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Magen David Adom (MDA) received reports early on Monday of a man stabbed in the northern city of Afula Ilit. The man was apparently a security guard at the local Nofim school, and MDA medics were dispatched to the scene to provide medical treatment before apparently evacuating the man to Haemek Hospital in the city. The victim was lightly…

An Australian who joined Kurds battling the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria arrived back home Monday, with his parents pleading with authorities not to charge him under foreign fighter laws, calling him “a hero.” Ashley Dyball, 23, was detained in Germany while taking a break from a Kurdish military campaign against ISIS in northern Syria and deported on Saturday night. He touched…

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s remarks on Israel were “misunderstood”, she said in a joint statement with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven Sunday night. Wallstrom caused a firestorm in Israel after accusing the Jewish state of “extrajudicial executions” of terrorists who carry out stabbing attacks in remarks before parliament on Friday. On Sunday night, Prime…

Britain’s bombing campaign against Islamic State (ISIS) extremists in Syria is “illegal” and is destined to fail, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad predicted on Sunday, AFP reports. “It will be harmful and illegal and it will support terrorism as happened after the coalition started its operation a year or so (ago),” the Syrian president was quoted…

New details emerged on Sunday about Syed Farook, the man who along with his wife carried out last week’s shooting attack in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. According to Fox News, Farook’s father told an Italian newspaper that his son shared Islamic State (ISIS) ideology, wanted to see the establishment of an Islamic caliphate…

If the Palestinian Authority collapses, the black flags of the Islamic State (ISIS) could replace PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Sunday. Speaking at the Saban Forum in Washington, the leading Democratic presidential candidate also said she would work to improve the United States’ relationship with Israel if elected.…

A few dozen Chinese Jews in Kaifeng, China, gathered on Sunday evening with an emissary of the Shavei Israel organization to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah and light the traditional menorah candles. “The Chinese Jews take their inspiration from the Maccabees,” said Shavei Israel Chairman and Founder Michael Freund. “Even in far-off Kaifeng, the…

The Israel Air Force (IAF) overnight Sunday launched an airstrike against a terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in northern Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. The attack was in retaliation for several attacks against IDF soldiers along Israel’s border with Gaza. “The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm the security…

The United States will defeat terrorist groups like the Islamic State (ISIS), President Barack Obama declared in an address to the nation on Sunday night. The speech began with comments about last week’s shooting in San Bernardino, California, into which the investigation is still ongoing. Obama said that, so far, there is no evidence that…

US President Barack Obama released a Hanukkah greeting Sunday night, in honor of the first night of the eight-day holiday.  “Tonight, Jews in America, Israel, and around the world come together to light the first candle of the Festival of Lights,” he began. “At its heart, Hanukkah is about the struggle for justice in the face…

A Palestinian Arab terrorist stabbed and rammed his car into three Israelis on Yirmiyahu st. in Jerusalem Sunday night, leaving two moderately and one lightly injured. ZAKA stated that the terrorist initially tried to run over a Jewish child, then rammed his car into a pedestrian. When that failed to kill him, the terrorist left his vehicle and began…

The Egyptian Government decided Sunday to halt talks on importing Israeli natural gas after an international arbitration court ordered Egypt to pay Israel a fine of about $1.76B, reported Bloomberg. The fine was imposed following an arbitration process between East Mediterranean Gas Co., the Israel Electric Corporation and companies supplying Egyptian gas through a Sinai…

Israeli swimmer Yakov Toumarkin has won his second silver medal in the 18th European Short Course Swimming Championships, going on in the Wingate Institute near Netanya. On Sunday, Toumarkin won a silver medal in the 100 meter mixed personal swimming championship, losing by a nose to Sergei Pasikov of Russia. The gold medal winner completed…

President Reuven Rivlin and First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted the President of Germany Joachim Gauck and his partner Daniela Schadt at the President’s Residence on Sunday, during President Gauck’s official visit to Israel marking a jubilee for the inauguration of relations between Israel and Germany. President Rivlin and his wife welcomed the German President and his partner…

For the first installment of Arutz Sheva’s eight part Hanukkah special – In The Footsteps of The Maccabees – Israeli historian Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi brings you to the ancient synagogue in Modiin, where the rebellion against the Syrian-Greek Empire first began. From these hills the call of Matityahu the Kohen, leader of the Hasmoneans and initiator…

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) and Deputy Finance Minister Yitzhak Cohen (Shas) granted benefits to immigrants from North Africa and Iraq on Sunday, in recognition of their suffering anti-Semitism and racism during World War II. Jewish refugees of Arab lands, though they immigrated to Israel at around the same time as Holocaust survivors and victims of Nazi persecution, have not…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night spoke with his Swedish counterpart, Stefan Loefven, and expressed his displeasure about Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s latest remarks against Israel. Wallstrom, speaking to members of parliament in Stockholm on Friday, condemned the Palestinian knife attacks against Israelis but also criticized Israel’s response, accusing the Jewish state of…

Israel is facing a struggle over its existence and independence, just like the Maccabees did in the story of Hanukkah, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday evening. The prime minister’s remarks came at a Hanukkah candle lighting with Border Police personnel at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem. “2,200 years ago, a handful of Jewish…

The far-right may have made great gains in the first round of French regional elections, polls reveal Sunday night, with Marine Le Pen’s National Front (FN) party leading with 30.8% of the vote nationwide.  Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Republican party received 27.2% support, and President Francois Holland’s Socialist party received 22.7% support.  The second round of local…

Israel on Saturday denounced remarks by Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, after she accused the Jewish state of carrying out “extrajudicial executions” in response to attacks by knife-wielding Palestinians, AFP reports. In Stockholm on Friday, speaking to members of parliament, Wallstrom condemned the knife attacks but also criticized Israel’s response. “I condemn the knife attacks.…

Three people were injured, one of them seriously, in a stabbing attack at the Leytonstone underground station in London, the BBC reported. Local police are treating the stabbing as a “terrorist incident”, after the attacker reportedly said he was carrying out the attack “for Syria”. A suspect in the stabbing was arrested after being tasered…

The Taliban in Afghanistan has released an audio recorded that it claims disproved reports of its leaders death. “There is no truth to the rumors that I was injured or killed in Kuchlak,” says a man’s voice, allegedly belonging to Mullah Akhtar Mansour. Reports earlier this week stated that Mansour had been injured, then killed,…

President Barack Obama says that the US “will not be terrorized,” after ISIS congratulated Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik for killing 14 people in California this past week. Malik swore allegiance to ISIS on her Facebook account and the FBI says that it is treating the incident as an act of terror. “It is entirely possible…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains a very important public figure in the eyes of US citizens. The Brookings Institute has published the results of a recent survey in which they were asked to “list the five American or international leaders that you most admire.” US President Barack Obama came in first, followed by former President Ronald Reagan.…

A recent report published by a left-wing Israeli human rights organization is, according to two Palestinian lawyers, the smoking gun to prosecuting Israel at the International Criminal Court. The Yesh Din report charges the Israeli judiciary and IDF with failure in prosecuting soldiers accused of crimes against Palestinian civilians.  Hanna Issa, an attorney specializing in international and humanitarian…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon issued harsh criticism of the United States government’s lackluster response to Islamic State at a speech last week at the Saban Forum in Washington.  “The US needs to get off the fence and lead the world [in the fight against ISIS],” Ya’alon blasted. “In the current situation, Russia is playing a much more…

Iran is rejecting the part in the recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which states it tried to build nuclear weapons in the past, its envoy to the UN agency said Saturday, according to Press TV. The ambassador, Reza Najafi, said the report has “certain negative points,” including allegations about some studies…

The departure of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is no longer necessary before any political transition in the war-torn country, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in an interview published Saturday. The comments mark a softening of Paris’ position on the Syrian president as attention turns to the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group which…

French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron have agreed to “intensify their cooperation” in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, Hollande’s office said in a statement Saturday. The two leaders spoke by phone, with Hollande congratulating Cameron on winning a recent vote in the British parliament to start bombing ISIS targets in…

FBI agents on Saturday raided a Riverside home belonging to a friend of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, The Los Angeles Times reported. A law enforcement source told the newspaper the raid was connected to an investigation into whether the man purchased two of the semiautomatic rifles used in the massacre. The source, who asked…

The Israeli government approved at its weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday morning a 50 percent pay raise for IDF soldiers beginning in January 2016.  Starting next month, combat soldiers will receive a monthly salary of NIS 1,616 ($423.30), compared to the 1,077 ($282.12) they received in December. Combat support soldiers will receive NIS 1,176 ($308.05), and noncombat soldier…

Greece has informed Israel that it will not label Israeli-made products from Judea and Samaria, following Hungary in breaking with the European Union on the issue. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Israel late last month, and a few days later, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the Greek decision by letter. The…

Israeli United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon has hailed the passage of an Israeli-sponsored bill at the UN, in defiance of massive concerted opposition from the Arab bloc. “It’s a special day in the UN” for Israel, Danon told Arutz Sheva. “It is very important to us,” he said of the successful initiative which, although pertaining to the seemingly…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed at his Cabinet meeting on Sunday morning statements made by US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Saban Forum on Saturday night.  Kerry lashed out at Israel in the speech, asserting that current trends in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are leading to a “one-state” reality and warning that if that were…

The New York Police Department has ruled that a series of arsons targeting a Jewish neighborhood in Queens are not hate crimes, the New York Jewish Week reported.  Police have identified a suspect believed responsible for at least six of the fires at under-construction homes owned by Bukharian Jews in Forest Hills as a resident of…

There is an increasing risk of  Libya becoming a haven for combatants from Islamic State (ISIS), even as western nations target the extremist jihadist group in Iraq and Syria, the French defense minister warned in comments published Sunday. “We see foreign jihadists arriving in the region of Syrte (northern Libya) who, if our operations in Syria…

