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Professor Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, talks about the ubiquitin system and how it helped to pioneer successful cancer treatment. Discover how drug companies decide which kinds of research are most promising. How does Professor Ciechanover help children to fulfill their dreams…

While the winter storm that bore down on Israel earlier this week seems to have passed, the unseasonably cold temperatures that accompanied it are still lingering on.  Skies on Thursday will be partly cloudy and temperatures will remain unusually cold. There is concern ice formed overnight Thursday in various parts of the country.  While schools in the Gush…

The Israeli man wounded in a stabbing attack in Givat Ze’ev late Wednesday night has been stabilized and is currently sedated, Shaare Zedek Medical Center announced Thursday morning.  He was originally transferred to the Jerusalem hospital in very serious condition, suffering a stab wound to the chest and severe blood loss. He underwent immediate surgery at the hospital…

As a growing number of European countries report Zika infections among citizens returning from trips to Latin America, Arutz Sheva spoke with Hebrew University’s Dr. Hagai Levine to discuss the threat.  “We should be worried – globally, because this virus can cause congenital malformations and it can spread to other countries,” said Levine, of the School of Public Health.  But, he says,…

The statement Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau issued Wednesday in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day suffered from one very glaring omission.  The Holocaust is defined as the genocide of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazi regime and its collaborators, but in his statement, Trudeau did not mention the words “Jew” or…

MK Shuli Mualem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about the pain she and the rest of Israel feel regarding the current security crisis. She particularly noted the lack of security felt throughout the country.  While Mualem-Refaeli admitted that she is not an expert when it comes to security measures, she noted that it has…

Jewish Home Faction Leader Shuli Mualem-Refaeli is taking the fight against extremist left-wing organizations to the next level. On Wednesday, Mualem submitted a proposed bill to the Knesset that would increase the authority of the courts to dismantle NGOs that attack Israel and basic Israeli institutions such as the IDF. According to the proposed bill,…

The European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) works to strengthen Jewish communities in Europe through promoting Jewish student activism and advocacy.  At a European Jewish Congress event in Brussels in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Arutz Sheva spoke with EUJS President Benjamin Fischer about the challenges facing Jewish students in Europe.   Fischer noted that while all university…

Is the recent market volatility a sign of hard times ahead? It depends who you ask.  Some experts say the market’’s recent decline is a buying opportunity, while other analysts see it as the beginning of a bigger decline. Doug analyzes the options and shares the opinions of analyst Andrew Roberts (Royal Bank of Scotland) and previous…

Honda, the largest Japanese automaker, is scouting Israel for technological start-ups that will help it design and manufacture a crash-free car. ISRAEL21c spoke to Nick Sugimoto, senior program director of the Honda Silicon Valley Lab, who is visiting Israel. He said that by 2020, Honda will offer smart cars that have 50 percent fewer collisions.…

Eight Hamas terrorists were reported missing on Wednesday after a tunnel collapsed in northern Gaza following several days of heavy rain and flooding.  “The resistance tunnel collapsed last night due to the weather and flooding,” a Palestinian security source told AFP, adding that the tunnel belonged to Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules Gaza.  “There were 11 resistance…

Loading… A man in his 40s was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at a gas station in Givat Ze’ev, to the northwest of Jerusalem, on Wednesday evening. Paramedics who were called to the scene provided the victim with initial treatment before he was taken to the Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem with stab wounds…

“Numerous cultural councils, film funds, directors, actors, scriptwriters, playwrights and other ‘people of letters’ behave like a political junta, which does all it can to preserve its power and influence,” the organization said. “Whenever elected officials try to carry out the duty that the people tasked them with, in the most democratic and legitimate fashion,…

Footage of Wednesday night’s stabbing attack in Givat Ze’ev, northwest of Jerusalem, has emerged. The video, taken from the security cameras of a nearby business, shows the terrorist following a couple on the street as they enter a restaurant at the gas station where the attack took place. Seconds later, the terrorist is seen fleeing…

President Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first American president to speak at the embassy of a foreign country, when he visited the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., and spoke at the first ever ceremony in the United States posthumously honoring four Righteous Among The Nations. Coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the event honored…

The annual ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held Wednesday at the UN General Assembly.  In an unprecedented move, Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon gave up his seat and invited Holocaust survivor Martha Weiss to represent Israel in his stead.  “We must not bury our heads in the sand in light of…

A 27-year-old Jewish Canadian woman was stabbed overnight in Montreal, local media reports Wednesday.  Police were called to the scene of the attack at the intersection of Monkland and Girouard streets at around 12:45 p.m.  “When the police officers arrived at the scene they discovered a lady with upper body injuries. She got transported to the hospital [in critical…

Following the revelation it had ignored eyewitness reports of Nashat Milhem’s whereabouts, the Israel Police issued a staunch denial of any wrongdoing on Wednesday evening.  Milhem gunned down three people in Tel Aviv on January 1, before fleeing to his hometown of Arara in the north to hide out.  Head of the police’s Operations Unit, Deputy Commission Aharon Aksol,…

Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage associated with the development of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes. Resulting from anatomical deformation, excessive pressure and poor blood supply, it affects over 130 million individuals worldwide. It is also the leading cause of amputation, costing the United States economy alone more than $10 billion annually.…

An 85-year-old man suffering hypothermia was evacuated unconscious and in serious condition from his home in Bat Yam to Wolfson Hospital in Holon on Wednesday evening.  Magen David Adom medic Roni Kavodi, who treated the elderly man, recounted the scene: “When we entered the apartment, we saw a man about 85 lying on the ground unconscious and…

Sadly, 2016 has begun much like 2015 ended – with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse across the spectrum in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. Stabbings, vehicle attacks, and shootings by Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians – all of which I condemn — and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, have…

Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev (Likud) has brought her “Loyalty in Culture” bill to the Knesset Education Committee. The proposed bill, which has already been passed to the Justice Ministry for inspection, determines that financial support for artists or cultural organizations that deface the flag or other national symbols, incite racism, violence or terror will be revoked.…

Meir Ettinger, 24, of Samaria and Jerusalem, lost consciousness Tuesday after a week-long hunger strike in his isolation cell in Be’er Sheva’s Eshel Prison. He was taken to receive medical care. Ettinger is protesting his ongoing detention. He has been in jail for close to six months, after being arrested on an administrative order signed by the…

A genetic disease heretofore unknown in the scientific literature has been discovered by doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. The doctors who succeeded in treating the disease are referring to it by the name TPP2 deficiency. The disease affects the immune system and involves a certain protein deficiency in the blood which causes the…

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich decided Wednesday to break his promise from last Friday, when he said he would not vote with the coalition until the return of 200 Jews evicted that morning from two buildings in Hevron they purchased in full from an Arab buyer. Smotrich again voted with the coalition on Wednesday, even after Ya’alon conditioned…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said during a discussion in the plenum Wednesday that there are no words to describe the hypocrisy of world leaders, who invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to visit on International Holocaust Memorial Day.  Eldestein opened up the plenum discussion and said, “yesterday we commemorated here in the plenum International Holocaust Memorial…

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on Wednesday spoke to reporters about commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The scar, the indelible scar that the Shoah (Holocaust) has left across Europe, is and must forever be seared into our collective memory. As Eli Wiesel said, ‘to forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,’” said…

Transparency International (TI) has published its findings regarding which countries were the most corrupt in 2015. In ranking 168 countries, Israel ranked 32 from the top. TI ranked their findings by ranking each country from 0 being the most corrupt to 100 being the most honest. Israel received the mark of 61 out of 100…

Nominations are now being accepted for the second annual Jerusalem Unity Prize. The prestigious award was originally created by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and the Sha’ar, Frenkel and Yifrah families in memories of their sons Gilad, Naftali and Eyal. At the launch of this year’s nomination process, Prize Committee Chair Mayor Nir Barkat announced that former IDF Chief…

Canada’s Liberal-led government will begin to lift some of the sanctions on Iran, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said on Tuesday, according to the CBC. “It’s true that the United Nations has asked countries to lift sanctions that were put in place to prevent Iran from using nuclear weapons for military purposes,” Dion said…

A year and a half after the Beach Boys cancelled a concert in Israel, the band’s lead singer has announced that he will perform in the Jewish state, Haaretz reported Tuesday. Brian Wilson, lead singer of the legendary group, will perform in Israel as part of his tour to mark 50 years since the release…

Both the United States and the European Union (EU) on Tuesday reiterated their opposition to Israeli “settlement activities” in Judea and Samaria. But, speaking after UN chief Ban Ki-moon appeared to express sympathy for Palestinian terrorism during a UN Security Council session, American Ambassador Samantha Power said that anger over “settlements” should not lead to…

Meir Habib, a Jewish member of the French parliament, on Tuesday said that the strengthening of relations between France and Iran should take place only on the condition that the Islamic Republic changes its policies. Habib’s comments come ahead of an official visit to Paris by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, which is scheduled for Wednesday.…

Sony Corporation has purchased the Israeli chip manufacturing company Altair for $212 million or 25 billion Yen. The Israeli company that was almost recently purchased by the Chinese conglomerate Infotmic has settled on a much more lucrative deal with the Japanese mega corporation. Sony has stated that they will continue to manufacture and develop existing products,…

In Jerusalem, the city council has decided in conjunction with the parental committee that schools will open as usual on Wednesday, despite the cold in the wake of the storm that saw snow in the capital on Tuesday. This will include daycare centers and nurseries.  All roads in and around the capital are open. The…

President Reuven Rivlin is to make public on Wednesday previously unreleased documents including a handwritten request for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Rivlin’s office said in a statement that the request to then president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi would be presented at a ceremony at Rivlin’s official Jerusalem residence to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the petition, written after he was…

Channel 10 news reports that the Teachers Federation is set to strike Wednesday morning in middle schools as well as high schools across the country, due to government promises being left unfulfilled by the Education Ministry.  Among the issues that are under protest is the incommensurate pay that teachers receive. Sources in the teachers federation told the news…

