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A judge on Wednesday barred former Argentine president Carlos Menem from leaving the country, ahead of his trial over alleged obstruction of the investigation into the deadly bombing of a Jewish community center in 1994, AFP reports. The attack, which killed 85 people, was the deadliest ever on Argentine soil, and also left about 300…

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday made his first public statement regarding the nuclear deal reached between his country and six world powers, warning that some of the parties on the other side were not trustworthy, Reuters reported. Khamenei said that the text of the deal reached should be carefully scrutinized and legal…

French authorities have foiled a plot by four would-be extremists to attack military bases, the interior minister said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press (AP). The suspects, aged between 16 and 23, were arrested Monday at four separate locations around France, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. Cazeneuve said the group’s leader had been under surveillance…

Hamas and Israel have returned to the negotiating table over the return of two Israeli civilians being held captive in Gaza, senior Palestinian officials told Walla! News on Wednesday.  According to the sources, Ethiopian-Israeli Avraham Mengistu is healthy and in Hamas custody, and that a similar message was relayed by Hamas to Israel. No word was given…

The murderers of David Bar-Kapara, the 70-year-old Israeli farmer beaten to death last month – had a previous record of terrorist violence, Israeli security sources have revealed. Shortly after the murder, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), along with Israel Police, arrested two Arab men from the village of Beit Lakia, near Ramallah in…

Likud faction chairman Tzahi Hanegbi spoke to Channel 20 on Thursday about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent refusal to expand Judea and Samaria.  During a meeting on the subject on Monday, Netanyahu admitted plans to keep the de facto building freeze on the area unofficially instituted over the past two years.  “What the Prime Minister said at the meeting, which…

After closing his deal with Iran and reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, US President Barack Obama may be seeking a “triple play” to shore up his legacy. According to a report by the Yonhap news agency in South Korea, Obama has sent out feelers to North Korea in an attempt to institute detente with that rogue regime.…

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Zionist Union) slammed opposition chairman Yitzhak Herzog on Thursday for his show of “total support” for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s position on the Iranian nuclear deal. Netanyahu and Herzog met Tuesday evening and agreed on a united front against the deal struck between the six world powers and Iran hours prior.  Yechimovich, however, asserted to Army Radio that standing alongside…

As if in celebration, Gaza terrorists on Wednesday fired a rocket at Israel – a day after the United States and its allies announced that they had arrived at an accord with Iran to regulate Tehran’s nuclear program. Iran declared victory, and hours later, Gaza terrorists, many of whom are directly supported by Iran, fired…

The Alumni Community of Taglit-Birthright sent an email to its listserv on Tuesday, calling on Birthright alumni to contact their legislative representatives and lobby against the Iran deal.  The email sent to Birthright alumni in the New York area urged them to “help the State of Israel by contacting your congressman and senator and requesting that they…

Israeli commandos assassinated a top Syrian commander at a dinner party in 2008, before escaping by sea, according to a document leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden Wednesday.  Muhammad Suleiman, a Brig. Gen. in the Syrian army, was deeply involved in three primary areas, according to the document: internal Syrian political issues, sensitive military operations,…

The terrorist who stabbed an IDF soldier earlier Wednesday has been identified as Ruan Abu Matar, 22, a resident of Beitillu near Ramallah, it was cleared for publication this evening.  One soldier, a 22-year-old male, was wounded in the attack on Route 60 near the town of Nahliel in Binyamin. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics who arrived at the…

The United States returned Wednesday hundreds of Iraqi artifacts its special forces recovered during a raid in Syria against a man described as the Islamic State group’s top financier. Some of the pieces were displayed at the Iraqi national museum during a repatriation ceremony attended by Antiquities Minister Adel Shirshab and US Ambassador Stuart Jones. “These artifacts are indisputable evidence…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke to NBC News on Wednesday, arguing the Iranian nuclear deal poses a threat not only to Israel but also to the United States.  “We think this is not only a threat to us. We think this is a threat to you as well,” Netanyahu told NBC’s Lester Holt, a day after…

A total of 70 people from 17 different countries worldwide were arrested Wednesday in a joint operation between cyber police and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation.  The detainees are accused of running a large-scale forum for the transfer of credit card information and other identification-related data between hackers.  The hackers and cyber criminals operated the underground forum…

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said Wednesday a historic nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is a first step to ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction. The head of the Cairo-based pan-Arab bloc expressed hopes the accord reached on Tuesday would usher in “stability and security” in the volatile region, according to AFP.  Arabi also called on the international…

The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the grassroots Zionist movement Im Tirtzu does not have fascist characteristics, overturning a Jerusalem court ruling from 2013.  The case began when Im Tirtzu sued the Facebook group “Im Tirtzu is a fascist Movement” for libel; the Jerusalem District Court ruled that because Im Tirtzu could be likened to fascism, it…

Islamic State (ISIS)-style terrorism arrived in the heart of the West Tuesday, after a terrorist shouting “Allah is great” held a tourist at knifepoint outside Rome’s Colosseum.  The attacker held 26 year-old Chiara Frisco hostage for several minutes, shouting Islamist remarks until police arrived, Italian press reported. Frisco, from a town on the Adriatic sea, had been…

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Zalman Shoval, rejected allegations that the deal forged between Iran and the West represents a failure of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s leadership on Tuesday, in a special interview with Arutz Sheva.  “Israel conducted a campaign, of which we can say in concrete terms was successful,” Shoval said. “If not for the…

The Knesset plenum soundly rejected Wednesday a preliminary reading of the bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu MK Sharon Gal which seeks to impose the death penalty on convicted terrorist murders.  The explanatory notes to the bill state that the “fight against terrorism is the world’s greatest challenge in the 21st century, even more so, Israel’s greatest challenge.…

First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted an event Wednesday marking ten years since the Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria.  She spoke representing the President who was sitting Shiva (mourning – ed.) following the death of his sister earlier in the week. The event, attended by leaders and representatives of the Gush Katif community, was themed ‘National Responsibility,’ and recognized…

Arutz Sheva spoke with Helen Freedman, executive director of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI). Freedman attended an event on Wednesday hosted by First Lady Nechama Rivlin marking ten years since the Disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria, in which almost 10,000 Jews were expelled from their homes. AFSI, said Freedman “was with Gush Katif…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) seeks to dissolve the committee tasked with selecting performances for Israeli students as part of the Culture Basket educational arts program.  In an internal letter sent to officials in the ministry, Channel 10 reported, Bennett exclaimed: “Look at the people who are deciding what kind of art our children are exposed to.”  Last…

A French anti-Semitism watchdog group reports that a Jewish family was attacked and robbed in their suburban home Wednesday. According to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) report, three masked men, described as of African descent, broke into a home in Le Blanc-Mesnil, a few kilometers outside of Paris. They then held the…

Nearly three-fourths of the Israeli public believe the West’s deal with Iran on its nuclear program will not prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons within the next decade, a poll Wednesday revealed.  In contrast, the poll, conducted by the Sarid Institute for Channel 10, found that only 10% of respondents “trust” the United States and…

“I expect the debate to be robust, and that’s how it should be; it’s an important issue,” he added. “Our national-security policies are stronger and more effective when subject to the scrutiny and transparency that democracy demands.”  “The details of this deal matter very much,” he noted. “That’s why our team worked so hard for so…

A government official has threatened a group of South African students who visited Israel in recent weeks, accusing them of bringing the African National Congress (ANC) into “disrepute.” Obed Bapela, a deputy minister in President Jacob Zuma’s office, said the ruling party would “summon” the students for an investigation.  While Dan Brotman, the director of the South…

A former Australian rugby star player, readying for a tryout with the National Football League (NFL), has apologized for a series of “hurtful” tweets in which he blamed the Jews for killing Jesus Christ.  On July 1, Jarryd Hayne, 27, wrote on Twitter that “Jesus wanted to help people but was killed by his own people” – outraging many of his followers on the social…

Retired general John Allen, the US special envoy for the coalition against Islamic State (ISIS), admitted Tuesday that some of Washington’s allies in the war with ISIS would be unnerved by Tuesday’s nuclear deal between the West and Iran. “For many of the members of the coalition, Iran has been, is and probably will remain one of the principal sources…

Canada’s Foreign Minister responded on Tuesday to a deal between Iran and the six world powers by saying Iran’s nuclear ambitions remain a major threat to peace despite the agreement. Minister Rob Nicholson said that Canada would continue to judge Iran by its actions and not its words, according to the Reuters news agency. “Iran…

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the deal that was reached between Iran and the six world powers on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. In a statement, the pro-Israel lobby noted it has consistently supported diplomatic efforts to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons appreciates the Obama…

This week Ira Rod are joined by Eleonora Shifrin, whose late husband brought Reb Shlomo to Moscow in 1970. Both Eleonora and her late husband Avraham were pioneers in the Zionist Movement in the Soviet Union. Eleonora shares her story, and gives us an insider’s view of how Reb Shlomo influenced her life personally, as…

Education Minister and Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett on Tuesday continued giving interviews to international media in which he warned of the dangers of the nuclear deal with Iran. After already having tackled a hostile BBC interviewer, Bennett was interviewed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo and warned that the deal “paves the way for Iran…

Kuwait on Tuesday charged 29 people over the suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque last month, claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, that killed 26 people and wounded more than 200, AFP reported. The attack, carried out by a Saudi, was the worst in Kuwait’s history. Those charged included seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three Pakistanis, 13 stateless people…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog on Tuesday evening agreed on a united front with regards to the deal struck between the six world powers and Iran. Netanyahu met Herzog in his Jerusalem office and updated him on the briefings that were given at the Security Cabinet regarding the security significance…

There’s a whole lot of transition this week. As the people of Israel prepare to conclude reading the Book of Numbers and begin Deuteronomy, we also mark the passage this week from the month of Tammuz to the month of Av, and we will be intensifying our levels of mourning for the Holy Temple as the…

Yaakov Amidror, former head of the National Security Council, warned on Tuesday that the agreement between Iran and world powers legitimizes Iran’s military nuclear program and will see the Islamic Republic emerging stronger within 10 to 15 years. “We will see in 10-15 years that Iran is stronger from every point of view, that it…

An IDF soldier has been wounded in a stabbing attack along Route 60 in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem. The soldier was reportedly stabbed in the back by a female terrorist near the town of Nahliel. The attacker has since been arrested. More details to follow.

