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The United States expressed its “horror” at the bombardment of the city of Raqqa in Syria by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Raqqa is one of the main strongholds of Islamist rebels in Syria, and the Syrian army has been pounding it heavily for days. Dozens of civilians have been killed in the bombardment.…

The High Court for Justice has issued temporary orders preventing Israel from demolishing the homes of terrorists involved in the recent murderous attacks in Jerusalem – including the massacre at the Har Nof synagogue, the shooting of Yehuda Glick and the car terror attack at a Light Rail station three weeks ago. The latest restraining…

Joel Cohen, a Politics and Government student at Ben Gurion University, was removed from the class “Introduction to Political Thought” Wednesday. Cohen claims this was due to his statement of political solidarity with the grassroots Zionist movement, Im Tirtzu. Ben Gurion University says the student’s claims of political persecution are disconnected from reality, and that…

Arab terrorists from Gaza fired at an IDF jeep that was carrying out a routine patrol along the Gaza border Thursday morning. The jeep’s windshield was damaged but no one was hurt. The bullets were apparently fired with a sniper’s rifle; the incident took place near Kibbutz Be’eri. The IDF fired back at least one tank…

Senior sources in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party spoke on Thursday about the likelihood of early Knesset elections, and the chances the current coalition has of surviving given the ever-increasing tensions between its various members. “The Prime Minister isn’t interested in elections, but at the same time it’s impossible to continue in a situation…

Several American Jewish groups have called for serious discussions about race, democracy and justice as well as greater tolerance and understanding, in the aftermath of a St. Louis grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot an African-American teenager in Ferguson, Missouri in August. The case has raised a furor; the…

The Jewish community of Poland is working urgently to try and save the Jewish cemetery in Grodzisk, after the city’s council began work on a construction project in the northern part of the city where the graveyard is located, putting it in direct danger. The cemetery was destroyed during the Holocaust, and afterwards most of…

Six Muslim religious leaders are visiting Israel this week as part of a joint initiative by the African and Diaspora Religions Department of the Foreign Ministry in Senegal and the Israeli Embassy in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.  The visit by Muslim leaders and Senegalese journalists was seen as very important to Israel as Senegal is an…

The Palestinian Authority’s official television network, under the rule of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, presented the five terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians as “martyrs.”  These terrorists were injured and/or killed by Israeli security forces – either in the midst of attacking Israeli civilians, or after the attack in attempts to arrest them. However, the PA…

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the flagship seminary of Conservative Judaism, in New York has come out against Israel’s proposed “Jewish State Law,” which would enshrine into law Israel’s status as the Jewish state.  The “Jewish State Law” is comprised of two bills by three MKs: Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), Yariv Levin (Likud), and Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home). Both bills, which…

Quick action by members of the Yad L’achim anti-missionary organization broke up an attempt to recruit Jews to missionary-sponsored religious cults in the heart of Tel Aviv – outside the Azrieli Center Mall on Hashalom Street. Passerby who took a good look at the flyers and materials being distributed by several individuals outside the mall…

IDF forces arrested an Arab man near the Jewish neighborhood in Hevron Thursday evening after a sub-machine gun was found in his car, along with a bullet cartridge. The gun was of the Carl Gustav M/45 variety, a portable and lethal weapon. Arab terrorists opened fire Thursday night on an Israeli car driving on Highway 465 near…

French President Francois Hollande announced on Thursday what may be the next stage in the growing diplomatic assault on Israel, witnessed in recent European declarations of recognition for the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine.” Hollande told French media that he wants to host an international conference on the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” stressing that he…

Judea and Samaria, widely known under the misnomer “West Bank,” are the preferred locations from which to launch terror attacks on Israel, a senior member of the Islamic Jihad terror organization has explained to the Quds.net news agency. The reasons for preferring Judea and Samaria to Gaza are that there is a temporary ceasefire between…

The city of Shaoguan, in the Guangdong Province in southeastern China, has been chosen as the pilot city for Israel’s flagship “Water City” project. Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, currently on an official visit in China, signed the Water City agreement with Chinese officials on Wednesday. He explained the project briefly on his Facebook page: “The goal is to create a…

The Paris trial of two Frenchmen accused of killing a young Israeli woman in a hit-and-run incident in Tel Aviv was halted Thursday after a defense lawyer was hit during a break in proceedings. An unidentified man punched Regis Meliodon, a lawyer for one of the defendants, in the face during a break in the trial and then fled. Reportedly the…

Deputy Religions Minister MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) responded Thursday to an appeal by the widow of Ghassan Abu Jamal, one of the perpetrators of the Har Nof synagogue massacre, not to tear down her home and expel her from Israel. Referring to her three children, Nadia Abu Jamal told Channel 2 News: “As if it is…

For the American holiday of Thanksgiving, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted IDF lone soldiers from America serving in the army without their family being in Israel, as a way of thanking their altruistic spirit seen in defending the Jewish nation. “The IDF has an unconventional secret weapon in the young women and men who…

A United Nations agency declared a state of “emergency” in Gaza City on Thursday, after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the Hamas terror enclave. “Hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes,” UNRWA said, referring to a northern district. While no casualties have been reported from the…

Dozens of divorced and separated Israeli mothers have joined the sex trade in the southern city of Eilat, according to a report on Channel 2 News‘s website. The new trend can be seen as a byproduct of Israel’s growing divorce rate, which studies say has reached 40% in just the first ten years of marriage.…

Arab High Court judge Salim Jubran said Wednesday that Israeli Arabs were victims of discrimination. Speaking before a group, Jubran said that “I could talk about equality and fairness for many hours, but instead I will quote the Declaration of Independence. You be the judge. The Declaration spoke about equality, but unfortunately we do not…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Druze community leaders Wednesday, where he expressed condolences over the deaths of two security officers in terror attacks on Jewish Israelis and he expressed solidarity with the Druze community. In attendance were Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif, Sheikh Hatem Halabi, Sheikh Mahmoud Seif, Sheikh Fandi Salah Assad and Druze Local Councils…

An anonymous benefactor has put up at least 800,000 euros to help the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern house a massive collection of 1,000 artworks hoarded during the Nazi era.  The donation means preparations will start immediately for the arrival of the collection of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt, reported Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger on Wednesday. The patron, who requested…

Israel has seen unprecedented rainfall in the past 24 hours, causing multiple traffic jams and accidents – but also providing a boon to agriculture.  45 mm (1.7 inches) of rain fell in Kedumim Wednesday, as well as 55mm (2.1 inches) in Jerusalem, 70 mm (2.7 inches) in Petah Tikva, 85 mm (3.3 inches) in Mevaseret, and…

After daily newspaper Ha’aretz announced earlier this week it would be laying off workers, it was the turn of Yediot Aharonot, which said Wednesday that it would downsize by about 150 workers. Those to be laid off will be mostly in distribution, but the next round of layoffs will be in management, newspaper management said.…

Left-wing Knesset members disrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special address on the cost of living Wednesday night, which was convened following the collection of over 40 MKs’ signatures in support of a hearing on the issue.  During the hearing, Netanyahu addressed a number of core issues which threaten to disrupt the basic cohesion of the…

Although they are considered a summer fruit, grapes are likely to show up on Israeli store shelves this winter – and are likely to cost less than they have in the past. The new batch of cheaper grapes comes courtesy of Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who on Wednesday signed an order slashing the import duty…

New EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) Wednesday to resume direct peace talks, as the European Parliament debated whether to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reports.  MEPs will hold a symbolic vote in December, following resolutions passed by the British and Spanish parliaments, and an official decision to recognize Palestine by the Swedish government. France’s National…

The High Court on Wednesday kiboshed government plans to demolish the homes of terrorists. One of the few methods security forces in Israel have to discourage Arabs from joining the ranks of terrorists – demolishing the homes of those involved in terrorism – was taken off the table as the result of a lawsuit by…

The US’s drone strike campaign in the Middle East has killed an unprecedented number of civilians, new data on the strikes reveals Wednesday. Terrorists only comprise 3.5% of the people who have died from “targeted killings,” the data, from human rights group Reprieve, reveals. Out of 1,147 people killed in targeted airstrikes, just 41 were…

Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that he supports any Israeli Knesset Members who oppose the controversial Jewish State Law, reports The Associated Press (AP). Speaking in the South African capital, Pretoria, where he met South African president Jacob Zuma, Abbas said it is important that Israel consider what the proposed law may mean for the…

The UN’s atomic agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said Wednesday it will need more funds from member states to help pay for its monitoring of an extended interim nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, according to Reuters. Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, China, and Russia failed to meet…

A spokesman for the Israel Police clarified on Wednesday evening that Commissioner Yohanan Danino, when criticizing MKs who visit the Temple Mount, did not direct his comments at all the MKs. At the same time, the spokesman reiterated that Danino did not intend to back down from his remarks. “Anyone reading the full text of…

South Tel Aviv housing activist Mai Golan, who heads the “Hebrew City” non-profit organization that tries to help Jewish residents of the largely African neighborhood, was assaulted by two Africans Wednesday night. In a Facebook posting, Golan wrote about how she was nearly abducted and verbally abused by two Eritreans. She said she had been…

A trove of prosecution documents from the 1961 trial of Nazi leader and Holocaust mastermind, Adolf Eichmann, will be auctioned off in Jerusalem by the Kedem Auction House next Tuesday.  The sellers have estimated the papers could bring in more than $20,000.  Eichman, responsible for managing the deportations and eventual genocide of European Jewry, escaped…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is actively torpedoing the so-called Zoabi Bill, which would make it possible to dismiss rogue MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) from the Knesset. Livni filed a an appeal against the fact that the decision to bring the bill to a Knesset vote was made by the Coalition Management and not in the…

Israel wants NATO to take steps against Turkey for allowing genocidal terror group Hamas to set up its headquarters in Istanbul. Yisrael Hayom reported Wednesday that Israel sent NATO official messages through several channels, in which it stated that it is unacceptable for a NATO member state to have ties with a terror group. Senior…

