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In final efforts to avoid a nationwide strike of Egged busses due to start Monday, a series of meetings were held Sunday between officials. Director General of the Ministry of Transport Uzi Yitzhaki, Histadrut labor union Chairman Avi Nissenkorn, and Egged chairman Avi Friedman met in an attempt to prevent the strike. The struggle began after the…

Pope Francis on Sunday made his first visit to a synagogue as pontiff, citing an “unbreakable” bond between Jews and Christians as hundreds of armed security personnel were deployed for the Rome visit. Francis is the third pope to visit the Great Synagogue in Italy’s capital after John-Paul II in 1986 and Benedict XVI in 2010. Located just across the River…

Har Hevron regional council head Yochai Damari responded on Sunday night to the murder in Otniel, in which Dafna Meir, a 39-year-old mother of six, was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist at the entrance to her home. “This evening a resident of the town of Otniel was murdered, when a terrorist pounced on…

As one of the many ways that Fatah marked the 51st anniversary of its “Launch,” officials named four unique terrorists as female role models:  Dalal Mughrabi, Ayyat Al-Akhras , Wafa Idris, and Fatima Barnawi. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), each of the four female Fatah terrorists was chosen because they were unique in some…

An Israeli woman was murdered in a stabbing attack late Sunday afternoon in Otniel, a town in the southern Har Hevron region of Judea. The woman has since been identified as 39-year-old Dafna Meir, a mother to six children, two of them foster children. She waas initially critically wounded in the attack and succumbed to her wounds shortly after. The Arab terrorist…

With the murder of a 39-year-old mother of six in Otniel in southern Judea on Sunday, the death toll in the current wave of Arab terrorism has risen to 29 murdered. The first to be murdered in the terror wave was Alexander Levlovitz, who was murdered on September 13, Rosh Hashanah Eve. Levlovitz was murdered by Arab terrorists who hurled…

The US imposed new sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile program on Sunday, even as the international nuclear sanctions were lifted on Tehran following the controversial deal sealed last summer. US President Barack Obama welcomed the lifting of the sanctions, saying, “this is a good day because once again we’re seeing what’s possible with international diplomacy.” “For…

Since the major escalation in Arab terrorist attacks in Israel began at the start of October last year, Israelis have consistently complained about the use of social media to incite terrorism and glorify “martyrdom,” and the lack of enforcement by social media companies. Indeed, analysts and Israeli officials alike have noted that the current wave…

Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, accompanied with Minister Maryam Monsef, will meet on Sunday, January 17, with the board of the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association and will attend a private reception with community leaders and an open house of the Masjid Al-Salaam in Peterborough, Ontario. Masjid al-Salaam was severely damaged in a fire on November…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) on Sunday signed an order banning an event that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was planning to hold in Jerusalem, the Israeli capital, in a blatant breach of sovereignty. The event, on the topic of the “rejuvenation of the Palestinian cultural institutions in Jerusalem,” was planned to be held at the Palestinian…

The nationwide strike of Egged busses, which was due to start Monday, was averted on Sunday night following a series of last minute marathon meetings. Histadrut chairman Avi Nissenkorn, the Director General of the Transpiration Ministry Uzi Yitzhaki, Transport Workers Union chairman Avi Edri, and the Deputy Director of the Transportation Ministry’s budget department Udi Adiri met…

The Har Hevron Regional Council announced on Sunday night that Palestinian Arab workers will not be permitted to enter the localities in the area on Monday. The move is in response to Sunday’s terrorist attack in the town of Otniel, in which 39-year-old Dafna Meir was murdered in her home in front of her children.…

Three American citizens were reportedly kidnapped in Iraq’s capital city Baghdad on Sunday night by members of a local militia. Informed sources in Baghdad confirmed the abduction took place in Baghdad’s southern regions earlier in the day, according to Al-Arabiya. The US State Department said it was aware of the reports, and is currently trying to find the…

Last week, a Belz yeshiva student found a small bag containing 130,000 shekels (over $32,600) in cash at a bus station in Haifa. Without thinking twice, he decided he would wait for its owner while trying to come up with other ways to return the lost item should its owner not show up. As the minutes ticked…

Hevron activist Baruch Marzel on Sunday night spoke about Dafna Meir’s murder from the site of Ganedi Kofman’s lethal stabbing outside the Cave of Machpelah, where Marzel has been protesting for the past five weeks. Meir was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist at the entrance to her home in Otniel, in the southern Har…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) responded on Sunday night to the murder of Dafna Meir, a 39-year-old woman who was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist at her home in Otniel in southern Judea. “The murder today in Otniel teaches us once again that we are facing a cruel and ruthless enemy. Security forces, the…

Patrol officers from the Old City’s David precinct, found inciteful graffiti on a Christian hostel in the old city as well as on one of the outer walls of Dormition Abbey. One of the graffitied writings said “death to Christians enemies of Israel”. The other vandalizing writings included various curses against Christianity. The graffiti was…

A joint initiative proposed by Sweden, Ireland and  other counties in the European Union (EU), looks to further exclude Judea and Samaria from Israel. The discussion, which will take place on Monday, seeks to limit all agreements made between the EU and Israel, by excluding Judea and Samaria from those agreements.   Should a decision…

Three Israeli Arabs were stopped outside of a Jerusalem synagogue on Sunday morning carrying large knives.  The suspects were approaching the Heichal Yaakov synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe that was full of worshipers who were praying their morning prayers.  The three are suspected of attempting to carry out a large attack on worshipers, they…

Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem continues in his endeavor to incite Palestinian violence against Israel. In a recent conference which he held in Lebanon Hanna broadcast his speech to the Palestinian people to return and take control of Jerusalem.   The conference, which is the Third International Conference for…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday urged new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile testing program. “Iran is still violating UN Security Council resolutions with its ballistic missile program, which should be met with new sanctions designations and firm resolve,” Clinton said in a statement quoted by the Reuters news agency. She said…

The international community must not be blinded by the optimism expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with regards to Iran, Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon warned Saturday night. Danon’s warning came hours after the UN’s atomic agency said that Iran has fulfilled its initial obligations under the terms of the nuclear deal reached…

Qatar on Saturday provided more than 1,000 apartments to residents of Gaza whose homes were destroyed in the 2014 war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group, AFP reports. The United Nations says the 50-day conflict, which was fueled by Hamas’s ongoing rocket attacks on southern Israel, left 100,000 Palestinian Arabs homeless. “Today, we are…

An Islamic State (ISIS) group attack Saturday in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor killed at least 85 civilians and 50 regime forces, a monitor said, according to AFP. Syria’s state news agency SANA denounced the attack as a “massacre”, saying around 300 civilians” were killed in the onslaught. If confirmed it would be…

The implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is “a dangerous moment for America and our allies”, the American pro-Israel lobby AIPAC warned on Sunday night. In a statement, AIPAC said the implementation “is a turning point in Iran’s strength as a terrorist state and in its ability to pursue regional dominance.…

An argument broke out on Sunday morning between Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is also acting as the Foreign Minister. The fight revolved around the Foreign Ministry’s comments and attempt to boycott Bennett.   Bennett attacked the Prime Minister over his hurry to distance himself from Bennett’s comment about “the DNA…

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz repeated Sunday that as president, “on the first day of office,” he intends to “tear to shreds this catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal.” Speaking to Americans for Peace Prosperity and Security in South Carolina, Cruz noted that under the deal, Iran gets advance notice before inspections. “Now, let’s just take that component,” he said.…

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri signed an order on Thursday to turn the Arraba Local Council into an official Arab city in Israel. The new city will boast a population of some 22,800 people and have an area of 8.1 kilometers according to the Federation of  Local Authorities in Israel’s website. Deri decided on the matter…

An Arab terrorist attempted to carry out a stabbing attack a the Samaria Regional Brigade Junction in Samaria (also known as Bahad 3), but was shot dead by soldiers before he was able to harm anyone. It is the second attempted attack of the day Sunday, after a potentially major serious attack was thwarted outside a…

Hundreds of armed police and security personnel were deployed in Rome on Sunday as Pope Francis prepared to visit the city’s main synagogue, where he will meet members of the Italian capital’s Jewish community. Rome’s Great Synagogue is located just across the River Tiber from the Vatican, in an area still known as the Ghetto where under the orders of some of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel would not allow it to obtain nuclear weapons, after sanctions were lifted under Tehran’s historic nuclear deal with global powers. “Israel’s policy has been and will remain exactly what has been followed: to not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said during a cabinet…

The Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS or IS) abducted at least 400 civilians including women and children after seizing territory in a deadly assault on Syria’s eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said Sunday. “After their attack on Deir Ezzor (on Saturday), IS abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the Al-Baghaliyeh suburb…

Jerusalem’s District Attorney submitted an indictment on Sunday morning to the district court against three Israelis, one of whom is a resident of Beit El. The three, one of whom is a minor aged 17, are accused of unruly behavior, assault on a car and endangering human life in a transportation lane. According to the…

During a key moment in the latest Republican candidates’ debate, Ted Cruz accused Donald Trump of having “New York values,” after making similar statements on several occasions in the week before the debate. “There are many, many wonderful working men and women in the state of New York. But everyone understands that the values in…

At a recent event held in honor of Lone Soldiers from North America all of whom are alumni from the youth group known as NCSY which is run by the Orthodox Union (OU), OU Israel Director Avi Berman spoke to Arutz Sheva about the important contribution that youngsters who choose to come and serve in…

The rabbis in charge of David’s Tomb, led by Rabbis Yosef Berger and Aharon Yitzhak Stern, have appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to immediately step in and stop the desecration of graves near the site of King David’s tomb on Mount Zion. In their letter, the two claim that the archaeological digs that are…

The Knesset requested to upgrade the appearance of its Weil Courtyard. From a number of submissions, the landscape architect Ran Meron won the competition to design the garden. The Professional Committee, under the leadership of Knesset director Ronen Plot, chose the winning design. The project will be completed within the next few days and involves…