Dramatic video of the stabbing attack at a London subway station on Saturday shows the assailant brutally attacking a man as police arrive on scene carrying Tasers.  Local police announced they were treating the stabbing as a “terrorist incident,” after the assailant reportedly said he was carrying out the attack “for Syria.” The terrorist, identified as a 29-year-old…

Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport has been named the fourth best international airport in the world, according to Conde Nast Traveler‘s annual Reader’s Choice Awards.  With a Readers’ Rating of 73.414, Ben Gurion Airport falls short of the top slot by ten points to Changi Airport Singapore.  According to Conde Nast Traveler, Ben Gurion Airport…

The IDF and Border Police carried out a large-scale operation over the weekend that led to the discovery of illegal military equipment in Judea and Samaria. As part of an effort to prevent terror attacks, the IDF’s Etzion Brigade and Maglan unit, along with Border Police, entered the village of Beit Ummar, in Gush Etzion.…

The IDF will open some of its live-fire ranges in the Merkaz and south to visitors during Hanukkah. Training exercises will continue as usual, often using live fire, during the holiday. As such, all visits will require prior coordination and written permission. The IDF says that any unauthorized entrance will be illegal and endanger the lives of the…

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid took part in the Saban Forum in Washington, during a discussion under the title “How to restore order to the Middle East.” MK Lapid presented his political plan for the region and called for US policymakers to adopt it. “About two months ago I presented Israelis with a plan to…

Senior Palestinian Authority leader Saeb Erekat visited Mazen Aribah’s family in Abu Dis today (Saturday), only two days after Aribah committed a terror attack near Jerusalem. Aribah, an intelligence officer in the PA, shot and wounded two Israelis before being killed by the IDF. Furthermore, his father spent five years in jail for carrying out his…

Baghdad demanded Saturday the immediate withdrawal of forces it said Turkey illegally deployed in Iraq, which is struggling to assert its sovereignty while receiving foreign assistance against ISIS. AFP reports that a senior officer from the Kurdish forces in the region — which are allied to Ankara — downplayed the deployment as a routine training rotation but a Turkish paper said it was part…

Bury them discreetly? Hand them back to their families, return them to the country of origin? Knowing what to do with the remains of the assailants involved in last month’s Paris attacks is proving to be a conundrum for French officials. The law envisages several scenarios, says Francois Michaud-Nerard, head of funeral services for the city of Paris. “Either…

The Committee for Appointing the Next Attorney General, under the leadership of former Supreme Court President Asher Grunis, has removed two names from the running: lawyer Yorem Torbovitch and legalist Suzie Navot. There now remain seven final candidates for the position, as there will be no more culls before the committee makes its official suggestion,…

Veteran politician Yossi Sarid died on Friday evening at the age of 75. Sarid, who was a member of parliament from 1974 to 2006 and served in the government of Yitzhak Rabin which signed the Oslo accords with the Palestinians in the 1990s, died of a heart attack at his home in Tel Aviv. Zionist Union leader Yitzhak Herzog paid…

Security forces saw a suspicious Palestinian woman approaching the Tsalbanit checkpoint near Hevron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs today (Saturday). They say that she had been closely watching the checkpoint for an extended period of time. The guards told her to stop and began searching her, when one suddenly noticed that she was carrying a knife…

The female shooter in the San Bernardino shooting, Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on Facebook, three American officials familiar with the investigation told CNN on Friday. However, one official said that Malik’s post was made on an account with a different name. The officials did not explain how…

Two Israelis have been wounded in a car-ramming attack near the town of Ofra, in the Binyamin Region of Samaria north of Jerusalem. The victims, both young men in their 20s, were treated at the scene by Magen David Adom paramedics before being evacuated to hospital. The terrorist was shot and eliminated at the scene by IDF…

The jihadist who beheaded a Chechen man in an Islamic State (ISIS) video is an ethnic Russian from a far northern city, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Friday, according to AFP. “The supposed killer is identified as a resident of Noyabrsk, an ethnic Russian,” Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Chechnya region in Russia’s North…

French and Belgian police are seeking two new suspects accused of aiding Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive suspect from the Paris attacks, the BBC reported on Friday. The pair are “armed and dangerous” and are thought to have helped Abdeslam travel to Hungary in September, according to investigators. Abdeslam was stopped at the Hungary-Austria border in…

The UN on Friday adopted an Israeli resolution on utilizing agricultural technology for sustainable development, with 124 votes in favor and 37 abstentions. The adoption of the resolution marks a diplomatic achievement for Israel,especially considering the Arab group’s automatic opposition to any Israeli resolution. The resolution was adopted after complex diplomatic efforts that took place…

The UN on Friday adopted an Israeli resolution on utilizing agricultural technology for sustainable development, with 124 votes in favor and 37 abstentions. The adoption of the resolution marks a diplomatic achievement for Israel,especially considering the Arab group’s automatic opposition to any Israeli resolution. The resolution was adopted after complex diplomatic efforts that took place…

Shadi al-Menei, the commander of the Islamic State (ISIS) branch Sinai Province, is currently in Gaza on a secret visit to speak with Hamas leaders. The surprising revelation reported late Thursday by Channel 2 exposes the deep level of coordination between the terrorist organizations, which has been kept tightly under wraps. Al-Menei held talks with the heads…

One of the 14 victims in the San Bernardino shooting spree Wednesday night identified as Jewish – and he received threats for being a “Zionist” less than 24 hours before the attack.  Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, received threats on Facebook on Tuesday from an anti-Semitic man in Ukraine, after Thalasinos posted pro-Israel messages, CNN reports.  Hi wife Jennifer told…

The billionaire Republican frontrunner for president, Donald Trump, attempted to woo Jewish voters Thursday but raised concerns by leaving open the option of dividing Jerusalem, and likewise raised eyebrows playing up old Jewish stereotypes. “I’m leaving for Israel in a very short period of time,” he told the Jewish Republican Coalition in Washington DC during a campaign stop in which he sought…

One of the suspected ringleaders of last month’s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, traveled to Hungary where he “recruited a team” from unregistered migrants passing through, senior Hungarian government officials said Thursday, according to AFP. “I can confirm that one of the main organizers of the Paris terror attacks was in Budapest,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s…

Mustafa Sarnic, the Turkish ambassador to the Palestinian Authority (PA), on Thursday justified the wave of terrorist attacks against Israelis, during which 22 Israelis have been murdered since October. In an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Palestine newspaper, Sarnic said that Israel “must know that the blood of the Palestinian people is expensive” and that its…

Syed Farook, the alleged shooter in Wednesday’s rampage in San Bernardino, attended daily services and celebrated his wedding reception at a nearby mosque, Reuters reported on Thursday. Mustafa Kuko, director of the Islamic Center of Riverside, told the news agency that Farook attended morning and evening services from 2012 to 2014 before stopping abruptly. In…

Former President Shimon Peres on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who, according to Peres, is failing to promote a diplomatic initiative with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Speaking with Army Radio, Peres did, however, compliment PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas who, he claimed, fights terrorism. Asked why Abbas does not condemn the ongoing acts of terrorism…

The Foreign Ministry plans to distribute an official document which, for the first time, will present a legally-backed statement that Israeli communities beyond the Green Line are perfectly legal, and are not contradictory to international law, Arutz Sheva learned on Thursday. The document, which is a legal opinion which will be distributed to all Israeli…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday expressed Ankara’s condolences to Russia for the death of a Russian pilot when one of its warplanes was shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border last week, AFP reported. “We expressed our sadness and expressed our condolences for the Russian pilot who lost his life,” Turkish media…

Lawmakers on Friday approved plans for Germany to take on a direct role in the battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, answering France’s appeal for help. Parliament voted for the mandate for the deployment of Tornado reconnaissance jets, a frigate and up to 1,200 troops by an overwhelming majority of 445 votes in favor and 146 against. Seven lawmakers…

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President Francois Hollande will on Friday visit the French nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean off Syria where it is being used to conduct air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) targets, his office said. “He will meet military personnel taking part in operations to intensify the fight against Daesh in Syria and Iraq,” a statement from the Elysee…

A Congressional report found fault with the US Secret Service Thursday, stating that the organization faces a “crisis” warranting outside help.  The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report reveals several previously unreported security breaches. Among them: A shooting incident in the White House in 2011; A 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal in Cartenega, Colombia,…

An Arab terrorist opened fire on a car in the Binyamin region of Samaria just north of Jerusalem on Thursday night, causing no wounds but inflicting damage on the vehicle according to the driver. The incident took place between Kokhav Ya’akov and Psagot, and in it the windshield of the car was shattered by the…

President Reuven Rivlin has planted himself solidly in the political Left in an interview he gave to a European journal. A recording of the interview has reached Reshet Bet radio. In the interview, Rivlin proposed that two states – Israel and Palestine – exist side by side, and that they should form a joint confederacy.…

Police sources revealed to CNN on Thursday that Syed Farook, the 28-year-old American citizen who together with his wife and apparently his brother conducted Wednesday’s brutal shooting attack in California, was in contact with terrorists. The investigators told the station that Farook was in touch by phone and social media with more than one international terror suspect, without specifying…

An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russian media on Thursday that delivery of the advanced S-300 anti-missile defense system to Iran is beginning. Speaking to TASS news agency, the aide Vladimir Kozhin said “the contract is being implemented, (deliveries of S-300s) are starting.” In mid November Iran said it would receive the controversial shipment of advanced…

The former chief editor of the official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida recently called on Palestinian Arab terrorists to time their attacks to avoid international condemnation, indirectly linking the terrorism with that of Islamic State (ISIS). Hafez Al-Barghouti, a regular columnist in the PA daily, made the statements in an article in the paper last week that…

In an Oval Office press conference on Thursday, US President Barack Obama said the brutal shooting at San Bernardino, California the day before could be “terrorist” – or it could be “workplace related.” “At this stage, we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred,” Obama said of the mass shooting in which 14 people…

