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A Swedish citizen of Lebanese descent was arrested after a joint investigation from the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Lahav 433 anti-fraud unity last month, it was cleared for publication Sunday, in light of concerns that the citizen may have been working with Hezbollah.  Hassan Khalil Hizran, 55, was arrested at…

Six-month long administrative detention orders were issued Sunday morning against two right-wing Jewish activists – Meir Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim.  The orders were signed by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on the recommendation of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet).  Slonim was arrested last Tuesday, a day after Ettinger – the grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane – was also detained, both on…

A 26-year-old Israeli man was wounded lightly in a stabbing attack on Sunday evening at a gas station on Highway 443, which stretches from Lod to Modi’in in central Israel between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Arab terrorist was shot and eliminated by IDF forces. IDF troops, Border Patrol forces and Magen David Adom (MDA) medical teams…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group advanced Sunday against rival rebel forces, including Islamists, in a bid to capture a series of key villages in northern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIS jihadists seized full control of Umm Housh, one of four villages in the northern province of Aleppo that lie along a rebel supply line from Turkey, which is…

Two young children drowned in pools in Israel on Sunday, in tragic incidents that left both of them in serious condition as medical teams fight to save their lives. In one case, a two-year-old infant girl drowned in a private pool in the coastal city of Rishon Letzion. Magen David Adom (MDA) medics and United Hatzalah…

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi stated on Sunday that the Iran nuclear deal sealed last month with world powers is final, and includes a clause stipulating sanctions cannot be returned in the future by presidents after US President Barack Obama. “There is a paragraph in the agreement which requires the US administration to stop…

The grassroots Im Tirzu Zionist organization awarded 30 Bedouin Israeli activists a special “Award for Zionism,” for the efforts to encourage IDF enlistment among Israel’s Bedouin Arab population. The award was presented at Im Tirzu’s annual convention in Jerusalem last week; the theme of this year’s conference was “Go, Build a State.” Thousands of activists and supporters from across…

Hamas continues to lead daily protests against the intention of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), to cut its services in light of a deficit of more than $100 million. Suheil al-Hindi, Chairman of the Arab Teachers Union of UNRWA, which is affiliated with Hamas, warned the UNRWA against a…

A Colorado jury sentenced James Holmes to life in prison in the July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting at a movie theater that left 12 people dead, Reuters reports Saturday. Holmes faced two counts of first-degree murder for each of the 12 victims. The jury convicted him on all 24 counts in July, as well as…

Dozens of Arabs have blocked the roads and are throwing rocks and firebombs at the Israel Police and the Border Police on Saturday night, in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiyya in northern Jerusalem. Most of the crowd has been driven back using riot dispersal measures, police said. There were no casualties reported. Earlier Saturday night,…

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Fatah movement has formed a new militia to protect villages against “settlers,” after the arson attack on the PA village of Duma last month which killed an infant and fatally injured his father.  For now, the militia will only operate in Qalqiliya, where it will coordinate and report to local police…

Deputy Foreign Minister MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded sharply to defend the Religious Zionist community in Israel on Saturday night, after a post from former Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin warned that “Religious Zionists are dominating the direction the State of Israel.” “Diskin’s remarks stem from a deep fear of…

Twenty-nine nuclear scientists have signed a letter to US President Barack Obama praising the Iranian nuclear deal, the New York Times reports Saturday night, calling it “innovative” and “stringent.” Signatories include Richard L. Garwin, a longtime Washington advisor on nuclear issues and arms who helped design the first hydrogen bomb; Siegfried S. Hecker, who directed…

The chief of the Iranian army defended the deal struck between the West and the Islamic Republic regarding Iran’s nuclear program on Saturday, according to state news agency IRNA. “The Armed Forces have the most concerns about the impacts of the deal on Iran’s defense capabilities and they are concerned about the US officials’ misinterpretations…

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss Syria conflict and the Islamic State group with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign ministry said Saturday. The two ministers last met in Qatar on August 3 when Lavrov, Jubeir and US Secretary of State John Kerry held a three-way meeting,…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “interference” in US affairs is ‘unprecedented,’ US President Barack Obama asserted during an interview which will air in full Sunday night.  Speaking to CNN interviewer Fareed Zakaria, Obama addressed tensions between himself and his Israeli counterpart over the Iran nuclear deal, arguing that Netanyahu’s opposition to the deal is wrong.  Zakaria asked Obama if it…

The UN’s envoy to the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, on Saturday warned against allowing “extremists” to “escalate the situation”, following the death of Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant who was killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma. Dawabshe died at the Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva after suffering burns…

Rocket fire from rebel-held areas around the Syrian capital Damascus killed five people and wounded 37 on Saturday, AFP reported, citing the state news agency SANA. “Five dead and 37 wounded in a terrorist rocket attack on Baghdad Street and Ath-Thawra Street in Damascus and on the city’s Bab Touma area,” the Syrian agency said.…

Sa’ad Dawabshe, the father of the infant who was killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma last month, has died in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. He suffered burns on 80 percent of his body and was sedated and on a respirator. Dawabshe was taken from the hospital in a…

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Friday evening struck a terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in central Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. A direct hit at the target was identified, according to the statement. The airstrike was in retaliation for Friday afternoon’s rocket attack from Gaza on the Eshkol region in southern Israel, the…

A cousin of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan al-Sheikh “because he overtook him at a crossroads” Thursday evening, said…

A Palestinian terrorist detainee on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for 50 days is now “at immediate risk” of death, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Friday. The ICRC said Mohammed Allaan was in critical condition in an Israeli hospital and called on the authorities to allow an immediate family visit.  …

Fitch Ratings graded Iraq Friday as being at risk of default due to insecurity, financial difficulties and poor governance, in its first rating of the country. The Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) overran large areas of Iraq last year and the country is still battling to regain ground, while lower oil prices have hit its…

Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he “profoundly disagrees” with the reasoning behind decisions by two prominent Democratic lawmakers to vote against the nuclear deal with Iran, reports The Associated Press (AP). Speaking in the Vietnamese capital, Kerry said the facts do not bear out the arguments made by the Senate’s No. 3 Democrat…

Hundreds of Israeli citizens on Friday afternoon gathered for a Kabalat Shabbat (the service said on Sabbath eve) outside the President’s Residence with a message of unity for President Reuven Rivlin. The unity rally was meant to express support for Rivlin, who has come under fire in recent days after he denounced “Jewish terrorism” in…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has executed more than 2,000 people in and around the  northern Iraqi city of Mosul since seizing it last year, officials said Friday, according to AFP. Parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi confirmed “the execution of more than 2,000 innocent citizens at the hands of the terrorist Daesh organization,” his office said,…

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to set up a panel to identify who is behind deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria, which the West blames on the Damascus regime, AFP reported. Russia, Syria’s veto-wielding ally, endorsed the measure as did the rest of the 15-member council — a rare display of unity…

A leading Iranian MP revealed on national TV last week that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi threw a pen at US Secretary of State John Kerry during the Iran nuclear talks. MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Foreign Policy and National Security Committee in Iran’s parliament, made the comments which were broadcast by IRINN (Islamic Republic of…

President Reuven Rivlin played down the threat the Iranian nuclear deal poses to Israel on Friday morning, telling local media in an interview marking one year to his presidency that while it is “very serious,” it is not a “disaster.” “We know how to keep ourselves safe, we know that our destiny is here, we…

What better way is there to get to know your grandparents and great-grandparents than to play with them the games they used to play as children? That thought inspired the Jerusalem protected housing project “Beit Tovei Ha’Ir” to launch a new initiative, by which older tenants played their childhood favorite games with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The…

A pregnant woman from Betar Ilit in Judea driving home with three young children was the target of an Arab rock attack on Thursday, in an incident that set off the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) she has been dealing with since surviving a terrorist attack as a 15-year-old. The woman, Ilana Cohen, was driving through…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday rejected President Barack Obama’s argument that rejecting the Iran nuclear deal means going to war, Reuters reports. McConnell said it was “absurd” to argue that lawmakers must essentially choose between the agreement and going to war and added that Obama made a “huge mistake” with that argument. He…

New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the chamber’s third-ranking Democrat, plans to announce his opposition to the nuclear deal negotiated by Iran and the six world powers, three people familiar with the matter told The Huffington Post on Thursday night. Schumer’s announcement comes after New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Schumer’s fellow New York senator,…

The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Saudi Arabian mosque that killed at least 15 people, including 12 members of a Saudi special forces unit, the Guardian reported. The group said in a statement circulated on social media that it had targeted the men because they enabled…

Iran on Thursday denied reports it had tried to clean up suspicious activities at the Parchin military complex outside the capital, Tehran, ahead of a planned United Nations inspection, Al Jazeera reports. The Islamic Republic dismissed a report by Bloomberg news on Wednesday, which said that American intelligence had evidence the site was being sanitized…

Hamas continues to call for terror while accusing Israel for the murder of an Arab infant at Duma village in Samaria last Friday, even though police have admitted they need clues despite their early claims Jewish extremists may have committed the arson. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a member of the Hamas politburo and a senior official in the…

Terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel on Friday afternoon, where it struck the Eshkol region. According to Yediot Aharonot, sirens did not sound in nearby communities; the rocket struck an open field just north of Kisufim, and just inside Israel’s borders. No injuries or damage have yet been reported. IDF forces are combing…

North Korea has become (in)famous for its unique rules, including demands that all North Korean men have the same haircut as dictator Kim Jong-Un and that citizens bow to portraits of the country’s leaders. But now, the dictatorship has further isolated itself, state news agency KCNA reports Friday – by setting its clocks back half an…

Iranian Revolutionary Guards leader Qassem Soleimani met with Russian officials last month, senior Western intelligence officials leaked to the press Friday, despite a travel ban from the UN. Soleimani met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and President Vladimir Putin on July 24, Fox News reported. Soleimani is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander who leads the elite Qods…