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) on Wednesday called on singer Kobi Oz to boycott an event at the President’s Residence, after President Reuven Rivlin decided to disinvite singer Amir Benayoun over a song critical of Arab Israeli terrorists. Urging Oz not to take part in a ceremony of “silencing,” Ben-Dahan said “don’t…

Chairman of the House Parliamentary Committee, MK Yariv Levin (Likud) has spearheaded a multi-step program to respond to the wave of terrorism in Israel in recent weeks, Yedioth Aharanoth has reported.   The proposal, presented Wednesday in the form of temporary legislation, will include 8 measures to deal directly with terrorists, their families, collaborators, and agitators.   The…

Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) is advancing a new bill to declare the groups of Muslim extremists coordinating unrest on the Temple Mount in order to block Jewish visits as illegal gatherings. The new bill was revealed on Wednesday by Haaretz, and targets the organized gatherings of Muslim men and women in recent years on…

In a dramatic turn of events Petah Tikva’s Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning lifted a gag order over the murder of Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami – revealing that his murder was indeed an Arab terrorist attack. Arami’s family have  long insisted that his death was an act of murder by one or more of…

Mifal Hapayis, Israel’s official state lottery, has announced that it is awarding this year’s Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences in the poetry category to Yitzhak Laor, a radical leftist poet. In a poem called “Anthem to the ‘Gush,’” Laor once infamously wrote of the “knitted kippah” religious Zionists: And our holiday of freedom, this…

An Israeli tourist visiting Berlin was attacked on the street Sunday evening. He suffered a black eye, bruises, and fractured fingers.  The man, 22, was beaten and kicked, by four apparently Muslim men, upon leaving a a Chabad house in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf neighborhood. Reports indicated that the assailants were four men who spoke German with an…

The radical leftist group New Israel Fund (NIF) announced earlier this month that its partnership with Taglit-Birthright Israel, Birthright Israel NEXT and Young Judea in which it guided trips to Israel for young American Jews has been cancelled. NIF announced the development in a letter penned by the group’s director in the New York Tri-State…

Meir Harel Yeshiva in Modi’in, a hesder track yeshiva that combines Torah study with IDF service, has worked for years to encourage IDF enlistment among yeshiva students abroad. The Yeshiva accompanies lone soldiers from foreign yeshivas serving without any family in Israel, and as part of the program, Meir Harel Yeshiva dean Rabbi Eliezer Shenvald and…

British Prime Minister David Cameron fired back at critics of Israel’s “Jewish State Law” in parliament Wednesday, noting that Israel is one of the only countries in the Middle East which actually grants equal rights to all its citizens. Cameron was responding to a statement during Prime Minister’s Questions by notoriously anti-Israel Labor MP Gerald…

According to forecasters, Israel is currently experiencing its biggest winter storm in 20 years, and there were numerous casualties, both human and otherwise, due to the wild weather in Israel Wednesday. Three brothers, ages 7, 9, and 11, got stuck in a deep puddle of mud and water in Hod Hasharon when they got swept…

The Jordanian Waqf continues to build illegally on the Temple Mount, photos leaked to Arutz Sheva revealed Wednesday.  The photos, which were taken by a visitor to the Mount, show what appears to be new construction, under a tarp, in the northeast corner of the Mount.  To clarify whether the Waqf has the license to build on…

A sharp debate broke out Wednesday at a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, as Committee chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) said that he would attempt to block funding for the Cinematek in Tel Aviv – because it plans to show a series of anti-Israel films. “The time has come to put an end…

Israel building in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria is “undermining” prospects for a two state solution, South African President Jacob Zuma said Wednesday as he welcomed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on a state visit. “We reiterate our call for the total cessation of all settlement activities,” Zuma told a joint news conference with Abbas. South Africa was ready…

As reported by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s own website and Fars news, at a conference in Tehran on Monday, Khamenei accused ISIS, all other Sunnis, and Sunni governments which battle any pro-Iranian Arab regimes and Shia militias of diverting Muslims away from fighting Israel. “The forefront of Muslims’ struggle in the region was…

India on Wednesday marked six years since Islamist terrorists stormed Mumbai in three days of horror that left 166 people dead, as survivors said they would never be “beaten back by terror”.   Families of victims and politicians laid flowers and wreaths at sites around the city to remember those slain in 2008 when Islamist…

It was announced on Wednesday that the quota for Arab construction workers allowed to work in sovereign Israeli territory is being raised with 8,000 additional workers – and for the first time in a long time, Arab workers from the Hamas-stronghold of Gaza will also be allowed in. Currently 86,000 workers are employed in Israel’s…

A British Islamist preacher has been recorded justifying beheadings of non-Muslim captives by the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) organization – and even suggests that all able-bodied non-Muslim men are legitimate targets for murder. In a video obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Minazur Rahman relates to the recent beheading of British aid…

The Israeli High Court is “the biggest problem” facing the State of Israel, according to Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Yisrael Aumann. Speaking at an event entitled “A State Ruled by the High Court: The High Court’s Indictment Against Israeli Democracy,” chaired by grassroots Zionist group Im Tirzu, Aumann claimed that the High Court’s activism in…

An investigation of the stabbing of two Jews aged 32 and 45 on Monday night in Jerusalem’s Old City has revealed that the incident was indeed a terrorist attack, and not “a fight between two parties” as police initially claimed. The two Jews, who study at the Shuvu Banim Yeshiva in the Old City, were attacked by…

Despite warnings that the brutal terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) is targeting Pope Francis for assassination, the pope on Tuesday came out in favor of “dialogue” with the group that has committed countless atrocities while conquering large parts of Syria and Iraq. Such dialogue is “almost impossible,” conceded the pope, although he said “I never…

After disinviting popular singer Amir Benayoun from an event over a song critical of Arab Israeli terrorists, President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday disparaged the “Jewish State Law” at the Annual Conference of the State Prosecutor in Eilat. The conference, entitled “To be a minority in our country,” featured talks by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua),…

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What do baseball and God have to do with each other? Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will and New York University (NYU) President John Sexton intend to probe that very question in their conversation “Baseball, Traditional and God” next month. The talk, hosted at Yeshiva University’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, will take place…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s official PA TV has reached a new low, presenting four Arab terrorists who were killed during or after their lethal attacks on Israeli citizens as victims of “Israeli attacks,” and whitewashing the terrorist context of their deaths. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Tuesday revealed a broadcast from last Tuesday presenting…

Parents groups are up in arms after a recent report found public schools in Newton, Massachusetts presented whitewashed versions of Hamas and Palestinian Authority (PA) charters, as well as other materials posing the destruction of Israel as acceptable. The findings were made through an investigation of classroom materials by the independent watchdog group Verity Educate, which…

Lutfu Turkkan, a Turkish MP for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), introduced on Monday a bill to Turkey’s parliament which proposes recognizing Israel as “a terrorist state.” The Turkish deputy began his speech to parliament by referring to the nine Turkish Islamists killed while attacking IDF soldiers aboard the Mavi Marmara, the ship which was…

One of the potential candidates to replace Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary of the United States pulled out of the race. Michèle Flournoy confirmed to the Politico website on Tuesday that has taken herself out of the running. Flournoy, who was undersecretary of defense for policy from 2009-2012 and now runs the Center for a…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the Hatnua party, welcomed on Tuesday evening President Reuven Rivlin’s criticism of the controversial Jewish State Law. Rivlin, who spoke at a conference earlier Tuesday, said, “The State of Israel is the national state of the Jewish people. A small, abhorred minority, undermine this fact, both from within our…

MK Binyamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer (Labor) will resign from the Knesset and retire from public life soon, the Maariv Hashavua newspaper reported on Tuesday. “Ben-Eliezer has been serving the State of Israel more than 60 years, 30 years of which were in senior positions in the army as a fighter and commander all the way to…

The Jewish Home members forum in Judea and Samaria met Monday, where frustrated members of the key coalition member called on the party to follow through on its stated pledges to Jewish construction in the region and stop the ongoing building freeze. Jewish Home has proven itself unable to stop the covert freeze bringing Jewish…

A proposal by MK Miri Regev (Likud) to require all ministers to attend the funerals of security force members killed in terror attacks is being challenged be an unlikely source Tuesday – the Terror Victims’ Association (TVA).  TVA has demanded that the motion be expanded to include all terror victims’ funerals, and not to differentiate…

The growing chorus of calls for Israel to crush Hamas in Gaza before they begin another war has gained a new voice Tuesday – this time, from the son of a major Hamas leader. Mosab Yousef, the son of Hamas leader in the Palestinian Authority (PA) Sheikh Hassan Yousef known for working for the Israel…

Minister for Senior Citizens MK Uri Orbach (Jewish Home) defended MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) on Tuesday, after Feiglin forcibly removed MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) and MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) from the Knesset podium for labelling Feiglin a “fascist” and threatening him. According to Orbach, an MK who calls another MK a “fascist” and threatens to…

The US should mind its own affairs, Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett stated Tuesday – especially regarding the proposed “Jewish State” law to concretize Jewish values in Israel’s legal system. “I say to the Americans that the affairs of the State of Israel – we will manage [ourselves],” Bennett stated, speaking on…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, along with Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, intends to bring a bill that will revoke the rights of those involved in terrorism to a vote in the next cabinet meeting. The proposal, the wording of which has already been completed and handed over to the Attorney General for a legal opinion, would…

Turkey’s Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday stirred up more controversy when he said women cannot be treated as equal to men. “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” he told a women’s conference in Istanbul, according to the BBC. “It is against nature.” Erdogan also said feminists did not grasp…

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced it has extended sanctions relief for Iran until next June 30, after nuclear talks were extended from their deadline this Monday to next July 1 – and as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei crowed that the EU and US had failed to stop his country from achieving nuclear power.…