IDF forces and Civil Administration crews mapped out the homes of the two Arab terrorists who on Monday conducted a lethal stabbing attack in Beit Horon, Samaria, in which 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman was brutally murdered. In Bayt Ghur al-Tahta in Samaria members of the Kedem battalion conducted the engineering mapping in preparation for demolishing the home of…

A 23-year-old arrested by the FBI for planning a shooting attack in Milwaukee originally planned to attack Israelis, it was reported on Tuesday. According to WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, the suspect, Samy Mohamed Hamzeh was charged with possessing machine guns and a silencer. He was reportedly arrested on Monday when he purchased weapons from undercover FBI…

A Hamas tunnel collapsed on Tuesday night in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestinian Authority-based media reported. Anywhere from six to 11 people were killed in the incident, according to the reports, and their bodies were taken to the local Shifa Hospital. The exact reason for the collapse of the tunnel is unclear, but…

Jewish-Canadian businessman Paul Bronfman has told Toronto’s York University to take down a poster promoting violence against Israel or lose his financial support. The poster, which has been hanging on the wall of the university’s student center for more than two years, depicts a man with rocks in his hands looking at what one assumes is a Jewish community.…

In the past several days the Palestinian Authority has arrested the brother and son of a Palestinian Arab man who sold two houses to Jews in Hevron, Arutz Sheva has learned. When a contact approached the PA to appeal for the release of the two – one of whom is a 17-year-old boy – he…

Jerusalem police issued an administrative decree on Tuesday against Yair Kehati, a central activist in the “Return to the Mount” movement, distancing him from Temple Mount and the area leading to the site. Kehati was distanced from Temple Mount for a period of three months, without any court hearing, after claims were made that is…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Europeans were not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism, in a statement on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.   Netanyahu, who has routinely argued the Jewish state is unfairly singled out for criticism by the United Nations and other bodies, warned that “in Europe and elsewhere, Jews…

The Jerusalem municipality together with the parents committee has decided to open all schools today for their regular schedule. The decision came after snow failed to accumulate last night as was expected in the forecast.  Light snow flurries are expected throughout the day, but the snow is not expected to accumulate to any significant degree.…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently filed a serious complaint with the Iranian government over its plan to hold a cartoon contest promoting Holocaust denial, Haaretz reported Monday. According to the newspaper, UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova plans to raise the issue when she meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who will be…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday blasted Israel for its “settlement attack” and threatened to force a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria on Israel. In a statement, the PA’s Foreign Ministry condemned the “the institutional settlement attack on the land of the State of Palestine,” and especially in the old city of Hevron, as was…

Former President Shimon Peres has been released from Sheba Medical Center. He was diagnosed with a slight heart arrhythmia on Sunday and was kept under observation since then. By yesterday he reported feeling better, but doctors insisted that he stay an extra night. According to Peres’s spokesperson, all of the tests came back with normal results.…

Israeli land NGO “Regavim” has revealed that the house of the terrorist who infiltrated the Jewish town of Anatot on Saturday and was subsequently killed, was an illegal structure that had already been slated for demolition. The family of the thirteen-year-old terrorist came from the town of Ya’ata which is located inside the Palestinian Authority…

Security forces found a mass grave in the Iraqi city of Ramadi containing the remains of at least 18 people killed by ISIS, police said Tuesday. Ramadi was recaptured at the end of last month from ISIS, which overran large parts of Iraq in 2014 and has repeatedly carried out mass killings and other atrocities in areas it controls. “So…

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ annual survey examining the elderly in winter 2016 has come to worrying conclusions. According to the survey, nearly a fifth (18 percent) of senior citizens do not heat their homes due to the cost; one in every six (16 percent) give up other basic needs in order to…

Several nude statues at Rome’s Capitoline Museum were hidden behind plywood boxes Monday, so as not to offend the sensibilities of visiting Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi spoke at the museum after several Italian firms signed business deals worth about 17 billion euros ($18.42 billion) with Iran. The leaders shared…

Nespresso has sued an Israeli competitor that aired a TV ad imitating and poking fun at Nespresso’s commercials. The rival firm, Espresso Club, made use of an actor who resembles Hollywood star George Clooney, who has been the lead man in Nespresso’s advertising for nine years. In the Espresso Club ad, the Clooney lookalike learns of the…

MK Zehava Galon, head of the far-left Meretz party, has promised Zionist rap star turned Facebook sensation Yoav Eliasi, better known by his stage name Hatzel, that she will convert to Islam and move to Gaza – but it later turned out the rapper staged the conversation to make a point. On Monday evening Hatzel posted…

Condemnation flooded in Monday evening for the stabbing attack in Beit Horon which left two women injured, one of them critically. Speaking from the Knesset plenum, Science Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) blamed the attack on ongoing incitement from the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas.  “Palestinian terror attacks have continued for four months,”…

(AFP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open on Monday the exhibition “The Art of the Holocaust,” featuring works created byconcentration camp prisoners, as the German leader pledged to combat the threat of rising anti-Semitism. The show brings together 100 works on loan from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial by 50 Jewish artists created in secret between 1939 and 1945 while they…

Yigal Geutta was sworn into the Knesset on Monday night as the newest member of the haredi Shas party, following Deputy Interior Minister Meshulam Nahari’s resignation under the Mini-Norwegian Law.  The law stipulates that one minister or deputy minister per party may resign to make room for a new Knesset member – in this case,…

Jerusalem was visited by bursts of snow showers on Monday as a three-day storm continues to set upon Israel, and the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has declared a state of emergency in the capital in anticipation of the coming deluge. On Monday the record for electricity usage in winter was broken, as the 12,200 megawatt previous…

Two swastikas were scrawled in the northwest London neighborhood of Kentish Town, the UK-based Jewish News reported Monday.  Police have opened an investigation into the hate crime after receiving a report on the anti-Semitic graffiti, which was found plastered onto the outer wall of a residential building.  A police spokesperson told the Jewish News, “Police were called to Highgate Road, NW5 at…

Israel’s ministers confirmed on Monday the establishment of a ministerial committee to oversee activities for Jewish settlements in national priority areas, the Gaza belt region and the periphery.  The committee was formed as part of efforts to curb the coalition crisis which resulted after the eviction of some 200 Jews from two buildings in Hevron last week, and as per Article…

Israel will demolish the homes of the terrorists who carried out the stabbing attack in Beit Horon, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Monday night. Speaking upon his arrival in Greece, where he will meet on Tuesday with his Greek counterpart, Ya’alon stressed that Israel will not compromise in the fight against terrorism. “The attack…

Jonathan Pollard, who was recently released on parole after spending half his life in US jails on charges of spying for Israel, had his plans to deliver his first speech in 30 years disrupted by his unprecedented and draconian parole conditions. Pollard had been set to speak at the Conference of Presidents of Major American…

The United Nations General Assembly will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at its headquarters in New York on Wednesday. In an unprecedented move, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon has relinquished his seat and invited Holocaust survivor Martha Weiss to represent Israel in his stead.  “I was very moved to receive the ambassador’s invitation,”…

A senior official in the United States government has publicly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of corruption.  Adam Szubin, who oversees sanctions in the US Treasury, told BBC Panorama on Monday that the Russian leader is definitely corrupt and the US government has known it for “many, many years.” “We’ve seen him enriching his friends, his close…

In an effort to end the coalition crisis that resulted from the eviction of some 200 Jews from their purchased homes in Hevron last week, the government has decided to create a joint commission to coordinate activities for Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria. This commission will be lead by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud),…

Director of the Education Ministry, Michal Cohen, instructed schools to prepare for closure due to the harsh weather conditions this week across Israel. The schools were instructed to follow the directives of the Ministry of Internal Security with regards to deciding whether to close or not. The Education Ministry set up command centers In Jerusalem…

Happy ending: A Lost engagement ring was found in Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem. Last Thursday, the bride-to-be threw a bag into the garbage, and the ring – worth several tens of thousands of shekels – got caught on the bag and was accidentally thrown in the trash can too. Just moments later, the trash can was…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged the international community to work to stop Palestinian incitement to terrorism against Israelis. Netanyahu’s message came after it was revealed that the 16-year-old Arab terrorist who last Sunday stabbed to death Dafna Meir at the entrance to her home in Otniel was inspired by Palestinian TV. “The terrorist…

Pro-government forces overran the last major rebel-held town in Syria’s coastal Latakia province Sunday, as the United Nations prepares to host talks on ending the country’s nearly five-year war. State television said the army, working with pro-regime militia, took control of Rabia after heavy fighting with rebels. It was the second strategic victory for pro-regime…

Hamas’ deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday praised the Palestinian Arab media for continuing to play a major role in strengthening the morale of the Palestinians during the intifada. Speaking at an event of Hamas’s Communications Department honoring journalists who won international awards in 2015, Haniyeh said that “there is an ongoing campaign without guns…

A botched repair job to the mask of King Tut has caused eight Egyptian museum workers to be taken to court for “gross negligence”, The Associated Press (AP) reports. The 3,300-year old mask, whose beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued on with epoxy in 2014, was scratched and damaged during the amateur repair…

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Sunday night launched an airstrike on a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. The attack was in retaliation for Sunday evening’s rocket attack on ​​the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council in southern Israel. “The IDF holds the Hamas…

The Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS or IS) has honed the ability to launch global attacks and is set to focus more on Europe following the Paris massacre, the chief of the EU police agency Europol said Monday. Rob Wainwright told a news conference that “the so-called Islamic State had developed a new combat style…

Following the refusal of Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to participate in a special task force aimed at solving the coalition crisis by dealing with issues of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, the Zionist Union party is preparing a proposal to dissolve to government, which will be presented to the Knesset plenum on Wednesday. Yaalon’s…

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee approved Monday second and third rounds reading for two proposed amendments to the Military Justice Law. The law today states that a soldier who abandons his post for more than 21 days is considered “absent without official leave” or AWOL, and can receive a prison sentence up to 15 years.…

