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Arab media reports on Saturday night claimed that Israeli rocket fire destroyed a building in the Jaramana district of Damascus. According to Russia Today, Hezbollah-linked terrorist Samir Kuntar was the target of the strike and was reportedly killed. Images from the scene show a collapsed multi-storey residential building, with lots of rubble on the ground. Vehicles…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is looking into the possibility of moving up the Likud primaries so that they take place within two months. In recent days, Netanyahu spoke about the idea with a number of officials in the faction, though Netanyahu’s associates said on Saturday night that while he was considering the move, he has…

Germany’s teacher association said Friday that an annotated edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” should be taught in senior high school to help “inoculate” teenagers against political extremism, AFP reported. The Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic diatribe has not been printed in Germany since the end of World War II, but an annotated and critical edition is…

The planned statue of a key architect of anti-Semitic laws in the run-up to the Holocaust in 1930s Hungary was scrapped on Friday after an outcry from Jewish groups and others, AFP reported. The foundation behind the planned memorial to Balint Homan said it has “reversed its decision to erect the statue and has informed…

Turkey and Israel are “close” to an agreement on a deal to normalize ties after positive progress was made on Ankara’s key demands in closed-door negotiations, a Turkish official said on Friday, according to AFP. On Thursday, it was reported in Israel that Israel and Turkey, in secret talks in Switzerland, had reached “understandings” to…

In this program Walter exposes the hidden feelings, the real truth, and the myth behind the facade of being a “moderate” Palestinian Arab.  A well established Israeli-Arab clinical Psychologist tries to explain the phenomenon of teenage Palestinian Arab “victims” turning to attacking Jews. Reading between the lines of his talk to a group of the…

IDF engineers on Friday found large amounts of unexploded improvised explosive devices near the border with Gaza and were able to prevent a potentially devastating terror attack, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. According to the newspaper, some of the devices which were discovered were connected to remote-controlled timers via a cell phone. The Israel Security Agency (Shin…

For the second time in two hours, IDF troops on Friday afternoon foiled an attempted Palestinian Arab terrorist attack. A terrorist tried to run over IDF soldiers at the entrance to the village of Ofra, in the Binyamin region. The soldiers were able to avoid the vehicle and opened fire at the terrorist, killing him.…

Jay Shapiro thinks that fundamental Islam has not changed since the days of Mohammed. More than a century ago, Winston Churchill described Islam as it is practiced today. Understanding this will help us to defeat its aggressive aims. Click here to download the podcast

Violence pervades Arab culture, a Saudi Arabian politician declared earlier this month, and blamed that culture for encouraging terror attacks in Europe and around the world.  Ibrahim Al-Buleihi, a member of Riyadh’s Shura Council – the formal advisory body to Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy, affirmed that Arab culture’s “hatred of the other” is to blame for the…

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) source on Friday revealed to Israeli media that Hamas is changing its tactics in Judea and Samaria, and has given new orders to launch suicide bombings against Jewish targets. The source told Walla! News that the bombings are to be along the lines of the horrific assaults recorded in the 2000-2005 terror…

Cold temperatures and localized rains will persist over the weekend after several days of rain, forecasters predict Friday morning – with snow even expected on Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights.  Highs Friday will reach 14°C (57.2°F) in Katzrin, 11°C (51.8°F) in Tzfat, 22°C (71.6°F) in Tiveria, 15°C (59°F) in Haifa, 17°C (62.6°F) in Tel Aviv , 14°C (57.2°F) in…

Captain Alexander Shvarts watched on as the iron covers whirred open on the air defense system aboard the Russian navy’s Mosvka missile cruiser off the Syrian coast. “This system can fire up to twelve missiles at any one time,” Shvarts said Thursday during a highly choreographed press tour of the ship arranged by the Russian defense ministry. “The range is around 70 kilometers…

A UN official on Thursday rejected claims that he blamed the Paris attacks on the West and on “Israeli settlers”. In a post on his blog, Dr. Alfred de Zayas, the UN’s Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, said the claims reported on Wednesday by the UN Watch NGO…

A New Yorker who was one of the first recruiters for the Islamic State (ISIS) group captured in the United States pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to provide material support to the extremists. Mufid Elfgeeh, 31, faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervised release, with the United States on alert for terror attacks…

A Canadian teen on Thursday became only the second person in Canada to be convicted of a terrorist offense for seeking to fly overseas and join an extremist group. The immigrant parents of the 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named under a Canadian law protecting minors, had turned him in to police over concerns he…

President Barack Obama said on Thursday that there is no specific, credible information suggesting a potential terrorist attack against the United States, The Associated Press reports. At the same time, he stressed Americans must be vigilant this holiday season. “We cannot give in to fear or change how we live our lives,” Obama said in…

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was praised on Thursday by none other than Russian President Vladimir Putin, who described the American billionaire as “talented” and “outstanding”, AFP reported. “He is a very outstanding man, unquestionably talented,” Putin was quoted as having told journalists after his annual press conference in Moscow. “It’s not up to us…

The United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to restore scheduled commercial airline service between the countries for the first time in more than five decades, Reuters reported on Thursday, confirming speculations from Wednesday that a deal was coming. Under the deal, there will be 110 round-trip flights a day between the two countries.…

Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND has resumed cooperation with the Syrian secret service in the fight against Sunni Islamist extremists, according to a newspaper report Friday. The BND did not immediately comment on the report by Bild newspaper which comes as Berlin and other Western governments shun official cooperation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his regime’s brutal abuses. The…

Former IDF Sayeret Matkal Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Amiram Levin came out on Friday, publishing an announcement in the leftist paper Haaretz saying that he supports the radical group Breaking the Silence. The former head of the elite special forces unit and former Northern Commander claimed that the radical leftist group is defending IDF soldiers who are placed…

Killer rabbits hopped from the iconic Monty Python and the Holy Grail screen to real life Thursday, after a bunny named Jack attacked animal shelter staff in Cornwall. The six-month-old rabbit was brought into Maria’s Animal Shelter in October, the owner told Yahoo! News, and has since bit two people. In one incident, he chased his victim across…

Move over Professor Jacob Neusner and post-modern historians and archaeologists. A group of Israeli archaeologists just proved that yet another piece of the Talmud is historically accurate. Dr. Haim Cohen, chief archaeologist of  the Kursi dig site, which is being excavated by a team from Haifa University’s archaeology department, spoke to Arutz Sheva about his…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former Foreign Minister MK Avigdor Liberman strongly opposed the normalization of ties between Israel and Turkey on Friday, saying that the covert talks in Switzerland constitute “political damage already done.”  “Opportunism is no substitute for a balanced and smart policy,” Liberman fired, in statements at the 2015 Former Soviet Union (FSU)…

Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND has resumed cooperation with the Syrian secret service in the fight against Sunni Islamist extremists, according to a newspaper report Friday. The BND did not immediately comment on the report by Bild newspaper which comes as Berlin and other Western governments shun official cooperation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his regime’s brutal abuses. The…

Suspected Russian air strikes have killed 32 civilians, half of them women and children, in three areas in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said warplanes bombarded Raqa, the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s de facto Syrian capital, as well as the towns of Azaz and Al-Bab in Aleppo province, on Thursday. Six children…

Turkish business owners eagerly await the return of Israeli tourism, Channel 2 reports Friday, less than 24 hours after Israeli and Turkish officials held normalization talks in Switzerland.  “We love Israelis and they have almost stopped coming in recent years because of politics,” Saardan, a hotel worker in Istanbul, told the Israeli daily. He added that Israelis…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu underwent a colonoscopy exam on Friday morning, for which he was put under a general anesthetic and made unconscious. The check was performed by Professor Eran Goldin, director of the Gastro-Surgery Department of Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. During the colonoscopy several polyps were found, and were successfully removed by the doctor.…

Last week the family of David Cohen, a resident of the Negev kibbutz Retamim, marked a year since his tragic death. Cohen, who was director of the pre-military academy Otzem, was killed in a traffic accident after he hit a camel that was left wandering around the Negev highway during the night. Regavim, a movement for…

Turkish business owners eagerly await the return of Israeli tourism, Channel 2 reports Friday, less than 24 hours after Israeli and Turkish officials held normalization talks in Switzerland.  “We love Israelis and they have almost stopped coming in recent years because of politics,” Saardan, a hotel worker in Istanbul, told the Israeli daily. He added that Israelis…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancelled a scheduled trip to Israel, Kenya, Zambia, and Nigeria, he announced late Thursday night, citing security concerns.  Carson’s senior advisers noted that there were “active, credible” threats made against Carson from the Islamist terror group Boko Haram in Africa. He did not mention specifics about why his Israel trip was…

Finance ministers from the UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a wide-ranging resolution aimed at ramping up sanctions against the Islamic State (ISIS) group and cutting off its revenue flows. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew led the council’s first-ever meeting of finance ministers, shoring up a major diplomatic push to end the war in…

The United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday recognized the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur as an official UN holiday. As part of the decision, from now on no official meetings will take place at the UN on Yom Kippur and employees can chose to take the day off. The decisive victory was achieved…

Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander was born in New York but raised in Tel Aviv during the heady years of the founding of the State of Israel. He studied in the best yeshivas and the best universities in Israel, and worked as a patent attorney for over 25 years. Now in retirement, Rabbi Hollander serves as the…

A Turkish government official on Thursday evening confirmed that Israeli and Turkish officials held talks in Switzerland and may reach a deal on normalizing ties soon. “We have not reached an agreement yet,” the official told the Hürriyet Daily News in response to a question on reports which say that the two countries reached a…

A US State Department official admitted on Thursday that US President Barack Obama’s administration is not sure where thousands of foreigners in the US who had their visas pulled over terror suspicions currently are. Michele Thoren Bond, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, made the admission at a House oversight hearing that was…

A poll conducted Tuesday shows that 53% of the Israeli public support a law that would prevent the New Israel Fund (NIF) from operating in Israel, while 24% oppose it, and the rest have either not heard of the NIF or have no opinion. A much larger majority – 67% – said that they support…

