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Hamas is taking issue with statements by Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that Israel has the right to defend itself from the current wave of Arab terrorism. In fact, several Hamas officials who responded angrily to Kerry’s comments said that the current wave of knife attacks against Israelis should not even be called…

Russia’s decision to deploy its most hi-tech air defense system to its base in Syria is raising “significant concerns” for the United States military, an American official said Wednesday, according to AFP. The statement was made after Moscow said it is sending S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to Latakia in northwestern Syria, in a move that comes…

Israel is not planning to approve arms for the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces or any other “gesture” to the PA, including the release of terrorists, sources close to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday evening. The clarification came following reports that the IDF had issued a recommendation to the political echelon…

An investigation by the US military on Wednesday revealed that the bombing of a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in Afghanistan’s Kunduz on October 3, which left 30 civilians dead, was caused by “human error.” In the strike, the AC-130 gunship’s crew fired 211 shells at the clinic over 25 minutes – mistaking it for a…

An Italian media pundit has sparked controversy after suggesting that Hebrew, Arabic and other foreign languages should be banned from synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship.  Alessandro Sallusti, editor-in-chief of the conservative daily il Giornale, is an ally of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the ex-leader’s choice candidate for Milan’s mayoral elections next year. He made the questionable comments…

The Turkish army on Wednesday released a series of audio recordings of apparent warnings issued to a Russian jet before it was downed near the Syrian border – even as a rescued Russian pilot from the jet claimed Turkey shot with no warning. “This is Turkish Air Force speaking on guard. You are approaching Turkish airspace. Change your heading south immediately,” a…

French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to extend air strikes against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria, which have been stepped up following the Paris terror attacks. Paris has intensified its campaign against ISIS since the November 13 attacks that left 130 people murdered, this week launching its first strikes from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. The…

Palestinian Authority (PA) news media celebrated the “first anniversary” of the Har Nof massacre earlier this month, Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday – calling the carnage “heroic” and an “epos written by the heroes.”  “Today is the first anniversary of the Martyrdom of… the heroes Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal, who carried out the heroic Dir Yassin…

MK Yinon Magal (Jewish Home) issued a statement Monday following a late night meeting with Party Chairman Naftali Bennett, in which the two men discussed accusations of improper behavior leveled against Magal by two female former co-workers. “I met last night with Party Chairman Naftali Bennett, and I told him the chain of events,” he…

Initial reports indicate that shots were fired at a car on Wednesday morning near Hevron’s Cave of the Patriarchs. No one was hurt.  The shooting was apparently directed at vehicles near a security position outside the Cave of Patriarchs. Video from the location appears to show a car whose window was smashed by a bullet fired from…

A furious backlash has prompted Amazon to pull ads for a television show that featured the Nazi German eagle and Imperial Japan’s rising sun on the New York subway, AFP reported Tuesday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) allowed the company to color seats on the Times Square shuttle with the symbols laid over the United…

Iran expects the nuclear deal with major powers to enter into force in early January, when Tehran will have implemented its commitments, Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Tuesday, according to AFP. “We expect it will be in early January,” Araqchi told reporters in Vienna after meeting the head of the International Atomic Energy…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday agreed on the need to reduce tensions and prevent a repeat of similar incidents after Turkish forces shot down a Russian plane on the Syrian border for allegedly violating Turkish air space, the presidency said. “They were in accord on the importance of…

French anti-terrorist police accompanied by helicopters on Tuesday descended on a small southwestern French village searching for a Salafist preacher suspected of mentoring young jihadists, a source close to the case told Reuters. According to the news agency, the operation targeted imam Olivier Corel, nicknamed the “White Emir”, in Arigat in the Pyrenees mountains of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening reprimanded Likud MK Oren Hazan for mocking MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid) over her disability. “I cannot stand racism, I cannot stand discrimination, I cannot stand abuse, not against you, not against anyone,” Netanyahu told the participants at a conference in recognition of Ethiopian immigration activists. “Something serious…

Two days after an Arab terrorist stabbed Corporal Ziv Mizrahi Hy”d to death at the Dor Alon gas station on Highway 443, Arutz Sheva has learned, the security establishment has begun putting up a fence south of the road, near Beit Horon. In the coming days, a new guard position will be put in place…

In a move dubbed “surreal” by a leading UN watchdog, and as a campaign of daily Palestinian terrorist attacks continues to target Israelis, the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted six resolutions – all of which bar none condemned Israel. Not a single mention was made of the Palestinian attacks, which have left 22 Israelis dead…

Gush Etzion has been hit by some of the deadliest attacks during the last two months of daily stabbings, car-rammings and shootings by Palestinian terrorists. Most recently, 21-year-old Hadar Buchris of Tzfat was stabbed to death in a brutal attack. In response, Gush Etzion’s Regional Council is stepping up their efforts to restore calm and a…

MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) proposed a controversial bill Wednesday that would ban Muslims in Israel from blasting public calls to prayers on muezzins, or towers with loudspeakers.  Yogev argued that the prayer calls, which issue five times per day, regularly disrupt the quality of life for non-Muslims living near Muslim neighborhoods and towns nationwide.  The…

The Russian Air Force base in Latakia will be reinforced with S-400 SAM system, which will soon be deployed there, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday. News site RT reported that Shoigu said at a Defense Ministry meeting, that the S-400 “will be deployed on Khmeimim airbase in Syria.” The S-400, Russia’s most…

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the remand of an Arab terrorist by five days Wednesday, after he left his home in the Old City to carry out a stabbing attack against Jews.  He was thwarted on Tuesday morning, when an alert security guard at the Central station of the Jerusalem light rail noticed a suspicious-looking Arab on Yafo…

A Belgian court sentenced controversial French comedian Dieudonne Wednesday to two months in jail for incitement to hatred over racist and anti-Semitic comments he made during a show in Belgium, a lawyer said.   Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, who has faced similar court cases in France, was also fined 9,000 euros ($9,500) by the court in…

A Palestinian Arab terrorist stabbed and injured an Israeli south of Hevron on Wednesday, at the Al-Fawar junction, three kilometers (1.86 miles) south of Beit Haggai.   The victim, a soldier in his twenties, is listed as being in serious condition; he is suffering stab wounds to his upper body. Magen David Adom (MDA) medics and IDF paramedics…

Education Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett issued a statement Wednesday regarding the allegations against MK Yinon Magal, regarding improper behavior toward two female former co-workers. “Yinon Magal is a true friend of mine, and I love him and his family,” wrote Bennett. “But the things that he said should not be said in…

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) held a secret meeting Tuesday with Palestinian Authority (PA) representative Elias Zananiri, in an attempt to find ways to end the current Arab terror wave. The meeting between Oren, a member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and Zananiri, who is the deputy chairman of…

NATO member Turkey has the right to defend its own airspace, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday after Turkish forces shot down a Russian fighter jet on its border with Syria. “Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace,” Obama said at the White House during an appearance with…

(AFP) NATO member Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet on its border with Syria on Tuesday, raising concerns over the potential for a further escalation in the more-than- four-year Syrian conflict.   Ankara says the plane violated Turkish airspace, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted the jet was over Syria at the time…

US President Barack Obama’s administration has removed the Italian textile and chemical company Dettin Spa from its sanctions list, after the firm helped Iran evade American sanctions. The lifting of sanctions was announced last Thursday, and an expert cited by the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday warned the move showed a lenient stance by the US in catering to…

Salafism – a form of fundamentalist Islam – is on the rise in Germany, according to a survey commissioned by German security services. Clarion Project – which is committed to “challenging extremism [and] promoting dialogue,” according to its website – says the reports shows that over the first half of 2015, the number of German Muslims…

Reports in Syria surfaced on Tuesday evening indicating that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted strikes on a base belonging to the Iran terror proxy Hezbollah. The base that was targeted was located in the mountainous Qalamoun border region between Lebanon and Syria, according to the reports cited by Walla. Some Syrian reports claim as many…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John that there will not be any official “settlement freeze” on his watch, a senior source close to the prime minister told Arutz Sheva Tuesday. The PM made the remarks to Kerry during this morning’s meeting in Jerusalem. In the course of the meeting Netanyahu stressed to Kerry…

Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) elite Qods Force that conducts foreign terror operations, was seriously wounded in Syria according to reports Tuesday. AsrarIran, a site in Farsi close to the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran, revealed Soleimani and two of his companions were seriously wounded 12 days ago by a TOW anti-tank rocket during…

Canada remains committed to taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees but will only welcome 10,000 of them by year’s end, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said Tuesday, according to AFP. The Liberal government, which had pledged to take in the full number of refugees this year, said another 15,000 would now arrive in 2016, by the…

Israel is considering the possibility of transferring land from Area C, which is under complete Israeli control in accordance with the Oslo Accords, to the Palestinian Authority, Channel 2 News reported on Tuesday. Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel later made clear that if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu goes through with the plan, he will not have…

A hostage situation has broken out in the northern French city of Roubaix, located near the border with Belgium, although police indicate the incident is not terror related. Several victims have been shot according to medical services cited by Reuters, although one local paper reported that none were wounded. The hostage crisis reportedly is taking place in a…

Interior Minister and deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom (Likud) is advancing an amendment to the citizenship law, allowing a revocation of the Israeli citizenship for those who betrayed the state even if they are not present in Israel. Shalom contacted State Attorney Yehuda Weinstein in recent days ahead of the publication of a memorandum on the…

Relations between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama are not quite as bad as they have been made out to be – and things could yet improve in the coming months, according to former leading Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman. Speaking at Haifa University Tuesday, Lieberman – who served as Senator from 1988-2012, during which time he…

The medics treating the scores of victims in the Islamic State (ISIS) Paris terror attacks came back without their belts – so great was the need in the field for tourniquets, medical personnel said Tuesday. And when the wounded began to arrive at the city’s hospitals some doctors thought it was the extension of a drill earlier the same day practicing…