Ya’akov Nagel, deputy chief of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC), warned the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday about the dangers inherent in the Iran nuclear deal sealed by world powers the day before. “The (version of the) final deal reached Israel just very shortly before the public (announcement of the) deal,” explained Nagel. “Except…

Disturbing details of the Iran nuclear deal signed Tuesday continue to come to light, revealing why critics are more concerned than ever. One particularly interesting detail: Tucked away near the very end of the deal’s massive text is a section entitled “Nuclear Safety, Safeguards and Security,” which stipulates that the West will train Iran to thwart sabotage against its…

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant and Nazi guard at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted on Wednesday by a German court, and sentenced to four years in jail. Oskar Groening has been dubbed the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” given that he was tasked with organizing and counting the belongings stolen from Jewish prisoners at the death…

As experts got a chance to examine the details of the 159-page Iran nuclear deal signed Tuesday, they warned that it ignores various key aspects of the Islamic regime’s nuclear program, and that the lifting of arms sanctions may pave Iran’s path to nuclear-capable missiles. A glaring omission is seen in the absolute lack of any…

The IDF is doing its best to discourage religious girls from entering the National Service (Sherut Leumi) track, and to encourage them to join the military, according to an educator of girls. Bracha Goodman, who teaches 12th grade at the ulpana – or girl’s religious academy – of Elkana, told Arutz Sheva that this is…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gleefully received the nuclear deal his negotiators sealed with world powers on Tuesday, glowing about how his regime had achieved all of its goals in the negotiations. Rouhani stated that at the start of the talks, the two major goals of Iran were to remove all sanctions and keep its entire nuclear…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday evening with US President Barack Obama, following the deal signed between world powers and Tehran over the latter’s nuclear program. Netanyahu used the opportunity to express Israel’s concerns regarding the nuclear deal with Iran. Warning the agreement threatened the State of Israel’s security, Netanyahu stressed two central concerns. First and foremost, he…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Tuesday that the deal signed with Iran will lead to “a colossal catastrophe” in ten years’ time. “Hundreds of millions of dollars will be streamed to Iran as a result of the lifting of sanctions,” the Jewish Home minister wrote. “Some of the money will be directed toward funding the…

Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor lambasted the P5+1 nuclear agreement announced Tuesday.  The leaders in Tehran, he said, “can lean back comfortably, and act without limitations… with a broad smile on their faces.” However, he added: “Tomorrow, the rest of the world will pay the price.” The text of Ambassador Prosor’s entire statement follows: “The Iranians have woken…

Loading… The Knesset’s Interior Committee discussed the force feeding of terrorist prisoners on hunger strike, in a session attended by Minister of Interior Security, Gilad Erdan. At the start of the session, MKs from the Arab Joint List presented an illustrative video that shows what force-feeding a prisoner looks like. According to MK Ahmed Tibi, the…

Iranian and many world leaders alike are celebrating the deal reached Tuesday over Tehran’s nuclear program as a successful diplomatic effort – as are their respective negotiating teams, whose seemingly never-ending talks have finally come to an end. But the approach by those advocating a deal – which by Obama’s own admission would at best delay…

A senior member of the Syrian Ahrar al-Sham rebel group was killed along with six other fighters on Tuesday in a double suicide bombing in northwestern Syria, a monitor said.   No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was believed to have been carried out by…

The White House has released a series of infographics Tuesday explaining the alleged benefits of the deal struck with Iran: US President Barack Obama hailed the deal earlier Tuesday, saying it prevented a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. But regardless, the deal’s critics are not impressed. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed the deal as…

Leading Republican Party figures have responded to the deal signed Tuesday morning between Iran and world powers – led by the United States – with skepticism. The first GOP Congressman to issue a full statement on the agreement was Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most…

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered his official reaction to the deal signed between Iran and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program. “The world is a much more dangerous place today than it was yesterday,” Netanyahu said, speaking at the start of an emergency security cabinet meeting he convened following news of the deal, which was…

Ultra-liberal Jewish group J Street released a statement hailing the agreement as “meet[ing] the critical criteria for…a deal that verifiably blocks each of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon.” “We congratulate President Obama, Secretary Kerry and the other members of the P5+1 for having the resolve, determination, patience and persistence to bring such a difficult…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday criticized Israel’s opposition to the nuclear deal agreed upon by six world powers and Iran, Reuters reported. According to the report, Steinmeier said the agreement would help contribute to security in the Middle East. “This is a responsible deal and Israel should also take a closer look at…

Saudi Arabia, which has long opposed a nuclear deal with Iran, on Tuesday warned Iran against abusing funds that will follow from the landmark deal it signed with the West to incite turmoil in the region, Reuters reported. According to the report, the state news agency Saudi Press Agency said that Tehran must use the…

An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian engineer from Gaza to 21 years in jail Tuesday for helping the Islamist terrorist movement Hamas to improve the range of rockets used against the Jewish state.   Dirar Abu Sisi went missing in Ukraine in February 2011, and Israel said a month later that he was in its custody and…

Analysts writing in Arab news media are saying that in the deal it made with Iran, the West has made the same mistake that it made when it appeased Adolf Hitler in 1938, according to Channel 2 television’s veteran Arab affairs expert, Ehud Yaari. Yaari noted that Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, whom he considers…

Former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday evening that Iran is very likely to come into possession of nuclear bombs within the next decade. While it is “very difficult” to say whether Iran will have nuclear bombs, he said, “it is definitely very likely that Iran will become a nuclear power in the…

A well-known rabbi in northern Israel suspected of a series of sex offenses against women in his community has met with three of his alleged victims for the first time since the case hit headlines. According to Channel Two, the confrontation soon descended into a loud shouting match, as the women leveled serious accusations of abuse at…

Hundreds attended a demonstration protesting anti-Jewish discrimination on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon. Despite being Judaism’s holiest site, Jews are forbidden from praying on the Temple Mount due to Muslim pressure and threats of violence, and religious Jews who wish to visit are subjected to a long list of restrictions. Those suspected of breaking…

An Australian woman was arrested on Monday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital of Abu Dhabi for the unusual crime of “writing bad words” on Facebook. Jodi Magi, 39, told the Australian ABC that back in February she posted a photo of a car with no disability stickers that was parked blocking two disabled parking spaces…

A diplomatic source told Reuters Tuesday night that a final deal on Iran’s nuclear program will allow international inspectors into Iran’s covert military nuclear sites, but an Iranian official lost no time in denying that prospect. An Iranian source involved in the nuclear talks in Vienna told the Iranian semi-official Fars News Agency that the report of inspectors from…

Israel released Islamic Jihad terrorist Khader Adnan for the second time in two days on Monday night, Palestinian Arab media reported, including the Ma’an news agency. Adnan, who was released on Sunday following a 56-day hunger strike, was briefly rearrested on Monday evening for entering the Old City of Jerusalem without the necessary permit. According…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Palestinian Arabs in Gaza with knowledge of two missing Israeli civilians to provide information about their possible whereabouts and conditions, reports The Associated Press (AP). UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday the secretary-general is also calling for prompt action to facilitate the safe return to their families…

With Iran and world powers close to a nuclear deal, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday took to Twitter, launching a new account in Farsi in an attempt to reach out to the Iranian public. In his first tweet, Netanyahu, a fierce critic of the emerging deal, immediately criticized the ongoing negotiations, according to The…

A draft nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers calls for UN inspectors to have access to all suspect Iranian sites, including military, based on consultations between the powers and Tehran, a diplomatic source told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday night. The source added that if the deal is agreed, a UN Security…

US President Barack Obama delivered a statement on the deal struck between Iran and world powers at 7 a.m. EST (2 p.m. in Israel) from the White House. “Today, after 2 years of negotiations, the US, together with our international partners, has achieved something that has not: a comprehensive, long-term deal that prevents Iran from obtaining…

Radical Arab MK Hanin Zoabi of the Joint Arab List gave an interview to the Hamas paper Palestine on Tuesday, marking her second interview with the propaganda paper of the genocidal terrorist organization in the space of a week. In the interview, as in her last talk with the paper, the pro-Hamas member of Israel’s Knesset accused…

An official announcement of the Iran nuclear deal was made early Tuesday afternoon in Vienna by negotiators from Iran, the EU, and the P5+1 group of world powers including the US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini sat next to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif with other officials in…

​The Iranian state press has presented its side of the nuclear talks Tuesday, as both Western and Iranian foreign ministers present the terms of the deal in a historic press conference over the nuclear agreement.  Just before the formal announcement, state-run PressTV revealed, allegedly, some of the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), including: …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon welcomed the announcement of a deal reached between Iran and the West regarding the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program Tuesday, as diplomats from both sides and the EU met in Vienna in a final closed session. “I warmly welcome the historic agreement in Vienna today and congratulate the P5+1 and Iran for…

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder voiced strong skepticism about Tuesday’s nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries in Vienna aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities.   “We are still looking forward to getting all the details of this agreement, with the hope that the verification process will allow inspectors to determine…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reacted to the Iranian nuclear deal on Tuesday morning, after Iranian and Western diplomats revealed a deal had been reached ahead of an official announcement of the agreement at noon Vienna time. According to Netanyahu, “the nuclear deal with Iran is a bitter mistake of historic proportions.” “In every area where…

Alongside the Iran nuclear deal reached Tuesday, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Yukiya Amano announced Tuesday that a “road map” to resolve the military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program has also been completed. Speaking to reporters outside Vienna’s Palais Coburg where the negotiations were held, Amano said an agreement had been reached on…

