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Venezuela is hailing the arrival of Palestinian Arab students to the country as a sign of its “condemnation of Zionism”. According to The Associated Press (AP), Venezuela on Thursday welcomed 119 Palestinian Arab students who will study medicine on grants provided by the Latin American country’s socialist government. The students landed in Caracas on Thursday.…

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Thursday that Israel went to “extraordinary lengths” to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza, Reuters reports. Dempsey acknowledged recent reports criticizing civilian deaths during the 50-day Gaza war this year but told an audience in New York he thought…

Britain on Thursday condemned the two terrorist attacks that took place in Israel a day earlier. In a statement, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond condemned the attacks, which he called “appalling”, adding, “My thoughts are with everyone affected.” At the same time, Hammond also said he is “deeply concerned” by the tensions in the region “Every…

Would-be jihadists have been travelling on cruise ships to reach conflict areas in the Middle East, Interpol said Thursday, according to the BBC. The international police body said some of those trying to join groups in Iraq and Syria had used cruise lines to get to countries including Turkey. It said checks to passenger lists…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Thursday outlawed the “Jerusalem for Development” charity as “a legal front for Hamas activities in east Jerusalem”, his office was quoted by AFP as having said. The charity belongs to the radical northern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement, the leader of which, Sheikh Raed Salah, has a long history of…

Arabs opened fire towards a passing police car in the Binyamin region on Thursday night. No one was hurt. The officers in the police car said they heard gunshots being fired and drove a few hundred meters, before stopping and discovering eight bullet marks on the car. Security forces are searching the area looking for…

A delegation of French community leaders from the northern city of of Lille arrived in Tzfat (Safed) on Wednesday, in what may be an attempt to re-twin the two cities after a “temporary freeze” was enacted a month ago.  Lille’s city council froze the French municipality’s twinning agreement with Tzfat in early October in an attempt…

A lawsuit filed by several Jewish families in New York against the Pine Bush Central School District in White Plains can proceed, a federal court ruled.  The lawsuit claims that the students’ rights were violated by “rampant anti-Semitic discrimination and harassment” and “deliberate indifference” by school officials, according to The New York Times. The families are seeking…

Federica Mogherini, European Union (EU) High Representative, issued a personal statement on Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem.  The car terror attack occurred early Wednesday afternoon. The terrorist, Ibrahim al-Akari, drove his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians at the Shimon Hatzadik light rail station, located just north of the Old City and not far from the Municipality building. Al-Akari continued driving, hitting…

Following calls for the banning of the import of firecrackers because of the current deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday implemented a compromise measure, barring firecrackers from Israel – but for only 60 days. The ruling applies to “category 2” firecrackers, which are legal for use with licenses. Many of…

Agricultural products and fish from the Hamas-stronghold of Gaza will begin to be marketed in Judea and Samaria starting Thursday, in the latest “gesture” made following the latest Hamas terror war on Israel. Israeli “gestures” since the latest war have already included entry to Judea and Samaria without a permit for foreign “Palestinian” children, visits from Gaza to…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, still held up as a “moderate” counterbalance to Hamas by many in the world, is actively calling for car terrorist attacks after a recent spate of three such attacks in the last two weeks. The flurry of Fatah Facebook activity urging more attacks ramming cars into Jews…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday slammed Knesset members who ascend the Temple Mount to pray. Liberman said that he considered the visits by MKs to be attempts to get some “cheap publicity.” Such MKs were taking “cynical advantage of a sensitive political and complicated political solution.” Several MKs – notably Moshe Feiglin, Tzippy Hotovely,…

A riot ensued in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem Wednesday night shortly after the terror attack near the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood, in which an Arab terrorist rammed into a crowd of people, killing one and injuring 13. Passengers on an Egged bus and passersby thought that a fender-bender between a car and the bus…

An Israeli couple whom the High Court ruled Wednesday took the advice of a rabbi over that of a doctor is going to have to pay all expenses for care of their paralyzed child out of pocket. The court ruled in favor of the Meuhedet Health Fund, which refused the couple when they sought care…

IDF troops have reportedly arrested five people from villages in the Hevron area as they continue to pursue the terrorist cell that dispatched a terrorist who rammed a vehicle into a crowd of Israelis Wednesday in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring 13. The five are said to be members of the same extended family, in…

Israelis are still reeling from yesterday’s two terrorist attacks – in Jerusalem and Gush Etzion – which left one person dead and several other fighting for their lives.  But for many, the lack of international combination is almost as bad; UN officials and heads of state have been remarkably quick, for example, to condemn Israeli…

Following yesterday’s series of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, and despite pressure from some members of his coalition to grant Jews freedom of worship on the Temple Mount, the Prime Minister’s Office has reiterated that no such moves are in the works. “In last night’s security consultation, the Prime Minister made it clear…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a statement condemning Wednesday’s car terror attack in Jerusalem.  A Palestinian man from eastern Jerusalem drove his van into multiple crowds, killing Israeli Border Patrol officer Jedan Assad and injuring 13 others. The terrorist then exited his vehicle and began attacking people with an iron bar, before being shot and…

Syria has asked Russia to bolster its supply of missiles. Speaking Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said that his country asked Russia to provide S300 missiles along with other high-quality systems. The weapons are needed, he said, to enable Syria to fight the rebel groups seeking to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, as well as…

A senior Amnesty International official is facing angry criticism after comparing Israel with ISIS – on the same day his organization released a report accusing Israel of “war crimes.” Israel has rejected that report as “terrorist propaganda,” firing that it essentially a regurgitation of Hamas allegations.  On Wednesday Amnesty’s UK campaigns manager Kristyan Benedict responded…