Dutch police have arrested a former soldier suspected of killing ISIS jihadists while fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria last year, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday.   The 47-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested on Wednesday in the eastern Dutch city of Arnhem and appeared in a Rotterdam court on Friday where…

Four American citizens imprisoned by Iran have been released Saturday in a prisoner exchange with the United States. US officials confirmed reports published earlier Saturday that Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, Marine veteran Amir Hekmati, Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, and Nosratollah Khosrawi have all been freed by the Islamic regime. The prisoner swap, which will also see seven Iranians jailed…

Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel (Likud) will submit a decision to tomorrow’s (Sunday) Cabinet meeting, instructing public services to accept documents through means other than faxes. After the decision is approved, all government offices will be instructed to accept documents through e-mail and all other forms of digital media. This will not prevent people…

A toddler about 18 months old, drowned in a water reservoir at the entrance to Modi’in Ilit today (Saturday). Paramedics and rescue workers revived the child and evacuated him to Asaf Harofeh Hospital in critical condition. Doctors then did their best but were unable to save his life. “In a quarry near a pond we saw…

The Foreign Ministry’s workers committee is threatening to not work with Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), unless he apologizes for his recent comments. “The State of Israel’s Education Minister expressed himself in a distorted manner against the Foreign Ministry’s employees. The meaning of his demand for Ministry workers to pass DNA checks casts doubt…

Meretz head Zehava Galon has criticized Israel Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman for his recent comments against extreme leftist organizations. “With my full desire to remain ‘politically correct’ and to be police, there are things that you must say honestly: As far as I’m concerned, these two bodies are not about free speech, but greed,” said…

At least 35 Syrian soldiers and pro-regime militiamen were killed Saturday in a multi-front attack by the Islamic State group on the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor said.   The fighting came as regime forces battled ISIS in the northern province of Aleppo, repelling a jihadist assault and killing at least 16 fighters…

MK Hilik Bar (Zionist Union) refuses to be bowed by Itamar Ben-Gvir’s threats against him on the Knesset Channel. “So? I thought that I had seen everything. Until Itamar Ben-Gvir called me a provocator and threatened to sue me for libel. If it wasn’t sad it would be funny. My confrontation with Ben-Gvir, the top…

Hear in full the Prime Minister’s disclosures to the foreign press . And: How B’Tselem, the self styled “Information Center for Human Rights in the occupied territories” catches Arabs who sell properties to Jews and has them tortured and killed.              Also: Corruption by, and prison for the highest in the land. Plus: Trump’s lack of substance and Clinton’s hidden…

Iran is still seeking to achieve nuclear military capabilities, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Saturday night, after Iran’s deal with world powers was implemented. “Even after signing the nuclear deal, Iran has not relinquished its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons, and continues to act to destabilize the Middle East and spread terror throughout the world…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that Iran has fulfilled its initial obligations under the terms of the nuclear deal reached with world powers last July, paving the way for the first stage of sanctions relief. The IAEA’s announcement came just hours after a breakthrough prisoner swap with the United States saw four…

An assistant to Saeb Erekat, a long-time senior official in the Palestinian Authority (PA), has been arrested by PA security forces on suspicion of spying on behalf of Israel. Erekat has acknowledged the facts of the case, which were published by media based in Ramallah. The suspect is accused of working for Israel for the…

A synagogue in Tehran collapsed yesterday (Friday), while 16 people were inside praying. No one was injured or killed, though two cars were damaged. Firefighters told official Iranian news that the crash occurred because excavations for a nearby building caused a crack in the synagogue wall. Several members of the community told Kikar Shabbat that the incident…

Tomorrow (Sunday), the Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss Jewish Home director Shuli Mualem-Refaeli’s bill demanding an end to businesses refusing to provide service to residents of Judea and Samaria. According to the proposal, service providers will be forbidden from discriminating against customers due to their place of residents. It applies to all businesses with at…

A story about a California nurse who was given a winning Powerball ticket by her Jewish philanthropist boss has turned out to be false, ABC News reported Friday, citing the Pomona nurse’s family. The family of the 62-year-old woman said the nurse’s son played a prank on his mother. On Thursday, a spokesperson for nursing…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry is making last-ditch efforts to block a pending European Union (EU) resolution that emphasizes the distinction between Israel-proper and the territories it captured during the 1967 Six Day War, Haaretz revealed Friday. Adoption of the resolution could lead to new sanctions against Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, senior officials in Jerusalem and…

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom is making headlines not only in Israel but also at home over her flat in Stockholm, AFP reported Friday. According to the Aftonbladet daily, Wallstrom was one of the left’s “high-profile figures” who were rented apartments in the Swedish capital by the country’s largest trade union, Kommunal, bypassing a wait…

The White House is not quite ready to suspend economic sanctions against Iran, its spokesman said Friday, adding that Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal it signed with world powers in July hasn’t been verified. According to The Associated Press (AP), White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Iran is making important progress toward curbing its…

Two Palestinian Arabs were shot dead by Israeli forces during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday, AFP reported, citing the Gazan health ministry. The two were identified as Mohammed Abu Zaida, 18, who was reportedly shot in the  neck and Mohammad Qita, 26, who was reportedly hit in the stomach. 15 other Palestinians…

Shmuel Rada, father of Tair Rada who was murdered nine years ago at the age of 13, was laid to rest on Friday afternoon in the cemetery in the town of Katzrin in northern Israel. Rada passed away hours earlier after a lengthy battle with cancer. Just one day before his passing, Rada attended the…

Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu on Thursday night responded for the first time to the latest inflammatory comments of Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom against Israel, which were made on Tuesday. Wallstrom called to investigate the Jewish state for “executing” Palestinian Arabs, in an attempt to delegitimize the actions of security forces killing Arab terrorists as they conduct…

Recently appointed Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) signed on Thursday an order forbidding Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the banned Islamic Movement in Israel, as well as his deputy Kamal Khatib, and several other activists in the group, to exit the country . Deri signed the order after determining that there is a real concern that if…

The Jewish Agency revealed on Thursday that the number of Jews who made Aliyah to Israel from Western Europe has reached an all-time high. According to the figures, 9,880 Western European Jews immigrated to Israel in 2015 – the highest number ever recorded. The agency believes these high numbers are an outcome of increased anti-Semitic…

A German task force investigating the provenance of a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard of hundreds of stolen works said Thursday that only five had been proved to be looted thus far, and defended its slow progress. The government-appointed panel presented its report on the 500 pieces of suspect origin among the more than 1,200 artworks in the secret collection discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s…

Egged employees announced that as of Monday, all drivers will cease company bus operations as part of a nationwide strike following a dispute with management. The Histradrut trade union claimed that the announcement was made following “unilateral measures taken by the Company’s management and (after) the negotiations blew up between the parties.” According to employees, the core…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part on Thursday in a unique ceremony, writing in the last letters of a new Torah scroll dedicated in memory of fallen Israeli soldiers. The event was a continuation of a ceremony last August at the Kotel (Western Wall) Plaza, in which 73 Torah scrolls were dedicated to the soldiers who…

French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is suing Madonna’s ex boyfriend, Brahim Zaibat, for taking an unflattering selfie photo with Le Pen which he says led to his defeat in a key election in December. Le Pen, 87, was fast asleep on a plane when Zaibat, 29, took the photo. Zaibat shared the photo on…

The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday that any side in Syria that has deliberately used starvation as a weapon has committed a “war crime.” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, speaking in Qatar, said that those responsible should be prosecuted. His comments came amid growing concern for citizens trapped in the Syrian town…

The United Nations human rights chief said on Thursday that any side in Syria that has deliberately used starvation as a weapon has committed a “war crime.” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, speaking in Qatar, said that those responsible should be prosecuted. His comments came amid growing concern for citizens trapped in the Syrian town…

A French judge charged the machete-wielding teen that attacked a Jewish teacher with “attempted assassination linked to a terrorist organization” on Wednesday night. The anti-terrorism section of the prosecutor’s office in Paris announced the charges two days after the 15-year-old supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS) assaulted a Jewish teacher in Marseille. The teenager, an ethnic…

The Likud’s election committee on Thursday evening confirmed the decision of the Likud court and declared Prime Minister and Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu as the party’s candidate for prime minister of the 21st Knesset. The court ruled on Wednesday that the party would not hold leadership primaries, two days after it was determined that Netanyahu…

How can you best plan for retirement in Israel? On the show, Doug discusses retirement planning, including: • When should you start to take Social Security?  How to get regular income from your investments to supplement your pensions? How to maintain U.S. brokerage and IRA accounts while living in Israel? Bestselling author Jay Papasan, co-author of “The One…

A new policy enacted by the Reconstructionist movement  of Judaism has had no impact on the membership of more than 93% of the movement’s rabbis. The new policy, enacted three and a half months ago, in the middle of the Sukkot holiday, allows the ordination of students in its rabbinical school even if they are inter-married…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday spoke out in support of the so-called “Transparency Law”, which would require Israeli NGOs who receive more than half their funding from foreign states to disclose their sources of funding and identify themselves as “foreign agents” when lobbying MKs. “I do not understand how excessive transparency is anti-democratic. How…

A Lebanese military tribunal on Thursday ordered the release on bail of a former cabinet minister accused of working with Syria to launch “terrorist” attacks, a court judgment said. Michel Samaha, who was information minister from 1992 to 1995, would be released in exchange for a bail payment of 150 million Lebanese pounds ($100,000), according…

A lawsuit filed this week on behalf of several atheists is calling on the American government to remove “In God We Trust” from US money, claiming the phrase is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed on Monday in Akron, Ohio, by Sacramento attorney Michael Newdow, who in the past failed at least twice in lawsuits against the…

Defense officials revealed on Wednesday that China’s military will likely dispatch troops to take part in the global campaign against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Syria and Iraq. China is worried about a growing trend among the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of western China, which has increasingly become a hotbed of support for…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met Thursday evening with European Parliament President Martin Schulz in Berlin. “Countries and people in Europe cannot say that they oppose anti-Semitism and in the same breath be anti-Israeli,” said Edelstein, noting the recent EU move to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. Edelstein stressed that Israel can…

