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Lower Galilee Regional Council head Motti Dotan on Friday apologized for his controversial comments a day earlier, when he said he “didn’t want to see Arabs in our pools” when asked about the practice of barring access to local swimming pools to non-residents. “Dear friends, Jews and Arabs alike! Yesterday during a broadcast on the…

Hamas has conducted a self-defense and weapons course for the wives of their officials, apparently due to fear of Israeli assassination attempts. In a report by the Palestinian SAFA news agency, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, head of the security and defense apparatus in the Gaza Strip, General Bahjat Abu Sultan is…

Aid agencies called today (Friday) on Syria’s government to end its encirclement of rebel-held east Aleppo as a handful of civilians managed to use humanitarian corridors to flee the ruined city. Pro-regime forces have surrounded Aleppo’s eastern districts since July 17, leaving an estimated 250,000 trapped without reliable access to food or medical aid. Russia,…

The French education ministry has begun investigating a Parisian high school teacher who allegedly shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories with her pupils on Facebook. CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, complained to the ministry about the teacher earlier this week, according to a report Thursday in the group’s newsletter. It did not name the…

Pope Francis was set to meet Holocaust survivors at the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland Friday, as well as people who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis. The Argentine will lead prayers for the 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and has said that rather than making a speech he will stand…

We’re in the Three Weeks of Mourning the Destruction of the Beit HaMikdash. Whatever that entails, there is another very significant aspect – namely, the absolute belief that our current condition is temporary and that there are great things still to come. This week’s show also takes a look at the topic of VOWS with…

MK Eliezer Menachem Moses (United Torah Judaism) sent a letter to Religious Services Minister David Azulai (Shas) describing a violent atmosphere in the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (a sage of Tannaitic times known by his acronym Rashbi) in the Galilee mountain town of Meron. “Every Shabbat, people who have come to pray at…

The Democratic party officially nominated Hillary Clinton as their nominee for President of the United States at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia this week, extending the decades-long Clinton visibility and viability in American politics. Former President Bill Clinton gave an emotional speech telling the story of his romance with Hillary on Tuesday, weaving an…

Republican nominee for President Donald Trump did not wait long to retaliate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, in what is the opening salvo in a war of words and insults that is sure to accompany the campaign leading to the US Presidential election in November. Clinton spoke Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, and…

Members of the burial society that arranged the funeral of former Minister Yosef (Tommy) Lapid, who died in 2008, revealed this week that they said a secret “Kaddish” prayer over his body, despite his son (now MK) Yair Lapid’s request that they not do so during the funeral. The Kaddish prayer is traditionally said over…

In an interview with Le Monde, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls speaks candidly about his country’s mounting problem with radical Islamic terrorism. After the latest terror attack on French soil, in which two terrorists later claimed by ISIS beheaded priest Jacques Hamel in a church near Rouen in Normandy, Valls says it has become clear…

“Chacham” Yom Tov Yedid, the oldest Rabbi in the Syrian Jewish community in the US, died on Wednesday night in New York. He was 93. In his younger years, Rabbi Yedid served as the chief Rabbi of the famed and ancient Jewish community in Aleppo Syria, while it was still thriving and growing, before pogroms…

The Jerusalem District Attorney’s office today (Friday) filed an indictment in the city’s Magistrate Court against Rabbi Eliezer Berland on charges of indecent acts without consent, indecent acts towards a minor by exploiting a disciplinary and educational relationship, and aggravated sexual assault. In the indictment, Rabbi Berland is named as having served as the Rabbi…

A year ago I began this Parsha Series with G-d’s help with Parshat Pinchas. I start the second year of this Torah Journey in memory to Dr. Irving Moskowitz Z’L (Yitzchak Isaac Ben Rav Zvi) who’s Shloshim corresponded to Parshat Pinchas in Israel. It is truly fitting that this was so. Dr. Moskowitz, Z’L was…

Foreign Ministry Director-General Dr. Dore Gold reacted to the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) initiative to sue Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which helped pave the way to the establishment of the State of Israel, saying the move demonstrates yet again the continuing refusal of the Palestinian side to recognize the legitimate and indigenous connection of…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to step down this week as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee following a saga surrounding leaked emails, on Thursday accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of treason, JTA reports. Referring to Trump’s call for Russia to uncover emails deleted by Hillary Clinton, Wasserman Schultz said the statement was…

A Connecticut man with a large stash of weapons in his home has been indicted on charges of threatening online to kill Jews. Kendall Sullivan, 50, of Stamford, who allegedly threatened to “slaughter” Jews and “burn their Synagogue to the ground,” was charged Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Reuters reported. Sullivan made…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer credited Hillary Clinton with the leading role in achieving a ceasefire in Israel’s 2012 conflict with Hamas, JTA reported Thursday. Clinton flew to the region and conducted shuttle diplomacy between Egypt and Israel to end hostilities between Israel and Hamas through indirect negotiations during the 2012 Operation…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Saturday to discuss progress toward a two-state solution, the State Department said Thursday, according to AFP. “The secretary is not looking at trying to make progress based on a fixed date on the calendar,” spokesman John Kirby…

A New Jersey township is calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate haredi Orthodox community leaders for alleged “blockbusting,” or trying to pressure large numbers of longtime homeowners into selling their property to Orthodox Jews. The incident is the latest example of tensions between a large and growing haredi Orthodox community in the…

Israeli Ambassador to France Aliza Bin-Noun on Thursday condemned an initiative by several local councils in France to grant archterrorist Marwan Barghouti an honorary citizenship. Barghouti, one of the founders of the Tanzim terrorist group which is affiliated with the Fatah movement, is currently serving five life sentences in Israeli prison for his role in…

Hillary Clinton on Thursday night delivered an historic speech at the Democratic National Convention, in which she accepted her nomination as the party’s presidential candidate, becoming the first woman to be a presidential candidate in the United States. “America is stronger because of Obama’s leadership and I’m stronger because of his friendship,” she began, and…

Watch: ILTV presents questions from viewers and readers to pro-Israel legal activist Professor Alan Dershowitz.

SodaStream has hired 300 new employees for its production plant in southern Israel. The company, which had come under fire when it was based in Judea and Samaria, now has 1,400 employees in the Idan Hanegev industrial park near Rahat, one-third of them Bedouin Arabs from the surrounding area, the Israeli business daily Globes reported.…

A Syrian with suspected links to the Islamic State group who blew himself up outside a German music festival was in contact with another person “who influenced the attack” immediately beforehand, authorities said Wednesday. The 27-year-old failed asylum-seeker, who wounded 15 people at a nearby cafe late Sunday when he was refused access to the…

The IDF has announced that it will investigate an incident at a recent “educational seminar” for IDF commanders, during which the lecturer defamed the Book of Esther, calling it “scandalous” and “very problematic.” The Head of Human Resources in the IDF, Hagai Topolonsky, called for an extensive investigation, after which a decision will be made…

A protest broke out in a migrant camp in northern Greece on Thursday after a young Syrian woman died from apparent heart failure, local police said. Dozens of Syrians living at the Diavata center joined the protest after the woman, who was in her late twenties, was found unconscious in a communal shower. First aid…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett addressed a conference on the Biton Commission, and announced that Israeli children will now learn the full Zionist story, in a promise to “fix” the absence of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews’ history and culture in the national narrative. The “Biton Report” publicized the absence of Sephardic and Mizrachi (Middle Eastern Jewish)…

An indictment will be submitted against “Shuvu Banim” leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland on Friday. Rabbi Berland is suspected of sexually abusing women of his sect. Earlier, the Lod District Court accepted in its entirety the State’s appeal of the court decision to release Rabbi Berland to house arrest. As a result, Rabbi Berland’s arrest has…

How to help friends who don’t want any help? This is not about financial help or assistance in unloading a car after a shopping trip; rather, when a friend is dealing with abuse or addiction or other social or medical issues that most people would appreciate some help or support to handle. How do you…

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli prime minister is being investigated, and the media is atwitter. The probe is preliminary and no details have been released. But reports say Binyamin Netanyahu is suspected of money laundering. His former chief of staff was interrogated recently and held under house arrest, reportedly in connection with the probe,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday hailed Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt and expressed his appreciation for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s efforts to renew the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu made the comments during a reception in honor of Egypt’s National Day at the home of the Egyptian Ambassador to…

Former Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was inaugurated as Peru’s new president Thursday, vowing to kick-start the economy and unite a country torn by a photo-finish election. The 77-year-old center-right economist, who is the son of a Jewish doctor who fled Nazi Germany, extended an olive branch to defeated rival Keiko Fujimori’s party, which…

Following a series of threats by a haredi organization to file a law suit with Israel’s Supreme Court, the Transportation Ministry has given initial approval for a plan to extend to yeshiva students the same public transportation benefits now enjoyed by students in academic institutions of higher learning, BeHadrei Haredim reports. The Union of Yeshiva…

MK Michael Oren and former MK Dov Lipman have announced a new Knesset-based initiative to address some of the challenges that face English speaking immigrants to Israel. These issues include the immigrant benefit package, tax problems, professional and driving licenses, struggles of lone soldier and national service volunteers, and the need for English speaking clerks…

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham blasted President Obama this week, condemning his refusal to increase American aid to Israel, as well as his efforts to bar Israel from spending the aid money within the Jewish state. Speaking to Haaretz, Graham revealed that Israel had previously requested an increased aid package from the White House,…

In a rare case, a mother of eight in her 40s, 35 weeks pregnant, started feeling unwell while in her Petah Tikva home yesterday (Wednesday). When the pain became severe, accompanied by bleeding, MDA were called. The arriving paramedics performed CPR on her baby for some time to no avail, and were forced to pronounce…

Lower Galilee Regional Council head Motti Dotan stirred up controversy on Thursday after he defended the practice of barring access to local swimming pools to non-residents, which some claim is used to prevent Arabs from using facilities in Jewish communities. The former Labor member turned Likudnik said he “didn’t want to see them in our…

IDF and U.S. special forces conducted a joint exercise in the Negev: “Kaya Green” which simulated a coastal raid in enemy territory.