Security forces arrested several Palestinians early Thursday morning at the Al-Arub Palestinian refugee camp along the Hevron-Jerusalem road in Judea and Samaria, as part of the Israel Security Agency’s (ISA) investigation into the car terror attack Wednesday night along an adjacent road in Gush Etzion.  Palestinian news agency Safa reported the arrests.  According to the report, the…

Three IDF soldiers were injured in a second terror attack on Wednesday evening – this time, in an attempt to run over soldiers in Gush Etzion. In the latest attack, a terrorist driving a Palestinian Arab commercial vehicle attempted to run over the soldiers as they were on duty near a guard stand outside of…

The Jerusalem Municipality has placed concrete blocks near the entrances to the Jerusalem Light Rail on Wednesday night, in an apparent attempt to physically block terrorists from driving their cars into pedestrians.  The decision to place concrete blocks was issued from Jerusalem District Commander Major General Moshe Edri, who assessed the overall security situation after…

In an op-ed in the New York Times Wednesday, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett laid out his vision for the future of Judea and Samaria – which entails Israel’s annexing Area C, with full Palestinian sovereignty in Areas A and B, minus a military force. The two-state solution is no solution for Israel, Bennett wrote. “Recent…

After Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, schools around Israel decided to cancel class trips that had been scheduled to visit sites in the city – including to the Kotel, where many schools, religious and secular, take children on a regular basis. The Kotel and the Old City of Jerusalem are off the agenda for schools…

Dozens of people demonstrated Wednesday night at the location of the terror attack committed earlier in the day, in Jerusalem. The demonstrators called for revenge and for Yitzchak Aharonovich, the Minister of Internal Security, to resign.  Former MK Michael Ben Ari (Otzma LeYisrael), said during the protest: “We have a stupid Minister of Internal Security…

American Jewish voters are still largely Democrats, according to a poll by far-left lobbying group J-Street – despite the Democratic party’s tendency to support pro-Palestinian views.  The survey, of 800 Jewish voters who cast a ballot in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, showed that voters favored Democrats over Republicans by a landslide 69%-28% margin. Likewise, they…

Many of the recent attacks by Arabs against police and civilians in Jerusalem unrest have included firecrackers, which are legal for use in Israel. In order to prevent the attacks, the Public Security Ministry is investigating the possibility of limiting or banning altogether the import of firecrackers – to the chagrin of companies that do…

Haifa University held a discussion Wednesday entitled “Democracy Under Conditions of War – Is the Cliff Strong?”  The conference was attended by Shlomi Abramson, Esq. of the State Attorney’s Office, who said “there is intention to significantly enforce harsher punishment against incitement on the Internet. Dozens of investigations have been opened and I submitted quite…

At least three anti-Semitic incidents were reported in recent days – with incidents recorded in Europe and South America. In Buenos Aires, vandals sprayed graffiti on a monument in a Jewish area, calling on “Patriots” to “Kill Jews.” Meanwhile, in the city of Cordova in Argentina,vandals drew a swastika on the wall outside the home…

Amid reports that the Obama administration may be covertly allowing Iran’s nuclear program to enrich more uranium than in initial agreements, Secretary of State John Kerry declared on Wednesday he was “driving towards the finish” to secure a deal with Iran. Speaking to reporters in Paris, Kerry was quoted by AFP as having said there…

Government Press Office (GPO) Director Nitzan Chen on Wednesday summoned  the Israel bureau chief of the Turkish Anadolu Agency, after the agency distorted Wednesday’s hit-and-run terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The news agency had described the terrorist responsible for the attack as a “Palestinian man shot dead by the Israeli police” on its official English-language Twitter…

The International Criminal Court has decided against investigating Israel over the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Citing court papers it viewed, the news agency reported that while international prosecutors believe Israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes during the raid that killed nine Turkish activists, they have decided the case is beyond…

Economy Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett criticized on Wednesday evening the decision of the police to place concrete blocks near the entrances to the Jerusalem Light Rail, in an apparent attempt to block terrorists from driving their cars into pedestrians. The decision to place the concrete blocks came hours after Hamas terrorist Ibrahim…

A Jerusalem court ordered police to pay NIS 35,000 in damages and NIS 10,000 in court costs to a Jerusalem couple who were falsely arrested during the 2005 disengagement. Police said they would not appeal the decision. The incident began about six months before the disengagement, when Yosef Kitov protested against the disengagement outside the…

Hamas on Wednesday night welcomed the terrorist attack in Gush Etzion, in which three soldiers suffered injuries when an Arab driver ran over them with a car. In a message the group published on its Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas said the terrorist attack “is proof that the Palestinian resistance continues and that [Judea and Samaria] are…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced on Tuesday that his country and Saudi Arabia have signed an arms deal, by which France will receive $3 billion to send weapons to the Lebanese army – weapons that some fear may fall into Hezbollah hands. “This agreement, financed by a Saudi grant, will contribute to strengthen the…

The attempted assassination of veteran activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick and clashes over the subsequent temporary closure of the Temple Mount have cast a spotlight once again on the struggle for Jewish prayer on the Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – and the angry, often violent Muslim opposition to the prospect of Jewish worship there. And…

The annual commemoration of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 19 years ago tends to brings to the fore the political and cultural divisiveness commonly found in Israeli society. Sometimes under the radar, and sometimes very much above, it is strongly felt around this time of year when Rabin’s murder is remembered – as…