Rivka Epstein-Hattin was raised in a home which combined a strong Jewish identity with an appreciation for great general culture and quality music. Mature for her years, Rivka made a choice to sacrifice the warmth of her family for a proper Jewish education, and spent most of her later childhood years living far from home. …

Even as Islamic State (ISIS) is suffering greater losses in Syria and Iraq it is increasing the pace of its attacks worldwide in a troubling trend, according to a top US general. General Lloyd Austin, head of the Central Command (CENTCOM) overseeing Middle East operations, claimed ISIS attacks this week in Istanbul and Jakarta are signs the group is…

The latest round of Republican presidential debates Thursday night featured the first outright clash between frontrunners Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), as the two traded blows after having largely refrained from direct confrontations in the race until now. In the debate on Fox News, the tensions between the two were palpable as the polls…

A suicide bomber who blew himself up during the police raid following the jihadist attacks in Paris was a Belgian-Moroccan man also suspected of being one of the gunmen in the November rampage, a prosecutor said Thursday, according to AFP. Chakib Akrouh, 25, was identified from DNA matched to his mother, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins…

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Thursday addressed this week’s incident in which a group of American sailors were detained by Iran after their Navy boats strayed into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf. According to Carter, who was quoted by The Associated Press (AP), it appears a navigational error caused the crews to accidentally…

MK Merav Michaeli of the Zionist Union on Thursday spoke out against the call to Jews in Marseille, France, to stop wearing kippot (skullcaps) in public following this week’s machete attack on a Jewish teacher in the city. The President of the Jewish community in Marseilles, Zvi Amar, earlier this week stated that Jews in…

“And G-d spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt, saying: HACHODESH HAZEH LACHEM… This month (of Nisan, during which you will be taken out of Egypt) shall be FOR YOU the first of your months; it is the first FOR YOU of the months of the year.” G-d gave us a magnificent…

An American Jewish philanthropist reportedly bought one of the winning tickets in the Powerball lottery for one of his employees at a California nursing home. According to reports on Thursday, a nurse from Pomona who won a split of the record-breaking $1.59 billion Powerball jackpot was given the ticket by her boss, nursing home owner…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday sent a letter to Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, asking that he ensure a greater level of respect for Israel after Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s latest inflammatory comments on Tuesday. ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt complained over the way Wallstrom called for an investigation of Israel for “executing” Palestinian Arabs, in an attempt to delegitimize…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has maintained its libelous claims that Israel poisoned arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat in 2004, and gave them renewed expression on a recent children’s TV show. In the “Children’s Talk” show on official PA TV late last week, a young girl said “the Jews killed Arafat,” and was given immediate backing by the…

“Hashem granted the people favor in the eyes of Egypt; moreover, the man Moshe was very great in the Land of Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.” The Ramban divides this Posuk into two separate parts. The fist part relates to the fact, “that the people of…

Shmuel Rada, the bereaved father of Tair Rada who was murdered in 2006 at the age of 13 at her school in Katzrin on the Golan Heights, passed away on Friday after an extended battle with cancer. Rada passed away just one day after attending the dedication of a synagogue in his daughter’s honor in…

Yisrael Beytenu activists together with MK Oded Porer of the party protested on Friday in front of the Swedish embassy in Tel Aviv, in a demand that Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom quit after her latest inflammatory comments against Israel. Porer, who formerly served as director of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, said, “the Swedish Foreign Minister in…

In yet another blow to the BDS movement seeking to economically assault the Jewish state with international boycotts, the Association of American Universities (AAU) on Thursday issued a statement affirming it rejects academic boycotts of Israel. The statement began by noting how the American Anthropological Association in November approved a resolution calling to boycott Israeli…

Two weeks ago Hadar Klein was sitting at Hasimta bar on busy Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, celebrating a friend’s birthday and excited over her imminent plans to open her own pilates studio – then suddenly, Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem filled the air with gunshots. Klein told Yedioth Aharonoth on Friday that despite being shot…

Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was making an “excellent” recovery on Friday after treatment for a heart problem, his surgeon said. “His condition is excellent, the widening of the artery was successful,” professor Victor Guerta, who performed cardiac catheterization on Peres at Sheba hospital near Tel Aviv, told public radio. “He is feeling well this morning…and we…

New figures released by Temple Mount activists reveal that police have escalated their arrests of Jews at the holiest site in Judaism, with a total of 59 Jews arrested in the last seven months. Another 25 Jews were detained for questioning by Jerusalem district police leaving a total of 84 arrested or detained, according to the…

Private Niv Galam, a 19-year-old soldier from Migdal Haemek in the north and a father of two, was killed after being hit by a car on Thursday night as he made his way home from the IDF base he serves at – but his tragic death may have been avoidable. Galam was hit at Ilaniya Junction, located…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) is planning on submitting a bill to cancel section 2 in paragraph 4 of the Criminal Procedure Law, which allows exceptional cases of “private criminal complaints.” Normally, criminal cases are prosecuted by the state, regardless of the crime victim’s desires. Private citizens are only allowed to bring civil cases.…

Israel’s ninth President, Shimon Peres was admitted to Tel Hashomer Hospital on Thursday morning. Early reports say that the admission was due to chest pains. Peres who is 92 years old, is currently conscious. Peres’ personal assistant, Ayelet Frish told Yediot news outlet that “He woke up this morning with chest pains. The paramedic from the…

Three police officers and three civilians have been killed so far in a combined attack occurring over multiple locations in Jakarta, Indonesia. The attacks involved six bombs in different locations throughout the city, and gunfights have broken out between terrorists and police. Early reports on the country’s local media outlets as well as Reuters have stated that…

The IDF has found that the deterrent provided by destroying the houses of terrorists is being eroded. Not only has the Palestinian Authority (PA) begun to create social initiatives to raise money to rebuild the homes of destroyed terrorists, but the Israel Security Agency has found that many terrorists commit their attacks in the hopes…

Again and again, Israel has been attacked for its treatment of Palestinian refugees, from the War of Independence up to today. However, a new study is showing that the same countries which attack and criticize Israel for its actions, treat their own refugees worse than Israel does the Palestinians. This conclusion comes from examining other…

Australia has formally rejected a request from the United States for more military help to tackle ISIS, arguing it had already made a “substantial” contribution to the fight. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter in December asked coalition partners battling the jihadists and other militants in Iraq and Syria for a greater commitment following the Paris attacks in which 130…

As Iran and the six world powers prepare for “implementation day” of their nuclear deal, the American House of Representatives on Wednesday approved Republican-backed legislation that would give Congress greater oversight of the landmark nuclear agreement, reports The Associated Press (AP). Lawmakers voted 191-106 to approve the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act, spurning a veto…

Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed on Wednesday that Iran has removed the calandria, or central vessel, of its nuclear reactor at Arak, and it will be filled with concrete within hours. Iranian media reported earlier this week that the Islamic Republic had removed the core of the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor, the fate of…

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid on Wednesday met with the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, as part of a series of meetings in Brussels with EU officials. The purpose of the meetings is to lead a wide-ranging move against the activities of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and…

It’s no secret in the 21st century that when large audiences and businesses take to an idea or a concept, more often than not something strange happens – the concept drives the success of new ideas that in themselves are based on the original plan. Although this sounds confusing, the Israeli economy and creative industries…

Breaking the Silence and Meretz have announced that it will hold an event at Tel Aviv University next Sunday, in which its members will read out testimonies of soldiers to showcase alleged crimes and unethical behavior on the part of the IDF. In response, students associated with the Likud and Im Tirtzu activist group requested permission to…

A high ranking Egyptian military official said that the Egyptian military has thwarted an attempted terror attack by ISIS supporters in the Sinai peninsula.  “Our forces began to actively pursue terrorist targets as of this [Thursday] morning, as we know that it was their intention to carry out an attack.”  Channel 10 news reported that Egyptian…

In a previously unnoticed video, former Foreign Ministry director and ambassador Alon Liel told leftist activists how he came very close to tipping a critical UN vote against Israel. Liel told the activists that he advised Palestinian Authority and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), through a contact person, to call three heads of state…

In a previously unnoticed video, former Foreign Ministry director and ambassador Alon Liel told leftist activists how he came very close to tipping a critical UN vote against Israel. Liel told the activists that he advised Palestinian Authority and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), through a contact person, to call three heads of state…

The Knesset’s Ethics Committee has rejected a complaint filed against MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List) for refusing to denounce terror attacks. In its decision, which was sent to the complainant Suzy Dim, the committee explained that the reason for rejecting her claim is that it must uphold Knesset members’ freedom of speech, even when the speech…

Israeli Police forced the closure of a conference of the Islamic Movement that was taking place in a hotel in eastern Jerusalem. As protesters outside of the hotel attempted to stop police from carrying out their mission, police employed crowd dispersing tactics and ammunition including a stun grenade. One protester, Abu Bahar Alshemi, was arrested.…

Israeli Police forced the closure of a conference of the Islamic Movement that was taking place in a hotel in eastern Jerusalem. As protesters outside of the hotel attempted to stop police from carrying out their mission, police employed crowd dispersing tactics and ammunition including a stun grenade. One protester, Abu Bahar Alshemi, was arrested.…

Reports indicate that a terrorist tried to stab an IDF officer at the entrance to Har Eival, near Shechem. The terrorist first threw an object at the soldiers’ vehicle. When they exited the vehicle in order to find the source of the threat, he pulled out a knife and stabbed the officer in his hand. The…

Israeli supermodel, Bar Refaeli, who is currently under investigation by the Tax Authority for allegedly not reporting her full revenues, has filed a complaint with the Tel Aviv police in which she claims that she is the victim of identity theft. Refaeli backed up her claims by pointing to a report in the business journal…

Three volunteers from the US died in Honduras, after their bus crashed into a gully. The victims, 21-year-old Daniella Moffson, 19-year-old Olivia Erhardt, and 45-year-old Abigail Flanagan, were all students at Columbia University and were in Honduras as part of a volunteer project to help the poor. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger said, “This terrible and…