Leading Israeli singer Amir Benayoun on Tuesday afternoon responded to the decision of President Reuven Rivlin’s office to cancel a performance by him at a state event next week, over a new song by Benayoun that is critical of Arab extremists in Israel. “On the matter of the announcement published by the President’s Residence, which…

South African retailer Woolworths on Tuesday secured a court order banning anti-Israeli activists from protesting in its shops against goods from the Jewish state. The high-end supermarket took the case to a court after a series of protests by extremist activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, who broke into stores brandishing placards and chanting…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shot back at critics of the “Jewish State Law” during a meeting with his Czech counterpart Bohuslav Sobotka, during a high-level visit to promote ties between Israel and the Czech Republic. Recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is a basic requirement of any peace deal as far…

Terrorist attacks continue to plague northern Nigeria – last Wednesday 45 people were murdered in a suspected Boko Haram attack, and on Tuesday another attack consisting of double female suicide bombers has claimed the lives of at least 30 more. The attacks occurred in a crowded marketplace in Maiduguri, a city in the northeast of…

Twenty-eight trucks of cement entered Gaza Tuesday, Hamas officials told AFP, in the second shipment of construction materials for the “private sector” since Operation Protective Edge this summer.  Raed Fatuh, the Palestinian Authority (PA) official in charge of the entry of goods into Gaza from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing, said 28 trucks, each carrying 40 tonnes of cement,…

The family of the late Netanel Roey Arami, hy”d, the construction worker who was the victim of a suspected terror attack after he fell – or was pushed – from the eleventh floor of a Petah Tikva construction site, is campaigning Tuesday for the Petah Tikva Magistrate Court to publish details of the death. Police…

MK Amir Peretz (Hatnua) has submitted a bill to return the direct elections system for Knesset elections Tuesday, saying that he was “afraid” of seeing Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) assume the role of Prime Minister in the event Jewish Home gains a majority during the next elections.  “I don’t see Bennett having a…

President Reuven Rivlin (Likud)’s office has cancelled the scheduled appearance of popular singer Amir Benayoun at a state event next week, following controversy over the singer’s latest song. Benayoun had been scheduled to sing at an event marking the expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands and Iran for next Sunday, November 30.  However, on Tuesday, the Director…

Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) has retracted his decision to ascend the Temple Mount Monday night, in deference to the severity of the security situation in Jerusalem.  Last week, Ariel’s office appealed to the VIP security unit of the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) to request a security detail for the Housing…

The left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz is preparing for another round of layoffs before the end of 2014. Publisher Amos Schoken sent a letter Monday to all employees offering voluntary retirement before the layoffs begin.  Schoken wrote, “This is a step that we are taking out of significant economic necessity. Our aim is to ensure that the newspaper can support itself from its…

A new bill could finally see MKs linked with terrorism banned from the Knesset, Channel 10 reports Monday – in a bill being dubbed “Zoabi’s Law.”  According to the proposal, submitted by MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu), MKs would gain the power to request the dismissal of another MK based on allegations of involvement with terror groups or…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians on Monday to “step back from the brink” and return to peace talks for a “two-state solution.” “The Israeli and Palestinian people face a shared fate on shared land. There is no erasing the other,” Ban told a UN committee on “Palestinian rights.” He called “on…

A 45 year-old man is in moderate to severe condition Monday night, after being stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem.  Paramedics and Magen David Adom paramedics have provided medical care to the man in the Old City police station, where he reported the event shortly after it unfolded.  Another Jew, estimated to be in…

Recriminations abound in the Knesset Monday, as MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) removed MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash) from the stand after Barakeh threatened to “choke” him.   MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) then joined in on the unrest, being forcibly removed by security from the platform after he called Feiglin a “fascist.” Both moves sparked loud cries…

An Arab man driving a stolen car ran over a policeman in Kikar Adam near Binyamin before fleeing the scene, security forces said Monday night. The officer sustained minor injuries in the suspected attack.  An initial investigation shows that Border Patrol officers from Binyamin stopped the vehicle for inspection in the square. In the middle…

Wellesley College, a private all-girls institution in suburban Boston, has eliminated the posts of Hillel director and Jewish chaplain, Haaretz reported.  The two part-time positions were removed last week after Wellesley announced its intentions to restructure the Hillel. They plan to hire a full-time rabbi to serve as Jewish chaplain. In the meantime, an interim Hillel director…

Gaza’s Hamas-run agriculture ministry threatened on Monday to stop importing Israeli fruit to the Palestinian territory in response to what it said was vegetable exports being blocked, AFP reports. “If Israel doesn’t reverse its decision to halt the export of Palestinian agricultural produce… we will ban the entry of fruit” from Israel, a ministry statement said. It said Israel on Sunday refused to let through…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed news of the extension of Iranian nuclear talks Monday, in remarks made at the opening of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset.  “We are anxiously monitoring the nuclear talks with Iran. We are also using our contacts and expressing our views, directly as well, in the international media, in…

MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), one of the authors of the controversial Jewish State Law, said on Monday that the Likud is not interested in elections at the present time, but also made clear that his party was not elected in order to carry out the agenda of Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. “You cannot run a…

In response to the tragic terror attacks that have occurred in Israel in recent weeks, the student leadership of Yeshiva University organized a rally in solidarity with Israel in New York City’s Times Square on Sunday, November 23. The rally, which was open to all denominations and faith groups, created a peaceful space for communal…

A Turkish regional governor was accused Monday of inciting hatred towards the country’s Jewish community, after suggesting a synagogue be turned into a museum as a reprisal for Israel’s policies over the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Dursun Ali Sahin, governor of the northwestern province of Edirne, sparked an outcry when he said Friday that the…

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Monday hit out at European governments for “failing us again,” singling out Sweden’s “historic mistake” of recognizing the “state of Palestine”. European parliaments voting to recognize Palestine are “giving the Palestinians exactly what they want — statehood without peace,” Prosor told the UN General Assembly. “By…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted on Monday that the “momentum” of countries recognizing the “state of Palestine” will grow. Ban, who spoke before a UN committee on Palestinian rights, urged Israel and the Palestinian Authority to “step back from the brink” and return to peace talks. “The Israeli and Palestinian people face a shared…

Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, on Monday welcomed the extension of talks between his country and six world powers, and hailed it as “victorious” for Iranians. “We have neither compromised over Iran’s nuclear rights, nor will ever do so, and there is no doubt that the Iranian nuclear technology will remain functioning,” he said, according to…

The controversial Jewish State Law on Monday elicited a response from Washington. Jeff Rathke, a spokesman for the State Department, did not condemn or denounce the law, but did say that “Israel is a Jewish and democratic state and all its citizens should enjoy equal rights. We expect Israel to stick to its democratic principles.”…

During a Labor Party faction meeting Monday afternoon, Opposition Leader, Yitzhak Herzog issued strong criticism against the conduct of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and called on several ministers to abandon the coalition.  Herzog pointed specifically toward Minister of Finance Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) as those who should leave…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Esther Pollard, the wife of longtime US prisoner Jonathan Pollard, on Monday – promising her to secure his release after receiving updates on his condition.  “We are constantly working for the release of Jonathan and will not slacken our efforts to return him home,” Netanyahu said. Jonathan Pollard has…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed by BBC on Monday where he addressed the nuclear deal Western powers are trying to arrive at with Iran – and the failure to reach a deal by the latest deadline.  Netanyahu has long been opposed to such a deal, calling the Islamic regime and the possibility of them acquiring a…

Talks between Iran and Western powers regarding a comprehensive nuclear deal have been extended by seven months, a diplomat told the Associated Press on Monday – just as the original November 24 deadline approached.  According to the diplomat, who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity, the deal must be settled by March 1. A fully-fleshed out and detailed…

A Swiss museum said Monday it would accept a German recluse’s bequest of a spectacular trove of more than 1,000 artworks hoarded during the Nazi era. The decision, announced at a press conference in Berlin, covers priceless paintings and sketches by Picasso, Monet, Chagall and other masters that were discovered by chance in 2012 in the Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt.…

The Shaked Committee, headed by MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), met Monday morning to track the results of its controversial Enlistment Law, which was passed in mid-March, and found that the law has had the exact opposite of its intended effect. It was revealed in the discussion that of the 1,500 hareidi IDF recruits set as a goal for…

The Coalition Management decided Monday to postpone by a week the Knesset plenum vote on two versions of the Jewish State bill, one of which was proposed by MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), and the other by MKs Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu). The decision to defer the vote was reached after…

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist organization behind the Palestinian Authority (PA) revealed on Monday that it has once again postponed submitting a resolution to the UN Security Council, which demands an end date to “Israel’s occupation.” PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency that the decision was made to buy time…

After extending a July 20 deadline, it looks like talks between world nations and Iran over the Islamic regime’s nuclear program will be extended yet again on Monday, as the November 24 deadline is set to come and go. According to a source close to the talks who spoke with Reuters, the talks are likely to…

The office of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a clarification Sunday evening about his statement to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Egypt would be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state. “Regarding the statement about the possibility of sending troops from Egypt and the Arab countries to secure a future…

Over two years after the discovery of missing masterpieces looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners, German officials and a Swiss museum are expected to confirm on Monday that the paintings will go to Switzerland, according to Reuters. The Bern Art Museum discovered in May it had been named sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt,…

As the deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran draws near, the president of the United States admitted on Sunday that “significant” gaps remain between the Islamic Republic and the West. “The good news is that the interim deal that we entered into has definitely stopped Iran’s nuclear program from advancing. …. So it’s been…

Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off, Reuters reports. Official results were yet to be announced, but shortly after polls closed, the parties of two front-runners said initial tallies showed they had passed to a second round run-off next month. Beji Caid Essebsi’s…