An Israeli official on Thursday revealed that “understandings” to normalize ties have been reached with Turkey, in a potential breakthrough for the strained relations that collapsed in the infamous Turkish Mavi Marmara flotilla incident in 2010. Drafted in a secret meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday, the deal would have Israel pay compensation to the families of the…

Fourteen Jewish women from the community of Bonneuil-sur-Marne, southeast of Paris, fell ill as a result of an anti-Semitic poison attack Monday. The electronic lock to the community’s synagogue had been coated with a chemical substance, and the 14 women who touched the lock fell ill, according to the Jewish Press. The women had come…

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) responded with shock on Thursday night, after the lawyers of the Jewish suspects being investigated in the lethal Duma arson revealed the brutal torture they are being subjected to by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA). After finally being able to see their clients – in some cases 21 days…

The United States, Russia, France and Britain are deploying an arsenal of weapons in the Syrian conflict, although some experts question whether they are best suited to the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. ISIS targets are being pummelled from the air and the sea, but the effectiveness of the operation against relatively lightly-armed fighters, who have resorted to hiding in tunnels…

The attorney’s department on Thursday submitted to the Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court a monetary claim for 624,417 shekels (over $160,000) against Niv Assaraf and Eran Nagauker, due to the financial losses they caused by staging Assaraf’s abduction. The fake kidnapping in April was reported by Nagauker, claiming Assaraf had entered the hostile Arab village of Beit Anoun near…

In the last day several of the Jews arrested on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson were allowed to finally meet their lawyers, who were shocked at the brutal investigation the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) is submitting them to. The lawyers revealed in a press conference on Thursday night in Jerusalem that…

Turkish authorities detained two suspected Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists at Istanbul’s main international airport carrying at least 150 original European passports, an official said Thursday. Counter-terror police detained the suspects, a Syrian and a Turk, at Ataturk Airport after they flew in from a European country, finding they had stuffed the passports into pizza ovens, media reports said earlier. “Airport police…found at least…

Shortly after the Color Red siren for incoming missiles went off in the Gaza Belt communities Thursday, one rocket struck Israeli turf in the Sha’ar Hanegev area. It exploded but caused no casualties. According to some sources, the siren went off near the community of Mefalsim.  On Sunday night, sirens sounded in communities surrounding Gaza and in Sderot, including Nir…

The High Level Military Group (HLMG), which is made up of 11 former military and intelligence leaders from five continents, has released a report on Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer, which completely clears Israel of any wrongdoing in the conflict. “Israel had no choice but to defend its citizens from the rocket assault…

Bipartisan US Representatives introduced a resolution on Thursday, decrying the EU decision to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan heights. House Resolution 567, which sharply condemns the EU move, was introduced by Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Ed Royce (R-CA). “New European Commission guidelines to single…

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan awarded the rank of lieutenant on Thursday to Lt. (res.) Aviv Morag, who has only recently been cleared of wrongdoing in the killing of a terrorist two years ago. Morag would have received the ranks two years ago, if it were not for the investigation against him. Morag…

Meir Turgeman, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Thursday and strongly condemned the decision to place security barriers at roughly 300 bus stops throughout the capital city. The decision was made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) on Monday in the aftermath of a horrific car attack, that…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) lashed out overnight Thursday at a video produced by grassroots Zionist NGO Im Tirtzu, which singles out four leftist activists as examples of “foreign agents” and accuses them of assisting the terrorist enemy. The American Jewish group called the video “outrageous” and demanded Im Tirtzu issue an apology for their “unwarranted attack” on the…

The workers committee of the Suberbus bus company is conducting a strike Thursday, which will halt all normal operating lines throughout the entire day – from 4 a.m to midnight. This is the third strike that workers are partaking in as they protest the management’s refusal to recognize the workers’ committee. “The management does not shy away…

So it happened. Israel got to see Star Wars before North America. As happens with many movies that come out simultaneously around the globe, due to our 7 hour time difference and the added benefit that movies in Israel open on Thursdays instead of Fridays, Israelis will actually get a full 31 hours of viewing…

Despite the relatively pleasant temperatures forecast for Thursday, there remains a high chance of localized rain as well as thunderstorms in both northern and central Israel.  Rainfall is expected to start in the north before spreading to central Israel in the afternoon, and gradually coming to a halt in the evening; southern Israel is not expected…

The House of Representatives on Wednesday cleared legislation that would enhance sanctions against Hezbollah and its supporters, The Hill reports. In a 425-0 vote, the House approved slapping mandatory sanctions on banks found to be knowingly handling transactions with the Lebanon-based terrorist group. The Senate passed a companion bill authored by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL)…

A group of Republican senators on Wednesday called on President Barack Obama not to lift sanctions on Iran over its recent ballistic missile testing, Reuters reported. 36 of the 54 Republican senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, signed a letter urging Obama not to lift sanctions on Iran as planned under an international nuclear agreement…

Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin on Wednesday night described the leftist organization Breaking the Silence as “an important part of any democracy”. Breaking the Silence has been accused of inciting against Israel on the global stage by accusing it of “war crimes,” has been caught accepting false “testimonies” allegedly from IDF soldiers, and admits it has no real vetting process for…

Kuwait Airways has decided to scrap flights between New York’s JFK airport and London Heathrow rather than be forced to sell tickets to Israelis, AFP reported on Wednesday. In October, the United States Department of Transportation (DoT) determined that Kuwait Airways unlawfully discriminated against Eldad Gatt, a passenger traveling using an Israeli passport, by refusing…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu signed Israel’s multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant Noble Energy Thursday morning, following months of intense debate. Netanyahu gave his signature to the deal at the conclusion of a special ceremony at the Ne’ot Hovav industrial zone in southern Israel, following speeches by Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) and Manufacturers Association of Israel President Shraga…

The Nazareth District Court filed this morning (Thursday) indictment against 22-year-old Moti Krispil and his father, 52-year-old Eliyahu Krispil, residents of Migdal Haemek, for murdering their 37-year-old neighbor, Andrei Nepomniaschi, and for obstructing legal proceedings. The accusation states that three weeks ago, at around 5 p.m, Nepomniaschi woke up to the sound of a tractor…

Top Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli is being investigated for tax evasion, it was cleared for publication Thursday after initial reports into the case were leaked yesterday.  Refaeli, considered the most active working model in Israel, arrived for questioning Wednesday at the Tax Authority’s offices in Tel Aviv. The interrogation concluded at around midnight after 12 hours of grilling. …

(AFP) A saxophonist plays to indifferent passers-by before being interrupted by a wailing police siren – a scene indicative of Jerusalem nightlife subdued by more than two months of unrest. “People have stopped going out to party, and even worse, they have got used to no longer going out,” says Haggai Hirshman, who organizes events as part…

The outraged director of the ZAKA emergency response service slammed on Thursday the ethics office of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), after the body called to first treat the most wounded person at the scene of a terror attack – even if that person is the Arab terrorist.  Yehuda Meshi Zahav specifically took to task ethics office chairman Prof. Avinoam…

In an interesting turn of events Thursday, Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid attacked opposition head Yitzhak Herzog after the latter used a Knesset discussion on poverty to rail against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.  Accusing the Labor leader of letting the government “drag us out into a schoolyard fistfight,” Lapid demanded the opposition re-focus its attention on…

Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir filed a complaint with the Deputy State (special assignments) Attorney, Amit Issam, and asked him to act strongly against Israeli artist Meir Mendelssohn’s instigations. The artist published on his Facebook account incitement against right-wing activists Dr. Michael Ben-Ari and Baruch Marzel, and against lawyers Itamar Ben Gvir and Yoram Sheftel. Among other things, Mendelssohn…

False alarm: Zurich police said on Thursday that a suspicious car near an ultra-Orthodox girl’s high school led to an intervention by officers but there was no indication of criminal action. Officers armed with machine guns blocked off the area around the Machon Chen School in the Schoentalstrasse neighborhood in the center of Zurich, Switzerland…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is to debate on Sunday the “Shabbat Law” which was first proposed two weeks ago by Likud MK Miki Zohar, but the hearing was postponed due to a dispute with the Kulanu party. As it is with the balance of power, nine ministers are backing the law, and three are opposed.…

When it comes to United States President Barack Obama’s stance towards Israel, one is often left wondering how the U.S. President can continually attempt to alienate the country’s closest ally in the Middle East. Yoram Ettinger, an insider on U.S.-Israel relations, and a former Ambassador who served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy…

The fatal shootings at a Navy reserve facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July were “motivated by foreign terrorist organization propaganda,” FBI Director James Comey told reporters on Wednesday, according to CNN. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez opened fire on a military recruiting center, then drove seven miles away to a Navy reserve facility, where he shot and…

The United States on Wednesday updated its travel advisory to Israel, warning that the security environment remains “complex” in Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Gaza. “A rise in political tensions and violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank has resulted in injuries to and deaths of U.S. citizens,” the updated travel advisory says.  “The Government…

On Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in Vienna received a report from the IAEA Director General bringing evidence that Iran had indeed been working towards building a nuclear explosive device up until 2009. “This was one of the most important days in the nuclear Iran affair, and the IAEA board…

The State Department has asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to fund UNESCO – the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization – even though this is currently against the law. The law states that the U.S. may not pay dues to any UN organization that grants the PLO full membership…

The Philatelic Service of the Israel Postal Service issued several fascinating stamps on a variety of topics this month, spanning a variety of periods and disciplines. Among them is a stamp focusing on the centennial year of Nili – a small but tough Jewish espionage organization that operated in the Land of Israel during World…

Weeks after radio personality Howard Stern went on a highly publicized rant against notorious BDS supporter Roger Waters, he hosted funny man Adam Sandler on his radio program.  During their conversation on Tuesday’s Howard Stern Show, Sandler expressed his own revulsion for the British musician and the boycott Israel movement.  “I’m disgusted they single out Israel,” the filmmaker said, lashing out at the Pink…