Reports indicate that a terrorist tried to stab an IDF officer at the entrance to Har Eival, near Shechem. The terrorist first threw an object at the soldiers’ vehicle. When they exited the vehicle in order to find the source of the threat, he pulled out a knife and stabbed the officer in his hand. The…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has announced his decision to close the investigation against former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The case was based on a recording in which former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is heard saying that Barak received benefits while serving as an elected official. Weinstein made his decision after reviewing the police findings and…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has announced his decision to close the investigation against former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The case was based on a recording in which former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is heard saying that Barak received benefits while serving as an elected official. Weinstein made his decision after reviewing the police findings and…

Al Jazeera America (AJAM), the US cable news outlet owned by Qatar-based Al Jazeera, is shutting down its operations less than three years after they were launched, due to low ratings and a lack of advertisers, among other problems. Employees were informed that the network will be phased out by April 30, USA Today reported.…

Four Jewish actors are in the running to play the famous “Star Wars” character Han Solo, JTA reports Wednesday.  After having viewed thousands of auditions, Disney and Lucasfilm cut down their list of actors to star in the upcoming “Han Solo” spin-off to “about a dozen,” Variety reported this week.  On that shortlist are four Jewish actors – Logan Lerman, Dave Franco, Ansel Elgort…

Israeli prosecutors called on Wednesday for life sentences for two young Jews convicted of burning alive a Palestinian teen, in a revenge attack for the abduction and later murder of three Israeli teens in June 2014.  The request was made at an emotional hearing in a Jerusalem court for the two, who were minors at the time of…

The Foreign Ministry summoned Swedish ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus for reprimand on Wednesday evening after Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called to investigate the Jewish state for the “execution” of Palestinian terrorists.  Magnus was summoned by Aviv Shiron, the Foreign Ministry’s director-general for Western Europe division, who attacked Wallstrom for her “biased and hostile attitude toward…

The French demonstration of solidarity with Jews has received its unofficial hashtag title: #TousAvecUneKippa, meaning “all of us with a kippah.” The movement, which calls on people of all religions to wear a kippah this Friday, came about after the president of the Jewish community in Marseilles suggested that Jews stop covering their heads in order…

Iranian website IRIB News published dramatic photos on Wednesday night depicting the 10 American navy sailors released earlier today at the time of their capture on Tuesday. According to the official Tasnim News Agency, the nine men and one woman were initially captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps after a mechanical failure caused them to drift…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) sent a letter Wednesday to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, expressing Israel’s outrage over Iran’s intent to hold a third International Holocaust Cartoon Contest.  ”There are no words strong enough to describe the contempt and profound disdain of the State of Israel, of the Israeli people and many others the world over, for Iran’s…

Two days after it was determined Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would run against himself for leadership of the Likud, the party’s court canceled primaries altogether.  As such, Netanyahu will continue to serve as chairman of the Likud and will be the its candidate for premier in the next general elections. The Likud election committee ruled on Monday to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the Mayor of Nazareth, Ali Salam, on Wednesday afternoon, to discuss the government’s measures to increase investment in the Arab sector. During the meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu emphasized to Salam that he views the integration of minorities as a national goal. The meeting followed by two weeks a dramatic multi-billion…

Amid an urgent Knesset session over the recently revealed conduct of far-left NGOs and activist groups, MK Yoav Kish (Likud) called on the opposition to issue staunch condemnation. Kish particularly to task the New Israel Fund (NIF), who released a new video on Wednesday accusing the current government of inciting against practically every sector of Israeli society. The…

A military court in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday sentenced four Palestinians to death on charges of spying for Israel, a statement and court sources said. The court said in a brief statement that a 23-year-old man from the Zeitoun area south of Gaza City had been sentenced to death on espionage charges. It…

Raqa in Syria and the Iraqi city of Mosul are in the United States-led coalition’s crosshairs as it tries to build on recent successes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Wednesday. Speaking to troops at Fort Campbell, Kentucky ahead of their deployment to Iraq, Carter said the recapture of the…

Arutz Sheva spoke with Duvi Honig, founder and chief executive officer of Parnassah Expo/Orthodox Jewish Chamber, a Parnassah network company. Founded in 2009, the Parnassah Network is a central Jewish community resource for business and career advancement whose programs having been utilized by individuals throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and beyond. Parnassah Network…

The White House said on Wednesday that it is pleased that Iran released 10 American sailors it had detained, but continues to have concerns about Tehran’s sponsorship of terrorism and threats to Israel, Reuters reports. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told Reuters he was not aware of any discussions between Washington and Tehran about an…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided that if Brasilia refuses to approve the appointment of former Yesha Council chairman Dani Dayan as ambassador, the acceptable response is to reduce the level of Israel’s representation in Brazil.  According to a Channel 2 report on Wednesday evening, Netanyahu has decided to keep Dayan’s appointment pending indefinitely. Even if Brazil ends…

A call earlier this week from the leader of the Jewish community in Marseilles for Jews to stop wearing kippot in public caused a fierce uproar in France, with scores of Frenchman putting on the ritual head covering in a demonstration of solidarity with Jews French parliamentarians Meir Habib and Claude Goasguen joined the demonstration on Wednesday, proudly…

Jewish Home faction chairwoman MK Shuli Mualem-Refaeli proposed a bill on Wednesday evening to outlaw the anti-IDF NGO Breaking the Silence.  The explanatory notes to the bill assert Breaking the Silence is a “subversive organization acting to change Israel’s policies outside the accepted rules of the game in a country with a democratic government, through international…

Iranian website IRIB News published dramatic photos on Wednesday night depicting the 10 American navy sailors released earlier today at the time of their capture on Tuesday. According to the official Tasnim News Agency, the nine men and one woman were initially captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps after a mechanical failure caused them to drift…

The chief rabbi of France, Rabbi Haim Corsia, on Tuesday rejected a call by the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community for Jews in the city to stop wearing kippot (skullcaps) to avoid being targeted by extremists. “We should not give an inch, we should continue wearing the kippah,” Rabbi Corsia said, according to AFP. Rabbi…

Two young children were hospitalized on Tuesday night in serious condition, after testing positive for the H1N1 virus that is more commonly known as swine flu. The two were hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, and one of them, a one-and-a-half year old infant with no background illnesses, was even put on artificial…

Only two months after the personal email account of CIA director John Brennan was hacked, a pro-Palestinian hacker group succeeded at breaching the firewalls of the personal email address of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper. Clapper’s personal email account as well as others connected to his were hacked recently, as revealed in a report first published by…

Israel’s fifth Dolphin Class Submarine, the INS Rahav, received a naval homecoming party Tuesday even before it had docked in Israel, as sailors and previous members of the Israeli Navy set sail to greet the ship and escort it on its first voyage home.   The previous submarine to join the Navy, the INS Tanin, was handed over to Israel…

No fewer than 14 people were murdered on Wednesday, in a bomb attack by Muslim terrorists on a polio vaccination center in Quetta, a city in southwest Pakistan. Wednesday’s explosion at the polio clinic took place in the morning, around the time workers report for duty before setting out to administer the vaccinations, according to minister Sarfaraz…

The ten American soldiers whose small riverine boats drifted into Iranian territorial waters on Tuesday and who were detained by Iranian forces are to be returned to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday. The U.S. lost contact with the two boats which had apparently experienced technical problems and lost contact with U.S. forces. Following continued contact between Iran and…

In response to US President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) gave the lame duck president some advice as to what he should have said instead of his “thousands of empty words and hollow rhetoric.” “Earlier this evening, I sat and listened patiently while President…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is expected to announce in the coming days that he will not open a criminal investigation over claims by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that former Defense Minister Ehud Barak took bribes, Channel 2 News reported on Tuesday. Weinstein began looking into Olmert’s comments, which were made in a recording made…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday evening condemned Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s latest remarks against Israel. Wallstrom had earlier called for an investigation to be opened in order to determine whether Israel is guilty of executing Palestinian Arab “assailants” without trial, fueling already existing tensions between Stockholm and Jerusalem. “The only thing…

The Muslims invaded Europe three times in the 16th and 17th centuries.  They were defeated each time by a determined Europe. We are now witnessing the fourth invasion of Europe. Jay Shapiro thinks that this fourth invasion may succeed because Europe has lost the will to fight. Click here to download the podcast

As far-left NGOs and activist groups come under increasing pressure, after an expose revealed a series of damning revelations about their conduct, a new video published by the New Israel Fund went on the attack – using footage of the Rabin assassination to back its claims over “right-wing incitement.” The shameless use of footage from…

Footage captured by the BBC shows breathtaking images of starlings during their migration from Russia and eastern Europe, flying high in spectacular formation over the skies of Israel. The starlings were forming what is known as “murmurations” – cloud-like formations which help them both to catch prey and to avoid being preyed on themselves by other, larger…

According to the recent OECD report regarding income inequality and the gaps between the richer and the poorer segments of society, Israel is the country with the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in the western world. With over 21 percent of the population living below the poverty line, Israel is above Mexico,…

Police discovered the finger tip of the suicide bomber who perpetrated the attack in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square on Tuesday.  Security forces identified the bomber based on the finger print as 28-year-old Nabil Fadli, a Saudi national who recently appealed to a to a district directorate of migration management to seek asylum in Turkey. He was not on any known…

A 15-year-old supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS) group who slashed a Jewish teacher with a machete in southern France has said he was “proud” of his attack Monday, ahead of a court appearance Wednesday. The teenager, an ethnic Kurd from Turkey, told police he did not regret the assault on a Jewish teacher in Marseille, the latest in a…

Iran has released 10 American navy sailors it detained after they accidentally strayed into Iranian waters on Tuesday. According to the official Tasnim News Agency, the nine men and one woman were released by the Revolutionary Guards, who initially captured them after a mechanical failure caused them to drift into Iranian territorial waters off the coast of…

