on its…

Dutch F-16 fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (ISIS) targets for the first time in Syria since broadening its mission in the American-led air campaign, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. “Dutch F-16s carried out around 10 missions over Iraq and eastern Syria,” the Hague-based ministry said in its weekly summary of operations on its…

Dutch F-16 fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (ISIS) targets for the first time in Syria since broadening its mission in the American-led air campaign, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. “Dutch F-16s carried out around 10 missions over Iraq and eastern Syria,” the Hague-based ministry said in its weekly summary of operations on its…

Syria’s Kurds, long held in disdain by Damascus, are edging towards autonomy in their heartland along Turkey’s border as they capitalize on the tactical goals of both Washington and Moscow. To the dismay of Ankara, Kurdish forces have seized on the collapse of rebels in the northern province of Aleppo in the face of Russian-backed regime gains to advance to…

Syria’s Kurds, long held in disdain by Damascus, are edging towards autonomy in their heartland along Turkey’s border as they capitalize on the tactical goals of both Washington and Moscow. To the dismay of Ankara, Kurdish forces have seized on the collapse of rebels in the northern province of Aleppo in the face of Russian-backed regime gains to advance to…

Syria’s Kurds, long held in disdain by Damascus, are edging towards autonomy in their heartland along Turkey’s border as they capitalize on the tactical goals of both Washington and Moscow. To the dismay of Ankara, Kurdish forces have seized on the collapse of rebels in the northern province of Aleppo in the face of Russian-backed regime gains to advance to…

An old and lost piece of Mozart music that had been missing for more 200 years was performed in Prague on Tuesday night, for the first time since being rediscovered. The piece was a collaboration between heretofore thought rivals Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian composer Antonio Salieri. A third unknown composer, by the name of Cornetti, also collaborated on the…

An old and lost piece of Mozart music that had been missing for more 200 years was performed in Prague on Tuesday night, for the first time since being rediscovered. The piece was a collaboration between heretofore thought rivals Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian composer Antonio Salieri. A third unknown composer, by the name of Cornetti, also collaborated on the…

In case the diplomatic efforts to reach a deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear program failed, it was revealed Tuesday that the US had a very intricate contingency plan, involving a massive cyberattack crippling the leading state sponsor of terror. The cyberattack plan, termed Nitro Zeus, was revealed in a New York Times report Tuesday from findings in a…

In case the diplomatic efforts to reach a deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear program failed, it was revealed Tuesday that the US had a very intricate contingency plan, involving a massive cyberattack crippling the leading state sponsor of terror. The cyberattack plan, termed Nitro Zeus, was revealed in a New York Times report Tuesday from findings in a…

In case the diplomatic efforts to reach a deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear program failed, it was revealed Tuesday that the US had a very intricate contingency plan, involving a massive cyberattack crippling the leading state sponsor of terror. The cyberattack plan, termed Nitro Zeus, was revealed in a New York Times report Tuesday from findings in a…

The Knesset Science and Technology Committee discussed on Tuesday a new project that will allow for easier access to pictures, testimonies and files about Holocaust survivors.  Committee Chairperson MK Uri Maklev (UTJ) said that there is a responsibility, both to the living and to the dead, to provide easy access to the testimony of Holocaust survivors. The project, which…

Israeli officials expressed outrage late Tuesday, after the International Law Forum argued that the US Customs’ January 23 “reissuing” of orders to importers to label all products from Judea and Samaria as not being from “Israel” was a covert policy change. Slamming the move as deceiving Congress, as well as the American and Israeli public, the Israeli group International Law…

Paris city council has adopted two resolutions condemning boycotts of the state of Israel, in the latest blow to the anti-Israel boycott movement in Europe. The two non-binding resolutions were particularly remarkable given the bipartisan nature of the initiatives: one was tabled by the left-wing Socialist-led coalition of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, while the other was spearheaded…