Judea-Samaria Police District Commander Shlomi Michael resigned from his post Tuesday, leaving the police without explanation just as terrorism spikes in the region. Associates told Channel 2 that Michael feels he has exhausted his career path in the police, having previously served as the police’s counter-terrorism unit commander.  While the move seems sudden, Michael submitted his resignation to…

Turkish forces shot down a Russian Su-24 warplane near the Syrian border, Moscow confirmed Tuesday, although it denied that the jet had crossed the border into Turkey from Syria.  The Turkish army said that the plane had violated Turkish airspace 10 times within a five minute period and was shot down by two Turkish F-16s. However Russia insisted…

MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) has been suspended from his membership in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Finance Committee until further notice, by decision of Coalition Chairman MK Tzahi Hanegbi. The reason for the sanction is the fact that Kisch absented himself from last night’s vote on the amended Enlistment Law, without…

The student body of Canada’s University of Ottawa has suspended a free weekly yoga class because of “cultural issues” that might offend students. The Ottawa Sun reports that the teacher, Jennifer Scharf, was informed in September that the program would not be offered in the fall semester.  Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga sessions at the university’s Center…

Ex-US Senator Joseph Lieberman told MKs Monday that while support for Israel remains bipartisan in the US, it has undergone “attrition” in the Democratic party, which he represented in the Senate for 24 years. Lieberman said that he thought the agreement reached by world powers with Iran was not “tight enough” and that he had…

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) submitted a bill Tuesday that would allow the State of Israel to close mosques which incite terror attacks against Jews and Israelis.  Smotrich’s bill follows similar initiatives in France and the US, and the draft already has widespread support, with signatories from Jewish Home, Likud, and Kulanu.  “We will use every tool…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) turned to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday, demanding the government decide to deport convicted terrorists and their families.  Ariel’s letter states that deterrence should be increased in light of cases in which family members knew of the intentions of terrorists to carry out attacks, but had refrained from arresting them or reporting…

The name of a young American murdered in Gush Etzion last week will be on the lips of tens of millions of Americans Monday night, as the New England Patriots are set to observe a moment of silence for Ezra Schwartz before their game against the Buffalo Bills. Ezra, according to former MK Dov Lipman,…

An 18 year-old Israeli stabbed to death during a Palestinian terror attack off Route 443 has been identified as an IDF soldier, it was cleared for publication Monday.  He has been named as Ziv Mizrachi, of Givat Ze’ev. His family has been notified.  On Monday, a Palestinian Arab terrorist walked to the Dor Alon gas…

Hundreds of women, most of them mothers, gathered at the Gush Etzion Junction Monday demanding that the security establishment end the ongoing terror residents of the region face daily. Stabbing attacks have become an almost daily event at the Junction, said the protesters, with the latest victim, Hadar Buchris of Tzfat, buried Monday afternoon after being…

The head of the main political Syrian opposition body on Monday urged the Al-Nusra Front terror group to break with Al-Qaeda after a string of international terror attacks. “Over the past month the world has been surprised by several terrorist attacks, in Turkey, Lebanon, France and most recently Mali,” National Coalition chief Khaled Khoja said. “The recent attack in Mali was claimed…

One in five British Muslims sympathize with British citizens who flee the UK to join Islamic State (ISIS), a poll revealed Sunday – and that number rises to one in four among British Muslims ages 18-34.  The Survation poll, published by the Sun, polled 1,003 British citizens about ISIS and their views on the UK’s approach…

MKs from both left and right on Monday said that regardless of politics, some radical change is needed in Israel’s response to the ongoing stabbing terror attacks throughout the country. “The wave of terror is getting worse,” said Zionist Union MK Eyal Ben Reuven. “We are coming close to the point where we will have…

Ziv Mizrahi, who was murdered Monday in a terror attack on the road to Jerusalem, is not the first member of his family to fall to terrorism. Twelve years ago, his cousin Alon Mizrahi was murdered when an Arab terrorist blew himself up in an attack on Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Ironically, Ziv lived on…

France bombarded Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria on Monday from jets from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier newly deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, hours after announcing similar strikes in Iraq, AFP reported. “Two air force Mirage 2000s were engaged in the mission,” the French defense ministry said. “Simultaneously four Rafale Marines from the…

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Monday night a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in central Gaza, the IDF said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrike was in retaliation for a rocket attack on the Eshkol Regional Council of southern Israel on Monday morning. “The IDF holds the Hamas…

Israel should close off Hevron and the surrounding villages, to prevent Palestinian Arab terrorists from lobbing more attacks against Israelis and Jews, Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) stated in a special interview with Arutz Sheva on Monday.  “From there they reach not only the Gush Etzion junction, but also Tel Aviv and Kiryat Gat, so the answer…

Russia and Iran will jointly oppose “external attempts” at regime change in Syria, a Kremlin official said Monday in Tehran after President Vladimir Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The comments were a direct rebuff of repeated demands from the United States, France, Britain and Saudi Arabia that President Bashar Al-Assad should step down…

British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed on Monday to make his case for Britain joining air strikes on Syria this week as he unveiled a new defense strategy stressing counter-terrorism and intelligence. Cameron said he would make a statement in the House of Commons on Thursday as he steps up pressure for MPs to back…

The State Department on Monday issued a worldwide travel alert over possible risks due to increased terrorism threats. Current information suggests that the Islamic State (ISIS), Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions, the alert warned.  “These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics, using conventional…

The Hague-based chemical weapons watchdog on Monday voiced “grave concern” at the continued use of toxic arms in Syria, calling for those behind such attacks to be held accountable. A special meeting of the UN-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) met to discuss the findings of three reports after investigations in Syria.…

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Monday in Tehran for talks with Iran about the devastating conflict in Syria where the two nations are allied in support of the authoritarian Damascus regime. On his first trip to Iran in eight years, Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s ultimate authority, who has backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since an uprising broke out…

The Central Council of Jews in Germany called Monday for a limit to the Syrian migrant influx, citing concerns that the mainly Muslim newcomers bring with them a culture steeped in anti-Semitism. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has opened the doors to Syrian migrants, and arrivals from the war-torn country and other  regions in the Middle East are expected to reach…

US President Barack Obama has been receiving a lot of flack for his management of the fight against Islamic State (ISIS), and joining to that criticism on Sunday was leading Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a longtime ally of Obama. Feinstein, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, just last week attacked Obama…

Israeli defense electronics developer Elbit Systems has successfully completed a trial of its protection system against shoulder launched missiles. Elbit systems’ MUSIC family of Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) systems, integrated with the advanced Passive Airborne Warning System (PAWS) IR based missile warning system, was successfully demonstrated on an Airbus C295 aircraft, it was reported Monday.…

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered ancient deposits of seeds which they believe includes the world’s oldest domesticated fava seeds (known as ful in Hebrew). A joint study by researchers of the Weizmann Institute and the Israel Antiquities Authority, which examined fava seeds exposed in archaeological excavations in recent years at Neolithic sites in the Galilee, sheds light…

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) on Sunday summoned the heads of the Gush Etzion Regional Council to a meeting in his office, to discuss a new plan to increase security on the roads in the region amid a wave of lethal attacks.  Regional council head Davidi Perl and deputy head Moshe Savil were present, as were professional experts…

Britain’s Prince Charles, who is to give a speech at the start of the UN climate summit in Paris next week, said in an interview out on Monday that the war in Syria could be linked to global warming. “There’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria,…

The bodies of six Sudanese migrants who had been shot dead were found in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli border on Monday, security and health officials said. Eleven Sudanese were also wounded by gunshots as the group attempted to reach Israel, officials said. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. The Sinai…

Belgian police arrested 16 terrorist suspects in raids across the country late on Sunday, Reuters reported. However, it does not appear that Salah Abdeslam, who is wanted for his alleged role in carrying out the Parris attacks, was among those arrested, according to the news agency. Earlier in the evening, Prime Minister Charles Michel, speaking…

An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, Reuters reported Sunday, citing the state news agency. The length of the prison term was not specified. “Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian’s sentence but I cannot give details,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei told a weekly news conference…

In recent days, talk of the Zionist Union entering Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has increased – but even if it does, Netanyahu told Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett, that entrance would not be at the expense of the latter’s party. Over the weekend, several reports said that the expansion of the government was imminent. With…

Step 1 – Understand where your resistance to take action is coming from David feels stuck in a world of procrastination. He really wants to complete his BA so he can go to graduate school but every time he thinks about studying, an inner voice shouts – leave me alone I have no patience to…

Reports Sunday said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had decided not to give the government’s blessing to the proposed sale of low-cost cellphone service company Golan Telecom to veteran firm Cellcom. While Netanyahu has still not spoken publicly on the matter, officials said that he has expressed firm opposition to the idea in closed-door discussions…

In a new repressive measure, Israeli police on Monday morning are starting a new official policy to limit the number of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount to a certain quota, and further limiting entry via registration in advance. In contrast, non-Jews will be able to continue to enter the Mount – which is the holiest site in…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist Salah Abdeslam – who is being hunted for his involvement in the lethal Paris attacks that just over a week ago left 129 people murdered – has fled to Germany, according to Belgian media. Abdeslam had previously been spotted the morning after the attack crossing into Belgium from France, but had been let go…

A rocket fired by Arab terrorists in Gaza hit open ground in the Eshkol Regional Council area slightly before 7 a.m. on Monday morning. No one was wounded in the attack and no damage was caused. The “color red” rocket warning siren was not activated, apparently due to the fact that the system estimated the rocket…

Israel must fight the latest wave of terrorism by extending its military operation and sending ground troops into the Palestinian Arab villages in Judea and Samaria, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Sunday. “It will not be enough only to surround the villages, but we think that in the end will also need to enter a…

