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Police have arrested a resident of Kfar Tapuah on suspicion that he was involved in the wedding dance in which people celebrated the deaths of the Dawabshe family. Itamar Ben-Gvir, from the legal defense organization Honenu, claims that the weapon waved during the dance was a toy and thus not illegal.

Former President Moshe Katsav is asking for early release from prison after finishing two-thirds of his sentence. Israel Prison Service says that it will discuss the issue in the next few days. The parole board must weight the danger Katsav presents to the public alongside the question of whether he is worthy of early release,…

Relatives of Aylan Kurdi — the toddler whose limp body was photographed on a Turkish beach, becoming a heartbreaking symbol of the Syrian refugee crisis — arrived Monday in Canada where they hope to rebuild their lives. Canadian media showed the boy’s aunt Tima Kurdi, who now lives in Vancouver after emigrating to Canada in 1992, in tears as she welcomed…

About 60 heads of the Jewish Home party’s branches were invited to the party’s main meeting in the Knesset yesterday (Monday). Afterwards, they met with their ministers and MKs. The leader of the branch heads council, Amiad Taub, gave a presentation on the activities of the various branch heads and spoke about the importance of Jewish…

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary-General Saeb Erekat is denying reports in Israel that he proposed to start secret negotiations with Israel last summer, the Ma’an news agency reported on Monday. Erekat’s denial was in response to a report on Kol Yisrael radio, which said Erekat had proposed secret negotiations, but Israel turned down the offer.…

Representatives of the major Palestinian Arab organizations gathered on Monday in Ramallah to discuss how to escalate the current terror wave against Israel, which they are calling the “Al-Quds Intifada”. In a statement released at the end of the meeting it was noted that “the assassinations of our people (Palestinians) in the streets amount to…

The BBC is making headlines again, this time after a caller to one of its radio program’s ranted for 13 minutes against “Zionist Jews” and their “rule” over British society. According to the British Jewish News online, in a phone call to BBC London’s Simon Lederman program last Tuesday, the man, introduced as “Andy from…

Rumors were rampant on social media on Monday that former President Shimon Peres had passed away, but his office was quick to clarify that the 92-year-old is alive and well. According to the website of the Ma’ariv newspaper, the rumors on social media and on WhatsApp may have been connected to an explosion in Rishon…

Do Arab terrorists undergo some kind of preparation that teaches them how to cause maximum damage when stabbing Jews? One of the most prominent doctors treating terror victims in Jerusalem hinted Monday that this may indeed be so. Dr. Ofer Merin, Director of the Trauma Unit at Shaare Tzedek Hospital and Deputy Director of the hospital,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has offered a veiled message for Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah, stating, “Our enemies should know that we will aggressively retaliate for any attack against us.” He made the statement during a ceremony awarding the year’s best Mossad workers, only a couple days after Nasrallah threatened to attack Israel in return for the…

The High Court rejected on Monday a motion by antiquities dealers against new regulations that force them to register their inventories online. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) hailed the decision as no less than a revolution. The ruling ends the drawn-out process of changing the regulations, which began in 2012. The High Court rejected a…

One of the suspects in the deadly Duma arson case has been released to house arrest, after Lod District Court rejected an appeal by police to keep him detained without trial. The suspect, whose identity is still the subject of a gagging order, had been held for 29 days under administrative arrest, the initial 20 day…

MK Manuel Trajtenberg (Zionist Union) and MK Mickey Rosenthal (Zionist Union), both members of the Finance Committee, have asked Committee head Moshe Gafni (UTJ) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) to cancel the tax benefits for Honenu. According to the MKs, Honenu is “an organization that encourages and supports terror, and harms the security of…

On a Thursday afternoon last month, the IDF’s Home Front Command closed off a country club in Kfar Saba, in central Israel, and filled its grounds with soldiers acting as mock casualties of a chemical attack. The exercise started with an imaginary nerve gas rocket landing near the country club, when it was full of…

Relatives of the victims from the bus 37 bombing in Haifa have written a letter to Prime Minister and current Interior Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding that he revoke Munir Rajbi’s citizenship. Rajbi served as an assistant to the terror group that carried out the attack. “This thug is responsible for the murder of 17 Israelis, including…

Say goodbye to complaints that seven-minute shiurim between mincha and maariv are too long. Imagine: 18 hours of a live streamed, non-stop shiur. That was the feat accomplished by Los Angeles’s Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn last week on Thursday. He created a shiur that would rival any in the world in terms of length, and  proceeded to…

At the beginning of the discussion, Committee head MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid) denounced the incitement from the Left against Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), saying that it “creates an atmosphere suggesting the country’s laws don’t touch on incitement. There is a red line for every opinion, and certainly when such incitement creates violent…

Palestinians in Gaza and on social media are continuing to express outrage over the death of a naked man who was shot as he crossed from Gaza into Egypt, even as Hamas continues to hold a mentally unstable Israeli in Gaza. Video has spread online purporting to show the man walking in the Mediterranean surf…

World countries on Monday congratulated the Iraqi army after it was able to recapture the key city of Ramadi from Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. The United States welcomed the Iraqi forces’ victory over ISIS, with Secretary of State saying, “We commend the government of Iraq and the brave Iraqi forces that are displaying tremendous perseverance…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said Iran made “significant progress” in keeping up its end of the nuclear deal with world powers, after it was reported that the Islamic Republic sent a major shipment of low-enriched uranium materials to Russia, AFP reports. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, told…

Haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and were noticeably absent from the Knesset plenum on Monday as openly gay MK Amir Ohana (Likud) was sworn in.  According to a UTJ source, the Ashkenazi haredi faction fears Ohana will promote reforms favorable to the LGBT community instead of maintaining the status quo.  The decision to…

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and state senator Simcha Felder expressed outrage Monday in the wake of a brutal attack on a young Jewish man in Brooklyn.  The 20-year-old victim was knocked to the sidewalk and punched at least four times in front of 809 Avenue M shortly before 1 a.m. (local time) on Monday morning. As he…

Jordan is examining the tightening of laws that forbid Jews from buying land there, according to items in the Jordanian press monitored by the Elder of Ziyon blog. While the current Jordanian law already states that “it is impermissible for foreign persons or corporate entities that do not hold an Arab nationality to purchase, lease, or…

French Jewish groups are up in arms over a new photo exhibition in Paris which they argue glorifies Palestinian terrorism, JTA reports. The controversial exhibition put up by Doctors without Borders features pictures and accompanying text about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which, it claims, began with Zionism’s “goal of creating a Jewish state in Palestine.”  Part of the exhibition centers…

The Israeli Knesset and the IDF are continuing to pave the way for the majority of the IDF training and command bases to be transferred to Israel’s south. Recently, approximately $5 billion were earmarked for the transfer of IDF intelligence and communication bases to Israel’s south. In addition, some  $800 million have been designated to…

Severe storms killed 43 people in 7 US states over the weekend, with more on the way.  Storms varied from tornadoes to blizzard conditions to flash-flooding – and the National Weather Service stated Monday that the trend has not ended.  “The storm system will gradually pull away by Tuesday, but flooding and treacherous travel could…

The High Court rejected on Monday an appeal filed by the family of Mohannad Halabi against the demolition of the terrorist stabber’s home. Halabi murdered Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, 41, and Aharon Bennett, 21, during a stabbing this past Sukkot holiday in Jerusalem’s Old City. Bennett’s wife and infant son were also injured in the brutal attack.  Judges Elikin Rubinstein, Zvi…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), too, deserves justice, Jewish Home MKs stated Monday, after a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) called her a “neo-Nazi.” “This is the most severe incitement against the justice minister since the establishment of the state,” Jewish Home chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett stated Monday night. ”I spoke with…

MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Union) claimed on his Facebook page Monday that convicted Jewish Underground member Natan Nathanson, serves as an advisor to Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett.  According to Hasson, Nathan has a fixed permit to enter the Knesset, regularly attends meetings of the Jewish Home faction and led coalition negotiations for Bennett during the…

Jesus was not Palestinian, the Uniting Church of Australia said after an umbrella Jewish group objected to a news story that called Palestinians “the living descendants of Christ.” The saga began when two Palestinian Arab members of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, which has links with the Uniting Church of Australia, wrote a story that…

Jerusalem District Police conducted a massive operation on Monday to pinpoint and confiscate weapons from two locations in Arab neighborhoods of the the capital.  In a courtyard adjacent to a house in Ras al-Amud, police uncovered weapons wrapped in bags and buried underground.  The weapons seized include six pipe bombs, two stun grenades, and a Carl Gustav…

Two Israeli citizens have been detained by police in Rome for allegedly flying a drone over the Vatican, reports The Local in Italian. Airspace over the capital was declared a no-drone zone at the start of the jubilee year declared earlier this month by Pope Francis, over fears remote-controlled aircraft could be used in a…

After 29 days of interrogation by the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), prosecutors filed for an indictment Monday against one of the Jewish youths arrested in connection to the deadly Duma arson.  Attorney Chai Hever, who is representing the youth, said he is not a suspect in the Duma case; rather the charges revolve around…

The bereaved widow of Avraham Hasno, who was brutally murdered by an Arab terrorist in mid October, issued a statement on Sunday night, criticizing the way Jewish suspects from the lethal Duma arson in July are being allegedly tortured while Hasno’s murdered walks free. Hasno, a resident of Kiryat Arba who was recognized as a terror victim in…

With two new films, German cinema has rediscovered the country’s fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honoring a man who fought against post-war amnesia about the Holocaust. A Jewish atheist and Social Democrat who spent time in a Nazi death camp before going into war-time exile, Bauer became “the most hated lawyer in Germany” after World War II, one of…

A provincial official on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights said on Sunday that residents of the region plan to attack Israel in the near future, announcing intentions to set up a “resistance” front inside the Israeli side of the Golan. Ra’afat al-Bokar, a member of the Syrian Quneitra Provincial Council, told the semi-official…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said that a weak Syria “pleases” Israel, and accused Iran’s longtime rival Saudi Arabia of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Yemeni rebels and supporting armed rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Addressing a conference in Tehran and quoted by The Associated Press (AP), Rouhani…