Sefer Devarim (Deuteronomy) is devoted to and focused on the land of Israel. As I have stated previously Sefer Devarim is Moshe’s Testimony from G-d Almighty to and about Bnei Yisrael’s future in the “Land of Milk and Honey.” The immediate question that arises in Parshat Eikev is why the use of the unusual word…

Senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday warned they may subpoena all documents used in the US State Department’s annual human trafficking report, after arguing the submitted report was politicized and ignored egregious abuses. In discussing the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who chairs the committee, said it will…

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid participated at the “Friday Chair” panel at Ashkelon Academic College, and strongly criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “Anyone who exploits a terror attack which deepens the rift between the citizens, is not worthy of being prime minister,” Lapid stated, referring to the car terror attack at Shinjil junction in…

The Islamic State (ISIS) group has abducted 230 civilians, including at least 60 Christians, in a central Syrian town hours after it captured it, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were taken on Thursday in the town of Al-Qaryatain, which ISIS jihadists had captured late Wednesday. “Daesh kidnapped at least 230 people, including…

Jewish activist and attorney Baruch Ben-Yosef this week launched a 1 billion shekel ($263 million) class-action lawsuit against Jordan, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and a radical Arab group over their discriminatory practices against Jews on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. An Israeli law from 2000 states that operators of public sites cannot deny…

Arutz Sheva was on scene to speak with some of the undergraduate science majors taking part in the fifth annual Summer Science Research Internship Program, a joint initiative between Bar-Ilan University (BIU) and Yeshiva University (YU). Of the participants 23 are from Yeshiva College, and four others are from Cornell, Touro and Queens college. During their…

When we find out who they [anti-Israel agitators] are — we just put out the facts. But when they find out who we are — they literally want to kill us. Because that is what they are like.” On February 17, 2015, a number of America’s most vituperative anti-Israel activists woke up to discover that…

Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem went on trial Thursday with 12 co-accused charged with obstructing the investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, which killed 85 people. The bombing by Iran-proxy Hezbollah terrorists, the deadliest terror attack in Argentine history, still haunts the country two decades later. It recaptured the headlines this year when the prosecutor leading the investigation,…

Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) spoke on national TV on Wednesday to discuss Congressional opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, after his resolution against the deal got a 218-member majority in the House of Representatives earlier this week. Roskam, who is co-chair of the House Republican Israel Caucus and who has expressed confidence his resolution will…

Macedonian police said Thursday they arrested nine people, including an imam believed to be the group’s leader, who are suspected of recruiting or fighting for Islamist groups in the Middle East. Authorities were also searching for 27 more people, the Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov told reporters. “The goal of the police operation was to identify people who recruit Macedonian jihadists to go…

Critics repeatedly claim that the reason President Barack Obama agreed to a catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran is his naiveté, his ineptness, and his being out negotiated. Does Obama’s record validate that thesis? Or is there evidence that President Obama’s feelings toward Islamism may require a different conclusion? President Obama attended Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s anti-America, anti-Israel church for…

12-year-old Ayala Shapira, who was badly burned in a terrorist firebomb attack in Samaria in December, was released from the Tel Hashomer Hospital on Thursday. The attack occurred as Ayala and her father made their way home in the community of El-Matan. Two terrorists approached their vehicle and threw a firebomb at it. Ayala was able to…

Terrorists threw rocks on Thursday night at a Magen David Adom ambulance that was making its way to an ambulance station in the Jordan Valley. None of the paramedics aboard the ambulance were hurt, but the vehicle itself sustained damage. Magen David Adom spokesman Zaki Heller condemned the attack, saying, “We view seriously the deliberate…

Gaza-based terrorists fired three rockets towards southern Israel on Thursday evening, all three of which exploded in Gaza. There were no sirens in the Gaza Belt area, but some locals reported hearing explosions. A similar incident occurred on Saturday night, when two rockets that were fired from Gaza exploded on the Palestinian side of the…

The fight continues to convince Congress to vote against the Iran nuclear deal and achieve a 2/3 majority able to withstand the presidential veto. In the latest development, a new front in the struggle has opened in New York’s Crown Heights. A grassroots campaign has started in the Brooklyn neighborhood, calling on Democratic Congresswoman Yvette Clarke…

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) slammed President Obama on Thursday for saying Republicans are in the same camp with Iranian hardliners when they oppose the nuclear deal with Iran. “[The president] is trying to shut down debate by saying that those who have questions — legitimate questions, legitimate questions — are somehow unpatriotic, are somehow compared…

Pro-Israel Christian groups are preparing to plan out the fight against Christian anti-Semitism at a special forum at the UN Headquarters in New York on the issue next Tuesday. At the forum, which is sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Israel, Palau and Cyprus, both Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN) and the World Council…

More than 240,000 people, including 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria’s conflict which broke out in March 2011, a monitoring group said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it has documented the deaths of 240,381 people, up from its tally of 230,618 announced on June 9. The latest toll compiled by the Britain-based group shows that 11,964 children were among…

Christian clerics prayed in the ruins of a monastery not far from jihadist positions in northern Iraq Thursday to mark a year since the exodus of Iraq’s Christians from nearby ancestral lands. “We want the good people to hear our prayers from this place so they hurry and liberate our areas as quickly as possible,” Yohanna Boutros Moshe, the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday echoed the comments of his American counterpart Barack Obama the day before, claiming that Israel is the only country opposing the Iran nuclear deal and bashing American conservatives. “Today, you observe that the only regime which is crying out since morning to night is the usurper Zionist regime,” Rouhani…

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez (NJ) hinted broadly that he intends to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, in an interview Thursday on MSNBC. He said he will listen to his constituents in New Jersey, though, before deciding how to vote. Menendez stated that he has “serious reservations” about the deal. “I have tried to have them assuaged. And what…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is  handling Israel’s dispute with the U.S. over the Iran nuclear deal in a “worrying” manner, President Reuven Rivlin said in an interview. In a pointed interview with Maariv to be published Friday, Rivlin said that “the Prime Minister is managing the issue with the U.S. as if we are equals.…

Despite the cuts in the newly approved state budget, ministers and MKs for Jewish Home were able to preserve funds for Religious Zionist causes, said Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel. Among the achievements: Preserving and even increasing the number of posts in the National Service program, and increasing funding for families from Gush Katif who are…

Despite President Barack Obama’s efforts to assure American Jews about the Iran deal, one of the largest and most influential Jewish organizations in the United States announced Wednesday that it opposes the agreement. American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris said in a statement that his organization had “engaged in a very intensive, open-minded,…

Congress has been informed by American intelligence of evidence that Iran was sanitizing its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days after agreeing to a nuclear deal with world powers, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. For senior lawmakers in both parties, the evidence calls into question Iran’s intention to fully account for the…

Following a long discussion that continued well into the night, the Cabinet early Thursday morning approved the budget for 2015-2016. 20 ministers voted in favor of the budget, and one abstained – Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. The budget for 2015 will stand at 330 billion shekels and at just over 343 billion shekels in 2016. The…

The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft UN resolution aimed at identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria so they can be brought to justice, two Security Council diplomats told The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private, told the…

Hamas warned Wednesday of renewed violence unless Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza, AFP reported. The comments were made at a ceremony marking the end of a military-style summer camp for 25,000 Gazans, in which young children are encouraged to commit jihad against Jews. “Today, our message to the occupier is very clear: We will…

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) on Wednesday night urged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to end a spat with President Barack Obama over the agreement with Iran, claiming that the spat empowers Israel’s enemies. “Netanyahu must not enter a head-on personal confrontation with President Obama,” Herzog tweeted following Obama’s speech in which he sniped repeatedly…

Iran said Wednesday it will submit a new peace plan for war-ravaged Syria to the United Nations on the back of an international shift in favor of a political settlement, reports AFP. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the plan, drafted after “detailed consultations” between Damascus and Tehran, was an amended version of an…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday he had reached an agreement with his Russian counterpart that could see the UN set up a panel to identify those behind deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria. “We also talked about the UN resolution and indeed I believe reached an agreement that should try to see…

Usually, Ben Gurion Airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year – except for Yom Kippur – much to the disappointment of many observant Jews. But this Shabbat, Ben Gurion will become “Sabbath Observant,” as workers walk off the job for 24 hours, from sundown Friday through sundown…

A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian to be hanged to death after he was found guilty of “collaborating with Israel,” a court source said.   The defendant, identified only by his initials A.S., was “sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of collaborating with the occupation,” the…

A day after posters appeared in Jerusalem praising Yishai Shlissel, who attacked marchers at last week’s Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem – with one, 16-year-old Shira Banki, dying in hospital as a result of wounds inflicted by Shlissel – new posters angrily denouncing Schlissel appeared in religious neighborhoods throughout the city. Wall posters, known as…

ISIS jihadists seized control of a key town in the central Syrian province of Homs overnight after heavy clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said on Thursday. The violent jihadist group started the attack on Wednesday morning when three suicide bombers targeted pro-regime checkpoints at entrances to the city, according to…

The Cold War brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon – but perhaps the one thing which prevented it was the fact that the Soviets were atheists and did not expect to see an afterlife.  Can the same be said for the Mullahs of Iran?  Click here to download the podcast

At least seven people were reported killed and dozens injured Thursday in an explosion in the A-Shabura refugee camp in southern Gaza. Gaza rescue workers were transporting the injured to hospitals in Gaza City. Hamas sources said that the explosion was due to a leftover IDF rocket which had been buried under rubble in the…

Islamic State (ISIS) has threatened to kill a Croatian father of two if Egypt does not release ‘Muslim women’ prisoners within the next 48 hours, in a new video published Wednesday. The video, released on a jihadist website, shows 30-year-old Tomislav Salopek kneeling in an orange jumpsuit – in the style of previous ‘pre-beheading’ ISIS…

US President Barack Obama delivered a live address to the American public Wednesday, urging them to support the recently-signed deal with Iran over its nuclear program – and to lobby their members of Congress to vote for it at an upcoming vote. Obama began and ended citing former President John F. Kennedy, noting his role in facing down the…