After French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius last month said his state would not hold a vote to recognize the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine,” French Socialist lawmakers are preparing to submit a motion to parliament to do just that. French sources said the call on the government to make the unilateral non-binding recognition…

Belgium on Tuesday banned a Kuwaiti Muslim preacher from attending an event in Brussels, accusing him of making anti-Semitic remarks and being a threat to public order. Tareq Al-Suwaidan, described as a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf state, was due to speak at the Brussels Muslim Fair this weekend. But Belgian Interior…

Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) has accepted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recommendation for him to take on the position of Interior Minister, following the resignation of Gidon Sa’ar. The news put to rest speculation that the Likud veteran was set to leave the Knesset to become Israel’s next ambassador to the United Nations. Writing on…

Fatah claims the shooting of Yehuda Glick Abbas’s aide was preempted last Thursday by Adnan Ghaith, director of the Jerusalem branch of Abbas’s Fatah faction. In his comments posted in the Quds New Network website a day after the shooting and translated by PMW, Ghaith said “the attempted assassination of Rabbi Glick today was merely a natural…

France on Tuesday adopted an anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad,after the upper house Senate gave its final stamp of approval. The law comes as authorities are increasingly worried about the number of French citizens travelling to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria, and who could potentially come back and…

Republicans have picked up another Senate seat and now need only two more to seize Senate control, according to a CNN projection Tuesday night. So far on Tuesday night, Republicans have picked up Democratic-held seats in Montana, South Dakota, Arkansas and West Virginia. CNN also projects Republicans will maintain their grip on the House of…

The Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis terrorist group denied in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) and it distanced itself from a statement that appeared in its name online, Reuters reports. A statement purporting to be from the group appeared late on Monday on two jihadist Twitter…

For the first time in a year, Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri and the party’s former chairman, MK Eli Yishai, held a one-on-one meeting on Tuesday evening. The two met in Bnei Brak for over an hour. Sources in the party said that Deri and Yishai, whose relationship has been tense since Deri returned to…

President Reuven Rivlin said on Tuesday that while he disagreed with assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s policies, he was fond of the former Prime Minister. Rivlin spoke at a memorial ceremony at the President’s Residence, to mark 19 years since Rabin’s murder. The event was attended by members of the Rabin family, ministers, members of…

The leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda rebel wing, the Al-Nusra Front, threatened attacks against the Shiite Hezbollah in Lebanon in the coming days, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Hezbollah’s involvement alongside President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria has stirred tensions in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s fighters clashed with jihadists in eastern Lebanon in October, and its strongholds have come under repeated…

The Israeli Premier League decided on Tuesday evening that games will not be suspended, despite calls to do so in the wake of Monday’s violent brawl during the Tel Aviv derby, in which a fan of the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer club attacked opposing Maccabi Tel Aviv player Eran Zehavi. Yoram Bauman, chairman of the…

The United States made clear on Tuesday that it is against the Palestinian Authority’s plan to submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for an end date for “Israeli occupation”. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, during a Monday…

British designer John Galliano – sacked three years ago by fashion house Dior over a drunken anti-Semitic rant in a Parisbar – has lost his case for unfair dismissal, lawyers for both parties said on Tuesday. A Paris labor court rejected his claim, and ordered him to pay a symbolic one euro each to Dior and the John…

Fars, Iran’s semi-official news agency, has reported that Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson “strongly rejected” a Tuesday New York Times report, that a “major breakthrough” has taken place in the Iranian nuclear talks. The story had alleged that “Iran has tentatively agreed to ship much of its huge stockpile of [enriched] uranium to Russia if it…

Israeli police came under assault by rock-throwing Arab protesters on the Temple Mount compound on Wednesday, as clashes were highlighted by pro-Hamas Arab MK Hanin Zoabi’s (Balad) presence at the site. “Dozens of masked protesters threw rocks and firecrackers at security forces who then entered the Temple Mount and pushed the demonstrators back inside the…

A new CD from “Life Productions” consists of four sequences of songs of faith and hopes – songs designed to bring the listener closer to God. The album production was led by Rabbi Yosef Moshe Kahana, known for his album series “L’Chaim Tisch” and again this time his choices do not disappoint. The compilation album’s…

One week after Temple activist Yehuda Glick was shot in an assassination attempt, his Hebrew Facebook page has been taken down. According to the Elder of Zion blog, “Israel-haters have been complaining to Facebook” about Glick’s page. “Of course, they just told Facebook that Glick’s (Hebrew!) page was offensive. And Facebook drones assumed it must…

Canadian Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney and Minister of State for Multiculturalism Tim Uppal released a joint statement on Monday timed for Holocaust Education Month. “The Holocaust stands alone in history for its sheer brutality and inhumanity. The Shoah will forever serve as a powerful reminder of the odious effects of anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred…

The Republican party took control of the Senate for the first time since 2007 on Tuesday night, taking at least seven seats from the Democrats in mid-term elections in which voters showed their frustration with US President Barack Obama’s party. So far the Republicans have picked up Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and…

The US Navy SEAL’s senior leadership has written a letter condemning an upcoming Fox News two-part special next Tuesday and Wednesday, in which former Red Squadron Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill is anticipated to take credit for shooting Al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. The flap was revealed by SOFREP, a website dedicated to US military and special-ops…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon blamed the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, for Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem, which left one person dead and at least ten people injured.  “The inciting rhetoric of Mahmoud Abbas – who on the one hand disseminates hate speech and lies against the State of Israel, on the other…