Israel’s drivers face scrutiny yet again Wednesday, after a scathing report emerges about the safety of Israel’s youngest motorists.  The Or Yarok NGO released a study on teen drivers and safety in Israel questioning 3,000 teens about their driving habits or their friends’ driving habits, in order to raise awareness about road safety among Israel’s…

When it comes to the full release and rights of Pollard, one man in Jerusalem is more in the know then most. Larry Dub has served as Jonathan Pollard’s chief counsel for over 20 years and is still serving as his chief council in Israel. He spoke to Arutz Sheva about Pollard’s parole restrictions and…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon admitted that the UN is biased against Israel, UN Watch exposed Wednesday night, in never-before-seen footage of a 2013 session with students participating in Rishon Lezion College of Management’s Model UN program. “There is some bias against Israel, [the] Israeli people, and government,” Ban stated. “Israel is a member of the United Nations,” he…

A large marble board containing Hebrew letters found Wednesday during University of Haifa’s excavations at the Kursi National Park prove the ancient settlement was either a Jewish or Jewish-Christian town.  Located near the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, the national park also holds the ruins of a Byzantine-era Christian monastery. It was named Kursi after a nearby Syrian…

An Albany, NY federal court sentenced a 57-year-old man to eight years in prison on Wednesday, after he and an accomplice built a mobile X-ray device they were convinced would kill Muslims.  Eric Feight was arrested in 2013 over the plot, along with 51 year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, and pleaded guilty in 2014 to charges of providing material…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced his opposition Wednesday to plans to erect a statue in honor of a World War II-era politician infamously known for his anti-Semitic views.  The statement notably comes a day after senior US State Department officials and Jewish communal leaders convened in Budapest to protest plans to unveil the life-sized statue of Balint Homan in his hometown of Szekesfehervar. …

8,000 French Jews will have made Aliyah by the end of 2015, statistics from the Ministry of Absorption revealed Wednesday. While that number is far below the estimated 15,000 French Jews Israel expected to make Aliyah at the end of the second year of its three-year French Aliyah program, the statistic still places French Jews…

The Knesset plenum devolved into pandemonium Wednesday night after opposition chairman Yitzhak Herzog attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then refused to step down from the podium.  The incident began during a special Knesset discussion on the issue of poverty when the Labor leader ascended to the podium and took the opportunity to slam Netanyahu…

Official Palestinian Authority (PA) children’s programs have begun sending the message that Israel’s existence is temporary, Palestinian Media Watch exposed Wednesday, and will eventually cease to exist.  The host of the PA’s “Children’s Talk” stated in a November broadcast that Israeli towns like Haifa, Jaffa, Acre and Nazareth are in “the ’48 lands” – a PA reference to all…

Three organizations released a controversial report on the state of Israel’s asylum and immigration policy Wednesday, ahead of Migrants’ Day and amid discord over the status of illegal immigrants.  The Center for Refugees and Immigrants, ACRI and Physicians for Human Rights’ report analyzed data from the Interior Ministry over the past year, and concluded that…

An improvised explosive device was thrown Wednesday at IDF soldiers patrolling the Gaza border near the Ein HaShlosha kibbutz.  No Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident.  The Golani Brigade soldiers guarding the area responded with mortar fire in the direction of two suspicious targets.   According to Palestinian media in Gaza, three Palestinians were injured by…

The mother of one of the Jewish youth accused of involvement in the Duma arson last July collapsed Wednesday afternoon during a court hearing on her son’s case.  Legal aid organization Honenu reported the mother was taken from the Petah Tikva Magistrates Court to nearby Beilinson Hospital.  She is currently undergoing preliminary tests in the hospital’s emergency…

Security in the United States in the wake of the threat from the Islamic State (ISIS) and the recent massacre in San Bernardino was the main topic at the 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. Arutz Sheva brings you some highlights from the first hour of the debate. Nine Republican candidates took…

“As a Black person to actually find the truth, is like: you’ve taken something so painful for Black Africans, and misrepresenting it either for publicity, or for directing hate, and then repackaging it and saying it’s apartheid? Not cool.”

A decision by the European Union’s (EU) second highest court last Thursday has thrown into sharp relief the double standards Israel says are present in the EU labeling move against Jewish products from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Israel responded to the move by noting there are roughly 200 territorial disputes worldwide…

The Haifa district attorney’s office on Wednesday morning submitted an indictment to the regional youth court against a 16-year-old Arab, accusing him of attempting to murder a Border Patrol officer at Nahariya’s central station late last month. The attacker, a resident of the Israeli Arab village of Abu Snan located to the southeast of the northern…

Ari Harow has been named as the senior former member of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) being investigated on warning, amid suspicions of breach of confidence and receiving benefits through fraud. The American-born Harow was investigated by police for several long hours on Monday, and then released to a five-day house arrest. The former official served under…

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett came in for more criticism on Wednesday, over his recent decision to make a very publicized visit to the Solomon Shechter Conservative movement school in New York. The popular haredi lecturer Rabbi Mordechai Neugroschel, co-founder of “Judaism from a Different Angle,” spoke to Kol Chai radio on Wednesday and added his condemnation of the move.…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has initiated measures to distribute firearms licenses to members of the haredi community, as the Israeli government continues to grapple with an ongoing wave of Palestinian Arab terrorism targeting Israeli Jews. Palestinian propaganda calling for attacks usually features crude stereotypes of Jews dressed in the black hats and garb of haredi men, which…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday accused Israel of causing the current Arab terror wave, saying the lethal attacks are “bred from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation.” Ban’s comments came in a message delivered on his behalf at a UN conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the “Rights of the Palestinian people” and the situation in…

The current wave of Arab terror attacks engulfing Israel started with a murder caused by a rock attack, and while the terrorists have launched repeated stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks, rocks remain the weapon of choice. Figures released on Wednesday by Channel 2 show that in the last three months, a total of 2,225 rock-throwing attacks…

Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centers in Syria present “damning evidence” of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. The rights group conducted a nine-month investigation into more than 28,000 photographs smuggled out of Syria by a military defector codenamed Caesar. The pictures appeared to show the bodies of some 6,000 Syrian detainees…

A decision by the European Union’s (EU) second highest court last Thursday has thrown into sharp relief the double standards Israel says are present in the EU labeling move against Jewish products from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Israel responded to the move by noting there are roughly 200 territorial disputes worldwide…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan has initiated measures to distribute firearms licenses to members of the haredi community, as the Israeli government continues to grapple with an ongoing wave of Palestinian Arab terrorism targeting Israeli Jews. Palestinian propaganda calling for attacks usually features crude stereotypes of Jews dressed in the black hats and garb of haredi men, which…

A local Jerusalem Microbrewery just won a contest to collaborate with a German brewery to create an international beer blend that will celebrate Jewish contributions to beer and brewing throughout history, especially German history.  The story begins about a year ago. Bernhard Purin, Director of the Jewish Museum in Munich, and Conrad Seidl, the “Beer…

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is calling for an escalation in the “intifada” until the “forces of the occupation withdraw and go away”. The comments by the Hamas leader came in a recorded speech posted to the Hamas website on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the movement. In the speech, Mashaal stated the importance…

In marked contrast to its decision to label Jewish “settlement” goods, the European Union (EU) on Monday announced it will fight a decision by its own courts to stop trade in the Moroccan occupied Western Sahara. To make sense of the state of affairs, Arutz Sheva spoke with Professor Eugene Kontorovich, a renowned legal expert at the Northwestern Pritzker School…

“As a Black person to actually find the truth, is like: you’ve taken something so painful for Black Africans, and misrepresenting it either for publicity, or for directing hate, and then repackaging it and saying it’s apartheid? Not cool.”

Iran violated a UN Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said Tuesday, according to Reuters. The White House warned that it would not rule out additional steps against Iran over the test of the medium-range Emad rocket. The Security Council’s…

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) denounced on Tuesday the decision by the UN’s atomic agency to end its probe into Iran’s past nuclear weapons activities. In a statement, AIPAC said it “deplores the vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board to close the file on the possible military dimensions (PMD) of…

A 29-year-old man was arrested in the Paris region on Tuesday as part of the vast investigation into last month’s attacks on the city that left 130 dead, a judicial source said, according to the AFP news agency. The probe has seen 2,700 police raids and 360 people placed under house arrest since the attacks…

In its increasing move to becoming a more welcoming and fun loving city, Jerusalem saw its own beer bazaar open last week in the interior part of the Mahane Yehuda shuk. The opening of the bazaar came only a few weeks after the opening of another beer store dedicated to Israeli micro-brews which opened on…

Tzurit Yerehi, the aunt of one of the Jews being held on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson in July, told Arutz Sheva that she fears the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) has seriously abused her nephew. Yerehi stressed that he has no connection with the arson murder, saying, “we know he isn’t connected to…

Egyptian Air Force planes have in recent months crossed into Israeli airspaces as part of Egypt’s military campaign against the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS), Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday. According to the newspaper the unprecedented flights were conducted in coordination with the IDF and were conducted mostly in the triangular border area…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Llikud) and other officials harshly condemned the editors of “The New Guide to Israeli Wine,” a top resource for Israeli wine lovers, after they were revealed to be boycotting wineries from Judea and Samaria. On Tuesday night Channel 2 exposed that Vered and Erez Ben-Saadon, owners of Tura Winery in Samaria’s Rehelim which…

As we welcome the new month of Tevet, with its long and dark nights, in this week’s Torah portion of Vayigash, Yosef and his brothers welcome each other back into their lives in a grand reconciliation. The family’s unification, however, ultimately leads to Israel’s bondage and exile in Egypt. But it’s all part of a…

To a passerby, it would appear that Emek Refaim street in Jerusalem is near collapse. With the recent closure of over 10 restaurants in a two month period, empty storefronts, many other businesses are feeling the burn of the near empty street and the high rental fees. While worried Jerusalem residents bemoan closure after closure…