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett handed in a letter of resignation from the government Wednesday. The resignation will go into force Sunday at 10 a.m., just as the government convenes its weekly cabinet meeting. The resignation is a technical and temporary move, however, which is intended to allow Bennett to regain his status as Knesset…

Two terrorists were shot dead overnight Thursday following a stabbing attack in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hevron. The terrorists arrived at a security checkpoint just before 1:00 a.m. local time, where one of them stabbed a 20-year old soldier and lightly injured him in the face. The two terrorists were then shot dead by…

Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Washington confirmed on Thursday that Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the mass California shooting attack that left 14 dead, visited Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014. “Syed Rizwan Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 for a total of 9 days,” the embassy said in…

Arutz Sheva got to accompany New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind on Thursday during his visit to Judea, as he stopped at several sites in Gush Etzion and the Hevron region where terrorist attacks have occurred. In Gush Etzion Hikind stopped at a memorial for Gilad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Eyal Yifrah (19), who were abducted and…

Republican presidential hopefuls voiced their support for Israel on Thursday, with promises to scrap President Barack Obama’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran. All 14 Republican contenders for the White House are taking part in the presidential forum sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded by conservative billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who recently has…

An Arab terrorist opened fire on a car in the Binyamin region of Samaria just north of Jerusalem on Thursday night, causing no wounds but inflicting damage on the vehicle according to the driver. The incident took place between Kokhav Ya’akov and Psagot, and in it the windows of the car wer shattered by the gunfire.…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon met Wednesday with senior members of Congress, among them Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives, and other top defense officials in Congress. Ya’alon discussed a number of strategic and security-related issues with the Congressmen, and presented them with information on the situation in…

After a recording of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu discussing community growth in Judea and Samaria during his tenure was leaked, Likud whip Tzahi Hanegbi ordered mobile phones be confiscated at a faction meeting on Wednesday morning, Army Radio revealed.  Exposed by reporter Michael Shemesh on Thursday, the latest recording hears Netanyahu warning Likud members to stop recording meetings…

The mass shooting at a social services center in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday left 14 dead and 17 others wounded.  Three assailants dressed in military-style gear and carrying “long gun” rifles opened fire at the Inland Regional Center at around 11:30 a.m. PST before escaping in a black SUV. Police later tracked them down several miles away, opening fire on…

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 Ultra-Orthodox world.…

A bipartisan group of American lawmakers wants the Senate to endorse continued sanctions by state and local governments against Iran, The Hill reported on Wednesday. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is running for president, Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) have introduced a resolution that would “strongly support” their sanctions against Iran for any…

The Washington Post said Wednesday that its journalist detained in Iran is in “immediate danger” as his health deteriorates and mistreatment of him intensifies, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Thursday will mark 500 days since Jason Rezaian was arrested, the newspaper noted, with executive editor Martin Baron calling it the “grimmest” of milestones. Rezaian, a…

The UN atomic agency’s report on Iran’s nuclear activities is “far for comforting” to Israel, Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Wednesday. The report, by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), concluded that Iran made a “coordinated” effort to develop nuclear weapons in the past, although the efforts apparently ended at an…

IDF troops on Thursday morning demolished the home in Shechem (Nablus) of terrorist Rajab Ahmed Mohammed Aliwa, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. Aliwa headed the terrorist cell which carried out the shooting attack occurred on October 1, in which Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin were murdered in front of their children as they were travelling…

Germany is seeking an agreement with Turkey to deploy six reconnaissance aircraft at a base close to Syria as Ankara gave France the go-ahead to use its airspace in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, diplomatic sources said Wednesday, according to AFP. As Berlin steps up its role in the anti-ISIS fight, Turkey…

Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator claimed on Wednesday that the report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on his country’s nuclear program showed the program had was “peaceful”, Reuters reported. In fact, the report presented some disturbing facts about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, namely that the Islamic Republic attempted to develop nuclear weapons in the…

Loading… The Arab terrorist who shot and wounded two Israelis at Hizme checkpoint north of Jerusalem earlier Thursday has been identified as an officer in the Palestinian Authority preventative security service. He was named as Mazen Hassan Aribah from Abu Dis neighborhood in Jerusalem. Aribah was killed by IDF return fire, after opening fire at the…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met for an hour in Berlin on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Subjects discussed at the meeting included the security situation in the Middle East, the Israel-Palestinian peace process and the refugee problem facing Europe.  Edelstein told Merkel that he “found in Germany a positive attitude toward Israel, deep friendship and…

France is set to close as many as 160 mosques in the coming months, a top imam in the country said Wednesday. Hassan El Alaoui, who is the chaplain for Muslims in French prisons and is in charge of nominating imams for official positions, told Al Jazeera that the closure of three mosques this week…

(AFP) The Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS or IS) has strengthened its grip in its Libyan stronghold Sirte, as new recruits and foreign fighters join its ranks while world attention focuses on Iraq and Syria. Experts and sources in Libya say Sirte has become a new focal point for the jihadist group as it comes under increasing…

(AFP) Abu Malak has spent 17 years working at a petrol station at a major junction near Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians cross paths, but lately there’s been a change. “Some (Israeli) customers still talk to us normally, but others look at us strangely and think that we’re all terrorists,” said the 38-year-old Palestinian. “They tell…

“Not giving a get (bill of divorce according to Jewish law) is abuse of the highest degree,” said Martin Friedlander, a matrimonial lawyer and one of the founding members of the lawyers coalition Yashar. At the 2nd annual International Conference Against Sexual Violence and Abuse sponsored by Tahel, a lot of positive steps are being…

Days after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he thinks it would be possible to repair the strained ties between his country and Israel, an Israeli official made the first diplomatic visit to the country in years. Aviv Shiran, Deputy Director for Western European Affairs in the Foreign Ministry, visited Turkey this week, meeting with…

A campus group at the University of Michigan has called for a Jewish student to be removed from serving on the school’s student government after he “verbally abused” a pro-Palestinian student at a demonstration.  Representatives from Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) assert sophomore Jesse Arm should be barred from the Central Student Government and brought…

The United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released part of its report on Iran, and it shows that many of critics’ fears were justified. The IAEA says it believes that the Islamic Republic made a “coordinated” effort to develop nuclear weapons in the past, although the efforts apparently ended at an early stage.  According to the report,…

American Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind castigated US President Barak Obama as well as Secretary of State John Kerry, and the entire Obama administration, and said that “they are living on the moon.” He went further to say that as an American, he is embarrassed by this administrations seeming double standards when it…

The lead vocalist of English alternative band Radiohead accused YouTube and its parent company, Google, of profiting from stolen art just like the Nazis did during World War II.  “People continue to say that this is an era where music is free, cinema is free,” Thom Yorke asserted in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on…

Islamic State (ISIS) released a new scare video Wednesday, this time targeting the Russians.  The video, entitled “You Shall be Disappointed and Humiliated O Russians,” shows the beheading of an alleged Chechen spy – a 23 year-old who admits on camera to passing along information to Moscow from Syria and Iraq about the 605 Russian citizens…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met at the Knesset on Wednesday with an official delegation from Vietnam led by Deputy Prime Minister Hoàng Trung Hải. At the start of the meeting, a memorandum of understanding on diplomatic and political dialogue was signed on behalf of the Israeli and Vietnamese foreign ministries. Netanyahu welcomed Hải and his delegation as well…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to use sports as a means of glorifying terror, Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday – this time, naming a tennis tournament after two terrorists and calling attacks “acts of patriotism.”  The Al-Rashideen High School for Boys held a tennis tournament named after terrorists Basel and Farouq Sidr last month, both of whom tried to kill…

The auction of a flag from an iconic ship that tried to take Jewish Holocaust survivors to what would later become Israel was cancelled Wednesday, after it was bought by a public institution, AFP reports.  The SS Exodus was the most famous of hundreds of ships that sought to transport European Jews to the land that later became the nation of Israel immediately after…

Be’er Sheva police have busted a high school gambling ring, arresting 32 students on charges of setting up a casino on school premises, it was cleared for publication Wednesday.  Police arrested the youths last week following an undercover sting operation. Playing cards, poker chips and cash were also seized.  The Be’er Sheva precinct’s youth unit as well as…

A senior United Nations (UN) official expressed concern Wednesday over Israel’s failure to bring to justice those behind an arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family, including a baby, AFP reports.  The mother, father and the 18-month-old son of the Dawabsha family died after their house in the village of Duma in the Palestinian Authority (PA) was firebombed in July – allegedly…

14 people were murdered and at least 17 injured on Wednesday in a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center, a social services center in San Bernardino, California.  San Bernadino is a city of roughly 200,000 people located 60 miles (95 km) outside of Los Angeles.  Witnesses said the shooting took place in a conference room…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded on Wednesday to a UN report showing Iran conducted activities “relevant” to developing nuclear arms at least until the end of 2003, saying the report shows the investigation of Iran’s activities should be intensified. “The International Atomic Energy Agency investigation proves beyond any doubt that Iran was operating a secret…

Britain’s parliament voted on Wednesday night in favor of joining international air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) group targets in Syria, AFP reports. The move proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron’s government was approved by a majority of 174 MPs, with 397 voting in favor and 223 voting against. The vote in the House of…

The United States strongly denied on Wednesday a Russian claim that the Turkish government buys smuggled Syrian oil from the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group. A State Department spokesman admitted that there was a longstanding issue of oil being illegally transported to Turkey from wells in what is now ISIS territory. But he said the tanker trucks are operated by…

Tiberias police continue to probe on Wednesday evening the motivations of a suspect arrested earlier in the day for stealing siddurim (prayerbooks) from various synagogues in the city and burning them.  In recent weeks, the Tiberias police precinct has received numerous complaints from synagogues over the theft of prayerbooks.  Following an investigation, a 31-year-old Tiberias resident was arrested. …

Last week the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) at Kings College in London silenced questions about Israel and cut off renowned author Rabbi Shmuel Boteach’s lecture. The moderators for the event offered the explanation that Israel, which Rabbi Boteach had spoken about during his lecture, was not to be discussed, as part of the UJS policy of…