Two professors from Boston’s Jewish Wheelock College have filed complaints with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the school, in the claim that they suffered anti-Semitic discrimination that damaged their reputation and careers. The Boston Globe reported that Professors Eric Silverman and Gail Dines accused Wheelock President Jackie Jenkins-Scott and other administrators of having…

Zion Square, a central and historic square in Jerusalem, is to be renamed Tolerance Square in memory of Shira Banki, a young woman who was murdered by a crazed zealot during a “gay pride parade” in July of 2015. The decision was reached by in a meeting between Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and representatives of…

Does investing in rental property lower the risks posed by market volatility? Doug discusses the advantages and disadvantages of investing in the rental property market in the United States. Renting out a property involves challenges, such as finding responsible tenants, handling repairs, adhering to building and safety codes, and much more. Find out how to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was likely satisfied by what he heard from German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Merkel, who in the past has insisted that the “two-state solution” is the best way to end the conflict, appeared to signal at Tuesday’s Government-to-Government meeting that she would turn down…

Ibrahim Khreisheh, the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, recently said that it may “be useful” to ask Arab and European countries “to allow the Jews to return to their former lands and homes.” “We never had people from Poland, the Ukraine, Switzerland, France, or England,” he added. The comments were made…

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Palestinian Arab hunger striker who has fasted over 80 days must stay in the northern Israeli hospital where he is being held, after a compromise bid failed. “The court refused the request of Mohammed al-Qiq and will leave him in the hospital in Afula,” his lawyer Jawad Boulos…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading among the Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in South Carolina’s Republican primary, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released on Tuesday. The poll found that Trump holds a broad 16-point lead among those likely to vote in South Carolina this Saturday, while Clinton tops Bernie Sanders by 18 points in…

Nearly 2,500 people left Gaza during a three-day humanitarian opening of the border with Egypt, according to Hamas authorities – but Egypt has now sealed the border off again. The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza said 2,439 people left the territory over the three days, while 1,122 entered and 334 were turned back by Egyptian…

American Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power joined Israeli UN envoy Danny Danon for a countrywide tour of Israel to understand the Jewish state’s complex security situation. Following a helicopter tour of the country, Power and Danon were briefed by senior IDF officers on the security challenges facing the Israel. Among other important strategic locations,…

Israeli mobile firm Partner announced on Tuesday it has begun operating under its own name after splitting with French company Orange following a major diplomatic dispute last year. Orange announced in June that it would retake control of its brand in Israel, agreeing to pay up to 90 million euros ($100 million) to do so.…

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Egyptian diplomat and the UN’s sixth Secretary General, died Tuesday at age 93. Egypt’s state-run newspaper Al-Ahram said he died in a hospital in Cairo, to which he had been admitted after suffering a broken pelvis. Boutrous-Ghali was a Coptic Christian, and was married to an Egytian Jewish woman, Maria Leia. He…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed France’s diplomatic plan for an international conference on Middle East peace with recognition of a Palestinian state if talks fail. Netanyahu called it “mystifying” and counterproductive, arguing that it gives the Palestinians no incentive to compromise. “It says, ‘We shall hold an international conference but, if it doesn’t…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has voiced his concern over Israel’s emerging alliance with Sunni Arab gulf states, and urged Arab leaders to break ties with the Jewish state. Nasrallah made his remarks during a televised address Tuesday evening from his bunker in Lebanon, from which he rarely emerges. In comments broadcast on Hezbollah’s Al Manar…

The Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, is in some trouble after video emerged of him dancing with Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, one of the heads of Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar, who wrote a controversial book named Torat Hamelech. Rabbi Peretz aroused the ire of leftist MKs by not only dancing with…

The Jewish star of a hit Swedish TV series has said he left the show due to the unbearable levels of anti-Semitism in the city of Malmo, where the show is set. Kim Bodnia plays Danish police detective Martin Rohde the in popular crime drama The Bridge, had initially explained his decision to quit as the…