A Texas plumber whose truck ended up in the hands of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria is suing the dealership he sold it to after a photo of the pickup with a flaming anti-aircraft gun in the bed and his logo on the door went viral. Mark Oberholtzer said his company has received thousands…

Yoni Zarka, a 32-year-old new immigrant from France who made aliyah just this February, is making a stir this week as he protests outside an IDF base, pleading to have regulations flexed to allow him to enlist in a combat unit and “defend the people of Israel.” Zarka wrote to the IDF as soon as he…

The threat that prompted Los Angeles Unified School District officials to close all schools appears to be a hoax, congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Tuesday afternoon. “The preliminary assessment is that it was a hoax or something designed to disrupt school districts in large cities. The investigation is…

Just how many drinks do you think you can you hold? I am not asking this rhetorically.  I am asking out of a deep and growing fear for our well-being and the future of our children.   This is not a new concern. Many have noticed and commented on it in the past. But, it…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was dead right when he told an Army Radio interviewer Tuesday that Israel had no choice but to reject US proposals for Israeli concessions last year, as the US pushed for talks with the Palestinian Authority. “If we had implemented the American’s offers,” argued Ya’alon, “in the area of security, for…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) has moved to bar the anti-IDF Breaking the Silence NGO from operating within Israel’s school system. The decision was made after lengthy discussions with senior educators. Bennett informed the Education Ministry Director-General and leading education officials of the ruling, which will bar any organizations which incite against the IDF…

Vered and Erez Ben-Saadon, owners of Tura Winery located in the village of Rehelim near Ariel in Samaria, are being boycotted – by the Israeli-made “Guide to Israeli Wine.” Recently the guide refused to include the flagship wine of the winery in its pages, reports Channel 2 on Tuesday night, in a shocking incident that comes amid talk of…

In an unprecedented move Tuesday, the Los Angeles school district has ordered all students to stay at home following a bomb threat. Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest school district in the US; the closure effects some 640,000 students in more than 1,000 schools. At a press conference, LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines justified the radical…

The policeman who was questioned by Justice Department’s Department for Investigations of Policemen over the killing of a terrorist will apparently not face criminal prosecution, according to Channel 2. The investigation was launched following the so-called “scissors terror attack” last month near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, by two teenage Arab girls. Attorney General…

Dr. Eran Lerman, who up until two months ago served as deputy head of the National Security Council, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that Israel has responded well to the rising wave of Arab terror, despite the fact that the lethal attacks continue unabated. Lerman previously worked closely with Yossi Cohen, the new head of the Mossad, and currently lectures…

No evidence supports the existence of a Nazi “gold train” loaded with treasures and buried in Poland at the end of World War II, researchers said Tuesday. The experts from Krakow’s prestigious Academy of Mining said a tunnel could exist but that there was no sign of a train at a site near the southwestern town of Walbrzych. The story sparked a…

Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, recently passed a note from Esther Pollard to senior White House officials, in which she urges President Barack Obama to lift the ban on her husband from leaving the US, according to Haaretz. There is no word on whether the letter made its way to the president. Jonathan Pollard…

Peace Now issued a faulty report recently claiming that the Council for Judea and Samaria is not operating properly in terms of their finances and other protocols – but the report badly backfired for the far-left group. Shiloh Adler, Director of the Council of Judea and Samaria spoke to Arutz Sheva about the report and…

An Arab rock attack on Israeli cars took place Tuesday night in the area of the moshav Mevo Dotan, located in northern Samaria not far from the radical Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm on the other side of the 1949 Armistice line. Initial reports indicated the terrorists had opened fire with guns, with the surprise volley…

The inauguration of a Hungarian statue honoring a World War II-era politician with anti-Semitic views was delayed after it prompted strong protests and even threats, the group sponsoring the monument said Tuesday. The life-sized statue of Balint Homan was scheduled to be unveiled in the central city of Szekesfehervar on December 29 to commemorate the 130th anniversary of his birth. But the planned event had…

The families of slain IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Hamas to strike a deal for their sons’ bodies on Sunday, prompting a wave of sympathy and criticism from the public and political officials.  But Israel already made such an offer to Hamas at the end of…

A Maryland man was charged with accepting money he believed was from an Islamic State (ISIS) supporter overseas for “operational purposes” in the U.S., NBC News reported Monday. According to the network, the Justice Department disclosed that Mohamed Elshinawy, 30, of Edgewood, Maryland, was arrested on Friday and charged with providing material support to a…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement with regards to normalization of ties with Israel marks a shift in position, former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Arutz Sheva on Monday. Erdogan told journalists earlier on Monday that “normalization with Israel” was possible, adding that “there is so much the region could gain from such a…

Secretary of State John Kerry is once again warning that Israel is headed towards a “one-state solution” and that the Palestinian Authority (PA) could collapse. The comments came in an interview with the New Yorker published on Monday, and which was conducted after Kerry’s recent meeting in Germany with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Kerry told…

A Border Policewoman thwarted a potential stabbing in downtown Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon, after she stopped an Arab terrorist with a weapon.  The soldier first flagged the Palestinian Arab woman after she was spotted walking on Dorot Rishonim street in Jerusalem and acting suspiciously.  The Border Policewoman, keeping a safe distance, pulled the woman aside and…

The Central District Court sentenced an Israeli Arab terrorist to 38 months in prison on Tuesday, for being involved in a lynch attempt against an Israeli Jew.  Mohammad Haj Yahyia, of Taibe, confessed and was convicted of charges of injury with grave intent, incitement to violence, and racially-motivated sabotage.  Yahyia ran a Facebook account with…

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal exalted Palestinian Arab terror attacks in an address at an Al-Jazeera event in Kuala Lumpur last Thursday, calling the terrorists “the noblest of people.”  Mashaal began by first refuting the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s veneer of diplomacy in fighting against Israel.  “The Palestinians have reached the realization that negotiations (with Israel) are useless,” he began.…

The State of Israel continues to respond to the terror wave Tuesday, after the IDF mobilized in the Hevron area overnight to secure the homes of teen terrorists for demolition.  The IDF’s Ram Brigade and Etzion Engineering Brigades entered Kafr Tzurif outside Hevron overnight Monday/Tuesday and surrounded the home of 16 year-old stabber Mesaab Aneema’th, Channel…

An IDF force on Monday morning raided a Rotem Toys factory in Tulkarm, located just over the 1949 Armistice lines to the east of Netanya, and seized some of the terror inciting dolls at the site according to Palestinian Arab media. The toy factory’s Facebook page lists the “Palestinian dolls” that the company specializes in, reports…

A French nursery school teacher who claimed on Monday he was stabbed in his classroom by an Islamic State (ISIS) supporter has admitted to prosecutors that he invented the story. The 45-year-old teacher at a school in Aubervilliers, northeast of Paris, was hospitalized with light stab wounds in his side and throat. He had earlier claimed that a…

Two-thirds of Palestinian Arabs support the ongoing wave of terror attacks against Israelis, with the same percentage backing a larger “armed uprising” with more shooting attacks, a poll released on Monday found. A full 67% back the use of knives, while 66% of those asked said an armed intifada with guns would “serve Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations could not.” The survery…

Shortly after the horrific car attack in Jerusalem on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting and decided to place defensive measures against such attacks at roughly 300 bus stations around the capital. Netanyahu held the meeting with Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), and ordered them…

US President Barack Obama voiced renewed determination to destroy the Islamic State (ISIS) group Monday, vowing to win back territory in the Middle East and kill the group’s leaders. Sounding a notably more strident tone, Obama said that the United States and its allies were taking the fight to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “We are hitting them harder than ever,”…

To our brothers, the Children of Israel, As citizens of the State of Israel and with the aching heart of a loving and concerned family, we appeal to you (concerning) a family member – a young man of 18 years – detained for the past two weeks at the Shabak (Shin Bet internal security) facility.…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has given security services his approval to use “exceptional measures” against the prisoners suspected of being behind the Duma arson and murder. Deputy Attorney General Raz Nazeri acknowledged this fact to the Knesset Law and Justice Committee, marking the first time that a government official has openly spoken about the investigation.…

Egypt’s civil aviation ministry completed a preliminary report on doomed Metrojet Flight 9268 on Monday, insisting that the flight was not downed by terrorism.  “The technical investigative committee has so far not found anything indicating any illegal intervention or terrorist action,” the ministry said in a statement. Intelligence experts believe Metrojet Flight 9268, which crashed in the…

An unidentified man stabbed a 45-year-old elementary school teacher in the side and the throat Monday, at the Jean Perrin d’Aubervilliers school in the northern suburb of the French capital. According to reports, the attacker was dressed in overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in…

Abe Katsman, a Jerusalemite and the Counsel for Republicans Overseas Israel, spoke to Arutz Sheva about Republican Presidential nominee hopeful Donald Trump’s recent comments about Israel, and gave some analysis as to what the future holds for Republican Presidential nominee hopefuls over the course of the primaries.    The issues regarding Trump’s comments about Israel were…

Just one week after record results in the first round of regional elections in France, the far-right National Front (FN), headed by Marine Le Pen, failed to win a single region in the second round on Sunday, AFP reports. Le Pen lost out to the right-wing opposition in the northern Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region after the ruling…

The Israel Air Force (IAF) on Sunday night launched airstrikes against two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in northern and central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. The airstrikes took place in retaliation for earlier rocket fire on southern Israel, the statement said. A rocket fired from Gaza earlier on Sunday evening struck an open…

Jordan is tightening regulations on granting visas to visit the country, after the Foreign Ministry began investigating complaints by religious Israelis that Jordanian authorities were making it difficult for them to enter the country. Beginning January 1, any visitor from the Israeli side who wants to cross into the country via one of the land…

Republicans in a major swing state have chosen Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) over Donald Trump Sunday, despite Trump leading in most national polls.  Cruz has a 10-point lead over Trump in Iowa, the Bloomberg Politics and Des Moines Register poll reveals – an important statistic in the state which begins the primaries voting process for the 2016 presidential race.…