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres “feels well” after the 92-year-old was rushed to hospital with chest pains and an irregular heartbeat, his office said Monday. Peres is expected to remain at the Sheba Medical Centre near Tel Aviv for another day after being taken there on Sunday. Due to a “mild” case of irregular heartbeat, “his…

In preparation for extreme weather conditions over night near the capital, police have announced that they are preparing to close routes 1 and 443, the major highways that lead to the city.  A statement to Israeli press said that “in accordance with the harsh weather, and travel conditions on the routes, it is likely that…

IDF and Shin Bet security services arrested twin sisters planning a terror attack last month, it has been cleared for publication. The sisters – 18-year-old Diana and Nadia Huwila – are residents of the village of Shuweika, north of Tulkarem in Samaria. A search of their home revealed a fully assembled bomb, complete with a…

The radical Israeli Left is still reeling from an investigative journalistic report that aired January 8 on Channel 2’s Uvda investigative program, which was based on hidden camera footage taken inside the operations of radical leftist groups. Now, a vile Facebook photomontage depicts the program’s editor in chief and anchor, Ilana Dayan, as Nazi filmmaker…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Transport Minister Yisrael Katz had a testy exchange Sunday during the government’s weekly session, on the subject of allowing UBER – a service that offers an alternative to regularly licensed taxi cabs – to operate in Israel. Netanyahu, who had returned from the economic summit at Davos, turned to Katz…

2015 was the highest annual amount of financing rounds ever by Israel’s high tech industry. Israeli tech companies raised $4.43 billion last year, according to figures released Monday by the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center and KPMG. The amount raised is 30% higher than 2014, when 690 deals totaled $3.42 billion. The average deal…

A recent study published by Shemansky Ben-Shahar illustrates just how different the social strata of Israeli cities are. The poll rated Israeli cities based on the fiscal investment that they invest in each of their residents. While affluent cities such as Tel Aviv invest between 4,000 – 6,700 shekel per anum for each resident they…

The IDF Blog reported Sunday on a recent combined exercise by the Armored Corps and the Givati Brigade in an urban warfare setting. The IDF “continues to modify and fine-tune its methods” against snipers, terrorists hiding in houses, booby traps, and anti-tank missiles, the military website reported. During the exercise, the tanks’ mission was to…

After former Labor head MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) slammed her party’s head MK Yitzhak Herzog on Sunday, Herzog responded shortly afterwards on Facebook explaining why he doesn’t support the “two state solution” at the current juncture in time. Yechimovich criticized Herzog for not coordinating his statements and position with members of his party, after…

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Baghdad Sunday over accusations of meddling in Iraq’s domestic affairs, a statement by the ministry said. The Saudi ambassador, who was only installed ten days ago, had said that the involvement of Iranian-backed Shia militias in fighting against Islamic State (ISIS) was exacerbating sectarian tensions in Iraq, according…

The ZAKA emergency response organization on Sunday night received reports of shots fired at an Israeli vehicle at Mishor Adumim Junction heading towards Hizma, in an area to the east of Jerusalem. None were wounded in the alleged incident, and forces were sent out to check the report for veracity. However, nothing was found at…

With snow storms battering the East Coast and Israel this week, we’re betting our readers have plenty of pictures to share. Send us your photos using our online form, and we’ll publish the best ones here! Please remember to include your name and where the photo was taken. Here are some of the pictures we’ve…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded on Sunday to the details of the investigation in Dafna Meir’s murder released earlier in the day, showing the terrorist who stabbed her to death at her doorstep in Otniel, Judea was incited by Palestinian TV. The investigation by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) found that the 16-year-old…

An official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily op-ed has accused the United States of being behind all the chaos and civil wars in the Muslim and Arab world, including the longest and oldest fight from right after Mohammed’s times between the Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the PA writer claims that this…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was unfazed on Sunday by the possibility that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might run for president. In fact, Trump said he would “love” to go up against the fellow billionaire, AFP reported. The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, reported on Saturday that the 73-year-old Bloomberg is mulling…

A spokesman for Iran’s judiciary said on Sunday that around 100 suspects were arrested, following the recent attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The spokesman, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, said the arrests took place after the January attacks. He did not give further details. It is unusual for Iran…

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group on Sunday released a video apparently showing the terrorists who carried out the November attacks in Paris. The terrorists are shown in Iraq and Syria before the attacks, where they carry out executions including beheadings, and threaten to attack anywhere at any time, while also announcing they will “liberate…

The Conservative candidate for London mayor has criticized the police’s handling of the incident at King’s College University on Tuesday, when a violent mob crashed a talk by former head of Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shabak) Ami Ayalon. The candidate, Zac Goldsmith, has expressed “worry” over the lack of arrests since the incident. In…

Singer and actress Dafna Armoni, a member of the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA) lifetime achievement award committee, criticized leftist singer Achinoam Nini on Sunday after she quit the IUPA in a call to boycott singer and composer Ariel Zilber. Zilber, a legendary Israeli singer, was picked by the IUPA last week for its lifetime achievement award, but…

Apple has raised prices in seven of its international App Stores, including for Israel, raising the base price from 3.50 shekels to 3.90 shekels. Israel is not alone though; Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore and South Africa have also received the price raise “following fluctuations in exchange rates.” According to the world’s leading technology company, “When foreign…

Israel was ranked #25 in the world’s “best countries” list of 2016, as compiled by US News World Report. The single category in which Israel made the top ten was Power; Israel ranked #8 in that category, and the main reason was its military. The IDF received a score of 9.7 – similar to the US,…

Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Saeb Erekat divulged new details about one of his assistants who has been accused of spying for Israel and was captured by Palestinian intelligence. According to Erekat, the alleged spy was in charge of supplies at his office and was not one of his advisors. Following his interrogation he will be brought to trial by the…

Following reports of attempts to have Israel ousted from the World Medical Association (WMA), leading anesthesiologist Dr. Leonid Eidelman has demanded the Foreign Ministry take immediate action to protect Israeli doctors against boycotts.  The news 71 British physicians had begun to exert pressure on the WMA to revoke the membership of the Israel Medical Association (IMA)…

As the number of violent terror attacks in Israel have begun to decline in recent weeks, protests inciting Palestinians to further violence returned to the Temple Mount on Friday. According to reports by the Temple Institute, loud protests including inciteful remarks, ISIS flags and covered faces returned to the Temple Mount plaza following Friday’s prayers on…

The New York Times (NYT) Editorial Board praised on Friday US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro’s harsh criticism of the Jewish state, attacking the Israeli government for its “unfair rebukes” of Shapiro’s remarks.  Last Monday, Shapiro accused Israel of two different “standards” of law in Judea and Samaria, asserting Israel’s “settlement” policies left the US…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday met with Arab correspondents and stressed that the PA would not back down from its goal of establishing a state. Abbas also declared that he would only be willing to resume talks with Israel if it stops building “settlements”. “We adhere to our national founding principles that…

If travelling to Saudi Arabia, leave your chess board at home. The country’s grand mufti has recently ruled that the popular game is forbidden in Islam, claiming it “encourages gambling and is a waste of time”, The Guardian reported. Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh was answering a question on a television show in which he issues fatwas…

Nuclear agreement or not, Iran still considers the United States to be “the Great Satan”, a senior cleric declared on Friday. Speaking in Tehran and quoted by the Tasnim news agency, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami warned against the American administration’s “endless hostility” towards the Islamic Republic, saying that the nuclear deal with world powers should not…

At least 19 people are dead as a result of “Snowzilla”, the nickname that has been given to the blizzard pounding the United States East Coast, as of Saturday night. Officials quoted by The Washington Post at around 8:00 p.m. EST said three people died while shoveling snow during the blizzard in New York City and two…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday admitted that anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe. Speaking in her weekly podcast and quoted by Haaretz, Merkel called for action to “deal with [anti-Semitism] – especially among young people… from countries where hatred of Israel and the hatred of Jews is widespread.” Anti-Semitism, she stressed,…

Far-left activist Ezra Nawi, who is accused of having helped execute Palestinians who sold land to Jews, is to be released from police custody today (Sunday). Jerusalem District Court Judge David Richter ordered Nawi’s release to house arrest, but delayed the release until 4 p.m. Sunday to allow prosecutors time to appeal the decision. In…

Deputy Attorney General for Special Projects Amit Isman, has decided against opening a criminal case into the Im Tirzu “foreign agents” video. According to a letter sent by Attorney Ilona Inbar from the Deputy’s office, the Deputy states that “there is no reason to open a criminal investigation against the publication of the video.”  “The main…

Leftist singer Achinoam Nini announced Sunday her intention to quit the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA) following its decision to honor singer and composer Ariel Zilber with a lifetime achievement award.  “During this blacker than black period, in which books are banned, “blacklists” are published (sound familiar?), a period filled with violence, racism and hatred, in which signs…

An off duty volunteer police officer in Sderot played a pivotal role in arresting a burglar in the southern city last Saturday.   The volunteer who was not on shift notified police headquarters in the city, who sent officers to the scene. The officers were helped by the volunteer who identified the perpetrator. The burglar…

A senior British MP has compared a violent anti-Israel riot at a London university last week to kristallnacht, as condemnation of the violence carried out by pro-Palestinian activists continues to mount. In an interview with Sky News on Sunday morning, Sir Eric Pickles – a former minister who now serves as the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues – likened the incident, in which…

The citizens of Palermo didn’t wait for a round number to commemorate the expulsion, forced conversion and persecution of Jews in Sicily over five centuries ago. Earlier this month, exactly 523 years after all of the island’s Jews were forcibly deported by Spanish decree, more than 1,000 Palermo residents participated in various activities aimed at ensuring that this dark…

Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators rioted outside a Shabbat reception for Jewish attendees of a gay activism conference in Chicago on Friday night, JTA reports Sunday.  The Creating Change conference was hosted by A Wider Bridge, a Jewish organization seeking to build ties between LGBT communities in Israel and North America. The demonstrators chanted, ““Hey hey, ho ho, pinkwashing has got…