Iran and world powers are expected to announce a nuclear deal at 1:00 pm local time (IST), as the world waits for the agreement Israeli officials have deemed a historical disaster. An Iranian diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the deal has been reached, saying, “all the hard work has paid off and we sealed…

The Israeli diplomatic echelon was not caught by surprise with the deal reached between world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program on Tuesday, with the working assumption for weeks in Jerusalem being that the deal is a foregone conclusion and Israel must instead prepare for the day after. A senior Israeli diplomat told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu admitted that he has no plans to expand Judea and Samaria on Monday, and indeed plans to keep the de facto building freeze unofficially instituted over the past two years.  During a meeting on the subject, the Mayor of Beit El, Shay Alon, interrupted Netanyahu and asked about the destruction of…

The High Court on Monday authorized a demonstration by groups protesting the banning of Jews from the Temple Mount. The demonstration is set to take place on Tuesday between 5:30 and 6:45 PM. Groups lobbying for the rights of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount called for a mass show of support against the…

Two Arab teens were offered a plea deal, reducing charges from “violating a holy place” to “disorderly conduct in a public place,” when police decided not to pursue a case against them for urinating on the “Small Kotel,” the Kotel Hakatan. While most Israelis and tourists are familiar with the Western Wall, the Kotel, and…

State-owned Iranian news source PressTV has reported that the international sanctions against the Islamic Republic are already beginning to be lifted. According to the report, Tehran’s Day Bank held an official ceremony to mark its reentry into the SWIFT global banking system. SWIFT is the secure network that nearly every bank in the world uses…

While motivating oneself for school can be a challenge for any student, it can be all that much more difficult for those children who have lost a parent to tragedy or illness.  In recognition of this unique group of students, the Chessed Menachem Mendel program of the Colel Chabad charitable organization developed a special initiative…

Legal rights organization Shurat HaDin has taken on world soccer (football) on Monday, after writing to the current President of  FC Barcelona, Josef Maria Bartomeu, and asking him to cut the team’s sponsorship ties to Qatar.  The Israeli group accuses Qatar of being a major funder of international terrorism and allowing senior Hamas leadership to operate from its territory. FC Barcelona allegedly…

As talk continues of an imminent deal between Iran and world powers – one which reportedly would see Tehran receive all of its demands – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has added his voice to a growing number of senior Israeli officials warning that regardless of the outcome, Israel is not bound by the deal. “Even over the…

Nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six world powers were set to miss a midnight deadline on Monday to reach a final deal, but diplomats from all sides said they hoped for a breakthrough in the coming hours, Reuters reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said an agreement was possible on Tuesday, though Western and…

In the spirit of the Shemittah, the seventh Sabbatical year, the Knesset on Monday passed on its first reading a new measure that will prevent government-licensed sheriffs from seizing property for the payment of debts from people who just can’t afford to pay. The law, proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, will be sent back…

Israel Ambassador the UN Ron Prosor addressed over 200 people choosing to immigrate to Israel on Monday, as they embarked from John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport for the first Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) charter flight for summer 2015. The charter flight will land in Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport on Tuesday morning.  “You and I share a common…

Israeli police on Monday re-arrested Palestinian Arab terrorist and Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan on Monday, less than one day after he was freed following a 56-day hunger strike that allegedly brought him near death. “Khader Adnan was arrested because he had no right to be in the Old City of Jerusalem where free access is allowed to West Bank Palestinians only aged…

Israel tried to retrieve Avraham Mengistu, the Israeli who entered Gaza and is being held by Hamas. A report on Channel Two Monday said that IDF and security forces tried to bring Mengistu back to Israel a short time after he entered Gaza, but were tricked by Hamas into abandoning him. According to the report,…

In arguably one of its cruelest acts yet, the Islamic State (ISIS) has reportedly blown up a baby as part of a demonstration showing how to handle explosives. So reports The Clarion Project. The unparalleled incident took place in Diyala Province, eastern Iraq, this past Friday, according to Sadiq el-Husseini, Security Committee Chairman of the province…

Loading… A moving ceremony took place at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem Monday morning, as more than a dozen Holocaust survivors belatedly celebrated their Bar Mitzvahs – a coming of age ceremony denied to them in their youth due to Nazi persecution and genocide. Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau lead the ceremony, which was organized by…

Loading… President Reuven Rivlin visited the ancient Mount of Olives cemetery Monday and paid respect to the graves of his parents. He then went on to visit the “Afghan section” of the cemetery that has suffered intensely from Arab-Muslim vadalism in the last few months. He was accompanied by four relatives of Jews who are…

Ahead of an expected final deal on Iran’s nuclear program on Monday, which Iran’s top negotiator said may be delayed again until after Tuesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) warned that Israel will have to “defend itself” after the deal. “The bottom line is that we’re heading for a bad deal, after which we will continue…

French special forces evacuated 18 people from a mall near Paris Monday after gunmen attacked a Primark store inside, in what is believed to be an attempt to rob the shop, police said. Authorities say they have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the incident. “Around 6:30 am (0430 GMT), three armed criminals went…

Officials indicated that a final deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear program had good chances of being reached on Monday, but Iran’s senior negotiator was quoted by the Islamic regime’s state press on Monday saying that a deal may remain elusive for several more days. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who is serving as Iran’s chief negotiator in the…

A Jewish couple narrowly averted death Saturday night in a terror attack that took place in central Israel, on Highway 6 (Kvish Shesh) that crosses Israel from north to south. Tova Hoyman of Afula described the attack, which took place near the Arab town of Baka Al Gharbiya. “We spent Saturday with our daughter in…

Name: Konditorit Shabbatot Ve’Chaggim (קונדיטורית שבתות וחגים) (Translation: Confectioneries for Shabbat and Festivals) Where: Hamalacha 5, industrial zone, Ariel Owned by the sweet, talented Maya who worked under and alongside renown Israeli chef Hans Bertele, famous for his baking school, coffee shops, restaurants and TV baking programs. Also sells a wide range of breads, desserts, cakes, cookies and personalized baked goods…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday executed a jihadist-influenced woman from the Gulf state who murdered an American teacher in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall bathroom stall with a knife last December 1, reports state media. The woman, Alaa Bader al-Hashemi (30), was executed at dawn after UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan approved…

A New York state federal judge last Thursday ruled in favor of five Jewish students who suffered severe anti-Semitic abuse at schools in upstate New York, approving for them a $4.5 million settlement from the school district. The case has dragged on for years, after the students and their families initially sued the Pine Bush…

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Sunday told world leaders they were failing Syria’s children, as spent her 18th birthday Sunday on the Syrian border. Yousafzai, who was shot by terrorists in her native Pakistan for campaigning for girls’ rights, opened a school for more than 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in…

Iran and six world powers were close to reaching a nuclear deal, but the Iranian foreign minister said no agreement would be announced on Sunday, according to Reuters. After more than two weeks of negotiations in Vienna, Iranian and Western officials said the earliest an agreement could be ready was Monday, the self-imposed deadline for…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday sought to calm angry US Jews after Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay castigated reform Jews for “losing their way” as Jews, AFP reported. “Israel is a home for all Jews,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “The government of Israel serves all Israeli citizens —…

A Tel Aviv cafe will have to pay 35,000 shekels ($9,300 US) to a man whose was refused work because he is an Arab. The plaintiff, Omri Kis, applied to work at Café Café in the Tel Aviv Port two years ago. He was hired and began training. It was not until the end of…

There’s a new member of the Netanyahu family – Kaia, a dog that was taken in by the family last week. Kaia made his first public appearance on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Facebook page, in a photo where Kaia poses with Netanyahu’s sons Avner and Yair, and his wife Sara, in the yard of the…

Semi-official Fars news agency in Iran has published an outline of the expected nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers. The most notable aspect of the deal is that “all economic, financial and banking sanctions against Iran will be terminated for good on day one after the endorsement of the deal.” Iran currently faces economic…

The former chair of a prominent British mosque is being accused of distributing a children’s DVD that promotes suicide bombings against Israelis. The Times newspaper reports that Firas al-Rawi, the former chairman of the Leeds Grand Mosque, also owned a Muslim-oriented bookstore and distributing company. He sold the DVD at his store and the film’s…

In an effort to increase its price for them, Hamas on Sunday continued its propaganda campaign over two missing Israelis. Although Hamas has officially denied that it is holding Avraham Mengitsu and a still-unnamed Bedouin Arab, Hamas terror officials have been making other statements. On Sunday, Dr. Faiz Abu Smalla, who is a Hamas expert…

Train service was halted and roads were closed in northern Israel Sunday after officials said that they were investigating a possible chemical leak at a facility of Israel Military Industries (Rafael) in Kiryat Bialik. Officials said that so far, they had not discovered any danger to the public. Israel Railways official said that they had…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a recent interview with an Egyptian paper that the Hamas terrorist group, which he signed a reconciliation treaty with early last year, is holding secret negotiations with Israel to establish an Arab state in Gaza. Speaking with the paper Roz Al-Youssef last month in statements that were just recently translated…

Turkish security forces have over the last three days detained 45 foreign nationals seeking to cross into Syria to join Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists from the southeastern city of Gaziantep, AFP reported Sunday, citing the Turkish Dogan news agency. If confirmed, the detentions would mark a stepping up of pressure on ISIS by the Turkish…

An historic nuclear deal between Iran and world powers could be reached quickly if Tehran is ready to take the last steps, a German government source close to Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday, Reuters reported. “From the viewpoint of the minister, there are only a few elements missing for a watertight agreement with…

Senator Lindsey Graham, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, on Sunday said fellow candidate Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party’s future on the line with his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants. Speaking in an interview with CNN, Graham said, “I think he’s hijacked the debate. I think he’s…

The United States is holding discussions with countries in North Africa about locating drones at a base there to heighten monitoring of Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya, Reuters reports, citing a senior administration official who spoke with the Wall Street Journal. Such a base near ISIS strongholds in Libya would help the United States “fill…