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi on Sunday said that the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six Western powers will come into force in early January. “God willing, this job (implementation of the nuclear deal) will be fulfilled in the midst of (the Iranian month) Dey (December 22-January 20) and before the end of…

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat on Sunday reiterated that the Palestinian leadership will soon make critical decisions regarding the relationship with Israel. In an interview with Hamas’s Al-Risala newspaper, Erekat said that in the coming days there will be an extended meeting of the Palestinian leadership to discuss the implementation of the decisions…

Police in California are investigating an arson attack at a Central Valley mosque over the weekend as a possible hate crime, The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Debris from what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail was found outside the Tracy Islamic Center on Saturday morning, said Det. Dave Konecny, who works in the San…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group abandoned its last stronghold in Ramadi Sunday, effectively handing Iraqi forces their biggest victory since last year’s massive jihadist nationwide offensive. There were still parts of the flashpoint government complex the elite counter-terrorism service could not enter, as jihadists had rigged the entire area with explosives before retreating. And while…

The Islamic State’s (ISIS) threats against Israel have mainly to do with propaganda, Professor Eyal Zisser of Tel Aviv University told Arutz Sheva on Sunday, in the wake of the recording released on Saturday in which ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said his jihadists will attack the Jewish state. “People come and ask ISIS, ‘Where…

The mother of Bilal Hadfi, the youngest of the Islamist terrorists who staged the deadly Paris attacks on November 13, has said she is “proud” that her son did not kill anyone else when he blew himself up outside a soccer stadium. In an interview Sunday with Belgium’s Maghreb TV – which is popular among immigrants…

Families of the Jewish suspects being interrogated in the lethal Duma arson case from July issued their first joint public statement on Monday, in which they argue the innocence of their loved ones, who reportedly are being brutally tortured by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA). “We, parents of the youths detained on suspicions in the murder…

Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri arrived to a session of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in the Knesset on Monday morning, to take part in a discussion on a counter-terror bill. During the discussion, MK Osama Saadi of the Arab Joint List asked Nizri why he made a visit to the Jewish suspects being interrogated…

The Foreign Ministry has launched disciplinary procedures against Yigal Caspi, the Israeli Ambassador to Switzerland, after he posted a quote from a Nazi leader on Facebook in an attempt to compare the Israeli government with the genocidal Nazi regime. Caspi posted a picture of Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo secret police and head of the Luftwaffe Nazi…

The battle over the Enlistment Law notwithstanding, the IDF is continuing in its efforts to incorporate more haredi soldiers within its ranks via more positive measures. The newest initiative, entitled “Olive Saplings”, offers haredi soldiers in Israel’s north the chance to enlist and serve at a base that befits their lifestyle needs. Additionally, the new program opens…

An IDF soldier was wounded on Monday by a misfired bullet at an army post near Metzad, in the Gush Etzion region of Judea. Medical teams rushed to the site and provided the soldier with treatment, after he was apparently hit by an ejected bullet due to a weapons malfunction. However, the circumstances of the incident…

The practice among many European Union European states to fund extremist anti-Zionist groups inside Israel is so entrenched that it has become an integral part of those countries’ foreign policies, a leading expert has said. Professor Gerald Steinberg, who heads the NGO Monitor watchdog which tracks extremist anti-Israel NGOs, explained to Arutz Sheva that that…

Leading Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems announced on Monday that it has been awarded a contract to supply advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for Israeli fighter jets. The contract was awarded by the Directorate of Production and Procurement of the Israeli Defense Ministry, and is worth around $70 million. Elbit will deliver the advanced systems over a…

Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke on Sunday about the video from a wedding three weeks ago, in which Jewish extremists appeared to celebrate the deadly Duma arson while waving weapons, in a clip leaked to the media last week that has raised an uproar. In the video, people are seen dancing and singing a song of…

Brazil is not planning to cave in to pressure from Israel and approve the appointment of Dani Dayan as Israel’s Ambassdor to Brasilia, Reuters reported Sunday. Brazilian government officials declined to comment on whether Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will accept the nomination of the Argentine-born Dayan, but one senior Foreign Ministry official told the news…

About 150 people, mostly teenagers, demonstrated Sunday evening in downtown Jerusalem to protest against the continued torture of the detainees by the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet). The protesters, residents of Kohav HaShahar and other activists carried banners demanding to stop the torture against the detainees, three of which have yet to meet…

Israel’s military is the only army in the world that ISIS fears, according to the only Western journalist whom the sadistic terror group has allowed into its territory. Jürgen Todenhöfer, a former member of the German Parliament, spent ten days in ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria, accompanied by his son Frederic, and published a…

Rabbis, ministers, Knesset members and other public figures gathered Sunday evening in Jerusalem to raise Shabbat to the top of the public agenda, in the ‘Strengthening Sabbath’ conference at the initiative of the Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Dov Kalmanovitz. MK Miki Zohar (Likud), who has caused a stir in recent days following his proposed “Shabbat Law”…

Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri arrived at the ISA holding facility to meet the suspects being held on charges of being involved in the Duma arson case Sunday, to inspect their physical conditions and examine allegations of torture.  Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) confirmed that the Deputy Attorney General met with the detainees. The meeting took place against…

Security has been boosted around Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) chief Yoram Cohen, Channel 10 reports Sunday, following concerns over potential threats from right-wing extremists over the Duma arson case.  No concrete threats have been issued, the news agency reports, but recent protests over the case have led the government to take extra precautions.  The…

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu), Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Galant (Kulanu), and Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky signed an agreement Sunday for a new, wide-scale joint venture to develop housing solutions for thousands of Israel’s most vulnerable citizens. The government and The Jewish Agency will jointly invest some NIS 1 billion ($257 million) in…

The Jerusalem District Court ruled Sunday in an unprecedented decision that the game “Texas Hold’em” is forbidden by law. During the verdict, material issues relating to the game were examined, among other things, whether a “bluff” is evidence that the game is based on individual talent rather than luck. The ruling can in response to…

Religious Jewish schools in New York City are prime beneficiaries of a special $20 million budget for “school security.” This is the result of a City Council vote earlier this month – sparking the latest wave of a decades-long controversy over public funding for private and parochial school.  City schools with at least 300 students – such as…

President Reuven Rivlin expressed condolences Sunday during his visit to the family of Rabbi Reuven Birmacher, who was killed in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem at Jaffa Gate last week. His wife Naomi and children spoke with President Rivlin and told how Rabbi Birmacher felt it was a great privilege to live in Israel, despite the difficulties,…

Rabbi Arie Folger was elected Chief Rabbi of Vienna this week, with the Blessings of Leading Rabbis and Sages of Israel and of the heads of the Conference of European Rabbis.  “We will assist him in upholding the glory of the Torah, in the establishment of religious institutions, in furthering Jewish education and in nurturing the community,” Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt,…

Work on the new trail was completed Sunday in the Oz VeGaon Nature Preserve in Gush Etzion. The last buckets of gravel were poured by Ezra Schwartz’s parents, sister and brothers, five weeks after the fatal shooting attack which killed him and Ya’akov Don. Schwartz was on his was on his way from his Beit-Shemesh Yeshiva…

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel over the assassination of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar Sunday, one week after the latter was killed in an airstrike in Syria.  “The Israelis are hiding like rats along the border,” he said. “They are worried and they should be worried along the border and inside Israel. Their threats will not benefit…

The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced terrorist Mohammed Hafez Cundus to 27 months’ imprisonment Sunday, for throwing a grenade at a yeshiva in the city.  In early September, Cundus arrived outside the building on a motorcycle with hidden plates and without a license, carrying the stun grenade in his gloved hands.  He threw the stun grenade…

An Israeli tech team says it has an answer to the disturbing noise made by snorers, in the form of an active noise cancellation technology. The Silent Partner device, according to its inventors, is the world’s first smart patch to quiet snoring noise. Israel21c reports that Silent Partner does not try to prevent snoring but…

Loading… An Israeli soldier was stabbed shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday morning on HaTzvi Street in Jerusalem, close to the Central Bus Station.  He was lightly injured in the attack and suffered stab wounds to the upper body.  Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics treated the soldier at the scene before evacuating him to Hadassah Medical Center in the capital. He arrived there fully…

An Israeli Arab man was shot dead Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting attack on the road between Sansana and the Meitar checkpoint in the southern Judean Hills.  A large presence of IDF forces and Magen David Adom medics arrived at the scene, several miles south of Jerusalem, and provided first aid to the critically-injured victim, before evacuated him to…

The Foreign Ministry is planning to launch a campaign in order to convince the government of Brazil to approve the appointment of Dani Dayan as Israeli Ambassador to Brazil. Dayan’s appointment as Ambassador in Brazil was approved in Israel more than two months ago, but has been continuously ignored by Brasilia. Immediately after Prime Minister…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s use of a Yiddish cuss word against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has gotten him in trouble not just with Clinton’s camp, but also with Yiddish speakers in the United States. Trump said during a campaign rally that in the 2008 Democratic primaries, Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama, using a Yiddish term for…

The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, hopes to convene talks between the government of President Bashar Al-Assad and the opposition on January 25 in Geneva, his office said Saturday. De Mistura has “intensified efforts” towards convening the talks on the target date, hopefully including the “broadest possible spectrum” of opposition representatives, the…

Security was beefed up around Education Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett on Saturday. The decision to increase the personal security for Bennett was made last week after the minister condemned the suspects in the Duma arson, calling them “terrorists” whose goal is to dismantle the state of Israel. The Jewish Home head claimed…

Arab media reported on Saturday night that the Israeli Air Force attacked terrorist targets in the Qalamoun region of Syria. The reports were published before the IDF issued a statement saying that “in the coming hours, exploding sounds might be heard in the Upper Galilee. These are initiated and controlled explosions which were planned in…

The Israeli soldier hospitalized in critical condition last week after accidentally eating granola at his base passed away Sunday morning at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.  The recently-enlisted Shalev Hazan was allergic to nuts, and began to choke at the Military Police Corps base after he consumed granola during dinner. He was rushed to the base’s clinic. …

Spanish judges canceled on Thursday an earlier decision to register Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and six other officials as war crimes suspects, and said it had been a jurisdictional error. Spanish daily El Diario – cited by JTA – reported that the ruling, by two judges from Spain’s National Court, concerned Netanyahu and six other Israeli officials: former…