Dozens of American special operations forces will arrive in Syria “very soon,” as promised by President Barack Obama’s administration, a senior official said Sunday. The troops will have the task of organizing local forces battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State in northern Syria, according to special envoy Brett McGurk. “They will be going in very soon,”…

Germany has withdrawn its contender for next year’s Eurovision song contest following criticism over his use of anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs in his songs, Reuters reports. Xavier Naidoo was selected as Germany’s candidate by public broadcaster ARD on Thursday, but the uproar in newspapers and social media prompted a swift change of heart, the news…

The Zionist Guards of Democracy group, part of the Im Tirtzu grassroots student group, on Sunday sent a letter to the chairman of the Knesset Ethics Committee, MK Yitzhak Vaknin (Shas), asking him to distance MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List) from the Knesset, after he called for Zionism to be outlawed and claimed that “Israel…

President Barack Obama on Sunday described the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group as “a bunch of killers with good social media” and vowed that the international coalition against the group will “not relent” “They are dangerous and they’ve caused great hardship to … an overwhelming majority of people,” Obama said at a press conference in…

The father of Ashraqat Qatnani, the 16 year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist who attempted to stab a young teenager in Samaria on Sunday, is proud of his daughter, he told the press in the hours following the attack.  “My daughter left home this morning to go to school, like she does every day,” he said. “Instead,…

After thwarting a terror stabbing on Sunday morning, former Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika has found himself the target of Palestinian incitement on social media.  A female Palestinian terrorist attempted to stab pedestrians at Brigade Square in Samaria on Sunday morning when Mesika, who lives in Elon Moreh close to the intersection, plowed his car…

Israeli media is abuzz after the New York Daily News published an editorial Sunday, echoing calls from the Jewish state to lift restrictions on the parole of newly-released captive Jonathan Pollard.  The editorial, titled ‘Let Pollard Go,’ argued that Washington’s point over three consecutive decades – that espionage will be dealt with unremittingly – has already been…

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), led by President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Jerusalem, Border Police, and local social-service groups counter the ongoing terror wave against Israel.  The $600,000 funded from Christians across North America will be used to purchase security equipment and other means of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday by addressing the decision by German department store KaDeWe to remove articles from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights from its shelves. Netanyahu began by noting the store chain’s dark history. “This department store was owned by Jews; the Nazis took it,” he began. “Absurdly,…

On the outskirts of the Syrian Christian town of Sadad, children play in front of a cannon fired just hours ago in an ongoing battle against the Islamic State jihadist group (ISIS). Soldiers and pro-regime militiamen nearby look on with amusement at the children, who appear oblivious to the fact that their ancient town is…

Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the UN’s adoption of the infamous “Zionism is Racism” resolution – and the magnificent speech by former President Haim Herzog that presented Israel’s rejection of the resolution. A special event was held in the President’s House Sunday night to commemorate the event. At the event, Herzog’s son, Mike, along…

US Secretary of State John Kerry is en route to the Middle East, where he is to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and discuss “the regular things we talk about with Israel,” according to a senior State Department source. There will include the topics that were discussed in the recent meeting in Washington between Netanyahu…

Yosef Habilio, a well-known secular activist in Jerusalem, is demanding that the High Court yank the license from the current management of Jerusalem’s Cinema City theater complex in the city, because they refuse to open on Shabbat. The management announced Sunday that they would keep the compound closed on Shabbat, and according to Habilio, the…

Europe’s largest department store, KaDeWe, has retracted its earlier decision to remove products made in Judea and Samaria from its shelves, and apologized for the “confusion” its earlier statements on the matter created, a spokesperson told Channel 2 Sunday afternoon. In response to requests by the TV station as to exactly which products were involved, a…

The Tel Aviv District of the Israel Police honored a Muslim Arab resident of the north early Sunday, for a year’s worth of service busting drug activity in Yafo (Jaffa) on the State of Israel’s behalf.  The agent gained the trust of local dealers and would buy large amounts of drugs from them – usually cannabis…

A German singer whose lyrics have been criticized as both anti-Semitic and homophobic has been chosen to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest next year, reports Reuters.  The controversial Xavier Naidoo had sold millions of records in Germany but has faced a harsh backlash from German media, politicians and rights groups over his questionable lyrical…

Thousands of paramilitary forces from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing Iranian state media. The Iranian forces reportedly stormed and “liberated” a replica of the mosque as part of the exercise. 120 brigades from the Basij, the…

The AJC – Global Jewish Advocacy group on Saturday denounced a decision by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) endorsing an academic boycott of Israel. “The AAA’s mission is ‘advancing knowledge and solving human problems,’” Dan Elbaum, AJC Assistant Executive Director and Director of Regional Offices, said in a statement. “In Denver AAA members lost sight…

In the wake of the European Union’s (EU) decision to label Israeli products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights, a German department store has removed Israeli products from its shelves. The store in question is KaDeWe, which is located in Berlin and is Europe’s largest department store. A spokeswoman for KaDeWe, told the Der…

Six world powers will help Iran redesign its Arak heavy water reactor so that it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, Reuters reported Saturday, citing a document released by the Iranian state news agency IRNA. According to the news agency, the document was signed separately on November 13, 17 and 18 by the foreign ministers of Iran…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Saturday night called on Israel to take action against Turkey, following an incident in which the Israeli women’s basketball team was harassed during a game in Ankara. Before the game Saturday evening, as the Israeli anthem Hatikvah was played, a large number of Turkish fans threw objects onto…

Mali was hunting Saturday for suspects wanted over the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel that left 19 people dead, mostly foreigners, AFP reports. The government has declared a state of emergency after the bloody nine-hour hostage-taking at the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital Bamako on Friday, exactly a week after the Paris attacks.…

First responders hurried to Kiryat Gat’s King David Street after receiving a report of a stabbing attack. Early information suggests that four people are wounded, including a 13-year-old girl. The girl and two others are lightly- to moderately wounded, while the fourth is moderately wounded. Ynet reports that the perpetrator may currently be trapped in an…

IDF forces arrested a Palestinian man suspected of trying to cross into fully-sovereign Israel this evening (Saturday). The incident occurred at the Oranit checkpoint. The soldiers yelled at the man, an illegal squatter, to stop and fired warning shots. One of the warning shots hit and wounded the suspect. A Palestinian woman was arrested this…

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has passed a resolution to support BDS by a vote of 1,040 to 136. An official decision to take action and boycott Israeli academic institutions will take place in 2016. This makes the AAA the largest US academic organization to support boycotting Israel. BDS supporters say that they have been pushing for the decision…

Hassidic followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach are protesting against the modified IDF draft bill. One such protester broke into the Tzai Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Ramat Poland neighborhood this morning (Shabbat) and began yelling at MK Uri Maklev (UTJ), who serves as the congregation’s gabbai. According to witnesses, the man insulted MK Maklev and blamed him, along…

The UN Security Council on Friday authorized countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight ISIS in a resolution that won unanimous backing a week after the Paris attacks. The measure drafted by France calls on all UN member states to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist attacks” committed by ISIS and other extremist groups linked to…

A vast and historically valuable trove of Holocaust-era documents, long thought destroyed during World War II, has been found hidden in a wall cavity by a couple renovating their Budapest apartment, AFP reports. The haul of 6,300 documents are from a 1944 census that was a precursor to the intended liquidation of the Hungarian capital’s 200,000 Jews in Nazi…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Middle East from Sunday to Tuesday, in a trip that will take him to Israel for the first time since the summer of 2014, AFP reports. Kerry will travel to Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ramallah, State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement Saturday, with Israeli-Palestinian violence, Syria and ISIS all on…

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has announced that the capital is on its highest level of alert after receiving information about being targeted for a possible attack like the one in Paris last week. Prime Minister Michel explained that the warning suggested “several individuals with arms and explosives could launch an attack… perhaps even in…

Canada plans to fly in 900 Syrian refugees a day as of next month, according to media reports, as the defense minister said showing compassion for these people sends a message to ISIS. Canadian officials said details of a plan to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end would be announced Tuesday, AFP reports. The Canadian media reports come amid fears…

A joint operation between the IDF and the General Security Service (GSS, also known as the Shabak or Shin Bet) raided the “al-Halil” radio station in Hevron. Palestinian media sources report that they confiscated the station’s equipment and detained the director and several workers for questioning. The IDF has confirmed the equipment seizure and noted that the…

Jonathan Pollard’s ex-wife Anne Pollard intends to sue the Israeli government and a number of senior Israeli officials, Channel 10 reports. According to her lawyers, the defendants “caused her injustice and slandered her.” Anne Pollard is demanding that the government recognize her as a former worker for the Israeli security services, and for damaged accrued over…

Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders for committing war crimes during the country’s 1971 fight for independence against Pakistan. Salahuddin Quadar Chowdhury, a six-term member of Parliament, was convicted of genocide, arson, and persecution on religious and political grounds, as well as six other charges. Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, the head of the country’s largest Islamic party,…

Russia has bombed ISIS in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as its military maneuvers in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights, AFP reports. The United Nations, meanwhile, passed a motion calling for action against ISIS, a week after a series of shootings and bombings in Paris left 130 people dead, sparking international condemnation and fears…

Lawyers for Jonathan Pollard, who was on Friday released from an American prison after over 30 years of being held on espionage charges, have appealed the terms of his release. Under the terms of Pollard’s release, he was assigned a probation officer, who will approve any excursion beyond the immediate area of his residence. He…

Members of the Zionist Union party are for the first time publicly calling on their chairman, MK Yitzhak Herzog, to join Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition, Channel 2 News reported Friday. The calls are reflected in a video statement by MK Eitan Broshi, who has become the first Zionist Union MK to call on Herzog…

Turkey on Friday summoned the Russian ambassador after Moscow’s war planes bombed Syrian territory “very close” to the Turkish border, the foreign ministry said Friday, adding to tensions as the two sides seek to narrow their differences over the Syria conflict. Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov was called in to hear Turkey’s concern over Russia’s bombing…