A British-Iranian woman who was detained after attempting to watch a men’s volleyball match in Iran, has been freed on bail, her family said Sunday, according to the BBC. The woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, was freed because of health problems and was staying with her parents in Tehran awaiting a decision by the Court of Appeal,…

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid party, declared on Sunday night that his party will vote against the Jewish State Bill when it comes to a vote in the Knesset. “Yesh Atid and I are not against the Jewish State Law but do not support it in the form in which it…

Channel 10 News reported on Sunday that the police will summon former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for questioning over remarks he made in a recorded conversation, in which he accused former Defense Minister Ehud Barak of “taking millions in bribes”. The recording in question was made by Olmert’s former close aide, Shula Zaken, and was…

The United States suggested to Iran on Sunday that it consider extending nuclear talks, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Iran and six world powers are holding talks in Vienna in an attempt to reach a lasting agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program before a deadline on Monday, but little progress has been made. A senior…

Likud Central Committee Chairman MK Danny Danon is advancing a new bill to prevent Israel from returning the bodies of dead terrorists to their families and the Palestinian Authority (PA), in an attempt to deter terrorism and prevent the glorification of terrorists at their funerals. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Danon explained “we saw what happened recently…

The estate of Guma Aguiar, the Jewish philanthropist who disappeared off Fort Lauderdale in June, 2012, has been divided among his heirs by a Florida court, reports Yediot Aharonot. The court approved a compromise agreed upon by Aguiar’s wife, Jamie, and his mother, Ellen, along with his sisters Adriana and Angelika. The sides had been…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition is hurtling toward a crash that could spell its end on Wednesday, as Netanyahu prepares to bring the Jewish State law to a Knesset vote. At Netanyahu’s insistence, the government decided Sunday that all coalition MKs – including ministers – will be bound by coalition discipline in the vote, and…

Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) told Arutz Sheva he is looking for legislative and parliamentary means to block the transfer of funds from Israel to the Palestinian Authority (PA). “We must recognize there’s a crazy absurdness here that I don’t understand,” Slomiansky said. “A terrorist who murdered and attacked and goes into jail has…

Tensions over a possible nuclear deal between Iran and world powers were on display on Sunday outside an atomic facility in Tehran, where a rare protest saw hardliners criticize government negotiators. According to a report by the AFP news agency, about 200 people, mostly students, gathered at the entrance to the Tehran Research Reactor to…

A Venezuelan member of parliament recently claimed that while Hitler had killed Jews during World War II, he did not kill any “Zionist Jews”. In an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, Venezuelan MP Adel Al-Sughayar said that Hitler’s main financiers had been the Zionists, and especially the Bush family. “Hitler killed those Jews who belonged…

The convoy for Palestinian Authority (PA) “Prime Minister” Rami Hamdallah was pulled over for a traffic violation Sunday, in the second such incident on Route 60 by the convoy in a one-year period. The convoy allegedly drove on the lane divider on Route 60 for a continuous period between Eli and Shiloh – a dangerous…

Despite rising anti-Semitism in Europe, and France in particular, Jews still have some friends, especially French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve who announced his love for French Jewry.  Cazeneuve’s remarks were made Wednesday during a speech at a gala in the Paris Marriott Hotel organized by the French Jewish Radio J station.  “I feel more close…

A political storm has erupted in Turkey over yet another anti-Semitic comment issued by a high-profile politician. On Friday, the governor of the city of Edirne announced that a synagogue being renovated in the city would be turned into a museum in revenge for Israel’s actions during Arab riots at the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s…

Palestinian media reported Sunday that a suspected revenge attack committed by “settlers” took place in the Ramallah area. According to residents of Khirbet Abu Falah, Jewish extremists set fire to a private residence. The building sustained heavy damage in the attack, but no one was injured. It is believed to have been conducted in revenge…

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) has officially cancelled the permanent residency status of a Palestinian terrorist Sunday morning, negating the rights of Mahmoud Nadi, the driver for the suicide bomber responsible for the bombing at the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv in June 2001. That attack killed 21 people and wounded over 100 others. Nadi…

Despite sharp criticism from several Knesset members and the Prime Minister himself, residents of Ashkelon are defending Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily remove Arab constructions workers from building in kindergartens.  Shai Rubin, a public activist and a father to children attending the kindergartens in questions, told Arutz Sheva, that parents’ demand from the mayor was unequivocal.  “We…

The Har Nof massacre has set a precedent for attacks on Jerusalem synagogues, a resident of the neighborhood of Nof Tzion told Arutz Sheva on Sunday – and now their local synagogue is being targeted.  “As the terrible massacre in Har Nof was being carried out, at the same time, dozens of young men threw rocks at…

Dr. Nabil Shaath, commissioner of international relations for Fatah, denied reports Sunday morning that the Palestinian Authority is rejecting the request to the United Nations regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state.  The Palestinian news website Donia Al-Watan reported Shaath’s comments, including that the Palestinian Authority will appeal to the UN by the end of the week, Israel’s Channel…

As the deadline to an agreement about Iran’s nuclear program approaches, Iran claims the failed negotiations and wide gaps between the two sides is the fault of “pressure from the Zionists.”  Iranian Army Chief of Staff, Hassan Firuzabadi said Saturday night, that even before talks began in Geneva, Switzerland, an agreement was thwarted – by Israel…

A four year-old Jewish boy was attacked by an anti-Semitic thug in New Zealand – the latest such incident in a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. The boy, who was walking home from preschool with a friend and his brother, were approached by a man “of Middle Eastern appearance”, said to be in his…

Rabbi Shmuel Goldstein, one of several people seriously wounded in last week’s horrific attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem, has described his “miraculous” survival to journalists for the first time. Speaking with some difficulty from a wheelchair at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem where he is being treated for his wounds, Rabbi Goldstein…

The Arab League will hold an “extraordinary” meeting next week to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the presence Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, an official said Sunday. The meeting on November 29 comes as Jerusalem as been roiled by months of unrest, which has spread across Judea and Samaria. Four rabbis and a policeman were…

Coalition Chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), one of the authors of the Jewish State bill, praised the government for voting in favor of it Sunday and thanked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for supporting it. The bill will be brought before the Knesset for a preliminary vote Wednesday. “No maneuvering will prevent this, nor will attempts…

The outpouring of sympathy and support for the family of Druze police officer Zidan Seif, who was killed as he rushed to defend a synagogue from Palestinian terrorists, continued Sunday with a condolence call from hareidi MK Meir Porush (UTJ). Seif was among five people murdered in last Tuesday’s horrific attack at the Kehillat Bnei…

Graffiti in Arabic supporting the Islamic State terrorist group was found Saturday on a memorial monument dedicated to Druze IDF soldiers killed in Israeli wars.  The monument is located along the Carmel Scenic Route, to the east of the entrance to Druze town Daliyat al-Karmel, near Haifa. Pro-Islamist graffiti was also found on a walking path…

Students of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the head of the “Shuvu Yisrael” sect who is in the center of a number of bribery and corruption allegations, have pledged to march against the legal proceedings against their Rabbi on Tuesday, students told Arutz Sheva exclusively on Sunday.  The demonstrators say they will protest against the court accepting Pinto’s plea…

A day before the self-imposed deadline for the talks on Iran’s nuclear program, a source close to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna dismissed western media reports about attainment of a comprehensive agreement with the P5+1 (the US, Russia, China, Britain and France plus Germany). “Consultations are still underway and no agreement has been achieved…

The Jewish State bill has passed a crucial cabinet vote this afternoon, with 15 votes for and 6 against. The debate saw right-wing proponents of the bill face-off against mostly left-wing opponents in what was at times an angry exchange. During the debate, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had strong words for Justice Minister Tzipi Livni,…

Sunday’s Cabinet meeting has devolved into petty arguments between Ministers, Arutz Sheva has learned, ahead of a monumental vote on the “Jewish State” bill to concretize Israel’s national identity.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) apparently began the row, noting that he had to compromise on the principles of the law after a veto from Justice Minister…

On Sunday, the Cabinet approved Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver’s plan to ease the absorption of new immigrants into the labor market in various professions. The move was led by Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption Ministry Director General Oded Forer, with the assistance of the Prime Minister’s Office director General…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published Sunday that he is be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state to help stabilize it, but only in agreement with Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to AFP. Sisi, who begins his first European trip on Monday, made the comments in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. He…

European Parliament Member Bastiaan Belder of the Netherlands has urged the parliament to hold a debate on anti-Semitism. “It’s a shame that this has not been done before,” he said. Belder made his latest comments in an address at the annual conference of the European Coalition for Israel (ECI), a Christian initiative promoting European-Israeli cooperation.…

In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview, David Kupinsky, whose brother Aryeh was among the five Jews slain at the Har Nof synagogue last week, remembers his older sibling – and the qualities that came to bear as he struggled with the murderers, saving others’ lives. Kupinsky was born and raised in the metropolitan Detroit area,…

Magen David Adom emergency services announced that it is scaling back its activities in Judea and Samaria and northern Israel because of budgetary difficulties – despite the fact that Israel is in the midst of a wave of Arab terror. Avi Naim, head of the Beit Aryeh council and Chairman of the Security Committee in…

A Fatah MP has explained that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ condemnation of the massacre of five Jews in a Jerusalem synagogue was uttered for diplomatic purposes, reported Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Sunday. The MP explained to Quds Net News Agency that Abbas’ movement Fatah “justified the statements of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, who…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned France’s parliament Sunday against recognizing a Palestinian state in a vote on December 2. “Do they have nothing better to do at a time of beheadings across the Middle East, including that of a French citizen?” he asked reporters in Jerusalem, referring to hiker Herve Gourdel who was executed by…

Hamza Magamsa, an Israeli Arab from the village of Yafi’ in northern Israel, was arrested last month at Ben Gurion airport as he returned from a 10-day training stint with ISIS in Syria. The story was under a gag order until now. Magamsa, who is 22, admitted under ISA (Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet)…