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu participated on Thursday afternoon in a ceremony celebrating the completion of a defense project for housing in the communities of the Gaza belt. While there, he emphasized achievements in deterrence as a result of Operation Protective Edge, and threatened a powerful reaction if the current quiet is disturbed. “The Operation gave…

Syrian regime ally Russia on Thursday announced a “large-scale” aid operation to allow civilians and fighters to flee besieged Aleppo, as the president offered an amnesty to rebels who surrender. Government forces have surrounded rebel-held districts in eastern Aleppo since July 17, sparking fears for at least 200,000 people who live there. Residents have reported…

Attorney Yisrael Caspi, Head of the Temple Antiquities Preservation Committee, was interviewed by Arutz Sheva about the attack against two archaeologists yesterday on the Temple Mount by members of the Jordanian Waqf, and the changes affecting the so-called ‘status quo.’ “It was a brutal physical attack, with deep bruises. They punched the archaeologists with their…

Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who will star in the upcoming “Wonder Woman” feature film, is being attacked on Twitter for being a “Zionist.” Gadot, who was Miss Israel 2004, went on to a career as a fashion model and actress in Israel. Before she broke into film acting, she performed two years of compulsory service…

Israeli authorities who have faced a wave of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinian Arabs say they have made progress in identifying potential assailants in advance, a challenge now also confronting Western nations. Recent attacks in Europe and the United States have brought renewed attention to lone assailants and what can be done to stop them or…

The Federal Trade Commision (FTC), has approved Israeli-based pharmaceutical company Teva’s acquisition of Allergan’s generic drug production business, after a yearlong bid to win the approval of the regulatory body, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal was announced last July, and was valued at 40.5 Billion Dollars at the time, making Teva one of…

Leah Goldin, the bereaved mother of Hadar Goldin, an IDF soldier whose body has been held by Hamas since 2014, slammed Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern over his proposal to place a cap on prisoner swaps with Arab terrorist organizations. Speaking to Channel 10 Thursday morning, Goldin rejected efforts to implement recommendations offered by the…

The issue of the Liba core curriculum requirement for haredi schools returned to the public agenda recently, with the repeal of the Core Curriculum law currently under way. Under the previous government, legislation requiring schools within the haredi educational system to teach the core curriculum was passed. Yair Lapid, who initiated the law, claimed, and…

Tens of thousands of boxes of breakfast cereal have been destroyed, following the discovery that a facility used to produce and package the cereal had been contaminated. According to a report by Yediot Ahronot, tens of thousands of boxes of Telma cornflakes and “Delipecan” cereal have been destroyed in recent days. The destruction of the…

It happened again this week: The Israel Air Force attacked a Syrian target in Kuneitra in response to mortar fire that “leaked out” from the Syrian civil war to Israel’s Golan Heights. The attack was barely noted internationally – and can be considered a significant achievement for Israel. The Israeli response is a clear signal…

Good news for Omer Lahat, a young man with cerebral palsy, and his peers. This week the Knesset is advancing a “affirmative action for disabled in the workplace bill”, which would require public bodies with over 100 employees to boost the ratio of employees with disabilities to 5%. Omer is serving in the Army with…

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee convened Thursday morning in response to claims of maltreatment by the Defense Ministry of a severely wounded IDF veteran. Yehuda Yitzhak HaYisraeli suffered serious injuries during the 2014 conflict with Hamas. Despite the severity of his wounds, HaYisraeli beat the odds and made tremendous inroads towards recovery. While…

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid emphatically denied on Thursday claims his efforts to require core curriculum courses in haredi schools were rooted in a sense of malice towards the haredi sector. In an interview with the haredi Kol Hai radio this morning (Thursday), he expressed his exasperation with the persistent claims that he “hates haredim”.…

The international coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group has opened a formal investigation to determine whether its air strikes last week near the Syrian city of Manbij claimed civilian lives, a spokesman said Wednesday, according to AFP. The main Syrian opposition group last week urged the U.S.-led coalition to suspend its bombardments following the…

Jews in Scotland are feeling greater unease living in their country over the past few years, according to a report by the main Jewish umbrella group there. In the report released Wednesday by the Scottish Council of Jewish communities, or ScoJeC, nearly one-third of the 300 respondents to a survey filled out after 2014 explicitly…

Conservative political pundit Ann Coulter is under fire for tweeting, after Hillary Clinton was nominated as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, “Where are the Bernie supporters tonight? Did Hillary have them gassed?” Coulter was slammed for her choice of image in the Twitter post on Tuesday night during the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, JTA…

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Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, is part of a group of senators calling on Congress to add $320 million for Israeli missile defense to the Senate version of a defense appropriations bill, JTA reported Wednesday. Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are leading the effort, which would bring the Senate version in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid sparred on Wednesday over the issue of the Cabinet’s awareness of Hamas’s terror tunnels before Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Lapid backed Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett’s statements on the issue, saying that contrary to Netanyahu’s claims, there were…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may yet visit Israel before the election, he indicated on Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Florida and quoted by JTA, Trump responded to a reporter who asked whether he was going to Israel and noted that nominees traditionally take foreign tours between their nomination and the election. “It’s…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday threw his support behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, as he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. In his remarks, Obama said “with confidence” that there isn’t another person more fit to be President than Clinton. He began by recalling his first speech before the Democratic convention…

A Belgian tennis club suspended a player who told a Jewish competitor on the court, “All of you should have been gassed.” Alain Verlaak made the remark to a Maccabi player at the Tennis 7th Olympics club in Antwerp on July 22, the Belgian monthly Joods Actueel reported Tuesday. The incident occurred during a tournament…

A senior adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz who met with a Yeshiva University committee in search of its next president is not a candidate for the position, according to a statement from the school. Earlier this week, JTA reported that Nick Muzin had been considered for the post, now held by Richard Joel. Muzin met…

Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon blasted Israel’s political establishment, Palestinian irredentism, and Israeli supporters of the land-for-peace formula on Wednesday in a speech at Bar Ilan University. The ex-Likud minister, who bolted the party after losing the Defense Ministry to Yisrael Beytenu Chief Avigdor Liberman, made a thinly-veiled jab at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, railing…

MK Zeev Elkin talked today with Arutz Sheva about steps being taken to help Amona, in light of a Supreme Court order to evacuate the community on grounds that it allegedly is located on private Palestinian land. “The Committee for Matters of Regulation has approved today a solution that is acceptable also for the community…

With Jerusalem hardest hit by the recent wave of terror attacks, Israeli police launched a recruitment campaign, aimed at bolstering the overall size of Israel’s police force, and in particular, increasing the police presence in the capital, particularly in predominantly Arab neighborhoods in the eastern portion of the city. But according to a recent report…

A woman from Geneva, Switzerland has found an original way to prevent her husband from flying out of the country. The woman called the local airport and reported a bomb on the airport premises. After the telephone call, a number of flights were grounded, and passengers were forced to wait while security forces scoured the…

After former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won her party’s nomination at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Republican nominee Donald Trump looked to reignite the long-running email scandal which dogged Mrs. Clinton throughout the primary season. Calling for Russia to retrieve thousands of lost Clinton emails which were deleted prior to the handover…

Fmr. Amb. Alan Baker: Money given by U.S. and Europe to the PA to enhance its government is paying the salaries of convicted terrorists.

Security has been beefed up around one of the prosecution lawyers in the Rabbi Eliezer Berland case, in the wake of intelligence information and posts on Facebook that reached the Ministry of Justice and the Israeli Police and which indicate that followers of the rabbi may try to harm him, Channel 10 News reported on…

JERUSALEM (JTA) — “Lone wolf” terrorism in Europe is making headlines around the world. But in Israel, the phenomenon of angry or troubled individuals taking up arms is old news. Since October, Israelis have endured a wave of violence that has been carried out largely by individual Palestinians without backing from terrorist groups — so…

The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday afternoon formally nominated Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as the party’s vice presidential candidate by acclamation, ABC News reported. When Kaine’s name was mentioned by the convention chair for the first time, the Virginia delegation cheered, waving their arms and chanting “Kaine! Kaine!” Some mixed boos could also be heard…

Shlomi Nahumson, IDFWO Youth Director commented: “This trip is a life changing event for everyone involved, the participants, the counselors and even the host families. We come to celebrate life and temporarily ease the emotional baggage that these children carry with them daily. Watching us from a distance, smiling, laughing and enjoying, you wouldn’t realize…

At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday in the deadliest bomb blast to hit the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli since the country’s war began. Syrian state media gave a toll of 44 dead and 140 injured in the bomb attack, which hit a western district of the city where several…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation has passed a law, initiated by MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home), to give Judea and Samaria residents the same tax breaks as the rest of Israel. Internationally disputed, the regions of Judea and Samaria remain under military rule . Israeli law does not apply in the region, unless it is…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation did not discuss MK Shuli Moalem-Rafaeli’s proposed law to resolve the Amona issue today (Wednesday). The Samarian town of Amona is slated for demolition in around six months due to claims of ownership of the land on which it is built. Controversy has raged over proposals to simply pass legislation…

Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky met Wednesday morning in Jerusalem with a delegation of African Christian leaders. South African Pastor Linda Gobodo, founder of the Vuka Africa Foundation, and Nigerian Pastor Olusegun Olanipekun, founder of the Institute for Christian Leadership Development, presented Chairman Sharansky with an award on…

A Syrian with suspected links to the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) who blew himself up outside a German music festival in Ansbach, Bavaria, was in contact with another person “who influenced the attack” immediately beforehand, authorities said Wednesday. The 27-year-old failed asylum-seeker, who wounded 15 people at a nearby cafe late Sunday when he…

Yochi Kalmanzon, the sister of Rabbi Michael Mark, who was recently murdered in front of his children by terrorists while driving his car near Hevron, expressed satisfaction today (Tuesday) in an interview with Arutz Sheva, following the capture of the terror ring that murdered her brother. Kalmanzon explained that the news of the capture does…

A 1,600 year old pottery workshop has been discovered in the town of Shlomi in the Western Galilee, according to a press release from Israeli Antiquities Authority. According to the report, the kiln is unique in that is the only kiln discovered in Israel to have been hewn entirely out of bedrock. “What makes the…

Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against the Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray. The officers had been accused of using excessive force in the arrest, when Gray was pronounced dead after a ride in the back of the police van. According to the Baltimore Sun, the saga was brought to a…

A written argument from an attorney representing British government officials and intelligence agencies says that “an attack in the UK is highly likely,” The Telegraph reports. In another episode in the international tug-of-war between intelligence agencies looking to gather data in order to prevent terrorism and organizations looking to protect the basic privacy rights of…

Unknown perpetrators hurled firebombs at the gravesite of a hassidic luminary in central Ukraine. The incident in Shpola, a city located 120 miles south of the capital, Kiev, occurred Sunday evening, according to Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. On Monday, Dolinsky wrote on Facebook that the perpetrators tried to set on fire…

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On the hundredth day of her imprisonment, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard delivered a letter to the British prime minister’s office, explaining that she is dangerously ill, and being held without charges. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a foreign aid worker, has been held in prison in Iran for more than three months. She has spent around six weeks in…

The family of Rabbi Michael Mark, who was murdered in a terror attack earlier this month, today (Wednesday) published a reaction to the arrest of the Hamas terror cell that perpetrated the attack by the IDF in the early hours of the morning. “We thank the IDF and the Shin Bet for working day and…

Network Rail (NR), the body that manages Britain’s track system, and the British Transport Police (BTP) have released data showing that instances of trespassing on train tracks doubled from the winter to the summer, apparently due to children and teenagers being off from school and the fact that the days are longer. Almost 600 trespassing…

In a controversy featuring much harsh rhetoric and grandstanding, a battle is raging in the Knesset between the Coalition and the Opposition over the budget. The sequence of events can be followed through the statement made by various Knesset Members, outlining their grievances on both sides. MK Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union), one of the leaders…

A car exploded around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning near Dan Panorama Hotel, on Keren Hayesod Street, in Jerusalem. Police report that an explosive device was attached to white Citroen Berlingo, probably with the intent of killing the driver. The device was detonated as the car turned from King David Street to Keren Hayesod Street. The…

On its maiden flight at US manufacturer Lockheed-Martin, Israel’s first F-35 Lightning II “Adir” (Hebrew for “Great One”) passed all tests, and is due to be delivered in December. A lighter version of the F-22, the F-35 Lightning II Adir has top-of-the-line stealth technology, highly sensitive sensors of every kind, and fuel-optimizing computer systems to…

There is a distinct difference between how Israelis and Westerners borrow money and buy things that they can’t immediately afford. Western countries such as the USA, UK and Europe tend to sway towards loans and temporary “cash” type finance. Israelis however see to have no desire for “quick cash” and have stuck to their guns,…

A federal court ruling will allow an 88-year-old New York rabbi to proceed with a negligence lawsuit against the U.S. government. Judge Margo Brodie of the Brooklyn District Court struck down the federal government’s request for summary judgment in the case of Rabbi William Kloner, who was seriously injured at a 2010 Coast Guard retirement…

Tuesday’s attack on a Catholic church in northern France that saw an 86-year-old priest killed is an attack against all religions, the head of the European Jewish Congress said, according to JTA. “An attack against a religious institution and a man of God is an attack against all religions and faith itself,” said Dr. Moshe…

The UN’s Syria envoy voiced hope Tuesday that peace talks could restart next month, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said there had been “progress” in efforts to salvage an urgently-needed ceasefire. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura has struggled to keep the peace process alive amid a surge in fighting between Syrian President Bashar…

Jewish Democrats are setting up a superPAC to defend Hillary Clinton and other candidates from what they say will be a Sheldon Adelson-funded onslaught among Jewish voters. Jews for Progress has raised over $1 million over the last two months, one of its founders, Ron Klein, a former Florida congressman who consults with Democrats, confirmed…

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday evening that the Palestinians will fail if they go through with their bid to sue Britain over the Balfour Declaration, which helped pave the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. “Of course they will fail” if they file the lawsuit, Netanyahu said at a memorial…

Sarah Silverman told backers of Bernie Sanders “You’re being ridiculous” after they would not stop chanting his name at the Democratic National Convention. The comedian, a leading celebrity supporter of Sanders when he was seeking the Democratic presidential nod, endorsed Hillary Clinton to the Democratic national convention here on Monday night. “I’m with her,” she…

IDF soldiers overnight Tuesday apprehended the terrorists who murdered Rabbi Michael Mark in front of his children earlier this month. The terrorists were apprehended during an IDF operation in the village of Surif, north of Hevron. One of the terrorists, Mohammed Pakia, was killed during clashes with the troops. The rest of the terrorists were…

A Jewish congressman from Tennessee on Tuesday called on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers whose leaked emails questioned Bernie Sanders’ religiosity to be fired. “For a party to question his religion, or lack thereof, as a way to defeat that person, those people should resign and if they don’t resign they should be fired,”…

A ground-breaking Israeli invention aims to prevent firearm accidents, potentially saving many people’s lives.

For the first time in more than 70 years, the German army is likely to be deployed to city streets, a sign of the growing terror threat in Europe. The reversal of seven decades of precedent follows a mass-shooting by an 18-year old of Iraninan-descent in Munich which left 9 dead, and a suicide bombing…

A survivor of the terrorist attack on a Normandy church this morning, Sister Danielle, recounted the horrors of the incident to the French channel BFMTV. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which resulted in the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, and ended when security forces shot the two terrorists. Sister Danielle related that the two…

After three years of police searches for recordings that would conclusively vindicate the claims against Rabbi Eliezer Berland of rape, a new recording was released this evening which would seem to provide significant evidence against the founder and spiritual leader of the Shuvu Banim yeshiva. According to Channel 2, the recording is four years old,…

The Knesset unanimously voted, on first reading, to pass a law that raises the retirement age for parents that lost children in tragic circumstances. The law was proposed by MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Jewish Home party. Smotrich praised the unanimous vote, noting that the law also passed unanimously at the preliminary reading, as well…

What was unthinkable a year ago when real estate mogul and former reality TV star Donald Trump threw his hat into the ring has become undeniably plausible. On January 20th, 2017, Donald J. Trump could very well become the 45th President of the United States, making him the first president since Eisenhower to win the…

Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, cofounder and head of the Bnei David pre-army academy in Eli, responded on Tuesday to the storm of controversy sparked by statements last week regarding homosexuals and the Reform movement. In a letter to the Director-General of the Defense Ministry, Udi Adam, Rabbi Levinstein clarified that his comments were never intended to…

Of the thousands of Syrian immigrants who have found asylum from the civil war currently plaguing Syria, it appears that there is at least one Jewish voice among them. The Swedish The Local Voices interviewed Alonov, 25, a Jewish Syrian who has sought asylum in Sweden since 2014, about his experience growing up as a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening rejected accusations by Cabinet ministers, including Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett, that Netanyahu hid the existence of Hamas’s terror tunnels from the Cabinet during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. “Claims that Israel was unprepared to meet the tunnel threat are without foundation. It has been…

Clashes broke out overnight Tuesday between IDF troops and Palestinian Arabs during an IDF operation in the village of Surif, north of Hevron. The sides reportedly exchanged gunfire, after the troops encountered riots in the village and responded by using riot control measures. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that in the exchange of fire, three…

Israel has a rich and lucrative history when it comes to business, skills and innovation, drawing some of the world’s best and brightest to its sunny shores. Now, with startups fast becoming the backbone of more and more countries’ economies around the world and with innovation at its forefront, Israel’s startup scene is booming like…

A female Arab terrorist attempted to stab Israeli soldiers manning Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem Tuesday morning. Alert troops shot and wounded the terrorist before she was able to carry out her attack, however; she was transferred to Shaarei Tzedek hospital in moderate condition. “At the Qalandiya checkpoint a young Arab woman … started to…

Prosecutors filed an indictment today (Tuesday) in Beer Sheva against a 34-year-old man from northern Israel who posed as a senior IDF officer, then methodically proceeded to develop relationships with several women from southern Israel, eventually stealing money and valuables from them. According to the indictment, the accused got in contact with four women from…

Israel’s new public broadcasting corporation will open in April 2017, if not earlier. The Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation was originally set to open in September, but Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced last week that it wouldn’t go live until 2018. The announcement set off a wave of reactions, with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat fighting for…

French police have arrested one person in connection with the beheading of a priest at a church in Normandy, northern France, a “source close to the inquiry” told Reuters. The source reported on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to comment on the case. No further details as to the identity of the…