At least 22 people are dead in Friday’s hostage taking at a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, AFP reports. Islamist terrorists took over the hotel, firing automatic weapons and seizing more than 100 guests and staff, the news agency said. Special forces carried out a dramatic floor-by-floor rescue at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako,…

A healthy food for one person may lead another to gain weight, according to a study out Thursday that suggests a one-size-fits-all approach to dieting is fundamentally wrong. For instance, one woman in the study repeatedly experienced a spike in blood sugar after eating tomatoes, which would generally be considered a low-fat, nutritious food. The findings are based a study of…

At 6 a.m. local time, Jonathan Pollard is expected to begin the process of being released from his South Carolina prison, after an unprecedented 30 years in jail on charges of spying for Israel, an ally nation of the US. Outside of the prison his wife Esther and several close confidantes will wait for his…

 A 19-year-old who spent his student loan traveling to the Turkey-Syria border and wanted to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group is behind bars in Britain, police said Thursday. Yahya Rashid paid £906 (1,300 euros, $1,400) for himself and four friends to travel to the Turkish border town of Gaziantep in February. He stayed in an ISIS…

The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks was killed in a major police raid in the French capital, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, raising troubling questions about a breakdown in intelligence and European border security. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin linked to a series of extremist plots in Europe over the past two years, died in Wednesday’s assault by police…

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution on the promotion and protection of human rights in Iran. The move was lauded by Impact Iran, a coalition of Iranian and international human rights advocates. The resolution passed with 76 votes in favor of the resolution, and 35 votes against…

Six men suspected of belonging to an Islamic State (ISIS) terror cell were arrested by authorities in Kuwait, CNN reported on Thursday, citing Kuwait state television. According to the report, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said the cell was allegedly involved in recruiting for ISIS, as well as providing logistics and funding for the terror group.…

A UN General Assembly committee strongly condemned human rights violations in Syria’s nearly five-year war on Thursday and said perpetrators of war crimes should  face trial, reported AFP. A resolution presented by Saudi Arabia was adopted by a vote of 115 to 15, with 51 abstentions. China, Iran and Russia were among the countries that…

Sweden’s Jewish community has temporarily shut down synagogues across the country as a precautionary measure against possible attacks by terrorist groups, The World Jewish Congress (WJC) reports on its website. The chairwoman of the Official Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden, Lena Posner-Körösi, stressed the security situation would be re-assessed on a daily basis. On…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Thursday released a video in which it threatened to attack the White House, though officials in Washington said the video had to be analyzed to determine its veracity. Details of the six-minute video, in which ISIS also said it would conduct more attacks on France, were reported by Reuters,…

A funeral was held in Hevron on Friday for Shadi Arafa, the 24-year-old Arab bystander from Hevron in Judea who was accidentally killed by an Arab terrorist on Thursday night in a shooting attack in Gush Etzion that left two Jews dead. But despite the fact that Arafa was killed in a blaze of gunfire rained…

A roadside bomb followed by a suicide bombing near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad killed at least six people and wounded 19 on Friday, security and medical officials said. The first blast struck as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, while the suicide bomber detonated explosives after security forces arrived. Security forces members were among the dead and wounded, but the…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a new report on Wednesday detailing a significant increase in anti-Israel activity on American university campuses over the 2014-2015 academic year. No fewer than 150 explicitly anti-Israel events were held in Fall 2015 alone, marking a noted increase from the 105 such events that took place in the same period…

Muslim terrorists opened fire on an upscale hotel on Friday in the city of Bamako, the capital of the western African state of Mali, taking 170 people hostage. The jihadists used automatic weapons according to security sources in their assault on the Radisson Blu Hotel. Some reports indicate that at least three people have died in…

Rabbi Shlomo Goren of Blessed Memory proclaimed to the world on June 7th, 1967, “The Temple Mount is in our hands!”, I Repeat, “the Temple Mount is in our hands!” The Talmud Yerushalmi says that, “The generation in which a Beit Hamikdash is not rebuilt is to be regarded as though the Beit Hamikdash was…

Both police and victims made significant progress recovering from Thursday’s round of terror attacks Friday, with several arrests overnight and the wounded showing signs of improvement.  A 50-year-old man injured in the Tel Aviv synagogue stabbing has stabilized and is now in mild to moderate condition at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, a hospital representative stated…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened the heads of the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shabak) Thursday after the terror attacks in Tel Aviv and Gush Etzion, and they decided to clamp down on the Hevron area, where two of the day’s attackers came from. IDF forces and Shabak will carry out intensive activity…

Ya’akov Don, a 52-year-old resident of Alon Shevut in Judea, has been named as one of three victims murdered in Thursday night’s shooting attack in Gush Etzion. Don is a father of four, and was murdered by the gunfire from an Arab terrorist. An 18-year-old American student who was studying at a Beit Shemesh yeshiva was…

One of the five people murdered in Thursday’s terrorist attacks is an American student, 18, who has been studying at a yeshiva in Beit Shemesh. He was in Israel on his own. ZAKA emergency services have contacted his family in the US, as well as a relative in Israel who is to identify his body.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had little more than verbiage to offer his traumatized citizenry Thursday after four Jews and an Arab were murdered in terror attacks in Tel Aviv and the Gush Etzion Bloc. “Murderous terror struck today in the Etzion Bloc and Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu stated. “My heart is with the families of the…

MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) blew his top Thursday at the Knesset debate on the bill that would modify the law regulating conscription of haredi men to the IDF and national service. The bill was discussed in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.  Gafni tore into Yesh Atid, which he said initiated the former law and now…

Three people – two Israeli and one Palestinian – have been murdered and another seven wounded on Thursday afternoon in a shooting attack in Gush Etzion region, ten minutes south of Jerusalem. Of the victims, several are reportedly citizens of the United States. A critically wounded 18-year-old victim died of his wounds inflicted in the attack shortly after,…

France asked the UN Security Council Thursday to authorize countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) group after the jihadists claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. A draft resolution presented to the 15-member council called on UN member states to “redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, on Thursday called on the President of the Security Council, Matthew Rycroft, to condemn the deadly campaign of terror against the State of Israel. The letter from Danon to Rycroft came after two more terrorist attacks in Israel: One in Tel Aviv in which two Jewish people were…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday evening visited the Gush Etzion region, strengthening local residents following the terrorist attack in which Ezra Yehiel Schwartz and Rabbi Yaakov Don were murdered. Bennett visited the Derech Avot school in Efrat, where Rabbi Yaakov Don was a teacher. The Minister met about 150 students for whom Rabbi Don…

Hundreds of Polish protesters demonstrated against the influx of Syrian migrants in front of city hall in the southwestern city of Wroclaw on Wednesday – by burning an effigy of an Orthodox Jew. The figure was replete with traditional peot sidelocks and wore a black hat, reports the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, but making the incident all the more ironic is the…

The yeshiva student who was murdered by a terrorist Thursday in Gush Etzion is Ezra Yehiel Schwartz, 18, a US citizen and a student at the Ashreinu Yeshiva in Beit Shemesh. He was in Israel on his own. He and the other students who were hurt in the attack had come to help build the Oz…

The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban Syrian and Iraqi migrants from entering the United States until stricter screening measures are in place, following the Islamic State (ISIS) Paris attacks in which at least one terrorist entered as a “refugee.” The Republican legislation, the first congressional response to last week’s attacks, passed overwhelmingly, 289 to 137, with nearly four dozen Democrats bucking…

The West must ramp up air strikes by 10 to 20 times to have any hope of disrupting the Islamic State (ISIS) group, which risks turning Europe into an urban guerrilla warzone, warned one of the world’s leading counter-terrorism experts. David Kilcullen, an Australian army veteran, became the senior counter-insurgency adviser to US General David Petraeus during the Iraq War and…

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, said Thursday that people should avoid looking at photos and videos of injured or dead terror victims. There have been numerous murders recently, he began, “by those accursed murderers from the sons of Ishmael, may their names be blotted out.” There are some people who “do not act decently and who…

After passing the major hurdle of approving the state budget, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government may be facing a new coalition crisis on Thursday. Likud MK Yoav Kish has reportedly threatened to vote against any changes to the law requiring all 18-year olds – including haredi yeshiva students – to serve in the IDF. Kish, who has been one…

Israel is weighing legal action with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the European Union’s decision to label Jewish goods produced in Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.  An official told Haaretz that Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan are both angling to sue the EU despite objections from foreign and economic ministry officials.  A…

The deputy leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel has accused Arab officials of plotting to help Israel come to its decision Tuesday on outlawing the radical group.  According to Sheikh Kamal Katib, the assistance was provided as part of talks between Israel and Arab officials on putting an end to the two-month long terror wave that has swept the Jewish…

There is no credible threat to New York City at this time, officials said after a video surfaced Wednesday showing Islamic State terrorists ostensibly preparing for a terrorist strike on Times Square. According to New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, the video itself is not new, and neither is the ISIS threat to attack New…

Russia submitted a revised draft UN resolution Wednesday on fighting the Islamic State group that France said could be partially included in its own Security Council measure following the Paris attacks. Agreement from the 15-member council on a single draft resolution that lays out the international approach to defeating IS extremists would mark a significant step after months of disagreements between the…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, on Wednesday evening delivered opening remarks at the Kristallnacht memorial event, organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program. The event, which took place at the UN headquarters, included a panel discussion with international experts on the topic. Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) was a pogrom…

Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm Wednesday in the wake of the Paris attacks launched by Syria-linked jihadists, AFP reported Wednesday. “Five Syrian citizens have been detained and will be taken to our offices to be investigated because it is suspected…