Thousands of Rabbis from across the world gathered in Brooklyn, New York Sunday, for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, or Kinus Hashluchim. Nearly 5,000 rabbis attended the annual event aimed at reviving Jewish awareness and practice around the world. Among those in attendance are a close-knit group of friends who meet up each year…

An Iranian official has said reaching a deal with the West over its nuclear program by tomorrow is ‘impossible,’ reported the Daily Mail Sunday. The official said the discussion “may soon have to shift from trying to reach an agreement to extending negotiations past tomorrow’s deadline for the end of this round of negotiations,” the…

Fitch has downgraded the outlook for Israel’s sovereign long-term foreign currency issuer default rating from Positive to Stable, but the Finance Ministry isn’t concerned, according to the Globes financial newspaper. In its announcement of the change, which came on Friday, Fitch said the change in outlook was because of the expected wider fiscal deficit in…

Tehran is ready to allow nuclear inspectors access to its Marivan military site, an Iranian official said Saturday, according to AFP. Marivan is a facility long suspected of being used to develop explosive weapons. The declaration comes as Iran and six world powers hold talks in Vienna to reach a lasting agreement on Tehran’s disputed…

A bomb went off near a train station in southern Egypt Saturday night, as police found three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks in the region, the government said, according to AFP. A charred body was found near the railway station in Wasta, a town in the province of Beni Suef, the interior ministry…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will on Sunday bring the controversial Jewish State Law to a vote in the Cabinet, as he announced he would do last week, despite continuing objections to it from both Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Speaking on Saturday night, Netanyahu said the law “is essential in order to establish…

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night that it is time for Israel to stop blaming itself for terrorist attacks and start fighting terror. Speaking to Channel 2’s “Meet the Press” program, Bennett said that terrorists’ homes must be destroyed the same day they carry out a terror attack. “Today, those terrorists who…

Michal Levine’s father, Rabbi Kalman Levine hy”d, was brutally murdered along with three other Jews at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood last Tuesday by two Arab terrorists armed with hatchets, knives and guns, who went on to murder a Druze police officer as well. Levine spoke to Arutz Sheva about her father in front of…

Somali terrorists of the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab organization murdered 28 people in an attack on a bus in Kenya’s northeastern Mandera county on Saturday – before shooting their victims in the head they separated out the Muslims. Around ten heavily-armed terrorists stopped the bus bound for Nairobi not far from the Somali border, forced passengers off,…

Jewish yeshiva students are fuming after police defined a pre-planned Arab attack on them at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives Friday night as an “altercation” or “mutual provocation” in an announcement to the media. One of the Jewish youths who was attacked is hospitalized at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in the capital with light to moderate wounds,…

The Jerusalem District Attorney on Sunday morning will submit an indictment to the city’s district court against the Border Patrol officer who was arrested on suspicions of killing an Arab rioter during Nakba Day riots in May. The officer has denied the charges, which appear to have been made on the basis of a Palestinian…

Following discussions last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night is expected to propose a bill negating permanent residency status and social benefits from Arab residents of Jerusalem conducting riots and terrorist attacks. “It cannot be that those who act in terror against the state of Israel enjoy rights such as national insurance,” said…

Salah, Hassan, Riyad and Ahmed of Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood – just a handful of the many Arab children aged eight to 13 who, instead of going to school and learning, mask their faces and assault police officers with potentially lethal rocks every single day. Yedioth Aharonoth interviewed Jerusalem’s youngest Arab terrorists last week, providing a unique…

While last week US Secretary of State John Kerry was jetting to Vienna to continue negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, the United States House of Representatives, in a rare bi-partisan vote, unanimously passed legislation condemning Iran’s “gross human rights violations.” This was passed almost simultaneously with the sending of a letter signed by…

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) announced Saturday that he would be looking into the possibility of revoking the residency permits of Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem participating in the ongoing deadly violence in the capital. “I have ordered a review and recommendations… in order to expand my powers as Interior Minister to revoke the permanent residency…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday delivered a fiery speech in Ramallah, in which he reiterated his plan to ask the UN to set a deadline for Israel to “end the occupation”. At the same time, Abbas said he was against violence and condemned recent terrorist attacks against Israelis. “We are being shut…

Jordan’s Prime Minister, Abdullah Nsur, on Friday sent a letter of condolences to the families of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who murdered five people in a synagogue in Jerusalem this week. “I ask that Allah surround them with mercy, and give you all patience, solace and recovery from your grief,”…

Yemen’s culture minister, who was recently honored for her work combating extremism and discrimination against women, says she is giving her award to Yemen’s dwindling Jewish population, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. Arwa Othman won Human Rights Watch’s Alison Des Forges Award in September. At a Thursday celebration in Sanaa, Othman called for…

Two Jewish men were wounded in eastern Jerusalem on Friday evening when they were stabbed by Arabs during what police believe was a fight that escalated. The two men, aged 24 and 21, were making their way towards the Beit Orot yeshiva on the Mount of Olives when they were attacked by Arabs. A Magen…

An English football (soccer) club and anti-Semitism have been linked yet again Thursday, after Wigan F.C. head Dave Whelan was forced to apologize for making offensive comments against Jews. “The Jews don’t like losing money,” Whelan stated in an interview with the British Guardian. “Nobody likes losing money.” “Do you think Jewish people chase money…

In the wake of the horrific terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue this Tuesday, the rabbi of the Jewish community in Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, has received deaths threats to burn down his synagogue – with him inside of it. Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli made aliyah (immigration) to Israel at the age…

Israeli security forces busted a major Hamas terror cell aimed specifically at carrying out terror attacks in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, Palestinian Arab sources said Friday.  The terror cell is closely related to the crackdown by the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and police over the summer, which saw 93 Hamas terrorists arrested…

Hamas is attempting to stir up tensions in Judea and Samaria on Friday, specifically near the Qalandia checkpoint in Jerusalem’s north and in Hevron.  News of a potential “day of rage” in the making surfaces after the Israel police announced that no restrictions would be levied on Muslims entering the Temple Mount on Friday, the…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) took part on Thursday in a conference of the Council for Peace and Security, in which she blamed the Jewish presence in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria for “heating up the atmosphere” in the recent wave of terrorism. “Our role as cabinet members is to rise above the…

A woman was arrested for carrying a gun outside the White House on Thursday night, the Secret Service revealed Friday, and has since refused to cooperate with police.  April Lenhart, 23, from Mount Morris, Michigan, was taking part in a protest along the north fence Thursday night as US President Barack Obama was completing a…

Ambassadors from five major European Union (EU) member states met with the Foreign Ministry’s senior diplomat Alon Ushpiz in Jerusalem on Thursday, where they voiced opposition to the demolition of the homes of Arab terrorists. Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Spain were the five countries whose consul generals argued that such demolitions, which are meant…

German anti-Semitism and resentment towards Israel have risen sharply in recent months, a new survey has found. More than one in four respondents in the new poll equated the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War Two, Reuters reported on Thursday. The bi-annual survey on xenophobia in Germany…

Tuesday’s massacre at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof is not just the culmination of months of rioting, MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home) stated this week – but rather apathy to a culture of incitement in general.  “Incitement is very broad – not just from Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – ed.],” Struk…

Yisrael Beytenu MK Alex Miller’s bill to blacklist the Islamic Movement in Israel will be reviewed by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, and if passed, would strike a major blow against Islamists blamed for the continued Arab rioting in Jerusalem and elsewhere.  The Islamic Movement’s northern branch, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, was…

In a scathing two-page letter by 43 Republican senators to US President Barack Obama dated this Wednesdasy, the senators, led by Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio, warned that they were “alarmed” by reported plans to bypass Congress and reach a nuclear deal with Iran. The senators were alarmed at “reports that your administration plans to…

Anonymous vandals on Friday threw acid on the car of Sheikh Samir Assi who serves as the Imam of Akko, a mixed Jewish and Arab city located near Haifa. After the horrific terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood this Tuesday – in which two Arab terrorists murdered four Jews at prayer…

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri justified a foiled plan to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Friday, claiming that while he does not personally know of information regarding the plot, “all the leaders of the occupation are considered legitimate targets for resistance.”  “The leaders of the occupation, who are responsible for the killing…

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) welcomed the compromise agreement on the Jewish State Law Friday, in an interview with Arutz Sheva.  The compromise, proposed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, equates the democratic and Jewish qualities of the State instead of elevating the Jewish nature of Israel.  A portion of the draft reads: “The right to…

A march that will be held on Sunday around the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City in a call for the building of the Third Temple is to be dedicated to Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who was shot by an Arab terrorist late last month. The march, highlighted by prayers and dancing, is held monthly…

Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) on Thursday won a major decision in their landmark case against the Palestinian Authority (PA), achieving a court date in a $1 billion case exposing PA and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) culpability in numerous terror attacks. The Israeli-based civil rights organization sued the PA on behalf of 11 families for…

Jerusalem Councilman and Israel Land Fund (ILF) founder and director Arieh King has been outspoken in fighting for Jewish rights to the Israeli capital of Jerusalem – apparently Arab terrorists have taken note, and are targeting him. ILF wrote on its official Facebook page on Wednesday that King “was informed yesterday by Israeli police that…

The emergency rescue teams in the Dead Sea area are warning the public that floods are expected at week’s end in the stream beds leading to the Dead Sea – and they are also calling on people who wish to view the floods to do so carefully. Streams must not be crossed during a flood,…

In light of the decision to once again block the parole of Jonathan Pollard, who on Friday enters his 30th year of imprisonment in a US jail for charges of spying for Israel, senior US officials have written US President Barack Obama to denounce the injustice of the case. The letter was signed by eight…

 A large prayer rally was held Thursday evening at the Kotel plaza in Jerusalem, following the latest surge in Muslim terrorism in the capital and other parts of Israel. The prayers were led by Jerusalem’s recently appointed chief city rabbis, Rabbi Aryeh Stern and Rabbi Shlomo Amar. Also attending was Deputy Minister for Religious Services…