Controversial anti-Israel politician and London Mayoral candidate George Galloway has been accused of “fascism,” after refusing a man entry to his events because he is pro-Israel. Jewish activist Ben Gross of the Israel Advocacy Movement had attempted to enter a public talk by Galloway last week, but was rejected and physically blocked from entering. If Gross…

The ties between India and Israel are about to get tighter. The Indian government recently raised the proposal to ask for Israeli help in building a ‘smart-fence’ similar to the one that separates Israel from Egypt. India has been concerned recently over the threat of terror attacks coming from terrorists who cross the northern border…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s senior political adviser, Itzik Ashkenazi, on Saturday took to Twitter to blast the Jewish Home party, saying its presence in the coalition is “harmful”. According to Ashkenazi, the party led by Naftali Bennett is “harming the security of the State of Israel, damaging the rule of law, harmful to the development…

Gaza terrorists on Saturday night attempted to attack southern Israel with a rocket, but missed their target and the rocket exploded on the Palestinian side of the border. There were no reports of injuries or damages on either side. Sirens did not sound on the Israeli side of the border. Rocket fire has continued to…

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) went on TV to state his threat that he will stop voting with the coalition, after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Friday evicted 200 Jews from two buildings in Hevron they had taken residence of a day prior after buying them in full from an Arab seller. Speaking on Channel 10, Hazan…

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously considering a presidential bid on an independent ballot, according to sources close to the Jewish billionaire. Bloomberg is willing to spend $1 billion of his personal funds in the campaign, according to a report by the New York Times on Saturday morning. Two sources close to Bloomberg later…

Suspected Russian raids killed 33 civilians in war-ravaged eastern Syria on Saturday, amid reports US forces are building up an air base to bolster their fight against jihadists further north. Meanwhile, senior diplomats scrambled to resolve the key question of who will represent Syria’s opposition at crucial talks next week aimed at ending the nearly-five year war. In eastern Syria, the 33…

Youthful Bnei Akiva guides in Chicago sent flowers to the family of Dafna Meir, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist last week on Sunday at the entrance to her home in Otniel, in southern Judea. “We heard what happened and we felt awful, we thought about how we could take part and send an…

The first German feature-length biopic on the Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank who was murdered by the Nazis will premiere next month at the 66th Berlin film festival, organizers said Friday. “Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank” (The Diary of Anne Frank) will screen in the youth sidebar section Generation of the Berlinale, the first major cinema showcase of the year in…

Norwegian Ambassador to Lebanon Lene Lind met last Wednesday with Ali Baraka, a senior Hamas official in Lebanon who functions as the terrorist organization’s representative in the country. According to the Hamas daily Palestine, the two discussed the status of Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon, as well as UNRWA’s intentions to limit its services to the Palestinian…

US President Barack Obama called former President Shimon Peres over the weekend to wish him well, after Peres suffered a heart attack. In the conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their long friendship, according to a press release on Saturday night from Peres’s office. “I was lucky to be treated by a dedicated medical team that…

Several members of the US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq and Syria are doing “nothing at all” to help destroy the jihadists, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday. His comments mark a departure from the Pentagon’s typical depiction of the 65-member coalition, which carries the slogan “One mission, many nations,” and is frequently touted to highlight global…

US President Barack Obama called former President Shimon Peres over the weekend to wish him well, after Peres suffered a heart attack. In the conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their long friendship, according to a press release on Saturday night from Peres’s office. “I was lucky to be treated by a dedicated medical team that…

Even as Israel is set to receive its own first snowstorm of the year, the East Coast of the US has come in for a particularly serious blizzard, with already at least 10 deaths caused by the storm. The deaths, which took place in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, were largely caused by car accidents that came…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) municipality in Bethlehem, Judea, held an event in late December honoring 52 terrorist prisoners from the city serving life sentences, with a particularly ironic twist taking place during the ceremony. Palestinian Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia Atallah Hanna was among those taking part in honoring the murderers – but in fact one…

The rain and snowstorm bearing down on Israel began on Saturday with periodic rains from the north of the country to the Negev in the south, with several thunderstorms also paying a vist as temperatures plunged below seasonal norms. Snow fell on Mount Hermon, Israel’s only ski site, and heavy winds blew throughout the country. Likewise flood…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an opposition organization in Syria, reports that a Syrian woman was publicly executed by her son after she attempted to have him quit ISIS. The execution took place before hundreds of citizens outside the post office of the city of Al-Raqqah earlier this month. According to SOHR, several sources confirmed that she…

An Israeli Holocaust survivor may be the world’s oldest man at 112, Guinness World Records said Thursday, providing he can find the documents to prove it. His family say Yisrael Kristal was born in Poland on September 15, 1903, three months before the Wright brothers took the first airplane flight. He lived in the country until the Nazi occupation during World…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday said he backs Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon with regards to the eviction of Jews from their Hevron homes earlier in the day. “We all must respect the law and in this case all the approvals have not yet been settled,” sources in the Prime Minister’s Office said on Friday…

A spokesman for the Kremlin on Friday denied reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a senior intelligence official to Damascus late last year to ask Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to step down, The Guardian reports. A report in the Financial Times earlier in the day quoted Western intelligence sources detailing the apparent mission of…

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday joined in on the global condemnation following Israel’s initiative to declare 1500 dunams (371 acres) of land north of the town of Almog, near Jericho, as Israeli state land. In a statement, Hammond expressed “concern about Israel’s recent decision” and added that Britain views the “settlements” as illegal. “I’m…

The state of New York this week became the latest state to pass legislation against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The New York State Senate passed a bill that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that seek to harm Israel and other American allies through boycotts and discriminatory economic agendas.…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) on Friday met with French President Francois Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and blasted the EU’s resolution from this week stipulating that agreements with Israel will not be valid in Judea and Samaria. “France must stop promoting international decisions that harm Israel,” Herzog told the two during…

President Barack Obama will visit the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on the evening of January 27, where he will take part in the first ever ceremony in the United States posthumously honoring four Righteous Among The Nations. The event is being held in partnership with Yad Vashem. Set to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance…

Israel is still recovering from the major sandstorm that hit on Monday, bringing with it dust particulates and air pollution for at least two days, but now the country is facing a new storm replete with snow, thunder, howling winds and all the rest of the bells and whistles. The storm is to start building…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had his claims Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu snubbed his efforts for peace talks further denied, as the American administration clarified it is not aware of Abbas’s supposed initiative. State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner made clear that the US is not familiar with Abbas’s alleged attempts two months…

In the wake of massive sexual assaults perpetrated by Muslim migrants on New Year’s Eve, and the threat of jihadists infiltrating the sudden mass influx of “refugees,” Germany admitted on Thursday that it has lost track of 600,000 asylum seekers. By the end of 2015 Germany had registered 1.1 million asylum seekers under its EASY…

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said the Islamic State (ISIS) group would be “very seriously” weakened in Syria and Iraq this year, as France announced that some 22,000 jihadists have been killed by the US-led coalition. Air strikes by the alliance that includes Gulf states, France and Britain have been pounding ISIS positions since August 2014, with Washington claiming major…

Amir Hekmati, the former American Marine who was held in an Iranian prison and freed as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Iran, arrived home in Flint, Michigan on Thursday, where he thanked everyone from the president to “everyday Americans” for their support, reports ABC News. Hekmati, who was arrested in Iran…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday sharply criticized the European Union’s (EU) double standards when it comes to Israel. Netanyahu’s comments came during a meeting in Davos with the EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. “Netanyahu told Mogherini that the European Union must adopt the policy of the moderate Arab states toward Israel,” the Prime…

The conflict with the Palestinian Arabs will “never be solved” so long as the Palestinian Arabs continue to incite their children against Israel, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Thursday. Speaking at the World WIZO conference in Tel Aviv, Ya’alon hailed Israel’s success in stopping mass terrorist attacks, a success which, he claimed, has caused the…

Slovenia’s biggest supermarket chain on Thursday reversed a previous decision to boycott Israeli products, two days after caving to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and removed Israeli products off its shelves. According to a report in Yedioth Ahronoth, the supermarket chain Mercator placed a new order for fruit from Israel, including pomelos and…

A Syrian suspected of being among jihadists who kidnapped a UN peacekeeper in Damascus in 2013 has been arrested over the “war crime”, Germany’s federal prosecutor said Friday. The 24-year-old man named as Suliman A. -S. is believed to be a member of a branch of the Al-Nusra Front jihadist group, the prosecutor said.  …

After security forces evicted 200 Jews on Friday morning from two buildings in Hevron, which they purchased in full from an Arab buyer and took residence of on Thursday, the Jewish community in Hevron spoke out against the move. “The problem is that the government is conducting a policy in Hevron of anti-Jewish discrimination, and preventing…

Turkey is “closely watching” Russian troop movements in Syria near its border, a government source in Ankara said on Friday, after reports that Russian servicemen had deployed in the Syrian border town of Qamishli. Britain-based monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had said that Russia had sent a number of engineers to Qamishli to strengthen the runway and increase the capacity…

An outpouring of criticism combined with threats to the coalition government followed the eviction on Friday morning of 200 Jews from two buildings in Hevron, which they purchased in full from an Arab buyer and took residence of on Thursday. Immigrant Absorption Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) demanded that the Security Cabinet be convened on the matter,…

After a Channel 10 poll on Thursday found that if former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi were to enter politics he could potentially cause a watershed shift in Israeli politics, questions have arisen regarding where he stands politically. Economics Committee Chairman MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) on Friday told IDF Radio he isn’t rushing to welcome…

The name of the late Lady Amélie Jacobovits (1928-2010) appears on the list of the wives of peers in the United Kingdom, as she received the title when Queen Elizabeth elevated her late husband, Chief Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jacobovits, to the life peerage in 1988. But on the “list” of great Jewish women, a more exclusive…