Jewish historian Stephan Templ is being held in an Austrian jail for allegedly “defrauding the state” over a restitution claim, although crucial new evidence has been discovered. Templ, 55, was convicted of serious fraud for allegedly hiding the existence of an estranged aunt named Elisabeth Kretschmar when he applied on behalf of his mother for…

Channel 2 reporter Yair Sherki, the mainstream channel first reporter to sport peyot (earlocks worn by many religious Jews) – is feeling some remorse about his latest scoop. It was Sherki who broadcast the wedding tape in which IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Rafi Peretz was seen dancing in uniform with controversial rabbi Yitzchak Shapira of Yitzhar. Peretz…

Police apprehended a 26-year-old Arab who was caught carrying a knife outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. The Arab man aroused police suspicion and was questioned by police who searched him for weapons. Police found that the individual was carrying a large knife concealed in his sleeve.  During the initial investigation which followed, police found out that…

In an interview with Time Magazine, Former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres said that the reason that Israel achieved the Oslo accords was due to the fact the the Dimona nuclear program existed.  Peres served as Israel’s Defense Minister between the years of 1959 and 1969.  During his term in that office he helped create Israel’s officially secret nuclear program…

The bus driver under investigation for Sunday’s horrific bus crash which left six dead and 12 wounded was allegedly using his phone and driving wildly in the moments leading up to the accident. Driver Haim Bitton, is in police custody facing possible wrongful death charges, obstructions of justice, and failure to maintain distance from other cars…

Nissan Slomiansky, chairman of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, predicted that the controversial “expulsion law”, which would enable the Knesset to expel members for expressions of support for terrorism, would ultimately be enacted. The Jewish Home MK expressed his optimism about the bill’s future just hours after cancelling a committee hearing on the subject. …

Lebanese media sources revealed on Tuesday new details regarding the Hezbollah terrorist, Imad Mughniyah, who was killed eight years ago in a car bombing.  The al-Akhbar news site reported the Mughniyah spent a lot of effort and resources trying to track down the possessions of Israeli pilot Lieutenant Colonel Ron Arad, who had gone missing in Lebanon…

The French government is planning an international peace conference to reach a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – and it appears that France is placing the burden of reaching a settlement on Israel. On Tuesday French officials met with representatives of both Israel and the PA to present the basic framework…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) retracted his statements regarding the proposed draft of the ‘expulsion bill’ that will allow a quorum of 90 MKs to oust a fellow MK from the Knesset fro supporting terror or incitement against Israel. Originally, Edelstein said that he would not allow such a law to be passed while he…

Belgian police on Tuesday arrested ten people in the Brussels area who are allegedly part of a network recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria, prosecutors said. Police took the ten suspects into custody while conducting raids in Molenbeek and others areas of the Belgian capital. Several of the terrorists involved in November’s…

William Booth, the Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post, was detained on Tuesday by Israeli police near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. An employee of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) was also reportedly questioned by police for approximately one hour before being released. The two were allegedly suspected of…

During a recent reshuffling of the French government, Azoulay who served as the former cultural adviser to French President, Francois Hollande, has been appointed to become the new French Minister of Culture and Communication.  Azoulay is also the former director of the National Center for Cinematography and has replaced Fleur Pellerin in her current ministerial role.   Azoulay…

Stephen M. Greenberg, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday about the Jewish leaders’ recent visits to Turkey and Egypt. Greenberg described the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with whom Israel is trying to re-establish diplomatic ties, as a “bridge building meeting” and…

Washington’s UN ambassador Samantha Power said on Monday that compliance with the Iran nuclear deal was so far “strong”, AFP reported. At the same time, she also warned Tehran was still helping fuel conflict and remained a threat. “What this deal does if implemented — and so far the implementation has been strong but it’s…

Jordan’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood has formally cut ties with the region-wide movement based in Egypt, a spokesman said Monday, according to AP. The decision is the latest setback for the wider Brotherhood, once seen as the main political beneficiary of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings but hit hard in recent years by government…