Senior commanders of the Israel Air Force, led by Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, the IAF Commander, conducted a ceremonial aerial demonstration Sunday morning to mark the retirement of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk from service in the IAF, after 48 years. Loading… Eshel and the other commanders flew the Skyhawks – known as ‘Ayit in Hebrew…

An updated tally of the results in local elections in Saudi Arabia finds that voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, The Associated Press reported late Sunday. Earlier reports said at least four women were elected to three councils in the landmark elections, which were the first ones in which women were allowed…

Several hundred people, including an American envoy, joined a protest Sunday organized by Jewish group in Hungary against a planned statue of a World War II-era politician who had held anti-Semitic views, AFP reported. Around 300 protesters gathered near the building site of the monument, a life-size bronze statue of Balint Homan, in the city…

After scouring a San Bernardino lake for clues into this month’s terror attack, divers have recovered some items, the FBI said Sunday, according to CNN. However, the search turned up nothing related to the investigation, a law enforcement source told the network. The federal agency initially declined to comment on whether the items are related…

A stabbing attack against Israelis was attempted on Sunday afternoon at the western gate of Kiryat Arba, near Hevron in Judea.  No Israelis were injured in the attempted attack.   The female Arab terrorist was shot and neutralized by security forces at the scene.  “A stabbing attempt was thwarted,” the Israeli army said in a statement to press, adding that the…

An indictment was filed Sunday with the Jerusalem Magistrates Court against Sur Baher resident Mohammed Abu Kaf on eight counts of incitement to violence and terror attacks.  According to the indictment, Channel 10 reported, Abu Kaf, 21, posted on his Facebook page in October several direct calls to violence and terror against Israeli civilians and security forces.  Moreover, he posted a…

Twenty-four Israelis were awarded last week the European Research Council’s prestigious Starting Grants for young researchers.  Tel Aviv had the most recipients of any academic institutions in Israel with eight researchers taking home grants, and for the second year running, the third largest number of recipients of any institution eligible to receive the grant.  It lagged slightly behind…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed at his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday Argentina’s decision not to appeal a court’s ruling to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating the 1994 deadly bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.  “This is a welcome change of direction and I hope we will see a significant improvement…

Loading… Dozens of security guards were stationed Sunday aboard buses and aside public transportation stations in Jerusalem. Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) inaugurated the new security unit, stressing its purpose was to prevent terror attacks – a praiseworthy accomplishment.  “The preparations and correct operations of the security guards can minimize the [terrorist] threat as well as prevent…

Naor Shalev, the 13-year-old boy critically wounded in a stabbing attack in Pisgat Ze’ev two months ago, will participate in the lighting of the last candle of Hanukkah at the official Kotel ceremony on Sunday night.  The ceremony will be attended by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Kotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh, Jerusalem District…

The IDF Technological and Logistics Directorate (Atal) are equipping combat soldiers with new scopes for their assault rifles, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.  The new M5 scopes are to replace the Meprolight scopes which were first introduced at the beginning of the last decade and reached its peak of popularity during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast…

Ever-accommodating, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz accommodated Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Sa’eb Erekat by taking down an Israeli flag, after he made clear that he would not speak at the paper’s New York conference. The flag had been draped across the stage, behind the speaker’s podium – which made sense, as Ha’aretz is an Israeli…

Arabs who demonstrated in Shechem (Nablus) on Saturday night dressed a doll as former Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika, who last month foiled a stabbing attack when he ran over a terrorist, seconds before she stabbed two Jewish girls. On the doll were the words, “Gershon Mesika the terrorist, murderer of the Shahid hero…

Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate rejected Saturday the outcome of an opposition summit that agreed to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad, and Russia denounced the gathering in Saudi Arabia as unrepresentative. The latest developments come with US Secretary of State John Kerry due in Moscow Tuesday in a new bid to push for a peace plan to end Syria’s nearly five-year conflict. In a sign of the…

The Israeli Mission to the UN released a new video on Saturday entitled “United Pianos,” in which 11 renowned pianists play around the globe in one seamless musical rendition of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” as part of a call for greater unity worldwide. The video, which prominently features Israeli music sensation Idan Raichel and…

The 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris reached a final draft in its formulation of a climate change deal Saturday, which aims to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The draft also calls to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reach a balance of sources and sinks for the gases in the…

A powerful car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs Saturday, murdering 16 people and wounding dozens, the provincial governor and a monitoring group said. The Islamic State (ISIS) group in a statement said it was behind the attack, and said it consisted of a car bombing and a suicide bomber blowing himself up. Governor…

Argentina’s new government will not appeal a court’s decision to strike down a deal with Iran over investigating the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, The Associated Press reports, citing a government source.  The country’s new President, Mauricio Macri, who took office on Thursday, is considered to be more pro-Israel than his…

Leading Republican presidential Donald Trump and Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal engaged in a Twitter war on the weekend over Trump’s recent controversial remarks about Muslims. Trump caused an uproar last week when he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in the wake of the massacre in San Bernardino. On…

A middle school teacher in the state of Georgia has caused an uproar after asking a Muslim student if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack, reports The Associated Press (AP). The father of the student, Abdirizak Aden, said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who…

A Spaniard has been arrested in the Spanish north African territory of Ceuta on suspicion of recruiting youth to fight for the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, the interior ministry said Saturday. The 34-year-old Ceuta resident, arrested at dawn in the Mediterranean peninsula bordering Morocco, “was carrying out recruitment and indoctrination of youths with…

Israel will be one of four countries to host the FIBA EuroBasket 2017 tournament, the international basketball federation announced on Saturday. It will be the first time that Israel will be hosting a European basketball championship. The other three countries to host the 2017 tournament will be Finland, Turkey and Romania who, like Israel, will…

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky blasted MK Ayman Odeh, head of the Arab Joint List, who last week refused to address a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, because it was held at premises shared by the Jewish Agency for Israel and other “Zionist entities”. “It is unfortunate that members…

As the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group comes under growing military pressure, its prodigious propaganda output has slowed somewhat but turned increasingly gruesome in a bid to keep in the headlines. Since it announced a self-styled caliphate across Iraq and Syria last year, ISIS has become notorious for broadcasting its macabre tactics. The group’s online network has taken…

Several thousand protesters, most of them members of Iran-backed Shi’ite paramilitary forces, gathered in central Baghdad on Saturday to demand the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Iraq. Iraq says Turkey deployed troops and tanks to a base in the country’s north last week without its permission, sparking a diplomatic uproar between Baghdad and Ankara. Turkey insists the forces were deployed to protect…

Russia on Saturday slammed as unrepresentative the talks held this week in Saudi Arabia among Syrian political and armed opposition groups, which culminated with a call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down. “We cannot agree with an attempt made by the group that gathered in Riyadh to monopolize the right to speak on behalf of the entire Syrian opposition,” said the foreign ministry…

Swiss authorities said Saturday that two people of Syrian origin had been arrested on suspicion of transporting “explosives and toxic gases” as part of a probe into a terror threat. The two suspects arrested Friday are accused of the “manufacture, concealment and transport of explosives and toxic gases,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. They are also under suspicion of violating Swiss law…

Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem on Saturday night announced that Ganedi Kofman, who was stabbed by an Arab terrorist outside the Cave of Machpelah in Hevron on Monday, has stabilized to a certain degree. The hospital reported that despite the slight degree of stability now seen in his medical condition, Kofman remains very seriously wounded and is…

An Arab roughly 15 years of age from the Hevron region confessed on Friday during a police investigation to planning to stab Jews, after IDF forces found a knife on his possession at a checkpoint in the region. The Arab youth was apprehended just over a week ago on Friday afternoon near the security border in…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Friday declared he would not join peace talks proposed by world powers, claiming the United States and Saudi Arabia wanted “terrorist groups” to join those talks, Reuters reports, citing Syrian state media. “Terrorists” is the word Assad uses to describe all the rebel groups fighting his regime. “They want the…

British radical preacher Anjem Choudary was granted bail Friday as he pleaded not guilty to charges of inviting support for the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group through social media, AFP reports. The 48-year-old Choudary spent the last two weeks in jail after breaching his bail conditions, having met an individual he was ordered to avoid.…

If Israel does not make peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Islamic State (ISIS) will assume the moral leadership of the Arab world, senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Saeb Erekat warned on Friday. Speaking at a Rome conference on Mediterranean security and quoted by AFP, Erekat claimed that the radical jihadism of Islamic…

American authorities are warning that followers of the Islamic State (ISIS) may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports ISIS has printed itself with its own machines, an intelligence report obtained by ABC News finds. The 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report, issued to law enforcement last week, says ISIS likely has been able…

It was released for publication on Friday morning that in an overnight manhunt the Arab terrorist who ran over four IDF soldiers in his car on Thursday afternoon was caught. The terrorist was named as Mahmoud abd al Halim abd al Hamid Salam, a 37-year-old resident of the village of Al Luban in Samaria. Salam…

Even after the leader of Islamic State’s (ISIS) affiliate in the Sinai recently paid a visit to Hamas in Gaza, Hamas leadership remains embroiled in conflict over whether to continue ties with the group at all, sources revealed Friday.  Conflicting reports over the Hamas-ISIS relationship have already emerged as of late, with the announcement that ISIS…

A plane carrying 163 Syrian migrants arrived in Canada Thursday, kicking off a drive to take in thousands from the war-torn country that has many concerned over the potential influx of terrorists and militant Islam. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was at Toronto’s airport to personally greet them. The government hopes to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of…

Arab sources in Israel have revealed that a Muslim Arab citizen of Israel who served as a soldier in the IDF has gone to join Islamic State (ISIS). The sources revealed to Walla! News Thursday that the citizen is a resident of one of the many Arab towns in Israel’s north. According to his military ID, he…

7,000 Londoners on Thursday evening joined the Mayor of London, the Jewish Leadership Council, Chabad Lubavitch UK and the London Jewish Forum to celebrate Hanukkah in the Square, the biggest annual Hanukkah celebration in the UK. Set in the landmark location of Trafalgar Square, the celebration included the lighting of the largest menorah in Europe…