Israeli swimmer Yakov Toumarkin won a silver medal in the 200 meter backstroke on Wednesday night at the 18th European Short Course Swimming Championships.  The medal was all the sweeter as Israel was hosting the 2015 championships – at the Wingate Institute just south of Netanya.  The yearly meet features swimmers from across Europe compete in 38…

The Central Council of Jews in Germany said Wednesday it does not object to the publication of a critical, scientifically-annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” scheduled for January. “Knowledge of ‘Mein Kampf’ is still important to explain National Socialism and the Holocaust,” the council’s head Josef Schuster told the Handelsblatt business daily. “Therefore there are no objections to a scientifically annotated…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must supply a complete list of his conversations with American businessman and Israel Hayom owner Sheldon Adelson, the Jerusalem District Court ruled Wednesday.  The decision, which also includes Netanyahu’s conversation with the paper’s editor, Amos Regev, came after a petition filed by Channel 10 reporter Raviv Drucker. In the petition, lawyers Yonatan Berman and Uri Edelstein argued that Netanyahu’s…

Turkey once again showed it can’t take a joke, as a Turkish court ordered a panel of experts to assess the character of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings – to decide whether a doctor who compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the figure should be jailed. Dr. Bilgin Ciftci of Aydin is accused…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in the port city of Sirte, located in northern Libya, are learning to fly planes using at least one flight simulator according to military officials in the strategically situated North African state. The sources were quoted by the London-based Arabic Asharq Al-Awsat as saying they aren’t sure how the simulator got into the jihadists’…

A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seeking to provide support to the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in Syria, where he allegedly hoped to train fighters for the jihadist network. Nicholas Michael Teausant, a 22-year-old convert to Islam, was arrested in March last year as he tried to cross into Canada by bus en route to Syria, where he…

For an Israeli start-up, one answer to global warming is blowing in the wind. The company called NewCO2Fuels, or NCF, has been developing its own version of a technology that allows heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions to be captured and recycled back into useable fuel. It sounds complicated – and it is – but the company’s founders say it holds real…

The Palestinian Authority’s security services in recent days busted an Islamic Jihad terrorist cell that had planned to attack IDF soldiers in Judea and Samaria, Kol Yisrael radio reported on Tuesday. According to the radio station, the terrorists were apprehended in the village of Tubas, located 21 kilometers (13 miles) northeast of Shechem (Nablus). A…

An historical synagogue in Australia has been defaced with Nazi and Islamic symbols, the J-Wire Jewish news website reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the coordinator of the historical synagogue in the outback city of Broken Hill arrived at work on Monday to prepare for a visit by tourists and found the vandalism at…

A German court on Tuesday permitted the trial of a 95-year-old German man accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Reuters reported. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z. fit for trial, overruling a previous decision by a…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said peace would only come to war-torn Syria when the West and its Middle Eastern allies “stop supporting terrorists”, in an interview aired Tuesday on Czech TV. Asked what it would take to bring an end to Syria’s devastating four-year civil war, Assad said: “When those countries that I mentioned —…

The United States believes Turkey should become more active in the air war against Islamic State (ISIS), U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. “We need it to do more within its own territory, so it controls its border, which it has not done effectively since ISIL first arose,” Carter told…

HIV-positive Israelis will be conscripted into the IDF for the first time, the army said Wednesday, in a controversial move that has apparently been avoided until now due to the fear of blood contact and infection. While Israelis – aside from the majority of the state’s Arab citizens – are required to do military service, people with HIV have long been…

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Tuesday announced that the late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds has been posthumously recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, marking the first US soldier recognized with the honor. Edmonds, who served in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the US Armed Forces in World War II, was recognized for his…

Archaeologists digging just south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount have made a historic discovery, unearthing the first-ever seal impression of an Israelite or Judean king ever exposed in situ in a scientific archaeological excavation. The discovery, made during Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, is an impression of the royal seal of the…

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Tuesday announced that the late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds has been posthumously recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, marking the first US soldier recognized with the honor. Edmonds, who served in the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the US Armed Forces in World War II, was recognized for his…

The Knesset Finance Committee on Wednesday witnessed a surprising development in its discussion of the controversial natural gas deal that was recently approved by the government. Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabai (Kulanu) spoke out fiercely against the deal in the discussion, saying, “it is clear to me that in the current campaign lines were crossed, and we aren’t…

In the past few minutes IDF soldiers backed by Border Police demolishing the home of the terrorist who murdered a yeshiva student and Border Police officer in a car-ramming attack last November. 17-year-old Shalom Ba’adani – son of prominent Sephardic Rabbi and Shas party official Rabbi Shimon Ba’adani – was fatally wounded in the attack, as was Druze…

During the latest archaeological excavation season at Tel Shiloh, the site of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) that preceded the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, an impressive ancient olive press was found in the southern portion of the site. The press, found in an excavation led by Dr. Ofer Gat, was dated to the early Muslim period of…

Ira Rod are joined by Rabbi Chaim Coffman of Jerusalem, who for the last six years has been teaching potential converts through online classes. Rabbi Coffman successfully prepares each of his candidates to appear before a Beit Din in their community. If you have questions about conversion, this is the show to listen too! Click…

A mayor in Hungary accused Israel of being behind the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, then apologized when a recording of the comments was made public. The Budapest Beacon reported Monday that a Hungarian news site, nyugat.hu, published a recording made during a city council committee hearing in the western Hungarian city of Szentgotthárd on…

A judge in Spain on Tuesday detained two men and a woman suspected of belonging to a cell that recruited women online to join the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, AFP reported. High Court Judge Eloy Velasco charged the three with cooperation with a terrorist organization and glorification of terrorism after questioning them for several…

US State Department Spokesperson Mark Toner gave a particularly lackluster response on Tuesday to reports that an Iranian-American dual citizen had been executed by Iran, in a complete flaunting of US requests for a stay of execution. The Iran Human Rights NPO reported on Tuesday that Hamid Samiei was executed on November 4 for an alleged murder…

The New York Police Department are currently searching for Muslim man who carried out a brazen anti-Semitic attack in a local Judaica store. According to the JP Updates, the attacker walked into West Side Judaica store on the Upper West Side at 1:15 p.m. on Monday, identified himself as a Muslim and shouted “F— you Jews, I’ll kill…

Widows of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered by the Black September Palestinian terror group in the 1972 Munich Olympics have come forward with gruesome details of the attack – details that were hidden from them by the German government for two decades. In the attack, the Olympic team members were taken hostage for 20 hours and…

Police have concluded that the driver of a bus which overturned in Samaria, killing one passenger and injuring many others, lied to investigators when he claimed a Palestinian vehicle who cut in front of him caused him to crash. The bus was transporting some 50 soldiers at the time of the fatal crash, which occurred between Kokhav…

The defense attorney for a 13-year-old Arab terrorist who stabbed two people in north Jerusalem has reportedly been arrested for incitement. According to Channel 2, the suspect – who has not yet been named – is being questioned by Jerusalem District police. The charges center around numerous Facebook posts in which the lawyer praised “martyrs”…

During his first-ever visit to Israel on Monday, two-time Academy Award winning actor Sean Penn took part in the IsraAID conference entitled: “Can Haiti Grow?”. The conference took place in Tel Aviv and was presented by IsraAID in conjunction with the Pratt Foundation. Both philanthropic foundations donate to relief work in Haiti as well as…

The US State Department last week made public a list of the strange and expensive gifts US President Barack Obama and his family were given by world leaders over the course of 2014. The gifts given to the Obama family topped $1.5 million, although as a federal employee Obama is legally barred from accepting them…

A Palestinian Arab terrorist stabbed an Israeli at Gush Etzion Junction on Tuesday, shortly after 7:50 am local time.  Special Forces at the site saw a Palestinian Arab man wielding a knife and running toward commuters at one of the many bus stops at the junction, they said in the minutes after the attack. Security forces…

The European Union (EU)’s lack of focus on military and counter-terror intelligence has led to the recent wave of terrorism and hysteria in the bloc, Dr. Eran Lerman, former deputy adviser for national security, stated in a special Arutz Sheva interview Tuesday.  “Europeans are learning a lesson that we learned a long time ago – it all depends on…

One Israeli was injured in a stabbing attack on Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael street on Tuesday morning, just minutes after a stabbing at Gush Etzion junction.  Magen David Adom (MDA) medics report a 25 year-old man was injured in the attack, which unfolded in the capital’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood (off of the haredi area of Geula…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he thinks it would be possible to repair the strained ties between his country and Israel, in light of the events in the region. Erdogan made the comments to a Kol Yisrael radio reporter on the sidelines of the UN climate conference in Paris, but he did…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad accused France of “supporting terrorism” and said he saw Prague as a possible venue for signing any future peace deal to end his country’s four-year civil war, in comments broadcast Monday on Czech TV. In an interview due to be aired in full on Tuesday, the Syrian President was asked whether…

Israel has released yet another Palestinian Arab terrorist prisoner who had gone on a hunger strike, the Ma’an news agency reported on Monday, citing the man’s family. According to the family of the prisoner, Ghassan Zawahra, he was released to Aida, a Palestinian Arab town near Bethlehem after being held for 18 months under administrative…

France’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the UN nuclear watchdog must provide all the information it possesses with the “necessary detail” on whether Iran has in the past carried out work related to nuclear weapons, Reuters reported. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is due to publish a report this week on the matter,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu clarified on Monday that his handshake with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the UN climate conference in Paris was part of diplomatic protocol and did not signify a change in their relationship, Haaretz reported. At the same time, Netanyahu stressed in a conversation with reporters that he is not…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday declared he would be ready to quit office if allegations by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Turkey traded oil with Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists were proven. “I will say something very strong here. If such a thing is proven, the nobility of our nation would require that I…

For the longest time Hanukkah has been a special holiday for me. On one hand, it seems like it’s the least important of all the Jewish holidays. On the other hand, it is the thread that holds history together and runs through all the other holidays. So many people let the opportunity of Hanukkah just slip through…