On July 22, 1946, the Irgun resistance organization blew up a section of the King David Hotel, killing 91 British, Arabs and Jews. They later claimed they had warned the British about the impending bombing but were ignored. The Library of Congress – Matson collection includes several pictures of the bombing’s aftermath. Those photographs pretty…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot addressed the Knesset Foreign Relations and Security Committee on Tuesday, warning that the greatest threat to the Israeli army today is not external, but the potential loss of public trust. Eisenkot argued that Israel’s political leadership regularly interfered in internal army matters and even openly attack the army establishment,…

A new report put out by the campus monitoring group AMCHA Initiative has just released a new study which finds a correlation between university-mandated anti-Israel policy and the number of anti-Semitic incidents perpetrated against Jews on US college campuses. The study concluded that anti-Semitic incidents were twice as likely to occur on campuses where BDS…

The president of France, Francoise Hollande, arrived to the scene of the grisly terror attack in Northern France today, where two terrorists armed with knives broke into a church and took the priests inside hostage. They succeeded in beheading an 84-year-old priest inside before being killed by security forces. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.…

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who was extradited last week from South Africa to stand trial for accusations of sex crimes against female followers, instructed supporters to murder an apparent opponent of the rabbi, telling them to plant explosives in his bed and “send him straight to heaven”. Berland, the founder and spiritual leader of the Shuvu…

The Democratic National Convention (DNC), opened in Philadelphia yesterday (Monday) under a cloud of scandal, as recent leaks of emails between Democratic party officials showed a clear bias in favor of Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders in the race for the party’s nomination, together with a readiness to actively interfere in the primary process.…

The Knesset Ethics Committee will hold a discussion today (Tuesday) regarding the complaint filed by MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) against Deputy Knesset Speaker Nava Boker (Likud). Zoabi claims in the complaint that “Boker’s statement not only tarnish my name, they put my life at risk.” MK Boker responded to Zoabi’s claims: “I don’t…

A Georgia Democratic congressman apologized for calling Jewish “settlers” who live in Judea and Samaria “termites” at an anti-Israel event near the Democratic national convention. “There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself,…

Hank Johnson is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district, and has served in that capacity continually since 2007. He is a member of the Democrat party. Congressman Johnson spoke at an event organized by an anti-Israel group last night (Monday), and took the opportunity to compare Jews going to live in Judea and…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) rejected the Prime Minister’s claim that the Cabinet discussed the terror tunnel problem eight times before Operation Protective Edge was put into action. According to Bennett, the Prime Minister left the Cabinet in the dark about the danger of Hamas’ Gaza tunnels until after they had already started Operation…

The trial of Elor Azariya, the soldier who shot and killed a wounded terrorist in Hevron continued today (Tuesday), with Azriya continuing his testimony. Today is expected to be the last day on which Azariya himself testifies. The military prosecution is conducting its cross-examination, with the defense expected to question Azariya again afterwards. Additional witnesses…

The European Union has expanded its illegal building activities – to the southern Har Hevron area. Until now, the EU has sponsored illegal construction mostly in the Adumim region, east of Jerusalem. However, last Shabbat, residents of the town of Carmel were shocked to discover two new, large, EU-sponsored trailer homes, placed over Shabbat, only…

The violent fanatic faction of Betar Jerusalem fans is getting its comeuppance. The police conducted a six-month investigation of the “La Familia” fan group – regularly associated with racist and violent acts, supposedly in support of the Jerusalem soccer team – using a covert agent who infiltrated the organization, and will testify as a state…

Dafna Meir was a tremendously admired nurse, working in the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. Half a year ago, she was murdered by a terrorist, stabbed to death outside her family home in Otniel, where she lived with her husband, Natan, and her six children. Yet the legacy of her life’s work lives on.…

Two men armed with knives took a number of hostages in a church located near Rouen in northern France, murdering one victim before they were eliminated by armed police. The identities of the knifemen and their motives are not known at this stage, but the course of the investigation thus far indicates the incident was…

A Dutch textile magnate who initiated a probe into his family’s exploitation of Jewish competitors and laborers during the Holocaust said his predecessors “behaved in a heartless manner.” Maurice Brenninkmeijer, a scion of one of Europe’s richest families, told the Zeit newspaper in an interview published July 13 that he was particularly shocked by the…

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Bernie Sanders’ delegates are going to raise hell on the floor of the Democratic National Convention, his own wishes be damned. “Change that’s worth a damn always comes from the bottom up, not from the top,” said Norman Solomon, coordinator of the Bernie Delegates Network, an unofficial group, at a news conferenceMonday…

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECSOC) on Monday passed a resolution condemning Israeli “occupation”, a move blasted by Israeli ambassador Danny Danon is “biased and baseless”. The resolution condemns Israel for the “economic and social repercussions of the occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, including…

A car bomb blast on Monday hit an upmarket area of Damascus housing several government buildings, Syrian state news agency SANA reported, saying there were “several wounded”. The explosion took place in front of a 10-storey building in the Kafar Sousse district in the southwest of the war-torn country’s capital, an AFP journalist at the…

The FBI has launched a probe into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) emails, it announced Monday. “The FBI is investigating a cyber intrusion involving the DNC and are working to determine the nature and scope of the matter,” the agency said in a statement quoted by Politico. “A compromise of this nature…

Newly rediscovered footage of a 1968 interview with David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, shows that he opposed communities in Judea and Samaria and instead favored returning most of the land Israel captured in the Six Day War. The six-hour interview with Ben-Gurion — segments of which appear in a new film called “Ben-Gurion Epilogue”…

At least 19 people were killed in a knife attack at a center for disabled people outside Tokyo, Japan, Sky News reports. 25 people were injured in the stabbing, 20 of them seriously, in the mass stabbings in the city of Sagamihara. Police said the man who attacked the home was arrested on suspicion of…

Arab Knesset members on Monday night blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after he released a video urging Israeli Arabs to take full part in Israeli society. Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh responded to the video and said, “I watched the video tonight and I asked myself whether this is the same person who tried…

Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination but lost to Hillary Clinton, spoke Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and expressed his full backing for Clinton, who he said “must become the next president of the United States.” “Thank you to the 13 million Americans who voted for the…

A 29-year-old woman from the city of Newmarket, north of Toronto, has been charged after allegedly firing a pellet gun towards people who were playing the new Pokemon Go game on a street in the city. The woman is facing charges with assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, just two hours before she was set to open the Democratic National Convention, opted to stay away from the stage “I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention,” Wasserman…

(AFP) – Bernie Sanders urged supporters Monday to vote for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in order to bar Donald Trump’s path to the White House, slamming the Republican as a “demagogue.” Sanders’ call – met with cheers and jeers from supporters – was the latest twist in the rocky run-up to the Democratic National…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called on Israeli Arabs to take full part in Israeli society. In a video message issued Monday, the PM apologizes for comments in which he warned that Arabs were “flocking to the polls in droves” – a reference to the expected success of the extreme anti-Zionist Arab Joint List party.…

The Palestinian Authority has urged the Arab League to help it sue Great Britain for the Balfour Declaration, which helped pave the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. Speaking to a gathering of Arab League leaders in Mauritania, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki appealed for help to “bring a suit against the…

A US congressman referred to ‘settlers’, Jews living in Judea and Samaria, as “termites” eating into Palestinian homes, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Speaking today (Monday) at an event for the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an anti-Israel organization which tries to gather support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, representative…

Live coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Police officers were stunned on Monday to see two Bedouin toddlers driving alone on a toy ATV on Highway 60 near Be’er Sheva in southern Israel. The two children are two-year-old cousins, who miraculously were unharmed. The father of one of them was located and detained by police for questioning.

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — When Debbie Wasserman Schultz spoke Monday morning to the Florida delegation as the national Democratic convention got underway, some delegates cheered. Other delegates booed. The chaos at the Marriott Hotel here demonstrated the degree to which the Florida congresswoman, perhaps the party’s most prominent Jewish leader, had become a divisive figure since…

At least 15 people were killed and more than 40 others were injured on Monday night after a former employee went on a stabbing rampage inside a facility for people with disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, reports BNO News. The attack happened at about 2:30 a.m. local time and is…

Iranian authorities destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers on Sunday, in the framework of a widespread crackdown against the devices. So reported Agence France Presse (AFP). The destruction ceremony took place in Tehran in the presence of General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, head of Iran’s Basij militia, who warned of the impact that satellite television was…

Thousands participated in a joyous concert marking the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Haim Ben Atar, known to Jews the world over as the “Holy ‘Ohr Hachayim’” after the book he authored, the “Light of Life”. The celebration was held in the Seven Arches hotel, which is located on the Mount of Olives in…

A new initiative, pushed by MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin (Zionist Union), will allow donors to contribute directly to the IDF. Called “Yachad,” the plan will allow the IDF to receive donations, and distribute official equipment to its soldiers – while disallowing any individual soldiers from receiving equipment privately. At a presentation to the Foreign and Defense…

A former Georgia congresswoman claimed in a tweet that Israel is responsible for recent terror attacks in France and Germany. Former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney tweeted Saturday night: “Same Israeli photographer captures Nice and Munich tragedies. How likely is that? Remember the Dancing Israelis?…” The tweet includes a link to a video about the photographer’s…

Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel visited Amona today (Monday), and expressed hope in a conversation with Arutz Sheva that the scheduled demolition of the Samaria town can be averted. Amona has been slated for demolition around six months from now due to claims of ownership on the land on which it is built. In…

Some 700 people marched through the streets of Warsaw to commemorate those who in the Warsaw Ghetto worked as doctors, nurses and medical service helping those in need and when it was necessary helping them die. The march began on Friday at the monument at the Umschlagplatz. Participants were welcomed by the director of the…