Two-time gay pride parade stabber Yishai Shlissel suffered “a psychotic incident,” Israeli news revealed Wednesday – and police still did not take this into account when he was released last month.  In 2005, Shlissel stabbed a number of marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has stepped up its rhetoric against Jewish rights and heritage to the Temple Mount, Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday – now labelling Israel’s presence at Judaism’s holiest site as an “invasion.” “Indeed, the Israeli establishment insists on carrying out its evil plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and establish the alleged…

Syrian rebel groups allied with Al Qaeda fighters fought Wednesday to advance on a key military headquarters near President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, a monitor said. The Islamist rebels, including fighters from Central Asia and Chechens, as well as jihadists from Syria’s Al Qaeda branch Al Nusra Front, were pressing an advance on the village of Jureen,…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) announced Wednesday afternoon that at the end of the consultation with the acting police commissioner, Major General Benzi Sau, a possible conflict of interest has been removed in the internal investigation over police conduct before the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade. Anna Ben Mordechai Raziel, Commander of the Mevaseret Zion station,…

Authorities are still searching for a man suspected of carrying out two drive-by shootings near a US military base between yesterday (Tuesday) and today. According to an official statement, a man in a pickup truck shot at two National Guard soldiers manning a checkpoint near Camp Shelby in Mississippi this morning. There are no reported…

This week’s Torah portion of Eikev emphasizes the importance of Israel fulfilling God’s commandments in the Land. Torah stresses that this is Israel’s recipe for a just, moral, and upright society. This week, as our nation grapples with terror and the hypocritical standards by which it is both defined and measured, Yitzchak Reuven and Rabbi…

Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided to appoint former Yesha Council chairman Dani Dayan as Israel’s ambassador to Brazil. Brazil, the largest country in South America, is populated by approximately 200 million people and has the world’s seventh largest economy. Israel has made it its emphasis on developing trade ties with the international…

American aerospace giant Boeing said Wednesday that El Al Israel Airlines intends to purchase and lease up to 15 of Boeing’s high-tech 787 Dreamliners. El Al also has confirmed purchase rights for 13 additional airplanes, Boeing said in a brief statement that did not specify the breakdown between purchases and leasing. The average 2015 list…

This week, Robert W. Wood, tax attorney and expert on cross-border investing, discusses the pros and cons of renouncing U.S. citizenship if you live abroad. How does it affect taxation, Social Security payments, and estate planning, and will you be allowed to visit the United States again? In the second half of the show, Doug…

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said on Wednesday that even though there is no majority in Congress that can override a presidential veto on legislation against the Iran deal, it is clear that there is more opposition than support among lawmakers to removing the sanctions on Iran. “We currently stand at a critical time, because of the…

Less than an hour ago, a man opened fire at the Carmike Hickory 8 movie theater in Antioch, Tennessee, CNN reports. Police, including a SWAT team, quickly arrived on the scene. The gunman was killed while exchanging fire with an officer. Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said that the suspect had two backpacks and a…

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett filed a complaint with the Israel Police on Tuesday, after he was targeted by several commenters on social media and threatened. But while several MKs rallied behind a similar move by President Reuven Rivlin earlier this week against his own complaints of incitement, one Meretz MK insisted Wednesday that sympathy…

Debris from a Boeing-777 found on Reunion Island last week has been confirmed to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, along with 239 passengers and crew.  “It is with a very heavy heart, I must tell you, a team of experts have conclusively confirmed that debris found on Reunion…

A US armed drone bombed a target in Islamic State-controlled northern Syria on Wednesday, in the first such air strike by a US aircraft after taking off from Turkish territory, a Turkish official told AFP. “A US drone today carried out one air strike in Syria near Raqqah,” said the official, referring to the town…

Islamic State (ISIS) has threatened to kill a Croatian father of two if Egypt does not release ‘Muslim women’ prisoners within the next 48 hours, in a new video published Wednesday. The video, released on a jihadist website, shows 30-year-old Tomislav Salopek kneeling in an orange jumpsuit – in the style of previous ‘pre-beheading’ ISIS…

MK Ahmed Tibi of the Arab Joint List published a post to Facebook Wednesday in which he expressed his feelings of longing for longtime PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. “Today, August 4, the 86th birthday of the great symbol, Yasser Arafat,” he wrote. “The leader of a nation, the story of a revolution. How I miss…

US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said on Tuesday that the State Department doesn’t mind that it is barred from seeing the classified side deals made between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which can only be seen by those two parties. Iran has demanded the side deals be kept secret from the US in a demand the IAEA and…

This week Ira and Rod discuss how the case of Jonathan Pollard’s impending release, the stabbing at the Gay Pride Parade, and the death of an Arab child in a fire have connections, as it relates to the responses from both world media, the Israeli government, and even the conversations seen on social media sites.…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Holy Sites and Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Idis has claimed that the Israeli government is spreading “lies” about the history of Jerusalem, the 3,000-year-old capital of the Jewish people. According to the sheikh, the fact that the Al-Aqsa Mosque was built on the ruins of the First and Second Temple on…

President Barack Obama plans to tell the American people in an address on Wednesday that rejecting the nuclear agreement with Iran by Congress would be a “historic mistake,” a senior White House official said, according to Haaretz. Obama’s remarks will be a response to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who repeatedly called the deal with Iran historic…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas met in Amman with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder, Kol Yisrael radio reported on Tuesday evening. According to the report, the two discussed efforts to advance the peace process between Israel and the PA. The Walla! Hebrew-language news website reported about the meeting as well, citing the PA-based…

Britain is extending its air strikes against Islamic State (ISIS) group targets in Iraq by a year to March 2017, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said in comments broadcast Tuesday and quoted by AFP. The announcement represents a second reprieve for the squadron of ageing Tornado GR4 fighter bombers currently based in Cyprus which was due…

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni held talks with officials in Tehran on Tuesday, the latest in a series of European officials seeking closer trade ties with Iran after a nuclear deal with world powers, Reuters reported. Gentiloni’s visit to Iran follows similar trips from senior government ministers from France, Germany and Serbia which have been…

Air France has apologized for failing to include Israel or its major cities on its in-flight map, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it rejects the apology. Russia Today reported on Tuesday that Israeli activists had pointed out that Air France failed to include Israel while marking Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The issue with the…

Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) on Tuesday announced her opposition to the agreement signed between the six world powers and Iran. “Preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is an essential national security imperative. Since the nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and the P5+1 countries, I have reviewed its details and consulted with officials in…

Christian missionaries have escalated a new campaign targeting kibbutzim (agricultural communities founded on socialist values) in the Jordan Valley, in an attempt to pull Jews away from their faith. Dan Shalev, who was born and raised at Kibbutz Beit Zera and currently lives in Judea’s Gush Etzion, told Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about how he found missionary books…

As a British-born Jew born it is a source of endless intrigue for me to hear the impressions my brethren from elsewhere in the world have of British Jewry. American and Israeli Jews in particular commonly envision a community under siege, shrinking, living in fear, counting down the months and years to its demise – essentially an English-speaking version…

Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, Dean of the Har Etzion Hesder Yeshiva at Alon Shvut, explained to Arutz Sheva Wednesday that it is one thing to accept individuals who are homosexual, and a completely different thing to accept the so-called “gay community.” Regarding private individuals, the rabbi said that he knows “an entire organization of people who…

The Israeli security system is on the alert after Bedouin tribes in southern Syria on the border with Jordan pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS), Walla! reports Wednesday. The tribes live adjacent to Jabal al-Druze, or the Mountain of the Druze, which is a mountainous region near the Jordan border that has the highest concentration of Druze.…

Turkey will start combating Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists inside northern Syria “soon,” its foreign minister vowed Wednesday as he met US Secretary of State John Kerry in Malaysia. “Now we are training and equipping the moderate (Syrian) opposition together with the United States, and we will also start our fight against Daesh very effectively soon,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters at the start of…

Democratic Reps. Nita Lowey and Steve Israel, both of New York, and Ted Deutch of Florida announced their opposition to the Iran deal on Tuesday afternoon. Lowey is the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee; Deutch is the top Democrat on the House Middle East subcommittee; and Israel until last year led the House…

The Obama administration decision to release over $100 billion in sanctions relief as part of the Iran nuclear deal is being challenged by a group of American victims of Iranian terror, who have more than a billion dollars in court judgments against the Islamic regime. The US has promised to unfreeze funds largely held in…

US President Barack Obama has touted the “snap back” clause in the Iran nuclear deal, by which sanctions could feasibly be reapplied to the Islamic regime if it breaches the agreement – but according to Iran that won’t happen. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who negotiated the deal for Iran, said the international sanctions…

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem arrived in Iran Tuesday to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss the situation in the region, the official IRNA news agency reported. His visit comes with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, President Vladimir Putin’s special Middle East representative, also in Tehran. IRNA said Bogdanov and Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian discussed “the situation in…

The suffocating heat wave scorching the Middle East, which has seen Iran reach truly apocalyptic heat indexes, reached a high in Israel on Sunday – but on Tuesday it proved fatal as an 18-year-old new IDF soldier died from heat stroke. The youth, who was identified as Private Dan Sela from Afula in Israel’s north, was taking part…

After the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shabak) conceded Tuesday that the anti-assimilation organization Lehava is perfectly legal, Lehava director Bentzi Gopshtain called for the government to join his group in preventing assimilation – as stipulated by Jewish law. The ISA admission came after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) called for an investigation into the…

Britain’s National Union of Teachers (NUT) has announced it will withdraw a controversial “resource pack” on the Arab-Israeli conflict which has been roundly condemned as one-sided and even promoting anti-Semitism. The NUT-designed the pack – entitled “My Name is Saleh” – was launched in April at the union’s annual conference in partnership with Edukid, a children’s education charity. It promotes “Palestinian…