A new congressional report seen by The Washington Post says the 2014 prisoner swap, in which five Taliban prisoners were released in exchange for American captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was “illegal”, the newspaper reported Thursday. After a year-and-a-half-long investigation, the House Armed Services Committee’s Republican majority renewed assertions that the decision to send the senior…

At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded in a triple suicide car bomb attack in northeastern Syria’s Hasakeh province on Thursday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, updating an earlier death toll of 10, said suicide car bombs struck three different locations in Tal Tamr, which is controlled by Kurdish…

Rabbi David Rosen, the International Director of Inter-religious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee(AJC) and the Adviser to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on interfaith relations, welcomed the new Vatican document on Catholic-Jewish relations that was released at a press conference on Wednesday for the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate. “This is the first time that we have a…

This is the sixth installment of Arutz Sheva’s eight part Hanukkah special, In The Footsteps of The Maccabees. For Part Five, click here. Israeli historian Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi recounts how Nicanor was sent to Jerusalem to recapture and reoccupy the Holy Temple. Heading out to give battle, Judah the Maccabee came to Mitzpa to pray at the tomb of…

Even as one of the Jews being held on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson was released on Friday due to a lack of evidence, new testimony revealed new lows in the inhumane treatment the suspects are being subjected to. Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir who represents one of the suspects revealed that the Israel Prison Service…

Back from their respective world travels, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi Chaim Richman are finally reunited in Jerusalem for an epic Hanukkah edition of Temple Talk after a hiatus of several weeks. This week’s brand new episode of Temple Talk features our hosts’ inspiring insights into this week’s Torah portion of Miketz as well as the…

The Turkish army announced that of the 913 Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists captured illegally crossing the border with Syria since January 2015, the vast majority have been Chinese Muslims. A full 324 of the jihadists were from China, the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News reported Friday, apparently indicating the separatist Sunni Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…

A Syrian priest held for 84 days by the Islamic State (ISIS) group described Thursday how he believed his last hours had come, and called on the West to do more to help those trapped in the war-torn country. Jacques Mourad of the Syriac Catholic Church, who was abducted by unknown gunmen in May, said the “hardest thing” was hearing…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hinted Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu secretly agrees with his recent statements regarding the need to block Muslims from entering the US. “He disagrees with me. I doubt he actually does,” Trump said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal, after announcing he is calling off a December 28…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group’s finance chief has been confirmed killed in a coalition air strike last month, US officials said Thursday. Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad. Warren called him “one of the most senior and experienced members” of the group’s financial network. The US government’s envoy…

Lawyers for MK Hanin Zoabi of the Arab Joint List have reached a plea bargain arrangement with the State Attorney’s Office, regarding charges filed against her following a 2014 incident in which she hurled invective at Arab policemen. She will admit to insulting a public servant and will be convicted of this offense. She will…

Al-Manar, Hezbollah’s Lebanon-based television station, is no more – at least as far as the Sunni administrators of ArabSat, the international pan-Arab satellite broadcaster, is concerned. The broadcaster has blocked broadcast of the Iran-proxy terror group’s station, as well as Al-Madian, another pro-Hezbollah Sunni station. The move is seen as one example of the rapidly increasing…

Syria’s main opposition groups agreed at unprecedented talks Thursday to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but insisted he must step down at the start of a political transition. “The participants are ready to negotiate with representatives of the Syrian regime based on the Geneva 1 communique…within a specific timeframe that would be agreed on with the United Nations,” said a statement, issued…

Donald Trump’s claim on MSNBC Tuesday, according to which some Muslim neighborhoods in Paris and Britain are no-go areas for police, has received the endorsement of London policemen interviewed by Breitbart London and the Daily Mail. Trump had said: “We have places in London and other places that are so radicalized that police are afraid…

In an ironic twist, the Hanukkah holiday celebrating how the Maccabees defeated the occupying Greek army over 2,000 years ago is being celebrated this year by Jews and “the Greeks.” The rabbis of Chabad on Campus are teaming up with Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), the largest Jewish fraternity, to hold Hanukkiah candle lighting ceremonies at frat…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat will announce in the coming days that he will seek a spot on the Likud’s Knesset list for the next election. The announcement, a report on Army Radio said, will be made at the beginning of next week. Barkat has been informing friends and associates of the news, and Army Radio…

Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday after being transferred to a “new isolated” prison, his wife said on Thursday, according to the Reuters news agency. Haidar, who lives in Canada where she and their three children were granted political asylum, confirmed the news by phone after tweeting it.…

An FBI dive team on Thursday began a search of Seccombe Lake Park, just a few miles away from the site of the San Bernardino mass shooting last week, ABC News reported. An official briefed on the investigation told ABC News that the team is searching the area as a precaution and to ensure that…

The White House is “relieved” that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is postponing his planned trip to Israel, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday, according to The Hill. Earnest called Trump’s decision a “good outcome” because his presence in Israel could have inflamed the volatile situation in the Middle East. “Most people are relieved…

Two African terrorist organization affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) group could become a major threat on the continent if they come together and boost cooperation, US experts warn. For now, Libyan Islamist rebels that have proclaimed allegiance to ISIS and Boko Haram in Nigeria have traded little more than praise over the Internet, along with probably some fighters and weapons.…

The Foreign Ministry is investigating several incidents in which Jordanian authorities have denied entry to the country for observant Jews, with the latest incident coming Wednesday evening, when Jews who were wearing kippot and other religious garb were told they could not enter the country. In the wake of the incident, the Jordanian ambassador to Israel was…

Bags are searched during mundane grocery shopping, heavily armed police patrol the streets and bomb disposal teams are frequently called to examine “suspect packages” – four weeks on, the jihadist attacks have left Paris a changed city. This is France at “war” against the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, as a visibly shaken President Francois Hollande said soon after cafe terraces…

The NGO Monitor research institution on Wednesday took part in a special session of the Danish Parliament, and told Danish lawmakers the supposedly humanitarian funds their country is handing over to local NGOs is actually advancing anti-peace agendas. Shaun Sacks, a researcher at the independent Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, addressed the Foreign Affairs Committee and Foreign Policy…

A senior US official revealed on Thursday that Islamic State (ISIS), the world’s richest terrorist organization, has made up to $1.5 billion from robbing banks in Syria and Iraq as well as black market oil sales – meaning it has higher revenues than many small countries. “ISIL has made more than $500 million from black market…

The Academic Engagement Network (AEN), a diverse network of college and university faculty and administrators on campuses across the United States addressing issues relating to Israel, announced its official launch on Wednesday. Noting that campuses across the US are “roiled” by calls to endorse BDS as well as attempts to link Israel with a host of…

Following reports to police, officers in the northern Israeli city of Afula arrested three Palestinians on Wednesday evening who were found carrying large knives. After local residents gave police a precise description of the suspects, they conducted a thorough search of the area and located the three young men who fit the description. During searches,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s adopted dog Kaiya lost her holiday spirit Wednesday night at a Hanukkah lighting for Likud members at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem.  The pup unexpectedly bit MK Sharren Haskel during the ceremony before sinking her teeth into Or Alon, the husband of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely.  Both required medical attention as…

The first of 25,000 Syrian refugees to be resettled in Canada will arrive in the country on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, declaring it will be “a great day.” The new prime minister campaigned on the plan to resettle 25,000 people displaced by the four-year civil war in Syria, but the idea…

Police in Australia on Wednesday announced they arrested two people over plans to carry out a terror attack in Sydney, linking the raids to an earlier counterterrorism operation last December, The Wall Street Journal reported. Australia’s Federal Police and its state counterparts said they had arrested a 15-year-old teenager and a 20-year-old man, while three…

President Reuven Rivlin told reporters on Wednesday that, during his meeting at the White House with U.S. President Barack Obama, the American president expressed concern over the future of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas, in light of the disconnect with Israel. “The president expressed his concern and his uncompromising commitment to Israel,” Rivlin was…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday weighed in on the comments made by Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who urged a ban on Muslims entering the United States, saying the call was hypocritical. Rouhani took aim at Trump, without mentioning his name, during a cabinet meeting, according to Reuters. “Under the pretext of fighting terrorism,…

At the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Duma (Russian Parliament) has legislated a law outlawing “distorted and/or extremist” commentary of Scriptures. The purpose of the unusual law, it is widely understood, is the prevention of cynical advantage being taken of Biblical verses for anti-Semitic purposes. Russian history has seen many instances in which…

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon, who is serving this month as chair of the Western Countries Group (WEOG), gave a speech on Wednesday during the historic UN debate for the first-ever International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime. In September 2015,…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will postpone his trip to Israel and reschedule his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu planned for December 28. “I have decided to postpone my trip to Israel and to schedule my meeting with @Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the US,” Trump tweeted. Trump announced he would…

After two people were injured on Wednesday in a shooting attack on an access road between Jewish communities in Samaria, it was decided on Thursday morning to close the road to Palestinian motorists.  Shaul Nir and his wife, Rachel, were leaving Avnei Hefetz when Palestinians Arab terrorists fired on their car, seriously injuring Shaul and…

An aggressive species of Australian crayfish has somehow made its way into the Yarkon River in central Israel and could pose a major threat to the semi-terrestrial crabs known to reside there.  The red claw crayfishes were discovered by the River Authority and Nature and Parks Authority last week after hikers reported seeing a large crab near the river. …

MK Mickey Zohar (Likud) seeks to censor the internet: Ae presented a new bill which intends to limit the ability to access gambling, pornographic and other harmful content on the Internet. Under the proposal, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will filter harmful content unless specifically request by the customer. The bill is intended to prevent children…

Israeli Bedouin citizen Ouda Tarabin, who was imprisoned in Egypt for 15 years after being accused of spying for Israel, has finished his sentence and was returned to Israel a short time ago. At the same time, Israel has released two Egyptian prisoners, who were imprisoned in Israel and have completed their sentenced.  The story of…