An operation to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada has begun, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday, with 10,000 people due to depart for their new home by the end of the year. Processing, including security checks, began at a military base in Jordan’s capital Amman on Sunday, said Craig Murphy, who briefed journalists in Geneva by phone. New…

A spokesperson for the US State Department said Tuesday that Washington is “troubled” by Russia’s banning of the Open Society fund founded by US hedge fund billionaire George Soros. Spokesperson Mark Toner said the November 30 designation of the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation as so-called “undesirable” organizations “will only…

The German cabinet on Tuesday approved a package of military assistance to back the international fight against the ISIS (aka Islamic State or Da’esh) jihadist group following the Paris massacres. The package, which still requires parliamentary approval, covers Tornado reconnaissance jets, a naval frigate and up to 1,200 troops following a French request, the government said…

The Ministry of Defense signed on Monday a 15-year agreement with US engine producer Pratt Whitney, for the maintenance of the engines of the IAF’s F-15I “Ra’am” and F-16I “Sufa” jet fighters. The deal was signed in the US by means of the Defense Ministry’s delegation there and with the presence of the IAF as…

The High Court for justice canceled the demolition order against the home of Nur al-Din Abu Hashiya, the Arab terrorist who stabbed 20-year-old First Sergeant Almog Shiloni to death outside Tel Aviv’s Hahagana Train Station in November 2014.  The panel of justices – Elyakim Rubenstein, Menachem Mazuz, and Tzvi Zilbertal – determined that the 11 months which passed between the attack and…

The Israel Police arrested a Tel Aviv resident several days ago, it was cleared for publication Tuesday, after he haplessly walked into a tattoo parlor and asked to have the Islamic State (ISIS) logo branded on his back.  When the man took off his shirt to make the request, he showed the tattoo artists his…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday called on Russia to re-establish dialogue channels instead of making“baseless accusations” of an alleged oil trade between Ankara and Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. “We should sit at the table and discuss what to do instead of making baseless accusations,” Davutoglu told AFP reporters at Ankara airport before leaving for a visit to the…

An academic refused to answer an Israeli schoolgirl’s questions about horses, citing her support for the BDS anti-Israel boycott movement as the reason. 13-year-old Shachar Rabinovitch sent an email to American-born academic Marsha Levine, who is herself Jewish, asking for some information about horses for a school assignment. “I know you are a very important person and I’ve read your article…

A massive explosion at a central metro station in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul on Tuesday left at least five people wounded, according to the district mayor. Bayrampasa district mayor Atilla Aydiner told A Haber television that a pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near the subway station wounding five, contradicting earlier reports that indicated at least…

The United States is deploying “specialized” troops in Iraq to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), including by leading raids against the jihadists over the border in Syria, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday. Speaking to the House Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon chief said that a “specialized expeditionary targeting force” was being deployed in Iraq…

For the first time since World War II, genocidal Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” will be printed in Germany in January as an annotated edition, the institute publishing it said Tuesday. The autobiographical text will return to the public domain at the start of the year and hit bookshops between January 8 and 11, said Andreas Wirsching, director of the Institute of…

German police are currently trying to locate a man who was photographed at a public swimming pool with a massive tattoo of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz on his lower back, in breach of German law. Another swimmer caught the tattoo on camera and complained to police, launching the search. The second swimmer, who remains anonymous,…

Local media reports in Lebanon claim Lebanese soldiers detonated a “listening device” allegedly planted by Israel in the southern Marjayoun region, close to the border with the Jewish state. According to the reports, which first surfaced in Al Mayadeen, an unspecified number of people were injured in the explosion. The incident is the latest of…

US President Barack Obama led calls Tuesday for Turkey and Russia to end their dispute over the downing of a Russian fighter jet and focus instead on Islamic State (ISIS). NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urged key ally Turkey and Russia to change tack and find ways to avoid a repeat of an incident which threatens to scupper efforts to forge a…

This Tuesday, Israel will synchronize its annual philanthropic campaign with the global Giving Tuesday campaign in order to help shatter the one-day World Record for online giving which currently stands at $46 million dollars. IsraelGives, a major facilitator of charitable giving to Israel and the official Israeli coordinator of Giving Tuesday, is calling on every Israeli…

Israel should demolish the homes of Jewish terrorists – starting with those of the families whose children burned Arab youth Mohammed Abu Khder to death in 2014, said Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid. “Jews do not murder innocent children,” Lapid said at a meeting of his Yesh Atid party Monday. “It isn’t complicated. The murderers…

Internet giant Google on Monday denied a report from Israel’s foreign ministry that it has reached an agreement with the government to jointly monitor YouTube videos inciting attacks. The ministry last week said that Google, which owns YouTube, had agreed a joint mechanism to monitor online materials – including videos encouraging attacks on Israelis – after a meeting between Google executives and the Israeli…

The verdict is still out on what Israel’s relationship with Canada will be under the leadership of that country’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau – but if an exchange between Trudeau and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Paris climate summit Monday is any indication, Israel can expect to continue to have positive relations with…

Former IDF Chief Rabbi Avi Ronsky says his party – the Jewish Home, headed by Naftali Bennett – must leave the government coalition, and thus possibly bring about new elections, if a recent decision by the IDF Chief of Staff is not rescinded.  Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkott, who assumed the post of IDF Chief of Staff only nine months ago,…

December 1st marks a “day of remembrance” for the victims of traffic accidents in Israel – who, at a total of 32,750, far outnumber the Israeli soldiers and civilians killed in Israeli wars and terror attacks since the establishment of the state. A ceremony will be held in the Knesset as well as in major cities,…

This month saw an event that the Jewish world has been fighting for for thirty years: the release of Jonathan Pollard. While this may come as a surprise to Arutz Sheva readers, other media outlets in the Israeli press, while covering the story, often left it to get lost, or left it un-featured – favoring other stories as headlines.   Arutz Sheva spoke…

The Ministry of Education opened a new program targeting the influence of Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday – one aimed specifically at the Bedouin community of Hura in the Negev.  Hura has become known as an ISIS hotspot, with several local residents declaring loyalty to the Islamist group. The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin…

The Ministry of Economics has issued a warning to the public against using a certain type of baby pacifier, which is deemed to contain a carcinogenic substance. The Ministry has made clear that the warning refers only to a specific batch of these pacifiers. The dangerous pacifier is a size L yellow pacifier manufactured by Gumex, made…

Britain looks poised to join air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) group targets in Syria this week after Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday that a vote would be held in parliament Wednesday, AFP reported. The announcement came after the main opposition Labour party decided to let its MPs vote with their individual consciences rather…

Is the bank really the best place for your money? And what are the best financial habits that you should try to adopt? Doug shares tips to implement financial habits such: When is taking money out of the bank an important financial move? What’s the difference between a mutual fund and an ETF? Today’s guest, Aviad Goz,…

Syria on Monday denied ever using chemical weapons in its four-year-old civil war, telling a global watchdog it was cooperating fully with the destruction of its toxic stockpile, AFP reported. Damascus’s rebuttal comes amid growing accusations it is not being transparent with the world’s chemical watchdog and as United Nations efforts are stepped up to…

Hours after he shook hands with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the first time in five years, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday used his speech at the UN climate conference in Paris to attack Israel. “The Israeli occupation continues to violate international laws related to the preservation of the environment, which is…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane last week to protect supplies of oil from the Islamic State group to Turkey. “We have every reason to think that the decision to shoot down our plane was dictated by the desire to protect the oil supply lines to Turkish territory, right to the ports…

Moscow’s “man in Tel Aviv,” Marcus Klingberg, has passed away at age 97. Klingberg was the best-known – and probably most important – spy the Soviet Union had in Israel, providing his masters with a great deal of information about Israeli scientific advances and weapons development. Klingberg passed away in Paris, where he had been…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has banned a Gaza-based Hamas network from broadcasting within its borders Monday, it announced on its official Facebook page – apparently to stop incitement.  While Israel has cracked down on incitement against Israelis and Jews from within the PA, the PA itself has apparently begun monitoring – and filtering – broadcasts as…

A ceremony marking the deportation of Jews from Iraq seven decades ago was held for the first time on Monday in the country’s autonomous Kurdish region. It also marked the beginning of Jewish representation in the Kurdistan region’s religious affairs ministry as a result of a law passed in May to promote minority rights. “The…

Labor MK Stav Shafir expressed her satisfaction Monday after hearing news that MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) is stepping down as Knesset Member, following accusations of improper past behavior with two or three women. “It is good that Magal decided to retire,” she stated. “A clear, sharp message needs to that there is no place…

Turkey will not apologize for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday as he held talks at NATO headquarters. “Protection of our airspace, our border is not only a right but a duty for my government and no Turkish premier or president…will apologize (for) doing our duty,” Davutoglu told…

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, who served as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2012 to 2014, spoke to the German Der Spiegel on Sunday about the war against Islamic State (ISIS). Flynn, who was in Afghanistan and Iraq as director of intelligence for the Joint Special Operations Command from 2004 to 2007, was asked…

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to the country.   “The Iraqi government welcomes an increase in support in weapons and training and (air) support from international partners in our war against…

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday that Iraq has sufficient forces to fight the Islamic State group (ISIS), after American senators called for more US troops to be deployed to the country.   “The Iraqi government welcomes an increase in support in weapons and training and (air) support from international partners in our war against…

MKs Yoav Kisch (Likud) and Yifat Shasha-Biton (Kulanu) submitted a bill to the Knesset Monday that would set clear and egalitarian guidelines for calculating child support after divorce. The amounts paid would depend on how much each parent was making, and on how many days per week the child would be spending with each one.  The…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the climate conference in Paris on Monday, the Kremlin said, as a dispute rages over Ankara’s downing of a Russian warplane. “No meeting with Erdogan is planned. There is no discussion of such a meeting,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. The announcement comes after Putin…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday urged Greek premier Alexis Tsipras to focus on a “positive agenda,” after he lashed out at Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian warplane in a series of tweets. Without resorting to the niceties of diplomatic language, Tsipras blasted Turkey’s shooting down of the Russian plane last week for allegedly violating its airspace on…