Two Israeli soldiers in their twenties were injured in a stabbing attack Sunday afternoon at the Huwara checkpoint, south of Shechem in Samaria.  Reports indicate two Arab terrorists approached a gas station near the checkpoint and stabbed a soldier. Security forces shot and eliminated the terrorists at the scene, lightly injuring another soldier in the process.  According to the Palestinian…

An impressive, nearly full-preserved ancient statue of a ram was discovered by archaeologists near an ancient church in Caesarea that dates to the Byzantine period. The discovery was made last Thursday morning in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Caesarea Harbor National Park, at the initiative of the Caesarea Development Corporation. The use of a…

Police in Jerusalem thwarted a stabbing attack in the capital’s Old City, after arresting a Palestinian man armed with a knife. Officers had noticed the man – a resident of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah – acting suspiciously while walking along Muristan Road in the Christian Quarter. Upon being questioned he presented an ID card, and suddenly…

Past e-mail exchanges between presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her confidants reveal that a Clinton presidency would likely be a hostile one, according to a report by Makor Rishon‘s weekend magazine, Dyokan. The report cites remarks made to and by Clinton in e-mail exchanges with her advisers and prominent friends, which were made…

The High Court held on Sunday a hearing regarding a petition to instruct Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev to implement a system to prevent sports matches from being played on Shabbat.  At the end of the discussion, the High Court judges gave the committee established by Minister Regev a further extension of 90 days to finalize the issue. …

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed during his Cabinet meeting Sunday recently published footage documenting right-wing extremists celebrating the Duma arson at a wedding.  According to Netanyahu, the individuals seen dancing with knives and guns in the video are part of an “extremist and fringe” group that “certainly do not represent religious Zionism.” “To try and link religious Zionism to this group…

A 22-year-old Israeli tourist passed away late Saturday night while traveling in Chile in South America.  The Foreign Ministry received news of the young woman’s sudden death overnight; the circumstances of her death are unclear.  She died in Puerto Natales, a city of approximately 18 thousand people in the southernmost region of Chile near the border with…

A female Arab terrorist attempted a stabbing attack Sunday morning at “Curve 90,” on the road that ascends to Ma’ale Shomron in Samaria.  According to reports, the terrorist ran toward a military security coordinator driving in her direction. She threw a knife at his vehicle and then tried to flee to the nearby village Azzun.  Security forces managed to…

The Likud and the Jewish Home engaged in a war of words on Saturday, which began when Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) criticized the Jewish Home by linking statements some of its MKs had made with the arson attack in Duma, and also accusing Jewish Home members of rushing to make false accusations against the…

Arab media reported on Saturday night that the Israeli Air Force attacked terrorist targets in the Qalamoun region of Syria. The reports were published before the IDF issued a statement saying that “in the coming hours, exploding sounds might be heard in the Upper Galilee. These are initiated and controlled explosions which were planned in…

The family of Avraham (Avera) Mengistu, a mentally ill Israeli who crossed into Gaza back in September 2014 and has been held by Hamas ever since, condemned the terrorist group for its hypocrisy on Saturday. The criticism comes after Hamas issued harsh criticism against the Egyptian military, which was caught on camera gunning down a naked mentally…

Ofek Ben Ari, the daughter of Ofer who was killed in the course of a terror stabbing attack in Jerusalem last Wednesday, said on Saturday night that she does not blame the female Border Police officers who accidentally shot her father while trying to stop the terrorists. “I am not at all angry at the officers, they tried…

The Honenu legal aid organization announced on Saturday night that three of the Jewish suspects being interrogated by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) over the lethal Duma arson still have not been allowed to see their lawyers, for some roughly a month after their arrest. In its statement, Honenu began by announcing that Judea-Samaria district police…

A 68-year-old resident of Tel Aviv was arrested on Saturday night, on suspicions of having published threats and incitement against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other public figures on social media. In the last two weeks, the suspect published on Facebook and Twitter calls to murder and attack public figures including Netanyahu. He also posted pictures…

Egyptian soldiers were caught on tape Saturday brutally gunning down a mentally ill Palestinian man who waded in the water from Gaza into Egyptian territory – but world leaders have been silent on the killing, in stark contrast to the common condemnation of IDF security measures against actual terrorists. The victim, 28-year-old Ishak Khalil Hassan, hails…

Osama Hamdan, a senior leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, said on Saturday that Turkey had kept his group updated on rapprochement talks with Israel before news of the negotiations was reported just over a week ago. Speaking to the Hamas paper Palestine, Hamdan said, “we have a principled position that we stick to – we…

Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi issued a threat against Israel on Saturday in an audio recording, saying his jihadists are preparing to attack the Jewish state. “If the Islamic coalition against ISIS were truly Islamic, it would declare that it was cutting ties with its Jewish and crusader masters and that its goal…

Welfare Minister Chaim Katz (Likud) revealed on Saturday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered him the economics portfolio in the last several days, but he refused. “Before the elections I wanted the role of economics minister, health minister or welfare minister,” said Katz. “I got welfare and fell in love with the role.” “A week ago…

Welfare Minister Chaim Katz (Likud) revealed on Saturday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered him the economics portfolio in the last several days, but he refused. “Before the elections I wanted the role of economics minister, health minister or welfare minister,” said Katz. “I got welfare and fell in love with the role.” “A week ago…

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels seized a key dam on the Euphrates River from Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists in northern Syria on Saturday, the group said. The Syrian Democratic Forces captured Tishreen Dam after intense clashes with ISIS, as well as seven villages along the river’s eastern bank, spokesman Talal Sello told AFP. He said dozens of ISIS fighters…

An Arab terrorist conducted a car ramming attack on Saturday afternoon, targeting a group of soldiers at a checkpoint outside the Arab village of Huwara in Samaria. One of the soldiers, aged 20, was lightly wounded in the attack. His comrades opened fired and seriously wounded the terrorist, who later died of his wounds. Security…

The deliveries of Russian S-300 air defense systems to Iran will begin in January, a source in Russia’s military and technical cooperation system told the TASS news agency on Friday. “It is planned to begin the process of delivery of the first regiment of the S-300PMU-2 air defense systems in January and to complete it…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not often lauded for kindness or compassion, but on Friday he reportedly used his rhetorical skills to prevent a man from jumping off Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge. According to the AFP news agency, the man was apparently preparing to jump to his death when Erdogan’s motorcade was passing over the…

A bus carrying activists from the leftist group Breaking the Silence was pelted by rocks near Hevron on Friday, Haaretz reported. Three people were lightly wounded, according to the newspaper. The assailants who carried out the attack were Palestinian Arab children, Breaking the Silence told Haaretz. The three wounded were participating on a Breaking the Silence tour at the time of the…

Zahran Alloush, head of the powerful Jaish al-Islam Syrian rebel group, was killed on Friday east of Damascus, a monitoring group and Syria’s opposition said, according to AFP. His death “stands as one of the most significant opposition losses” of Syria’s nearly five-year uprising, analyst Charles Lister said on Twitter. The Syrian Observatory for Human…

Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail banned local gas companies from importing natural gas from Israel late Thursday night, just one day after Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) approved exporting natural gas from the Tamar field to Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings.  Ismail also banned all further discussion on the issue.  On Wednesday, Steinitz announced a 1 billion shekel ($257 million) deal…

The security system is still refusing to call the current wave of Arab terror an “intifada” terror war, but it was revealed late Thursday night that officials estimate the attacks are liable to continue for many more months, with no definite end in sight. According to official figures released by Israel Hayom, there have been no less…

Newly released documents seized from Islamic State (ISIS) backed in May in eastern Syria by US forces include fatwa Islamic religious rulings by the group on a host of issues – including organ harvesting and rape. The documents, seized during an operation in which ISIS chief financial officer Abu Sayyaf was killed and his wife was captured, were among…

Temperatures will remain pleasant over the weekend, forecasters predict Friday, after two weeks of rainstorms over Shabbat.  Skies will be clear throughout most of the country Friday, especially throughout the coastal regions, with very few clouds in the sky.  Highs Friday will reach 17°C (62.6°F) in the Golan Heights, 14°C (57.2°F) in the Galilean Hills, 21°C (69.8°F)…

Air raids by Syrian government warplanes killed at least 28 civilians, including 10 children, near Damascus on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, according to AFP. At least 60 others were also wounded in the raids on Hammuriyeh and Irbin in Eastern Ghouta, the largest rebel stronghold in Damascus province, the organization…

Naomi, The “Aussie gourmet”, lets you know what’s new in the culinary world. This week on Table For Two guests are Jay Buchsbaum of Royal Wines and The Cheese Guy, Brent Delman. We discuss winter wines and cheeses that pair well together. Want to write Naomi? Ask her questions? Give her a new recipe of yours? Write to nznachman@yahoo.com  For…

There has been a 61 percent increase in anti-Semitic crime in Britain in the last year, according to the statistics released by the Met Police on Thursday and published by the Jewish News Online website. A total of 483 anti-Semitic crimes were committed up until November 2015, increasing from 299 crimes from November 2014. Hotspots…

Police are investigating the assault of a 24-year-old Jewish man at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn as a possible hate crime, the local PIX11 television reported Thursday. The assault happened around 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday on campus in Crown Heights, according to the station. The student, who was wearing a yarmulke (kippah), had finished taking…

Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), on Thursday said it identified the groups behind the downing of Metrojet A321 over the Sinai Peninsula, which killed 224 passengers and crew, reports the International Business Times. Russian spy chief Alexander Bortnikov told local agencies the FSB had identified the perpetrators of the attack on the…

The IDF notified an entire reserve battalion of its closure through text messages, reservists stated to the Israeli press Friday – and it is not the first time the military strayed from orderly and official procedures in closing a battalion.  A special reserve battalion consisting of Artillery Corps soldiers who served during the Second Lebanon…

Iraqi forces dodged sniper fire, car bombs, roadside bombs and booby traps as they battled Friday to root out jihadist fighters hunkered down in a strategic compound in central Ramadi. Elite forces from the counter-terrorism service (CTS) faced limited resistance when they punched into central Ramadi four days earlier, in a final push to retake the city they lost to the Islamic State…