As IDF sources on Thursday flip-flopped whether the Arab driver who left three IDF soldiers wounded in Judea’s Gush Etzion by hitting them with his van two weeks ago committed a terror attack, it was revealed that the driver is a Hamas terrorist – and that he admitted to conducting a premeditated terror attack in…

If elections were held today, Likud would receive 20 MKs and the Jewish Home would receive 19 MKs, according to a poll held by Panels Politics for the Knesset Channel. Yesh Atid and Labor would receive 13 MKs, according to this poll. These numbers show Yesh Atid gaining strength relative to previous polls, and Labor losing…

An Iranian-Canadian blogger who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for his writings has been pardoned by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reports The Associated Press (AP). The news of the pardon of Hossein Derakhshan, who helped ignite blogging in Iran, was first reported by Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency. It said authorities…

At least 45 people were killed in a suspected Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, AFP reported on Thursday. The attack happened in the village of Azaya Kura in the Mafa area of Borno state on Wednesday, the caretaker chairman of Mafa local government area, Shettima Lawan said, calling it “wicked and despicable”. Village chief…

For the second week in a row, Israeli police said on Thursday evening they do not plan to bar young Muslim worshippers from Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. “So far, restrictions on entry of worshippers will not be imposed,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a statement quoted by AFP late Thursday. She said…

Jordanian authorities on Thursday arrested the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in the kingdom, Zaki Bani Arshid, the Turkish Anadolu agency reported. According to the report, the reason for the arrest is statements made by Arshid against the United Arab Emirates. “The security agencies arrested Bani Arshid over his remarks against the United…

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the IDF and the Israel Police apprehended three terrorists who planned to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman using RPG missiles, it was cleared for publication on Thursday evening. The military prosecutor filed charges in the Judea Military Court against the three, who planned to assassinate Liberman as a response…

A second Frenchman who took part in the brutal beheading of aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State (ISIS) was identified on Wednesday, AFP reports. The man appeared unmasked in the grisly execution video among other ISIS jihadists, many of whom are believed to be Western fighters. Several European countries are probing the possible involvement of…

Britain’s foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said on Wednesday that a nuclear deal with Iran is unlikely to be completed by a deadline next Monday but there may be enough progress to warrant extending the talks. “I’m not optimistic that we can get everything done by Monday,” Hammond told reporters during a visit to the Latvian…

In what has become somewhat routine, the United States on Wednesday condemned Israel’s latest approval of construction in Jerusalem. According to Reuters, State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke stressed Washington’s “clear and consistent opposition to construction activity in East Jerusalem.” “During this sensitive time in Jerusalem, we would see such activity as inconsistent with the goal…

Egypt’s state news agency reported on Wednesday that prosecutors have asked for the death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on trial on espionage charges. According to The Associated Press (AP), prosecutor Emad el-Sharawy said in closing remarks that Morsi and his aides leaked state security documents to foreign…

The United Nations (UN) Security Council  on Wednesday strongly condemned the “despicable terrorist attack” on a Jerusalem synagogue in which five people were murdered, calling on Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders to restore calm. In a unanimous statement quoted by the AFP news agency, the 15-member council expressed concern over rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions and stressed…

The Secret Service on Wednesday arrested an Iowa man after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House, according to ABC News. R.J. Kapheim, 41, was arrested on a charge of having an unregistered firearm, which is illegal in the…

Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni raised the ire of leftists on Wednesday after he ordered to temporarily stop the employment of Arab construction workers who are tasked with building protected spaces in educational institutions in the city. Shimoni cited security concerns for his decision, amid continued tensions, particularly in Jerusalem, and the series of recent terrorist…

Economy Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett delivered a speech at an industry conference in Eilat Thursday morning. In the speech, he referred to Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily stop the employment of Arab Israeli construction workers.   Shimoni cited security concerns for his decision, amid continued tensions and a series of recent terrorist attacks, including Tuesday’s brutal attack in…

The IDF has confirmed that Hamas fired yet another rocket from Gaza towards the Red Sea Thursday morning. It is the fourth such launch in the past two days alone, part of a series of tests by the Islamist terrorist group to improve its rocket capabilities. “Moments ago, #IDF Active Defense system identified a rocket…

Weeks after the official Swedish recognition of a Palestinian state led to a severe diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden, Stockholm has sent a senior official to Jerusalem to persuade Israel’s Foreign Ministry to return Ambassador Isaac Bachman to Sweden for consultations, Yedioth Aharanoth reported.  Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department in the Swedish…

In the aftermath of Tuesday’s synagogue massacre, Jerusalem is on high alert. Israeli troops were stationed outside educational institutions and kindergartens, as was as deployed to the entrances of a number of Arab neighborhoods in the capital.  Police were instructed to tighten control over individuals exiting the neighborhoods. Checkpoints were set up for searching. However, according…

Former Palestinian terrorist, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh was found guilty last week of not disclosing she had been convicted in a 1969 terrorist attack in Israel when she was applying for United States citizenship. Two people were killed in the attack she participated in.  On Wednesday, she petitioned the court to be released from custody until her sentencing hearing, scheduled…

Jordan’s parliament on Wednesday offered a prayer in honor of “the spirit” of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who murdered five people in a synagogue in Jerusalem on Tuesday. According to the Elder of Ziyon blog, which cited Jordanian Arabic-language media, the prayer was held as the House of Representatives…

A second Frenchman who took part in the brutal beheading of aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State (ISIS) was identified on Wednesday, AFP reports. The man appeared unmasked in the grisly execution video among other ISIS jihadists, many of whom are believed to be Western fighters. Several European countries are probing the possible involvement of…

Israeli police seized a massive shipment of firecrackers, swords, tasers and other weapons at Ashdod port Thursday – a potentially deadly arsenal which was set to be delivered to Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Two containers intercepted by authorities at the southern port were packed with 18,000 fireworks, 5,200 commando knives, 5,500 tasers, 4,300 tasers concealed…

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari has weighed in on the “hypocritical” MKs condemning Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni, who temporarily stopped the employment of Arab construction workers on sites near schools citing security amid the recent spike of terrorist attacks. Condemnation has come in from right-wing parties as well, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s criticism joined by…

In a dramatic development, senior IDF officials informed the families of three soldiers seriously injured when a Palestinian rammed his truck into them in Gush Etzion that the incident was indeed a terrorist attack, according to Channel Two. A little over two weeks ago, just hours after a car attack in Jerusalem killed a border…

In the wake of the storm Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s Wednesday night’s announcement created, additional municipalities have stepped up Thursday with their own plans to increase the security in their communities, also with an emphasis on construction sites, Channel 10 News reported.  Mayor Shimoni’s decision to temporarily freeze the employment of Arab Israeli workers on construction sites in kindergartens…

The Major-General of the Home Front Command issued a 48-hour warning decree prior to the demolition of the home of the terrorist who attempted to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick last month, leaving him seriously injured. The terrorist, Mu’taz Hijazi – an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was employed at a restaurant Glick was speaking…

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of participating in the anti-Semitic attack at a Brooklyn subway station Monday afternoon, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.  The New York City Police Department (NYPD) believes the teenager, arrested Tuesday night, was one of the the three assailants who beat an Orthodox Jewish man with his umbrella while shouting…

Israel has agreed to cooperate with the United Nations Headquarters Board of Inquiry to investigate the damage to UNRWA facilities during Operation Protective Edge this past summer.  The UN Headquarters Board, established by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, was announced by Ban last week as an “internal and independent” board that would look into the damage to UN…

In a statement issued Thursday morning, the Anti-Defamation League condemned the Spanish parliament vote urging the conservative government to recognize “Palestine.”  The vote came only hours after two Palestinian terrorists massacred Jewish worshippers at a Jerusalem synagogue in Har Nof. Four rabbis were murdered while at prayer and one policeman was killed in a shootout with the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded Thursday to Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni’s decision to temporarily freeze the employment of Arab Israeli construction workers building protected rooms in educational institutions in the city. While doing so, he also called attention to his new draft of the Jewish State Law.  “There is no place for discrimination against Israeli Arabs. We should…

Israel’s political leadership has decided not to return the bodies of Ghassan and Uday Abu al Jamal, the terrorists who carried out the massacre in the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood to their families, Channel 10 reports Wednesday night, as a deterrent against future terror attacks.  This is the first time that the Israeli government has withheld…

President Reuven Rivlin addressed the security situation Wednesday, noting that tensions in Jerusalem have ballooned into an all-out “Jewish-Muslim conflict” during a television interview.  “Jerusalem has seen many difficult times,” Rivlin said.  “I remember, as a child, living under siege. We have seen days of battle, days of Intifada and riots.” “Today, we are in…

Opposition Leader, MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) came to lunch at Congregation Bnai Torah Synagogue in Har Nof in Jerusalem – the site of Tuesday’s bloody terror attack.  “I come here as a citizen and as a leader to express heartfelt shock as a Jew. The picture of a bullet in the Ark is difficult and…

Public broadcasting may soon be available in Arabic, after the Knesset approved in a preliminary reading Wednesday a motion by MK Issawei Friej (Meretz) to mandate Arabic-language broadcasts in the largest public broadcasting corporations. The bill, if ratified into law, would mandate that public radio include Arabic-language programs which address Israeli Arabs issues, news, culture, and…

In a security message to American citizens in Israel, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem said that Tuesday morning’s deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue demonstrated “low-level coordination.” The grisly attack occurred when two Palestinian terrorists stormed the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood armed with axes, knives and guns during morning prayers.…

Together, MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and MK David Tzur (Hatnua) have drafted a bill calling for the revocation of residency status for convicted terrorists.  Palestinian Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem or the Golan Heights – over the 1949 Armistice lines – who denied the offer for citizenship, are considered permanent residents under Israeli law. They…

Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett referred to pictures to suggest that car rampage terrorist Abdelrahman Shaludi‘s house was not fully destroyed Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva.   On Tuesday night, IDF troops, assisted by the Israel Police and the Border Police, demolished Shaludi’s Jerusalem home. Shaludi, last month, carried out a car…

Furthering the controversy, journalist Charlotte Henry resigned from the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday, in partial response to Ward’s tweet.  “I joined in 2009, becoming an intern for Don Foster MP,” she said. “There are few better ways to get a political education than chasing after Don. Since then I’ve campaigned and consulted for candidates, held senior…

Police have tried to hush up the “silent intifada” of rising Arab terrorism focused around Jerusalem in recent months, but apparently the uptick in recent weeks of high-profile lethal attacks has caused a change of policy, and a redefinition of the attacks as “Intifada 2014.” A resident of Elon Moreh, located east of Shechem (Nablus)…

A day after five Israelis were murdered in an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, fears were raised that terrorists in the Hamas stronghold of Gaza joined in on the attacks by opening fire on IDF soldiers. According to reports the IDF force was in the Erez Crossing region to guard work…

Panic spread Tuesday night in central Tel Aviv after residents heard “Allahu Akbar” being shouted from a loudspeaker in a residential building on Ben Yehuda Street. Allahu Akbar is an Arabic phrase meaning “God is greater” –  it is often shouted by Muslim terrorists at the height of their violent attacks.  Police from the Tel…

The Druze police officer Master Sergeant Zidan Nahad Seif (30) who was critically wounded while trying to stop the terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday morning is to be buried on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Seif’s funeral will take place in his hometown of Yanuh-Jat, located west of Nahariya in the Galilee in Israel’s…

About 30 worshippers arrived Wednesday morning to Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof for shacharit morning prayers – the day after two Arab terrorists horrifically massacred worshippers, killing five people in the synagogue.  Two security guards stood at the entrance to secure the morning prayer service, after the 7 a.m. prayers the previous day was…

At around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, Palestinian Arabs reported that a Jewish boy from the town of Kochav Yaakov in Binyamin was in Palestinian police custody.  According to the Palestinians, four boys from Kochav Yaakov went down to an Arab village to carry out a “price tag” vandalism attack. They claimed youths threw stones at…

Jerusalem’s Parent Organization for Education announced Wednesday morning that because of the escalation of violence in the capital as well as a growing fear that children will be harmed, “security in educational institutions across the city will be reinforced significantly.”  “The Jerusalem Municipality is working with us in regard to supplementing security standards, budgets, and…

Professor Avi Rifkind, head of the Trauma and Emergency Medicine Department in Hadassah Hospital, visited Wednesday with Yeshayahu Horowitz – one of the men badly wounded in the stabbing attack at Alon Shvut Junction. Horowitz served as a medic during his compulsory military service. His medical condition has improved in the past few days.  Dahlia…

The Satmar Rebbe eulogized the victims of the massacre in Har Nof Tuesday, pointing the blame not at the Palestinian Arabs who killed them, but at Jews who ascend the Temple Mount (Judaism’s holiest site – ed.) as the cause.  “These days, bad news comes from the holy city of Jerusalem,” the Satmar Rebbe stated,…

The funeral for a Druze police officer killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem has begun in his home town of Yanuh-Jat. Sergeant Major Zidan Seif (30) was shot in a firefight with terrorists as he heroically intervened to stop the massacre at the Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof; he died of his wounds late Tuesday…

Jerusalem experienced a double day of terror Tuesday, after Palestinian Arabs attacked a Jewish man in his twenties with iron bars near the New Gate in the heart of the city just hours after the Har Nof massacre which killed four people and fatally wounded another.  Daniel Bronstein, the victim of the iron bar attack,…

The aide to Arab MK Masoud Ganaim (Ra’am-Ta’al) has been fired and had his entry permit to the Knesset negated, after a Knesset guard member complained that he threatened that after a soccer game next Sunday between Beitar Jerusalem and Bnei Sakhnin “we’ll slaughter 50 Jews.” The heated soccer game, which comes in the midst…

On Sunday, 23rd November, London’s JW3 restaurant will be holding an Israeli extravaganza. The “A Taste of Israel” expo at JW3, is being billed as “the ultimate Israel experience without leaving London”; guests are invited to revel in the connection and feel inspired at the presentations, workshops and exhibitions. Among the attractions will be vendors straight…

The IDF reported on Wednesday morning that following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s orders, the home in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood belonging to the Arab terrorist behind the lethal October 22 car attack was demolished – that appears to be only partially true. The terrorist, Abdelrahman Shaludi, plowed his car into pedestrians at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in…

Israel denounced as unhelpful on Wednesday a vote by the Spanish parliament, hours after a deadly Jerusalem synagogue attack, which called on Madrid to recognize a “Palestinian state.”    In a highly symbolic move, Spanish MPs adopted almost unanimously a motion urging the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by…

The head of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force has claimed it is raising an army of “millions” to flood Gaza and Syria to support Tehran’s allies. Fars, Iran’s semi-official newspaper, reported that that Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Commander the Basij paramilitary force, as saying: “Millions of Basijis (volunteer forces) are ready in Iran to be…

As Israel reels following the horrific attack on a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning, five victims wounded in the attack remain hospitalized, but there is good news – one of the wounded has regained consciousness. Four of the five are hospitalized in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, with two still in critical condition, one suffering moderate to…

Hours after a lethal terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning, an Arab citizen of Israel was arrested in possession of an improvised sub-machine gun at the same Hahagana train station in Tel Aviv where an IDF soldier was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist last Monday. The 21-year-old aroused the suspicions of…

CNN weren’t the only ones making outrageous reportage failures concerning the brutal terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning that left four Jews murdered and eight others wounded, four of them critically – Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) took to Facebook to do her part as well. “I met and spoke with 12th grade students…

As Israelis mourned the horrific attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday morning, many Palestinian Arabs reacted with delight. In macabre scenes played out in numerous Arab areas – including Gaza, Bethlehem and parts of Jerusalem – Palestinians took to the street to celebrate the cold-blooded murder of unarmed Jewish worshipers as they prayed in…

Just hours after four Jews were murdered praying at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof, a young Jew in his 20s was attacked by two Arab assailants armed with iron bars in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday night. The attack took place at the Old City’s New Gate, located in the north-western corner of the…

CNN has apologized for one of several errors in its reporting of Tuesday morning’s brutal terrorist attack in Jerusalem. In one particularly jarring error, the headline presented for the story broadcast live to tens of millions of viewers read: “Israeli… Police Shot, Killed 2 Palestinians.” The headline sparked outrage, with one prominent Israeli activist calling…

Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen may have claimed Tuesday after the Har Nof attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “isn’t inciting terrorism” – but that appraisal is completely wrong according to Abbas’s own adviser. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed on Tuesday that PA Supreme Sharia (Islamic law) Judge and…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Tuesday night in response to the shocking terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood that morning. “We are at the height of a terror campaign focused on Jerusalem. In the middle of shacharit (morning) prayers four innocent and pure Jews were murdered. We send condolences to the…

Some 300 protesters from the Otzma Yehudit organization took to the streets of Jerusalem today in protest of this morning’s terrorist massacre at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood. The demonstration took place next to the capital’s iconic String Bridge close to the central bus station. Activists called for “revenge,” as well as calls…

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) fired back at Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen on Tuesday, who told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee following the Har Nof terror attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “did not incite terror.” Cohen likewise claimed that the “cause” of recent terrorism…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday hit back at ridicule of his claim from several days ago that Islamic explorers discovered the Americas three centuries before Christopher Columbus. In fact, Erdogan called for his rewriting of history to be taught in schools. “A big responsibility falls on the shoulders of the national education ministry…

Hours after a terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue killed five people on Tuesday morning, Hamas is continuing its incitement against Jews. The latest incident is an animated propaganda video, posted on the Facebook page of the Shehab News Agency, and which encourages car terrorist attacks against Israelis. In the video, “Zionists” are warned to…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday night strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood in which five people were murdered. In a statement, Ban called for political leadership and courage on both sides to address the “very tense” situation in the region. He noted that beyond today’s…

Iran has been using a Chinese bank to transfer funds to companies linked with its army, according to a Western intelligence report reviewed by the Reuters news agency. The report says that a company by the name of Shenzhen Lanhao is one of several companies in China that receives money from Iran through a Chinese…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has drawn fire from both the right and the left for the end of his speech Tuesday night in the wake of the terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, in which he called on opposition parties to join in a unity government. In his speech, Netanyahu said, “We must put aside…

Spanish lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday calling on the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reported. The motion submitted by the opposition Socialists asks the conservative government to recognize “Palestine” in coordination with any similar move by the European Union. It was adopted nearly unanimously in the lower house of parliament, with 319 in…

The death toll in Tuesday’s terrorist attack at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem has risen to five, after an officer who was fatally wounded in the attack died of his wounds Tuesday night. The latest victim has been identified as Zidan Seyf, 27, a police officer from the Arab town of…

One of the terrorists behind Tuesday’s massacre in Har Nof’s “Bnei Torah” synagogue worked next door, Palestinian sources told IDF Radio, at a grocery store in the Jewish neighborhood.  The two, reportedly identified as cousins Uday and Rassan Abu Jamal, are also Israeli Arabs who carry blue teudat zehut identity cards.  According to reports in the Palestinian media,…

Four people were murdered and six people wounded Tuesday morning, after two Arab terrorists entered the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue on Agassi Street during Shacharit (morning) prayers in Jerusalem’s religious Har Nof neighborhood bearing guns, axes, and knives. Among the wounded are two policeman, one critically wounded during the shootout with the terrorists. Medics…

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday condemned a Palestinian terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which four Israelis were killed and 13 wounded. “The Palestinian presidency has always condemned the killing of civilians on either side, and condemns today the killing of worshippers at a synagogue in west Jerusalem,” a statement from his…