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced three Arab terrorists from Jerusalem to jail time, over their plot to abduct and murder Jews on the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism. The three all hail from Abu Tor, a Jerusalem neighborhood located directly south of the Old City. Back in March 2013 they…

Lawyers for two journalists from a Turkish opposition newspaper on Monday appealed a court ruling to detain them on spying charges, over a report revealing how Ankara shipped arms bound for Islamist jihadists in Syria, the daily said. The lawyers for Cumhuriyet‘s editor-in-chief Can Dundar and its Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul wrote in the appeal that they objected to last week’s court…

A Honduran judge on Sunday ordered a hearing for five Syrians who arrived in the country after a five-country odyssey, AFP reported. Honduras say the men were arrested on November 17 with stolen Greek passports. Their original stated destination was the United States. After leaving Syria, they made stops in Lebanon, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina and…

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev on Sunday instructed the Director of Culture at her Ministry to establish a professional team that will examine concerns that the films shown at the “48mm” film festival, which has also come to be known as the “Nakba Film Festival”, do not violate Article 3 in the Budget Foundations…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seeks to pass a bill that will allow Israelis abroad to vote in national elections. A second planned bill will take away the President’s role in deciding whom to task with forming government, following national elections. Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) was appointed Sunday to chair two teams of Coalition members that…

A group of Arabs threw about ten Molotov cocktails at Border Police in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. Arab sources report that security forces returned fire and killed one rioter before the rest dispersed. Walla! news identifies the dead terrorist as Ayman al-Abasi, a 17-year-old from Silwan. He previously spent a year and a half in an Israeli…

A volunteer police officer who didn’t appreciate being called out for his alleged unfairness in the local media is to be awarded NIS 25,000 ($6,400 US), a Tiberias judge ordered. The volunteer, who did not appreciate the “shaming” of being compared to a donkey, sued after an argument with a driver that ended up placing…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Women’s Affairs Haifa Al-Agha, who is herself a woman, recently said Palestinian Arab women are “unique” in the world because they rejoice at the death of their sons – terrorists killed trying to murder Israelis. In statements published by the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida earlier this month and revealed on Monday…

A row in Britain’s main opposition Labor party over whether to back air strikes in Syria has deepened splits over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, while reviving uncomfortable memories of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to call a vote in parliament this week on joining the international coalition targeting Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, but needs support from some…

Deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday once again praised the current terror wave against Israelis, which Hamas calls the “Al-Quds Intifada”, referring to it as “the greatest strategic development in the region” in recent years. Speaking at a conference of religious leaders in Gaza, Haniyeh said the “intifada” has “changed the equations for anyone…

Saudi Arabia has widened its sanctions against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group, adding 12 names to a blacklist of individuals and firms whose assets in the kingdom will be frozen, AFP reports. The move was made on Thursday, according to the report. Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia has long been deeply suspicious of Hezbollah, a close ally…

A group of self-styled “goods inspectors” in Germany this past weekend went on a campaign in which they label all the Israeli products they can find as being “from illegal Israeli settlements”, JTA reported Sunday. The move follows the European Union’s (EU) recent decision to label Israeli products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights as “settlement…

Britain’s defense minister on Sunday said the government was intensively lobbying opposition Labour lawmakers to support airstrikes in Syria as efforts mount to force a vote next week, AFP reports. Speaking to the BBC, Michael Fallon said that “we’ve been talking to Labour MPs all week” but that the government had “not yet” secured enough…

President Barack Obama arrived in Paris for the UN climate conference on Sunday night, and stopped at the Bataclan concert hall to pay respect to the victims of the November 13 attacks, AFP reported. Obama, along with French President Francois Hollande and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, laid flowers at the music venue where 90 people were…

About 300 people on Sunday protested the arrest of two prominent journalists on charges of spying over their reports about Ankara’s alleged arms supplies to Syrian rebels in a case that has revived long-standing criticism of Turkey’s press freedom record. The demonstrators, including journalists, rights groups and opposition MPs, marched to the Istanbul offices of…

Iran on Sunday threatened to cancel the nuclear deal with world powers unless a probe into allegations of its past weapons research is closed, AFP reported. The declaration, by a top Iranian security official, comes after the head of the UN nuclear watchdog said a report into the possible military dimensions of Iran’s activities would…

A Muslim group has been welcomed to pray in the Beth Israel Synagogue of Peterborough, Ont., after their own mosque was damaged in an arson attack earlier this month. A firebomb was deliberately placed in one of the windows of the Masjid al-Salaam mosque on Nov. 14, causing $80,000 in damage. Police believe it is…

“We’re used to ‘more’ being ‘better’. More memory in the new cell phone model, more food in a portion size, more shoes at a two-for-one sale, more tests and screenings at the doctor’s office just in case… But more medical tests and more antibiotics aren’t always better and sometimes, they can even cause harm, ” says…

A 20-year-old Israel was killed early Sunday afternoon in a traffic accident on Route 80, in the village of Hawara near Shechem in Samaria. The victim, a motorcyclist, was killed after being struck by a Palestinian bus. Magen David Adom teams rushed to the site to perform CPR on the young man but were forced to…

Israel’s teacher burnout problem may not be as severe as previously thought, a study released Sunday suggests.  65% of teachers are satisfied with their career choice, the TACK poll for Herzog Academic College revealed, compared to 23% who are ‘satisfied enough’ but not planning to continue the career path permanently and just 11% who are…

In April 2014 teenagers Samra Kesinovic and her friend Sabina Selimovic travelled from their Vienna homes to join ISIS in Syria, where it is believed they both married Jihadists. The two young women became “poster girls” for the Islamic State after appearing in images on social media websites showing them carrying AK-47 rifles surrounded by armed…

At his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made special note of the date – November 29, the day in 1947 the United Nations voted to recognize a Jewish state.  “Sixty-eight years ago today, on the 29th of November, the UN decided to recognize a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, a decision that advanced…

The body of a Russian pilot killed when his plane was shot down by Turkey last week will be handed over to a Russian representative after being retrieved from Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday. “The pilot who lost his life during the air violation was received by us on the (Syrian) border last night,” Davutoglu told reporters…

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday condemned the West’s “double standards” in a letter to the youth of America and Europe following the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, AFP reports. “Anyone who has benefited from affection and humanity is affected and disturbed by witnessing these scenes — whether it occurs in France or in Palestine or Iraq or…

The Carmel forest fire, which took place five years ago this week, denuded thousands of dunams of land, besides taking 44 lives. But within the tragedy, there was one consolation – the discovery of an ancient farming community that dates back to the Second Temple era. One of the worst civilian disasters in Israeli history,…

US senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called Sunday for 100,000 foreign soldiers, most from Sunni regional states but also including Americans, to fight ISIS in Syria. AFP reports that both McCain, the chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and Graham, one of its members, sharply criticized current US strategy as insufficient and unsuccessful in defeating the jihadists. That strategy…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed the Foreign Ministry to reassess its involvement with European Union (EU) institutions regarding the political process with the Palestinians. Until the assessment is completed, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered the suspension of all political contact with EU institutions and representatives on the issue. This directive was made in response to…

Hundreds of Americans have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight for ISIS and around 50 have returned to America, a senior US lawmaker said Sunday. That’s the kind of scenario that led to the massacres in Paris terror on November 13, said Republican Congressman Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “And the…

IDF divers have recently begun searching for the missing soldier Guy Hever in the Golan’s water reservoirs. Hever disappeared 18 years ago. An army official says that the searches are not based on new information about Hever but rather are attempted every so often. He added that they have the additional benefit of providing regular training exercises for the…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) on Saturday night sent a letter to the chairman of his party, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, demanding that he present Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with a series of “red lines” in order for Jewish Home to remain in the government Ariel’s letter comes in light of reports that the Prime…

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir on Saturday night contacted Deputy State Attorney Amit Eisman, asking that he put on trial all those who displayed open support for the illegal Islamic Movement in Israel during a massive protest on Saturday. No less than 20,000 Arab citizens of Israel, including top leaders and MKs, marched in the northern city…

Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, gave an unusual interview to the Qatari paper Al Jazeera from his home in Beit El, Judea, which was published on Saturday. Ben-Artzi had criticism for his brother-in-law’s ambiguous policies. He began by noting on the current Arab terror wave, saying, “this conflict eventually will be decided when…

A Border Policeman in his twenties was injured in a stabbing at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, outside the Old City, initial reports indicate Sunday morning. A Palestinian Arab attacker – now revealed to be 38 year-old Shechem (Nablus) resident Basim Salah – managed to stab the policeman while shouting ‘Allah Akhbar‘ (Allah is great – ed.); the…

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Civil Administration shuttered another Palestinian Arab radio station in Hevron overnight Saturday/Sunday, with the IDF emphasizing Sunday morning that the station incited against Israel.  The ISA took with it the Dream radio station’s technical equipment and transmitters, as it has in past radio raids.  Palestinian…

To mark the Day of Appreciation for those Wounded in Israel’s Wars and in Terrorist Attacks, the Defense Ministry released on Sunday a series of official statistics on disabled IDF veterans.  According to the records, as of 2015, 56,708 people are considered to be disabled IDF veterans – 47,843 men and 3,293 women.  Meanwhile, 5,572 more…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on the weekend telephoned the family of Ashraqat Qatani, a 16-year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist who last week attempted to stab a teenager in Samaria before being run over by former Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika, Channel 2 News reports. According to the report, during the telephone call which took place…

Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan on Saturday night appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding an immediate end to any plans to transfer Israeli-controlled territory of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In recent days there were reports that the Civil Administration was looking into the possibility of transferring some 10,000 dunams…