Gill Rosenberg, the Canadian-Israeli woman who went to Syria to fight alongside Kurdish forces, is back in Israel, i24news reported on Sunday. In an interview with the news network, Rosenberg, 31, said that she joined the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units in Syrian Kurdistan) to help them fight the radical Islamic State (ISIS) group that…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein is threatening to resign if a bill requiring the death penalty for those found guilty of terrorist murders is passed, Channel 10 News reported on Sunday evening. Weinstein reportedly said in private conversations, in reference to the bill submitted by MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu), that “if the death penalty is…

A string of bomb explosions, including two suicide attacks, killed at least 21 people and wounded 62 in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad Sunday, Iraqi police and medical sources quoted by AFP said. The northeastern area of Al-Shaab was rocked by two explosions, at least one of which was caused by an attacker who detonated his…

The Yesh Atid party filed a petition against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday, in the hopes of wresting control of a number of ministries away from Israel’s leader. The petition follows a High Court hearing held on Tuesday, where Judge Hanan Meltzer asserted Basic Law: The Government prevents a prime minister from serving as head of any other governmental…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu further blasted the string of concessions during the Iran negotiations on Sunday, during the opening remarks in his Sunday Cabinet meeting.  “Iran’s supreme leader, [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, said that Iran should still fight the United States even if there is an agreement,” he began. “The President of Iran, [Hassan] Rouhani, stands at the head…

A British Muslim preacher who taught that Islamic State (ISIS) “despised Britain” and is “no different than Western armies” managed to infiltrate one of Britain’s top counterterrorism watchdog organizations, the Telegraph revealed Sunday.  Abdullah al-Andalusi worked with the Muslim Debate Initiative, an organization heavily backed by Saudi Arabia, as he preached Muslim extremism and incited against the British government.…

Prime Minister Binyamin has significantly slowed the advancement of a controversial bill on Sunday.  The Ministerial Committee for Legislation was set to discuss the bill, submitted by Yisrael Beytenu MK Sharon Gal, and requiring the death penalty for those found guilty of terrorist murders.  However, Netanyahu, who opposes the initiative, has decided to instead establish a government…

Following two failed attempts to target London’s Jewish community over the past several months, a fringe far-right group has announced a third anti-Semitic campaign in the British capital. The New Dawn Party – which models itself on the neo-Nazi Greek Golden Dawn Party – announced on its Facebook page late last week that it would be…

In partnership with an experienced Israeli cattle rancher, The Temple Institute has decided to raise a Red Heifer, in accordance with the Biblical commandment.  The Red Heifer was a cow brought to Temple priests as sacrifice, and its ashes were used for ritual purification of those who had come into contact with a corpse.  A prerequisite…

The Islamic State jihadist group released on Saturday, AFP reported, new footage of its June 2014 massacre of hundreds of mostly Shiite military recruits in Tikrit. The highest estimates put at 1,700 the number of cadets ISIS gunmen captured at the Speicher military base near Tikrit and executed at various locations, mostly in the city’s former presidential palace complex. The 22-minute video…

Several suspects were arrested overnight Saturday/Sunday in the investigation of an arson attack against the a church in the Galilee last month, in a joint operation between the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Israel Police.  An “undercover and professional investigation began as soon as the church fire was discovered” and ended “this…

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss Sunday a bill, submitted by Yisrael Beytenu MK Sharon Gal, requiring those found guilty of murder for terrorist reasons be executed. Readying for a fight on Sunday, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman called on the committee to approve the proposal and pass it on for reading in the Knesset.  “I…

The Iran deal, if and when it comes, may be a “hard sell” in the U.S. Congress, but Israelis should not put too much hope in the possibility of the deal not being approved at the end of the day, a top security official told Arutz Sheva Sunday. The official was responding to comments made…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has blocked, at least temporarily, a bill which would require judges to impose the death penalty on convicted terrorist murderers. That move provoked anger from the bill’s sponsor, Yisrael Beytenu MK Sharon Gal, who accused the prime minister of not being serious about fighting terrorism. The proposed law is fiercely opposed by some…

Sirens sounded in communities across the lower and upper Galilee in northern Israeli at 16:38 Sunday afternoon. According to the IDF, the sirens were the result of a technical malfunctions, not a genuine rocket attack. Although Israel’s northern borders have largely been quiet despite the unrest in Syria, several instances of “spillover” from the conflict have resulted…

Mohammed Salaimeh, an Arab terrorist who tried to run down and kill five female Border Patrol officer in Jerusalem on the day the city celebrates Purim, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Sunday. The sentence was due to a plea bargain Salaimeh entered into. Although Israel does not have a death penalty for…

For the second time, the government is dropping – at least temporarily – a law that would regulate illegal settlement by Negev Bedouin. On Sunday, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel pulled the latest version of the Prawer Plan from a discussion by the Ministerial Law Committee. Ariel said that he had made this decision after discussing…

Recent months have seen increased scrutiny in Israel of foreign-funded, left-wing NGOs and the role they play in subverting Israeli democracy, as well as in the global campaign to “delegitimize” and isolate the State of Israel internationally. The issue was perhaps most graphically illustrated last month, when it was revealed that left-wing, European-funded Israeli NGOs provided a significant…

Lt. Col. (ret.) Meir Indor, director of the Almagor terror victims’ organization, warned Arutz Sheva that the same sources who worked behind the scenes to pressure Israel into the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal are now trying to do the same for Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli captive of Hamas in Gaza. Hamas has already indicated that it is…

Mehdi Atash Jaam, project manager of the game’s production, told Fars on Saturday that “the anti-Zionist game displays Iran’s missile power and the Zelzal, Zolfaqar and Sejjil missiles (all Iranian domestic missiles – ed.) are used by the players in the game’s first stage.” “In this game, users break into the Zionist regime’s air defense and target…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) paid a visit to Samaria late last week, where she met residents and public figures and discussed the revolutionary effect that tours of the region have made on politicians and public opinion leaders. “It changed the positions of outright leftists to be in favor of settlement, thanks to smart…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists claimed responsibility for a lethal car bomb attack on the Italian consulate in central Cairo on Saturday, in an explosion that killed one Egyptian and left ten others wounded according to a health ministry spokesperson. The blast nearly completely destroyed the main entrance to the consulate, shattering windows and flooding the…

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) paid a visit to Samaria late last week, where she met residents and public figures and discussed the revolutionary effect that tours of the region have made on politicians and public opinion leaders. “It changed the positions of outright leftists to be in favor of settlement, thanks to smart…

The official paper of the Hamas terrorist organization, Palestine, published on Saturday a full-page article dissecting the chances of reaching a prisoner swap with Israel, similar to the 2011 Gilad Shalit in which 1,027 terrorists were released. Hamas is in a position to discuss the possibility given the fact that it is holding the bodies of…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists claimed responsibility for a lethal car bomb attack on the Italian consulate in central Cairo on Saturday, in an explosion that killed one Egyptian and left ten others wounded according to a health ministry spokesperson. The blast nearly completely destroyed the main entrance to the consulate, shattering windows and flooding the…

Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) has warned against any further prisoner swaps with terrorist groups in return for captive citizens. Speaking at a “Meet The Press” interview, Erdan stated that Israel must do everything in its power to free the two Israeli civilians currently held hostage by Hamas in Gaza – 26-year-old Avraham (Avera)…

The Washington Post ran an opinion piece from Syrian Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham criticizing US policies, giving an unusual platform to a group that has allied with supporters of Al Qaeda. The piece, posted online late Friday and penned by the group’s foreign relations head Labib Al Nahhas, excoriates the strategy of US President Barack Obama’s administration in Syria, calling it an “abject failure.”…

Syria’s regime killed at least 28 people, mostly civilians, on Saturday when its warplanes dropped massive makeshift bombs on a town held by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombs used in the attacks on Al-Bab, in the northern province of Aleppo, were three times more destructive than so-called barrel bombs, which have…

There is a big difference between IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens when it comes to abductions by Hamas, Dr. Eli Carmon, a senior researcher for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, stated Sunday morning – for both Israel and its enemies. “There may be two separate negotiations – first for the soldiers’ bodies [Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul…

An Australian rugby player, prepping to try out for the National Football League (NFL), stirred controversy recently by suggesting Jews were responsible for killing Jesus Christ.  Jarryd Hayne, 27, took to Twitter nearly two weeks ago with the millennia-old anti-Semitic trope, which has fueled thousands of years of Christian bloodshed against Jews.  “Jesus wanted to help people but was…

Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) indicated on Saturday night that he would vote in favor of a bill that would enact a death penalty for terrorists. The bill, submitted by Yisrael Beytenu MK Sharon Gal, would alter the existing law and require that those found guilty of murder for terrorist reasons be executed. In addition, the…

United States Secretary of State John Kerry “doesn’t agree” with Gen. Joseph Dunford, the nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that Russia poses an existential threat to America, a senior department official made clear Friday, according to The Hill. During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Dunford told members of the Senate…

A French court on Friday jailed the leader of a local Islamist group for nine years for “criminal association with a terrorist group.” Mohamed Achamlane, 37, the leader of Forsane Alizza, also called the “knights of pride”, was one of 15 members of the group on trial for plotting terrorist attacks, including against the French…

Hamas is continuing to demand massive concessions from Israel as a precondition for even starting talks over two Israeli citizens held captive in Gaza. In an interview Thursday with Turkish media, senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar reiterated conditions set by the terrorist group Thursday for opening talks over 26-year-old Avraham Mengistu and another as-yet unnamed Israeli civilian…

The wife of the prime minister’s representative for prisoners and missing persons, retired Colonel Lior Lotan, has taken to Facebook to defend her husband on Friday. Lotan was caught on tape threatening family members of missing Israeli Avraham (Avera) Mengistu to try and prevent them from criticizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “You were a tough commander who explained what the right…

Five airports have been closed in Indonesia amid a week-long eruption of the volcanic Mount Raung in East Java, which has caused 250 flights to be cancelled and left thousands of vacationers stranded. “I can’t say at this time how many passengers have been affected,” said Farid Indra Nugraha, a spokesman for airport operator Angkasa Pura…