A US warning that it would use its air power to defend Pentagon-trained rebels against Syrian troops was met with skepticism by officials in Damascus on Tuesday.   The US-backed Division 30 was also left reeling when the Al Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra front captured at least five of its members in overnight raids, said the Syrian…

A report by CAMERA maps out how a top newspaper and a top State Department official helped disseminate the false “information” that top Israeli intelligence officials believe the nuclear deal with Iran is “good.” It began with a blog in the Washington Post on July 22, entitled, “How the Iran deal is good for Israel according to…

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, chairperson of the Otzma Yehudit party that just missed out in the last elections, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Tuesday about the administrative arrest of Jewish activist Meir Ettinger on vague suspicions of “Jewish extremist activity.” Ettinger is the grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who pushed to transfer hostile Arab residents out of…

Water supply malfunctions in the Samaria city of Ariel have many of the city’s residents on edge. This week’s extreme heat wave has led the citizens of Ariel to double their regular water usage, putting undue strain on the city’s water supply infrastructure and causing electrical malfunctions with the water pumps. Israel’s national water supply company, Mekorot, will…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday afternoon visited 27-year-old Inbar Azrak, who was wounded the night before in an Arab firebomb terrorist attack as she and her husband were driving home from vacation through Jerusalem’s eastern Beit Hanina neighborhood. Azrak is receiving treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital for the first and second-degree burns on 15% of her body…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday raised alarm over a $100 million shortfall in funding for the UN aid agency for “Palestinian refugees”, UNRWA, and called for urgent donations, AFP reported. Ban said in a statement quoted by the news agency that UNRWA was “a pillar of stability” for five million Palestinian “refugees” at…

Though a U.S. court awarded 11 American families over $200 million from the PA and the PLO for terror attacks that killed their loved ones, the U.S. government may intervene on behalf of the terrorists. So reports Foxnews.com, in news that was confirmed by one of the lawyers for the families, Kent Yalowitz. The problem…

Elections for the Samaria Regional Council were held on Tuesday, and current acting regional council head Yossi Dagan won by a large majority. Dagan, who served as the deputy of his predecessor Gershon Mesika, became acting council head after Mesika became a state witness in the large-scale corruption scandal mainly surrounding senior sources in Yisrael Beytenu.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a live webcast with American Jewish leaders Tuesday, in which he warned that supporters of the nuclear deal with Iran are trying to stifle debate over the issue. In a webcast hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents, broadcast to 10,000 people, Netanyahu hit out at…

Police on Tuesday asked for any leads on last Friday’s lethal arson in the Arab village of Duma in Samaria, in which an infant was killed and four family members wounded – in an announcement that was met with backlash by Israelis online. In a post on its official Facebook page, the Israel Police wrote that…

President Reuven Rivlin met Tuesday evening with 27-year-old Inbar Azrak, who was injured in a firebomb attack by Palestinian Arab terrorists Sunday. Azrak was traveling with her husband near the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem, when their car was attacked.  Inbar barely escaped with her life, surviving with severe burns to her body.…

IDF soldier David Domanski was one of two people wounded by a Molotov cocktail thrown Monday by Arab terrorists at vehicles near Beit Hanina in Jerusalem – and says he had no qualms about running to rescue injured travelers. “I saw a car hit by a Molotov cocktail,” he said, noting that he and his…

The strenuous campaign pressuring New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran is “having an effect,” according to Washington news site Politico. More than 10,000 phone calls have flooded Schumer’s office line the past two weeks, organized by “a group looking to kill the deal,” according to the report, while another…

Qatar’s Foreign Minister on Monday blasted Israeli “occupation” when discussing the crises in the Middle East with Secretary of State John Kerry, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Speaking to Kerry during a meeting in Doha in which Kerry also received Gulf states’ backing of the Iran deal, the Qatari Foreign Minister, Khalid Al-Attiya spoke of…

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a staunch supporter of Israel, is facing the possibility of being unseated in an upcoming October election, The Toronto Star reports. According to a new Forum Research poll released on Monday, the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada has surged to a double-digit lead in public support, gaining more distance…

Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a political campaign in hopes of returning to power in February’s parliamentary elections, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday. The report noted that while many former allies have turned on Ahmadinejad, and two of his former vice presidents have been jailed for corruption, he is believed to…

The White House on Monday said it will defend American-backed rebels in Syria with airstrikes if necessary, signaling deeper involvement in the country’s brutal four-year civil war, according to AFP. President Barack Obama’s administration said it will take “additional steps” to defend U.S. trained and equipped forces, warning Bashar Al-Assad’s regime “not to interfere.” “The…

Iran’s Press Supervisory Board has suspended a hardline newspaper and cautioned two other outlets for criticizing last month’s nuclear deal with world powers, Reuters reported Monday. According to the news agency, the board suspended 9 Dey, a weekly newspaper that accused Tehran’s negotiators of overstepping Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s red lines in the negotiations,…

An archaeological expedition has discovered the fortifications and entrance gate of the biblical city of Gath of the Philistines, home of Goliath and the largest city in the land during the 10th-9th century BCE, about the time of the “United Kingdom” of Israel and King Ahab of Israel. The excavations, conducted by a team from…

The United States on Monday received a vote of confidence on the deal with Iran, as Gulf Arab states welcomed the deal negotiated with world powers, The Associated Press (AP) reported. At the same time, they said they would like further assurances that the U.S. would help them counter increasing Iranian assertiveness in the region.…

15 infiltrators were able to cross the border from Egypt into Israel over the weekend, the Israeli press revealed Tuesday, but were apprehended through a joint effort between the IDF and the Egyptian army.  On Saturday, Egyptian police identified the group of illegal aliens climbing the fence along the Israeli border, and opened fire at them, wounding six. IDF…

A man identified as a Christian tourist from France who visited the Temple Mount while carrying an Israeli flag was attacked by Muslims this Tuesday morning. The incident has been reported in various places, and has gone viral on social media, where pictures of the bleeding protester in police custody are being widely circulated. Arab eyewitnesses…

Despite repeated attempts to get the Lehava anti-assimilation organization branded as illegal, there is not enough evidence to make a case for this to happen, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) announced Tuesday.  Last December, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon asked the ISA to open an investigation against the organization, after 21 of its members were…

Writer, lawyer, actor, comedian and commentator Ben Stein wrote Monday that the deal the Obama administration has reached with Iran is “so bad that it could not be an accident, even for a President as inexperienced and foolish as Mr. Obama or a Secretary of State so filled with anger as Mr. Kerry.” “There is no meaningful…

A 27 year-old woman was injured Monday night after a terrorist threw a Molotov cocktail at her car in Jerusalem.  The incident occurred near the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina, near the Ben-Zion interchange, Magen David Adom (MDA) stated.   MDA medics gave her medical treatment and took her to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital with first…

Thousands of people attended the funeral of 16 year-old Shira Banki on Monday night, after she succumbed to her wounds from the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade last Thursday. She was laid to rest in the Kibbutz Nachshon cemetery near Beit Shemesh. “We had four wonderful children, who were intelligent, beautiful, good…

Convicted spy Mordechai Vanunu has filed a petition with the High Court to be allowed to travel abroad. The reason for the trip, said Vanunu, is to visit his wife’s family. Earlier this year, Vanunu, who has converted to Christianity, married his long-time Norwegian girlfriend Kristin Joachimesen, and wishes to accompany her on a family…

An interfaith delegation of rabbis and sheikhs met with the Palestinian Arab family injured in last week’s arson attack in Duma on Monday, in a historic meeting organized by Tzohar, Rabbi Michael Melchior, and Sheikh Abdul Nimer Darwish. MK Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya (Joint List) also attended.  “We gather here to console,” Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein stated.…

If necessary, the government will use administrative detention as a tool against Jewish extremists – but only if necessary, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Monday. The use of administrative detention, in which individuals can be incarcerated without due process, is meant to prevent terrorists who are about to carry out attacks from doing so, and…

Many Israeli ex-generals and former security chiefs have signed a petition urging Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, which he strongly opposes. A petition signed by the former officials and made public Monday calls the July 14 accord a “fait accompli.”  It urges the government to pursue a policy that would “restore trust…

Two mortar shells exploded in the Golan Heights on Monday evening, the IDF stated, striking an open area near the Quneitra valley.  One person is suffering from shock and is being treated on-site. No further injuries or damage were reported.   IDF officials estimate that the shells were spillover from neighboring Syria.  IDf forces are surveying…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has submitted a document to the International Criminal Court (ICC) protesting “settler terrorism” in the arson attack last week in Duma which killed an infant and wounded four others.  According to the Palestinian news agency Ma’an, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki presented the document to ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensada on Monday afternoon.  He…

The United States widened sanctions on Syria on Monday, targeting individuals and entities it says are providing energy products used by the Assad regime in fighting its own people, AFP reported. The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on seven entities and four individuals, and named seven vessels as blocked property. “Many of these entities are front…

A “lone soldier” – an immigrant who is serving in the IDF without any local family support – is to be buried on Tuesday after he was found dead on Sunday, and a Facebook group is hoping to bring hundreds of Israelis to the cemetery in Kiryat Gat where he is to be laid to…

Most Americans continue to disapprove of the Iran nuclear deal, a poll released Monday finds. Nearly six in 10 American voters, 58 percent, disapprove of the recently reached nuclear pact, while 30 percent approve, found the new Quinnipiac University poll reported on by the Washington Examiner. Republicans strongly oppose the deal, which is considered a…

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed as “counter-productive” an announcement by Washington that it couldtake extra measures to defend US-allied fighters in Syria, according to AFP.  At a news conference in Qatar, Lavrov condemned comments by the White House that it could take “additional steps” to protect allies in Syria and warned Bashar al-Assad’s regime not to impede…

As many as 15,000 ISIS terrorists have been killed in air strikes led by the U.S. and its allies over the past year, an independent group following the war against the Islamic State said Monday. The group, called Airwars.org, archives reports on the war and keeps a running total of the number of terrorists and…