In the wake of a prisoner swap between the US and Iran on Sunday, that took place the same day America gave Tehran $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds, concerns are high that the transfer was a ransom payment, reports the Wall Street Journal late Thursday. At nearly the same time that the Islamic regime in Iran released five…

Deputy Regional Development Minister Ayoub Kara (Likud) was one of several MKs in the government on Friday to condemn the eviction of Jews from two buildings bought in Hevron, and demand that the step be reversed. Security forces on Friday morning began evicting the 200 Jews who took residence the day before of the strategically located…

As security forces on Friday morning began evicting two buildings in Hevron, where 200 Jews took residency the day before after buying the structures in full from an Arab seller, Jewish Home members in Samaria demanded that their party take some action. “The Jewish Home Forum in Samaria condemns the atrocious eviction of the homes that…

The Jews who moved into two empty buildings in the ancient city of Hevron on Thursday will probably be evicted from their new homes, officials said Thursday evening, despite having fully purchased the two buildings from an Arab seller. Sources close to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that in order to populate a house in…

In his death notice, Pittsburgh-based chiropractor Jeffrey Cohen asked his mourners, in lieu of flowers, not to vote for Donald Trump. JTA reported that Cohen’s obituary, posted Wednesday on the Legacy.com website by McCabe Bros’ Funeral Homes, said he died unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, in the suburb of Squirrel Hill. The text of the…

The United States on Thursday began enforcing new visa rules on some travelers who have visited or who have dual nationality with states considered seedbeds of terrorism, AFP reports. The Department of Homeland Security said would-be visitors to the United States who have been to Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria since March 2011 will now…

Liberal non-profit organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called upon Iranian authorities to stop denying medical attention for journalists imprisoned under appalling conditions. RFS published on their website a claim that under regulations, imprisoned journalists Hossien Ronaghi Malki, Said Razavi Faghih, Narges Mohammadi, and Roya Saberi Negad Nobakht must be provided the proper medical attention for their…

A new Channel 10 poll Thursday reveals that if former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi enters politics, after having a case on criminal charges closed against him by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Wednesday, it may signal a major shift in Israeli politics. Ashkenazi had been suspected of obstruction of justice in the 2010 “Harpaz…

Around 22,000 jihadists have been killed by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group since mid-2014, France’s defense minister said on Thursday. “The figure given by the coalition…is about 22,000 dead since the start of operations in Iraq and Syria,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told the France24 news channel, adding that the figure was “approximate.” He also sounded upbeat about a series…

Terrorist gunmen from Somalia’s Islamist Al-Shabaab organization have attacked a seafront restaurant and cafe in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a spokesman of the government confirmed to Al Jazeera Thursday evening. Witnesses said there were two explosions followed by gunfire at the entrance of the Beach View cafe and Lido Sea Food restaurant on the popular…

The clarion call and red-line position is that Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital city of Israel and the Jewish people everywhere. But is that really so? There is a struggle taking place here for every inch of sacred Jerusalem ground, and few may be acquainted with the details. No, the lobby and the eateries…

The controversy surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private email server for work during her stint as US President Barack Obama’s secretary of state is escalating, amid new revelations that some of her mails were beyond “top secret.” Fox News reported on Thursday night that some of the emails were so sensitive and secret…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chariman Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Thursday to Israeli journalists that he tried to arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu two months ago, and was snubbed. “There were contacts for a meeting with Netanyahu two months ago, but his people evaded meetings in advance meant to agree on the meeting,” claimed Abbas,…

Michal Froman, who was stabbed by a terrorist in the Judean community of Tekoa Monday, was discharged from Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem on Thursday. Froman, 30, who is pregnant, was stabbed behind her right shoulder but is well on her way to full recovery. Froman is the daughter-in-law of the late Rabbi Menahem Froman,…

The Jewish newspaper Joods Actueel based in Antwerp filed a complaint to Belgian’s watchdog on journalism against the De Morgen daily, after it published a Holocaust denier’s claim that no one died in Nazi gas chambers. According to JTA, the monthly’s editor-in-chief Michael Freilich claims De Morgen and the newspaper’s interviewee Siegfried Verbeke broke a 1995 legislative law that forbids…

Canadian journalist Ezra Levant, co-founder of The Rebel Media, took aim once again at his country’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, calling him “stupid.” In an interview with Maclean’s, Levant said Trudeau of the Liberal party “is stupid. He’s the kind of guy who says, ‘I don’t know pi to the 18th decibel point.’ He’s…

Farhana Rahman made many people very happy with a single exuberant Facebook post Monday that expressed her admiration and love for Israel and the Jews – and the emotion she expressed created an intercontinental ripple. Her post has received over 1,600 likes, almost 700 shares, and 170 comments, and as Farhana wrote Wednesday in a follow-up post,…

Jonathan Pollard, recently freed after spending half his life in jail on charges of spying for Israel, is to speak to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations next week in New York. The meeting plans to include U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel, both Jewish New York Democrats who have…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday that Israel will need more US military aid because of the nuclear deal with Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. Israel is currently negotiating a new 10-year military aid package with Washington that it says will need to grow beyond the $3.1 billion yearly currently provided by the…

Jonathan Pollard, recently freed after spending half his life in jail on charges of spying for Israel, is to speak to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations next week in New York. The meeting plans to include U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel, both Jewish New York Democrats who have…

The Education Ministry announced on Thursday afternoon that part of the bagrut high school matriculation exam has been leaked in the Arab sector – yet again. A section on literature in the Arabic version of the nationwide test was leaked, in what seems to be becoming an annual tradition; last January numerous cases of Arabs leaking…

New research conducted by Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem together with Israeli company BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has been generating a lot of worldwide attention.   Until now, there have been no proven methods to slow the progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as  Lou Gehrig’s disease. However, the hospital and research clinic have…

Condemnation rushed in Wednesday from British government ministers and Jewish groups after reports of a violent riot by anti-Israel activists at a leading London university.  Police were called to King’s College London University on Tuesday night, after a speech by former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon was attacked with shocking violence by pro-Palestinian groups. Anti-Israel activists from the “Action…

The US State Department strongly criticized an Israeli initiative to declare 1500 dunams (371 acres) of land north of the town of Almog as Israeli state land. “We strongly oppose any steps that could accelerate settlement expansion and we believe they’re fundamentally incompatible with a two-state solution and call into question frankly the Israeli government’s commitment…

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom sparked a diplomatic firestorm last week when she accused Israel of the extrajudicial “execution” of Palestinian terrorists – and Israel quickly lashed out in response.  Numerous Israeli officials condemned her incendiary comments while Sweden’s ambassador to Israel was summoned by the Foreign Ministry for rebuke.  Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) even…

Students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, will on January 25 vote in a referendum on whether to demand that the university administration cease cooperation with Israeli universities. Students will be asked as follows: “Do you think the University of Waterloo should sever ties with the following institutions due to their complicity in…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its diplomatic offensive against Israel and is now trying to advance a resolution in the UN Security Council that will condemn Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and declare them illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace, Haaretz reports. Senior Palestinian and Israeli officials cited by the…

Anti-Semites have been unusually creative in linking their cause to others that have no relationship to the Jews. The anti-Semites have created a new form of the disease which is called Intersectionality. It enables all people who consider themselves to be oppressed to also be anti-Semites. Click here to download the podcast

90-year-old Auschwitz survivor Batszewa Dagan on Wednesday said she had donated a pair of miniature shoes that helped her live through the Holocaust to the museum at the site of the former Nazi German death camp. The Polish-born Israeli received the tiny, handmade good luck charm from a fellow inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in…

A senior member of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s inner circle has insisted that any “two-state solution” with Israel would merely be a “phase” in the ultimate dismantlement of the State of Israel. Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi made the comments in a recent interview with Ma’an TV – the same interview in which…

President Reuven Rivlin paid a condolence visit Thursday morning to the family of Dafna Meir who was killed in a brutal stabbing inside her home in Otniel on Sunday.  The President expressed his sorrow over Dafna’s death and warmly embraced each member of the Meir family.  Natan, Dafna’s husband, told Rivlin, “The message I want to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met early Thursday afternoon US Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Earlier on Thursday, Netanyahu spoke with US Vice President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the same forum.  According to a Government Press Office report, the meeting with Biden was friendly…

A Nazareth court convicted Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint List) on Thursday of a her role in a confrontation she had with police in her hometown of Nazareth in July 2014. Zoabi was indicted earlier this month after pleading guilty in December to the charge of insulting public officials, as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors relating to comments she made during the clash. …

Anti-Semitic vandals scrawled graffiti on the wall of Turkish synagogue, accusing Israel of terrorism and praising Allah (God), Today’s Zaman reported earlier this week.   The words “Terrorist Israel, there is Allah” was recently found on the outer walls of the Istipol Synagogue in Istanbul’s Balat neighborhood. The synagogue reopened for a one-time prayer service earlier this month for the…

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) revoked on Thursday the residency permits of four Arab terrorists from eastern Jerusalem who carried out attacks in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood around Rosh Hashana last year.  Three of the residents – Alulid Paras Atarash, Mohammed Salah Abu Kaf and Abed Dawiat – carried out the deadly rock-throwing attack on the eve…

In an unusual step, the IDF has deployed artillery batteries along the border with Gaza in response to last week’s attempted bombing attack in the northern section of Gaza. The artillery batteries have been stationed along with soldiers deployed in the area. Over the past seven years, artillery batteries have been deployed during times of a sharp…

The far-left activist recently arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport is Ezra Nawi, who was recently exposed entrapping and handing over Palestinians to the PA for execution for selling land to Jews. Nawi was arrested last week at Ben Gurion as he tried to flee the country, but a police gag order was placed…

Customs agents in Ben Gurion airport prevented the attempted smuggling of 1,130 packets of cigarettes into Israel. The import tax on the cigarettes is approximately 250,000 NIS. The cigarettes were hidden inside the suitcases of two families of new immigrants (olim) from Georgia. The mastermind behind the smuggling attempt, Israeli resident Michael Pich’hadza, was arrested…