Dozens of religious Zionist rabbis published a letter supporting the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) Friday, and stated that they condemn all manifestations of hatred and violence, such as ‘price tag’ attacks directed against the Arab population. “We state that these actions are in stark contrast to the Torah of Israel and Jewish ethics,” the…

Two Palestinian Arabs have been arrested by Palestinian Authority (PA) Security Forces, after they set a Christmas tree on fire in the Arab Christian majority town of Zababdeh near Jenin in Samaria. A PA security officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed the arson that took place on Wednesday in statements made Friday in time for…

In Parshat Vayechi we are introduced rather dramatically to the concept of Mashiach (Messiah) and the Messianic Age by our Forefather, Yaakov. “And Jacob (Yaakov) called unto his sons and said: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the End of Days.” Most commentators except for the Radak explain that the…

The United Kingdom (UK) has continued to bar flights to and from the Sinai’s Sharm el-Sheikh airport, Al-Arabiya reports Friday, following the Metrojet crash in a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) bomb attack in October.  British airlines canceled flights in the week after the crash, stranding thousands of British citizens in the resort town amid a slow evacuation process.  Months…

Bearded ladies are not an uncommon spectacle in your local circus, but they usually have not been standard fare as fugitives in massive police manhunts – until now. San Diego police on late Thursday night were embroiled in an all out search to try and locate an obese woman, who weighs around 400 pounds (over 180…

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is representing several of the Jewish suspects being interrogated in the lethal Duma arson case, sharply criticized the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and police on Friday morning, accusing them of trying to get him removed from the case. A video was leaked to the media on Wednesday from a wedding three weeks…

A Palestinian Arab woman on Friday afternoon tried to ram a car into Border Police officers near Ofra. The officers were able to shoot her dead before she was able to carry out the attack, the police said. “An attempted attack to ram a car into border guards deployed in the village of Silwad (northwest…

Today’s show guests add light to the world: Yaakov Feldstein, winner of the Dance for Kindness Worldwide Anthem competition, and Zvi Gluck, founder and Director of Amudim. School of Business student Yaakov Feldstein try to spread acts of positivity and kindness to others. Feldstein composed and performed the theme song for this year’s international Dance for Kindness day,…

Hundreds of families of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists and some injured fighters are expected to leave rebel-held areas of southern Damascus under a UN-brokered deal, including the Yarmouk neighborhood, Reuters reported on Thursday. Yarmouk, which is referred to as a “Palestinian refugee camp”, had been besieged by government forces since 2013 before being stormed by…

The British Muslim family which was prevented from flying to Disneyland was barred because one of the brothers had been refused entry to Israel two years ago and his teenage son’s Facebook account had links to terrorist websites, CBS News reported. The family of 11 was stopped from boarding their flight to Los Angeles at…

Syria’s regime said Thursday it was ready to take part in new talks in Geneva aimed at ending the war but appeared to make its participation conditional on which opposition groups attend, AFP reported. The country’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Damascus “is ready to participate in the Syrian-Syrian dialogue in Geneva without any foreign…

Sotheby’s set a new world auction record by selling the an original Daniel Bomberg Babylonian Talmud for $9.3 million, which ranked it as the most expensive piece of Judaica to ever be auctioned. The volume, which is still in pristine condition, has only been owned by four people prior to the sale. Mr. Stephan Loewentheil,…

Dr. Fredy Zypman, a professor of physics and chair of the physics department at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College, believes the key to major advances in medicine, electric cars and other fields, lies precisely in nanoparticles. Together with his research colleague Dr. Steven Eppell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Zypman has been awarded…

Four terror victims are still currently hospitalized at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, the hospital announced in a status report on Thursday night. Gendi Kofman, who was stabbed by an Arab terrorist two weeks ago outside Cave of Machpelah in Hevron, is still hospitalized in very serious condition and is in intensive care. He remains in life-threatening…

Two security guards at the entrance to the western industrial area of Ariel, in Samaria, were wounded Thursday morning by a terrorist who stabbed them. One guard – a man – suffered numerous wounds to the head and limbs and was classified as being in moderate condition when he was brought to the hospital. The…

As public debate raged around a video from a wedding in which someone held up a firebomb and a photo of a murdered Arab baby, Shahar Eshbal, the father of the groom, said Thursday that he got no sleep last night. “There is great sorrow,” he told Radio Kol Baramah. “We had the joy of…

The IDF announced on Thursday night to the community committee of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria that it is opening the town’s access road to Arab traffic, after the road was closed two weeks ago following a shooting attack on Jewish motorists. In the attack, Shaul Nir was seriously wounded and his wife Rachel was lightly wounded, with…

After several hours of deliberations following months of battling, the Knesset approved Thursday morning a bill to regulate the legal status of the Settlement Division as part of the World Zionist Organization.  Submitted by MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home), the bill passed its second and third readings by a majority of 53 MKs in favor to…

Japan said Thursday it was investigating the reported kidnapping of a Japanese journalist in Syria by an armed group, after two of its citizens were beheaded by Islamic State earlier this year. Media rights group Reporters Without Borders said Jumpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped in July as he was crossing the border into the country and is still being…

Terror victim Reuven Birmacher was laid to rest late Wednesday night hours after he succumbed to stab wounds incurred in a terror attack outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.  He was evacuated to Hadassah Medical Center in serious condition in the aftermath of the stabbing early on Wednesday afternoon. Despite doctors’ best efforts, he passed away several hours later. …

A new initiative was launched on Tuesday by the Mirage Fund and the Jewish Agency’s ‘Wings’ project. The project, which is also being spearheaded by the the Knesset Caucus for Strengthening the Jewish People, will see MKs from across the political spectrum adopt lone soldiers who come to serve in the IDF from around the world. …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday claimed that the United States Congress’ decision to block visa-free travel by Iranian nationals or those who visited Iran is a violation of the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the West. In comments carried by the Fars news agency, Zarif stressed that the administration is responsible…

Israeli history runs hot and cold. There are times when it is intense, and times when it is more laid back. How many times has a war in Israel occurred that seemed existential, only to end in victory and some measure of peace, thank God? Is this just natural for a country living in a veritable lion’s den,…

Hamas officially confirmed on Wednesday that senior Hamas terrorist Salah Al-Arouri has left Turkey, Kol Yisrael radio reported. The station quoted Hamas official Osama Hamdan, who told the organization’s journal that Al-Arouri Turkey left more than two months ago. Hamdan stressed that Al-Arouri’s leaving Turkey was due to internal considerations by Hamas and denied that…

Saudi King Salman on Wednesday accused Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad of having aided the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) group and called for a political settlement with moderate forces to end the war there. The solution would be to form “a transitional government made up of moderate opposition forces, ensuring the unity of Syrians…

Two young Syrian brothers have been arrested in a refugee camp in southern Austria on suspicion of belonging to terrorist groups, prosecutors said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency. Police detained the two men, aged 16 and 18, in the Leibnitz district in Styria state last Thursday after a tip-off from German authorities, the…

Do you know the implications of moving your money from one country to another? The San Bernardino terror attack had serious repercussions on the world banking system. Learn which measures to take to keep your money out of the hands of terrorists. Does having a U.S. brokerage account protect against money laundering and keep your…

Keren Kopler Berko, who works in the Ariel Industrial Park near the site of Wednesday morning’s stabbing attack, expressed the concern of many factory employees in the area.   “Forty minutes ago we heard shots,” she recounted to Arutz Sheva shortly after the attack. “We went outside and saw it was full of ambulances and IDF forces.”  “We realized there had been…

The Health Ministry issued a warning Thursday of a new outbreak of swine influenza after one woman died of the H1N1 virus and six others were infected and hospitalized.  Four of the women infected with swine influenza are currently being hospitalized at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. Three of them are pregnant.  Two of the women have…

Former minister Gilad Sa’ar hinted Thursday he has no plans to return to Likud in the near future and certainly will not attempt to supplant Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as leader of the party.  Sa’ar was asked by Channel 2 journalist Amit Segal on Twitter if “assuming Netanyahu succeeds in holding primaries within the next five minutes as he plans, are…

The Shin Bet security service (also known as the General Security Service or by its Hebrew acronym, Shabak) has released an unusually strident statement in response to accusations that its interrogation of the suspects in the Duma arson case amounts to torture.  Attorneys of the men claim they have been denied their basic rights and even tortured…

Prosecutors filed an indictment Thursday with the Central District Court against Ismail Alhadidi for the brutal attempted murder of two foremen during a back-to-back terror attack on two Modi’in construction sites.  They are asking that Alhadidi be kept in police custody until the conclusion of the trial against him.  According to the indictment, the foreman of the construction site on which Alhadidi…

An Israeli solder was wounded late Thursday morning in a car-ramming attack at Ramah Junction, just north of Jerusalem and to the west of Adam Junction. The soldier was lightly wounded, and treated by emergency paramedics at the scene. The Arab terrorist who carried out the attack was shot dead after his car crashed into a…

Police and Shin Bet security services last month arrested a pair of Israeli Arabs who planned to carry out a terrorist attack against IDF soldiers, it has been cleared for publication Tuesday. The two young men – cousins from the Nazareth region in northern Israel – are Muhammed Omar Badr Hassan, in his early twenties, from the…

New details emerged Thursday morning about the deadly stabbing attack outside of Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem yesterday afternoon.  Jerusalem resident Ofer Ben-Ari succumbed to gunshot wounds incurred during the attack shortly before 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, followed less than an hour later by second stabbing victim Reuven Birmacher.  Asi Aharoni, spokesman for the Jerusalem District Police, told Army Radio on…

Two Israeli security guards were injured Thursday morning in a stabbing attack at the entrance to the Ariel Industrial Park, next to Ariel in Samaria.  The two victims, a man and a woman both around age 24, suffered stab wounds to their upper bodies. They were both reported to be fully conscious at the scene.  Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the man,…

An Arab terrorist armed with a screwdriver attempted to stab Israeli security forces on Thursday morning at the Kvasim Junction, just south of Hevron in Judea. The terrorist was neutralized; none were injured in the attempted attack.  “A Palestinian armed with a screwdriver approached a checkpoint near Hevron and attempted to stab security forces,” the army said in a…