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hailed this morning’s massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue, in which four worshipers were murdered and many more wounded by Palestinian terrorists. In a statement, the Hamas terrorist group said it was “a response to the murder of the martyr Yusuf Ramuni,” referring to a Palestinian bus driver who committed suicide…

The horrific massacre at a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem during morning prayers is reminiscent of pogroms, the Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, stated Tuesday.  “The dreadful scene, [victims] soaked in blood donning praying shawls and phylacteries [tefilin – ed.] reminds us all of the riots and pogroms passed down through the generations of…

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday condemned an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed four Israelis as an “act of pure terror and senseless brutality”. Speaking in London ahead of talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Kerry called on the Palestinian leadership to denounce the attack, which was carried out by…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has vowed not to “surrender to terror” on Tuesday, after Arab terrorists executed a massacre in a Har Nof synagogue, killing four people and injuring thirteen others as they prayed the morning service.  “Jerusalem bows its head in pain and sorrow on this difficult morning,” Barkat stated. “Jerusalem residents peacefully praying…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) responded to this morning’s Jerusalem terror attack, blaming incitement by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas for the deadliest attack in the capital in years. “An attack which is perpetrated in a synagogue during prayers is the biggest indicator that for all of these despicable acts of murder by terrorists, the responsibility lies entirely…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) announced that he would be holding an urgent Security Cabinet meeting Tuesday, following the brutal massacre of Jews as they prayed at a Har Nof, Jerusalem synagogue for the morning service.  “This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud…

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) have arrived at the scene of the horrific massacre of praying Jews in a Har Nof, Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, noting the severity of the incident.  “This attack is the most difficult we have witnessed in recent years,” Danino stated.  Regarding his plan…

At the scene of the terrorist attack in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, where earlier on Tuesday two Arab terrorists murdered four Jews and wounded eight others, Arutz Sheva got the chance to speak with Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, founder and chairman of ZAKA. ZAKA works to ensure proper burial according to Jewish law at the scenes of attacks and…

Thousands of people made a human chain in Gush Etzion Tuesday, joining hands on the road between the town of Kfar Etzion and the Gush Etzion junction in the wake of Tuesday’s massacre in Har Nof and in memory of stabbing victim Dalia Lemkos, hy”d.  Lemkos, 26, was murdered by terrorists last week, just feet…

A media gag order has been lifted on the full list of victims of Tuesday morning’s massacre in Har Nof, Jerusalem – where two Palestinian Arabs brutally murdered four people and wounded eight others as they were in the midst of morning prayers.  The four victims were Rabbi Moshe Twersky, hy”d, ‘Rosh Kollel’ for the…

Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims. According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the…

Spain’s parliament will vote Tuesday on a non-binding motion calling on the conservative government to recognize a Palestinian state in coordination with any similar EU move, parliamentary sources told AFP.  The ruling Popular Party and the main opposition Socialists were in talks on the final wording of the motion, sources from the two parties said. The motion, proposed by the Socialists, calls…

Israel is to ease controls on carrying weapons for self-defense after Palestinian terrorists launched a brutal massacre on a Jerusalem synagogue, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said on Tuesday. “In the coming hours, I will ease restrictions on carrying weapons,” he said in remarks broadcast on IDF Radio.  Aharonovich indicated the new rules would apply to anyone with a license…

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini condemned a deadly massacre on a Jerusalem synagogue by Palestinians Tuesday as an “act of terror” and urged regional leaders to try to calm the situation. “The attack in the Har Nof synagogue this morning killing at least four people can only harm any step forward towards peace. It is an act of…

International media coverage of this morning’s massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue has already come in for some criticism, with media watchdogs already pointing out a slew of headlines and stories downplaying or otherwise misrepresenting the attack. Four people were murdered and eight others wounded, four of them seriously, when two terrorists stormed Kehillat Bnai Torah…

A German fundraiser for the Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer hit a discordant note after event organizers tried to prohibit the appearance of the Israeli boy band, Kinderlach, because some of the members live in Judea and Samaria.  According to a report by Haddad Ofer for Channel 2 News, the controversial event was held a…

North Korean dictator Kim-Jong Un could be charged in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Tuesday, when the United National General Assembly (UNGA) will vote on a crucial resolution condemning the human rights violations in North Korea, which it described in February as “without parallel in the contemporary world.” Over fifty member countries have co-sponsored the resolution,…

A new survey conducted by Professor Camil Fuchs and published by Channel 10 News Monday evening places the Jewish Home party as the second strongest party in Israel.  If elections were held today Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party would win 22 seats in the Knesset followed closely by rival Naftali Bennett with 17 mandates.  The survey…

The Knesset plenum ratified into law Monday MK Yoni Chetboun’s (Jewish Home) “Draft Dodgers’ Law,” whereby Israeli citizens who dodge the mandatory IDF draft will now not be privy to state-funded student benefits and scholarships. State-funded scholarships cover a wide range of popular programs for college students in Israel, including – but not limited to…

Two new surveys from France suggest that French Muslims or Frenchman of Muslim origin are are much more likely to hold anti-Semitic views than the general French population, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.  The surveys, recently conducted by the IFOP polling company and the Foundation for Political Innovations, were released in Paris on Sunday at the fifth…

The European Union (EU) said Monday it deplored Israeli plans to build Jewish homes on land it deems to be “occupied Palestinian territory,” but denied outright that it planned sanctions against Israel as a result, AFP reports.  There was “no plan of this type,” new EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said when asked about an Israeli press report on the issue.…

Swastikas were found painted on the Holocaust memorial monument at Babi Yar in Kiev for the second time in two months.  The menorah-shaped monument, a memorial for the 33,000 Jews murdered by Nazi troops in September 1941, is located at the site of the murders.  The hateful graffiti was found Monday morning during a tour…

The death of Yusuf Hasan al-Ramuni, an Arab 32-year-old Egged bus driver found hanged Sunday night in his bus at the Har Hotzvim industrial zone bus depot in northern Jerusalem, has been ruled a suicide.  The criminal pathologist who performed the autopsy at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv told al-Ramuni’s family and police that…

An IDF officer was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment Monday, after two fingers were amputated by Palestinian Arabs throwing fireworks at Kikar Hamoniot (Taxi Square) near Ramallah. Roughly twenty terrorists are still in the area, throwing rocks and firebombs at security forces; riot dispersal measures are being used to disrupt…

Police from the Akko (Acre) Precinct arrested four young men in their 20s on suspicion of involvement in the mass brawl that broke out between Muslims and Druze in Abu Snan Friday night.  The suspects, some Druze, some Muslims, will be arraigned Tuesday in Akko Magistrate’s Court. Akko Station Commander, Chief Superintendent Kobi Karni says…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday that he intends to bring the controversial Jewish State Law to a vote in the Cabinet next Sunday – despite Justice Minister Tzipi Livni’s rejection of the law. Speaking at the start of the Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, Netanyahu recalled how on November 29, 1947 the UN…

In yet another sign that the Hamas-Fatah unity government is crumbling, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday urged Prime Minister Rami Hamallah to carry out his responsibilities in Gaza. Speaking to the Ma’an news agency, Haniyeh said that Gazans have been disappointed with the performance of the national consensus government. “They expected the government…

Iran and six major powers have so far not discussed extending negotiations on a nuclear agreement despite the fact that their deadline is a week away, a senior American official said on Monday, according to Reuters. Senior foreign officials from Iran and the six powers – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China…

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al-Qaeda’s north African arm, on Monday issued a video of a French national and a Dutch national they are holding hostage in which the two men urge their respective governments to negotiate for their release. According to Reuters, the video, posted on a popular jihadi forum by Al-Qaeda in…

The United States is “not intimidated” by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday, after another American hostage was killed by the group. Kerry said the brutality of the Islamic State group and its potential spread worldwide was a key reason, among many, that the United States must remain…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman reiterated on Monday that the Yisrael Beytenu party will not accept any changes to the make-up of the coalition without elections. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there are two options: either this coalition or new elections,” Liberman said, speaking before a meeting of the Yisrael Beytenu faction.…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it goes ahead with unilateral moves, such as asking the United Nations Security Council to set a deadline for Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, the London-based al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper reported on Monday Speaking on condition of anonymity,…

Veteran Israeli soccer manager Avram Grant looks set to become the new coach of Ghana’s national team, which has been rudderless since its previous manager Kwesi Appiah resigned in September. But Grant’s Israeli nationality has meant that an otherwise unremarkable changing of the guard at a struggling African national team could in fact become a…

The European Union (EU) has sent a secret document to its 28 member states detailing sanctions to be taken against Israel, if it takes moves the EU feels compromises the creation of an Arab state of ‘Palestine’ inside Israel. The paper, drafted by the European External Action Service (EEAS), was distributed to European diplomats who…

Over 30,000 fans cheered the victory, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), as Israel took the top of Group B with nine points, placing itself ahead of Wales. The match leaves Israel undefeated in the qualifying games, having won last month against Andorra 4-1 and Cyprus 2-1. Israel is…

The 35-year-old Breslov hassid who was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem on Sunday continues to heal, and on Monday he was said to be in good condition at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in the capital. At the time he was hospitalized imaging tests were conducted which indicate that he was not critically wounded, despite…

An Illinois court tomorrow (Tuesday) will discuss whether to reduce the $5 million bail of John White, who vandalized a synagogue in Lombard last month and apparently planned a shooting attack on the Jewish community, or whether to hold him without bail. White, a 40-year-old resident of Westmont, pleaded not guilty last Monday after having…

On Monday, MK Danny Danon (Likud) will bring up for a vote in the Knesset a proposal to revoke stipends from parents whose children carried out a rock throwing attack. The proposal comes in the wake of the continued violence in Jerusalem, much of which is perpetrated by Arab-Muslim minors. Speaking to Arutz Sheva on…