President Barack Obama would veto a Republican bill introduced in the wake of the Paris attacks to toughen the screening process for Syrian refugees, the White House declared Wednesday, according to AFP. The House of Representatives could vote as early as Thursday on resolution 4038, unveiled earlier on Wednesday, which aims to block administration plans…

The Shin Bet and Yamar special operations police force on Thursday arrested a gang that specialized in throwing firebombs on Israeli cars driving on Highway 6. Most members of the gang are minors and residents of the Arab village of Bir a-Sika. They carried out several such attacks in recent weeks, and were planning more. Under questioning, the…

Residents of Jerusalem’s Old City are demanding Israeli police remove the magnetic metal detectors placed at entrances into the Old City after Sukkot amid the start of the most recent wave of Arab terror in israel.  The Old City residents’ committee sent an urgent letter this week to Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri on the…

The Tekuma faction of Jewish Home found a creative way on Wednesday to protest the European Union’s controversial decision to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.  EU ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen received a personal package from Tekuma chairman and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, Channel 2 reports Thursday.  The package contained a bottle of…

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee began discussing the changes to the Draft Law demanded by haredi parties as their price for supporting the state budget, which passed early Thursday morning. The law was passed on its first reading Monday, and is now being prepared by the Committee for its second and third reading, which is…

Formal charges were filed this morning (Thursday) for attempted murder and possession of a knife, against the 14 and a half year-old terrorist from Beit Hanina who stabbed a security guard on the Jerusalem light rail last month. According to the indictment – based off the young terrorist’s own confessions – two and a half weeks ago…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement Thursday aimed at providing the PA-controlled territories in Judea-Samaria with 3G mobile access, so far out of reach to Palestinian mobile firms, Israeli officials said. Details of the agreement involving the long-awaited service were not immediately clear, but it comes after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged steps to ease tensions in Judea and Samaria, gripped…

Loading… Construction workers employed by the Defense Ministry are now completing the establishment of a new temporary structure to replace the Ayelet Hashachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev.  The full contents of the Ayelet Hashachar synagogue were moved to the new site on Wednesday, as part of a deal reached by congregants and the Israeli government after the synagogue…

Palestinian terrorists reportedly opened fire Wednesday evening on Israeli vehicles passing through the Masua Junction in the Jordan Valley.  No injuries were reported.  Security forces are combing the area in an attempt to locate the terrorists.  Earlier on Wednesday, a 16-year-old Palestinian Arab tried to stab Border Police officers at the entrance to Hevron’s Cave of Machpelah. Border Police thwarted…

Two senior intelligence officials revealed on Wednesday that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected Islamic State (ISIS) mastermind behind the lethal Paris attacks on Saturday, was killed in a raid in north Paris earlier in the day. The officials made the revelation to Washington Post on condition of anonymity. The statements have yet to be officially confirmed. Wednesday’s raid in Saint…

Iran has succeeded in violating the terms of its nuclear deal with the West, a confidential report by the UN nuclear watchdog seen by Reuters revealed on Wednesday.  According to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) report, Iran’s stockpile of low-enriched uranium has actually increased in the past three months by 460.2 kilograms.  Under the deal signed with six world…

Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Ankara “has plans” for a joint operation with the United States to end the presence of Islamic State terrorist along any part of its border with Syria. Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu told the state-run news agency Anatolia that ISIS jihadists still had a presence along some of Turkey’s border with northern Syria. “We have certain…

EU ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen lashed out Wednesday at critics of the body’s controversial decision to label Jewish products made in Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.  “Talk of a European boycott just does not stand up to a reality check,” he asserted at the Jerusalem Post’s Diplomatic Conference. “Let me say loud and clear: Europe is not…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is at it again, heaping praise on the Arab terrorist who stabbed two Jews to death in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October and declaring that the murder of Jews is a Palestinian “right.” Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen took part in a rally honoring the…

Russia on Wednesday said its planes will attack any tanker trucks travelling through territory belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, as Moscow looks to ratchet up pressure on the jihadists. Today a decision was taken according to which Russian warplanes are now flying on a so-called ‘free hunt’ against tanker trucks carrying oil products belonging to terrorists in areas…

Just hours after Denmark raised the country’s threat level to “significantly heightened preparedness,” police evacuated one of two terminals at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport.  Two men were overheard talking about a bomb in one of their bags prompting the evacuation.  The two men, who were arrested, told police they were “only joking.” The terminal was reopened after several hours. Danish police decided…

Syrian government attacks on hospitals in Aleppo have devastated the frontline city’s health care, with roughly 95% of doctors having fled, been detained or killed, Physicians for Human Rights said Wednesday. Less than a third of city’s hospitals are functioning as a result of 45 attacks in the past three years, said the rights group in a new report. “The Syrian…

Lawmakers in the United States moved Wednesday to freeze White House plans to resettle Syrian refugees, intensifying a standoff with President Barack Obama who had earlier accused Republicans of “hysteria” following the Paris attacks. Republican leaders introduced legislation requiring assurances of more robust background checks and vetting before the White House can go ahead with…

A Jewish schoolteacher was wounded in a stabbing attack in the southern French city of Marseilles on Wednesday night, AFP reports. The victim has been named as Tzion Saadon, a follower of Chabad in his 50s. French police said Saadon, a history teacher at a local Jewish day school, was walking in the 13th District of Marseilles at around 8 p.m. when he…

Vienna and Amman believe it is too early to expect a speedy political transition in war-torn Syria, Austrian President Heinz Fischer said Wednesday after meeting King Abdullah II. “I believe that neither I nor the king of Jordan would dare to entertain the hope that it would be a matter of just a few weeks,” Fischer told APA news agency after…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Israel next week for the first time in over a year, Channel 2 reported Wednesday night.  Kerry will arrive on Monday and meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the following day; the two are expected to discuss the volatile situation between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs.  A wave of…

In the wake of a series of deadly terror attacks in Paris, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night telephoned French President Francois Hollande from the Knesset plenum.  The Prime Minister expressed Israel’s solidarity with France in the fight against terrorism.  Netanyahu asserted that terrorism is a global problem and its solution lay in the cooperation of the…

Hundreds of Belgians joined a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks on Wednesday in Molenbeek, the immigrant majority Brussels neighborhood that was home to two terrorist brothers involved in the attacks. Mohamed Abdeslam – whose brother Brahim blew himself up in Paris while another sibling Salah is still at large – lit a candle on the balcony…

Belgium’s security services are on the defensive after the Paris attacks, accused of blunders, infighting and worrying leniency towards radicalism that let the perpetrators slip under the radar. As the smoke cleared from Friday night’s bloodshed, there was soon a sense of deja vu as it emerged the plot was the latest in a series tied to Belgium and the impoverished immigrant…

The Islamic Movement in Israel was outlawed on Tuesday, and the legal and security opinions cited in the decision reveal just how large the financial scope of the pro-terror organization extends – and who its backers are. The radical group receives between 50 to 60 million shekels ($12.8-15.4 million) annually from the Muslim Brotherhood and its…

US Secretary of State John Kerry rationalized the Charlie Hebdo and HyperCacher shooting attacks on a Paris magazine and Jewish supermarket, claiming that there was a “legitimacy […] not a legitimacy, but a rationale” behind the bloodshed.  “There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that,” Kerry stated in the US Embassy…

An exchange of gunfire has been reported in an anti-terror police raid at a Paris suburb Tuesday morning. Two terrorists were killed, according to police sources cited by France24. Several people are reported injured.  There is also an unconfirmed report that a female suicide bomber has detonated herself. According to France24, the raid in Saint Denis targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the…

Mystery about this Picture Deepens. Ottoman Imperial Archives Is also Mistaken Two years ago we published the Library of Congress photo below and the caption identifying it as a “Turkish procession,” taken sometime between 1898 and 1918.  Caption 1. “Turkish procession,” dated between 1898 and 1918 (Library of Congress) Caption 2. “Ottoman Palestine in World War I (1914-1917)” (Facebook, Ottoman Imperial Archives)…

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said Tuesday that his country is willing to share intelligence information with France – but only if Paris changes its policies in the region, Reuters reported. “If the French government is not serious in its fight against terrorism, we will not waste our time collaborating with a country, government or an…

A day after declaring “war” on the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, the Anonymous hackers group announced on Tuesday it had taken down more than 5,500 Twitter accounts belonging to ISIS, Russia Today reported. Tweeting from its #OpParis account, Anonymous stated, “We report that more than 5500 Twitter account (sic) of #ISIS are now #down!…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday rejected allegations that a Palestinian Red Crescent was at the scene of last Friday’s shooting attack near Hevron but the paramedics did not treat the wounded Israelis and fled the scene. In a statement on its website, the ICRC said that the Palestine Red Crescent Society…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he will go ahead with plans to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by year’s end, despite growing opposition over security concerns following the Paris attacks last week, AFP reported. “We must respect our election promise… to safely host 25,000 refugees by January 1. We will make every…

A Hamas website dealing with issues related to intelligence and preventive security reported on Tuesday that Hamas’s security forces in Gaza exposed “the most dangerous intelligence agent” who allegedly worked for the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet). According to the report, the 49-year-old agent, who was identified only by the initials BG, began working for…

Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) on Tuesday welcomed the Cabinet’s decision to outlaw the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement, telling Arutz Sheva the move was another firm step against incitement and terrorism. “This decision should have been made long ago,” Gamliel said, adding, “The northern branch helps Hamas and internal terrorism and…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) facilitated the recent spurt of construction in Jerusalem, Arutz Sheva learned Wednesday – after they presented an ultimatum to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over his policies.  Both Bennett and Ariel told Netanyahu they would only vote for the state budget in the event Netanyahu lifted…

French opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy took aim at President Francois Hollande on Wednesday, claiming he had failed to take adequate security measures after the jihadist attacks in January. The latest attack on Friday night which left 129 people dead has increased political tensions just weeks ahead of regional elections, and the brief semblance of national unity has quickly frayed. “How many victims…