Thirty rare Alpine goats, that were stolen by Arabs from a Jewish-owned farm near Modi’in three weeks ago, were recovered before dawn Thursday in a joint operation mounted by Southern District Border Police’s Central Unit, accompanied by warriors from the Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion, and the farm’s owners. HaShomer HaChadash, a nonprofit that helps protect Jewish…

The week after Hanukkah, downtown Jerusalem was pretty much deserted. Between the tough security situation and the onset of winter, Jerusalemites have begun to head out less than usual, at least to open spaces such as Machane Yehuda and Ben Yehuda streets. But shops and small business owners still have something to look forward to. In just a…

Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar who murdered four Israelis, including four-year-old Einat Haran by repeatedly smashing her head with his rifle butt, is the newest hero among Palestinian Arabs. Kuntar was sentenced to four life sentences but was released in a deal with Hezbollah in July 2008, in exchange for the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser,…

Former Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal was brought in for investigation under warning on Thursday by police, on suspicions that he sexually harassed several women. Magal’s lawyers Oded Gazit and Galia Cohen said on his behalf that Magal was indeed summoned by the police, and welcomes the opportunity to deal with the accusations leveled against…

Turkish defense sources revealed on Thursday that Ankara is interested in a rapprochement agreement with Israel not only so as to buy natural gas from the Jewish state – but also to buy advanced military hardware. The sources told the Turkish Today’s Zaman on Thursday that the recent talk of a normalization agreement is primarily being driven by…

Veteran educator Sarah Eliash minced no words in an interview with Arutz Sheva, regarding the video of extremists waving guns and knives at a wedding, and holding up what is said to be a photo of a murdered Arab infant. “There is a certain populace here that has completely gone crazy, their path is not…

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels advanced Thursday against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria’s north in a new offensive backed by US-led air strikes, its spokesman said. Talal Sello, spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, told AFP the SDF offensive was launched late Wednesday in Aleppo province. “The battle now is aimed…

Originally printed by Forward Magazine and then reprinted by the Jewish Press, a report is making the rounds claiming that the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) no longer exists – but it would seem to be inaccurate. The report as printed in the Jewish Press says the following: “In its annual search to shame Jewish organizational leaders by pointing out how…

We miss our brothers and sisters, and understand their hestiation to come to Israel. But what’s the problem? Simply put, Israel is full of lunatics that enjoy being happy! How come Israel is high up on the world list of happy countries? What are we doing wrong? Dr. Sam is in full stride as we grasp for…

The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, and politicians from across the spectrum in Israel denounced on Wednesday evening a video broadcast on Channel 10 News in which extremist teens were seen expressing joy during a wedding celebration over the murder of baby Ali Dawabshe in the Duma arson six months ago. Rabbi Lau stressed…

24 Israelis have been murdered since the current wave of Arab terror began in October, according to updated figures released Wednesday evening by Magen David Adom. This number includes victims from a car accident caused by rock-throwing in Jerusalem on the eve Rosh Hashanah, the murder of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin, and a series…

On the basketball court of the Israeli Defense Forces school for Medicine (Training Base 10), there stood an overjoyed Gal and Carole Zamura shoulder to shoulder. Gal had just completed a medics course for the armored brigades, while Carole had completed her medic course under the auspices of IDF medical corps. While the twins smiled at…

Senior Jewish Home officials appear wary of the party’s chances of maintaining its alliance with National Union-Tekuma given the ideological differences between the two factions.  In conversation with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, Tekuma sources said, “The State of Israel and [Judea-Samaria] communities are in the midst of a wave of terror and a national crisis, and this is not the…

“Israel is under a continuing onslaught of terror,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday evening at the 90th birthday party of former Likud minister Moshe Arens.  “The whole world is awash with wild terror and we are fighting it and will overcome it,” Netanyahu vowed at the event being held at the Begin Heritage Center in…

The argument that Islamic State is not Islamic because it mainly murders Muslims doesn’t hold water, says Middle East and Islam specialist Raymond Ibrahim. Raymond Ibrahim, writing for FrontPage Magazine on Friday, explains that US President Barack Obama has prominently advanced this argument – most recently, just after the San Bernardino attack by ISIS sympathizers that claimed…

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) asserted during a Knesset discussion on anti-IDF NGO Breaking the Silence Wednesday that left-wing incitement on social media has “passed all bounds” in the past few days. “When I see the New Israel Fund refer to the Justice Minister as the ‘Minister of Hatred’ or when the Prime…

Activists from the “Jews do not answer Jews” organization staged a presentation-cum-protest in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square this Wednesday afternoon, reenacting the alleged torture of right-wing activists under the supervision of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet).  The organizers entitled the show “a taste of the interrogation room.”  Activists “tortured” an actor in…

A new book illustrating each one of the 613 commandments according to Maimonides’ count has been published by artist Archie Rand. Rand began working on the original masterwork for the book, a 17 foot by 100 foot canvas that comprises some 614 stretchers, in the year 2000. This seminal work, was the most ambitious of…

They are too easily pushed off of center stage and out of our consciousness. We commiserate and empathize with their situations but all too soon, sometimes just a day or at best a few days later, unfortunately, their plight is less pressing and sometimes we even forget about them. The way their lives have shockingly…

Two of three men injured in the stabbing Wednesday afternoon outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem have succumbed to wounds incurred at the scene. “Despite vigorous efforts to save him, the wounded man has passed away. The hospital extends its condolences to the family,” Shaare Zedek Medical Center said in a statement regarding the first victim who suffered a…

Russia on Wednesday rejected allegations by human rights group Amnesty International that Moscow’s strikes in Syria have causedmassive civilian casualties, saying its report was made up of “cliches and fakes.” “We examined this report,” defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a briefing. “Once again there was nothing concrete or new that was published, only cliches and fakes that we have already…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accused watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch of “incitement against the Palestinians and the Palestinian curriculum,” the group revealed Wednesday – for PMW’s work exposing the statements against Israelis and Jews in official PA media. Last week, the head of the press office of the PA Ministry of Information, Nida Younis, attacked PMW, telling…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a special visit to the Knesset Wednesday, as part of his official state visit to Israel.  Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) who opened the session, noted in his speech that next year Israel and Ukraine will mark 20 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between them. ”Your visit here today is…

MK Yoav Kish (Likud) submitted his controversial “Shatulim” (lit. “planted” – Heb. – ed.) bill on Wednesday in an effort to offer the public more transparency about the funding of Israeli NGOs who frequently criticize the state and the IDF abroad.  The bill would require all foreign-backed NGOs to maintain full transparency about their sources of funding,…

The two Arab terrorists who stabbed three Israeli civilians outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon have been identified as a pair of former convicts, both of whom were arrested for terrorism and imprisoned in the past.  Annan Hamad, 20, and Issa Assaf, 19, both Qalandiya residents, have each served time in Israeli prison for terror-related offenses.  Hamad…

The IDF’s Northern Command ordered local farmers on Wednesday to avoid standing for long periods near the border fence as well as to keep their distance from the area as best as possible.  The alert along the northern border with Lebanon remains high in the wake of the death of Hezbollah terrorist Samir Kuntar.  Israel’s defense…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to defend himself on Tuesday, after the night before he used a Yiddish cuss word against Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton during a rally. Trump said that in the 2008 Democratic primaries, Clinton “got schlonged” by Barack Obama, using a Yiddish term for a man’s genitals. In the same speech…

Haredi extremists have long dehumanized haredi IDF soldiers by portraying them as pigs, and some even smeared feces on the door of a haredi soldier in June, but on Tuesday night the incitement reached a new high during a Jerusalem protest. In the massive anti-enlistment protest on Sarei Yisrael Street in the capital, a life-sized effigy of a haredi soldier…

Attorney Ariel Atari, a senior criminal defense attorney, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that if the admission of one of the Jewish suspects in the lethal Duma arson case was indeed extracted under torture as has been testified, it can be canceled. “Reducing the hours of sleep is problematic,” said Atari. “The court will need to clarify how…

Amnesty International said on Wednesday Russian air raids have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria, many in targeted strikes that could constitute war crimes, since beginning nearly three months ago. Some attacks “appear to have directly attacked civilians or civilian objects by striking residential areas with no evident military target and even medical facilities, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians,” Amnesty Middle East and…

A 16th-century copy of the Talmud sold at auction Tuesday for $9.3 million in New York, a global record for any piece of Judaica, auctioneers Sothebys announced. The extremely rare Babylonian Talmud had been expected to fetch between five and seven million dollars. “The extraordinary volume was purchased by Stephan Loewentheil for the 19th Century Rare Book Photograph Shop” in New York,…

The State Department on Tuesday rejected calls by 32 congressional lawmakers, including Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, to close the Washington office of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Reuters reports.  In a letter dated December 18 quoted by the news agency, the lawmakers called on Secretary of State John Kerry to revoke a waiver that…

The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed a resolution facilitating the cross-border delivery of aid to millions of Syrians, while complaining previous such measures were not seen through on the ground. The text was adopted unanimously by the 15 member states, which include Syrian ally Russia. The resolution extends authorization for UN humanitarian convoys to…

Members of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Tuesday evening participated in a memorial in Ramallah for Samir Kuntar, the Hezbollah terrorist who was eliminated in Syria earlier this week, reports Walla! news. Western governments pushing for a peace treaty between Israel and PA often claim that Fatah is a “peace partner”…

Three people have been wounded in a stabbing attack early Wednesday afternoon at Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate, a popular tourist spot on the western side of the Old City. One of the victims is in critical condition, according to medical sources. The second victim is seriously injured and the third moderately. The victims received first aid at the…

Iraqi forces closed in on the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s last redoubts in central Ramadi Wednesday to retake the city they lost in May and further shrink the jihadists’ “caliphate.” A day after punching deep into the city center, forces led by the elite counter-terrorism service (CTS) inched towards the governmental compound in Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s vast Anbar province. “The anti-terrorism troops…

Attorney Adi Keidar of the Honenu legal aid organization, who is representing several Jewish suspects in the lethal Duma arson, sent a stern letter to Jewish Home chairperson Tuesday following the latter’s support of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) against serious allegations of torturing the suspects. Bennett continued his statements on Wednesday, condemning the suspects after a…