Talks between Turkey and Israel have progressed and reached the point at which both sides can now sign an agreement on compensation for the 10 Islamists who were killed on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ruling party official said on Monday, according to the Today’s Zaman newspaper. Omer Celik, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling AK…

Iran and other Muslim countries are known for their “creative” accusations against the United States and Israel, but the latest one is particularly amusing. An Iranian researcher quoted by PressTV is claiming that imports to Iran of genetically modified products are nothing a “Zionist plot” to infect Iranians with diseases. Ali Karami, specialist in medical…

Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Palestinian hunger striker’s request to be moved to the Palestinian Authority (PA)-assigned areas Judea and Samaria for treatment, but said he could be transferred to eastern Jerusalem, AFP reported. The court gave the hunger striker, journalist, Mohammed al-Qiq, until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday to decide whether to agree…

Israeli and German leaders will meet in Berlin in order to hold their sixth G2G meeting which will be led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chancellor Angela Merkel. The meetings will including a series of discussions and the signing of bilateral agreements in an effort to continue strengthening relations between the two countries. The inter-governmental consultations will focus on cooperation…

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee was scheduled to begin a discussion today regarding the proposed draft of the “expulsion law” that would allow Knesset Members to expel one of their own for supporting terrorism and inciting against the country by gathering 90 votes to approve the expulsion of Knesset Member.  Following comments made by Knesset…

Negative interest rates – much like the duck-billed platypus, the very idea was so strange that for decades it was dismissed as an impossibility.  But Israel very well may be on the brink of experimenting with this radical form of monetary policy.  On Monday, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released the CPI (consumer price index)…

Lebanon has grown incensed at the dire situation which has resulted due to the siege that Hezbollah forces together with President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces have been enforcing on the city of Madaya for over half a year. While dire reports of starvation, lack of clean water and medical supplies and even reports of people eating human…

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday evening launched a verbal fusillade against a bill that would allow the Knesset to suspend pro-terror MKs, even though the president is supposed to act as a non-political figurehead of the state. Speaking at the launch of Dr. Yoaz Hendel’s book “In an Unsown Land” at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem,…

Israeli Legal Adviser at the UN Amit Heumann took the podium Monday to demand the UN clarify the ideology driving global terrorism – but as video posted by Israel’s UN mission shows, he did not clarify even once that the ideology of “extremism” has anything to do with Islam. In his comments at the UN General…

Last year’s controversial Iran nuclear deal has sparked an atomic arms race, claimed Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon following a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah.  Ya’alon revealed that Israel had indications suggesting that certain Arab countries were now actively pursuing nuclear weapons, reports the Telegraph. The Defense Minister declined to specify which countries or how Israel…

Michael Fragin takes a deep dive into the results in New Hampshire for both the Dems and GOP. Then he looks at the primary road-map ahead. To listen to previous shows go to N.S.N. – click here

The Syrian ambassador to Moscow on Monday accused the US of destroying a hospital backed by the humanitarian group MSF, amid US and observer accusations saying that Russian air strikes had targeted medical facilities in the war-torn country. Riad Haddad, Syria’s envoy to its ally Russia, told the state TV channel Rossiya 24 that the hospital in Idlib had been hit earlier in…

Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad poured cold water Monday on an internationally backed plan for a ceasefire to begin later this week, saying it would be “difficult” to implement. His comments were the first from the embattled leader on the plan put forward by world leaders in Munich last Friday for a so-called “cessation of hostilities”…

France condemned Monday what it called the “deliberate” bombardment which killed at least seven people at a hospital in northern Syria supported by the aid charity MSF, saying such acts “constitute war crimes.” “I condemn in the strongest terms the latest deliberate bombardment targeting a hospital supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without…

If Israeli officials needed proof that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is not interested in peace, they found it in the remarks made Monday by the PA’s Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki. Malki, who accompanied PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Japan, was asked questions about the deadlock in the peace talks with Israel. “We…