Hamas hailed Wednesday’s deadly car attack in Jerusalem by one of its members, calling it “the natural response to the crimes of the (Israeli) occupation”.   “Hamas salutes its hero-martyr Ibrahim al-Akari, likewise hero-martyrs Abdelrahman Shaludi and Muataz Hijazi,” the Islamist group said in a statement, referring to the perpetrators of two recent terrorist attacks…

On October 29th, an Israeli citizen, Rabbi Yehuda Glick, was shot and severely wounded in Jerusalem by a Palestinian terrorist affiliated with Islamic Jihad, Mu’taz Ibrahim Khalil Hijazi. Mr. Hijazi was subsequently killed after opening fire on Israeli law enforcement authorities who had come to arrest him. Appallingly, rather than condemn Mr. Hijazi’s act of…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the terror attack earlier which took the life of one Israeli and injured over a dozen was the direct fault of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas, who through his incitement against Israel was inspiring terrorists to attack and kill Israelis. Speaking during an official state ceremony on the…

King emphasized that on the very day he submitted the complaint he showed a police investigator pictures of the bullet and the bullet hole, and likewise sent the pictures to various police captains, but despite this no police action was made. “Very senior sources in the Jerusalem police heard about it from me and received…

The Lisbon Jewish community is demanding extra protection and quick police action to find the perpetrators of what they said was a hate crime, when unknown vandals drew the world “ebola” on a memorial to martyred victims of a massacre in Portugal in 1506. Besides increased patrols, community leaders called for the placing of security…

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday condemned Israel’s plans to build another 500 Jewish homes in Jerusalem, ahead of her first visit to the Jewish state later this week. Going ahead with the Jewish homes risks undermining efforts to get the Middle East peace process back on track, Mogherini said. The European Union was leading efforts to get…

Just hours after Hamas terrorist Ibrahim al-Akri of Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood killed a Border Patrol officer with his car and wounded 13 others – two of them critically – dozens of nationalist activists and residents protested at the Shimon Hatzadik light rail station where the attack occurred. The protesters, led by Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir and nationalist activist…

The Palestinian Arab media is calling Wednesday’s horrific terror attack in Jerusalem a “car accident,” Elder of Ziyon reports, and is also claiming that all of the victims were “soldiers and settlers.”  The blog translated the following excerpt from Palestinian news agency Wafa from Arabic:  A young Jerusalem man, Ibrahim Akkari, of Shuafat in central Jerusalem, was shot dead…

Israeli plans for roughly 500 new Jewish homes in Jerusalem are a “slap in the face” of the United States and the international community, a top Palestinian Authority (PA) official said Tuesday. Israel approved construction of the homes on Monday as chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat met US Secretary of State John Kerry in the United States, leftist group Peace Now…

In view of the surging violence in Jerusalem in the last few weeks, much of which is perpetrated by Arab-Muslim minors, MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home) and several other MKs have proposed a bill that would cut 50% off the child stipends received by parents of children convicted of rock throwing. The stipends are paid…

Former Head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA, aka Shin Bet) Yuval Diskin announced Monday that he would not be entering politics, and explained the reasons for his decision Tuesday morning. Diskin made his announcement in a talk with the members of Kibbutz Be’eri in the Gaza Belt, whom he told: “I am not entering…

The “derby” confrontation between Tel Aviv’s Hapoel and Maccabi soccer teams ended after just 33 minutes Monday when a Hapoel fan physically assaulted Masccabi striker Liran Zehavi. The incident has no precedent in high profile Israeli soccer matches and has political aspects as well. Zehavi is reviled by Hapoel fans because he used to play…

Statements by a top White House official indicate that President Barack Obama sees achievement of a nuclear deal with Iran as the most important mission on the agenda for his second term. The Washington Free Beacon reported that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was caught on tape lecturing to “private” meeting of top liberal…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday once again warned Jews against ascending the Temple Mount. In a statement released by Abbas’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the PA warned against the escalation in the “break-ins by the settlers and Jewish extremists” to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that these actions are a violation of Muslim…

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he never apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite claims by the White House he did, The Associated Press (AP) reports. In early October, Biden placed phone calls to three U.S. allies as he attempted to smooth over a diplomatic spat sparked by comments he made…

Less than a week after being allowed by Israel to pray on the Temple Mount, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah, on Monday threatened Israel against “Judaizing” Jerusalem. Speaking in Hevron, Hamdallah said that the PA government will provide assistance to Palestinian Arab farmers and “protect their land against Israel’s settlement activities.” Hamdallah…

A new online video game, entitled “Liberation of Palestine”, encourages Palestinian Arab children to use violence to eliminate Israel, the IDF website reports. A trailer promoting the new game was recently posted to YouTube by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). In this new game, players have to “get rid of the Israeli settlements,…

MK Danny Danon (Likud) on Monday called for his party to conduct a “self-examination” following the resignation of Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar. Danon implicitly placed the blame for Sa’ar’s resignation on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “The Likud lost a central player today. The departure of Minister Gideon Sa’ar and others from Likud is a serious…

A message from Yitz Glick, the brother of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick who was shot four times last Wednesday by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem, reveals shocking differences in the US administration’s reaction to events in Israel. The message was sent to journalist and editor Caroline Glick of Makor Rishon and the Jerusalem Post, who on Tuesday…

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin strongly opposes the “Israel Hayom law” promoted by Labor MK Eitan Cabel, charging in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that the law is anti-democratic.   Feiglin began by noting that he, himself, has had disagreements with his party chairman Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – which Israel Hayom strongly supports.  However, he draws the…