The White House said Monday said it is willing to take “additional steps” to defend US-allied fighters in Syria, warning the regime of Bashar al-Assad not to impede their actions. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Syria “should not interfere” with operations by US-trained forces, warning that “additional steps” could be taken to defend them, raising the prospect of strikes against the regime.…

The UK’s National Union of Teachers (NUT) has been accused of indoctrinating British youth with Palestinian terrorism, in its new teaching resources pack that discusses Palestinian “occupation, freedom and resistance” from what has been revealed to be a “warped” perspective. NUT designed the pack – entitled “My Name is Saleh” and launched in April at the…

A new Congressional resolution calling to end the Iran nuclear deal has already received the support of at least 218 Republican lawmakers within just two weeks, and is well on its way to obtaining a two-thirds majority that US President Barack Obama will be unable to veto, according to its sponsor. The majority support in the…

Israel has not escaped the heat wave scorching the Middle East in recent days, which has caused massive damage to the Israeli agricultural industry to the tune of millions of shekels. Figures provided Monday by KANAT, the Insurance Fund for Natural Risks in Agriculture, indicate that in the last 24 hours alone, over 250 notifications of damage have been…

A divorced father recently got a taste of the unique justice meted out by Israel’s secular family courts when he was ordered to pay child support to his ex-wife despite the fact that the former couple’s children reside almost exclusively with the father. According to Attorney Inbar Lev, who represents the father, the couple divorced…

Jordan is joining forces with the Palestinian Authority (PA) to demand that the UN Security Council (UNSC) “end the Israeli occupation,” in a call following the lethal arson that killed an Arab infant and wounded four others last Friday at the village of Duma in Samaria. The IDF has indicated Jewish extremists may have been…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Monday that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has shifted away from his support from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and is open to a Syrian future without Assad. “I saw him more positive during the face-to-face meeting we held in Baku and in a telephone conversation later,” Erdogan said of Putin while…

The United States on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago despite persistent human rights concerns, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Two days after the U.S. delivered eight F-16 warplanes to Egypt as part of a military support package that the Obama administration is boosting to help Egypt…

Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, said on Sunday that his country’s nuclear deal with the West would create better prospects for faster solutions in Syria and Yemen, two of the Middle East’s worst conflict zones, AFP reported. In a live appearance on state television, Hassan Rouhani said the July 14 agreement had shown diplomacy and engagement…

The Israeli Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay, was reopened last week in the presence of Ambassador Peleg Levy and outgoing Foreign Ministry Director-General Nissim Ben-Shitrit. Paraguay was represented at the opening by Minister of Agriculture Jorge Gattini and other top officials. The Israeli Foreign Ministry noted prominently that the government of Paraguay stood by Israel during…

A French anti-Semitism watchdog group reports that burglars recently broke into the home of an elderly Jewish leader. In addition to stealing $10,000 worth of jewelry and valuables, the criminals also wrote “Dirty Jews, long live Palestine” on the wall in lipstick. The homeowner, who has been identified only as Alain B., told police that…

MK Oren Hazan (Likud), affectionately known as the “Casino MK” over allegations that he ran such establishments in Bulgaria, was questioned for five hours at the Israel Police Lahav 443 (Major Crimes) unit, over charges that he attacked the director general of the city of Ariel last October. Police seek to charge Hazan with inappropriate…

“The Cabinet views the arson and murder in Duma as acts of terror in every aspect, and has called on all the relevant authorities to use all necessary measures in order to bring the perpetrators to justice, and prevent similar incidents,” it read. “The cabinet has approved the professional recommendations to apply all the necessary…

On the same weekend in which it threatened to “annihilate” Israel following the nuclear deal it struck with global powers, Iran experienced a mind-boggling 164 degrees (73 Celsius) heat index reading last Friday, in what some might see as a warning by the Almighty Himself that all options are on the table. The heat index, also know as the “feels-like”…

The Hamas terrorist organization called for attacks against IDF soldiers and “settlers” last Friday shortly after an Arab infant was killed in an arson attack at the village of Duma in Samaria, but now the group is stepping up its incitement and demanding that suicide bombings be deployed. The IDF has indicated Jewish extremists may…

President Barack Obama has authorized the use of airstrikes to defend U.S.-trained Syrian rebels if they come under attack from terrorist groups or the Assad regime, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. The broader U.S. rules of engagement, approved July 31, came after rebels fighting Islamic State (ISIS) were attacked by the Al-Nusra Front, Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate,…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Qatar for talks with Arab officials whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal world powers have struck with Iran, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Kerry arrived in the Qatari capital Doha on Sunday after visiting Egypt, where he also spoke in favor of the agreement reached…

For the second time in just a few weeks, a soccer match involving an Israeli team in Europe turned violent on Sunday. In the latest incident, players from the Israeli club Ashdod were chased from the field by fans during a friendly against Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia, SI.com reported. The incident occurred in the first…

Arutz Sheva spoke with Rabbanit Hadassah Froman, widow of the late Rabbi Menahem Froman, at Sunday’s joint Israeli-Arab prayer session, in which rabbis, sheikhs, and MKs gathered together to pray and commiserate over the arson attack in the village of Duma on Friday. Rabbanit Froman, whose husband was well-known for his efforts to bring together…

The leader of Yemen’s Houthis urged his militia on Sunday to fight on against Yemen’s Gulf Arab-backed government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a ‘limited’ achievement made possible by Ramadan, Reuters reported. In a speech broadcast live on television, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi accused his foes of resorting to alliances with both the Islamic…

An MK from the Zionist Union party is coming under fire from the left because he visited the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. “It is precisely because of the complexity of today that I decided not to cancel and come,” the MK, Danny Atar, said at the start of his tour of the region on Sunday. “At…

Hamas is continuing to take advantage of recent goings on in Judea and Samaria (the murder of the baby in Duma and the violent clashes in various cities) to escalate the campaign it is waging against the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) rule. Abdel-Rahman Shadid, a Hamas spokesman, said in this context on Sunday…

The Even Sapir moshav has been evacuated Sunday afternoon, after a brushfire spread through the forests just outside Jerusalem.  The Fire Department reported that eight firefighting planes with flame retardant material were dispatched to assist the ground forces and other aircraft were put on alert immediately. Twenty separate firefighting teams are reportedly at the scene.…

IRNA, the Iranian state news agency, quotes Ali-Akbar Salehi, Head Nuclear Negotiator and Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), as stating that “The [Vienna JCPOA] text is not regarded as an international agreement, convention, or treaty. Therefore, it has been named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).” Salehi made the statement in…

An arrest has been made in the murder of a Jewish jeweler in Queens in June, police announced Thursday, after a lack of leads led the family to offer a reward to find the perpetrator.  The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) driver Charles Jordan, 46, of Valley Stream, Long Island on…

President Reuven Rivlin has turned to the Israel Police over a number of death threats against him on his Facebook page Sunday, after he wrote a post condemning the arson attack on a Palestinian family in the village of Duma.  “I visited the Dawabash family in the hospital on Friday,” he stated, in the post…

Clashes broke out on Sunday at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and also home to the Al Aqsa Mosque, two days after a Palestinian toddler was killed in a firebombing by suspected Jewish extremists. Police said masked Palestinian youths at the mosque threw stones at security forces while protesters held aloft photographs of the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the double crimes committed during Thursday and Friday last week, including the stabbing at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade and the arson attack on the Palestinian Authority (PA) village of Duma which killed a baby and injured four family members.  “We recently witnessed two abhorrent crimes,” Netanyahu stated Sunday, as…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will next week redouble efforts to scupper the international nuclear deal with Iran, making a personal appeal to Jewish groups across the United States. Netanyahu, a strident opponent of the agreement, will make a web address Tuesday that will be available on computers, on mobile phones and in synagogues across America, according to organizers representing…

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki plans to present details of the arson attack on a home in the village of Duma to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday. In the attack, 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha was burned to death, and several other family members were badly injured. The PA’s representative at Commission headquarters in…

The body of an Israeli hiker who went missing in Georgia has been found by rescue services Sunday. 23-year-old Dor Cohen, a resident of Jerusalem, went missing last Wednesday in the country, which is popular with Israeli tourists. Cohen’s body was discovered by a team from the Harel private insurance firm; as a result, a fresh…

Kol Yisrael Radio interviewed MK Nachman Shai (Zionist Camp, formerly known as the Labor Party) as the news unfolded last week that Jonathan Pollard would be released from prison by November. The choice of interviewee appeared to be apt: Shai heads the Knesset Lobby for the Release of Jonathan Pollard. From the moment he opened his…

Despite a change in the wind, firefighters have still not gotten control of the major blaze outside Jerusalem. With that, officials said that the danger to towns near Even Sapir, where the blaze apparently broke out, has lessened. That includes Haddasah Ein-Kerem Hospital, said Udi Gal, a spokesperson for the Jerusalem district fire department. “There…

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens wounded Sunday in a suicide attack claimed by Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels’ bases in northern Iraq. The attack in the Dogubayazit district of the eastern Agri province is the first time Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have been accused of…

Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters on Sunday pressed a counteroffensive against rebels near President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 fighters have been killed in three days of intense clashes in the Sahl al-Ghab region of central Hama province. The area…

With two headline-grabbing acts of violence in recent days allegedly involving religious Jews – and with the secular media “on the warpath” against rabbis whom they accuse of “inciting the public” to acts of violence – dozens of Religious Zionist rabbis have issued a proclamation against the use of violence, in any context. Titled “Thou…

Haredi singer and musician Yishai Lapidot is extremely thankful Sunday – after he narrowly escaped being “lynched” by Arabs in Jerusalem  Saturday night when he made a wrong turn into a large mob of Arab youths who were about to attack his vehicle. The reason for Lapidot’s wrong turn? A “bad route” – suggested by…