The Jerusalem district attorney’s office submitted an indictment on Wednesday to the district juvenile court in the city, charging a 16-year-old terrorist from Jabel Mukaber in the southeast of the capital with attempted murder and possessing a knife. The terrorist conducting a stabbing attack last Sunday in the southeastern neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv, located adjacent to Jabel…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) took a group of Foreign Ministry cadets on tour of Judea and Samaria on Wednesday, and while there told the future ambassadors that Swedish officials are no longer welcome to visit Israel. Hotovely met up with the cadets at Peduel in Samaria, just over the 1949 Armistice lines, and…

More details emerged Tuesday morning regarding a secret recording of a meeting between ex-diplomat Alon Liel and about five central activists in Breaking the Silence, a group that besmirches the IDF abroad. The meeting took place in the Tel Aviv offices of Breaking the Silence – which receives funding from the New Israel Fund, among…

The President of the Jewish Community in Marseilles, Zvi Amar, attempted to calm the tensions that were raised following the comments he made to the press stating that Jews in Marseilles should take off their kippot in response to the murder of a Jewish politician which occurred in the city.   In an interview with…

Three haredi men were arrested on Wednesday on the suspicion that they conducted a campaign to convince other haredi men to not enlist in the IDF. The suspects reside in Bnei Brak and Beitar Illit respectively. According to the accusation, the three suspects publicized the identities and personal information of haredim who were planning to…

The BDS movement seeking to economically attack the Jewish state in a boycott campaign scored a victory on Tuesday, as the United Methodist Church (UMC) announced its pension board will no longer invest in five Israeli banks. The UMC, a Presbyterian denomination that numbers over seven million members, said it will not invest in the banks for…

Hamas threatened to attack Israel in response to an IAF airstrike that killed one Hamas terrorist and injured three others on Wednesday morning. A spokesperson for the terrorist organization released a statement this morning that said “the attack by Israeli occupation forces against Hamas citizens that took place this morning in the north of Gaza,…

Rabbi Avihai Rontzki, former IDF Chief Rabbi, bemoaned on Tuesday the decision by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot to remove the Jewish Consciousness Department from the auspices of the IDF Rabbinate, and move it to the Personnel Directorate under the responsibility of Maj. Gen. Hagai Topolanski. Placing Jewish Consciousness in the hands of people…

The competition, which is held under the auspices of the municipality of Tehran, made an international call for participants to submit cartoons ridiculing and denying the Holocaust. The winner of the competition will receive a prize of $50,000. Ambassador Danon wrote in his appeal to the UN Secretary General: “At the end of the month, the…

The leader of Marseille’s Jewish community on Tuesday urged Jews in the southern French port city to refrain from wearing skullcaps (kippot) after a teacher was hurt in an attack by a Turkish youth. “Remove the kippah during this troubled time until better days,” said Zvi Ammar, head of Marseilless Israelite Consistory, a day after the Muslim attacked…

A follow-up report on Channel 2 TV Monday showed a cash link between Ezra Nawi, the radical leftist from the NGO called Ta’ayush, who boasted on hidden camera that he informs to the Palestinian Authority on Arabs who seek to sell land to Jews, and other leftist groups. The latest hidden camera footage showed Nawi…

Germany said Tuesday that it would buy up to five military reconnaissance drones capable of carrying missiles from Israel until a similar European model has hit the market, AFP reports. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said that Berlin aimed to ink the deal to buy three to five Heron TP drones this year from Israel’s Aerospace Industries, adding…

Following the explosive revelation on Channel 2 TV, that central Jewish and Arab leftist activists have a policy of handing over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs who approach them and wish to sell land to Jews, leftists have been claiming that the PA does not execute such people. The denials are meant to refute…

France’s Police Department is investigating the murder of a member of the Jewish community in Creteil, a suburb near Paris, who was found stabbed to death in his home on Tuesday, the French daily Metro News reports. Alain Ghozland was a 73-year-old Jewish man and member of former French President Sarkozy’s party, “The Republicans.” He was…

Syria’s army and forces allied to it took full control Tuesday of the strategic town of Salma, in the northwestern province of Latakia, state television reported. In a breaking news flash, the channel said the army, backed by the pro-government National Defense Forces militia, had also wrested hilltops surrounding the town from rebel factions. Government…

Science Minister Ofir Akunis slammed on Tuesday anti-Israel statements made by Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, regarding the need to investigate the alleged “execution” of Arab terrorists by Israel. “The only thing that needs to be investigated is how a woman who hates Israel so much was elected, and continues to serve as a Foreign…

Nashat Milhem, the terrorist who carried out the attack in Tel Aviv on January 1 and was eliminated by security forces a week later, was quietly brought to rest in his hometown of Arara on Tuesday night. Israel had agreed to release Milhem’s body to the family for burial after the family agreed that the…

The United States House of Representatives on Tuesday voted nearly unanimously to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea’s nuclear program, Reuters reports. The measure passed by 418-2, with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, and Senate leaders said they expected to consider a similar bill shortly, the news agency said. The legislation…

Iran is holding 10 American Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters, The Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday. American officials said, however, they have received assurances from Tehran that they will be returned safely and promptly. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told AP that…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening addressed the participants of the Taglit-Birthright program, noting the strong connection between the Jewish people and the State of Israel. “We all share a common past, and as the next generation, remember that you are responsible for the future of the Jewish people and its connection to the…

The Hamas terrorist organization in investing great efforts and funds into rebuilding its terror tunnel network that was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge, according to Haaretz, and the number of reconstructed tunnels is nearing the amount of tunnels connecting Gaza and Israel prior to the 2014 operation. Thirty-two out of 49 “terror tunnels” were identified and destroyed by IDF forces…

A group of Czech nationals who oppose the absorption of Muslim migrants claim that Facebook is using “Political censorship and suppressing criticism.” According to Martin Konvicka, one of the heads of the far-right Czech group “Bloc against Islam,” the Facebook page they opened, “We don’t want Islam in the Czech Republic,” was already shut down once…

A 30-year-old man was killed Tuesday morning in a collision between an Israeli vehicle and a Palestinian truck on Highway 5 near Tapuach Junction in Samaria.  Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics deployed to the scene were forced to pronounce him dead.  Senior MDA paramedic Aviel Mamlieh recounted, “When I arrived at the scene, it looked bad. I saw a…

The female Arab terror suspect arrested in Nahariya on Monday night was not planning to conduct an attack, police revealed on Tuesday morning.  An initial police investigation found the attack warning transferred to police and the Israel Security Agency was baseless and that the 28-year-old woman had traveled to the northern city following a dispute with her…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) approved an initiative to open a spoken-Arabic course for all lawmakers in the Knesset, regardless of faction. The initiative came at the behest of Knesset Director-General Ronen Plot as well as a group of MKs. MKs from the Joint Arab List Ayman Odeh, Ahmed Tibi, and Basel Ghattas welcomed the initiative…

An American-Israeli family, whose daughter was killed in a bus bombing in March 2003, is petitioning the US government to intervene on behalf of their deceased daughter and force Israel to rescind the possibility of parole for the man who aided the suicide bomber. It has recently come to light that terrorist Muni Regabi’s will have his 20 year “life sentence”…

The first images of Salah Abdeslam, who is wanted in Europe for his part in the Paris terror attacks in November, were released Monday, The Telegraph reports. The footage from security cameras shows Abdeslam along with a friend at a petrol station on the Belgium border shortly after fleeing France. The images were first broadcast…

Hundreds of people attended in Warsaw on Sunday a march in support of Israel in the face of an over three-month long wave of Arab terror against Israeli citizens. The march, organized by a group of Christian organizations in Poland, was also attended by members of the Polish Jewish community.  According to the Jewish.pl website, the…

The female Arab terror suspect arrested in Nahariya on Monday night was not planning to conduct an attack, police revealed on Tuesday morning.  An initial police investigation found the attack warning transferred to police and the Israel Security Agency was baseless and that the 28-year-old woman had traveled to the northern city following a dispute with her…

The Islamist Turkish organization IHH, which organized the 2010 flotilla to Gaza, on Monday criticized Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) over its attempts to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. It was the 2010 flotilla to Gaza, in which IDF soldiers had to raid the Mavi Marmara after IHH Islamists on board violated…

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was arrested on Monday on suspicion of involvement in last week’s attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Cairo, Daily News Egypt reported. According to the report, the man in question is Muslim Brotherhood member Abd El-Aal Al-Ashry, the brother of former parliamentarian Gamal Al-Ashry. Abd…

A video documenting the visit of the then leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau, to a mosque in western Canada confirms that Trudeau joined Muslim worshipers for evening prayers after sundown, the CIJNews website revealed on Monday. Trudeau’s visit at the Jamea Masjid mosque in Surrey, British Columbia, took place in July of…

Israel State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment in the Be’er Sheva District Court against four individuals suspected of involvment in the lynching of Haftom Zarhum Zarhum, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was mistaken for a terrorist during a shooting attack in October inside the Be’er Sheva Central Bus Station. David Moyal, IDF soldier Yaakov Shemba, Evyatar Demri, and Israel Prison Service…

A Palestinian Arab terrorist attempted to stab Israeli soldiers Tuesday afternoon outside the village of Beit Anoun near Hevron.  The terrorist was shot and eliminated by security forces at the scene.  “A Palestinian attacker, armed with a knife, attempted to stab a soldier securing the Beit Anoun junction near Hebron,” a statement issued by the Israeli army said. “Responding to the…

The Regavim movement has spotted an illegal road being built by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the middle of the Judean Desert with money transferred from the European Union. Regavim has filed a court case against the illegal construction with Israel’s High Court of Justice. The PA completed several weeks ago preparations for the construction of a road which extends beyond…

A Jewish teacher stabbed by a 15-year-old in the southern French city of Marseille on Monday believes the teen, an ethnic Kurd, wanted to decapitate him, his lawyer said Tuesday. The teenager, who told police he was acting in the name of Islamic State (ISIS), stabbed the 35-year-old teacher in the shoulder and hand in the attack, which took place in…

Magen David Adom paramedics rushed to Agron Street in Jerusalem on Tuesday to help two people injured after a balcony collapsed.  The bottom of the balcony caved in and fell from a height of six meters. A 27-year-old woman was moderately injured in the crash, sustaining injuries to her arms and legs. Her 74-year-old father was also…