A baby girl about six-months-old was lightly wounded Thursday morning when terrorists threw rocks at an Israeli vehicle traveling from Beitar Illit toward Jerusalem. The toddler was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the capital after being wounded by glass shards.  According to reports, she was struck right between her eyes.  Meanwhile, Shaul Nir who was injured yesterday…

In a rare turn of events, Israel received almost unanimous support at the United Nations last week for its proposal to further the dissemination of agricultural and farming technology to developing African nations. Despite of the humanitarian nature of the proposal, it was met with vehement opposition from representatives of Arab nations, including some that…

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee met with supporters this week at the home of businessman Rubin Margules in Brooklyn.  The former Arkansas governor spoke on a host of topics including the double standard held against Israel during Operation Protective Edge as well as the war against radical Islamic terrorism.   Noting the contrast between the Israeli army who tried to…

According to Palestinian sources, deportees from the Shalit deal in Gaza, Qatar and Turkey are working hard to establish independent military units in Judea, Samara and eastern Jerusalem in order to carry out attacks against Israel. Hamas sources told Yedioth Ahronoth that those deported have also begun to establish an underground organization parallel to Hamas in Judea and Samaria,…

Two Israelis were injured in a drive-by shooting attack Wednesday evening on the road from Avnei Hefetz to Einav in Samaria.  First reports indicate the Palestinian Arab terrorist fired on the Israeli couple’s car as he passed them, before driving away.  Magen David Adom (MDA) medics and Hatzalah volunteers provided primary treatment at the scene and evacuated the…

The Prime Minister’s Office defended on Wednesday Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.  Trump sparked controversy this week after calling to bar Muslims from entering the United States, prompting nearly 40 Knesset members to write Netanyahu demanding he cancel the meeting.  In its statement, the Prime Minister’s Office noted that Netanyahu “rejects Donald…

A US general admitted Wednesday that the US is avoiding establishing a no-fly zone in Syria for fear of becoming entangled with Syrian or Russian forces. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Selva told the Senate Armed Services Committee that there was a threat of “direct conflict” with Syrian forces or “a miscalculation”…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Russia on Wednesday of “ethnic cleansing” in Syria as well as strengthening Islamic State jihadists, in a new escalation of tensions between Ankara and Moscow after the downing of a Russian warplane. “Russia is trying to make ethnic cleansing in the northern Latakia (region) to force (out) all Turkmen and Sunni populations who do…

One-third of the people who committed suicide in Israel between the years 2000 and 2013 were immigrants, a report presented to the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday revealed.  The data was presented as part of a discussion on mental health care reforms for immigrants and their offspring.  There were 4,806 reported suicides in…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hosted Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Wednesday afternoon in his Jerusalem office. The two men signed a treaty to prevent double-taxation and a joint statement marking the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. “I’m delighted to see you again in Jerusalem, Nikola. It’s a pleasure to see…

This is the fourth installment of Arutz Sheva’s eight part Hanukkah special, In The Footsteps of The Maccabees. For Part Three, click here. The fourth battle took place near the fortified Jewish city of Beit Tzur in the mountains of Hevron, south of Beit Lehem and Gush Etzion.  After losing the third battle in the Ayalon Valley, an…

Iran’s ballistic missile tests are a concern, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, he added that the United States government is looking into reports that Iran conducted yet another such test last month, in a breach of UN Security Council resolutions. “The Iran ballistic missile program has been … a…

Miami police said Wednesday they arrested a 15-year-old boy over the murder last year of a rabbi that shocked the Jewish community in the United States, AFP reports. Rabbi Joseph Raksin, 60, from New York, was shot dead during a robbery in August 2014 as he made his way to a synagogue in the Florida…

National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) Morton Klein spoke to Arutz Sheva about his concerns regarding the comment made by Republican Presidential candidate hopeful Donald Trump last week to the Associated Press and to the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).  The ZOA put out a press release earlier in the week strongly criticizing Trump…

San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik may have married as a ploy to fool American immigration authorities it was suggested at a Senate hearing Wednesday about the deadly attack.  FBI Director James Comey testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that Farook and Malik had discussed jihad and martyrdom even before they became engaged, meaning they were radicalized as…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon visited the Eshkol Regional Council on Wednesday evening, where he lit a Hanukkah candle of Hanukkah with locals. The Eshkol Regional Council, located near the border with Gaza, has been the target of many rocket attacks by Gaza terrorists over the years. During the evening, Ya’alon said, “We are less than…

The couple injured in the terror shooting in Samaria on Wednesday evening were identified as Shaul and Rachel Nir, residents of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem.  The attack occurred as they were on making their way home after lighting Hanukkah candles with their daughter, Livnat Ozeri, who lives in Avnei Hefetz. Shaul Nir was a member of the Jewish…

President Reuven Rivlin met at the White House on Wednesday evening with US President Barack Obama for the first time since he assumed the presidency.  President Obama stressed the meeting was “an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bonds between Israel and the US,” adding that “our commitment to Israel’s security is an important pillar of US foreign policy.”…

Al Quds University in eastern Jerusalem decided to mark the upcoming Christmas holiday by placing a large tree at its campus entrance – but this was no ordinary Christmas tree for Christian Arab students at the university. Dozens of university faculty members, religious leaders and other senior figures headed by Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna and…

Three-dimensional printing has become the future for materials technology – and Israelis are involved with some of the biggest manufacturers in the businesses.  Arutz Sheva spoke with Arik Shefet, 3D Printing Marketing Manager at Systematics, to find out more.  So many people in the three biggest companies – FormLab, Makerbot, and MarkForged – are Israeli that…

Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn was evacuated on Tuesday night due to a bomb threat. The threat targeting the iconic Jewish center was made in a phone call to 911, and in response the NYPD together with the Shomrim neighborhood patrol evacuated the building. After it was cleared, a thorough investigation…

An American official confirmed to The Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday that Iran tested a ballistic missile last month, the second such test since signing the nuclear agreement with Western powers in July. The State Department said only that it was conducting a “serious review” of such reports. The test occurred November 21, the official…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government in Ramallah, headed by Rami Hamdallah, in its weekly meeting on Tuesday expressed support for a two-state solution based on the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem within the pre-1967 borders. The government also made accusations against Israel, claiming it is trying to implement a “bi-national…

Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who killed 14 people in last week’s attack in San Bernardino, California, had communicated with “people with extremist views” in the Los Angeles area, MSNBC reported on Tuesday. The network reported that the two were “in communication with people with extremist views in the L.A. area. Police have confirmed that…

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation on Tuesday that would overhaul the federal visa waiver program and bar those from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Sudan, or those who have visited those countries in the last five years, from traveling to the United States without a visa, CNN reports. 407 lawmakers voted in favor of…

Israel should take steps to improve the lives of Palestinian Arabs, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) must also end its incitement to terror against Israelis, President Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday. Rivlin’s comments came in an op-ed in The Washington Post, ahead of his meeting on Wednesday with President Barack Obama. Rivlin begins the op-ed…

Over 100,000 people attended the 33rd annual gala dinner event for Beit El Institutions Sunday night, at the prestigious Marrott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan.  The dinner was chaired by former National Union MK Yaakov Katz (‘Katzele’), director of Beit El Yeshiva Center Institutions and Arutz Sheva, and Eugen Gluck, one of Beit El’s most prolific supporters and…

The criminal division of the State Attorney’s Office has petitioned the Supreme Court over the leniency in the punishment of an Israeli citizen, who joined Islamic State (ISIS) and fought for the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq before returning to Israel. The citizen was handed a mere three-and-a-half years in jail for taking an…

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will travel to Israel to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on December 28, an Israeli government official said Wednesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the visit had been scheduled two weeks ago, before the recent controversy over Trump’s call to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Trump announced he…

Two people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in the Beit Hadassah area of Hevron. Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene say one of the victims – a man in his twenties – is in moderate condition, with multiple stab wounds to his upper body, while the other was lightly injured in the leg.…

Palestinian Authority news agency Ma’an reports that 14 Gazans are “missing,” following the flooding of a smuggling tunnel with seawater by Egyptian military forces. Gazan rescue teams rescued seven tunnel workers, but were unable to locate 14 others. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning near Rafah, on the Egypt-Gaza border. Initial reports that the Civil…

Miriam Arami, the mother of Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami who was murdered by Arab coworkers in September 2014, responded in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Tuesday to announcements that those arrested over her son’s murder have been released. Arami’s death was only recognized as a terrorist attack in November 2014 after much public protest; he was murdered while working…

IKEA, the famous Swedish furniture retailer, has gotten its official certificate of kashrut (Jewish dietary law) in the coastal city of Netanya where a branch of the global chain is located. The store’s restaurant only had a kashrut certificate from a private rabbinical organization in the past, but as of Tuesday it has an official…

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Tuesday lambasted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after the latter on Monday called to ban all Muslims from entering the US. The real estate guru’s comments are “not who we are as a party” said the Republican leader Ryan, saying the sentiment also violates the Constitution. “This is…

On Sunday MK Miki Zohar (Likud) presented a draft of the “Shabbat Bill” to the Ministerial Committee of Legislation. The bill outlined an overhaul to the status quo that is currently in place regarding the opening of businesses on Shabbat. A According to Zohar, the proposed bill would alter the law and allow regular citizens…

Iraqi security forces on Tuesday recaptured a large area on the southwestern side of Ramadi from the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), which overran the city in May, officials said. Retaking the Al-Tameem area from ISIS is a significant breakthrough for Iraqi forces, which have been fighting for months to secure territory around Ramadi, a…

The United States is reviewing reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. “The U.S. is conducting a serious review of the reported incident,” she was quoted as having told reporters after a…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday evening rejected the EU’s “double standard” in distinguishing between Palestinian Arab terrorism against Israelis and terrorism by the Islamic State (ISIS) group. The remarks came in response to comments by the EU ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, who opined in a radio interview earlier on Tuesday that Palestinian Arab terror…