Aliyah is already expected to reach record highs in Israel next year, with an estimated 30,000 new immigrants set to arrive to the country. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein who helped break the Jewish Agencies’ monopoly on Aliyah, and was one of the original funders of Nefesh B’Nefesh, is now taking his knowledge and the backing of…

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) cleared for publication on Wednesday that it has nabbed a Hamas terror cell located in Abu Dis, just adjacent to Jerusalem to the east, that was planning to launch suicide and car bombing attacks. The arrests took place in recent weeks, and saw a wide terror infrastructure that was directed…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning dismissed the petition of Roman Zadorov, finding him guilty for the 2006 murder of 13-year-old Tair Rada at a school in the town of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. This marks the second time Zadorov tried to appeal his conviction of stabbing the young girl to death, having been handed a…

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer earlier this week posted a letter on Twitter together with a picture of the wrapped holiday gifts he is sending out – which include goods from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. In the Twitter post on Monday, Dermer made it clear his gifts were meant to respond to…

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is defending one of the minor Jewish suspects being investigated in the lethal Duma arson case from July, responded on Wednesday morning to Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett’s condemnation of the suspects. Bennett had said the suspects tried to “dismantle the state of Israel,” after a confession was extracted from Ben-Gvir’s…

Jewish Home chairperson and Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday morning condemned the Jewish suspects being held in the lethal Duma arson case, after a confession was extracted from one minor suspect under interrogation. “What stands before us today is whether we take responsibility for the state of Israel,” Bennett said at a directorate conference of…

The Ministry of Finance and the Histadrut labor federation reached an agreement overnight Tuesday that prevented a general strike that was scheduled to start at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday morning. The dispute was over the Histadrut’s demands to update public sector wages as well as an impasse in negotiations with the Treasury on an agreement on…

This week’s special edition of Temple Talk was recorded on the fast day of the Tenth of Tevet. Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman contemplate the true nature of a fast day, especially the fast days that commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temple.   Our hosts also discuss the assassination of the arch-terrorist child-murderer Samir…

An Israeli resolution on agricultural technology for sustainable development was adopted on Tuesday by the UN General Assembly with 146 votes in favor and 36 abstentions. The resolution promotes more accessible agricultural technology in areas stricken by poverty, drought and hunger. It was adopted despite efforts by the Arab bloc to prevent the passage of…

The High Court on Tuesday evening rejected petitions by the families of two terrorists who carried out attacks in Jerusalem and which the IDF had issued demolition orders for their homes. The two terrorists in question are Bahaa Alian, who carried out a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on October…

Israel’s enemies are often either ignorant of Israel’s history or distort it to their advantage – that’s why it’s incumbent upon us to know the truth and make it known to others, so Israel supporters be aware of our history. Click here to download the podcast

Tashfeen Malik together with her husband Syed Farook launched a lethal shooting attack murdering 14 people in San Bernardino, California early this month, but new revelations show the tragedy may have been avoided if stricter visa procedures were followed. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) on Tuesday exposed Malik’s fiancee visa application, reports Fox News, publishing the request that allowed the Saudi…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday spoke about the rapprochement agreement talks with Israel during a parliamentary group meeting, and said the goal is to “benefit” Palestinian Arabs. “No one is more sensitive on Gaza, Palestine, than us,” he said, according to the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News. “Our sole goal is to bring solutions…

(AFP) Iraqi security forces advanced Tuesday into the center of Ramadi for a final push aimed at retaking the city they lost to the Islamic State group (ISIS) in May, officials said.   “We went into the center of Ramadi from several fronts and we began purging residential areas,” said Sabah al-Noman, spokesman of the elite…

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) visited thee gulf states this past week sending their leadership delegation to exchange views with leadership entities in the gulf on the threats posed by political Islam and the strategic ambitions of Iran. The series of consultations included a 13-member group, led by AJC Board of Trustees Chairman John Shapiro…

Senior Israeli security sources on Tuesday cast doubt on the seriousness of Turkey’s intentions to seal a rapprochement agreement with Israel, and amend relations that were cut in 2010 after the infamous Mavi Marmara incident. The sources told Walla that Turkey’s declarations on being open to a deal should be taken with caution, particularly given that Ankara…

A strange, golden “artifact” discovered in a Jerusalem cemetery has finally been identified, after leaving archaeologists and other experts utterly baffled. The ridged, golden tool was unearthed several months ago by maintenance workers who found what they thought was a suspicious package. After security forces had determined the package was not a bomb, they discovered…

(AFP) After years of tense relations with President Bashar al-Assad, Saudi Arabia has adopted a bolder approach towards Syria, prompted by rival Iran’s growing regional influence.   The kingdom recently brought Syrian political and armed opposition factions together for unprecedented talks in Riyadh, the culmination of months of manoeuvring by the Sunni Muslim power. The step…

A criminal investigation has been opened into an Italian Musim website which published a blacklist of “influential Jews” in Italy. Included in the list on the Radio Islam site are several prominent journalists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, actors, rabbis and other high-profile Jewish figures. Among them is prominent Italian journalist and popular Arutz Sheva columnist Giulio Meotti – who, while…

Barring a last-minute deal, a nationwide public sector strike will begin tomorrow, spelling misery for thousands of travelers whose flights to and from Israel will be effected. In particular, the strike – called by Israel’s largest labor union, the Histadrut – could disrupt travel for thousands of Christian pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land for Christmas.   Barring…

The Eidah Chareidis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem, in conjunction with the Satmar communities in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak and Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, has called for a demonstration in the streets of Jerusalem at 7:30 pm Tuesday to protest the IDF draft law.  Press releases for the march boast some ‘500,000’ expected attendees, to begin demonstrating from…

Tuesday marks the fast of the tenth of Tevet, a day not only marking the beginning of the destruction of the Temples, but also the Chief Rabbinate’s designated day to commemorate Holocaust victims whose dates of death remain unknown.  Arutz Sheva spoke to Rabbanit Esther Farbstein, head of the Center for Holocaust Studies at Jerusalem College in Bayit…

The fast of the tenth of Tevet begins Tuesday, marking the day the siege of Jerusalem began before the destruction of the First Temple and one of four half-day fasts throughout the Jewish calendar year.  The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared the tenth of Tevet a ‘Day of general Kaddish,’ the prayer over the dead –…

The beginning of the siege of Jerusalem on the Tenth of Tevet (this year, December 22, 2015) ended with the destruction of the first Holy Temple on the Ninth of Av, 586 B.C.E. (exact year is disputed) by the Babylonian army. This was the first of many conquests of the City of Peace which King David had made the capital…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday announced plans to begin issuing passports for the “State of Palestine” instead of the Palestinian Authority, The Associated Press (AP) reports. The announcement came during a visit to Athens, where Abbas met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The PA chairman said the plan will be implemented…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group is working to boost its presence in Indonesia with dreams of creating a “distant caliphate” in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Australia warned on Tuesday, according to AFP. Australian Attorney-General George Brandis, who spent Monday in meetings between Indonesian and Australian ministers, police chiefs and security officials, said it…

President Reuven on Monday hosted a festive event at the President’s Residence celebrating the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs of 58 children who are victims of terrorist attacks. The event was a celebratory end to a day packed with activities in Jerusalem designed for the children by the Association of Victims of Terrorism. In his opening…

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of the rebel groups fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, on Monday claimed that it was responsible for the assassination of Hezbollah terrorist Samir Kuntar in Syria, the Al Bawaba news website reported. In a video it released, the rebel group rejected Hezbollah’s claims that Kuntar was killed in…

Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar “deserved to be killed,” Kuntar’s ex-wife stated Monday, after the Hezbollah figure was killed in Syria.  Kuntar is notorious for the 1979 murder of three Israelis, including 31-year-old Danny Haran, and Haran’s four-year-old daughter whose head he smashed on a rock with his rifle butt after killing her father in front of her. The…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed mounting evidence that the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) cruelly and unusually tortured suspects in the Duma arson case Tuesday, insisting all ISA actions are held under the law.  “ISA chief Yoram Cohen and his staff do excellent and important work for the people of Israel and for the…

President Reuven Rivlin hosted an official welcoming ceremony for President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine Tuesday morning, who is on a state visit to Israel. The Presidents stood together for the national anthems, inspected an honor guard of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and delivered brief media statements before going on to hold a working bilateral meeting. “In the Ukraine,…

The Knesset’s Health Committee unanimously ratified a new decree Tuesday, banning smoking on and within ten meters (32 feet) of elementary and high school campuses nationwide – including in teacher’s rooms.  The explanatory notes to the order, signed by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism), states that “age of onset of smoking is 15.5 for boys and…

Jewish Home chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett backed the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) Tuesday, despite the organization’s alleged cruel and unusual interrogation methods in the Duma arson case.  “What we see here is terrorism,” Bennett stated about the Duma arsonists, in an interview with Army Radio. “There are a few dozen people here whose purpose…

The Greek parliament recognized the Palestinian Authority as ‘Palestine’ moments ago, amid an official visit from PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the country.  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated Monday that the vote to recognize the PA as “Palestine” – if passed – would only cement the formal recognition for a later, “appropriate” date. Greece will,…

Tehran is pulling its Iranian Revolutionary Crescent Guards out of Syria, Israeli officials confirmed Tuesday morning, amid high casualty rates among pro-Syrian forces.  Two weeks ago, a senior Western defense official estimated to Bloomberg News at the Saban Forum in Washington that just 700 Iranian troops remained in Syria, fighting alongside Hezbollah, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces,…

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is representing Jewish suspects arrested over the Duma arson attack in July, announced Tuesday morning that the main suspect provided evidence that the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) sexually harassed him during the course of their interrogations.  “The sexual harassment against my client damages all that is sacred to him, his values of Torah observance and the…

Security forces apprehended a female Palestinian Arab terrorist in Hevron Tuesday, Channel 2 reports, after she approached Border Police officers wielding a knife at the Cave of the Patriarchs.  Border Police neutralized her with tear gas at the scene.  During initial interrogation, she admitted to wanting to become a “martyr.” 