A Spanish judge has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, along with several other serving and former government officials. Judge Jose de la Mata ordered police and national guard forces to notify him immediately if Netanyahu or several other named Israeli officials entered the country. The ruling surrounds the case of the…

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front said it had downed two Russian reconnaissance drones over a military airport it controls in northwest Syria. If confirmed, the incident would be the first time that the armed opposition down a Russian aircraft since Moscow launched strikes in Syria on September 30. Al-Nusra, in a post late Tuesday on…

Retired Deputy Commissioner Alik Ron, who headed the Israel Police’s Northern District, says outlawing the Islamic Movement is the easy, but ineffective, way to deal with the movement. “I have been following this movement for years,” Ron told Arutz Sheva. “In ’98 I said that the movement is a despicable one and that it poses…

A set of twins from a mixed Jewish-Arab marriage celebrated their Bar Mitzvah this week, after being rescued by anti-assimilation group Yad L’Achim.  The mother married an Arab, moved in with his family, and had four children with him, the organization noted. After her husband died of alcoholism-related complications, she was left alone, having been…

Shin Bet internal security forces in a joint operation with Israeli police have broken up an ISIS (Islamic State) terror cell in northern Israel. The six cell members were all based in the Arab town of Jaljulya, near Kfar Saba, and had planned to travel to Syria to join the jihadists’ ranks there. The group was…

Two terrorists were killed during an anti-terror police raid Wednesday in a Paris suburb, including a female suicide bomber who detonated herself.  The raid in Saint Denis began at about 4:30 am local time, and targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the planner of the murderous Paris attacks Friday night, and Saleh Abdelslam. The apartment, at 8 rue du Corbillon, is…

This coming Sunday, a group is hoping to organize what could be the biggest “connected” Jewish event ever – getting five million people together electronically to join a huge crowd which will gather at the Kotel to say the “Tikun Haklali,” a special set of psalms that are said for protection from danger among other things.…

Results of research showing the 2015 index for relations between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, published partially for the first time on Tuesday, show just how far the Arab population supports and identifies with openly pro-terror organizations. The research, conducted by Professor Sami Samucha, reveals that no less than 57% of Arab citizens of Israel say they…

There are risks in banning the Islamic Movement in Israel, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) said Tuesday, hours after the security cabinet made the fateful move early Tuesday – but the risks are worth the rewards, he said in an interview on Channel 10. “The price we pay could be negative responses by the Arab…

Arab terrorists opened fire on Tuesday night at an IDF force of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion at Turmus Aya Junction, in the Shiloh region of Samaria. The terrorists conducted a drive-by shooting against an IDF jeep, but fortunately the terrorists were unable to wound any soldiers. In response, the soldiers returned fire, killing one of the…

If the state budget is not approved this week, the government, according to laws on governance in Israel, automatically falls – and one of the tactics the opposition is using to bring that result about, apparently, is a version of the filibuster. Instead of endless speeches, though, opposition parties are trying a different tactic –…

US House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday called for a pause in a White House program to settle Syrian migrants in America, citing security fears following the Paris attacks in which at least 129 people were murdered. The top Republican lawmaker joined half of US state governors in urging US President Barack Obama to suspend the scheme, calling for a full…

Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the bloody Paris attacks, was a schoolyard bully who is now taunting police from his apparent Islamic State (ISIS) group base in Syria. Abaaoud, a 28-year-old of Moroccan origin, has been linked to a series of Islamic extremist plots and recruitment efforts in Europe over the past two years, but remains frustratingly at…

The radical Islamic Movement in Israel was declared illegal on Tuesday for its long past of incitement to terrorism, particularly on the Temple Mount, but according to senior Hevron activist Baruch Marzel the move is “too little, too late.” “It’s good that they declared the Islamic Movement illegal, but the thought that the entire problem…

The Israel Air Force (IAF) overnight Tuesday struck two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in northern and central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson stated. According to the statement, the attack was in response to a rocket attack on southern Israel on Tuesday evening. “The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for Gaza and will…

Overnight, our father Yaakov transforms himself from a reluctant pursuer of his father’s blessing to a visionary who literally sets the foundation stone for the future Holy Temple and for man’s eternal meeting place with G-d. Yaakov’s dream-vision stands in stark contrast to today’s clueless, valueless and gutless so-called world leaders, who can’t manage to…

Turkish soccer fans on Tuesday evening booed during a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris attacks before a game against Greece, Reuters reported. If the booing was not enough, some reports said that the fans also shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the moment of silence. The booing was captured on video and uploaded to…

Senior officials in the United States on Tuesday defended their program for accepting Syrian refugees and insisted that screening was stringent enough to prevent letting extremists slip into the country. President Barack Obama’s government attempted to brush aside threats from state governors to block the resettlement effort, arguing that it is a federal policy and…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has announced that he intends to personally monitor the footage from cameras Israel controversially agreed to have placed on the Temple Mount, and that the footage will not be broadcast to Israel – except for segments Jordan decides can be seen by the world. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to let the…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) paid a condolence visit on Tuesday night in Kiryat Arba, where he visited the mourning Litman family; Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his son Netanel Litman were gunned down by Arab terrorists last Friday. Ya’alon spoke with the bereaved family members and looked at pictures of the two victims, who were shot…

Following on the heels of the Swedish foreign minister, the chairman of the Dutch Socialist Party in the Netherlands justified the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists who conducted Saturday’s brutal attacks in Paris that left 129 dead, blaming it on “frustration” at Israel. According to Jan Marijnissen, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs somehow…

Last week’s Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Paris will change the face of French society, Dr. Dennis Sharvit, French culture expert and political science professor at the Open University explained Tuesday.  “Recent events are forcing French society to clarify the dilemmas they have faced for years – the conflict between democracy, respect for human rights…

The Diplomacy and Security Cabinet has declared the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel an illegal organization. The Northern Wing is the more extreme wing of the Islamic Movement, and is headed by Sheikh Ra’ad Salah of Umm el Fahm. The Minister of Defense has signed a decree to this effect. This means that any…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Monday he would consider closing some mosques in America with radical leadership because of the Paris attacks if he were elected president. “I would hate to do it, but it’s something that you’re going to have to strongly consider,” he was quoted by The Associated Press as having said…

The United Nations hit back Monday at calls to turn back refugees from Syria to prevent extremists like those who carried out the Paris attacks from entering as purported asylum-seekers. The UN comments came as European countries, Canada and the United States were facing calls to deny entry to refugees after French investigators said one…

An Egyptian cleric, speaking on local television following the Paris terrorist attacks, expressed condolences over the attacks but also said that the West should not be surprised by them nor connect them to Islam. The reason, according to Sheikh Khaled Elgendy, is that the Islamic State (ISIS), the jihadist group which claimed the attacks, was…

The Obama administration is not backing off its plans to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States in 2016, the State Department clarified Monday, despite the fact that several states threatened to block or suspend the program. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the government is “steadfastly committed” to that plan, CNN reported. He…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday spoke with his French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and offered Israel’s support in the wake of the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris on Friday night. Ya’alon expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, wished a speedy recovery to the wounded and spoke to his French…

If the world had any innocence left, it is gone now. Chaos and bloodshed rule the headlines. Uncertainty and instability consume peoples’ thoughts. For the atheist it is just another downturn in human history. Sit it out and hope it doesn’t affect you. For the believer, it’s hard to make sense of what is going…

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman on Monday denounced Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, after she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration” with Israel. The attempt by the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallstrom, to connect between the ISIS attack in Paris and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a cynical, unacceptable and hypocritical act reminiscent…

Italy’s Interior Minister announced Monday that air space over Rome will be closed to drones throughout the Roman Catholic Holy Year celebrations beginning next month, due to a fear that the Islamic State (ISIS) could attack the Italian capital with drones during the celebrations. Addressing the Italian parliament and quoted by Reuters, Minister Angelino Alfano…

France launched new airstrikes Tuesday on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, in north-central Syria, while French police carried out 128 anti-terrorism raids throughout France overnight. French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said the latest airstrikes on Raqqa destroyed a command post and training camp, according to news agencies. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said…

Nahariya residents have endured without fresh, clean running water since Monday – and complain Tuesday that the municipality’s warning to boil all water did not reach them for hours after the impurities were found.  The Ministry of Health found abnormalities in Nahariya’s tap water Monday, announcing in the media before noon that all water for…

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed a claim Tuesday for 23,368 shekel ($5968) in damages against three Arabs who threw rocks at the Jerusalem Light Rail, damaging the public transport car.  The claim was filed under the Law of Property Tax and Compensation Fund. “Since July 2014, Israel has faced hundreds of incidents of rock throwing at the Jerusalem light…

The IDF carried out a large scale operation overnight in the city of Shechem in Samaria and its environs, for locating weapons. The operation was carried out together with the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), Israel Police, Border Police and the IDF Civil Administration. Many weapons were found in Shechem and the surrounding…

Russia’s security chief, FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, acknowledged that terrorism downed a Metrojet flight which crashed in the Sinai several weeks ago, killing 224 people – long after Western intelligence declared that terrorist involvement was ‘probable.’ Intelligence experts believe Metrojet Flight 9268 was destroyed as the result of an explosion in its luggage bay shortly after the…

As French authorities struggle to get to grips with the vast network of Muslim extremists in its country – some 10,000-strong according to official estimates – a sermon recorded at a mosque in southern France on the day of last week’s attacks in Paris illustrates how extremist preachers are spreading radical Islamist doctrines, and talking openly about…

France has listed more than 10,000 people suspected of being radicalized or potential security threats, including homegrown assailant Omar Ismail Mostefai who killed scores of people at Paris’s Bataclan music on Friday. According to police sources, the so-called “fiche S” (“S file” in French) is updated daily to include individuals suspected of links to a terrorist movement or group. The “S”…