Gerald Ostrov, CEO of the Rethink Israel Initiative, on Monday said that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a “disease” and that its symptoms must be dealt with, but also the “core underlying roots”. “70% or more of Americans don’t know, don’t care and aren’t interested in Israel,” he said at the gathering…

Ignoring recent US sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile program, Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi on Monday announced planned “massive missile drills,” to be held by the end of February. Firouzabadi was quoted by the semi-official Fars News Agency saying the “missile wargames” are set for the first half of the Iranian month of Esfand,…

US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is addressing students at the Israel Middle East Model UN Conference in Even Yehuda, Israel, in a key speech during her visit to the Jewish state. Power noted on the serious problems facing the world, especially highlighting the plight of those escaping war zones in the Middle East.…

In an unprecedented statement Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki explicitly rejected the possibility of renewed direct negotiations with Israel – ever. While visiting Japan on Monday, Malki pledged to never again engage with Israel in direct negotiations towards a final settlement. “We will never go back and sit again in direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.” In what…

In footage obtained by Arutz Sheva on Monday, Jerusalem Councilman and Israel Land Fund (ILF) founder and chairman Arieh King announced a strategic breakthrough in northeastern Jerusalem, hailing a new highway connecting the capital that was recently approved by the municipality. King spoke about the recently started construction on the highway, from inside the Arab-majority neighborhood of Beit Hanina. The…

Hit her, but don’t make her ugly.  That’s the message of an official Palestinian Authority (PA) television show in Gaza teaching Muslim men how to keep their wives “in line,” as translated by Palestinian Media Watch. “When she makes a mistake,” explains the PA Mufti of Gaza, Hassan Al-Laham, “he will explain: you shouldn’t do…

“When I got the call, I just picked up my ZAKA medical kit and ran the few hundred meters from the ZAKA offices to the site of the terror attack at the Chords Bridge,” recalls ZAKA Jerusalem Deputy Commander Yossi Fraenkel. “As I was kneeling down to treat one of the most severely-injured victims, someone…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Monday took part in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, where he recalled warning then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin against the Oslo Accords back in 1995. Ya’alon said he warned Rabin that the Palestinian Arabs were not interested in peace as evident in their open incitement, an…

The Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria has been producing chemical weapons and using them on Iraqi Kurds, according to a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.  This marks the first known use of chemical weapons by a terrorist organization in more than 20 years. Mustard gas was confirmed in samples from…

Knesset members from the Likud and Jewish Home lambasted the Civil Administration over its refusal to upgrade Israel’s cellular infrastructure in Judea and Samaria during a boisterous committee hearing on Monday. Citing the serious security threats facing Israelis in the area, the MKs demanded the Civil Administration implement planned expansions of the cellular network in…

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Monday said that a shipment of advanced Russian S-300 missile defense systems is currently on its way to Iran, following many years of delay over sanctions against the transfer. Speaking at a press conference, Ansari was quoted by Xinhua as saying, “the agreement for the delivery of S-300 systems…

Minister of Interior, Aryeh Deri (Shas), instructed city traffic inspectors to monitor and fine electric bicycle riders who violate traffic regulations or travel in a careless manner. The decision was made following a meeting between the Minister and professional experts to increase traffic safety, for both riders and pedestrians. “The move, coordinated with local authorities, transportation agencies and homeland…

Associates of the Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked strongly reject the allegations made Monday by MK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid), whereby he accused Shaked for harming women’s representation. Stern’s comments were made following the decision of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to reject the bill to add women to the selection committee of the chief rabbis.…

The High Court of Justice refused the appeal of family members of the terrorists who killed Rabbi Yaakov Don, Ezra Schwartz, and Shadi Arfa and injured another seven in the shooting attack that took place at the Gush Etzion junction on November 19th. An appeal by the family of the terrorist who killed Yisayev Aharon and…

At least 19 people were reported killed and dozens of others injured in air strikes and rocket attacks on two separate hospitals in northern Syria Monday. At least ten people were killed and 30 injured when air strikes and rocket artillery damaged parts of a hospital in the town of Azaz in Aleppo province, the…