The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stressed that the opening of a new Israeli diplomatic mission in Abu Dhabi does not represent a change in policy regarding UAE-Israeli relations, Haaretz reported on Saturday night. Maryam Al Falasi, director of communications in the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, clarified in a statement quoted…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Saturday said he believed Syrian refugees in refugee camps in Jordan did not want to come to the United States, suggesting that camps should serve as a long-term solution for millions. “I did not detect any great desire for them to come to the United States,” Carson told The…

Some 5,000 people protested in London Saturday against potential British participation in Syria airstrikes, as political momentum mounted to broaden the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday laid out the case for British jets, already bombing ISIS targets in Iraq, to join France, the United States and others in…

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), a member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, released a particularly strong accusation against US President Barack Obama on Saturday. Speaking on Saturday morning at a cultural event in Be’er Sheva, Oren accused Obama of “bringing in radical Muslim values into the White House.” “Obama’s worldview would…

In a new escalation of the growing tensions between Russia and Turkey after the latter shot down a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border last week, President Vladimir Putin on Saturday launched an economic sanctions package against Ankara. The measures, which come after a Russian Su-24 jet was downed by Turkey, was revealed by…

A new public opinion poll among the Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza found that an overwhelming majority supports continuing the ongoing terror wave to the bitter end. The poll was conducted by the Watan Research Center between November 14-21 and included 1,167 Arab respondents. A full 72% said they support continuing the “Al-Quds (Jerusalem)…

A senior defense ministry official has said that Russian jets occasionally cross into Israeli airspace as part of operations in Syria, but that close cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow has prevented any potentially deadly misunderstandings. General (res.) Amos Gilad, who is a close aide of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, made the comments during the weekly Shabbatarbut…

A Palestinian terrorist who was jailed for the 2011 murder in Gaza of an Italian leftist activist has been killed fighting alongside the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Iraq, reports said Saturday.   Jihadist websites and Gaza media said that Mahmud al-Salfiti had escaped prison and fled the Gaza Strip in June to join the jihadist…

No less than 20,000 Arab citizens of Israel embarked on a massive protest march on Saturday against the decision to outlaw the Islamic Movement in Israel, a radical group funded by Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The massive rally took place in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm, and was organized by the High Follow-up Committee…

British radical preacher Anjem Choudary, who faces charges for inviting support for the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) through social media, returned to jail on Friday after breaking his bail terms, according to court authorities. 48-year-old Choudary, who has been frequently interviewed by British and US media on his views on Islam and the Middle East, was…

As part of ongoing counterterrorism operations, IDF forces have prepared for demolition the homes of two Arab terrorists who carried out attacks in recent days. In the Palestinian village of Bir Nabala, northeast of Jerusalem, IDF engineers backed by infantry troops prepped the home of the terrorist who moderately wounded two soldiers Friday in a car-ramming…

In the wake of a high-crisis between Turkey and Russia following the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey last Tuesday near the Syrian border, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin “not to play with fire.” President Erdoğan went on to scold the Russian President by his stating that “[Russian President…

Outside her home in a town of northeast Syria, four-year-old Baydaa scribbles on a leaflet of religious rules left behind by the Islamic State (ISIS) group as they fled earlier this month. Her face is adorned with make-up of the sort banned by the jihadist group, which was expelled from Al-Hol by a new US-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces…

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader behind the November 13 attacks in Paris had plans to strike Jewish targets and to disrupt schools and the transport system in France, sources close to the investigation said Friday, according to Reuters. Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe…

Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross says he was mistreated by his captors and felt abandoned by his own government after Cuba arrested him and accused him of spying, AFP reported Friday. In his first major interview since his release last year, Gross said exercise, family memories and humor kept him going though his five-year ordeal. “They…

As part of its ongoing diplomatic attack on Israel, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the senior leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are looking into the possibility of canceling the recognition of Israel by the PLO institutions, the Hebrew-language Walla! news website reported Friday. According to the report, the move would be…

Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara on Friday as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to “play with fire”. As part of the latest sanctions, Russia announced it was halting a visa-free regime for Turkish visitors, after threatening a raft of retaliatory economic…

A Border Police officer was stabbed by a terrorist in the city of Nahariya, in northern Israel, on Friday evening. The officer, who was moderately wounded, was taken by paramedics to the hospital in Nahariya. The attacker, who fled the scene after the attack, was captured by security forces after a manhunt and taken in…

Rabbi Mark Fishman of Congregation Beth Tikvah in Montreal, who brought members of his community to the Litman wedding, spoke to Arutz Sheva live from the wedding itself.  Rabbi Fishman delivered a powerful sermon on Saturday morning, and told his congregants the he intended to answer the call of Sarah Tichiya Litman to come to Israel and dance…

The European Union said Friday that spying charges filed against two Turkish journalists after they revealed Ankara’s secret services had sent arms to Islamist rebels in Syria were “worrying.” “We are following this worrying development very closely,” European Commission foreign affairs spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic told a daily briefing, two days before a summit before the leaders of Turkey and the EU. A…

A Palestinian Arab launched a car attack against Israelis at Bayt Umar junction in southern Gush Etzion Friday, just after 12:30 pm. Five IDF soldiers in their twenties have been injured in the attack; four are listed in light to moderate condition with wounds to the limbs, one is listed in light condition.  Magen David Adom…

Israel will open a formal diplomatic office in Abu Dhabi, the Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday, after an anonymous official leaked the news to Haaretz.  An Israeli mission to the UN’s International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which is based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, will open by the end of the month, the Foreign Ministry…

The Kremlin said Friday that Western powers were not ready to form a coalition with Russia to fight Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria, after talks between President Vladimir Putin and French leader Francois Hollande. “At the moment, unfortunately, our partners are not ready to work within the format of single coalition,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added however that…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) spoke on Friday morning at an industrial conference in Eilat, and said he can’t anticipate when the Arab terror wave plaguing Israel will end. “We have a wave of terror that will accompany us in the coming days and apparently in the coming weeks, and we don’t know if it…

Israel’s winter weather will continue to take a break over the weekend, following an increase in temperatures and clearing skies.  Highs Friday will reach 25°C (77°F) in the Golan Heights, 28°C (82.4°F) in the Galilee, 24°C (75.2°F) in Haifa, 24°C (75.2°F) in Tel Aviv, 24°C (75.2°F) in the coastal plain, 23°C (73.4°F) in Ariel, 22°C (71.6°F) in Jerusalem, 26°C (78.8°F) in Be’er Sheva, 29°C…

A Border Police officer was stabbed by a terrorist in the city of Nahariya, in northern Israel, on Friday evening. The officer, who was moderately wounded, was taken by paramedics to the hospital in Nahariya. The terrorist fled the scene and security forces are searching for him. Nahariya is the northernmost coastal city in Israel,…

Former Palestinian Authority (PA) official Mohammed Dahlan called to halt the security coordination with Israel Thursday, as he stood in support of replacing current PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas with jailed arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti.  “After Israel destroyed the peace process, the Palestinian Authority no longer plays the same role it played in Yasser Arafat’s time,” Dahlan told…

A car ramming attack took place early on Friday morning at Kfar Adumim Junction, located outside Ma’ale Adumim to the east of Jerusalem. Two soldiers aged around 20-years-old were lightly to moderately wounded in the attack, and the terrorist was shot dead. The terrorist sped up and rammed into a group of Israelis who were at…

Amid his diplomatic row with Russia this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan found time to express support for the latest Palestinian Arab terror wave against Israel. Speaking at a meeting on Wednesday of finance ministers of the Islamic Cooperation Organization, Erdogan expressed his full solidarity with the Palestinian Arab people in their struggle against…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Ministry on Wednesday issued a warning to the international community against what it called Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “plan to change the basis of the peace process from a political settlement to a security calm”. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the views expressed by Netanyahu during…

In the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s Syrian stronghold of Raqa, sirens ring out whenever a warplane approaches as jihadists flee their posts and vehicles to hide, activists say. A US-led coalition and Russia have stepped up air strikes on the jihadists’ de facto Syrian capital since ISIS claimed to have downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai in October, and the…

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday argued his case to MPs for Britain to join air strikes on Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria, amid signs that opposition was weakening after the Paris attacks, AFP reports. In 2013, Cameron suffered a defeat in parliament when MPs voted against British military action against the Assad regime in…

Saudi Arabia is threatening to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down last Friday to a Palestinian Arab poet to the punishments meted out by Islamic State (ISIS), Reuters reported. “The justice ministry will sue the person who described … the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being…

The University of Denver’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine decided to build a new website in order to disseminate its call for a boycott of Israel. However, the creators of the website failed to realize that the company they used to build the site, Wix, is an Israeli company that provides a free…

The Prime Minister’s wife, Sarah Netanyahu, participated on Thursday evening in the wedding of Sarah-Tehiya Litman, whose father and brother were murdered in a drive-by shooting near Hevron, and Ariel Beigel, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem. “Congratulations to Sarah-Tehiya, to Ariel and to Sarah-Tehiya’s mother Noa,” said Netanyahu at the wedding. “You collected…

As US President Barack Obama celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, a person jumped the newly upgraded fence, sending the site into lockdown. The jumper managed to get over the fence but was immediately caught, reports CNN. However, the lockdown was maintained temporarily by the Secret Service to allow a security sweep, reports ABC News. The incident happened on the…

Flaunting the concerns of the US, Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency announced on Thursday that Moscow has deployed its advanced S-400 anti-aircraft missile system to a base in Syria. The S-400 anti-missile system, known to NATO as the SA-21 “Growler,” is said to have a maximum range of 250 miles, and can bring down airplanes at up…

US soldiers are in Kobane, the town in northern Syria nearly destroyed in fierce fighting with the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), to train Kurdish forces to battle the jihadists, Kurdish sources said Thursday. Mustapha Abdi, an activist in the town on the Turkish border, told AFP the American instructors had arrived “in recent hours”,…