Two senior Democratic Congressman have written a letter to the US Department of Justice urging “fair consideration” of Jonathan Pollard’s wish to emigrate to Israel upon his release this week. On Friday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet; and Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16),…

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) in northeast Syria has driven the jihadists out of nearly 200 villages, its spokesman told reporters on Monday. Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Talal Ali Sello said at a press conference that “between October 30 and November 13, an area of…

Hungary does not endorse labeling of products from Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights throughout the EU, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó declared Monday.  “We do not support the decision to make a special mark on products coming from the West Bank [Judea-Samaria – ed.] or the Golan Heights,” Szijjártó stated, during a meeting with Prime Minister…

The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) has sharply condemned “deeply troubling” comments by Sweden’s foreign minister, in which she appeared to link ISIS’s attacks on Paris with “Palestinian frustration” with Israel, branding her statement “borderline racist.” EJC President Dr. Moshe Kantor, whose organization represents Jewish communities throughout Europe, castigated Foreign Minister Margot Wallström for inexplicably turning the…

Gift giving in Judaism comes throughout the year and connects to Jewish holidays. For Rosh Hashanah, pomegranate-themed gifts, honey pots, and items to renew your home for the New Year dominate. During Pesach, “mishloach manot” are gift bags of usually sweets, left clandestinely for their recipients, without acknowledgment.               …

US President Barack Obama said Monday the United States had no precise intelligence warning of the Paris bombing and shooting attacks that have been claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists. The United States has agreed to speed up its sharing of military intelligence with France to try to avert such assaults, the US leader added…

Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, on Monday wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, demanding a condemnation of the Palestinian Red Crescent, following the revelation that the organization’s ambulance was at the scene of the shooting attack near Hevron on Friday but the paramedics did not treat the wounded Israelis. “An ambulance that doesn’t assist wounded…

A clear majority of Americans support escalating their country’s fight against ISIS – but simultaneously oppose the notion of sending ground troops to the Middle East to take on the jihadists. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Monday found that 63% of Americans feared an attack like the one carried out by Islamist terrorists in Paris last Friday…

A teacher who taught a beginners’ Hebrew course at Jordan’s Petra University was fired from his post this week, after he told his students that Hebrew language would help them understand Israeli culture, Army Radio reports Monday.  When questioned why they should get to know Israeli culture, the teacher replied that “Israel is a neighboring country and we have a…

(Paris: AFP) When Hamideche Dorea nervously left home on Monday, opposite La Belle Equipe cafe where 19 people were gunned down in the attacks that tore through Paris, her pulse sped up when she spotted a van. “I thought maybe someone inside has a Kalashnikov and is going to shoot at me. I have this fear…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced increasing calls Monday to delay bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end due to security concerns, following attacks in Paris. While an online petition against fast-tracking Syrian asylum seekers’ bids to relocate to Canada gained steam, the premier of Saskatchewan province, Brad Wall, in an open letter urged the prime minister to “suspend” the…

The IDF has released video of the overnight operation on Sunday night, in which it demolished the home in Qalandiya in the north of Jerusalem belonging to Mohammed Abu Shahin, the terrorist who murdered Danny Gonen last June. Loading… Courtesy IDF Spokesperson Unit In the course of the demolition, three Arab terrorists opened fire on the IDF forces,…

A breathtaking ancient mosaic in Lod – unearthed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) while building a visitor center for another famous mosaic – will be opened to the public for the first time this week. The find came during an excavation from June to November 2014, when IAA archaeologists worked in the Neve Yarak neighborhood…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) visited on Monday the location of Friday’s terrorist double murder near Hevron, and said that cars with Palestinian Authority license plates should not be allowed to drive on the road, which was once off-limits to Arab drivers.. He warned: “This reality, in which the place where Palestinians – some…

Belgian police launched a crackdown on Monday in the Muslim immigrant neighborhood of Molenbeek, Brussels. Rue Delaunoy was identified as the street where the raid took place according to RTBF, with RTL radio indicating that Salah Abdeslam, 26, was nabbed in the operation. Those reports have yet to be confirmed, with certain officials denying the reports. Abdeslam had…

The people of Billings, Montana didn’t know what hit them: They suddenly found themselves, and their little airport, inundated with nearly 300 passengers who had just arrived from Tel Aviv. Engine trouble had led El Al Flight 5, from Israel to Los Angeles, to make an emergency stop at the nearest airport – which happened…

Opposition Head and Labor party chairman Yitzchak Herzog, as well as Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid, hurled barbs of invective at rookie Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich Monday, as they vented their anger over the proposed state budget, which the Knesset has begun to discuss. “Forces that seek to take Israeli citizens’ money, our tax…

A French official on Monday identified Abdelhamid Abaaoud of Belgium, 27, as being the mastermind behind the Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Paris on Saturday, in which at least 129 people were murdered. The official said the man was born in Belgium and apparently orchestrated the six coordinated shooting and suicide bombing attacks from there, reports Associated…

The first of 12,000 migrants leaving war-torn Syria that are to be resettled by Australia will arrive within 24 hours, the government said Monday – even as concerns about security checks mounted after bloody attacks in Paris. Australia, which has joined US-led air strikes on the Islamic State group in Syria, said in September it would boost its humanitarian refugee intake by 12,000…

“Why are the people crying, Mummy?” a little girl out for a Sunday afternoon cycle with her parents asked, as she passed the crowds gathered on the street corner where the killing began in central Paris during Islamic State’s (ISIS) attacks that left at least 129 dead. “They are very sad,” her mother said as she tried to navigate…

Hamas plans to “liberate” Judea and Samaria first, and then the rest of “Palestine”, the group’s deputy leader Ismail Haniyeh declared on Sunday. Speaking to the Palestine newspaper, Haniyeh outlined his desired strategy for the destruction of Israel through the “Al-Quds Intifada”, which is what Hamas is calling the current terror wave against Israel. First…

Saleh Abdeslam, the man believed to be directly involved in Friday’s terror attack in Paris, was questioned by police hours after the attack but was released, four French officials told The Associated Press (AP) on Sunday night, shortly after it was announced that a manhunt was underway for Abdeslam. According to AP, Abdeslam was one…

The IDF, in accordance with the directive of the political echelon, demolished early Monday morning the home in Qalandiya of Mohammed Abu Shahin, the terrorist who murdered Danny Gonen last June. Abu Shahin shot Gonen dead while he was hiking near the town of Dolev, north of Jerusalem, and wounded his friend. The IDF Spokesperson’s…

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Sunday said that Israel’s fight against terrorism is the same one being fought by the United States and Europe. The Florida senator was quoted by The Associated Press (AP) as he spoke in Miami Beach during a rally in support of Israel and against anti-Semitism. The threat to Jerusalem…

A project to install security cameras on the Temple Mount is progressing, despite Palestinian Arab threats to undermine it. According to the agreement between Israel and Jordan, which was brokered last month by Secretary of State John Kerry, 24-hour security cameras covering all the site in the compound, which is sacred to both Jews and…

A mosque in the province of Ontario, Canada, was set on fire on the weekend in what police are saying was a “deliberate” act. However, it is not yet clear whether the arson was related to the terrorist attacks in Paris, The Canadian Press reported Sunday. The fire at the Masjid Al-Salaam in Peterborough, located…

An Israeli prisoner who was serving two life sentences after being convicted of two murders on Sunday night escaped but was caught two hours later in Be’er Sheva. The prisoner, Yaron Sankar, fled the Assaf Harofeh Hospital, where he had been hospitalized after his health deteriorated following an 80-day hunger strike. Sankar, who was sentenced…

Russia does not consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Sunday, according to Reuters. “Some say Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. We maintain contacts and relations with them because we do not consider them a terrorist organization,” Bogdanov was quoted as telling the Interfax news agency. “They have never…

Israel’s emergency response service Magen David Adom has come out against the Palestinian Red Crescent following reports one of its ambulances passed by the site of Friday’s deadly terrorist attack and ignored the victims as they lay dying.  MDA Director-General Eli Bin blasted the move, accusing the Red Crescent of acting as if they operated in…

The bodies of 15 African migrants were found in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli border on Sunday after they were shot dead, security sources and a medical official said. “Fifteen bodies of Africans shot dead were found at dawn on Sunday south of (the town of) Rafah,” said Tariq Khatir, a representative of the health ministry in North Sinai. “We also found…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday by calling on world leaders to condemn terror against Israel.  He began by addressing Friday’s terror attack in Otniel.  “The reprehensible terrorist who murdered Yaakov Litman and his son Netanel last Friday has been apprehended by the security forces; he belongs to Islamic Jihad,” Netanyahu began. “Last night, I spoke…

Deputy head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) Roni Alshich will not take his post as Police Commissioner on Sunday, after breaking his leg just one day before being designated to formally rise to the position.  Alshich broke his leg leaving his home Sunday morning, and is currently being treated at Sheba…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Sunday that European nations must reduce their focus on human rights in favor of more security to avoid a repeat of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people. “In Europe, the balance between security and human rights has until now leaned in favor of human rights, but there is no longer any choice,” Yaalon told…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government faced a new crisis on Sunday after the Jewish Home party threatened to walk over plans to cut Israel’s education budget.  Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich was not present at a budget debate in the Knesset Finance Committee on Sunday morning, while party chairman Naftali Bennett blasted the plans on Twitter.  “I…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), Periphery Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas), Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud), and the Givat Ze’ev Regional Council head have outlined a solution after the slated destruction of a Givat Ze’ev synagogue, Arutz Sheva has learned.  The outline sets aside space for the synagogue to be rebuilt in a…

A Palestinian affiliated with Hamas died on Sunday after apparently blowing himself up by accident in “unclear circumstances,” medical and security sources said. The body of 25-year-old Amir Hamad al-Zaharani was brought to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday after an explosion, a medical source said. Three others wounded by shrapnel were being treated, he added. The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military…