German authorities announced Monday that they found a video on the mobile phone of a Syrian suicide bomber who blew himself up in Germany in which he “pledged allegiance” to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said the man, who has not been named, also “announced an act of revenge against…

Indian police on Monday arrested two men suspected of raping a 25-year-old Israeli tourist in the popular northern Himalayan resort town of Manali, local officers said. The arrests were made following a complaint by the woman that she was attacked early Sunday after flagging down what she thought was a taxi and asking for a…

The family of Hadar Goldin, whose body is still in the hands of Hamas after he was killed in action during operation Protective Edge, released an official statement ahead of the memorial commemorating two years since the operation in which it harshly criticizes the government policy regarding efforts to facilitate the return of the bodies…

The Syrian failed asylum seeker who blew himself up outside a music festival in Germany was a “soldier” of the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), the jihadist group’s Amaq propaganda arm said on Monday. It quoted an “insider source” as saying Sunday’s attacker in the southern city of Ansbach who wounded 15 people “was a…

The world is constantly regaled by stories of Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians, usually accompanied with the claim that if the Palestinians had their own state and were left to their own devices, delivered from the oppression of Israeli “occupation”, all will be well for them. A report from Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) however, shows that…

Racism at Ben Gurion University? Channel 10 reported that one of the lecturers in a course on biological sciences sent an email intended for his Arab students- but which the Jewish students received, as well- in which he asserted that the Jews are “stealing answers” on tests. In the letter, the lecturer wrote: “After checking…

12 people were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion at a wine bar in the German city of Ansbach on Sunday night, Sky News reports. Initial reports said the blast was caused by a gas leak, but Bavaria’s interior ministry later said the explosion was intentional. Ansbach Mayor Carda Seidel told the Nord…

Standing up for one’s principles is not always an easy task. This is readily apparent upon reading the personal credo of Mahdi Satri, 17, a young Palestinian Arab from the village of Jadeidi-Makr in northern Israel. Satri, a staunch Zionist and supporter of Israel, explained in an interview with The Algemeiner how hard it is…

Virginia Senator and former Governor Tim Kaine has been the Democratic Party’s presumptive Vice Presidential nominee for just three days, yet the pick has already drawn fire from the pro-Israel community due in part to Kaine’s robust support for the Iran nuclear deal, his boycott of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in…

The cross- examination of Corporal Elor Azariya, on trial for shooting a wounded terrorist in Hevron, is currently underway at the military court in Jaffa, where Azariya is being subjected to the questioning of military prosecutor Nadav Weissman. The prosecution is not making things easy for Azariya, throwing him tough questions. In response to the…

A young married man in his 20s died early Monday morning while immersing himself in a Bnei Brak mikva. According to witnesses, the man lost consciousness and collapsed while submerged. Emergency responders were called in, but were unable to revive the man and were ultimately forced to declare him dead on the scene. United Hatzalah…

The Regional Council of Jerusalem is expected to approve tomorrow (Tuesday) the building of housing units across the so-called “green-line” after a hiatus of several months, in spite of international pressure against doing so, reports Channel 2 news. The plan includes 57 new housing units in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, an area in which…

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) arrived Monday morning to the IDF induction center “Meitav” in Tel HaShomer as new recruits for the Golani and Givati brigades arrive. During his visit, Liberman responded to questions from reporters, including inquiries regarding the ongoing trial of Elor Azariya, the soldier accused of manslaughter in the killing of…

Police capture rebels waiting in the control tower before Erdogan landed back in Turkey during their attempted coup.

At least 2 people are dead and as many as 17 wounded in a mass-shooting in a Florida nightclub. The incident took place at the Blu Club in Fort Myers, about two hours northwest of Miami. One witness told local television the scene was like “a madhouse”. Another witness said she heard approximately 30 rounds…

A 16-year-old friend of the gunman who killed nine people in the German city of Munich on Friday has been arrested by police, Sky News reported late Sunday. Investigators say the Afghan teenager is suspected of knowing about David Ali Sonboly’s planned attack and failing to report it. Munich police added that the friend may…

WikiLeaks removed tweets that described some of its Jewish critics as “establishment climbers.” The account, believed to be run by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, was responding to Tweets linking its massive release of Democratic Party leaks with Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is believed to back Republican Party nominee Donald Trump, and there is evidence…

A musical duo of Holocaust survivors from Florida who have toured the United States returned to their native Poland to perform there for the first time, at an outdoor concert in Warsaw. Krakow-born Saul Dreier, 91, and Reuwen Sosnowicz, 89, landed in the Polish capital on July 21 to perform the following week before some…

An accident involving a minibus bringing Jewish campers home from a trip in Pennsylvania injured at least nine teenagers. The Brooklyn-bound bus flipped over and rolled onto its side around 2:30 a.m. last Friday on Route 423 in the Pocono Mountains, News 12 Brooklyn reported. The driver, identified as Bernard Zitroenbaum, 32, of Brooklyn, was…

A federal judge has scheduled sentencing next month for a Mississippi couple who pleaded guilty to planning to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, The Associated Press reported Sunday. Online court records show that sentencing for Jaelyn Young, who left her parents a note saying she had planned it all,…

David Duke, the anti-Semitic former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, announced he will run for Senate in Louisiana. Duke is a registered Republican, and will run in that party’s primary for the Louisiana Senate seat being vacated by Republican David Vitter, according to The Associated Press. Duke served one term as a state…

President Barack Obama’s half-brother does not plan to vote for his brother’s Democratic party in the November presidential election. Speaking to The New York Post Sunday, Malik Obama said he wants to make America great again so he’ll be voting for Donald Trump and not for Hillary Clinton, who has been endorsed by his brother.…

Wreckage from the crashed EgyptAir flight 804 was discovered for a second time washed up on an Israeli beach. Two Israelis taking their weekly Saturday walk on the beach in Haifa found the wreckage from the May flight. Earlier this month, wreckage was discovered on the beach in Netanya. The plane was downed after a…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to offer condolences on the death of Abbas’ brother. Omar Abbas, who had been suffering from cancer, died in Qatar on July 21, with the funeral taking place the following day. He had been undergoing treatment at the Assuta Medical Center in Tel…

After a week of house arrest in connection with a fraud investigation, police released Ari Harow, a California-born former chief of staff of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Harow, 43, was detained for questioning at Ben Gurion Airport last week and questioned for 14 hours in connection with suspected financial violations involving Netanyahu, but he…

Last Friday a state memorial service took place in the Mount Herzl cemetery commemorating 4 years to the day of the death of Yitzchak Shamir, the 7th Prime Minister of Israel, and 5 years since the death of his wife, Shulamit. On the eve of the memorial, the Begin center opened a new project meant…

Tomorrow (Monday) marks the date of the Summer draft for IDF field units. As in all drafts, new draftees are required to fill out a questionnaire in which they indicate their preference of type of IDF service, maximizing the chance that each person will be placed in the unit in which he prefers to serve.…

Rockets rained down on several Old Damascus neighborhoods Sunday, including one known for its cafes and restaurants, killing at least eight people and wounding 20 others. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the rockets were fired from rebel positions on the outskirts of the capital. “At least eight people were killed and more…

The leader of the “Shuvu Banim” sect, Rabbi Eliezer Berland, whose arrest was extended until tomorrow (Monday), was extensively investigated over the course of the past day. During the investigation, Rabbi Berland was confronted by some of the women that have accused him; according to sources that were present, he denied the charges brought against…

Michael Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York, will endorse Hillary Clinton for President in a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) starting tomorrow (Monday) in Philadelphia. Mr. Bloomberg had considered running for President himself as a third-party candidate earlier in this election cycle, ultimately choosing to stay out. He has not been…

In response to a question sent to him online, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, tells readers what he thinks of the Berland saga. Question: People have turned to me with the request to help save Rabbi Berland from jail. Is doing so part of the mitzvah of freeing Jewish prisoners? Answer: G-d forbid.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades met on Sunday and agreed to increase cooperation between the two countries. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said the two leaders “held wide ranging discussions that reflected the close and very important relations both countries enjoy.” “In the course of the discussions, both leaders…

KAUNAS, Lithuania (JTA) — In this drab city 55 miles west of Vilnius, there are few heritage sites as mysterious and lovely looking as the Seventh Fort. This 18-acre red-brick bunker complex, which dates to 1882, features massive underground passages that connect its halls and chambers. Above ground, the hilltop fortress is carpeted with lush…

The Knesset Legislation Committee decided on Sunday to support the proposed legislation of MK Yaakov Peri (Yesh Atid party), former head of the Shin Bet internal security service, according to which terrorists would not be eligible for disability pensions, which they have received up to this point. Likewise, the law seeks to prevent terrorists from…

Michael Shlissel, brother of gay parade murderer Yishai Shlissel, interviewed with Arutz Sheva regarding his arrest ahead of the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Yishai Shlissel went on a stabbing spree at the 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, wounding 6 and killing 16 year-old Shira Banki. Before this year’s gay pride parade, police raided the Shlissel…

At the opening of the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about the importance of investment in developing infrastructure in the Arab sector, calling for “a reality of one state with one law,” referring to efforts to tighten law enforcement in Arab communities. “Our government is investing considerable resources in developing…

The “Israel Religious Action Center” (IRAC) of the Reform Movement has called for a legal sanctions against Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, the Chief Rabbi of Ramat Gan and Rabbi David Yosef, Rabbi of Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood. In a letter sent to Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked, IRAC claimed that statements Rabbi Ariel made regarding homosexuals…

In a meeting today (Sunday), involving the heads of the coalition parties, a development in the efforts to resolve the fate of the Samarian town of Amona was discussed. Amona has been slated for demolition in around six months due to claims of ownership of the land on which it is built. There is some…