Reports that the Israel Teachers’ Union signed an anti-Israel document at a World Teachers’ Association (WTA) convention has instantly created controversy, Arutz Sheva has learned Friday, with several teachers aghast at the news. Many teachers have announced in a WhatsApp group conversation that they intend to fight the Teachers’ Union over the issue. During the…

Millions of Iranians took part in the annual “Death to Israel Day” in Iran on Friday, ironically coinciding with the twice-extended deadline for a deal on the Islamic regime’s nuclear program that apparently will be extended yet again. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday confirmed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statements the…

The White House said Friday that the United States and its partners have “never been closer” to an agreement with Iran on its nuclear program, but U.S. negotiators should come home if Tehran is unwilling to resolve sticking points. The talks on a permanent deal between Iran and six world powers, which have already been…

A Franciscan priest serving in northern Syria has been released after almost a week in the hands of allegedly jihadist kidnappers, his church announced on Friday, according to AFP. The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, with which he is affiliated, said on its website that Father Dhiya Aziz, a parish priest at Yacoubieh, in…

Islamic State (ISIS) group fighters on Friday attacked Iraqi police and soldiers in an area considered a major staging ground for operations to reconquer Anbar province, security sources told AFP. ISIS fighters used suicide car bombs to attack government and allied forces in Khaldiyah, a town in the Euphrates valley that lies between Fallujah and…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday directly linked his group’s military campaign to the “Palestinian cause”, the Now Lebanon news website reported. In remarks in honor of the Iranian Quds Day, Nasrallah also claimed that all opponents of Iran oppose “Palestine” as well. “The road to Jerusalem passes through Qalamoun, Daraa, Hasakeh and other [Syrian…

The Danish Foreign Ministry on Friday told its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Tunisia, saying there is “a high terror risk”, reports The Associated Press (AP). The ministry did not elaborate but Danes traditionally follow Britain when it comes to travel advisories, the news agency noted. A day earlier, Britain had urged its…

A French watchdog is reporting that a 13-year-old Jewish boy from Paris was beaten and robbed outside his school by six men earlier this week. According to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, the anti-Semitic incident occurred on July 7 near the Gare du Nord train station in the French capital. The organization said…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called for the sanctions on Iran to be lifted as soon as possible after a deal is reached on Tehran’s nuclear program, Reuters reported. Iran and six major powers, including Russia, are discussing a deal that would curb Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from sanctions. Putin’s comments…

One man has become a behind-the-scenes force in the international art world after securing the return of art looted by the Nazis to the descendents of its original Jewish owners. The return of “Seated Woman” by Henri Matisse to the Rosenberg family was his work. So was the restoration of “A Portrait of a Gentleman”,…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday recalled his ambassador to Chile, following anti-Semitic statements the envoy made at a convention in Santiago, according to Haaretz. The ambassador, Imad Nabil Jadaa, cited leftist Israeli Shlomo Sand to support his claim that the Jewish people does not exist, and also relied on the Protocols of…

The British government on Thursday told all UK tourists to leave Tunisia because a terrorist attack is “highly likely” and the country’s government has not done enough to enhance security, reports The Associated Press (AP). The Foreign Office advised against all but essential travel to Tunisia, a popular holiday destination for Britons. It added that…

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who was appointed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be in charge of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), on Thursday called for the resumption of peace talks. Speaking at a conference of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Shalom said, however, that “it takes two…

Yemen’s warring factions on Thursday agreed to a temporary humanitarian ceasefire set to begin on Friday night, United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said, according to Reuters. The pause in the fighting will last about a week until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with the goal of allowing the delivery…

Former Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal died on Thursday, Saudi officials told the Al Jazeera network, two months after he retired following 40 years in the job. Prince Saud, who was appointed in 1975, was the world’s longest serving foreign minister when he was replaced on April 29 by Adel al-Jubeir, then ambassador to…

Lior Lotan, who serves as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coordinator on the subject of hostages and missing persons, issued an apology on Thursday night, after Channel 10 News released a recording of him making threats to the relatives of Avraham (Avera) Mengistu, who was kidnapped by Hamas after crossing the border into Gaza ten months…

Millions of Iranians took part in the annual “Death to Israel Day” in Iran on Friday, ironically coinciding with the twice-extended deadline for a deal on the Islamic regime’s nuclear program that apparently will be extended yet again. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday confirmed US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statements the…

Turkey on Friday detained 21 suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, including three foreigners, in a major operation in several cities including Istanbul, state media said. Police detained the suspects in pre-dawn raids in several addresses in Istanbul, as well as Sanliurfa province near the Syrian border, southern Mersin province and Kocaeli province east of Istanbul. The detainees are suspected of helping…

Zionism begins and ends with Torah. Even Jon Voight who is a Righteous Catholic Actor understood this when he said in the Knesset on January 31st 2011 that the “Torah has all the answers.” He further said, “The Jews have given the world the Torah which includes every possible answer to your life’s needs. I…

The Israel Teachers’ Union, which represents over 150,000 teachers in Israel, signed a document calling for the boycott of the “settlements” in Judea and Samaria, Channel 10 reports Friday. A document drawn up for the convention of World Teachers’ Association stated that “the continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the existence of illegal Israeli…

The family of 26-year-old Avraham (Avera) Mengistu, an Israeli who apparently due to mental illness entered Gaza last September where he was captured by Hamas, announced Friday it has accepted the apology of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s envoy. Mengistu’s disappearance was revealed to the public on Thursday; a Channel 10 recording revealed that the day before Netanyahu’s envoy for hostage…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Wednesday signed an agreement with German officials to have the German language taught in Israeli schools. The Jewish Home chairman signed the agreement with acting German Minister to Israel Monika Iwersen, as well as Udo Michallik, the German Secretary General of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education. The agreement…

Rachel’s Tomb located adjacent to Bethlehem in Judea, which is the site where the Jewish Biblical matriarch Rachel is buried, has turned into a key terror target – now a new trend has flared up with Arab assailants firing explosive charges into the compound. A., a member of the compound staff, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Friday about…

More than four million Syrians have fled their country’s civil war, the United Nations said on Thursday, with many now despairing and losing hope that they will ever return to their conflict-wracked homeland. “We don’t think about going back to Syria. What we think about from day-to-day is how to keep our children alive,” said Yassin al-Ali, a Syrian refugee living in…

The Jerusalem Police have completed their preparations for the fourth Friday of Ramadan tomorrow, which will see tens of thousands of Muslims gathering at the Temple Mount for prayers. Ramadan has also seen numerous serious terror attacks against Jews. Police will be present in large numbers, on high alert, and expecting trouble. Police under District…

Syrian army troops backed by war planes advanced to within several kilometers of Palmyra on Thursday, battling Islamic State (ISIS) group terrorists outside the famed ancient city, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops were now some five kilometers (three miles) west of the city and engaged in fierce clashes with forces from the extremist group. “Regime…

In a departure from official policy up till now, Israel has decided to hold a discussion with the head of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague about the Palestinian Authority (PA) efforts to charge it with “war crimes” over last summer’s Gaza war. Israel has until now refused to grant official recognition to…

The Supreme Court has added three years to the sentence of Arkan Badir, 28, the Arab who ran down and killed a Samaria community security officer in September of 2012. Badir’s sentence was extended from eight to 11 years in jail. Badir killed security officer Lior Farhi, 40, outside Shaarei Tikva, five miles east of…

Vadim Rabinovich, a Ukrainian lawmaker and founder of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP), has been met with a backlash of condemnation in the European Jewish community after meeting on Wednesday with French far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Le Pen leads France’s National Front party, and remains the subject of concern for Jewish leaders despite her efforts…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issue a stern rebuke on Thursday against plans in a Hungarian city to erect a statue honoring a well-known anti-Semitic minister who was a Nazi ally in power during World War II. Municipal leaders in the Hungarian city of Székesfehérvár came up with the idea to build a life-size bronze statue of Bálint Homan, who served as…

Remarkable new discoveries have been unearthed from an excavation of a Roman legion camp in Tel Megiddo, located in northern Israel and hailing from the days of Roman occupation of the “province of Judea” nearly 2,000 years ago. The excavation began in 2013, and saw the Jezreel Valley Regional Project join forces with archaeologist Yotam Tepper to…

The Western countries have hardened their stance in nuclear talks between six major powers and the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Iranian state TV. “The West has toughened its stance within last few hours, and in a clear U-turn even refuses to accept Iran’s nuclear rights,” state TV quoted officials as having said.…

Border Police officers were able to foil a terrorist attack at the Ras checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Officers at the checkpoint noticed a 17-year-old Palestinian Arab approaching them in a suspicious manner and called on him to stop, but he continued to move toward them. The teen terrorist then pulled out a…

Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan, signed an order Thursday banning all activity by the “Palestine ’48” broadcast channel within Israeli territory. The minister issued the order after he was appraised that the channel is under the complete sponsorship of the Palestinian Authority, yet operates inside the state of Israel without written consent, as required…

FBI Director James Comey revealed on Thursday that US authorities had prevented several Islamic State (ISIS) inspired plots to murder Americans in the US on the July 4 Independence Day holiday. Comey announced that over ten people who were influenced by ISIS’s online recruitment campaign were arrested in the last four weeks, reports Reuters. Of the…

An Israeli court on Thursday jailed a man for 14 months for breaking in to computers, stealing new songs by pop star Madonna and selling them. Adi Lederman confessed as part of a plea bargain to “hacking in to a number of computers working with Madonna, and selling the musical files of Madonna he copied…

The Hamas terrorist organization has set harsh conditions to give information or start indirect negotiations regarding the Israeli citizens and bodies of fallen soldiers that are being held by the group in Gaza. It was released for publication on Thursday that 26-year-old Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli citizen of Ethiopian origin suffering from a mental illness,…

Prof. Danny Dolev of the Cyber Research Center at Hebrew University told Arutz Sheva Thursday that he doubts the veracity of official explanations for power outages and website crashes Wednesday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines. “The event at the New York Stock Exchange is not clear,” he said. The official claim, that…