About 600 people attended a special melave malka gathering at the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev on Saturday night, in solidarity with the syangogue ahead of its slated demolition.  Haredi, hassidic, national-religious, and traditional Jews flocked to the event, including Rabbi Eliyahu Schlesinger, rabbi of Gilo in Jerusalem, Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner, Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the…

Officials from the Agriculture Ministry’s Investigation and Enforcement Unit revealed over the weekend another attempt to smuggle meat from Palestinian Authority-controlled territory into Israel.  The smuggling attempt was discovered at the checkpoint at the exit of Tulkarm in Samaria, when a 60-year-old tractor driver was stopped for a routine search.  At first glance, the tractor appeared…

A French man believed to be directly involved in Friday’s multi-pronged Islamist terror attack in Paris that killed 129 and injured 352 is being hunted by authorities, French security officials said. Abdeslam Salah, one of three brothers believed involved in the killings in central Paris, rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by a group of terrorists…

Turkish officials said Sunday that they may have headed off a major terror attack that was apparently timed to take place at the same time as the Paris terror attacks. Officials told Reuters that on Friday they had arrested a “high-profile British jihadist” who was apparently planning some kind of attack. The jihadist was arrested…

The terrorist who murdered a Jewish father and son Friday was turned in by his own father and brother, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shabak) has revealed. The murderer, Shadi Ahmed Mtawa, 28, of Hevron, told his brother that he had murdered Yaakov Litman and his son Netanel near Samua, and the brother told…

Despite years of warnings by intelligence agencies that radicalized Muslims would eventually emerge from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq to launch bloody attacks in the West, Europe has been blindsided by one of the most brutal terrorist atrocities in recent memory. The coordinated attacks by three teams of ISIS terrorists in Paris on Friday sent…

The leader of a jihadist Syrian rebel faction that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group (ISIS) was killed Sunday in a suicide attack by rival jihadists, a monitoring group said.   “Abu Ali al-Baridi, head of Al-Yarmuk Martyrs Brigade and nicknamed ‘The Uncle’, was killed in a suicide attack by Al-Nusra Front,” Al-Qaeda’s Syria…

With all the horror and sadness Friday’s attacks by Jihadists in Paris brought about, the French nation needed to pull itself together and take away the lessons of the murder wrought by terrorists belonging to ISIS, said Meyer Habib, a Jewish member of the French parliament. “This was France’s September 11,” he told Arutz Sheva.…

A Muslim cab driver was questioned by New York City police after he allegedly attacked a Jewish passenger. The complainant, businessman Moshe Indig, told Arutz Sheva Sunday: “I took a cab from Manhattan to Brooklyn yesterday at 8 PM. I asked the driver to make a phone call. He refused but then relented and put…

The flag of an iconic ship that sought to take Jewish Holocaust survivors to Israel is to be sold for at least $100,000 in Jerusalem, the auction house confirmed Sunday. 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…

Members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, looted and burned Muslim homes in Sinjar after its recapture from the jihadists, witnesses said Sunday. ISIS overran the northern town last year, targeting Yazidis – whose faith it considers heretical – in a campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape…

The Finance Committee on Sunday night approved the state budget for 2015-2016. The budget now has to be approved in the Knesset in its second and third readings, and a vote on that is expected later this week. The state budget for 2015 will stand at 383.86 billion shekels. The budget in 2016 will amount…

French warplanes on Sunday evening pounded the city of Raqa, the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s self-proclaimed “capital” in Syria, destroying a command post and a training camp, the defense ministry said. In its first air strike against ISIS since the string of deadly Paris attacks claimed by the jihadist group, 12 warplanes, including 10 fighter…

Israel Railways workers staged a surprise strike Sunday afternoon and disrupted service on the line connecting Hod Hasharon and Beersheva. In addition, the Israel Railways garage in Lod was shut down, as was the fueling station in Haifa. This was not all, however. Five stations were shut down with no prior warning: Tel Aviv Haganah,…

Tahel Sofer, 3, who was injured by a firebomb near Beit El three weeks ago, was released Sunday from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. Uriel and Sigal Sofer, residents of Nitzan in the south, were traveling in their family car with three of their children, Tair, 11, Matan, 10, and Tahel, when they were…

The government announced Sunday that it had worked out a compromise, whereby a new synagogue would be built next to the Ayelet Hashachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev that is slated to be demolished. Based on a compromise recommended last week by Periphery, Negev and Galilee Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri, major elements of the existing synagogue…

Iraqi intelligence services sent a message to the various countries making up the US-led coalition against ISIS last Thursday, warning that the jihadist group intends to carry out attacks on their home soil. The next day the warnings came true, as Paris was hit by its deadliest attack since World War II.  Associated Press reports that according…

While many people around the world are superimposing a French flag on their social media profiles in solidarity with the victims of Friday’s terror attacks, there were some in Israel and abroad who felt that France was not “deserving” of the symbols of sympathy being bestowed on it by a mourning world. “There are children…

Palestinians have begun their latest legal campaign against the Jewish state – this time, targeting the Israeli press.  Salama Marouf, head of the Hamas media office, has accused Israeli news stations of managing a deliberate attack against Palestinian journalists since the outbreak of the so-called “Al-Quds intifada.” According to Marouf, his office records Israel’s “crimes” against media teams and will…

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French media has identified one of the terrorists behind a string of deadly Paris attacks on Friday night as Ismail Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old Frenchman from the southern Paris suburb of Courcouronnes.  Mostefai was living in Chartres up until three years ago, said Jean Pierre Gorges, who is mayor of the town located 60 miles southwest of Paris as…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Saturday that his country needed to scale up military operations in Syria in order to “annihilate” the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Politico reports. The comments came hours after ISIS claimed the terrorist attack in Paris in which 129 people were killed. “Our action in Syria … needs to…

A political source told Arutz Sheva on Saturday night that there is full cooperation between France and Israel in investigating the violent attacks in Paris. “We handed over to France meaningful information that can help them in attempting to decipher the complete picture. We will continue to assist the French in any way in the…

In an act of solidarity with France following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the city of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Development Authority on Saturday night illuminated the old city walls with the colors of the French flag. A similar gesture took place in cities around the world, including in Tel Aviv where the facade of…

Police on Saturday night took into custody the father and brother of a French terrorist linked to a string of deadly Paris attacks and were searching their homes, a source close to the probe told AFP. The body of the 29-year-old French national was found and identified at the Bataclan music hall, where 89 people…

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, on Saturday night sent his condolences to the victims of the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris. “The Conference of European Rabbis joins with communities around the world in mourning for those who were killed in last night’s tragic events in Paris. Our…

A Syrian passport found by police at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October, a Greek minister said Saturday. “We confirm that the Syrian passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules,” said a statement issued…

Four Israelis were wounded in a car terrorist attack Saturday night in the Binyamin region of Samaria just north of Jerusalem. In the incident, which occurred between Kokhav Ya’akov and Psagot, an Arab driver apparently rammed his car into a Jewish car, wounding four people inside and himself being critically wounded and later dying of his…

In the wake of the mass attack claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) in Paris on Saturday, in which no less than 128 people were murdered, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and a leading European rabbi both called to increase security for Jewish institutions worldwide. “Israel is shoulder to shoulder with France in the struggle against radical…

The family members of an Israeli father and son shot dead in front of them as they drove in Hevron were able to direct emergency services to the site of the attack while still under fire. 40-year-old Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his 18-year-old son Netanel were murdered in the attack, which also left Ya’akov’s wife and several…

A father and son murdered by Palestinian terrorists near Hevron on Friday have been named as Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his son Netanel. Their funeral will take place at 9:00 p.m. tonight. Meanwhile, Israeli security forces are examining a vehicle abandoned just south of Hevron, which they believe was used in Friday’s deadly attack near…

A US airstrike on Friday night hit and presumably killed the head of Islamic State’s (ISIS) branch in Libya. The senior ISIS leader was struck by a missile fired by an American F-15 fighter jet, according to a defense official who revealed the operation to NBC News. The official clarified that the operation started before the…

A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said. The grave, which has not yet been excavated, is located on the edge of the town of Sinjar, which was captured from ISIS this week in an operation led by Kurdish security forces and…

IDF forces on Saturday razed the homes of four Arab terrorists who murdered Israelis, pressing ahead with a deterrence policy of punitive demolitions after weeks of deadly terror attacks.   In Shechem (Nablus) in northern Samaria, troops destroyed the homes of three Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israeli parents Dalia and Eitam Henkin in front of their children on October…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday that French policy had contributed to the “spread of terrorism” that culminated in attacks claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group which murdered 128 people in Paris. In a meeting with a delegation of French lawmakers in Damascus, Assad said France’s “mistaken policies…had contributed to the spread of terrorism,” blaming France for backing certain Syrian rebel…

Dozens of Syrian rebel groups on Saturday night strongly denounced the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group’s attacks on Paris as “against human values” in a joint online statement quoted by the AFP news agency. 49 armed factions in Syria, including the powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel groups, condemned “in the strongest terms” ISIS’s coordinated assault in…

Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau of the Liberal party, condemned the bloody terror attacks in Paris on Saturday that murdered over 129 people and were claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) – but ignored their Islamist terror connection. Trudeau, who entered his post late last month, said in an initial official statement, “I’m shocked and saddened that…

Belgian police arrested several suspects in Brussels on Saturday during raids connected to the Paris attacks, including one who was in the French capital at the time of the carnage, Prime Minister Charles Michel said. Michel told Belgian television that the arrests were linked to “suspect vehicles” identified during the investigation by French police into the attacks that murdered at least 129 people and…

The same Saturday that Islamic State (ISIS) claimed a series of attacks that left over 128 people murdered in Paris, the French Agence France Presse (AFP) published a chronology of Islamist terrorist attacks in recent years. But in the list of bloody attacks spanning from the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York…