A New York Rabbi is being sued for exposing a convicted sex offender on Twitter, according to a Westchester News 12 report. The lawsuit was filed in Israel by Yona Weinberg, who has served time in state prison for having sexual relations with a child under the age of 14. The tweet exposed Weinberg, who…

Shimon Cooper, convicted for murdering both his former wives, was sent to begin his two life sentences today (Sunday). Cooper was convicted last month of murdering his wife Jenny Mor-Hayim in 2009, and his first wife, Orit Coopershmidt, in 1994. In addition to the jail sentence, the court obligated Cooper to pay half a million…

Two British Muslim women have been jailed after locking the five-year-old son of one of the women in a dark cupboard for ten hours while they went to the beach – among other crimes they committed against the boy over a four year period. The boy had been stripped of his clothing and locked in…

A significant step has been taken to prevent children being forgotten in cars, a phenomenon that has cost too many lives. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation came to a decision today (Sunday) that kindergarten teachers and day care workers will be obligated to call parents and notify them of their child’s absence in the kindergarten…

A woman was killed and at least two injured in a machete attack near the German city of Stuttgart. A man has been arrested in connection with the attack in the city of Reutlingen, just south of Stuttgart. German police have confirmed that the stabber is a Syrian refugee but have not released his name,…

JTA – The City of Amsterdam approved an $11 million payment to Jewish causes as compensation for money it wrongfully collected from individual Holocaust survivors. Four of the five factions represented at city hall last week voted in favor of transferring the funds to a nonprofit that would distribute the money among various Jewish groups.…

Was Friday’s Munich massacre terrorism, or just one demented young man’s attempt at getting revenge? When 18-year old Ali Sonboly opened fire at customers in a McDonald’s in Munich, killing nine, the young man’s Iranian background led many to the conclusion the incident was yet another case of Islamic terrorism. Following the recent spate of…

Video from the aftermath of the deadly shooting spree in Munich on Friday shows an onlooker engaged in a shouting match with the gunman, 18-year-old Ali Sonboly. The footage was taken by a resident of a nearby apartment on his cellphone. The resident, identified by the Bild newspaper as Thomas Salbey, said he had been…

A Brazilian man jumped the security barriers around the Olympic run, and attempted to steal the Olympic torch. Security in the area threw him to the ground and arrested him. A similar event occured in the 2012 London Olympics, when a 17 year-old leaped out of the croud in Maidstone, screamed “Allahu Akbar,” and attempted…

Israeli government officials met with a former Saudi Arabian general with close ties to the government in Riyadh, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Foreign Ministry Director General Dore Gold met Anwar Eshki at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, during a rare visit by the Arab official to Israel. Eshki heads the Middle East…

Elor Azariya, the soldier charged with manslaughter over the shooting of a wounded terrorist in Hevron, took the witness stand on Sunday, testifying for the first time in a case that has divided Israelis and led to mass demonstrations on behalf of the accused. “My aspiration was to be the most combat [oriented position] possible,”…

The Israeli Supreme Court has approved the demolition of the homes of the two Islamist terrorists who murdered four people at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market last month. Supreme Court Justices Esther Chayot, Uzi Fogelman and Uri Shoham rejected appeals by the families of the killers against the demolitions – a measure often used by Israel…

The far-left Hadash party has slammed the visit by a Saudi Arabian delegation to Israel, which recently met with senior Israeli officials including Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Dore Gold. In a statement, Hadash said the visit legitimized what it called Israel’s “refusal strategy” towards negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and urged a total boycott of the…

Turkey’s Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, on Saturday said the presidential guard regiment will be abolished after some of its members were involved in last weekend’s failed coup attempt, the Xinhua news agency reported. “There will no longer be a presidential guard, there is no purpose, no need,” Yildirim was quoted as having said in a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night offered his condolences to Germany following the lethal shooting attack at a shopping center in Munich on Friday, in which nine people were murdered. “Israel sends condolences to Germany over the murder of innocent citizens in the tragic shooting attack that occurred in Munich on Friday and wishes…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday became the first European leader to endorse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling him a “better option” for the bloc than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. “I am not a Donald Trump campaigner. I never thought it would occur to me that of the available options, he would…

Turkey on Saturday night detained a senior aide to cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it blames for last weekend’s failed coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, AFP reports. Security forces detained Hails Hanci in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, an official said, describing Hanci as a “right-hand man” of Gulen and responsible…

JTA – A leader of French Jewry criticized a major Paris synagogue’s hosting of a debate featuring a controversial Jewish historian popular in far-right circles, who said France’s pro-Nazi puppet government saved French Jews during the Holocaust. Francis Kalifat, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, on Friday told JTA that…

A cache of leaked emails from Democratic party leaders’ accounts includes at least two messages suggesting an insider effort to hobble Bernie Sanders’ upstart campaign, a revelation that threatens an uneasy truce within the party. The release Friday of more than 19,000 emails sent and received by seven top Democratic National Committee officials, by anti-secrecy…

Jonathan Pollard is appealing a New York Federal Court to remove the limitations that were imposed on him upon his release from prison. In a hearing yesterday (Friday), Pollard’s attorney Elliot Lauer told the court that his client is prevented from finding work with an investment firm because the terms of his release include the…

(AFP) Islamic State group (ISIS) jihadists clashed on Saturday with US-backed fighters in the Syrian town of Manbij, pursuing their fierce defense of the jihadist stronghold and ignoring a deadline to leave. There are growing fears for the fate of civilians trapped in Manbij, formerly a key stop along ISIS’s supply route from neighboring Turkey…

A 6-year-old boy fell from a 3rd floor window in Ashkelon. MDA paramedics evacuated him to the city’s Barzilai hospital in serious condition. Initial reports indicate the child was in his house with his mother and brother. He climbed on the windowsill in order to try to reach a book, lost his balance and fell…

Dozens of Arab terrorists jailed by Israel are refusing food in support of an inmate on hunger strike for 39 days over his detention without trial, the Palestinian Authority said Saturday. A PA statement said that 48 inmates have been fasting for “days”, without specifying for how long, to back Bilal Kayed and two other…

Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has revealed that Virginia Senator Tim Kaine will be her running mate in the upcoming election campaign. Clinton is expected to be formally nominated as the Party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) starting this Monday in Philadelphia. Senator Kaine has a reputation as a moderate Democrat, leaning…

Levi Jonathan Shirley, an American Jew who volunteered to fight for the Kurdish militia in northern Syria, was killed in action on July 14th in the fierce ongoing battle to liberate the city of Manbij from ISIS hands. The Kurdish militia said in a statement that the Nevada-born Levi joined the militia in February of…

Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the impasse in negotiations with the Palestinians. “Netanyahu is missing an opportunity because he’s afraid of [Jewish Home head Naftali] Bennett. The Arab states want Israel on their side but they won’t do anything until we take steps towards resolving the conflict…

The defense will begin to lay out its case in the Elor Azariya trial tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Azariya shot a wounded terrorist after the latter had committed a stabbing attack in Hevron. Azariya himself will take the stand tomorrow for the first time in the trial, in order to lay out his version of the…

When Frank Mecklenburg and his wife were newlyweds, they went halfway around the world to the island of New Guinea, where they had no running water and didn’t know the language. They created a way of transcribing the language, translated the Bible, and stayed for 30 years. What makes a Christian couple begin to keep…

Shots were fired on Friday evening (local time) at a shopping center in the German city of Munich, local police said, according to Sky News. At least one person was killed and 10 others are injured in the shooting, which took place at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum (OEZ) – Bavaria’s largest shopping center, AFP reported. There are…

On Thursday, a week after the terror attack in southern France, representatives from the three major Abrahamic religious held a memorial ceremony and prayer. Arutz Sheva spoke with a senior member of the Jewish community in Nice in order to hear how the past few days have been for the community. N. is one of…

Irony – we in Israel, this year, read Parshat Pinchas, which contains – among other things – the mitzva of the twice daily offerings in the Beit HaMikdash (the T’midim). This Shabbat is the 17th of Tammuz (fast postponed to Sunday) which marks – among other things – the cessation of the T’midim. The show…

A sad-eyed Pikachu Pokemon Go character sits amidst the rubble on a Syrian street, while a Charizard dragon from the smash hit game is perched alongside gun-toting jihadists. The striking montages are the work of Syrian Khaled Akil, who is one of several activists and artists using the international frenzy over Pokemon Go to draw…

An unconscious 16-month-old child was found after spending two hours in a closed car in Beitar Illit on Friday. MDA first responders evacuated her to Jerusalem’s Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital, where doctors were forced to declare her dead. Ezra Gottleib, a volunteer with both United Hatzalah and MDA, said: “There was an unconscious child about a…

A top Israeli official traveled to Chad earlier this month for talks on bolstering ties, the first such visit since ties were severed in 1972, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. Foreign Ministry Director Dr. Dore Gold met President Idriss Deby at his palace in the northern Chad on July 14, as Israel is pressing a…

The Syrian National Council, an opposition group supported by Western powers, has called for the US and its allies to cease their airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. Reuters reports that the demand comes in response to reports that the coalition killed 77 civilians, including 11 children, within two days this past week. All of the…

Pinhas Shandorfi, from the Binyamin community of Nahliel, was arrested for carrying out a number of attacks against Palestinians over the past few years. They include setting a car on fire, attacking a Palestinian man and throwing rocks. Some of his friends are also accused of throwing a gas grenade into a Palestinian home in…

Brigadier General Ofek Buchris’s wife Na’ama has stood beside her husband since the uproar began, and is still supporting him now that prosecutors have filed charges. General Buchris is charged with sex crimes, including rape, against his subordinate soldiers. “I am surprised and shocked by the Military Advocate General’s (MAG) cowardly decision,” she told Yediyot…