Disgraced former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has begun his 19-month prison term for corruption Monday, with plenty of cameras on hand to capture the ingloriously historic moment as the first Israeli PM to serve time began his sentence. 18 of those months are for bribery in connection to the so-called Holyland corruption case. His sentence…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Ministry is refuting what they are calling “The Israeli policy of Judaizing” in the “Palestinian Jordan Valley”.  In an official statement the Ministry called upon the international community to stop Israel from actions which include the Judaization of the area and the forceful removal of local residents. Additionally they have asked the…

As part of the coalition agreement between Likud and United Torah Judaism, the Finance Committee approved a NIS 121 million ($31 million) budget to help with income support for yeshiva students and university students who meet the criteria. Thus, ten thousand Yeshiva students who are classified in a low socioeconomic status will benefit from a monthly…

A day after the tragic accident that killed six people and injured another 12, new details regarding the past of driver Haim Bitton have come to light. In spite of his past record the Egged us company came out and supported the decision to reinstate him once he fulfilled the sentence set for him by the…

An animated video making the rounds on social media in recent days provides a prime example of the sophisticated incitement machine that has been fueling the current terror war against Israeli Jews. It exhorts Arabs to get up from whatever they are doing, step into their cars, grab a knife or gun, and go kill…

Ya’akov Meir Heshin (27) and Yisrael Weinberg (26), two of the six victims killed in the horrific Egged bus line 402 crash on Sunday night, were laid to rest on Monday at Har Hamenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem as hundreds came to pay their last respects. Loading… The bus was on its way from the capital to…

In what can be seen as a counter-move to an anti-Israel motion, a state convention of Australia’s Labor party on Sunday approved a motion encouraging party members to spend time in both Israel and Palestinian areas when visiting the region, Haaretz reported. The resolution, adopted by the New South Wales Labor convention, came a week…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was taken to task by former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Sunday, Haaretz reported. The verbal confrontation between the two broke out after Ya’alon asserted that Israel was carrying out secret contacts with Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. The Saudi prince…

Two classified e-mails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which were released by the State Department on Saturday relate to Israel, but their contents cannot be determined. The two e-mails are part of a batch of about 550 of Clinton’s e-mails released by the State Department, of which 84 were marked classified, according to…

Israeli police returned Monday night the body of terrorist Ahmed Abu Sha’ban to his family for burial. This is the first of ten bodies of terrorists from eastern Jerusalem that was returned, following a decision by Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) that was eventually overturned not to return the bodies to the families. Abu Shaaban’s body was…

A top court in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday sentenced four Emiratis to death after convicting them of joining the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in Syria, local media reported. The four, who were tried in absentia, are part of a group of 11 defendants accused of “joining the terrorist Daesh group in an…

Following a large-scale crash on Highway 1 which killed six people, the bus driver was arrested early Monday morning after being taken in for questioning on suspicion of causing death by negligence. The initial investigation revealed that the bus driver had been involved in a similar accident that occurred a few years ago while driving the same route,…

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the outlawed, radical Northern Islamic Movement in Israel, accused Israel of being “racist” and that it had adopted racist policies against Israeli Arabs in an interview with Hamas newspaper Falestine. “We are going through a tough time, and it appears it will only get tougher.”  Salah wrote “Anything is possible now-a-days when…

Former Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, who is set to begin his prison term today and become the first former Prime Minister to be incarcerated in Israel, issued a video statement to the press.  The statement read as follows:  “During my time as Prime Minister I was entrusted with the responsibility for ensuring the security of…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, announced on Sunday that radical leftist activist Prof. David Shulman is the recipient of the Israel Prize in the field of religious studies and philosophy research. Shulman is a senior activist in the Palestinian-Israeli group Ta’ayush, and in 2007 he published his book “Bitter Hope: From…

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reportedly told members of the Conference of Presidents visiting Cairo that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is “a leader who possesses great powers, which assist him not only to lead his country, but can also advance the region and the entire world.” The amazing quote was provided Sunday by Zvika…