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday announced he is dropping his bid to become the Republican presidential candidate, AFP reported. “I am suspending my campaign, but never my commitment to achieving security through strength for the American people,” Graham said in a video statement. “The centerpiece of my campaign has been securing our nation. I…

Following a request from Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the rocket fire from Lebanon on northern Israel a day earlier. In a statement, Ban said he is “greatly concerned over yesterday’s firing of rockets within UNIFIL’s area of operations from the area of Al-Hinniyah, in the vicinity of…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Athens for a two-day official visit on Sunday, as part of efforts to mobilize international support for the recognition of the “state of Palestine.”  The official PA news agency reported Monday that Abbas told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that putting an end to “the occupation” would also result in an end…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group lost around 14% of its territory in 2015, while Syria’s Kurds almost tripled the land they control, thinktank IHS Jane’s said on Monday. The development is a blow to the group given that its aim is to capture and hold territory to expand its so-called “caliphate,” where it imposes a strict form of Islamic law. The jihadist group’s losses…

US Congress may have passed a measure signed into law by US President Barack Obama last Friday, blocking visa-free travel to the US by Iranian nationals or those who visited Iran, but according to Tehran it is Israel that is to blame. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hossein Jaberi Ansari said that the measure was passed “under…

Heads of local government in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, asking that every effort be made to find the people responsible for the arson triple murder in the Arab village of Duma in July. They also asked, however, that he look into the allegations…

Many people have been trying to figure out how to solve the current housing crisis in Israel. The problem of high rent, old or worn down apartments, and landlords continually raising rent prices, has created a major problem in the Israeli real estate market. Add the fact that in order to secure a mortgage a young…

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will meet with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on Monday to request an increase in strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Syria. Talks will also touch on how the two countries can share intelligence relating to the jihadist group, Le Drian told journalists before traveling to Russia. “We will discuss what we consider…

The father of one of the Jewish suspects being investigated in the lethal Duma arson case told Arutz Sheva about the horrific torture his son is undergoing at the hands of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA). Identifying details of the suspects and their families is under a media gag order, but on condition of anonymity the father…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly hinted Monday that he intends to hand over the Interior Ministry portfolio that was vacated with Silvan Shalom’s resignation to Shas chairman Aryeh Deri. Besides Deri, who served as interior minister in the past but was forced to resign due to a corruption scandal that landed him in jail, the…

Devorah Gonen attended on Monday a court hearing of the Arab terrorist who murdered her son, Danny, near Dolev in June. The 25-year-old Lod resident was shot dead by Mohammed Abu-Shahin after he and his friend returned from a visit to the Ein Buvin spring. Four other terrorists were also implicated in the attack.  Gonen, who has been…

“In recent years, you have donated significantly to numerous Israeli organizations and associations. The goal that you sought to achieve with your donation was to support Zionism and support organizations working for human rights and against anti-democratic activities. You support organizations that you believe work towards creating a better, saner, more democratic, and more moral…

Arutz Sheva has learned that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu clarified on Monday during a Likud faction meeting that Israel will not remove the blockade on Gaza as part of a rapprochement deal with Turkey. In light of Hamas statements hinting that Israel is considering easing the blockade that is meant to prevent the influx of weapons, Netanyahu…

An indictment was brought against Hanin Zoabi on Monday after the firebrand MK of the Arab Joint List pleaded guilty to insulting a public official.  Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein sent a letter to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein informing him of the indictment, following Zoabi’s agreement to renounce her parliamentary immunity.  As part of the plea bargain with the State Attorney’s Office,…

MK Nisan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), who heads the Knesset’s Law, Constitution and Justice Committee, addressed members of the Hotam Forum, an umbrella group of Torah-based institutions that deal with the fields of science, technology, law, and medicine, at Hotam’s Conference on Jewish Monetary Laws Monday. He asked them to take an active part in the…

The protest against the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet)’s treatment of suspects in the Duma arson case literally came knocking on MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home)’s front door Monday morning, after the MK found a protest tent set up outside his home.  Protestors had stayed overnight to demand the State of Israel stop…

Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship John McCallum visited Amman on Sunday, meeting with Syrian families preparing to board flights to Canada. While in the Jordanian capital, McCallum said that by the end of 2016, the Canadian government hopes to resettle 35,000 to 50,000 refugees, with the help of the UN refugee agency, the Jordanian…

Israel’s security establishment remains on high alert Monday, ahead of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar’s funeral. Kuntar will be buried in Beirut’s Dahiya neighborhood at 4:00 pm local time. Hundreds – if not thousands – of Hezbollah terrorists will reportedly be in attendance, with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah expected to speak via satellite feed from his bunker.  Kuntar…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Athens on a two-day official visit on Sunday, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Abbas will meet with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday, and will speak at Greece’s Parliament on Tuesday, according to the report. Abbas’s visit to Greece comes as Tsipras’ government…

An official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party said Sunday that no deal had yet been signed to normalize relations with Israel. “There has been no definitive deal signed yet, but a draft is being worked on,” AKP Deputy Chairman Omer Celik told reporters in Ankara, according to the Turkish Anadolu news agency.…

Sunday’s rocket attack on northern Israel was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), Kol Yisrael radio reported Sunday night, citing Lebanese media. The reports were based on comments by Lebanese security officials who said that the rockets used in the attack were transferred to a nearby Palestinian “refugee camp”…

The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization will not hesitate to escalate the “intifada” if necessary, a senior official in the organization said Sunday. The official, Khaled al-Batash, told the Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Center for Communication website that the Palestinian organizations have agreed that the “Al-Quds Intifada”, as they refer to the current wave of terror, will maintain…

While it has been widely publicized and is quite known that Israel’s largest trading partner, the EU, has decreed that products from Judea and Samaria be labelled, it is lesser known that the United States also has a policy that attempts to hinder Judea and Samaria from a financial perspective. Dan Illouz, CEO of Di Consulting,…

Pawel Kukiz, a Polish MP, claimed yesterday that the recent opposition rallies in Warsaw were funded by a “Jewish banker.” In an interview with a local radio station Zet Radio, Kukiz said that “apparently the march was financed somehow from the outside. 150 million PLN (38 million USD) are to be given by the Jews,…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) supports allowing Hamas more economic freedom in Gaza, he stated Monday, opining that it is Israel’s responsibility in order to ensure stability in the region.  “We want to build a seaport in Gaza, so that they can import and export goods,” Ariel stated in an interview with the Knesset Channel.…

Histadrut Chairman Avi Nissenkorn announced Monday at noon a strike for all public sectors starting on Wednesday at 6 o’clock in the morning. Nissenkorn instructed the Organization’s field teams to prepare for the strike, as well as the Teachers Union and Teachers Association. Grounds for the dispute consist of the organization’s demands to update public…

When Yehuda Glick chose to run as number 33 on the Likud party’s Knesset slate during last March’s elections, he never imagined the position would be anything other than symbolic. In fact, the veteran Temple Mount activist – who heads the LIBA organization promoting Jewish rights on the Mount – said as much himself during the Likud party…

Chairman of the Association of Israeli Journalists, Yair Tarchitsky, sent a letter Monday morning to Chief Inspector General Roni Alshich, following reports of police beating journalists at a demonstration last night near the iconic Jerusalem Chords Bridge. Last night while covering the demonstration, Arutz Sheva reporter Eliran Aharon was among several journalists violently attacked by police. NRG…

The Defense Ministry’s Homa unit and the US Agency for Missile Defense (MDA) successfully completed a series of tests on the Magic Wand (David’s Sling) missile defense system Monday morning.  The Magic Wand, which has also been called David’s Sling, is believed to be primarily intended against the threat of missile attack by Hezbollah, which…

When Yehuda Glick chose to run as number 33 on the Likud party’s Knesset slate during last March’s elections, he never imagined the position would be anything other than symbolic. In fact, the veteran Temple Mount activist – who heads the LIBA organization promoting Jewish rights on the Mount – said as much himself during the Likud party…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and Israel Police recently uncovered an Israeli Arab terror cell operating in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, it was cleared for publication Monday, which had been involved in many recent terror attacks.  Islam Najjar, 18, and Hamza Najjar, 22 – two brothers from Ras al-Amud – were…

An Argentinian judge has reopened the investigation into the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, JTA reports Monday, months after it was frozen due to political and legal complications.  Nisman was found dead in his bathroom of a gunshot wound to the head on January 18, one day before he was to go before a congressional hearing to air…

Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) abuse of the suspects in the Duma arson case was so cruel that one suspect attempted to commit suicide, it was revealed during a court hearing Sunday.  One of the youths the ISA arrested in the controversial case showed signs of depression before the court hearing, it was…

At least three rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the army has confirmed. Air raid sirens sounded in communities throughout the western Galilee in northern Israel, at 17:42 local time Sunday, including in Rosh Hanikra and Nahariya. Locals report hearing at least one explosion; three rockets struck within Israel. There are no reports of…

Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom (Likud) will retire from politics, he announced Sunday night, following a series of sexual harassment complaints filed against him.  None of the women have filed a formal complaint with police, and an investigation has not been opened; despite this, Silvan has apparently chosen to step down.  “For 23 years, I…

A German historian has uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost medical records which confirm the urban legend that the Nazi leader only had one testicle. There have been many speculations that Hitler was missing one testicle since the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Now, the doctor’s notes that were thought to be missing…

Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar had been planning a major terror attack against Israel in the Golan Heights area just before his elimination, Yediot Aharonot reports Sunday, based on “the most reliable Western sources.”  Kuntar had established himself over the past year as a “ticking time bomb” and independent source of terror attacks against Israel, the sources stated, noting that…

Leftists are spewing venom these days against Moshe Klughaft, the advertising strategist who crafted the video attacking ultra-leftist “foreign agents.” The hard-hitting video singles out four far-left activists by name and explains that they receive foreign funds to undermine Israel’s standing in the world. One leftist Facebook user asked his friends: “Have you ever heard…

Tel Aviv police arrested an Arab resident of Jerusalem on Saturday on suspicions of planning a terror attack in Tel Aviv.  20 year-old Siurei Muataz slept in an apartment in Tel Aviv’s Shapira neighborhood over the weekend, telling relatives and friends he was preparing a revenge stabbing attack for the death of his brother, Walla! News reports.  …