After a fan of the socialist Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer club attacked Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Eran Zehavi and ended a “derby” match between the teams on Monday, Hapoel fans violently clashed with Maccabi fans in front of the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court on Tuesday. In the clash, the son of MK Dov Khenin of the…

In response to the assassination attempt on Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick’s life last Wednesday, a march will be held this Thursday leaving from in front of the Begin Heritage Center where the shooting occurred to the gates of the Temple Mount. The march will start at 5 p.m. at the Center under the title…

The Palestinian Authority will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council later this month calling for an end date for “Israeli occupation,” a senior official said on Tuesday. The text, which the PA has been preparing for weeks, is expected to be vetoed by permanent member the United States. But officials in Ramallah have said that will…

Tensions are high on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, as the final votes are being tallied for the 2014 mid-term congressional elections.  To explore what a Republican sweep in both House and Senate could mean for US President Barack Obama, as well as the future of Israel and Iran, Arutz Sheva spoke to Ret. Amb. Yoram Ettinger, an…

Judea-Samaria residents can finally hail good news, officials revealed Tuesday: on November 14, several new bus lines will be added for the convenience of Jewish communities.  Egged bus lines are being scrapped and will be replaced, instead, by Egged Transport lines, which should see the service improve drastically in several regions, and particularly provide better service…

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi of Efrat in Gush Etzion and founder of Ohr Torah Stone, strongly criticized hareidi Knesset members on Tuesday for their stance on the government’s conversion reforms. In an interview with Galei Yisrael radio, Rabbi Riskin defended the proposed government decision regarding conversion which would remove Chief Rabbinate supervision of the conversion process, and…

A day after the Knesset passed the “Terrorists Law” that allows judges to effectively sentence terrorists to life in jail without the option of parole, and without being released in any kind of “prisoner deal,” the widow of Lt. Col. Baruch Mizrahi told Arutz Sheva that the law is better than nothing, but she would…

Israel Aerospace Industries inaugurated Tuesday a new plant for the manufacture of American fighter pilot wings for F-35 aircraft near Ben Gurion Airport.  As part of the deal, the IDF will receive 19 stealth aircraft at a cost of $2.7 billion, which will be deducted from US aid funds to Israel.  In exchange, every year –…

The key to changing the security situation in Jerusalem may be changing the route of the Light Rail, Jerusalem Municipality member and former mayoral candidate Moshe Leon stated Monday – as a means of forcing Arab rioters to see consequences for their actions on the large scale.  “This is a total of 1700 meters (5557 feet)…

Over 100 former high-ranking Israeli army members, police officers and spy chiefs have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue peace with the Palestinians, media reported Monday. “We, the undersigned, reserve IDF (army) commanders and retired police officers, who have fought in Israel’s military campaigns, know first-hand of the heavy and painful price exacted by wars,” 105 signatories said…

After the Knesset’s approval Monday night for the second and third readings of the “terrorist law” or “life without parole” bill, Jewish Home Chairman and Minister of Religious Affairs, Naftali Bennett took to Facebook excitedly.  The bill, if passed, would change the status quo of the Basic Law of the President of the State, passed in 1964, which…

The Knesset approved Monday night for second and third readings the “terrorist law” or “life without parole” bill initiated by MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) last year.  The bill changes one of the Basic Laws of Israel, which forms the basis for the formation and role of Israel’s institutions, and the relations between the state’s different ministries and…

The South Africa Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) staged a demonstration Thursday, outside the Sea Point store, part of the upscale national chain Woolworths.  The protest was held against the Congress of South African Students’ (COSAS) Western Cape branch in response to COSAS placing a pig’s head in what they thought to be the store’s kosher…

The US has criticised Israel’s decision to build 400 more Jewish homes in the crowded Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on Monday, calling the decision “unfortunate.”  “It is unfortunate that after the unequivocal and unanimous position last week of the international community opposing construction in Jerusalem at this sensitive time, authorities chose to advance [tenders],”…

Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick’s condition continues to be on the mend, Glick’s wife Yafi stated Monday night. “Yehuda has had a very significant and important surgery today,” Yafi stated to Channel 2, noting that she and the rest of Glick’s family was waiting to see how he recovered before “ceasing anesthesia and artificial respiration.”…

Construction of a Coca Cola factory in Gaza is set to begin this week after being green-lighted by Israel’s defense establishment. A major advantage of the new factory is that it will create jobs for thousands of Palestinians – first for construction builders, and then some 3,000 factory workers.  The factory is to be built…

More and more American Jews are turning to Orthodox day schools to educate their children, a non-profit organization revealed last week – and total enrollment is up 12% since 2008.  Nearly 255,000 students are enrolled in 861 Jewish day schools,  from preschool to 12th grade, as of 2014, according to the Avi Chai Foundation. Since 2008, 59 more Jewish…

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active terrorist group, has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), Reuters reported on Monday. The group had previously told Reuters that it sought inspiration and advice from Islamic State, which has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria. “After entrusting God we decided to swear allegiance to the emir…

Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard, who arrived on a visit to Israel on Monday, condemned Israel’s announcement of new construction in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, reports i24news. According to the report Lidegaard’s condemnation came ahead of a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. Later, in a joint conference with Liberman, Lidegaard said…