The radical leftist New Israel Fund asked Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein Tuesday to force the Jerusalem Municipality to put up the billboard campaign it initiated in response to a campaign by grassroots-nationalist group Im Tirtzu. The NIF campaign is modeled on Im Tirtzu’s campaign, which depicted radical leftist activists as foreign agents. Instead of the…

The solar system has a new ninth planet, according to evidence published by two planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. The two claim that a body nearly the size of Neptune, which has not yet been seen, has been orbiting the sun every 15,000 years,…

The far-left activist detained by Israeli authorities last week in connection with revelations broadcast on Channel 2’s “Uvda” investigative program was set to be released Wednesday on house arrest until police intervened. The program showed how Ezra Nawi of Ta’ayush, together with a leading B’Tselem activist, turned in to the Palestinian authorities Palestinian citizens who chose to sell land to Jews,…

The Airbnb accommodations start-up has incurred the wrath of Palestinians over allowing listings from Jewish properties in Judea and Samaria, The Associated Press (AP) reports Wednesday.  According to the Palestinians, the listings are “misleading” as they fail to state the property is on “occupied Palestinian territory,” and that by allowing them, Airbnb is contributing to “Israel’s settlement enterprise.” “Any international…

MK Yoav Kish (Likud), a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, stressed Wednesday that the conflict between Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Education Minister Naftali Bennett over security was totally avoidable.  “Minister Bennett has many forums in which to give constructive criticism such as government and Cabinet meetings,” Kish told Arutz Sheva. “But to…

Israel has begun construction on a security fence along its border with Jordan, the Defense Ministry announced Wednesday, its latest such barrier intended to keep out illegal migrants and terrorists. It will be the latest “security fence” built by Israel, including one separating sovereign Israeli territory from Judea-Samaria and another in the Golan Heights near Syria. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said…

Police at the Khatlon region of the central Asian republic of Tajikistan held a press conference Tuesday to review their progress combating “foreign” influences – a euphemism for radical Islam – in 2015. The Tajik Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) quoted the head of Khatlon police, Bahrom Sharifzoda, as saying that over the…

 A group of 71 British physicians have begun to exert pressure on the World Medical Association (WMA) to revoke the membership of the Israel Medical Association (IMA), it was revealed in a Knesset meeting on Wednesday.  IMA representative Dr. Ze’ev Feldman announced the disturbing new step during a Knesset Science and Technology Committee meeting on the subject…

A member of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction had nothing but positive words for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in a recent television interview, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported Wednesday.  Fatah leader and Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi told the host of a “Ma’an” television program on Saturday that Hitler “was not morally corrupt,” but rather “daring” for…

A secret deal between Switzerland and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1970 has recently come to light. The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports that then-Foreign Minister Pierre Graber offered to support Palestinians diplomatically in exchange for assurances the PLO would not carry out terror attacks against Swiss targets. The precise details of the agreement will…

Making money mistakes can have ramifications that can take years to correct.  What are the most common mistakes people make with their money, and how can you avoid them? In today’’s show, Doug shares common financial errors people make, and gives suggestions on how to be a more successful investor. Many money mistakes happen when…

The prosecution is considering a plea bargain with teen terrorist Ahmed Mansara, who carried out a stabbing attack in Pisgat Zeev in October. Mansara’s lawyers, who had previously tried to reach a deal with the prosecutor’s office and were rejected, are reportedly now interested in trying again to find a way to ease his sentence.…

Rabbi Ronald (Ronnie) Greenwald – Torah educator, international hostage negotiator, political advisor, and much more – passed away in Florida this week at the age of 82. His funeral is scheduled to begin in Monsey on Wednesday evening, and he will be buried in Israel. New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) released a statement of mourning,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday met at the World Economic Forum in Davos with Hewlett Packard Enterprise President and CEO Meg Whitman. Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for Hewlett Packard’s connection with Israel and reviewed the many reasons why technology cooperation, especially in cyber, was worthwhile. Netanyahu and Whitman discussed the potential possibilities in both…

Several days after US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro ignited a diplomatic firestorm with his criticism of Israel, US Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to adamantly reject the envoy’s statements.  In his remarks before the Institute for National Security Studies conference on Monday, Shapiro blasted Israel’s policy on…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry met in Switzerland Wednesday to prepare for talks aimed at ending the war raging inside Syria, but failed to agree on the invitation list. However, Lavrov said that the talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups would begin next Monday at Geneva as…

Neta Lavi, the widow of Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, recounted Wednesday the moments of terror she experienced watching the stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City during last Sukkot in which both her husband and Aharon Bennett were murdered.  In an interview on Channel 20, Lavi described how the attack began: “We were at the end of the meal, we went down…

Acclaimed actor Michael Douglas and Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky will appear on three college campuses in the US to speak to students about Israel and anti-Semitism, the Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday.  The program, called “Jewish Journeys: A Conversation with Michael Douglas and Natan Sharansky,” is co-hosted by the Genesis Prize Foundation, Hillel International, and The…

Russian air strikes have killed more than 1,000 civilians in Syria since they began nearly four months ago, a monitorsaid Wednesday. The raids, which started on September 30, have killed 1,015 civilians, including more than 200 children, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground for its reports, said…

A violent riot by anti-Israel activists at a leading London university has left Jewish students shocked and concerned about their safety on campus, and ended in at least one Jewish student being physically assaulted. Police were called to Kings College London University on Tuesday night, after a speech by former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon was…

A British news site revealed on Wednesday that the UK government has handed over vast funds to the radical B’Tselem organization in Israel, which was just weeks exposed to be involved in the torture and murder of Palestinian Arabs. The British Foreign Office was sharply criticized on Tuesday night according to The Sun, after it came out…

The Yesh Atid party got off to an early start by holding a Tu B’Shevat celebration (seder) on Wednesday, five days before the holiday itself. The celebration included parliamentary advisers, members of Knesset, and people involved in the political faction. Yesh Atid has since its inception held an annual Tu B’Shevat celebration in what has…

As anti-Semitic attacks increase throughout Europe, Russian president Vladimir Putin has invited European Jews to immigrate to Russia. Putin made the offer on Tuesday in a meeting with members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) that took place in the Kremlin. Moshe Vyacheslav Kantor, EJC president, complained to Putin about the rising anti-Semitism across Europe and…

A 50-year-old resident of Israel’s central coastal region was arrested on Wednesday as a suspect for defrauding would be supporters of a Holocaust educational enrichment organization. The Jerusalem court remanded him in custody for another five days as he awaits trial. The accused stands charged with forgery, receiving money based on a forged document, and falsifying…

Legendary Israeli singer and composer Ariel Zilber on Wednesday was awarded the 2016 lifetime achievement prize by the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA). Other winners of the prize include Shlomo Bar, Rivka Gur, Yehonatan Geffen and other famous singers whose songs have been beloved in Israel for decades. IUPA also granted a special recognition of honor to the producer…

IDF soldiers averted a stabbing attack by an Arab terrorist on Wednesday, after a security check revealed he was carrying a concealed knife. The soldiers, from the Tzavar battalion of the Givati Brigade, had stopped the Arab man during a routine check near Beit Anoun, located just northeast of Hevron and Kiryat Arba in Judea. On…

An Arab citizen of Israel was convicted on Wednesday for illegally leaving the state and joining Nusra Front, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria. The jihadist, a resident of Kafr Yasif located east of Akko (Acre) in the north, sneaked past Israel’s borders and infiltrated into Syria. There he trained with the Nusra Front terrorist organization, which…

French police have arrested two suspects in the murder of a French Jewish politician in a suburb of Paris, Haaretz reported Tuesday. The politician, 73-year-old Alain Ghozland, was found dead last week at an apartment owned by his mother in Creitel. Police traced DNA found at the crime scene to one of the suspects, while the other suspect’s…

This week’s edition of Temple Talk is not for the faint-hearted, as Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman discuss the brutal murder of Dafna Meir and the nature of Palestinian terror, in light of this week’s Torah reading of Parashat BeShalach, featuring the splitting of the Sea of Reeds and Israel’s song of praise as the nation…

The State Department on Tuesday backed Ambassador Dan Shapiro’s remarks castigating Israel over its alleged treatment of Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria. In his daily press briefing, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Shapiro’s comments were “nothing new”. Shapiro, who spoke Monday at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv,…

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group on Tuesday released 270 of an estimated 400 civilians, most of them women and children, who were kidnapped on the weekend in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Reuters reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the freeing of the citizens but also said at the same…

Israel’s main and most dangerous enemy is Iran, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) annual conference on Tuesday. “Our principal enemy is Iran, after I heard people here say here other things,” Ya’alon said, in a likely reference to comments by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who on…

The White House has “reason to believe” that missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson is “no longer in Iran”, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday, according to ABC News. According to the network, Earnest said the White House had mentioned that belief “several years ago.” Levinson, 68, a father of seven from Coral…

Michael Fragin updates you on everything you need to know about the behind the scenes of American politics. Listen to a discussion about targets and tactics used by the various candidates in the race for the Republican party leadership. Featuring: Ron Kampeas, JTA DC Bureau Chief and O.B. Murray, Republican political strategist. To listen to previous shows go…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is hosting a new art exhibit, entitled “Bridge to the World,” and comprised entirely of artwork made by Israeli adults living on the autistic spectrum. The artists, aged 21 and up, created their masterpieces with the help of the “Meital” Day and Employment Center in Jerusalem’s Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood. The Meital center works with…

Veteran news publication TIME Magazine used the word “plantation” Tuesday to describe Jewish-owned farms in Judea and Samaria, doubtlessly evoking the image of slave plantations in the pre-Civil War American South for many readers. The article by Karl Vick focused on the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which called on companies to make sure their…