Police arrested two young men aged 17 on Thursday after attacking a bus driver and a passenger during a ride. The two minors boarded a bus in Tel Aviv, sat down, lit cigarettes and began to smoke much to the dismay of the driver and passengers. The bus driver asked them to put out their cigarettes…

The north-central Israeli community of Harish will be converted into a full-fledged city, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet voted Sunday, appropriating the project a 1 million shekel ($256,631) budget.  The first neighborhood in Harish was built in the 1990s and infrastructure for a city was put in place, but various factors combined to prevent the…

The Shin Bet security service (Shabak) announced Sunday that two suspects currently being held in connection with the deadly arson in Duma last summer will be released to house arrest. Among the pair is a minor who it was revealed earlier Sunday was in fact being held illegally by the Shin Bet.The young detainee –…

Belgian authorities investigating their country’s links to last month’s attacks in Paris have searched a house in Brussels and detained an unidentified person for questioning, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Sunday. Federal prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said the search was continuing. The building in question is located between the center of the Belgian…

In a country that is good at finding laughter in tough situations, sometimes finding laughter about nothing can be equally as rewarding. Jerry Seinfeld, whose signature comedy may be best described by character George Costanza from the hit 90’s TV show, when he said it is “about absolutely nothing”, performed in front of 11,000 adoring…

Following the resignation of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom from politics over sexual harassment allegations, officials estimated on Sunday evening that Minister Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party, will be appointed Interior Minister instead of Shalom. Deri already serves as Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee, and would continue to hold…

Parnassah Perspectives There’s a new norm in our economy and it’s called freelancing. A recent study showed that 53 million Americans are freelancers; that’s a whopping 34% of the entire workforce! Freelancers, individuals who work selling their services by the hour, day, or job, are able to maximize on the flexibility and communication that technology…

Hundreds of people rioted in Jerusalem Sunday night, over the unusually cruel interrogation methods the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) have employed against a group of youths arrested on suspicions of an arson attack in Duma in July.  During the riots, the crowd began to move toward the entrance to the city, near…

Unknown assailants kidnapped a father and son near a Venezuela Chabad House over Shabbat, Kikar Hashabbat reports Sunday, and were released after the community paid ransom.  The two were on their way to morning services Saturday morning when local gunmen grabbed them, according to the daily. A short time later, relatives noticed their absence, and contacted the…

Israel notified Russia that it intends to strike a target inside Damascus before the airstrike that killed Samir Kuntar, estimates Dr. Aaron Lerner, of Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA). Lerner bases this conclusion on the fact that the strike took place at a time that the Russian S-400 system is in full operation. “Samir Kuntar…

US reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West reportedly plan to baptize their son at the St. James Cathedral in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem in April. Keeping up with family tradition, Saint West will be the second Kardashian child to undergo Christian ceremony in Israel after North West was baptized at the…

The Professional Committee for Selection of Candidates for Attorney General announced Sunday that it has selected Major General (res.) Avichai Mandelblit, the former Chief Military Prosecutor and current government secretary, for the extremely powerful legal position. The committee, headed by retired Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Ayelet…

At Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, he praised security forces for their quick response to the terror stabbing in Ra’anana on Saturday afternoon. “I would like to commend the action of civilians and the security forces yesterday in Ra’anana,” Netanyahu stated. “We must all be on alert at the time; we…

An Air France flight from Port Louis, Mauritius to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya Sunday morning, after a bomb was found on board. Pilots reportedly made an urgent request to land the plane after a “suspicious package” was discovered in the bathroom. In the last few minutes Kenya’s Airports Authority has confirmed…

A female Arab terrorist attempted to stab Israeli soldiers early Sunday afternoon at the Hassam Shoter army position in Hevron.  No Israelis were injured in the attempted attack, which reports say occurred near the Cave of the Patriarchs.   Border Patrol and IDF forces at the scene succeeded in neutralizing the terrorist. She was evacuated to a nearby hospital for…

Israel’s justice minister welcomed on Sunday the elimination of Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar but did not claim credit for the airstrike in Syria that killed him, which Hezbollah said was an Israeli raid. The Israeli family of his victims, meanwhile, also said Sunday that “justice has been done.” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) told Army Radio that Israel “has not claimed”…

Rabbi Israel Rosen, Head of the Tzomet Institute, called at week’s end to allow women to be certified as kashrut supervisors, whose job it is to make sure restaurants and food manufacturers stand up to the precepts of kashrut. Speaking at the 25th annual conference on halacha and monetary laws in Jerusalem at week’s end,…

A tourist has been seriously wounded in a stabbing attack by an Arab terrorist between the Jewish town of Tekoa and the nearby Arab village of Beit Sahour, in the Gush Etzion region south of Jerusalem. Palestinian emergency services provided first aid to the victim. While terrorism was initially suspected, that incident appears to have been criminal…

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Saturday night took the stage at a Tel Aviv basketball arena as he kicked off a short comedy tour in Israel, his first ever in the Jewish state. More than 11,000 fans packed the stadium for Seinfeld’s show, which is the first of four sold-out performances he will give in Tel…

Khaled Mashal, the head of Hamas, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul today (Saturday). The move comes as Turkey and Israel work towards improving their relations, which have been rocky ever since the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident. Hamas has not yet commented on the warming connection between Turkey and Israel, though one…

Border Police officers in Binyamin stopped an Arab man and found a loaded Kalashnikov hidden in his car this evening (Saturday). The suspect has been arrested and taken for questioning. The incident occurred around 7:00 pm, as Border Police set up an unannounced checkpoint near Halamish (Neve Tzuf). While they conducted searches, a driver approached in…

Eyewitnesses to today’s (Saturday) terror attack in Ra’anana say that the terrorist attempted to enter a synagogue that was full of worshipers. “I saw a young man go to a bench where two people were sitting and stab the man. We didn’t understand what was happening because he didn’t yell anything. I yelled at him,…

Due to accusations of torture against the suspects in the Duma case, Rabbi Dov Lior ruled that their lawyers are permitted to break Shabbat in order to speak with their clients. Rabbi Lior, the chief rabbi of Hevron and Kiryat Arba, further permitted the lawyer to travel to the holding facility and visit them, should it…

The Chinese Defense Ministry is accusing the United States of carrying out “a serious military provocation,” after the US flew two bombers over an artificial island in the South China Sea. The US claims that the flyover was a mistake, and resulted from the pilots veering off course. China insists that it has sovereignty over…

Swiss federal prosecutors said Saturday they had opened criminal proceedings against a board member of Switzerland’s largest Islamic organization accused of propaganda for jihadist groups, including Al-Qaeda. The office of Switzerland’s attorney general said in a statement it had “opened a criminal proceeding against a member of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS), as well as against persons unknown,” for…

President Vladimir Putin has said Russia’s unwavering position on the crisis in Syria, where it has steadfastly resisted calls for Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, has facilitated its negotiations with both Washington and Damascus on the issue. “We find it easy to work with both [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad and the American side,” Putin said in the trailer of an upcoming television documentary…

An Arab terrorist stabbed three civilians Saturday afternoon along Mordechai Anielewicz street in Ra’anana, before fleeing the scene. Police chased after the terrorist, eventually cornering and arresting him in a private yard nearby. The casualties were evacuated by Magen David Adom paramedics to Meir Hospital in nearby Kfar Saba. One, a 40-year-old man, is in serious…

Silence. This is the response that Israel has received since submitting Dani Dayan’s credentials as ambassador to Brazil, about two months ago. According to standard diplomatic conduct, a country is expected to automatically approve incoming ambassadors. However, it appears that Brazil is intentionally ignoring Israel’s choice of Dani Dayan, possibly in the hope that Jerusalem…

Diplomacy and demographics expert Yoram Ettinger finds that contrary to popular perception and politically-motivated scare tactics, there is actually no “Arab demographic time bomb.” Rather, he notes that there is a robust 66% Jewish majority in the entirety of the Land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria – and that it is growing. There are…

Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Saturday compared Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria to jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS) group. “Defeating ISIS requires ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state. Yes, there is no difference between what ISIS is doing in Syria and Iraq and the killing…

Media analysts continue to offer explanations as to what message U.S. President Barack Obama is giving by insisting on using the term ISIL. Obama, alone among virtually all world leaders and most news media, consistently calls ISIS, the world’s worst terrorist scourge, by the name ISIL. The former stands for Islamic State of Iraq and…

An 87-year-old British parliamentarian deemed unfit to stand trial on a string of child sex abuse offenses died peacefully at his home on Saturday, his family said. Grenville Janner, a member of the upper House of Lords, had been suffering from such severe dementia that a judge ruled earlier this month that he was unfit to enter a plea. A…

The Jewish owner of a French clothing store chain has been found guilty of discrimination against Jews. A court found that Dan Cohen, the co-founder of Eleven Paris, fired a worker for being Jewish, Le Parisien reports. The company was forced to pay the plaintiff, whose name has not been released, $16,000, plus $8,000 for legal…

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the house of Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen, demanding the release of the Duma suspects. They are carrying signs reading “Jews don’t torture Jews,” and “Prosecutors stop persecuting.” Four protesters were detained by authorities, then released several minutes later. The lawyers for the suspects, who are accused of arson…

Muhaned Al-Okabi, the terrorist who carried out the fatal shooting attack in Be’er Sheva’s Central Bus Station two months ago, was buried overnight Sunday.  The funeral, attended only by 50 relatives and close friends, was held at the cemetery near Hura – under an agreement with Israel Police the affair be quiet and small.  Returning the body…

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel criticized President Barack Obama on Friday over his failure to act in Syria after he warned President Bashar Al-Assad that the use of chemical weapons would be crossing a “red line”. Speaking to the Foreign Policy magazine, Hagel said he believed Obama dealt a severe blow to the credibility…

Iran will export most of its enriched uranium to Russia in the coming days as it rushes to implement the nuclear deal with the West, Reuters reported Saturday, citing Tehran’s nuclear chief. Iran drastically reducing its stock of enriched uranium, which can be used in nuclear weapons, was at the heart of the deal it…

After Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, the billionaire returned the favor, praising Russia’s leader as forceful and popular. “I think that he’s a strong leader, he’s a powerful leader,” Trump told MSNBC television on Friday, in comments quoted by the AFP news agency. “He’s represented his country.” “When…