A large explosion was heard Tuesday morning in Istanbul’s central Sultanahmet Square – a major tourist attraction and hub in the Turkish city. Turkish security forces and paramedics were quickly deployed to the square.  According to a statement issued by the Istanbul Governor’s Office, at least 10 people were killed in the blast and another 15 wounded. The statement confirms that some of those…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot sent an letter Tuesday to military commanders officially announcing his decision to remove the Jewish Consciousness department from the IDF Rabbinate, and move it to the personnel directorate. “We must preserve our image and our actions at the core of the Israeli consensus,” Eizenkot wrote to the senior officers.  He declared that the…

The Knesset Health Committee met on Tuesday to discuss the rising levels of diabetes and obesity in Israel, as part of Diabetes awareness month. The President of the Israeli Diabetes Association, Professor Itamar Raz, told the committee that as of 1990 there were 280,000 people who suffered from diabetes in Israel. Today there are over…

While conducting the deadly shooting attack at a pub in Tel Aviv on January 1, Nashat Milhem was seen wearing an unusual pair of white glasses. He wore the same pair a week later when he was killed in a gun battle with security forces.  Walla News! reported Tuesday that police had determined the glasses were a…

Police erected security checkpoints from Haifa to Nahariya on Monday evening following information that a female Arab resident of Taibe intended to carry out a terrorist attack in northern Israel.  A short time after the checkpoints were erected, the terror suspect was captured by police and Israel Security Agency forces in Nahariya.  According to Channel 2, though originally from Taibe in…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot decided on Monday to remove the Jewish Consciousness department from the IDF Rabbinate, and move it to the personnel directorate under the responsibility of Maj. Gen. Hagi Topolanski. While Eizenkot backed down from his original plan to move the important department to the Education Corps, by removing it from the…

The Knesset approved by a majority of 54 to 43 on Monday night the appointment of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri as Interior Minister.  A fiery debate preceded the vote, in which Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid attacked Deri for returning to the same role he abused 22 years ago leading him to be jailed for corruption in…

The highly controversial New Israel Fund was quick to point at the government and “ultranationalists” as being responsible for what it believed was an arson attack on the offices of their grantee, B’Tselem. According to the Israellycool blog, a Facebook post by the NIF went up for 40 minutes before being pulled back down, when it…

Despite promises from Israel’s prime minister and defense minister, the defense budget for 2016 shows no funds allocated for the construction of a new barrier along the entire Gaza border.  Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) had vowed in the wake of 2014’s Operation Protective Edge to erect a new barrier to protect citizens…

Sometime in the year 2030, if all goes according to plan, research groups around the world will begin receiving data from above Jupiter – including from a made-in-Israel device. The device, as well as others made elsewhere around in the world, will take off in the year 2022 aboard the JUICE – JUpiter ICy satellite…

A suspected Hamas terrorist currently incarcerated under administrative detention is in poor health after nearly 50 days on hunger strike,his wife claimed Monday. “He is vomiting blood and has lost 25 kilograms (55 pounds),” Mohammed al-Qiq’s wife, Fayha Shalash, told AFP. She said that if he loses consciousness she believes his doctors will feed him intravenously. Israel’s parliament approved a…

Hungarian Holocaust movie “Son of Saul” won the Golden Globe award for best foreign film Sunday night. Rachel Bloom, star of the show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” was named best actress in a television series, musical or comedy, and Aaron Sorkin won in the best screenplay category for the film “Steve Jobs.” Both Bloom and Sorkin are…

Police in Britain have begun an investigation into an on-air phone call to a BBC radio program, in which a caller ranted for 13 minutes against “Zionist Jews” and their “rule” over British society. During BBC London’s Simon Lederman program on December 22, the man, introduced as “Andy from St. Margaret’s,” said the world was controlled by “Zionist…

Bombings killed 20 people and wounded dozens at a cafe in the Iraqi town of Muqdadiyah northeast of Baghdad on Monday, officers said, according to AFP. A bomb exploded at the cafe and a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle after people gathered at the scene, a police captain and an army colonel said. There…

It’s getting tough, or at least tougher out there. The economy is sluggish, politics are out of hand, and crises seem to be popping up all over the place. Some people are insulated to some degree, but only those who have passed on from this world are free of all of it. It’s a good…

An airstrike by the international coalition led by the United States has destroyed a cash storage facility used by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an American defense official said Monday. Two 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs struck the facility, destroying “millions” of dollars worth of cash, the official told AFP, speaking on…

Iran has removed the core of its heavy-water nuclear reactor in Arak and filled it with cement, the BBC reported on Monday, citing Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency. The fate of the reactor was one of the sticking points in nuclear negotiations between Iran and the six world powers, which reached a deal in July…

Around 600 Jews took part in a march around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday night for Rosh Chodesh, welcoming the Jewish month of Shevat with prayer in a traditional march around the gates. The participants prayed at each gate of the Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, in a monthly call for the construction…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) quickly rebuffed on Monday criticism from the US government over the “NGO Transparency Law” she is pushing through the Knesset.  The bill would require Israelis NGOs who receive more than half of their funds from foreign states to disclose their sources of funding and identify themselves as “foreign agents” when lobbying…

The US Supreme Court rejected on Monday an appeal from a pro-Israel group seeking to place ads on the Boston-area mass transit system, AP reports. The ads are sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), also known as Stop Islamization of American, and they describe the Israel-Palestinian conflict as a war between the “civilized man and the savage.” The Massachusetts Bay…

An internal police investigation into the lethal knife attack at the Panorama building in southern Tel Aviv on November 19, in which Reuven Aviram and Aharon Yisayev were murdered as they were praying, has revealed huge gaffes by senior police officials. After murdering the two, terrorist Raed Khalil then tried to stab more victims at a makeshift synagogue in the building,…

Four years ago, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her advisers to clandestinely foment unrest among Arabs in Judea and Samaria, in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table. The revelation arises from emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server.…

Marathon Runners who recently competed in the Tiberias 42.2 Kilometer Marathon run, were treated to a special type of reward at the end of their long journey. The Leonardo Hotel in the host city of the marathon provided free massages for runners who participated in the race, in the Synagogue at their hotel. Channel 10 published photographs…

Judea and Samaria regional council heads conducted a tour on Thursday of the E1 area of Israel together with lobbyists and called for the next phase in the fight against the construction freeze. “I see the visit as an opportunity to connect Knesset members to the area so they can see the problems from our perspective which…

Egypt’s parliament on Sunday met for the first time in more than three years, Reuters reported, electing a constitutional expert as its speaker. The new speaker is Ali Abdelaal, a French-educated lawyer who helped draft the constitution and election law, is a member of the “Support Egypt” coalition, an alliance of over 400 MPs loyal…

The suggestion to close the case against former MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home), has been gaining strength in the past few weeks since the MK stepped down from his position in the Knesset. Thus far, no formal complaint has been filed against Magal from the women who claimed that he allegedly harassed them. Due to…

Arab MKs were quick on Sunday night to blame the Israeli government for the fire that broke out in the building which houses the offices of the leftist B’Tselem group. One person was lightly injured in the fire, which is being investigated as a possible arson. But Arab MKs did not wait for the results…

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is accusing Saudi Arabia of trying to “drag the entire region into confrontation”. The accusation, written in an op-ed by Zarif for The New York Times, comes amid tensions between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia following Saudi Arabia’s execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. “President [Hassan] Rouhani has…

China and Israel continue in their partnership as technological superpowers. Last week, Israel sent a delegation to the two-day investors’ summit in Beijing, which was called “unprecedented’ by the Ministry of Economy and Industry. At the event, 150 corporate leaders from 90 Israeli companies met with investors from all over China. The conference was held…

The downtown area of the city of Cologne in Germany has become a battleground, as mobs of angry “unknown assailants” have begun attacking groups of Arab migrants in response to the overwhelming amount of attacks on German women that occurred in the city on New Year’s eve. Until now, German authorities have been remiss to…

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) expressed outrage at the IDF Chief of Staff’s plan to remove the Jewish Identity programs from under the command of the IDF Rabbinate and to put it under the command of the Human resources department of the IDF.   Smotrich said “the move is intended to harm the IDF Rabbinate…

German police arrest two Muslim migrants Sunday, after they staged an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish man in northern Germany the previous day. Their victim – a 49-year-old French citizen – was pushed to the floor and robbed at Puttgarden ferry port by the two attackers, who shouted “Yahud” (Arabic for “Jew”), according to the UK’s Jewish News. His attackers…

As aid agencies depart to deliver food to Madaya, near the Lebanese border, and two other besieged towns in Idlib province, an estimated 400,000 people are living under siege in 15 areas across Syria, according to the UN. A deal struck in recent days permits the delivery of food to Madaya, which is currently surrounded…

Two Israeli scientists believe they have discovered a way to destroy cells infected with the HIV virus and have announced their plan to begin clinical trials on human beings within three months. The illness was first observed in carriers in 1981​– the virus enters a person’s blood cells and remains dormant. Modern medicine still cannot determine what…

A terrorist stabbed Benjamin Amsalem, a local Jewish school teacher, who was on his way to work on Monday morning. Amsalem, who is a teacher at the Louis Pasteur school was stabbed in sector-9 of Marseilles outside a local synagogue. Amsalem suffered light wounds on his hands. The terrorist, who has been apprehended by local…

The Coalition Representative on the Committee for Choosing Judges, Attorney MK Nurit Koren (Likud) told Israeli reporters that one of the goals that she has set for herself is to oversee the appointing of an Ethiopian judge. Koren said that “I very much wanted to be a member of this committee as it is a…

Last month, The Orthodox Union (OU) announced it is going to certify medical marijuana products for the pharmaceutical company Vireo Health, whose medical products come in three forms: pills, oils and vapor. The  Kashruth Council of Canada (COR) met Thursday to discuss an application from MedReleaf, a licensed producer of medical cannabis, and after “a…