Israel Police arrested on Tuesday a second radical left-wing activist following the revelations of a Channel 2 investigative program.  The program showed how Ezra Nawi of Ta’ayush, together with a leading B’Tselem activist, turned in to the Palestinian authorities Palestinian citizens who chose to sell land to Jews, leading the Arabs to be tortured and murdered. The activist detained on…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is hosting a new art exhibit, entitled “Bridge to the World,” and comprised entirely of artwork made by Israeli adults living on the autistic spectrum. The artists, aged 21 and up, created their masterpieces with the help of the “Meital” Day and Employment Center in Jerusalem’s Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood. The Meital center works with…

A day after US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro publicly tongue-lashed Israeli policy in Judea-Samaria, he met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.  Shapiro sparked outrage on Monday when he accused Israel of applying separate “standards” of justice for Israelis and Palestinians – a charge which the Prime Minister’s Office blasted as “unacceptable and incorrect.” However, according…

Most of the people who voted for the Zionist Union (Labor / Hatnua) and Meretz would not encourage French Jews to immigrate to Israel, a surprising new poll found. The poll, which is cited in conservative-nationalist website Mida, was carried out by pollster Prof. Avraham Diskin under the auspices of the Shaarei Mishpat college of…

Prof. Simha Goldin, father of slain IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, participated on Tuesday in the launch of a national exhibition for art department graduates of parochial schools in Jerusalem.  The exhibition displays works of art created in memory of Hadar Goldin, as well as photographs of Goldin’s own artwork, which were previously shown in art galleries.  Professor Goldin…

Loading… Two days after the brutal stabbing attack in which Dafna Meir lost her life, her friend Rina Ben Shabbat described the heavy sadness that has descended on the community of Otniel.  “We have lost a dear friend, an amazing woman with an amazing family,” Ben Shabbat told Arutz Sheva. “We are suffering tremendous pain and don’t believe something so…

Prof. Simha Goldin, father of slain IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, participated on Tuesday in the launch of a national exhibition for art department graduates of parochial schools in Jerusalem.  The exhibition displays works of art created in memory of Hadar Goldin, as well as photographs of Goldin’s own artwork, which were previously shown in art galleries.  Professor Goldin…

Former Likud minister Gideon Sa’ar offered harsh criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday afternoon, accusing him of remaining too passive in the face of risks to Israel’s security.  Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv, Sa’ar asserted, “You can’t achieve stability, let alone peace, by turning a…

The Knesset celebrated its 67 years of establishment as well as the jubilee year of its Givat Ram building with an “Open House” for the general public all day Tuesday.  Visitors met with about 80 Knesset members and engaged in various different activities, games, workshops, and discussions.  As guests built their own versions of the Knesset building out…

Rav Bezalel Rudinsky, rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yitzchok, and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ohr Reuven and Yeshivas Darchei Noam of Monsey, has joined in the development of a brand-new, American-style community in Ramat Givat Zeev, located minutes from Jerusalem. “The idea, bezras Hashem, is to help members of our community here in the States have…

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) admitted on Tuesday that, following the last election, he considered joining a national unity government headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “There was a moment after the election when I thought it would be worthwhile to see whether it was possible, together with Netanyahu, to take the country…

Saudi Arabia is not ruling out developing a nuclear bomb if its regional rival Iran obtains one, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. Asked if Saudi Arabia had discussed seeking a nuclear bomb in the event Iran managed to obtain one, al-Jubeir replied the country would do “whatever we…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization confirmed Tuesday the death of British jihadist “Jihadi John”, saying he was killed in a drone strike in their Syrian stronghold of Raqa in November. Born Mohammed Emwazi, he was known as the executioner of the jihadist group appearing masked in a string of videos showing the beheadings of Western hostages. In its online magazine…

A European Jewish Congress (EJC) delegation met Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss areas of concern to the Jewish community. Issues raised during the discussion included the rise of anti-Semitism around the world and the threat of global terror, which is frequently aimed at Jewish targets. “While Jews were once again a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid a condolence visit Tuesday to the family of Dafna Meir, who was murdered in a terror stabbing in Otniel on Sunday.  After the visit, Netanyahu met with heads of the heads of the regional council and members of the community’s security team, suggesting a fence be built around the town in southern…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett publicly criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday for their “passivity” in dealing with Israel’s threats, but in private conversations obtained by Channel 10 the minister is even more blunt.  “Bogie is a failed defense minister,” Bennett is heard telling associates. “He would be an excellent director-general of the…

Israel’s Supreme Court heard on Tuesday the appeal of disgraced former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who asked that an eight-month corruption prison sentence be cancelled, or at least served concurrently. Olmert is already facing 18 months in prison for a separate conviction on bribery, which he will begin on February 15. Tuesday’s hearing was over Olmert’s May 2015 conviction at the…

Former President Shimon Peres is expected to be released from Shiva Hospital at 11:30 am today (Tuesday). As he leaves, he will give a short statement to reporters from the hospital lobby. Ninety-two-year-old Peres suffered a minor heart attack last Thursday. He was rushed to Tel Hashomer hospital where “he underwent a cardiac catheterization during which…

The head of the social environmentalist caucus in the Knesset, MK Dov Khenin (Joint List), has requested an emergency meeting of the Knesset subcommittee for the protection of animals in response to the investigative report that was broadcast on Channel One’s “Second Look.” The broadcast dealt with the violent tactics used in Israel to hunt wild…

Periodic rain is expect to fall in northern and central Israel today (Tuesday), with possible isolated thunderstorms. Snow will fall on the Hermon, while strong winds will blow father south, possible reaching central Isreal. Temperatures continue to fall and are expected to be below the seasonal average. Flash floods are expected to hit the Judean…

In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Druze Zionist Council head Yosef Nasaridin expressed his anger with the leaders of the fight against the creation of a planned Druze community between Kibbutz Lavi and Tiberias. Nasaridin explained the the creation of the community is a necessary response to the young Druze population, partly because “the last Druze community that…

One of the most well known portraits of a Jewish Sage, that of the turbaned Rambam gazing placidly at the viewer, graces many of the places that bear his name – hospitals, school, medical centers, institutes, but did you know that it was first drawn by an American magazine illustrator named A.B. Frost in the…

During a very intensive search that was conducted throughout the day and into the late night hours on Monday, the IDF and Israel Security Agency successfully apprehended the terrorist who murdered Dafna Meir at the entrance to her home in Otniel, in the southern Har Hevron region of Judea. The arrest came late Monday night a full day…

Israeli officials are furious over the European Union’s decision last night (Monday) that its agreements with Israel will not apply to Judea and Samaria. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said, “The Europeans continue to act in a unilateral manner on all issues connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “This statement achieves the opposite effect of what…

Moroccan authorities have arrested a Belgian national of local origin directly linked to the attackers who carried out the Paris terrorist attacks in November, the Moroccan government said Monday, according to Reuters. The interior ministry did not provide the suspect’s name, giving only his initials in Arabic. The statement said he fought in Syria with…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) welcomed on Monday evening the European Union’s (EU) passing of the resolution which stipulates that any agreements signed with Israel will not apply to Judea and Samaria. The PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the EU decision was “a step forward towards accountability”, but also called on the EU to take…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is ranked third in popularity on social media for world leaders. The report, published by international communications company Burson-Marsteller, evaluated the online activity surrounding heads of state on social media. The high rank is determined by the high level of activity that the leader has on social media. Both Netanyahu…

English MP Caroline Lucas has submitted a proposal to express solidarity with Tair Kaminer, an Israeli teen who received a 20-day jail sentence for refusing to join the IDF. The motion states that “This house… applauds the courage, tenacity and principles of Tair Kaminer, and all other conscientious objectors, in taking a brave position in a country…

Police arrested 12 suspects in what is shaping up to be a very large international fraud scam targeting elderly people from the former Soviet Union. The arrests came as the result of an eight month long investigation. The suspects are believed to have defrauded their victims for a total sum of one million NIS ($250,000…

German Tornado jets deployed to Syria for reconnaissance missions can’t fly at night, Bild daily reported Tuesday in a new embarrassment for the defense ministry which has been battling equipment problems. The six aircraft sent to Syria are fitted with surveillance technology, and had been touted as being capable of taking high-resolution photos and infrared…

Sweden’s Prosecution Authority is opening a preliminary investigation into Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom for bribery, Reuters reports. Wallstrom, who is best known internationally for her diatribes against Israel, allegedly rented an apartment from the country’s largest labor union, Kommunal. In doing so, she skipped the years-long waiting list. The minister quickly responded by passing the…

Less than 48 hours after the deadly terror attack which rocked the small Hevron Hills town of Otniel, Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) dedicated two new kindergartens in the community. Bennett was in Otniel to pay a condolence call to the family of Dafna Meir, who was brutally stabbed to death in her home by…

Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the town of Otniel on Tuesday and paid his respects to the family of Dafna Meir who was killed on Sunday night when a 16 year old terrorist stabbed her in front of her children. “I met a wonderful family who possesses enormous spiritual strength. They are Zionist, patriotic, personable, and…

The NGO Regavim has responded sharply to US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro’s claim that Israel selectively enforces its laws for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. “At times it seems Israel has two standards of adherence to rule of law in the West Bank – one for Jews and one for Palestinians,” Shapiro claimed at an…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has welcomed the lifting of sanctions on his country in his first comments since the nuclear deal took effect on Sunday. However, the Iranian dictator reiterated his warnings against what he termed US “deceit,” underlining how the regime in Tehran still remains decidedly hostile towards America. “I reiterate the…

Farhana Rahman, a young Muslim woman from New York who is employed in an Israeli mobile app startup named Zula, posted a Facebook status full of boundless love for the state of Israel and its citizens Sunday. For those demoralized by the news these days, it is a true must-read. “As I am typing this,” she wrote…

The Knesset’s House Committee on Monday approved for a first reading of what has come to be nicknamed the “Oren Hazan Law” after the controversial Likud MK. The law, which was initiated by committee chairman MK David Bitan (Likud), would allow a Deputy Knesset Speaker to be dismissed from his role due to inappropriate behavior…