The Polish government is contemplating withdrawing a medal from a leading Jewish historian who said Poles were complicit in Nazi war crimes during the Holocaust. Jan Tomasz Gross, a Poland-born, Jewish-American Princeton University history professor, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1996 for his work documenting the plight of…

Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen warned Sunday that Denmark still faces a “serious terror threat” as it marked a year since a Palestinian terrorist murdered a filmmaker and a Jewish security guard in twin attacks in Copenhagen. The Danish capital honored the victims under tight security, as Rasmussen left flowers outside the cultural center and the synagogue targeted on February 14, 2015 by Omar…

Turkey will continue to strike back at Kurdish fighters of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu made clear to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday, AFP reports. Davutoglu’s remarks come despite growing pressure on Ankara to stop the shelling. In telephone talks, Davutoglu told Merkel that Turkey “will not permit…

The names of three of the six people who were killed in Sunday’s fatal bus crash west of Modi’in have been cleared for publication: Ya’akov Meir Heshin, 27, a Breslev Hassid Yisrael Weinberg, 26, a Slonim Hasid Chaya Pasha Frenkel, 23, from Jerusalem Levy Yitzhak Amdadi, 17, from Yavniel The Heshin family said that Ya’akov…

Two terrorists were eliminated on Sunday evening as they tried to carry out a shooting attack near the light rail station at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Police searched the area due to suspicion that the terrorists had hidden explosive devices, but no such devices were found and an all clear was given. The terrorists…

Officials at the World [High] School of Inquiry in Rochester, New York, spent a week this month fielding dozens of calls from parents angry about a “World Hijab Day” event that encouraged girls to wear the Muslim religious head covering. So reports EAGnews.org, the flagship website of Education Action Group Foundation, Inc. The “Hijab Day”…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening addressed the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem. In the speech, Netanyahu blasted the UN’s bias against Israel while also praising Israel’s relations with other countries – and especially Arab countries which are beginning to understand that Israel isn’t their enemy. “We live in…

Six people died in a large-scale traffic accident on Highway 1, between the Latrun and Anava interchanges, in which around 11 other people were wounded. One of the victims who died was initially listed as being critically wounded before dying of the injuries. At least three of the dead are said to be children. Among the…

All educational institutions in Israel will partake Monday morning in a simultaneous exercise, training responses for a missile attack. The drill will begin at 10:05 a.m. when a nationwide alarm will be activated through Israel’s nationwide siren system, local and regional radio stations, and a warning will be published in major television channels as well as…

Hopes for a ceasefire taking hold this week in Syria dimmed Sunday as Turkey renewed its shelling of Kurdish militants and Washington demanded Moscow end air strikes on rebels. Tensions over Syria have continued to mount despite the proposal from international powers in Munich on Friday for a “cessation of hostilities” within a week. Defying US and French calls, Turkey on Sunday carried out a second day of shelling…

Arab terrorists hurled on Sunday three Molotov cocktails at houses in the Jewish area of the Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem southwest of the Old City, causing a balcony to catch fire. A baby that was in the apartment was moderately injured due to smoke inhalation. The attack took place following a prolonged power outage which…

Up until now, doctors have only been able to use blood tests to detect cancer as long as the patient has already undergone a painful biopsy and sequenced a tumor. However, scientists have now developed a test which can detect cancer in ten minutes using just a drop of saliva. To be priced at £15…

In a previous newsletter we highlighted 5 Things NOT TO DO with your Credit Card Miles Points and included the aspect of not holding on to your credit card miles for too long. Before we explain why you shouldn’t do this, it’s important to understand the relationship between airline miles and credit card points. Equally important…

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, head of the Shuvu Yisrael sect, is to start his one year jail sentence on Tuesday, but a decision on Sunday ordered that he serve his time at the medical center of the Israel Prison Service (IPS) due to his health condition. Pinto, who was convicted of trying to give bribes to police Brig. Gen. Efraim Bracha,…