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, according to AFP. Nasrallah addressed thousands of his supporters ahead of the Shiite Ashura holiday commemorations. As he appeared on stage wearing a black robe and turban, the crowd seen in a live broadcast on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday was to meet the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator but would not unveil an American peace plan, an official said, according to AFP. “There are no current plans to introduce a peace plan,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, dismissing reports that proposals would be laid on the…

Israel announced on Monday evening that all the border crossings to Gaza, including the Erez crossing, will be open as usual on Tuesday. The crossings have been closed since Sunday, an Israeli response to a rocket attack on the Eshkol region over the weekend. It was the second rocket fired since the end of Operation…

Yehuda Glick’s son was allowed to pray for his father’s health on the Temple Mount Monday, according to an eyewitness. Yehuda Glick was shot at point blank range Wednesday by a Muslim would-be assassin, who resented Glick’s activity in service of the idea of Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Americans for a Safe Israel…

The corruption trial of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continued on Monday morning with the testimony of his former aid Shula Zaken, as new recordings were played that may lead Olmert to be convicted on charges he previously was acquitted for. Zaken, who is serving 11 months for taking bribes as decided in a plea…

Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Monday morning that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday, in the Jordanian capital of Amman. The meeting was intended to try and calm inflamed tensions in Jerusalem, following the temporary decision to stop all visits to the Temple Mount last week.…

Israel had been struggling to sell the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system abroad, but the Israel Defense website revealed on Sunday that a major purchaser has been found: the United States. Apparently the US Army will acquire one Iron Dome battery, and based on tests it will conduct on the system decide whether or not to purchase…

“The latest loony idea spreading through the ranks of the anti-Israel left is that (Prime Minister Binyamin) Netanyahu threatened to kill (US President Barack) Obama by talking about lawns,” writes Daniel Greenfield in FrontPage Magazine. Greenfield cites blogger Justin Raimondo, who claimed that Netanyahu recently said: “When there are pressures on Israel to concede its…

Just last Thursday night Jews in Israel switched to the ten tal u’matar seasonal prayer for rain, and after initial rain last Friday, it looks as if the weather has been only too eager to oblige in dramatic fashion overnight Sunday and early Monday morning. The most dramatic signs of winter were felt in the north, particularly in…

Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, Egypt’s minister of religious endowment, recently claimed that the “Zionists” sponsor and support atheism and homosexuality in an effort to undermine the stability of the region. Gomaa’s comments were made in an interview on Al-Hayat TV, which aired on September 21 and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday at the annual event of the “Masa Journey” Project, which provides pro-Israel community and activities in a one-year program framework. “No matter how many countries you came from, you came from one country: This is your one country,” he told participants. “We’re all children of Abraham, and Abraham started…

The Knesset Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem officially approved the construction of 400 housing units in Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem Monday, just one week after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu officially approved over 1,000 housing units in that neighborhood and in Har Homa that have been slated for construction since as far back as…

Major flooding hit several Merkaz (Central) region towns on Monday, after an unusual deluge of rainfall buckled some roads and swallowed cars on others. Holon (10.8 km/6.7 miles from Tel Aviv) was hit particularly hard, as main streets HaMashbir, Independence St., Professor Schorr St., and Menachem Begin Boulevard were hit by flooding. Traffic near affected areas has…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has asked Israel to open an additional terminal for transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip, senior Palestinian sources told Walla! News on Monday. According to the Palestinian sources, Gaza’s need for construction materials – in the aftermath of this past summer’s war between Israel and Hamas – is too urgent and too…

Rasoul Al-Musawi, 47, a Shiite Muslim community leader in Sydney, Australia, was shot Monday in a drive-by attack believed to have been committed by Islamic State (ISIS) supporters.  Al-Musawi was closing up the Husainiyah Nabi Akram center, on Rosedale Avenue in Greenacre, south-east of Sydney, when he was shot in the face and the shoulder. His…

Quality of life in Israel keeps on improving, according to the 2014 Legatum Global Prosperity Index, as the Jewish state moved up one place in 2014, from the 39th most prosperous country in the world to the 38th.  The Global Prosperity Index “defines prosperity in terms of wealth and well-being,” based on statistics and data…

At least 24 migrants have died while scores are missing after a boat carrying refugees capsized off Istanbul’s northern coast in the early hours of Monday, according to officials. The accident took place near Rumeli Feneri, a small village where the Bosphorus meets the Black Sea. Seven people have been rescued by fishermen and Turkish…

At a time when some international artists have condemned Israel, Will.i.am (William Adams) of Grammy-winning The Black Eyed Peas fame is developing a smartwatch with Israeli hi-tech companies – and he arrived on Sunday for a hushed-up visit around the project. Will.i.am, who has produced music for Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and many other famous music…

After Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the murder of a three-month-old girl in Jerusalem by an Arab terrorist two weeks ago, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman hinted Haniyeh’s daughter would not be given medical treatment in Israel again, after she was treated in Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital earlier in the month. However, Israel’s Coordination and Liaison Administration…

Venezuela sent 10 tons of humanitarian aid and medical equipment for Gaza on Sunday, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) embassy in Caracas said in a statement quoted by the Ma’an news agency. According to the report, a plane carried the aid from Caracas to the Amman airport, and the same plane will bring to Venezuela 100…

Canadian warplanes involved in the American-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq on Sunday launched the first airstrike since deploying to the region, the Canadian Press reported. Two CF-18 fighter jets attacked targets in the vicinity of Fallujah, a statement from Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson’s office said. “Coordinated with our coalition…

Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday attended a farewell party for him in Modi’in Illit, during which he provided some insight into the process which led to his starting to observe Shabbat. Sa’ar revealed that his spiritual strengthening began during the Brit Milah (circumcision) ceremony of his youngest son, David. “I’ve been observing the Sabbath…

Israel will not accept terrorism in its capital Jerusalem, President Reuven Rivlin said on Sunday evening. Rivlin spoke at the Begin Heritage Center, in a memorial ceremony on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of Irgun commander, former Member of Knesset and Ambassador of Israel, Eliyahu Lankin.  The Begin Heritage Center is…

The New York City Marathon took place on Sunday as thousands ran, despite the cold temperature, in the streets of the city. Among the runners was Uzi Seeman whose son, Zvi Seeman (18), was one of four yeshiva students killed in Otniel while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein believes that the so-called “Israel Hayom Law” is unconstitutional. That message was conveyed Sunday by Weinstein’s representative Orit Koren, who attended a discussion of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on the bill, in which it was decided to give coalition MKs freedom to vote as they see fit. According to Koren,…

Prices in Israel may be high, but they are going up at a slower pace than in other OECD countries, a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its latest report. The report relates to prices recorded between August of 2010 and August of this year. During that period, the cost…

With its announcement that it was planning to open a major operation in unemployment-plagued Arad in southern Israel, Osem was lauded for bringing jobs to a city that has long felt ignored by corporate Israel. But every action has an equal and opposite reaction; in order to move operations to Arad, Osem will be closing…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night strongly condemned Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who sent a letter of support to the family of the terrorist who shot Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. “When we are trying to calm the situation, Abu Mazen sends condolences over the death of one who tried to perpetrate a…

Hundreds of Jewish tombstones from the Belarus town of Brest, on the border with Poland, have been used for years in the construction of buildings, roads, and even garden paving.  Residents have been making the gruesome discoveries of gravestones in locations all over Brest for the past six years. Hundreds more were unearthed in May during…

Violence broke out at Sunday morning’s court session in the trial of the suspected murderer of 20-year-old Israeli woman Shelly Dadon, after one of the victim’s relatives attacked the father of the accused, Hussein Yousef Khalifa. Police say Khalifa stabbed Dadon 17 times in a vicious, nationalistically-motivated assault not long after she got into a taxi…

Ed Miliband, Leader of the British Labour Party and the Opposition in Parliament, has come out against the “vile” campaign of anti-Semitic abuse targeting colleague, Labour MP Luciana Berger.  Berger, Britain’s Shadow Health Minister, has received hundreds of anti-Semitic messages and pictures on Twitter over the past 10 days since the conviction and imprisonment of…

Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar will resign within 48 hours, the Interior Ministry announced Sunday, after he officially submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office for approval.  Sa’ar announced his resignation in September for “personal reasons,” sparking surprise from MKs across the political spectrum and a scramble to replace him as Minister.  It…

A film festival celebrating Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs working together should be lauded by leftist groups, which frequently accuse Israel of “apartheid” in Judea-Samaria. But the promise of interfaith cooperation is too much for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a leftist Belgian Jewish group proved last week, after it pulled out of…

The relationship between Israel and the United States (US) has been unhealthy for some time, in part due to disputes over a wide range of strategic issues.  Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister, MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud), one of the ministers closest to Netanyahu, is responsible for dialogue with the United States regarding the Iranian nuclear…

Major evidence is due to be examined in the Shelly Dadon murder case Sunday morning, according to Channel 10. The new evidence includes a tape of the emergency call made by Dadon to her cousin before her death and witness testimony from Dadon’s father and cousin.  This morning’s session is due to be “tense,” according…

Hamza Samy Magamsah, a resident of the village of Yafi’a in the lower Galilee – who disappeared from Turkey over three weeks ago to join Islamic State (ISIS) militant jihadists in Syria – returned to Israel on Friday with his father. Magamsah was detained by police in Turkey, where he returned after fleeing from terror group…

A top Jewish leader Saturday warned a Swiss museum against accepting a priceless set of art works including Nazi-looted paintings from the estate of reclusive German collector Cornelius Gurlitt. Such a move “would open a Pandora’s Box and cause an avalanche of lawsuits” by rival presumed heirs of the stolen art, Ronald Lauder, the head of the World Jewish…

Over sixteen months after Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (HaTnua)’s bill to extend the IDF service of hesder yeshiva students was rejected, a similar bill is being put up to vote Sunday – a bill which, if ratified into law, will see the hesder track army service extended from 17 months to two full years of service.  The proposal, spearheaded by Labor MK…

Two of the main rebel groups receiving weapons from the United States to fight both the regime and jihadist groups in Syria have surrendered to al-Qaeda, reports the British newspaper Telegraph. The US and its allies were relying on Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) to become part of a ground force that…

The Arab League warned Sunday that Israel has reached a “red line” after fresh clashes in Jerusalem, urging international pressure to stop what it branded “violations” in the holy city.   Arab riots around the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site – which also houses the Al Aqsa mosque compound – as well as the attempted…

Thousands of people are expected to converge on the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem on Tuesday, traditionally considered the anniversary of her passing. Crowds are already expected to begin gathering Monday afternoon, as groups of Hassidim and others participate in an all-night prayer vigil at the site. Beginning Monday night and all day Tuesday is…

Groups opposed to Jewish “settlements’” aren’t just concerned with Jews moving to Judea and Samaria. A Be’ersheva court on Sunday declared a “settlement” in the Negev illegal. The community of Sheizaf, located in the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council, is built on land zoned for an educational institution. The decision was made after the Society for…