Four people were lightly injured when a truck ran into a bus stop on Monday morning on HaShomer Street in Jerusalem, causing the bus stop to collapse on top of the commuters who were standing under it. The accident occurred just after eight a.m. during rush hour. Volunteer paramedics from United Hatzalah applied first aid…

Chairman of the Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria, MK Moti Yogev, spoke with Arutz Sheva Sunday regarding illegal Arab construction in Judea and Samaria. Speaking in a strategic area east of Jerusalem, Yogev said, “we are currently standing in an E1 zone where a neighborhood was meant to connect Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem, but instead hundreds of…

Saudi Arabia, chair of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), conducted its 50th execution of the year Sunday marking a rapid killing spree – however, the Gulf state will have to hurry to catch up to its 2015 quick start, in which it executed 100 people in just 15 days. On Sunday, Jinat Farid from Ethiopia was…

A newly arrived Syrian migrant with a harrowing story and a Muslim former US soldier will be among the White House invitees at President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address on Tuesday. The White House on Sunday announced the names of the guests invited to join Michelle Obama in the gallery of the House of Representatives when legislators, Supreme Court justices and…

This is Part One of a two-part series. A new curriculum for Reform Hebrew schools in the United States, already being used by more than 10 such schools, is threatening to alienate young Jews further from Israel than they already are. Produced by Reform Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman, the new Kindergarten-12th grade course of study is…

Malaysia faces a possible ban from hosting major international table tennis events unless it gives Israel visas to compete in next month’s world team championships, according to the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM). The OCM said in a statement Friday that the government has yet to decide on whether to grant visas to Israeli participants in…

A newly arrived Syrian migrant with a harrowing story and a Muslim former US soldier will be among the White House invitees at President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address on Tuesday. The White House on Sunday announced the names of the guests invited to join Michelle Obama in the gallery of the House of Representatives when legislators, Supreme Court justices and…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has praised Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem no less than its “unity partner” Hamas, which mourned the “martyr” who murdered three in Tel Aviv after he was eliminated last Friday. Fatah posted an uncensored version of the picture of Milhem lying in a pool of blood on…

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan issued a rare admission of mistake last Friday, after an article last Sunday that portrayed Arab Israelis in Haifa as cultured and “cool” was disputed by a key pro-terror Arab source, who said he was misrepresented. The article, written by Diaa Hadid, focused on “liberal Arab culture” in Haifa, but Ayed Fadel,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the only candidate registered to run for chairman of the Likud party and candidacy for prime minister of the 21st Knesset elections. Registration for the Likud primaries ended Sunday at noon. According to Article 58 of the Articles of Association Elections for the Likud Movement, such a situation causes an…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday held a memorial event in Jerusalem, marking the first anniversary of the attacks on the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris. The memorial was held in cooperation with Qualita, the umbrella organization of French olim in Israel. The memorial was attended…

The European Union provided the leftist B’Tselem group with funding to help combat the NGO Law that was recently approved by the government, the NGO Monitor organization revealed. The NGO Law, also known as the “Transparency Bill”, was approved by the government’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation two weeks ago, clearing the way for a Knesset…

Is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition headed towards another crisis? An argument broke out during Sunday’s Cabinet meeting between Netanyahu and Ministers Moshe Kahlon and Naftali Bennett, reportedly over Netanyahu’s plan to appoint two more ministers from the Likud. According to various reports, Kahlon accused Netanyahu of “disrupting the balance of the coalition” and added,…

Michael Fragin updates you on everything you need to know about the behind the scenes of American politics. In this episode Michael presents his 2015 year-end list of political winners and losers with the political year in review, and we look forward at the political calendar of 2016. To listen to previous shows go to N.S.N.…

Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out Sunday night at the offices of the radical leftist organization B’Tselem. The offices are located in the Mekor Chaim neighborhood, in the southeast of Jerusalem. One person who was trapped in the fourth floor of the building was rescued by firefighters. One person sustained light injuries…

President Barack Obama will not publicly endorse a candidate before the 2016 Democratic primaries, the White House said Sunday, according to Reuters. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was quoted as having told NBC’s Meet the Press that Obama will be “out there” campaigning after the primary election to help support the Democratic candidate.…

Will Jordan lead Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over claims of “violations” on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism where the Jordanian waqf has banned Jewish prayer despite Israeli laws of freedom of worship? Jordanian Kingdom media have reported that in talks held between senior representatives from various…

A new revelation Sunday night in the investigation after accomplices of Nashat Milhem, the Arab Israeli terrorist who murdered three people in Tel Aviv two weeks ago on Friday before being eliminated a week later, indicates he received help planning the shooting. Law enforcement sources revealed to Channel 10 that one relative of Milhem, who has been arrested…

As of Sunday morning, security and police forces in and around the Beit Shemesh area have been placed on high alert. The reason given is that intelligence services have issued a warning that a terrorist is planning to carry out an attack in the Beit Shemesh area. Shlomi Toledano, Commander of the Beit Shemesh Police…

French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced visit to the main mosque in Paris on Sunday, a year after deadly jihadist attacks in the French capital. “The president had a short conversation and a moment of friendship and fraternity over a cup of tea,” a French presidency official said. Earlier, Hollande attended a low-key event to mark a year…

The heads of the Defense Ministry delegation to the United States and U.S. military and defense company Lockheed Martin celebrated the near completion of the first F-35 that will become part of the Israeli Air Force. The plane, which is code-named “Adir”, is scheduled to be completed and launched in June. During the ceremony, which took…

According to report by local residents, on Saturday night a mare and her foal were attacked by wolves 50 meters away from the city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. The mare suffered injuries while the foal was pulled over a fence, killed, and devoured by local wolves. The pack of wolves was reportedly driven…

In a joint operation, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and IDF forces thwarted in November a shooting attack being planned by a Hamas terror cell for Highway 35 near Hevron.  The cell had purchased an M-16 rifle and a pistol for the attack; both weapons were seized by security forces during the investigation.  In…

Prominent Hevron-based nationalist activist Noam Federman filed a police complaint Sunday against Mohammed Dawabshe, whose son, daughter-in-law and grandson were murdered when their home was set on fire last July, allegedly by a Jewish extremist. Federman’s complaint accuses Dawabshe of incitement to cause bodily harm to Jews. Speaking with a Makor Rishon / NRG reporter, Dawabshe…

Haredi soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda battalion prevented five terror attacks during the month of December. The attacks included three attempted ramming attacks and two attempted stabbing attacks. The stabbing attacks occurred just outside the Jewish town of Ofra. Soldiers also neutralized another five terrorists who were actively disturbing the peace that occurred in their district. Three…

Zionist Union MK Yoel Hasson has proposed a new law that would require the state to distribute protective vests to all Israeli citizens in an effort to defend them against stabbing attacks.  According to Hasson, the personal safety of Israelis has been negatively impacted in the last few months by the ongoing wave of Arab terror. Protective vests,…

Aid agencies say a deal has been reached to allow them to send food and medicine into besieged towns in Syria. Tens of thousands of people are reportedly in danger of starving to death if aid does not reach them soon. The deal agreed on Saturday will result in humanitarian supplies being sent to the…

Roy Folkman, chairman of the Kulanu faction, explained his reasoning for joining the Land of Israel caucus in the Knesset Sunday. The caucus, according to Folkman, is not connected to a narrow sector of society. “It is a discussion which affects the entire populace, and therefore it is our responsibility to be part of that conversation.” …

Former Israeli Security Agency (ISA) head MK Ya’akov Peri (Yesh Atid) spoke on Saturday about the previous day’s elimination of Israeli Arab terrorist Nashat Milhem, who murdered three people in Tel Aviv a week earlier. Trying to separate terror and the Arab public, he said, “in the phenomenon of Jewish terror I make sure to say…

Aid desperately needed in three besieged towns in war-torn Syria cannot be delivered before Monday, the Red Cross said, citing logistical problems. Syria’s regime agreed Thursday to allow aid into Madaya, a town of 42,000 that has been surrounded by the army for six months and has become notorious in recent days because of people starving there. Fuaa and Kafraya, in the northwestern…

IDF and Border Police forces on Saturday demolished the home of the terrorist Muhannad Halabi, in the village of Surda located adjacent to Ramallah in Samaria. The mission was conducted under the command of the Binyamin Division, and was secured by the Shaked and Netzah Yehuda Battalions together with the Border Police. Halabi’s family home…

In response to the elimination of Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem on Friday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night praised the security forces for hunting down the shooter a week after he murdered three victims in Tel Aviv. “In the name of every citizen of Israel, I thank the police, the Shabak (Israeli Security…

Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem was located and shot dead on Friday, over a week after he murdered three people in Tel Aviv, but new facts about the case strengthen police suspicions that he received considerable aid. Milhem, an Arab citizen of Israel, was located and killed in his hometown of Arara in Wadi Ara…

Two terrorists arrived at Bekaot Checkpoint on Saturday morning, located adjacent to Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria, and tried to stab soldiers who were manning the site. A male a female soldier from the Arayot Hayarden Battalion swiftly identified the terrorists, who were aged 23 and 38, and shot them dead. The IDF and Border Police…

In light of Iran’s violation of UN sanctions by testing nuclear-capable medium-range ballistic missiles, New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) called out the leaders of his Democratic party who supported the Iran nuclear deal, asking why they haven’t criticized the breach. On October 10, Iran conducted a ballistic missile test, and a month later it tested another ballistic missile,…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Saturday night urged the Jews of France to remain in the country, saying that France without Jews “would not be France”. Valls spoke at a memorial in Paris for four Jews who were murdered a year ago at the Hyper Cacher supermarket in the city as part of a…

A special poll, conducted by the Midgam institute headed by Mina Tzemach and Mano Geva and published on Channel 2 News on Saturday night, examined what exactly Israeli citizens think about the job the current government ministers are doing. In the poll, conducted via the internet among 705 respondents in a representative sample of the…