Mickey Gitzin has called on Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Religious Council head Eldad Mizrahi to fire the rabbis who supported Rabbi Yigal Levinstein. Gitzin is the director of Be Free Israel and a member of the Tel Aviv Municipality on behalf of Meretz. In his letter, he explained: “In the past few days…

President Reuven Rivlin underwent a routine medical checkup at Tel Hashomer Hospital on Friday morning. Doctors screened for various conditions, including performing blood test. Officials with the hospital say that President Rivlin is in excellent health. The President’s office stated that Rivlin was instructed to stay fit and watch his food intake. He will take…

A Jerusalem court has released Michael Schlissel to house arrest for two days. Schlissel, whose brother Yishai murdered Shira Banki during last year’s Pride Parade, is suspected of conspiring to attack attendees at yesterday’s (Thursday) parade. “The police now understand that Michael is innocent. Unfortunately it took three days of imprisonment for them to understand…

The Medrash says that Bilaam was one of the three advisors to Pharaoh. The other two were Yitro and Job. Bilaam called for the extermination of the Jews. Eventually, he settled for the murder of all Jewish males born since he saw via prophecy the savior of the Jews coming into being. G-d outsmarted him…

Ivanka Trump stepped out as a potent surrogate for her father on Thursday, promising he would be a compassionate leader who would fight for women’s rights and affordable childcare. The 34-year-old businesswoman and mother of three, a loyal fixture on her dad’s campaign trail, introduced the 70-year-old mogul as he accepted the Republican nomination for…

Nissim Black made his first impression nationally in 2008 as D.Black, on producer Jake One’s label, White Van Music, with the song “God Like”. As D.Black he teetered on the verge of becoming a household name in the underground, but something was missing, and the man who would become Nissim, found himself in the midst…

A British lawmaker is under fire for accusing Israel of being a major cause in the rise of jihadism worldwide, JTA reported Thursday. Following the statement Thursday by Jenny Tonge, a House of Lords member from the Liberal Democrat party, the Board of Deputies of British Jews called on the party’s head to dismiss her.…

A large swastika was painted on a home in southern New Jersey. The swastika was discovered Wednesday morning in suburban Mount Laurel, about 17 miles from Philadelphia. Police believe the Nazi symbol was painted on the house sometime after 10 the night before, the Jewish Exponent reported. The family was not named, but a New…

The United States Treasury on Thursday announced fresh sanctions targeting the arms and financial networks of the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. It added eight individuals and seven entities, some with links to Russia and China, to its sanctions blacklist, which aims to hamper their work by locking them out of the global financial…

A wide variety of kosher foods have disappeared from grocery shelves in Vermont after the state’s strict GMO labeling law went into effect July 1. At least one supermarket, in the capital city of Burlington, explained that it could no longer offer certain kosher products because their manufacturers did not update their packaging to comply…

The Israeli plastics firm Keter reportedly has sold 80 percent of its stock at a price of $1.7 billion. BC Partners, a private equity firm with offices in London, Paris, Hamburg and New York, has been in exclusive talks to buy a stake in Keter, according to the Israeli business daily Globes. Keter Plastics owner…

MK Ahmed Tibi (Joint List) on Thursday blasted Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman after he compared an Army Radio program about Arab ultranationalist poet Mahmoud Darwish to praising “the literary quality of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf”. Liberman made the comments on Thursday as he met with Army Radio commander Yaron Dekel to reprimand him over the…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, warning against the election of Hillary Clinton as president. “I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States,” he said, speaking days after he was confirmed as the Republican nominee. “We are a team,” he…

B’nai Brith Canada on Wednesday condemned an Arabic newspaper in Canada which denied the Holocaust in an article that included anti-Semitic arguments. The article, entitled “The Question Which Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Kill the Jews?”, was published in the June-July 2016 edition of the Al-Saraha newspaper. The article, which was copied from an Egyptian…

While the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade marches on, a unique gathering, called the “Thought Parade,” convened to discuss the appropriate religious perspective on the LGBT culture. The evening meeting, held at the “Forum Kahelet” in Jerusalem, was joined by Rbabi Haim Navon, Rabbi Amichai Gordon, Rabbi Nir Manousi, and Yehuda Yifrah. “We didn’t find ourselves…

Allison hosts Meir Kalmanson, actor, director, screenwriter, and Creative Director of AMK Productions. Kalmanson was born into the Chabad Lubavitch movement, but a look at his professional work shows he’s not exactly fit into what we imagine when we think of the Hasidic Chabad. That makes him a particularly interesting figure. Loading… Click here for…

Health officials are testing mosquitoes in Miami-Dade County, after a Floridian woman tested positive for the Zika virus. Florida’s Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not confirmed the reason for their investigation. The woman reportedly has no apparent connection to travel outside the country, which would be a…

US Muslim leaders are waging a campaign against Republican nominee Donald Trump to ensure that he never makes it to the White House. According to Reuters, United States imams hope to register a million Muslim voters from their respective communities, in hopes to defeat Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Trump has occasionally run an anti-Muslim…

The Associated Press has reportedly obtained photos of a letter written by Gavin Long, who ambushed and killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Signed by “Cosmo,” Long’s alias, the pictures were sent via email to musician Yarima Karama, whom Long admired. Long said he expected people who knew him wouldn’t believe he would…

The number of signatures on a petition supporting Rabbi Yigal Levinstein and freedom of halachic expression has been steadily increasing. Rabbi Levinstein became the target of media ire after he purportedly derided gays and Reform Jews at a conference of rabbis. In the aftermath of a “clarifying conversation” which Rabbi Levinstein was forced to hold…

Only two years have passed since a father closed his eyes for the last time, and returned his soul to his Creator. Since then, his young widow, with four young orphans aged 4-14, have been coping alone with the burden of creditors and debts. Every week another creditor comes knocking to collect a debt. Everyone…

A day after declaring a three-month state of emergency in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters on Thursday that there were significant failures in intelligence ahead of last Friday’s attempted military coup, adding the armed forces would quickly be restructured. Erdogan told the news agency a new coup attempt was possible but would not…

CLEVELAND (JTA) — We’ve caught glimpses of him this week. He gave a three-line speech Monday night. The next day, he addressed the crowd via video feed. But Thursday night is the real thing: Donald Trump, the official nominee of the Republican Party, will address 50,000 of his faithful from the convention stage in Cleveland.…

French President Francois Hollande told Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Thursday that his country is committed to leading international efforts to help secure peace between Israel and the PA, AFP reported. Hollande confirmed “France’s commitment to building on the momentum created” on June 3, when Paris hosted senior diplomats to work…

(JTA) On Wednesday, the Republican National Convention should have felt, well, conventional. Gone were B-list celebrities like Scott Baio and Willie Robertson. The crowd finally stopped chanting for the presumptive Democratic nominee to go to prison. And no one — at least as far as we know — plagiarized their speech. For once, the convention…

In a series of letters to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council, Lebanon accused Israel of violating their end-of-war agreement for the Second Lebanon War. A decade since the war was declared over, Lebanon’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nawaf Salam, wrote a series of letters accusing Israel of violating Security…

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday his country was serious about pushing forward peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. “Egypt’s recent serious effort aims to break the deadlock that has hung over peace efforts,” he said in a speech broadcast live on state TV. “It is a sincere effort to make everyone…

Border Police officers went toe-to-toe with Bentzi Gopstein today, as the nationalist Lehava leader led a protest against the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Gopstein has been outspoken against the parade, announcing on recently on Facebook: “At 5:00 p.m. this Thursday, in Jerusalem’s Liberty Bell Park, we will try to stop the Pride Parade, which will…

After being booed off the Republican National Convention stage, Texas Senator Ted Cruz refused to bow to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s victory, claiming he’s not a “servile puppy.” Cruz had originally promised to support the Republican nominee, whomever it may be. That after Trump maligned Cruz’s family. “The day that was abdicated was the day…

An issue of historical concern to American Jews drew waves of applause when Donald Trump Jr. preached about it Tuesday night from the stage of the Republican National Convention. It wasn’t Israel, Iran or the fight against anti-Semitism. It was a call for the government to assist with private school costs, referred to as “school…

Al-Qaida-influenced terrorists sent out a call to attack the Israeli Olympic team at the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics, The Foreign Desk reported Thursday. “Your chance to take part in the global Jihad is here! Your chance to be a martyr is here!” the terrorists urged, pointing out the easy process to obtain a visa…

The Chairman of the Defense Department, Udi Adam, called on Rabbi Yigal Levinstein to “clarify his remarks” in a meeting Thursdsay with the Heads of the Pre-military Academy of Eli, Rabbis Eli Sadan and Yigal Levinstein. At the meeting, Adam brought up the fact that the IDF’s Code of Ethics stresses “respect for everyone” as…

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, suspected of sexual abuse against the women of his following Shuvu Banim, will be held under arrest for one more day, and then spend 10 days under house arrest. The Magistrate’s Court of Rishon Letzion ruled to extend Rabbi Berland’s arrest, after he was returned to Israel on Tuesday to stand trial.…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a fierce critic, of exploiting a failed coup to “implement his own extremist agenda,” in an interview publishedThursday. Speaking to the official Cuban Prensa Latina agency, Assad declined to be drawn on whether he would have liked to see Erdogan ousted in last week’s…

Efforts to combat the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for boycotting Israeli products and other sanctions in protest of Israel’s alleged “occupation” of Palestinian territory, have been stepped up in recent months. The UN itself hosted an anti-BDS conference a few weeks ago, and now former Knesset Member Dov Lipman has taken…