Coalition chairman MK Tzahi Hanegbi (Likud) stressed Wednesday night that while the recent deal struck with Yisrael Beytenu bodes well for the future of the coalition, it was not a certainty the party would return to the government.  “The fact that we’re cooperating on several fundamental issues softens the tension,” Hanegbi asserted to Channel 2. Earlier Wednesday, Prime…

The TZOHAR Rabbinical Organization on Wednesday held its annual summer conference, which included a dedicated track for English speakers this year. The conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma), included a day-long series of sessions and panels on a variety of contemporary issues relevant to Israel and Judaism. The English track, which was designed…

The French Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it does not intend to give up on its bid to advance a UN Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Haaretz reported. The statement was released in wake of comments made a day earlier by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, who said that France…

Prague’s main railway station could be named after Sir Nicholas Winton, also known as the “British Schindler”, who died last week at the age of 106, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. Winton saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czech children from the Nazis during World War II and was responsible for rescuing the children…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif got into a heated argument which evolved into a shouting match with his American counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry, during nuclear talks this week, reports the Washington Free Beacon. According to the report, the argument between the two was so intense that a Kerry aide “tip-toed into the…

Yemen’s government told the United Nations on Wednesday it would agree to a truce to end more than three months of fighting provided key “guarantees” were met, Reuters reported. “The Yemeni authorities have informed the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon of its agreement to implement a truce in the coming days,” the…

Seven members of Syria’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, including commanders, were killed in American-led air strikes Wednesday in the northwest of the conflict-riven country, a Britain-based monitoring group said, according to AFP. The raids in Syria, which began last September, have mainly focused on the Islamic State group (ISIS) but its rival Al-Nusra has also been…

Hamas’s so-called “military wing”, the Al-Qassam Brigades, on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza marking the one year anniversary of last year’s war with Israel. Several hundred people crowded into a central Gaza City square after the traditional fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for the rally, according to the AFP news…

Arutz Sheva spoke with photographer Rick Guidotti at the 6th International Conference on Disabilities, organized by Beit Issie Shapiro and being held this week in Tel Aviv. Guidotti, an award-winning former fashion photographer, has spent the past 15 years working internationally with advocacy organizations/NGOs, medical schools, universities and other educational institutions to effect a sea-change…

Ilan Mengistu issued a statement Thursday following the publication that his older brother Avraham Mengistu had been abducted and is being held by Hamas in Gaza.  “This is a very difficult humanitarian case, because my brother is not in good health,” Mengistu said, surrounded by tearful family members. “On behalf of myself and my family, I…

Sources in the Ethiopian community have charged that the Israeli government has not been aggressive enough in trying to discover the whereabouts of Avraham Mengistu – at least in part because he is Ethiopian. Security officials released information Thursday about the abduction of Mengistu by Hamas last September, when he entered Gaza, but said that…

Police and Border Patrol forces arrested overnight Thursday a terrorist released from jail several years ago during the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal.  Shalit, an IDF soldier serving on the border of Gaza, was kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. He was released after five years in captivity in 2011 in exchange for the release of 1,027…

Avraham Nagosa, a Likud MK from the Ethiopian community, said Thursday that Israel must do everything possible to find Avraham Mengistu, the Israeli who crossed into Gaza last year and has been missing since then. “I wish to send encouragement to the Mengistu family who have for months have been suffering over lack of information…

A day after Yisrael Beytenu struck a highly publicized deal with Likud, MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu) announced the Knesset could expect increasingly closer cooperation between his party and the coalition.  “Cooperation is not a dirty word,” the freshman MK asserted to Army Radio. “Finally, here are practical politics, based on values, which doesn’t make small accounts and has…

The Belgian government said Wednesday that it has in recent months helped 244 Christians to escape from Syria and move to Belgium with refugee status, most of them families with children. The humanitarian operation began in May to “save” some of the most vulnerable people in Aleppo, Syria’s second city where Islamist rebels are gaining ground, Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told…

They say the motto of every Jewish festival is the same: They came, they tried to kill us, they failed – let’s eat! That may not be entirely accurate, but it certainly is true that we Jews love our food. From kreplach to kubbeh, from chulent to chamin – wherever your roots lie eating is something our tribe takes…

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein turned to the President and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, demanding to immediately remove Facebook pages that incite against Jews and Arabs. Edelstein turned to Zuckerberg and Richard Allan, director of policy of Facebook in Europe and the Middle East, over the issue.  “Recently I have been exposed to the unfortunate and…

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) announced on Wednesday plans to regularly publish his appointment calendar for public viewing. According to Walla! News, Ariel’s datebook will be published every two months and will be available via his Facebook page and various media outlets.  “Transparency is the cornerstone of democracy,” Ariel stressed. “I will regularly publish my appointment calendar.” …

This year, close to 300 students in 30 high schools across North America mastered significant portions of the Talmud—and competed for top awards—through Yeshiva  University’s Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program. Now in its ninth year, the program seeks to better ground students in gemara by enhancing their textual skills. YU provides participating students with wordlists that…

Palestinian news media has prominently glorified one of the most dangerous Palestinian arch-terrorists in a recent interview, Palestinian Media Watch revealed Wednesday.  Abdullah Barghouti was arrested in March 2003 and sentenced in 2004 to 67 life sentences for his role in the murders of Israelis in a string of suicide bombings – including the suicide attack at the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government was served its first legislative defeat in the Knesset on Wednesday, thanks to a sneaky political maneuver from the opposition.  Put forth by Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharar, the bill calls to restrict debt collection to the city or town in which the debtor lives. Forty-six MKs voted in favor, while 45 voted against. …

Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State terror group took down the website of the Syrian Observatory for HumanRights monitor on Wednesday and threatened its director, AFP reported.  The group calling itself the Cyber Army of the Khilafah (Caliphate) replaced the front page of the war monitor’s site with a photoshopped image of the Observatory’s director and text threatening him.…

A senior Democratic senator said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama believes the chances of a nuclear agreement with Iran are “less than 50-50,” even as he works to reassure Senate Democrats that he won’t accept a bad deal, Politico reports. During something of a working cocktail party Tuesday night, the president reportedly sounded a…

Even before the BBC’s new documentary on last summer’s war in Gaza airs, the broadcasting organization has admitted that it distorts the truth in order to make the Palestinians appear more sympathetic. The documentary, entitled “Children of Gaza,” aims at depicting how Operation Protective Edge affected children living in and around the Gaza Strip. The…

Islamic State has seen a spike in activity around Israel over the past several weeks, with activity not only heating up on the Golan Heights border with Syria, but in Egypt and along Israel’s border with the Sinai Peninsula as well.  Arutz Sheva spoke with Dr. Ephraim Herrera, counter-terrorism expert and author of “Jihad – Fundamentals and Fundamentalism,”…

International superstar and U2 frontman Bono heaped praise on former Israeli president Shimon Peres during the rock band’s concert in Toronto on Tuesday night.  Bono lionized the veteran Israeli politician, who was in attendance, for his continued efforts to bring peace to the embattled Middle East.  “We understand President Peres, that you have tried to be the voice…

Hamas has no intentions of slowing down on terrorism, a senior official asserted, despite security crackdowns from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the wake of a series of recent attacks in Judea and Samaria.  In an interview with “Palestine” magazine on Wednesday, Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas member of parliament and a senior figure in the terrorist organization,…

Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, spoke with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday amid outrage over Religious Services Minister David Azoulay’s (Shas) recent comments on Reform Jewry.  “First of all, I want to believe that he never said it,” the obviously troubled Riskin began.  “I don’t know any rishon, any posek, who would claim that if you don’t keep…

Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount have been told repeatedly that they are banned from entering Judaism’s holiest site due to Ramadan over the past several weeks – and one group plans to protest.  Haim Brosh, spokesman for Students for the Temple Mount, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about the situation.  “Jews who arrived in recent…

In the wake of several recent terror attacks in the area, IDF Central Command chief, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, toured the Binyamin Regional Council on Wednesday, accompanied by council head Avi Roeh.  Numa visited the communities of Harasha, Tazpit Kidah and Neve Tzuf, concluding his tour in the ancient city of Shiloh, where he called on residents to continue traveling, hiking…

A Palestinian Arab man lured his four children into attempting to steal Second Temple-era antiquities, the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday, by claiming there was a “demon” hiding treasure there.  The IAA’s Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Robbery arrested six suspects overnight Tuesday/Wednesday for attempted robbery to the cave, including the man, all…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said Tuesday that a French diplomatic bid to advance a United Nations resolution to restart the peace process between Israel and the PA has been abandoned by France, Haaretz reports. However, senior PA officials in Ramallah later told the newspaper that al-Malki’s comments were not entirely accurate,…

Iran on Tuesday rejected reports by Jordanian state media that a terror suspect arrested in Jordan on suspicion of planning attacks against the kingdom is linked to an Iranian group. The spokesman for Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif, told The Associated Press (AP) that the reports are “baseless.” Jordan’s government-owned Al-Rai newspaper had…

German prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 3½-year prison sentence for Oskar Groening, nicknamed “the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, a former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. The prosecutors said the 94-year-old’s role at the camp made him an accessory to murder, reported The Associated Press (AP). Groening has admitted guarding…

It has been ten years since the 2005 Disengagement plan, which saw the Israeli government and the IDF expel all the Jewish residents of Gush Katif in Gaza. On Tuesday, Gush Katif women expellees as well as those who were youths during the expulsions gathered in the former Gush Katif community of Ganei Tal, later…

American lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would ramp up military cooperation with Jordan, including accelerated arms sales to a Middle East ally contending with growing threats from Islamist extremism, AFP reported. Jordan has become a focal point in the fight against the self-described Islamic State (ISIS) because the Hashemite kingdom borders Syria and Iraq,…

This week’s Torah portion of parashat Pinchas begins with an act of zealotry, of righteous indignation, which earned Pinchas a unique ‘eternal priesthood’ – and a covenant of peace. What does he have in common with the righteous daughters of Tzelafchad, five women whose love of the Land of Israel and zeal for their father’s…