Russian air strikes Saturday on an Al Qaeda run prison in Syria killed nearly 60 people, a monitor said, as aid needed in three besieged towns where people are reportedly starving was delayed. The bloodshed came as UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met in Damascus with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem to prepare for peace talks between the government and the opposition. The Syrian…

Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) on Saturday night spoke about the elimination of Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem the day before, and defended how it took security forces a week to track him down after he murdered three people in Tel Aviv. Speaking on TV to Channel 2 and Channel 10, Erdan responded to the criticism…

In response to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s (Likud) announcement last Wednesday that a strategic 40 dunam compound is being officially added to the Gush Etzion region in Judea, the US lost little time in condemning the move. The land that is being added was purchased by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz and his wife, and is referred to…

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab head covering was removed by police from a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday, after she staged a silent protest. The 56-year-old flight attendant Rose Hamid stood silently in the stands directly behind Trump, as he said in his speech that Syrian migrants pouring into the…

In an interview with the Hamas-affiliated “Palestine,” B’ara Riyan, a spokesperson for “The Palestinian Media Center,” explained Hamas’s reasons for publicizing video clips documenting Gilad Shalit’s captivity. Riyan insisted that the death of Abed Al-Rachman Al-Mubashir, who led the Al-Qassam squad in charge of holding Shalit, was not involved in the decision to publicize the videos. According to Riya, the real reason…

Nashat Milhem escaped home to Wadi Ara last Friday only one hour and forty minutes after carrying out a deadly shooting attack at the Simta pub in Tel Aviv.  According to information obtained by Channel 10 on Sunday morning, immediately after murdering taxi driver Amin Shaban, Milhem ditched the cab and made his way to Arara in another vehicle.  Given…

HM has apologized for a women’s scarf that looks like a tallit (prayer shawl) and said it would pull the item from shelves in Israel. “We are truly sorry if we have offended anyone with this piece. Everyone is welcome at HM and we never take a religious or political stand,” the retailer told Vogue…

Facebook has agreed to pull a page that incited against Israelis, but only after the Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center NGO exposed its double standard in removing inciting pages. As part of its investigation, Shurat Hadin launched two different pages, one entitled “Stop Palestinians” and one entitled “Stop Israelis”. It then proceeded to post almost identical…

Khaled al-Batash, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, on Saturday called for a continuation of the violence against Israel, saying history has proven that the Israeli “occupier” only understands force. Speaking to Hamas’s Palestine newspaper, Batash called for an emergency meeting of the Palestinian leadership, which will also include Hamas leader Khaled…

The Defense Ministry on Saturday decided to recognize the three people murdered by terrorist Nashat Milhem in Tel Aviv as victims of terrorism. Milhem murdered Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi at the Simta Pub on Dizengoff Street and then proceeded to murder cab driver Amin Shaban. He evaded police for a week before being killed by…

The second deputy of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during an Iraqi air force strike in the city of Barwana, just east of Haditha, the Iraqi military said Saturday, according to CNN. The man in question, Assi Ali Mohammed Nasser al-Obeidi, was a top ISIS military commander in western Iraq and…

Police believe Nashat Milhem, the terrorist who murdered three people in Tel Aviv last week and was eliminated in his hometown of Arara on Friday, had accomplices who helped him evade security forces, Haaretz reports.  According to the newspaper, Milhem’s appearance after he was shot down brought police to deduce that he had accomplices who…

Families of the victims of terrorist Nashat Milhem, who was eliminated on Friday after a manhunt which lasted for a week, welcomed his elimination but said that does not fill the void left behind by their loved ones. Milhem murdered Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi at the Simta Pub on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv,…

Security forces on Friday afternoon eliminated terrorist Nashat Milhem, exactly one week after he murdered three people in Tel Aviv. Milhem, who had evaded police ever since murdering Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi at the Simta Pub on Dizengoff Street and then proceeding to murder cab driver Amin Shaban, was killed in Arara in Wadi…

A British-born mother was jailed for more than five years on Friday, having tried to take her children to Syria to live under Islamic State (ISIS) group rule, AFP reported. The 34-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, wanted to live under strict Sharia law, Leeds Crown Court in northern England was told.…

Hamas on Friday issued a statement mourning the death of Nashat Milhem, the terrorist from Tel Aviv who was eliminated by Israeli security forces in Arara. In the statement, the terrorist group praised Milhem as a “shahid” – martyr. “Hamas mourns the martyr hero Nashat Milhem, who confused Israel for more than a week after…

Gunmen on Friday opened fire at the entrance of the Bella Vista hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, Reuters reported. Two foreign tourists were wounded, according to security sources who also added that the assailants had arrived by sea to launch the attack. Some unconfirmed reports said the gunmen waved Islamic…

Alon and Dalia Carmeli, the parents of first sergeant Nissim Sean Carmeli who fell in battle in Gaza during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge, have decided to follow in their son’s footsteps and make aliyah from South Padre Island, Texas. Carmeli was a lone soldier, meaning he had no family in Israel, and in a moving…

Daniel Tomohiro on Wednesday had his swearing-in ceremony to the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion at the Kotel (Western Wall) Plaza in Jerusalem – but as may be obvious by his last name, Tomohiro is not your average IDF soldier. The new recruit who recently finished his basic training was raised in Iwata, Japan. His Hungarian Jewish…

In what seems to be becoming a weekly tradition, vortex winds and snow have descended upon Israel since the early morning hours of Friday, just a week after Israel’s first winter snowstorm covered parts of the north with snow. Heavy snow fell on Friday in the north on Mount Hermon, Israel’s only ski site, and caused the…

The United States on Thursday named an alleged financier of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist group to its sanctions blacklist, AFP reported. The Treasury said Ali Youssef Charara and his Beirut-based telecommunications company Spectrum Investment Group Holding have received millions of dollars from Hezbollah to invest in commercial projects. The sanctions freeze any assets of Charara…

New copies of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will hit bookstores in Germany Friday for the first time since World War II, unsettling Jewish community leaders as the copyright of the genocidal anti-Semitic manifesto expires. The southern German state of Bavaria was handed the copyright of the book in 1945, when the Allies gave it control of the main Nazi publishing house following Hitler’s defeat. For…

A key French member of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Salim Benghalem, who had ties to the Charlie Hebdo attackers, was sentenced in absentia by a Paris court on Thursday to 15 years in prison, AFP reported. Six other men, who have returned from Syria and Iraq, were given sentences of between six and nine…

The United States on Thursday named an alleged financier of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist group to its sanctions blacklist, AFP reported. The Treasury said Ali Youssef Charara and his Beirut-based telecommunications company Spectrum Investment Group Holding have received millions of dollars from Hezbollah to invest in commercial projects. The sanctions freeze any assets of Charara…

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh continued to threaten Israel on Thursday, declaring in a speech in Khan Yunis that Hamas will never back down from its goal of controlling all of what it considers “Palestine”, and urging Palestinian Arabs to continue attacking Israelis. “Hamas will not accept a solution apart from Palestine on all the…

Nationalist MKs issued strong reactions on Thursday night to the investigative report which aired on Channel 2’s “Uvda” program, hosted by journalist Ilana Dayan, and which revealed that extreme leftist activist Ezra Nawi passes information on Palestinian Arabs interested in selling land to Jews and essentially sentencing them to death, as the Palestinian Authority (PA)…

Three and a half months until Pesach, but the sedra this week (and next) give us pause to reflect even now. This week’s Torah Tidbits Audio is a Pesach show when people haven’t even started cleaning or thinking about it. Click here to download the podcast

The purported human rights organization B’Tselem has expressed its support for Nasser Nawajiya, one of its members who was found to be providing the Palestinian Authority (PA) with the identities of Arabs who sell their property to Jews. In an expose by the TV show “Uvda” on Thursday, Nawajiya and far-left Israeli Jewish activist Ezra Nawi admitted to…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded on Friday to an investigative report that appeared last night on Channel 2‘s “Uvda” show, which revealed how radical leftist activists hand Palestinian Arabs over to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to be executed. Right-wing activists infiltrated leftist groups and caught the activist Ezra Nawi on camera saying he gives the PA the names…

The attorney’s office on Friday submitted indictments against two Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem for running an explosives lab, providing aid to an enemy in wartime, and being in contact with a foreign agent – and planning to assassinate the prime minister. The two terrorists were named as 22-year-old Hazam Sanduka and 19-year-old Fahdi Abu…

A full week after Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem gunned down three people in Tel Aviv, the massive manhunt after him continues, but reportedly Israel is now turning to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in a request for help. According to Channel 10, the police are to officially request on Friday that PA Security Forces aid in the…

The British government has revised its guidelines on alcohol consumption, in the biggest public health policy change in over 20 years, according to which even drinking a small amount of alcohol on a regular basis can cause cancer. According to the updated guidelines, reported by Sky News on Friday, men are to cut their weekly consumption from…

Worrying results were found in a poll published on Friday, which revealed that no fewer than 72% of Israelis say the country suffers from widespread corruption. A full 16.9% of respondents said Israel is a very corrupt country, while 55.7% classified it as rather corrupt, in a poll conducted for Channel 2 on Thursday and published the…

US authorities said two people with ties to the Islamic State (ISIS) group are due in court Friday in California and Texas, including a migrant from Syria who lied about his travels there. The arrests come amid heightened security in the United States following last month’s assault by a Muslim couple in California that left 14 people murdered, and the November ISIS…

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants continue to cause a spike in crime in various areas of Israel, particularly in southern Tel Aviv, but the nearby largely haredi city of Bnei Brak appears to be leading the crackdown against the worrying phenomenon. In recent days the Bnei Brak municipality demolished a building on Bialik Street…

What is it like to grow up in the shadow of a parent with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease? How does one cope with being a caretaker as a pre-teen? How does incredible dedication bring positive results?What is Divine Integration Healing? Meet Haya Baker, founder of Divine Integration Healing and the Liberate Your Light program. Recognizing that the physical…

The implementation of the Iranian nuclear deal may be only “days away”, Secretary of State John Kerry declared Thursday, according to the AFP news agency. Kerry told reporters he had spoken to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who insisted Iran would live up to its promises, and added the United States would be ready…