One of the victims of Thursday’s stabbing attack at the Jerusalem gay parade has succumbed to her wounds Sunday afternoon. 16-year-old Shira Banki died in hospital after being stabbed in the back by haredi extremist Yishai Schlissel, who attacked marchers at the annual Jerusalem gay parade. Five other people were also injured in the attack, one of…

A haredi man who attended a ‘Talmud Torah’ (elementary school) in Rishon Lezion has been awarded NIS 70,000 ($17,000) for an attack he sustained in 2003, when a student from a secular school located next to the Talmud Torah threw a rock at him and struck him in the eyes, damaging the victim’s eyesight. The…

The deputy head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday that despite the Iran nuclear deal sealed last month, the agreement will not bring a rapprochement between the US and the Islamic republic. The official, Mohammad Ahmadian, was quoted by the semi-official Fars News Agency saying “the US hostility towards Iran has no…

During Shabbat on Friday night, Arab terrorists tried to burn down the ancient tomb of the Biblical figure Yosef (Joseph) located in Shechem (Nablus), Samaria, as a “revenge” attack for the lethal arson that killed an Arab infant in nearby Duma village earlier on Friday. While the identity of the culprits in the arson in…

Opposition chairperson MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) on Saturday called on the government to outlaw nationalist groups such as Lehava and the Beitar Jerusalem soccer fan club La Familia, and label them “terrorist organizations.” He called for administrative arrests that do not require a warrant and can be renewed indefinitely, and even demolitions of homes,…

Dor Cohen, a 23-year-old resident of Jerusalem, has been missing for four days since setting out on a trek last Monday in the country of Georgia. He was last seen setting out on a hike in the Caucasian mountains in the northwestern section of the state, and has not made contact since. The Foreign Ministry…

Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri has accused Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas with bearing responsibility for the death of an Arab infant in the village of Duma in Samaria on Friday, which came during an arson attack the IDF suspects may have been committed by Jewish extremists. “I call on Abbas to stop pursuing Hamas…

When the Iran deal was announced last month, US President Barack Obama said “it is possible to change” while referencing Iran’s threats to “eradicate Israel,” and called for a “different path” of “tolerance” from the Islamic regime. Bot now, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book this week – on the topic of outwitting the US…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday arrived in Cairo for security talks with Egyptian officials before heading to Qatar to try to ease Arab concerns about the Iran nuclear deal, The Associated Press (AP) reported. While in Cairo, Kerry will resume a U.S.-Egypt strategic dialogue that was suspended in 2009 due to political…

Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, on Saturday voiced his objection to the United States Senate’s demand to be briefed about the contents of the recently signed roadmap of cooperation between Tehran and the IAEA, reports the semi-official Fars news agency. Najafi warned the UN nuclear watchdog to avoid disclosing its…

A major Syrian anti-regime group, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), announced Saturday it had quit the opposition in exile, accusing it of being undermined by internal conflict and manipulated by foreign powers, AFP reported. In a letter to the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), the LCC denounced what it termed the SNC’s transformation into “blocs linked…

Turkey has killed 260 Kurdish militants in a week-long air offensive on targets in northern Iraq, official media claimed Saturday, as regional Iraqi authorities said it was time the rebels pulled out with concerns growing over civilian casualties. Ankara has launched a two-pronged “anti-terror” offensive against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants based in northern Iraq…

On the background of the arson attack that left an Arab infant dead in the Samaria village of Duma on Friday, which the IDF has indicated Jewish extremists may have committed, Arab rioters launched wide-spread clashes with Jewish residents on Saturday. One tension-point of clashes took place between Jewish residents of Esh Kodesh in the Binyamin district…

The United States on Friday condemned the attack on a home in the Arab village of Duma as a “vicious terrorist attack”. An 18-month-old Palestinian Arab baby was killed in the firebomb attack, believed to be the work of Jewish extremists. A statement from the State Department quoted by AFP urged Israel to “apprehend the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the family of the Palestinian child Ali Dawabsha, who was murdered in an attack on his home in the Arab village of Duma early this morning. The PM spent time with relatives injured in the firebomb attack, believed to be the work of Jewish extremists, at the Chaim Sheba…

Internal Security Minister MK Gilad Erdan (Likud) addressed the tense security situation in Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria on Friday, speaking as he arrived at the Western Wall to supervise security forces as they ascended the Temple Mount.  “The Israel Police is preparing at full strength and professionalism to avoid disturbances,” Erdan stated to Maariv. “This is a very,…

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Nusra Front launched an offensive Friday on the headquarters of a new US-formed rebel group in the country’s north, leaving at least 11 dead, a monitor said. The attack came one day after Nusra kidnapped eight rebels from Division 30, who had been trained and equipped by Washington, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. “Al-Nusra attacked at…

The Hamas terrorist organization vowed attacks in response to the lethal arson in the Arab village Duma in Samaria on Friday, but just before that a senior Hamas source said his group was seeking a long-term temporary ceasefire with Israel. An Arab infant was killed in the arson and four family members wounded, in an attack…

President Reuven Rivlin reached out to the Israeli Arab and Palestinian populations through the Arabic media Friday, to express his “disgust and deep shock” at the arson attack in the Palestinian Authority (PA) village of Duma. The attack killed a baby and wounded four others; while the identity of the attackers remains unknown, the attack has…

A senior Iranian official is accusing the United States of violating the nuclear deal with his country, by making comments indicating that the accord would make any attack on Iran’s atomic program more efficient, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. Reza Najafi, Iran’s delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), quoted White House…

More than 100 headstones were toppled at a historic Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, NBC Philadelphia reported on Friday. According to the report, the groundskeeper of the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery arrived around 6:00 a.m. Thursday to the burial ground to find dozens of grave markers knocked down. “The thought went through my mind, ‘this is a…

Dylann Roof on Friday pleaded not guilty to 33 federal charges in the deadly June attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, CNN reported. Earlier this month, a grand jury indicted Roof on 33 counts, including federal hate crime and firearms charges, in the shooting that killed nine people. Roof, 21, already faces a…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the killing of an 18-month-old baby in an arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists near Ramallah, AFP reports. According to the report, the UN chief also blasted what he referred to as “repeated acts of settler violence” and “Israel’s illegal settlement policy”. Ban called on the perpetrators of…

The UN nuclear watchdog chief will meet with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, to discuss his agency’s monitoring role in Iran following Tehran’s deal with world powers, Reuters reported on Friday. Some members of Congress, which is considering whether to approve the deal, have asked that more information be made public…

A Palestinian Arab man was killed and another wounded by Israeli gunfire in the northern Gaza Strip Friday after they approached the border with Israel, a medical official told the AFP news agency. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said 27-year-old Mohammad Al-Masri died of his wounds after being shot near the border fence west…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fiercely condemned the torching of a Palestinian Arab home in Duma on Friday, after the arson killed an infant and injured four others.  “I am in shock from this criminal and terrible act,” Netanyahu said Friday morning. “We are talking about terrorism in every respect.”  “The State of Israel will send…

During the night, a Palestinian Arab child was killed and four other people were wounded as a result of an arson attack on a house in the village of Duma, northeast of Ramallah, the IDF said Friday morning.  The suspects – apparently Israeli Jews – allegedly set fire to the homes of two Palestinian families in the…

Politicians condemned the arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma in the strongest terms on Friday, after a one-and-a-half-year-old baby was killed and four others injured.  “The fire and the murder of the Palestinian toddler is an act of terrorism,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said in a statement. “We will not allow terrorists to take the lives…

The West has long pressured Russia not to deliver its advanced S-300 missile defense system to Iran, but a senior Russian official on Thursday said the system is being upgraded ahead of delivery to the Islamic republic. Iran’s state-run media PressTV quoted Vladimir Kozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aide on military and technical cooperation, saying that the system…

MK Itzik Shmuli (Zionist Union) “came out” as a homosexual on Friday, following the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade which left six people wounded.  “The knife was raised against my community,” Shmuli stated. “We stayed silent; I stayed silent. No more.”  “We can no longer remain silent because the knife was raised…

The EU urged Israel Friday to show “zero tolerance” after an arson attack in the Palestinian Authority (PA) village of Duma killed a baby and injured four others. The attack was blamed on “settlers” in Judea and Samaria, although no suspects have been arrested yet.  “The Israeli authorities should…take resolute measures to protect the local population. We call for full accountability,…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday fiercely denied suggestions Turkey was assisting Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, accusing “dark powers” of spreading false propaganda about his country. During a visit to Indonesia, the president said Turkey had suffered “significant losses” in its battle against terrorists but was determined tokeep up the fight, pointing to military operations launched by Ankara…

Arab terrorists on early Friday afternoon conducting a drive-by shooting attack on an Israeli car near Kochav Hashachar in the Binyamin district of Samaria just north of Jerusalem, and likewise a police officer was wounded in Jerusalem, all apparently in “revenge” for an arson attack. The terrorists, driving in a car with Palestinian Authority (PA)…

The American government has been spying on Japanese cabinet officials, banks and top companies, according to documents revealed by Wikileaks, in the latest of a series of shocking espionage cases in which the US has been shown to be spying on key allies. The documents, marked “top secret,” show 35 telephones numbers targeted for interception by…

Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has warned world powers are eager to appease Iran because they don’t understand that Tehran’s aggression poses a direct threat not only to its immediate neighbors, but to the West as well. Speaking Thursday evening at a farewell party in central London for Israel’s outgoing Ambassador Daniel Taub, Shalom praised the…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Friday he would appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the morning’s arson attack in the Arab village of Duma in Samaria that killed an infant and wounded four family members. Even though the identity of the attackers is not yet known, the IDF has said it suspects Jewish extremists were behind…

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terror organization behind the Palestinian Authority (PA) holds the Israeli government “fully responsible” for the death of a toddler in an arson attack Friday in the Samaria Arab village of Duma, it announced Friday, in an incident the IDF has labeled “Jewish terror.”  “We hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of…

Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad al-Momani accused Israel of an “ugly crime” on Friday, after unknown assailants assumed to be Jewish Israelis killed a Palestinian Arab baby after launching an arson attack in the Palestinian Authority (PA) village of Duma.  “This ugly crime could have been avoided if the Israeli government had not ignored the rights of…

Just 24 hours after the demolition of the Draynoff homes in Beit El, Knesset members took part in a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the same location for renewed construction. “We are laying the cornerstone today for the construction of 300 housing units, and relaying a message in the government’s name – that we must build and keep…

Loading… Six people have been injured in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s gay pride march, according to police. Emergency services say that two of the victims are in “serious” condition. The stabber – who was arrested at the scene – has been identified as Yishai Shlissel, the man who was jailed for 12 years for stabbing three…

Kevan Green of London took on a unique challenge for his 30th anniversary: a charity bike ride from his home in London to an Israeli hospital in Netanya. After arriving on Tuesday, he sat down to tell Arutz Sheva all about his 2,900 kilometer (1,800 mile) journey. Green set out on June 30 both to celebrate his 30th wedding…

Political and religious leaders from across the spectrum in Israel have condemned the stabbing attack this afternoon at the Jerusalem gay pride march. Six people were injured, two seriously, when a haredi extremist burst through the police cordon and began stabbing participants, before eventually being neutralized and arrested. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was among the…

Just half-a-month after the Iran nuclear deal was signed in Vienna on July 14, the Islamic republic of Iran announced on Thursday that it plans to build two new nuclear facilities in its southeastern Makran region on the Indian Ocean. Mohammad Ahmadian, Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), announced the plans…

An indictment was submitted on Thursday against an Israeli resident of the religious moshav Givolim in southern Israel, accusing him of smuggling materials needed to create rockets as well as explosives in to the Hamas-controlled enclave of Gaza. Amir Oli (43) hid the materials in his truck while bringing shipments of goods in to Gaza over the…

Pointing to a crater left by one of scores of Turkish air strikes in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, a PKK rebel official said that “Turkey has declared war against us”.   For three decades, Turkey was at war with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which was seeking an independent state in southeastern Anatolia. But two years…

The co-leader of Turkey’s main Kurdish party on Thursday dismissed air strikes and police raids by Ankara against Islamic State (IS or ISIS) jihadists as a “show,” saying their real target was Kurdish rebels. In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Selahattin Demirtas of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said the peace process between Turkey and…

Alarming findings on British anti-Semitism were revealed on Thursday in a new report showing that anti-Semitism incidents jumped by a whopping 53% in the first half of 2015 as compared to the same period last year. The findings, released in a report by the Community Security Trust (CST) monitoring group, in part indicates a growth in reporting…

Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson announced the policy this past Friday at Aspen Institute’s annual security forum in Washington, D.C.  He explained that though it was a Muslim terrorist who shot to death four unarmed Marines in Tennessee two weeks ago, the government will call the attack, and other similar ones, “violent extremism” and not…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) told Arutz Sheva on Thursday at Beit El that “it is our right and our duty to build in Judea and Samaria.” “I think that for the last few years we saw that the real obstacle to peace is terror,” she added, subtly responding to international condemnation against a new building…

US President Barack Obama has been pushing the Iran nuclear deal signed earlier this month by claiming the only other option is war with Iran – but he is wrong, according to the nominee to be the next Chief of Naval Operations. Navy Adm. John Richardson told the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) responded to the stabbing attack at the gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday by ordering a massive enlargement of funds for Israel’s gay youth organization, in a surprising move given his party’s conservative positions on homosexuality in the past. The Jewish Home chairperson held a special meeting with his team on Thursday…

After at least 15 years of hyping the idea of women in combat units, the IDF is admitting that women suffer injuries at a much higher rate than men during combat training – despite the fact that training requirements for women in combat are considerably less demanding than for men. According to a report in…

In a shocking land grab attempt at a site where Arab activists have long been trying to steal state land, Arab assailants from a village near Netzer in Judea’s Gush Etzion on Thursday bulldozed a nearby memorial observation point with a tractor. Women in Green (WIG) established the observation point with a pergola dedicated to the…

Jacques De Maio, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s delegation in Israel and “the occupied territories,” told the Hamas paper Al-Risalah Net that he had contacted Hamas about the fate of captured Israelis after receiving requests from their families. According to De Maio, contact between the Red Cross and the families of missing Israelis…

Basketball pros from the “glory days” of Maccabee Tel Aviv – including Doron Jampchi, Moti Daniel, Eran Bergstein, and many others – took the court Wednesday night in a special tribute game, in memory of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Sha’er and Naftali Frenkel – the three Israeli teens slain by Hamas terrorists last year. They played…

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake occurred early Thursday in Israel. The quake was centered on an area near the Dead Sea, and several people reported feeling its effects in southern Israel. Residents of the north also said they felt vibrations, and investigators are checking whether there were indeed two quakes around the same time. No injuries or…

The State Department on Wednesday night joined the calls of condemnation against Israel’s planned construction in Beit El and in Jerusalem. “We are deeply concerned about the Israeli government’s announcement today of the advancement of nearly 300 new housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, as well as hundreds of new housing…

Protestors and residents who attempted to return to their homes in Sa-Nur and were removed by security forces early Thursday said that some of the Border Police and IDF soldiers involved in the evacuation had acted in a brutal and violent manner. Residents said forces used pepper gas and tear gas to quell protests, and…

Security forces on Wednesday night began evacuating the dozens of families that returned to their homes in Sa-Nur in northern Samaria. Of the 250 people in the community, most willingly boarded the buses that was brought for the eviction. A group of 100 youths and other activists, however, remained at the site and refused to leave, and…

Hamas officials on Wednesday rejected demands by Fatah that the group hand over rule of Gaza as part of a reconciliation agreement, calling instead for an “uprising” against Palestinian Authority security forces, the Ma’an news agency reported. Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad had said on Sunday that Hamas “foiled” efforts towards a unity government, and that…

A senior official from the Palestine Liberation Organization on Wednesday denounced Israel’s plans to build new homes in Beit El and Jerusalem as “war crimes”. “These settlement measures and war crimes are part of a plan by Israeli leaders to impose a ‘Greater Israel’ on historic Palestine and destroy the two-state solution and the chance…

The Knesset approved on Wednesday night the second and third readings of the bill that has come to be known as the Norwegian Law. The bill allows one minister or deputy minister from each party to resign from the Knesset, paving the way for new MKs to enter. According to the law, which passed its…

In Parashat VaEtchanan, Moses seems to blame the Jewish people for his inability to enter the Promised Land. Just sour grapes, or the lead-in to an important insight about life and how it affects us even today? History is about cause-and-effect, and though we have little trouble recognizing the effect, since it impacts our life…

Current and former members of Israel’s legal and court system slammed a proposal by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to establish a special court to deal with housing disputes in Judea and Samaria, as opposed to giving the High Court sole jurisdiction over the matter. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Thursday thar the idea had no…

You “get what you pay for” in politics, said Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky. Speaking to Arutz Sheva about the two jarring incidents Wednesday – the demolition of the Draynoff Houses in Beit El and the evacuation of protestors from Sa-Nur in northern Samaria – Slomiansky said that those who voted for the Likud should…

In the wake of the demolition of the Draynoff Houses in Beit El, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has a suggestion: Establish a special court to deal with housing disputes in Judea and Samaria, as opposed to giving the High Court sole jurisdiction over the matter. “The system is broken,” Shaked said on Thursday. “The High…

Kulanu MK and former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren on Thursday told Arutz Sheva that the government should make every effort to bring released spy Jonathan Pollard to Israel as soon as possible. Pollard, who is to be released from prison in November after serving a 30-year term, will not be allowed to…

A day after the tractors that tore down the Draynoff Houses left the site, the Judea and Samaria Council and the Beit El Local Authority will hold a cornerstone-laying at the site – for the construction of new homes there. The new homes, according to spokepeople for the Council and Local Authority, will not experience…

The Knesset on Thursday approved on its second and third reading a law that would allow prison officials to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners. Prison wardens will be able to make requests of the courts for a permit to force-feed a prisoner, based on the recommendation of a doctor, to prevent the prisoner from doing harm to…

Syria’s foreign ministry said Wednesday it was skeptical about Turkish efforts to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) group, in its first official reaction since Ankara began airstrikes against the jihadists, AFP reports. “It is better late than never, but are Turkish intentions to fight the terrorists of Daesh (ISIS), Al-Nusra Front, and Al-Qaeda-linked groups genuine?”…

Dr. Sam Minskoff and David Lev discuss the controversial subject of where Jewish organizations and individuals fit in with regards to seeing those close to them wanting to make aliyah. This is not such an easy topic as we do see an important role for communities in terms of helping individual Jews realize their own…

A court on Wednesday handed down jail terms of up to 20 years after a trial of 32 people charged with running one of Belgium’s largest jihadist recruitment networks sending fighters to Syria, AFP reported. Many of the defendants were tried in absentia, among them Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was sentenced to 20 years, the Belga…

Justice Minister MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) vowed to prevent further court ruling demolishing homes in Judea-Samaria on Wednesday, noting in a special Arutz Sheva interview that she has established a legal taskforce to work on the issue.  Shaked noted at the outset that Supreme Court rulings must be respected – even when the public does not agree with…

A 42-year-old man from a small New York town on the edge of Lake Erie on Wednesday became the latest American charged with alleged support for extremists in Iraq and Syria, officials said. Prosecutors say that Arafat Nagi from Lackawanna pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq and Syria, and its leader Abu Bakr al Bagdadi. He…

The remains of long-missing flight Malaysia Airlines 370 may have been found Wednesday, after investigators unearthed at least one decaying part of a Boeing 777 off the coast of the island of Reunion, near Madagascar.  A section of a Boeing’s wing floated onto the La Reunion beach earlier Wednesday, prompting immediate rumors about its possible link to…