The United States special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) group was in Ankara on Tuesday to meet Turkish officials, after speculation Turkey could launch a military intervention inside Syria, sources told AFP. “General John Allen will hold talks in Ankara today,” a Turkish official told the news agency on condition of…

Hours after Iran and major powers extended their talks on a final agreement, an official said talks had to wrap up in the next 48 hours. The official made clear that the latest extension until Friday would be the last one. “We’ve come to the end,” the source told Reuters, on condition of anonymity. “We…

An online campaign calling for the death penalty to be applied to terrorists was launched on Wednesday by MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu), whose terrorist death penalty bill is facing a critical Knesset discussion on Sunday. The new bill would alter the law, requiring that those found guilty of murder for terrorist reasons be executed. Gal…

For probably the first time since 1933, an organized Jewish boycott of German products has been called. The reason: Lufthansa’s admission that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that cannot benefit from the German airline’s special baggage allowance policy. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is now officially urging travelers not to fly Lufthansa…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Wednesday weighed in on the controversy that erupted after Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay (Shas) said in a radio interview that he did not consider Reform Jews to be Jewish. Azoulay’s statements, which have already led to a backlash from American Jewish leaders, led Bennett to issue a terse condemnation on Twitter. “All…

Forty-five terrorists of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist regime died on Monday, not from bullets in the heat of a pitched battle but rather from food at a group ‘Iftar’ meal breaking the daytime fast Muslims observe during the month of Ramadan. The 45 jihadists all died the same night after partaking of the post-fast…

It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction, and indeed it would be hard to imagine scripting the signing of a nuclear deal with the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism on the very day that this regime holds an annual global protest calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. And yet that plot twist is…

Only about 60 Syrian rebels are being trained by the United States to take on the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday, admitting it was far below the number hoped for. The disclosure is likely to add to criticism of the Obama administration’s military strategy, with US Senator John McCain saying that the United States was “losing” the fight…

Police have informed the family of Ghassan Abu Jamal, one of two terrorists who butchered five people in the Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem in November, that their home will be razed Wednesday. The family resides in Jabal Mukaber, in eastern Jerusalem. Ghassan Abu Jamal’s widow is to be evicted from Jerusalem, after her residency…

The US Army is to cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years at home and abroad, a defense official said Tuesday, in a move that will raise doubts about its ability to fight wars. Under the cost-cutting plan, the Army will be down to 450,000 soldiers at the end of the 2017 budget year, even…

The Knesset held a special full plenum session on Tuesday afternoon marking a year since the end of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza; a year later, the politicians were still divided as to what Israel’s stance vis-a-vis the Hamas enclave should be, but were unified in calling for a new policy. MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid),…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part in a state memorial ceremony on Tuesday evening marking 111 years since the passing of Theodor (Binyamin Ze’ev) Herzl, widely hailed as the father of political Zionism and a leading figure in establishing the modern Jewish state. “Since the days of Herzl the world order has changed. World powers rose and…

Over a thousand entrepreneurs and investors are set to converge on the annual LTB (Let’s Talk Business) Summit tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th. But this is no usual business summit – billed as “the world’s premier Ultra-Orthodox business conference,” every one of the participants heading to The Rockleigh in New Jersey is from America’s haredi Jewish community. Participants will…

A Franciscan priest serving in northern Syria has gone missing and is feared to have been kidnapped by Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front, his religious superiors and monitoring groups said Tuesday.   The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, with which he is affiliated, said it lost contact on Saturday with Father Dhiya Aziz, a parish…

The anti-assimilation organization Lehava, headed by director Bentzi Gopshtain, has called on the public to rally and block missionary attempts in the heart of Jerusalem, ahead of a massive missionary conference this Wednesday. The conference, which will be held for three days at the First Station compound, aims to provide an “annual meeting of youths from…

Amnesty International on Tuesday launched a Gaza Platform “online tool” which claims to “map Israeli attacks in Gaza” during last summer’s war – according to the Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor, the tool is another slander against Israel without credible research backing it up. The “online tool” tracks Israeli strikes in the Hamas enclave during the war based…

Iran’s Top Military Aide to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spouted several unusual conspiracy theories on Tuesday, as he accused the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist terrorists of defending Israel. Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, who previously was the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told the Iranian Mehr News Agency that the creation of…

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Tuesday strongly condemned a Polish museum for reinstating an offensive art exhibit, which features a video of naked men and women playing tag in one of the gas chambers used by the Nazis to murder Jews in the Holocaust. The exhibit “Game of Tag” on display at…

The IDF announced on Tuesday night that Highway 12 in southern Israel will be re-opened to traffic as per orders from Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot. The road, which was closed off last Friday due to the danger posed by fighting between the Islamic State (ISIS) group and the Egyptian military in the Sinai, was…

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) has issued a strong condemnation of a Brooklyn group that filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court against segments of the Brooklyn Jewish community, demanding a stop to the controversial custom of Kaparot. Kaparot is a symbolic ceremony of transferring sin to a chicken by waving it over one’s…

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday ruled to release two Jewish youths aged 13 and 14 to house arrest, after they were arrested on suspicion of being involved in a brawl with Arabs on Monday – in a case that has raised accusations of racial discrimination. The youths, who were represented by Attorney David Halevy of…

US Senator John McCain blasted the White House’s military strategy against ISIS Tuesday, suggesting the United States was “losing” the fight, and criticizing the pace of training for Syrian rebels. Several lawmakers including McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, grilled Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the military’s top general, Martin Dempsey, on topics ranging from Ukraine…

An Egyptian government-owned bank has launched a five million shekel (around $1.3 million) lawsuit over its lost shares in Jerusalem’s prestigious King David Hotel, which were bought before the establishment of the modern Jewish state in 1948. Banque Misr, which has 500 branches in Egypt and around the world, filed its lawsuit via Israeli lawyers…

In a move which could complicate attempts to reconcile with Iran, Gaza’s Hamas rulers have banned a Shia Islamist group loyal to the Iranian regime. Harakat al-Sabireen (The Sabireen Movement) is a relatively small, armed Shia group in Gaza, whose population is overwhelmingly Sunni. Though not officially designated as a terrorist group by most western states, it…

Hamas on Tuesday marked a year since its latest terror war against Israel last summer, celebrating the conflict in which its arsenals were depleted and hundreds of its terrorists fell without scoring major casualties in Israel as a “victory.” Salah al-Arouri, a senior member of Hamas’s politburo, told Al Risala that the “victory of the Palestinian people”…

The Grand Rabbi (Rebbe) or “Admor” of the prominent Seret-Vizhnitz hassidic sect, Rabbi Eliezer Hager, passed away Tuesday aged 91. Rabbi Hager died of a heart attack at his home in Haifa’s Ramat Vizhnitz neighborhood. Funeral details have not yet been publicized. The rabbi, a scion of one of the most prominent hassidic dynasties, was…

Syria’s parliament on Tuesday approved a deal with Iran under which Tehran will provide the government a new line of credit worth $1 billion, state media said. The credit line will be the third that Tehran has extended to Damascus since the conflict in Syria erupted with anti-government protests in March 2011. “The People’s Council today approved a deal on a line of…

One of the most popular Facebook videos among Israelis this year is a short segment that was taped during a live fire training session in one of the IDF’s infantry units, at an unknown time and an unknown location. It can be viewed with a click: The camera follows an anonymous Negev light machine gun…

In what seems quite odd, the UK-based Jewish Chronicle reported on Monday that Britain last week voted in favor of a UN resolution to back the Human Rights Council’s report that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza – at the request of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to the report, Netanyahu’s office called British…

Talks seeking a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers may yet fail, a German diplomatic source said on Monday, according to the AFP news agency. The comments came as the sides continue talks in Vienna in an attempt to reach a final deal by Tuesday, a deadline which has already been extended several times.…

The UN’s atomic watchdog and Iran held “intense discussions” in Tehran on Monday about the possible military dimensions of the country’s nuclear program, AFP reported, citing an Iranian official. The meeting was held as parallel talks were underway in Vienna between Iran and world powers on the eve of a deadline for an accord on…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Monday said that a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) would make the Middle East safer. Sisi’s comments came in a meeting with a delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Arab Today news website reported. During the meeting, which was also attended by Foreign…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday evening told Arutz Sheva that the Bedouin teachers who joined the Islamic State (ISIS) and spread its teaching in their schools had “crossed a red line”. It was cleared for publication earlier that in a joint operation with local police, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) had arrested six…

Nadav Kidron, CEO and director of Oramed Pharmaceuticals, discusses his company’’s medical breakthrough in adapting insulin so that it can be taken as a pill instead of a shot. Can this technology be used for other kinds of medication? What does this mean for modern medicine? In the second part, John Manning, president of MAP Consulting…

Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday evening told Arutz Sheva that the Bedouin teachers who joined the Islamic State (ISIS) and spread its teaching in their schools had “crossed a red line”. It was cleared for publication earlier that in a joint operation with local police, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) had arrested six…

Iran will continue to view the United States as the “Great Satan”, even if a nuclear deal is reached between Iran and world powers, an Iranian commander has made clear. The military official, Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, underlined that any possible nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers would never mean friendship between…

A suicide bomber from the Al-Nusra Front terrorist group, Syria’s Al-Qaeda offshoot, blew himself up in a Syrian army outpost in a contested neighborhood in the city of Aleppo on Monday night. The bombing killed at least 25 soldiers and allied militia and injured scores, according to the Reuters news agency. The Britain-based Observatory for…

At a meeting with families who were removed from their homes in the 2005 Disengagement plan, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau – currently Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, and at the time Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel – revealed Tuesday that he had met with then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a month before the plan came into…

Yoav Yitzchak, the veteran journalist who is being blamed by many for driving Brigadier General Efraim Bracha to commit suicide, fought back Tuesday. Yitzchak insists that a few days before Bracha’s suicide, the Police Internal Investigations Department heard the testimony of at least two people who strengthened suspicions against Bracha. He is adamant that the knowledge that…