Whether people believe in a Creator or not, they like to make prophecies about the future. It seems to be part of who we are, and part of an innate need to try and control our destinies. The question is credibility. Anyone can prophesy, but only few actually do it with any significant accuracy. This…

Officials in Israel expressed outrage on Monday evening after the European Union (EU) passed a resolution stipulating that agreements with Israel will no longer apply to any areas over the 1949 Armistice borders. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to the decision and said, “The Europeans continue to act unilaterally with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian…

Minutes after Dafna Meir was brought to burial at Har Hamenuchot in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, Arutz Sheva spoke with Har Hevron regional council head Yochai Damari about the feelings in southern Judea as Meir’s murderer remains on the loose. Meir, 39, worked as a nurse at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva, and was a mother to six…

Officials in Israel expressed outrage on Monday evening after the European Union (EU) passed a resolution stipulating that agreements with Israel will no longer apply to any areas over the 1949 Armistice borders. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to the decision and said, “The Europeans continue to act unilaterally with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian…

Saeb Erekat announced his “shock and surprise” to Channel 10 on Monday, two days after it was reported one of the senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official’s aides had been arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel.  The suspect was arrested by PA security forces in Erekat’s offices on Saturday, on charges he had leaked information about the PA’s…

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz returned home to Israel on Monday following an unusual visit to Abu Dhabi, Channel 2 reports. According to the report, Steinitz held meetings with the top United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials to discuss business interests shared by both parties.  The UAE and Israel have reportedly been negotiating quietly for some time, mainly due to…

President Reuven Rivlin addressed on Monday the ninth annual Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference, and focused on the threat of terrorist organizations, in particular the Islamic State (ISIS), among the Israeli Arab population. “The Islamic State is already here, that is no longer a secret. I am not speaking about territories bordering the…

A year after Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, neither his own mysterious demise nor the politically explosive case he was investigating appear any closer to being solved. Nisman, the lead investigator into the horrific 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, was found dead in his bathroom on January 18, 2015, a .22-caliber revolver at his side. He…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat began a special voyage Monday to inaugurate an ancient Torah scroll to its new home. The Torah was donated in memory of the late Shira Barki by Professor Mark Weinberg of Montreal, and will be given to the synagogue founded by the municipality for the Ethiopian community in Jerusalem. Professor Mark…

The Prime Minister’s Office reacted angrily Monday night to US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro’s charge the Jewish state holds Israelis and Palestinians to different standards of law in Judea and Samaria.  “The ambassador’s remarks, on a day in which a murdered mother of six was buried and a pregnant woman was stabbed – are unacceptable and incorrect,”…

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, who begins serving a prison sentence in February for corruption, struck a deal Monday with the prosecution to avoid another jail term.  Israeli public radio said Olmert’s lawyer reached the agreement on behalf of the 70-year-old with the prosecutor general who had accused Olmert of obstructing justice. According to the report, Olmert had tried to…

British Prime Minister David Cameron has provoked criticism after announcing his plans to help Muslim women learn to speak English fluently, while simultaneously warning they could be deported if their language skills do not improve. Cameron announced a £20 million (about $28.5 million) fund for language classes to help teach 22 percent (190,000) of Muslim women in England who…

The Ukrainian government has threatened to place sanctions on Israeli citizens or companies doing business in Russian-occupied Crimea, Haaretz reported Monday.  In an announcement published in both English and Ukrainian on its website Friday, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel charged it had obtained information that Israelis entering Crimea in violation of Ukrainian law were conducting business with “illegal authorities.” “The…

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro voiced a particularly sharp attack against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria on Monday, accusing Israeli authorities of holding them to different standards of law.  He expressed the unusually harsh criticism during a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv.  Shapiro condemned two brutal stabbing attacks…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely met Monday afternoon with India’s Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj. The meeting was held in a pleasant atmosphere against the backdrop of rapprochement between the two countries. At the opening session, Hotovely expressed her appreciation for India’s stance alongside Israel in the war against Islamic terror. She thanked the minister for…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday while at the scene of the earlier stabbing attack in the Gush Etzion community of Tekoa.  “There is no acting prime minister in Israel and that’s why there is terrorism and Jews are killed every day,” Liberman blasted, before urging the Yesha Council to…

The Zionist organization Im Tirzu applied to the Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev (Likud) and Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Dov Kalmanovich, and requested that the “Nakba” film festival sponsored by Zochrot be cancelled. The film festival is set to take place on Tuesday at Jerusalem’s Cinematheque theater, and commemorates the “Catastrophe” – namely the establishment of…

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Monday promised Tehran will continue building its controversial ballistic missile program in “defiance” of new US sanctions. Ansari’s statement, reported on the state-run PressTV, came just hours after America on Sunday evening imposed fresh sanctions on the missile program following breaches of UN sanctions. The new sanctions target 11 entities…

A senior army source revealed on Monday morning that in the wake of the brutal murder of Dafna Meir at Otniel in the southern Har Hevron region of Judea the night before, the security establishment will examine anew the entry of Palestinian Arab workers into Jewish towns. According to the source, cited by Kol Yisrael radio, the…

Ran Dahan, chairman of the Otniel town council, on Monday morning eulogized Dafna Meir, who was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist at the entrance to her home in the town the night before. “A lowly son of satan yesterday murdered Dafna Meir, a resident of the town and a member of the council,…

The Finance Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality reached an agreement on Sunday night to increase funding for Jerusalem’s growth and prosperity in 2016. Both say that the deal is intended to prevent the laying off of thousand of municipal workers employed by the city, and the removal of budget cuts from the city itself. In…

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called to stop the discrimination against Muslim women from within their own communities, and help them learn English to gain independence and better integrate. According to Cameron as quoted by The Times, it is time to confront the “backward attitudes” of Muslim men who have “damaging control” over the…

The Finance Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality reached an agreement on Sunday night to increase funding for Jerusalem’s growth and prosperity in 2016. Both say that the deal is intended to prevent the laying off of thousand of municipal workers employed by the city, and the removal of budget cuts from the city itself. In…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) on Sunday presented the weekly Cabinet meeting with an index of Palestinian Authority (PA) incitement, and presented his plan to expose the complicity in fueling terror to the international community. Erdan, in his role as Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister, showed the ministers examples of incitement to terrorism seen…

E-commerce giant eBay and USHOPSmotors, a company which specializes in importing vehicles from the United States to Israel, on Sunday announced a new joint platform which allows Israelis to buy cars and motorcycles from abroad on eBay. The new joint interface of eBay and USHOPSmotors makes the process simpler and quicker. Until today, importing a…

The United Nations Security Council on Sunday cancelled the sanctions that were imposed on Iranian bank Sepah and its international subsidiary Sepah International, the Russian TASS news agency reports. Sepah was put on the international sanctions list on March 24, 2007, on charges of offering financial support to the Iran Aviation Industries Organization and its…

The United Nations Security Council on Sunday cancelled the sanctions that were imposed on Iranian bank Sepah and its international subsidiary Sepah International, the Russian TASS news agency reports. Sepah was put on the international sanctions list on March 24, 2007, on charges of offering financial support to the Iran Aviation Industries Organization and its…

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said that the United States and Iran would “deepen cooperation” in the efforts to locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent missing in Iran. Levinson, 68, a father of seven from Coral Springs, Florida, vanished during a trip to Iran in 2007, disappearing on Kish Island off Iran’s coast.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is continuing his efforts to prevent a vote on Monday on a European Union (EU) resolution that distinguishes between Israel-proper and the territories it captured during the 1967 Six Day War and which could lead to new sanctions against Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. The resolution, being promoted by Sweden…

Nine suspects were arrested in Israel on Monday morning, in what appears to be the uncovering of a cartel that attempted to create a monopoly on Jewish group trips to Poland.   The cartel seems to have joined together the leading travel agencies that work on group trips to Poland in order to eliminate competition…

Education Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett delivered an emotional eulogy Monday at the funeral of Dafna Meir, who was stabbed to death in her home Sunday. He cited the week’s Torah portion which tells how the Israelites were surrounded by light, wherever they were, while the Egyptians were afflicted with darkness. “In the great…

The massive sandstorm due for Monday has already caused air contamination levels in the coastal region and south to spike, as dust particulates clog up the airways. The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced Monday that the haze has cause air pollution throughout the country, with a particular rise in pollution measured in the afternoon in the…

Loading… Security forces including the IDF, Israeli Police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) are continuing the manhunt for the terrorist who murdered Dafna Meir on Sunday at her home in Otniel.  The operational assumption is that the terrorist escaped from Otniel immediately after committing the murder, and that he is hiding out in one of…

Natan Meir, whose wife Dafna was murdered Sunday by a knife-wielding terrorist, was the last to eulogize her at her funeral Monday morning. It was a short, poetic, extremely touching tribute to a mother of six – including two adopted children – and a dedicated nurse. “We met as soldiers, on the border with Lebanon,”…

The city of Hadera will be celebrating its quasquicentennial anniversary next week. As the city turns 125 years old, it will begin commemorating the momentous occasion with events that will take place throughout the entire year beginning on Tu B’Shevat. Hadera Mayor Zvika Gendelman appointed Deputy Mayor Hedva Yehezkeli in charge of the celebratory events which are…

A New York City Orthodox synagogue, located just blocks from the Empire State Building, recently considered building a 19-story ‘SynaCondo’ – but eventually turned down the idea. The West Side Jewish Center – Congregation Beth Israel, founded in 1890, has been located at 347 West 34th Street since 1925. The neighborhood is undergoing massive changes,…

At least one person was killed and three others wounded Monday when two mortar shells, likely fired from Syria, landed near a school in the Turkish town of Kilis on the border, officials said. The mayor of Kilis, Hasan Kara, was quoted as saying by Turkey’s NTV television that all schools in the town had been evacuated and the shelling had most likely…