The Hamas movement that holds de facto rule in Gaza on Tuesday sent a threatening message to UNRWA, the UN body tasked with “Palestinian refugees,” which recently admitted it’s going bankrupt and will have to close schools. In an announcement published by the terror group, it said UNRWA is “giving up its role” of providing…

A majority of Americans would like Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran, a new CNN/ORC poll released on Tuesday found. The poll found that 52% of Americans believe Congress should reject the deal, while 44% say it should be approved. The new poll found a sharp partisan gap on whether Congress should approve…

Sources in the Palestinian Authority (PA) told the Ma’an news agency on Tuesday that Cyprus has pushed an initiative to revive the peace process between the PA and Israel. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades reportedly phoned PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday and briefed him on the initiative before talking to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,…

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, moved Tuesday to dismiss speculation that his country’s nuclear deal with major powers could hit difficulties, saying he had “no concern or worry” about its implementation, according to AFP. Zarif’s remarks came during a news conference with visiting EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, as they seek to ensure…

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden reacted on Tuesday to the impending release of Jonathan Pollard. Hayden, who had opposed an early release for Pollard, said “there may be a little grumbling here and there in the intelligence community” over the release, but also said he would not object, reported the Reuters news agency. “I’m not…

Vox on the Box discovers just how far followers of the Chasidic movement will go to pray by their Rebbe’s kever (gravesite).  Rav Nosson Maimon, executive director of the Breslov World Center,  provides historical background on the dynasty which brings tens of thousands each year to Uman, as Shira speaks to them one by one.…

Al-Qaeda and other rebels led a major offensive Tuesday in northwest Syria, pushing back government troops in an area bordering President Bashar Al-Assad’s coastal heartland, a monitoring group said, according to AFP. Since Monday night, the Army of Conquest alliance has seized a number of positions from the Syrian army in Sahl al-Ghab, a large…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius arrived in Tehran on Wednesday in an historic visit, becoming the first French foreign minister to arrive in the Islamic regime in 12 years – but local Iranians were less than happy to see him. Dozens of Iranian university students and activists protested Fabius’s arrival at Tehran International Airport, according…

Syrian and Lebanese sources are claiming an Israeli airstrike has killed several pro-regime forces in Syria. According to the pro-Hezbollah Al-Mayadeen, an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in Quneitra in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights, close to the border with Israel. Hezbollah’s official Al-Manar TV station claimed two pro-regime militiamen were killed in the strike, which it claims…

At more or less the same time in which bulldozers began tearing down the Draynoff houses in Beit El, following a High Court order, a consultation was held at the Prime Minister’s Office in which the immediate construction of 300 housing units in Beit El was approved. The 300 units were promised by the Israeli government…

The underground remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have been uncovered in a Ground Penetrating Radar survey. The survey, conducted in June 2015, leads the way to an excavation next year to dig up what remains of what was Lithuania’s greatest synagogue before the war, which…

Canada said Wednesday it will buy missile defense radars modeled after Israel’s Iron Dome from German defense contractor Rheinmetall. The defense ministry put the cost of the 10 medium range radar systems at Cad$243.3 million ($187.2 million), according to AFP.  Canada’s National Defense Minister Jason Kenney hailed the deal, saying the technology had proved useful for Israel. “Much like Israel’s successful Iron…

An Iraqi politician has called for his country to make peace with Israel, while branding Iran “insane” and blaming the Arab and Muslim world for creating ISIS by fomenting “a mentality of vengeance and nullification of the other.” Mithal Al-Alusi, a Sunni Muslim and leader of the Iraqi Ummah Party, made his comments in an interview with the Kuwaiti…

MK Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) is not going to apologize for the harsh remarks against the High Court, he said Wednesday, despite a fierce backlash from fellow MKs.  “Despite the valid zoning plan and the construction permit, the High Court ruled unjustly, in a way befitting charlatans,” an angry Yogev had stated earlier Wednesday. “A D9 [bulldozer] shovel…

Turkey’s allies know it is playing a double game with its twin onslaught against Kurdish rebels and the Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) but are turning a blind eye to keep NATO’s only Muslim member on side, analysts said. The very public show of solidarity for Turkey’s fight against “terrorism” at an emergency NATO meeting…

An explosion wounded seven people at the base of a Palestinian terrorist group linked to Syria’s Assad regime in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, a security official told AFP. The explosion rocked a position in the town of Qusaya of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), a hardline group with close…

Several Border Policemen refused to take orders to demolish a series of homes destroyed in Beit El on Wednesday, a source at the scene stated to Arutz Sheva, and will now likely face jail time for their loyalty to the residents.  “We met here many religious Border Police troops and policemen […] religious people for whom…

Staff at the Ramat Gan Safari conducted tumor-removal surgery on Samouni, an eight year-old African lion on Wednesday, in a special operation caught on film.  The lion’s trainers noticed swelling in Samouni’s abdomen recently and was diagnosed after an emergency biopsy.  Safari animal veterinarian Dr. Yigal Horowitz performed the two-hour operation, and the lion is expected to…

The Yisrael Beytenu party filed a no-confidence motion against the government on Wednesday, in direct response to the demolition of the Draynoff housing project in Beit El.  The no-confidence motion, entitled “the failed conduct of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense regarding the demolition of houses in Beit El,” suggests that the entire…

The UN envoy to Syria on Wednesday invited Syrians to take part in what he called “thematic” discussions to keep alive stalled efforts to negotiate an end to the war. “Sadly there is still no consensus on the way forward,” Staffan de Mistura told the UN Security Council after two months of meetings with key players in the conflict. “The…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara is ending the peace process with the Kurds in the face of attacks against Turkish targets, even as his fighter jets launched an attack on Kurdish forces. “It is not possible to carry on the (peace) process with those who target our national unity and brotherhood,” Erdogan told…

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) spoke to Arutz Sheva on Tuesday about his arrest last Thursday in front of the office of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), which came after Hikind used civil disobedience to press Schumer to block the Iran nuclear deal. In the protest, Hikind and eight other Jewish activists were arrested for sitting down on the sidewalk in…

There are heavy concerns that the families who returned to Sa-Nur in northern Samaria during the early pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning will be expelled by security forces in the coming hours on Tuesday night. The dozens of families, together with 200 supporters from all around Israel, returned to their abandoned homes in the town to mark…

Numerous Jewish activists took part in an event in support of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, held at the New York home of Jewish activist Dr. Joseph Frager on Monday night (local time). In an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, Huckabee spoke about his recent comments criticizing US President Barack Obama for the Iran nuclear deal,…

Syrian troops and Kurdish fighters ousted the Islamic State (ISIS) group from Hasakeh Tuesday, more than a month after the jihadists launch an assault on the northeastern city, a monitoring group said.  Government troops and Kurdish forces, who share control of the city, had been battling since June 25 to push ISIS forces out of the city, which is the capital of Hasakeh province.…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with Nicos Anastasiades, the president of Cyprus, warning that Iran poses a formidable threat to Europe and noting that its terror proxy Hezbollah operates cells across the continent. Just last month, a member of the Lebanese Shi’ite terror group was jailed in Cyprus for plotting attacks on Israeli targets on the Mediterranean island. Netanyahu, on an official…

Hundreds of people have been gathering since Tuesday morning adjacent to the Draynoff compound in Beit El, which was stormed overnight by security forces despite the ongoing legalization process to save the buildings from demolition. In the late afternoon residents made renewed attempts to break back into the buildings, a development that has led to clashes with…

American lawyer and writer Samuel Pisar, one of the youngest Holocaust survivors and former adviser to US President John F. Kennedy, has died in New York aged 86, a French Jewish group said Tuesday. Pisar was “one of the rare very well-known survivors, along with Elie Wiesel and Simone Veil,” said French Jewish community leader Roger Cukierman, who said he had lost…

Representative Sander M. Levin, a Democrat from Michigan and the longest-serving Jewish member now in Congress, said Tuesday he would support the Iran nuclear accord, reports The New York Times. “Israel’s security has and always will be of critical importance to me and our country,” he said in a lengthy statement explaining his decision. “I…

United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien said Tuesday he hoped to secure better humanitarian access to Syrians most in need during his maiden visit to Damascus next month. Speaking to the UN Security Council, he expressed hope that the visit “will provide an opportunity to constructively engage with the government to address some of the…

Arutz Sheva was on scene as no less than 275 new olim (Jewish immigrants) from Ukraine landed in Israel on Tuesday, as part of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ)’s eighth Freedom Flight. Most of the new arrivals are refugees from the war-torn eastern section of Ukraine, and they were greeted by Bnai Akiva volunteers and IDF Border…

Damning evidence was found when US special forces killed Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Sayyaf in May, revealing that NATO-member Turkey has in fact been collaborating with the brutal jihadists. The British Guardian reported on Sunday that when Abu Sayyaf’s compound was raided in eastern Syria, it was discovered that Turkey is the main buyer of smuggled ISIS…

Amanda Korody, a Canadian woman found guilty of taking part in a terrorist bomb plot, also wanted to infiltrate a synagogue and kill Jewish children, according to a report in the Western Canadian newspaper, the Times Colonist. Both Korody and co-defendant, John Nuttall, her husband, are self-described Muslim converts. Police notes presented in British Columbia…

Clashes broke out in the town of Beit El in the Binyamin region on Monday night, as police forces in large numbers arrived in preparation for the demolition of the Draynoff Homes, which the High Court had ordered to be demolished. Dozens of youths gathered in the area in an attempt to prevent the evacuation…

A group of former diplomats on Monday sent a letter to Congress, urging members of both chambers not to reject the deal between Iran and the West, Politico reports. The letter, signed by former undersecretaries of state and former American ambassadors to Israel, states that the group has determined the deal “will leave Iran no…

The back and forth between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas continued on Monday, with a Fatah official saying that Hamas must hand over rule of Gaza as a condition to forming a unity government. Speaking to the Ma’an news agency, Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad said Hamas has to “lift their hands” from Gaza and…