A new pilot program in the Beit Aryeh community in Samaria will see 150 residents, many of them teens and young adults, equipped with a new tracking device. The devices, by Israeli firm Trackimo, will keep track of the location of users in order to ensure that they can be quickly found – in case…

The Knesset marks one year since Operation Protective Edge in Gaza on Tuesday, and will be holding a series of debates and hearings on the issues, including testimonies from soldiers who served.  Several reserve soldiers who were injured but are still not recognized as disabled veterans are due to testify, according to Maariv, as well as…

The Nazareth District Court rejected Tuesday an appeal by a well-known rabbi from northern Israel facing sexual abuse allegations, after the Magistrates’ Court decided to allow his name to be published.  Following the appeal, however, the rabbi’s identity will not be revealed until Wednesday at 4:00 pm, in order to allow the rabbi’s defense attorney to…

Eddie Yisraeli was simply trying to help out when he posted on Facebook on Monday, asking for strangers to attend a girl’s Bat Mitzvah in Ashkelon.  The event, which was arranged entirely by volunteers, was already in progress – but with very few attendees.  “Once again, friends, it’s time to step up – share quickly!!”…

The IDF recognized 2014’s Protective Edge operation in Gaza as a fully fledged campaign and has issued decorations for the soldiers who took part in it. David Kahlon, whose son Eliav Eliyahu Haim hy”d was killed in the campaign, told Arutz Sheva that the recognition is a very meaningful one for the bereaved families.  He also told…

Nine additional suspects in an ambush by Israeli Druze on an IDF ambulance in June were arrested overnight Monday, in a joint operation between the Border Police and local and national units of the Israel Police. All nine are from villages in the north close to Majdal Shams, the Israeli Druze city in the Golan…

Video filmed on the Temple Mount attests to what right-wing activists have long contended – that the police and security forces are afraid of Muslim rioters, who are prepared to cause anarchy at the drop of a hat. Upon seeing Jews, Muslim women begin rioting, while police, instead of stopping the riot, usher Jews off…

The IDF has some tough soldiers – and now, some of the toughest will be pushed even further to the limits of their physical, intellectual, and tactical capabilities. The IDF on Monday announced the Commando Division, which will institute new training protocols and missions for some of the best soldiers in the army – those…

The controversy over the Conversion Law – and the decision by the new Shas-controlled Religious Affairs Ministry to essentially scupper it – has exposed some of the most sensitive fault lines in Israeli Jewish society. The previous Religious Affairs Minister – the Jewish Home party’s Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan – enacted reforms aimed at streamlining the…

In a joint operation with local police, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) arrested six Arab residents of the town of Hura in the Negev who formed a cell of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, authorities released for publication Monday. An initial investigation revealed that the cell members conducted secret meetings in which they learned…

Hundreds of ISIS members could infiltrate Europe together with masses of refugees from Libya, Syria, and Iraq – ironically fleeing ISIS terror in their homelands, said Michele Coninsx, head of the EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust. Speaking Monday in Brussels, Coninsx told reporters that the EU was working together with other countries to prevent the…

Science, Space and Technology Minister Danny Danon on Monday pledged to ensure that Jews living in the Hevron region were protected from Arab terror. In the wake of a series of terror incidents in the region recently Danon said that residents of Hevron and Kiryat Arba deserved the same level of protection as residents of…

Looking back after 50 years of service to the Anti-Defamation League, retiring national director Abraham Foxman expressed passionate concern to journalist Edwin Black about the safety and security of Jews overseas and Israel’s position in the world. Excerpts from his exit interview follow, edited and condensed for continuity, clarity, and length. Edwin Black: Looking back over…

The leader of opposition party Yesh Atid, MK Yair Lapid, said Monday that if the deal that is shaping up between the P5+1 nations and Iran is indeed signed, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should resign. “If this bad deal is signed,” Lapid said at a session of his faction’s MKs, “this is a failure that…

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has spoken out for the first time since his tenure as Chief Rabbi of the town of Efrat was extended by the chief rabbinate, ending weeks of controversy and rumors he would be dismissed for ideological reasons. Speaking at a reception of Efrat residents hosted by Mayor Oded Ravivi to mark his continued tenure, Rabbi…

Large fire and rescue forces were called on Monday morning to the Tambour paint factory in Akko after a leak of massive quantities of fire retardant foam. Initially, three people were feared missing in the foam, but they were later located safe and sound. While the foam is not a particularly toxic or dangerous chemical, it…

President Barack Obama said Monday the coalition battling Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists was “intensifying” its campaign against the group’s base in Syria, but cautioned the fight would be long, AFP reported. Obama addressed the media after a briefing at the Pentagon with top military brass and members of his national security team on efforts to…

Islamic State (ISIS) group fighters attacked a town near their de facto Syrian capital Monday in a bid to recapture it from Kurdish and Arab rebel forces, a Kurdish spokesman told the AFP news agency. “ISIS launched a large-scale offensive at dawn… and managed to enter Ain Issa,” said Redur Khalil, a spokesman for the…

Iran has demanded yet another concession in nuclear talks with the West on Monday – this time, to end the UN arms embargo on the Islamic Republic.  After already having extending the talks several times, Iran and the six major powers set a deadline of June 30 to reach a final deal, but when they…

Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who was savagely attacked last October by an Arab terrorist who shot him in the chest, found himself, figuratively, in “the belly of the beast” this week – attending a post-Ramadan meal in Istanbul attended by 1,000 Muslim clerics. How did it go? “Not bad,” said Glick, who had been…

The Jerusalem-based Kedem Auction House has put up for sale an original typed protocol of two meetings between the Council of Torah Sages and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and President Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, respectively. The meetings, which took place in the summer of 1953, dealt with the controversial topic of the drafting of women to National…

The “Greek Tragedy” playing out in the European Union’s most troubled economy contains a bright spot for Israelis looking to get away on vacation. As a result of Greece’s problems – and the failure of the country to support the EU’s demands for a strict budgetary regimen – the euro has been sinking all day…

The government on Monday held an official memorial service for the IDF soldiers killed during last year’s Operation Protective Edge. Most of the 67 soldiers killed in the war are buried in a special section of the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, where the ceremony was held. Five civilians were also killed in the war.…

Among its slew of complaints about Israel to the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian Authority – recognized there as “the State of Palestine” – demanded that Israel be investigated for, among other things, “abuse of prisoners.” The PA was referring to the long jail sentences that Israel has imposed on terrorists from PA-controlled areas of…

In a letter Monday to entertainment mogul Haim Saban, Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton expressed her “alarm” over attempts to boycott Israel, bother commercially and academically. It was the first clear statement by Clinton on the BDS phenomenon. In her letter to Saban, Clinton wrote that she was seeking Saban’s “advice on how we can…

A resident of Israel’s south who worked as a translator and lip reader for the police in the past has sued the Israeli Police, charging them of “abandoning” him and allowing him to be assaulted by a suspect whose lips he had read. The seven million shekel (roughly $1.9 million) lawsuit was submitted to the Be’er Sheva District…

Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan gathered the police’s top officers Monday for a motivational talk following the suicide Sunday of Major General Efraim Bracha, who headed the National Unit for Fraud Investigations. Bracha killed himself as journalists led by News1‘s Yoav Yitzchak reported that he would soon be interrogated for serious offenses. “When statements are…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has raised a media storm after she roped off reporters in a New Hampshire 4th of July parade, in an apparent bid to prevent uncomfortable and unsolicited questions. New York Times reporter Peter Baker on Sunday condemned Clinton for the move while speaking on CBS‘s Face the Nation TV program. “It reinforces…

British police are under fire for having let a man cloaked in the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization walk with impunity near the UK Houses of Parliament in London, just a week after ISIS massacred British tourists in Tunisia. The man was photographed walking near Big Ben with a massive ISIS flag draped…

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) has defended her party from charges it should never have agreed to a cancellation of conversion reforms when it joined the ruling Coalition. Her comments come after the Religious Affairs Ministry – now controlled by the haredi Shas party – essentially undid the reforms enacted by the previous government, when the…

A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday because of a “technical problem”, killing at least seven people, security and medical officials said.   “One of the bombs became stuck because of a technical problem, and during its (the aircraft’s) return to base it fell on three houses…

An indictment was submitted on Monday morning to the Central District Court against Muatasem Fadila, a 35-year-old Israeli Arab resident of Tira to the northeast of Tel Aviv, for the premeditated murder of another Tira resident, Mardi Mardi. According to the indictment Fadila shot Mardi at least 11 times, and an accomplice to the murder fired…

President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of Muslim officials Sunday in the President’s Residence and broke the Ramadan fast with them at the same time that Jews were breaking the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz. At the start of the festive meal, Rivlin gave a speech and said that the Arabs’ citizenship in Israel was theirs by right. “The…

Jordanian security forces arrested a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards planning attacks in Jordan, foiling what they said was the most serious terror plot in the country in the past decade, state media revealed Monday. According to the Al Rai newspaper, the suspect – who belonged to the Guards’ elite Qods Force and is a dual Iraqi-Norwegian…

Hundreds of people joined a large crowd in Beit El Sunday afternoon to recite afternoon prayers near two buildings the High Court ordered torn down Sunday. The worshipers prayed that the demolition of the homes be halted. Dozens of prominent rabbis and members of communities in Judea and Samaria participated in the event. MK Yinon…

Greece’s government on Sunday looked to have won a ‘No’ it had been seeking in a referendum on bailout terms, AFP reports. An official tally of over half the ballots cast showed that a resounding 61 percent of Greek voters had backed the government’s ‘No’ in the referendum. Senior eurozone officials were to hold talks…

At an event marking the end of the Ramadan fast on Sunday, President Reuven Rivlin spoke with Arabic language mediaand discussed a number of issues, chief among them the relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel. At the outset, Rivlin noted that both Jews and Muslims had fasted on Sunday – the latter for Ramadan, and…