A 16-year-old female Arab terrorist, who along with a 14-year-old terror compatriot tried to murder civilians with scissors on Monday adjacent to Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, intends to file a complaint against the officer who shot her. News of the intended complaint was received by Channel 10 on Thursday, and comes despite the fact that the two…

The state plans to ask the High Court to accept its stance on the legality of the new community (outpost) of West Tapuach, in central Samaria, Army Radio reported Thursday. In the past, Israel has contended the community was built illegally, but as it is all built on state land, there is no reason not to declare…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States on Thursday of using “money and sexual attractions” to wreak havoc on the Islamic Republic’s way of life.  “The enemy sets up a network within a nation and inside a country mainly through the two means of money and sexual attractions, to change ideals, beliefs…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas is renewing his calls on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that will set “a date for the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and to provide international protection for Palestinians”, as he put it. The PA’s permanent observer to the UN, Riyad Mansour, this…

CNN sparked outrage this week after posting a news article on its website in which Israel was literally wiped off the map.  The article, titled, “Beyond ISIS: 2016’s scariest geopolitical hot spots,” featured a graphic of the Middle East in which Israel is replaced with a red square marking the country of “Palestina.” According to HonestReporting, the…

The government of Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week voted against the six resolutions condemning Israel which were passed by the UN General Assembly, a move hailed by the UN Watch NGO. In a statement, the group lauded Trudeau’s government for joining the United States in voting against the resolutions “and for being…

The Obama administration on Wednesday reminded state officials across the country that states do not have legal authority to refuse to accept Syrian refugees, reports The Associated Press (AP). The reminder from the White House came amid a growing controversy over the plan to accept Syrian refugees, in the wake of the discovery of a Syrian…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Wednesday took a shot at Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who earlier this week called for Israel to launch “Operation Defensive Shield 2” – an allusion to the large scale operation that drastically scaled back Arab terror in 2002. Speaking at the Israel Democracy Institute, Ya’alon did not mention Bennett by…

Americans do not face a credible and immediate terror threat, President Barack Obama declared on Wednesday, in an attempt to reassure jittery Americans traveling home for Thanksgiving. Obama stressed that security services are working around the clock to keep the United States safe, reported the AFP news agency. As millions of Americans loaded into cars,…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Turkey does not buy any oil from Islamic State (ISIS), insisting that his country’s fight against the jihadist group is “undisputed.” “Shame on you. Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh (IS) are obliged to prove it. If not, you are a slanderer,” Erdogan said, lashing out…

The condition of the IDF soldier seriously wounded in the stabbing attack at the Al-Fawar junction on Wednesday has significant improved, Shaare Zedek Medical Center announced Thursday afternoon.  The soldier, who was initially hospitalized in the hospital’s intensive care unit, has just been transferred for treatment with a specialist in the Ear, Nose and Throat Department.  The…

In a frank, if disappointing, admission Thursday, National Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz, a member of the security cabinet, said that current Israeli policy had failed to protect citizens from terror. Speaking on a local radio station in central Israel, Steinitz said that “there are no magical solutions, but I do not believe that any other…

For Americans, Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate everything we are thankful for in life – and no one knows that better than the many American Jews serving in the Israel Defense Forces as lone soldiers, who have no family to share the holiday with. To honor the service and sacrifice that is being made by Israel’s lone soldiers,…

Under the banner “At this time! Lifting the flag of heroism!,” public candle lightings during the upcoming Hanukkah holiday have been planned at the sites of various terrorist attacks.  “Let us remember together, throughout the entire country, the miracles of Hanukkah – its light and its strength,” the organizers wrote. “We will connect to the light…

A bus carrying dozens of passengers overturned on Thursday morning between Kokhav Hashahar and Migdalim in the Binyamin region of Samaria.  Rescue forces and Hatzalah medics were deployed to the scene to aid the 50 or so passengers believed to have been on board.  The bus driver was apparently speeding prompting the major accident.  A total…

Dozens of Arab and Jewish journalists have signed a petition against the government’s decision to close down newspapers, web sites, and other media outlets tied to the Northern Islamic Movement, which was banned last week. As a result of that decision on November 17th, belonging to groups or organizations associated with the Movement is now…

Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II left for Jerusalem Thursday for the funeral of a senior cleric, the first visit by the head of Coptic Christians in decades, a church spokesman said. He will attend the funeral of Archbishop Anba Abraham, the head of the Coptic Church in Israel who died on Wednesday at the age…

Dvir Litman, whose sister Sarah-Tehiya married Ariel Bigel Thursday night, told Arutz Sheva about the mixed emotions after his father and brother was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack. “We are feeling our pain, but at the same time we must be happy in the joy of Sarah-Tehiya. Our pain is big, and on the same evening…

Henya Beigel, the mother of the groom Ariel who on Thursday night married Sarah-Tehiya Litman in Jerusalem, spoke with Arutz Sheva minutes before the the wedding ceremony. Litman’s father and brother were murdered in a drive-by shooting near Hevron almost two weeks ago, causing the wedding to be postponed. Sarah-Tehiya “was in a very difficult situation, now she is…

The battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq has become an international priority but faces a patchwork of conflicting agendas and strategies from a wide array of actors. A US-led coalition technically brings together some 60 nations. But air strikes by countries other than the United States have been relatively few, and regional powers continue to support different…

Four of the main suspects in the Islamic State (ISIS) Paris attacks were on a list of radicalized people compiled by Belgium’s intelligence services as early as June this year, officials said on Thursday. The list of 85 individuals included alleged Paris ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, brothers Brahim and Salah Abdeslam and newly named suspect Mohamed Abrini, they said. The list was sent…

A 19-year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist was shot dead on Thursday by IDF forces according to Palestinian Authority (PA) medics, as he was in the process of hurling a firebomb at Israeli cars in Judea. The medics identified the terrorist as Khaled Jawabrah from Al-Arub “refugee camp,” located north of the ancient city of Hevron, where Arab rioters were…

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) this week completed a wide-reaching drill that included all branches of the force. In the drill, named “Over and Over,” the plane division was put through its paces, including fighter jets, combat and transport helicopters, as well as personnel and equipment carrier planes. The technical division was also drilled, as was…

Sarah-Tehiya Litman and Ariel Beigel were to be married in Jerusalem on Thursday, two weeks after Litman’s father and brother were murdered in a shooting attack near Hevron. Just hours before the wedding, the two received a surprising present from the Cal Auto rental car company. The company delivered a car for the couple to use for the…

The investigation into the circumstances of the fatal crash that took place early Thursday afternoon near Kochav Hashahar, in the Binyamin region, is ongoing. Corporal Stav PArtosh, 19, of Maale Adumim, was killed, and 40 soldiers suffered light to moderate wounds. The deceased’s father, Master Sergeant Yosi Partosh of the Jerusalem Fire and Rescue Service, was…

There was a 13% increase in the number of Israeli Arabs volunteering for National Service, said the Shluchot group, which works to encourage such voluntarism. Despite intimidation by Islamist elements in their towns, Shluchot said that more Israeli Arab youths were making the choice to embrace Israeli society, taking what for many is the “ultimate leap”…

US President Barack Obama awarded on Tuesday the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 “extraordinary” recipients, including several notable American-Jewish artists.  Among those Jews awarded the United States’ highest civilian honor were actress-singer Barbra Streisand, film director Steven Spielberg, violinist Itzhak Perlman and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim.  Praising Streisand as a “global sensation,” Obama, using a Yiddish expression, joked he was…

A court hearing will be held on Thursday in the case of Ahmed Mansara, the 13-year-old terrorist accused of attempted murder in the stabbing attack in Pisgat Ze’ev last month.  Channel 10 reported Wednesday night that Mansara’s lawyers had asked prosecutors if they would consider putting an end to the trial before the defendant reaches the age…

The IDF on Wednesday issued a recommendation to the political echelon, asking that it arm and militarily strengthen the Palestinian Authority (PA) in apparent hopes that doing so will end the wave of Arab terror. According to the recommendation of military officials, PA Security Forces will be given armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition so as…

The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, including a middleman it alleged buys oil for the regime from the Islamic State (ISIS) group. “The Syrian government is responsible for widespread brutality and violence against its own people,” said Adam Szubin, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a statement announcing the sanctions action. “The United…

A day after Syrian media reported that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck a base belonging to the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah, a Saudi news site gave new details on Wednesday. The site Elaph, as cited by Yedioth Aharonoth, quoted a security source in Tel Aviv revealing that the IAF struck Hezbollah sites on Monday night at the feet of…

The son of the Israeli Navy’s former commander-in-chief, Admiral (res.) Eliezer Marom, was dismissed from his military service, Channel 2 revealed on Wednesday night.  According to the report, the younger Marom was discharged after failing to pass security clearance checks due to “issues related to transmitting [classified] information.” The security clearance process started earlier this year when the younger…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) visited numerous educational institutions in Tel Aviv on Wednesday as part of the Annual Day of Appreciation for those Wounded in Israel’s Wars and in Terrorist Attacks.  The Jewish Home chairman also stopped by the Fighter’s House, home to a sports rehabilitation center for disabled IDF veterans.  Bennett met…

Tensions are running particularly high in Judea in the area between Gush Etzion and Hevron, south of Jerusalem. The area has been hit hard by by numerous terror attacks in the past two months, including a fatal shooting attack that killed Ya’akov Don and Ezra Schwartz on Friday, as well as another fatal stabbing attack that…

One of the Russian pilots of a fighter jet shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border told state media on Wednesday that there was no prior warning. “There was no warning, not by radio exchange nor visually. There was no contact at all,” navigator Konstantin Murakhtin told Russian journalists at Moscow’s base in Syria after being rescued by special forces. Dressed in…

Magen David Adom (MDA) on Wednesday listed its tallies up to this point of how many victims it has treated since the ongoing wave of Arab terror first broke out in mid September. Since the wave of incessant attacks began, MDA has treated and evacuated to hospitals nationwide no less than 225 injured terror victims,…