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the military had launched strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean. “We used Calibre cruise missiles from the ‘Rostov-on-Don’ submarine from the Mediterranean Sea,” Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported. Shoigu added that Russian strikes launched on…

The mothers of the Jewish youths being held on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson in July plan to protest on Wednesday, together with supporters from around Israel, outside the Tel Aviv home of Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home). “We expect the Justice Minister to stop this insanity,” stated the mothers,…

American Jewish groups attacked would-be Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Monday over his plan to block entry of Muslims into the US. “A plan that singles out Muslims and denies them entry to the U.S. based on their religion is deeply offensive and runs contrary to our nation’s deepest values,” the Anti-Defamation League said in…

There has been a dramatic change over the past three decades with regard to how the Jewish community, and more specifically the Orthodox Jewish community deals with the after effects and trauma of sexual violence and abuse. This change is not only taking place in the Modern-Orthodox world, but also in the haredi world. Tzvi…

The number of foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria has more than doubled since last year to at least 27,000, a report by an intelligence consultancy said Tuesday, highlighting the global dimension of the conflict. The figures, compiled by The Soufan Group, indicate that efforts by countries around the world to stem the flow of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria…

Senior White House officials lined up on Monday to condemn Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, saying it was contrary to American values and interests, according to AFP. The leading Republican presidential candidate who is known for his controversial remarks, earlier on Monday issued a statement in which he warned…

Iran has carried out a new medium range ballistic missile test in breach of two United Nations Security Council resolutions, a senior United States official told Fox News on Monday. According to the source, the test was held November 21 near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province near the border…

The man who carried out Saturday’s attack on the London Underground while screaming “this is for Syria” had images associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) group on his mobile phone, prosecutors said Monday, according to The Associated Press (AP). The man, Muhaydin Mire, who has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly slashing a passenger’s…

Two former Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, including a would-be suicide bomber, were sentenced to jail by a German court Monday on charges of involvement in a terrorist group, AFP reports. Ayoub B., 27, was given four years and three months, while Ebrahim H. B., 26, was handed a conviction of three years. The two were…

Former MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) raised a storm about a little-known epidemic in Israel on Monday: the mass dieout of Israel’s palm trees.  “This matter has been brought to my attention by so many people all over the country, and this lawlessness is intolerable; it requires serious attention,” Horowitz fired in a Facebook post Monday…

The US State Department pandered once again to the Palestinian Authority (PA), backtracking on remarks noting the PA’s incitement campaign against Israel and blasting Israel’s “illegitimate” presence in Judea and Samaria.  During Monday’s press briefing, State Department spokesman John Kirby denied that US Secretary of State John Kerry had accused the PA of incitement. During…

(AFP) – The United States has charged a naturalized American citizen with providing military supplies to a Syrian rebel group that often fights alongside the country’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Washington Post reported. The Post identified the man late Monday as Amin al-Baroudi, aged 50, and said he was charged in an indictment unsealed last week. The specific charges are violating US…

An Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated group may have taken the upper hand in the ongoing struggle for power in the Sinai desert and Gaza, a report revealed Monday. The Sinai has recently witnessed some of the heaviest fighting between security forces and Islamists since the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. Since then,…

Judea-Samaria and IDF officials held a special overnight candle lighting ceremony at Joshua’s Tomb in the village of Kifl Harres overnight Tuesday, in an annual tradition held in honor of Hanukkah and in honor of Israel’s first military “chief of staff.”  Attendees included Samaria Regional Council chief Yossi Dagan, Judea and Samaria Division Commander Brigadier General…

A $28,500 deposit was made to the bank account of Syed Farook, one of the shooters in last week’s massacre in California, a source close to the investigation told Fox News Monday. According to the source, the deposit was made to Farook’s account from WebBank.com on or about November 18, some two weeks before he…

A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced Islamist preacher Eyad Qunaibi to two years in prison for promoting “anti-state propaganda.” Qunaibi, a well-known support of Islamist groups throughout the Middle East, was sentenced after being arrested in June for a Facebook post he authored opposing Amman’s peace treaty with Israel. In his piece, called “Jordan heading…

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott announced Monday that the IDF Or Etzion yeshiva military dormitory will shutter its doors. The move is being made due to budget cuts, Eisenkott’s office said. The Defense Ministry confirmed the information. Or Etzion, a yeshiva gevoha (post-graduate yeshiva), is one of the premier yeshivas in the country for…

This is the second installment of Arutz Sheva’s eight part Hanukkah special, In The Footsteps of The Maccabees. For Part One, click here. In the Binyamin Region of Samaria, along Route 60 between the Israeli towns of Ofra and Shiloh, lies the site of the first major battle between the Maccabean Jewish revolutionaries and the Syrian-Greek army. The…

Former Ambassador to the US Yoram Ettinger criticized US Secretary of State John Kerry Monday, noting in a special Arutz Sheva interview that Kerry’s views on demographics are fundamentally flawed.  “He does not know the demographics, as he does not know the data is political and geo-strategic,” Ettinger fired. On Sunday, Kerry stated at the Saban Forum in…

MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) is seeking to force a change in one of the most beloved events of the Hanukkah holiday – the annual “torch run” from Modi’in to Jerusalem.  The “torch run” remembers the battles of the Maccabees, launched from their home town until they liberated the Holy Temple in Jerusalem from the…

If the Islamic State is on the rise and threatening the West, said former President Shimon Peres, then the West had only itself to blame – for not helping to lead young terrorists away from terror. Speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv Monday, Peres said that “we must realize that the only way to…

During the holiday of Hanukkah as we praise the miracle of the oil, yet new research published shed light on the damage caused by Israel’s olive oil industry. The studies show that the allegedly environmentally friendly way to eradicate the industries sewage damage is actually causing worse and sometimes irreversible damage, effecting soil fertility and…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett is set to announce a new project, in which top artists, poets, and musicians will be awarded cash prizes for their contributions to Jewish and Israeli culture. The six Creativity Prizes, worth NIS 900,000, will be distribute to six artists in the areas of theater, dance, music, literature, poetry, and life…

Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is making headlines again, after he called on Monday to block all Muslims from entering the United States. Trump, who has previously called for surveillance against mosques and said he was open to establishing a database for all Muslims living in the United States, made the call in a…

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday night stressed the importance of Israel’s friendship with the United States, as he prepared to depart on a visit to Washington DC, and New York, during which he will meet with President Obama, and be present as guest of honor at the traditional White House Hanukkah candle lighting. “I am…

The husband and wife who killed 14 people in last week’s shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California were both radicalized “for quite some time,” the FBI official in charge of the investigation said Monday, according to AFP. David Bowdich, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office, said investigators were still…

The Jewish Human Rights Watch (JHRW), an anti-BDS organization in England, has for the past year since its inception been successfully fighting and countering anti-Semitism in the UK. The organization’s current primary focus is to fight the BDS movement in the UK, primarily at the level of city and local councils. The JHRW believes that…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday named his national security adviser Yossi Cohen as the next head of the Mossad, replacing Tamir Pardo who will be leaving office at the end of January. Cohen previously served as deputy chief of the Mossad between 2011 and 2013 when he took up the post of national security…

More Israeli academics are seeking positions abroad, a poll by an Israeli relocation service shows. The poll shows that this year that 9% more Israeli professors, academics, and high-tech professionals have taken or hope to take jobs abroad, even though salaries there are largely stagnant. Most of those seeking jobs abroad are hoping to move to…

Professor Elie Wiesel became an honorary citizen of Jerusalem on Sunday, in accordance with a Jerusalem City Council resolution passed in his honor.  Wiesel received the honor for his many speeches on the importance and power of Jerusalem, and his work for the benefit of the city. Among other things, he has described Jerusalem as…

The state is prepared to take harsh moves against Jews who are involved in terror incidents, State Attorney Shai Nitzan said Monday. Speaking at the Globe Business Summit, Nitzan said that currently the state was demolishing only Palestinian homes because that is where the bulk of the terror attacks are coming from. The demolitions are…

The Haifa District Court cleared Nazareth Illit (Upper Nazareth) Mayor Shimon Gapso of all charges in a case involving allegations of bribery and breach of trust. Gapso, who took leave from his job while the trial was ongoing, is expected to return to it. He was accused of promising municipal jobs to activists in his 2008…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio left members of a Syrian Jewish synagogue scratching their heads on Saturday, when he asserted to them that Syrian Muslim migrants thronging to enter New York are like Jews who fled the genocidal Nazi regime. “I know this community understands deeply the pain of any family that must leave a homeland they love…

A member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) parliament has been sentenced to 15 months in jail by an IDF military court, the military confirmed on Monday, for her role in planning a terrorist attack. Khalida Jarrar, a senior member of the communist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, was sentenced on Sunday at the Ofer military court located north of…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group harms Islam through its intolerance, but “dialogue” with the jihadists is vital, the Dalai Lama said in an interview reported on Monday by the Italian daily La Stampa. “Islam is a religion of peace. Those who are intolerant harm their own faith and their own brothers,” the Tibetan spiritual…

Former US President Jimmy Carter announced on Sunday that recent checks appear to show that his cancer has disappeared. “My most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones,” the 91-year-old Carter said in a statement. The ex-president first announced he had cancer back in August, when he…

Residents of the city of Afula in the Galilee were shocked in recent days to learn that an “instant Arab village” has been established in their midst. Some are also alleging that the mayor of Afula, Yitzhak Meron, is complicit in making this possible. Hundreds of residents took part in an emotional demonstration Sunday night and faced…

The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian regime troops a day earlier, even as Bashar al-Assad’s regime condemned the strikes. “We’ve seen those Syrian reports but we did not conduct any strikes in that part of Deir Ezzor yesterday. So we see no evidence,” said…

Tensions with Russia could cost Turkey’s economy $9 billion in the worst case scenario of “zero relations,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Monday. Moscow has imposed a series of economic sanctions against Ankara after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian jet on the Syrian border on November 24, sparking the biggest crisis between the two countries since the Cold…