Former Princeton professor and Sanders campaign adviser Cornel West spoke to reporters during a protest against the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Tuesday, praising the “struggle against Israeli occupation” and condemning “Jewish reactionaries” supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump. West, an outspoken critic of Israel, was appointed by the Sanders campaign to the Democratic…

“Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” chanted the crowd on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. They were referring to presumptive Democratic Party Nominee Hillary Clinton of course, as the US Presidential election kicks into high gear after Donald Trump was officially nominated as the Republican candidate on…

Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar spoke out on Thursday against the gay pride parade in the capital, and condemned statements in support of the parade made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Kol BeRama, Rabbi Amar lambasted the parade, calling it an embarrassment. “This desecration of God’s name in Jerusalem is an…

IDF forces in the early hours of this morning (Thursday) found and confiscated a vehicle that was used to ram IDF soldiers in a terror attack near the town of Dolev, north of Jerusalem, earlier this year. The vehicle was found in the village of Bitunya, adjacent to Ramallah. In the terror attack – which…

Syrian activists on Thursday called for widespread protests after dozens of civilians were reportedly killed in US-led coalition air strikes near a northern town held by the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS). Children were among at least 56 civilians killed Tuesday in raids by coalition warplanes as they fled the village of Al-Tukhar near the…

(AFP) – The Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS or IS) has claimed several high-profile terrorist attacks in the West that it appears to have inspired rather than planned, sowing fear and boosting its profile at low cost. Such attacks require far less effort than planning and financing an operation in Europe or the United States…

For most, the notion of serving as a living donor – that is offering one’s internal organs to those in need – is a daunting prospect; a sacrifice few would make unless absolutely required by a loved one. But one Brooklyn woman not only took the plunge, she literally reshaped her life to qualify as…

An indictment was filed this morning (Thursday) in the Be’er Sheva Magistrate Court against a warehouse owner in the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, on charges of harboring individuals who crossed illegally from Judea and Samaria in his warehouse for long periods of time. The warehouse owner charged 200 NIS per month for every illegal…

Will Russia be barred from this year’s Olympic Games in Rio? With two separate International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) investigations into accusations of doping by Russian athletes, the former superpower may find itself banned from participating in the 31st Olympiad. On Thursday the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an IAAF-issued partial ban…

An Arizona teenager accused of plotting attacks on government buildings in the state wanted to target the Tucson Jewish Community Center, a federal agent said. Mahin Khan, 18, is charged in Maricopa County Superior Court with terrorism for allegedly plotting to attack buildings in Tucson and Phoenix. He was ordered held without bail for fear…

The Hamas terror organization continues its psychological war against Israel in an attempt to cause the families of fallen soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul to pressure the government so that it responds to Hamas’s demands in exchange for the return of their bodies. Hamas’s official line rejects any negotiations with Israel on the return…

The umbrella Jewish organization in Sao Paulo, Brazil, won a nearly decade-long indemnity lawsuit started by a journalist who claimed he was gagged for calling Israel a “Nazi state.” The Sao Paulo Jewish federation announced the court victory on Monday in the 2007 suit by Gilson Gondim, a columnist for the Jornal da Paraiba newspaper.…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is calling for more Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria, and particularly in Area C which is under full Israeli control. PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, visiting the new city of Rawabi in the Ramallah area, on Wednesday stressed the importance of urban development in all of Judea and Samaria. “The…

Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body on Wednesday its 15-year-old edict that the Pokemon game franchise is un-Islamic due to the fact that it promotes “global Zionism”, Reuters reported. The fatwa made no mention of the new Pokemon GO mobile game, in which players walk around real-life neighborhoods to hunt and catch virtual cartoon characters on…

Two Orthodox Jewish beatboxers failed to advance on “America’s Got Talent” after wowing the judges in the initial round of the TV competition. Ilan Swartz-Brownstein and Josh Leviton, both of Manhattan, did not survive in the “Judge Cuts” episode that aired Tuesday night, The Oregonian reported. The show showed a brief segment of their performance.…

At a time when many Jewish federations are reporting flat or declining fundraising, North America’s largest Jewish philanthropy said its annual campaign revenue has increased for the seventh consecutive year. UJA-Federation of New York announced Tuesday it had raised $153.4 million through its 2016 annual campaign, which ended June 30, up by $2.6 million from…

Argentina on Wednesday asked Singapore and Malaysia Wednesday to extradite a former Iranian foreign minister whom it accuses of involvement in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center, AFP reports. An investigating judge issued the request after learning that Ali Akbar Velayati, who is on the Interpol wanted list, was…

White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Wednesday played down allegations that Melania Trump, wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, plagiarized a speech given by First Lady Michelle Obama. Side-by-side comparisons revealed that lines from Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention appeared to have been lifted directly from Obama’s speech in 2008, with few…

A Palestinian Authority-based human rights organization on Wednesday condemned the latest death sentences handed down by tribunals in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, AFP reports. On Tuesday, a military court in Gaza sentenced three local residents to death after they were convicted of providing information to Israel’s security services. The trial of the alleged “spies” was…

Shimi Eliel, Chair of the Regional Council of Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal, decided to take the law into his own hands in the face of nearby illegal Palestinian construction that was not being dealt with by authorities. According to Eliel, the unapproved work projects near the villages of Tzur Yigal and Tzufim, and the throwing of…

Followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who was extradited to Israel on Tuesday, protested outside of Ayalon Prison, where he is being held. Demanding they be allowed in to see their imprisoned spiritual leader, the protesters confronted police separating them from the entrance to the prison. According to BeHadrei Haredim, one man pledged his life to…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surveyed the separation barrier today near Meitar, ahead of planned building for the security barrier in that area. He was accompanied by Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman, Minister of the Interior Gilad Erdan and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott, and other security officials. Addressing future work on the security barrier,…

More than 200 new immigrants from France arrived in Israel on Wednesday in a special flight organized by the Jewish Agency in conjunction with the Immigration Ministry and United Israel Appeal. A majority of the new immigrants are children or teens who will begin their first year of school in Israel at the end of…

Over 300 Rabbinical figures showed solidarity with Rabbi Yigal Levinstein in a letter of support, in the wake of a public outcry against the rabbi for comments he made concerning the LGBT community. In the letter, the rabbis express support “for any Rabbi that expresses his halachic and ethical opinion out of faithfulness to the…

The Rector of a Brazilian federal university ‘ABC’ has issued an apology to the Brazilian Jewish community after the appearance of a university job posting sought a teacher of “race and ethnic relations” for a class on “Zionism, Nazism and Apartheid- as Racist Ideologies.” The rector, Klaus Kapel, met with the President of Jewish Organizations…

The opening night address at the 2016 Republican National Convention by Melania Trump, wife of the GOP nominee, received a largely positive reception Monday evening – that is, before striking similarities were discovered between Mrs. Trump’s speech and the one given by Michelle Obama at the Democratic National Convention eight years ago. Side-by-side comparisons revealed…

Head of the Rabbinical services organization ‘Tzohar,’ Rabbi David Stav, criticized on Wednesday rabbis who hush up sexual abuse cases in their communities rather than reporting them to the authorities. “Sexual abuse is physical and psychological damage of the highest order. Rabbis that attempt to silence these matters without dealing with them through the appropriate…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday evening declared a three-month state of emergency following last week’s failed coup, Sky News reported. In a speech in which he announced the state of emergency, Erdogan warned there “may be more plans” from dissidents to try and overthrow the government again. He added that the state of…

The team is taking us further into deep space and esoteric biblical concepts as we discover where are roots are bound to. This show is a further stepping stone towards the new series, called Down to Roots, which will be produced by filmmaker Trevor Bannister. Loading… Click here to download the podcast

A new report from Europol, the European Union law enforcement agency, shows a record number of terror attacks in Europe. The report shows a marked increase, compared to previous years, in arrests for terrorist activity. According to the report, 1,077 people were arrested in EU countries in 2015 for terrorist activity. This shows an increase…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett declared Wednesday that the Bnei David Academy in Eli, headed by Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, would not lose its government funding, and that he would protect the institution from attempts to undermine the school. Bennett’s statements come in the midst of an ongoing controversy centered around the school’s founder and director, Rabbi…

Roger Ailes, the 76-year old cofounder and CEO of Fox News is on his way out in a shakeup that could radically alter America’s most popular cable news channel. The former Republican presidential campaign advisor turned conservative media giant was accused last month of sexual harassment and other misconduct by former Fox Friends cohost Gretchen…

Rabbi Azriel Ariel, of the the Israeli organization Hotam, which works to propose Halachic solutions to societal problems, has called to address the phenomenon of romantic relationships in the workplace. He stressed the need to create a behavioral code that will prevent unhealthy relationships that destroy families. “The Halacha wants a man to work, but…

Belgian police have surrounded a man seen behaving suspiciously and wearing “a long coat with protruding wires” in Brussels, according to Belgian media. Authorities closed several streets and evacuated establishments around Place de la Monnaie, where the man is currently located. Bomb disposal units are at the site, and police say the incident is “under…

After nearly half a century, Israel and Guinea formally renewed diplomatic ties. At a signing ceremony in Paris on Wednesday, Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold and his Guinean counterpart signed off on an agreement reestablishing ties between the two countries. Guinea, which is nearly 85% Muslim, cut ties with Israel following the 1967 Six…

According to Daphna Liel of Channel 2, a bag of cannabis was found in a bathroom of the Knesset in an area reserved for Knesset members and their aides. The bag was found by a parliamentary aide, who promptly alerted a Knesset officer and handed over the bag to be checked. While Liel noted the…