The government ratified in its Sunday session the compromise between Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) and Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), regarding conversion into Judaism. All of the ministers in attendance voted in favor of the decision except the Jewish Home’s Uri Ariel. The decision determines that municipal rabbis may establish conversion…

The former head of IDF Intelligence, General Aviv Kochavi, officially took up the post of IDF Northern Command Head on Sunday. Kochavi is replacing General Yair Golan at the post. Speaking at his installation ceremony, Kochavi said that “the northern front is at the center of the storm in the Middle East. The entire region…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II vowed on Sunday to oppose any Israeli attempt to change the “status quo” regarding holy sites in Jerusalem – referring to the ongoing controversy surrounding the Temple Mount. “Jordan will continue to confront, through all available means, Israeli unilateral policies and measures in Jerusalem and preserve its Muslim and Christian holy…

The debate over security incidents on Israel’s northern border continues Sunday, as a “very senior” IDF officer told reporters on condition of anonymity that, in his estimation, Hezbollah is “uninterested” in starting a war with Israel right now.  “Hezbollah has no interest in starting a war with Israel now,” the officer stated to Channel 10 news. “There is…

The government discussed on Sunday a proposal that would lower the amount of money homebuyers will have to put down on home purchases. Currently, Israeli banks cannot issue mortgages greater than 70% of the value of a property. Under the new law, mortgages will be available for up to 90% of the cost of home…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman attacked Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday after Abbas – who is also known as Abu Mazen – sent a letter of support to the family of the terrorist who shot Temple activist Yehuda Glick. According to Liberman, “the letter of support indicates, more than anything, that Abu Mazen is,…

While negotiations on a compromise on Iran’s nuclear projects proceed apace between Washington and Tehran, the Iranians have bellicosely declared that the US must “get out” of the Persian Gulf. The area is Iran’s “strategic waters,” and the US does not belong there, Iran said. American and international naval forces are currently conducting a huge…

In the wake of last week’s attempt on the life of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, a number of threats on other Temple activists have emerged on Islamic social media sites. A post on the Temple Institute’s Facebook page displays a graphic that features the names and photos of 15 individuals, including Glick, which was…

Iran’s semi-official news agency Fars reported Sunday that “senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials” had rejected the Washington Post’s report Saturday that claimed the Iran–P5+1 nuclear talks had narrowed the gap in centrifuge numbers, and had instead reasserted the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s red line of no less than 190,000 SWUs, or “Separative Work Units,”…

The US Supreme Court is about to decide Monday in the Zivitofsky vs. Hillary Clinton case, that involves a demand by a US citizen to have his birthplace denoted as “Jerusalem, Israel” on his passport. At the center of the struggle between the Congress and the presidency is Menachem Zivotofsky, who was born in Jerusalem in 2002 to…

German police have announced that part of the large iron sign at the entrance to the Dachau Concentration Camp which says “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes You Free) has been stolen. No suspects have yet been identified. Dachau, which is not far from Munich, was the first of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany. The…

Jewish Home MK Yoni Chetboun said Sunday that he intends to oppose the ‘Israel Hayom Bill’ that will be brought to an initial vote in the Knesset plenum Wednesday. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation, which decides how coalition members will vote on bills that come up in the Knesset, decided earlier Sunday to give coalition…

A senior security source said Sunday afternoon that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon send “sharp messages” to Hamas following the firing of a rocket at the Eshkol region Friday night. The source added that Hamas arrested five suspects in the firing of the rocket and sent a message to Jerusalem according…

An Iranian official said on Saturday that Iran believes nuclear talks with six world powers have to be concluded by the November 24 deadline. According to the IRNA news agency, Ali Akbar Velayati, head of the Center for Strategic Research of Iran’s Expediency Council, made the comments to reporters after a meeting with Norwegian Foreign…

Iran is claiming that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug smuggling, The Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday. The claim, by Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council, was made in response to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran. The report by the UN said at least 852…

A man who hurled anti-Semitic abuse at Jewish travelers on a packed London bus has been jailed, the Jewish Chronicle reports. Ian Campbell, 42, was handed a 16-week prison sentence for a racially aggravated public order offence. The abuse was reported in September by journalist Rosa Doherty, who saw Campbell threaten to “burn the bus”…

Israel announced on Saturday night that the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings into Gaza will be closed on Sunday, following Friday night’s rocket attack on the Eshkol region. The crossings will only be opened for passage of goods and people in humanitarian cases, according to the announcement. The Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria…

A court in Egypt on Saturday sentenced eight men to three years in prison for appearing in a video alleged to show a gay marriage, the BBC reported. All eight had denied charges of inciting debauchery and offending public morality. The video, which was posted to YouTube in September, shows two men exchanging rings on…

Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square Saturday night, marking 19 years since former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at the site – in a memorial event in which the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that has never renounced terrorism was waved. Former President Shimon Peres made remarks at the event, saying…

Why are women still under-represented at the helm of large corporations? Veteran journalist and best-selling author Claire Shipman will try to shed light on the topic in a talk at Yeshiva University next Monday, November 17. In the lecture, Shipman will discuss her latest book: “The Confidence Code: The Art and Science of Self-Assurance –…

American officials last Tuesday revealed that US President Barack Obama’s administration has been growing closer to Iran and its terror proxies Hamas and Hezbollah – but according to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) statement Saturday, the feeling isn’t mutual. “The US is still the great Satan and the number one enemy of the (Islamic) revolution,…

Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Dov Kalmanovich paid a visit to the hospital bedside of wounded Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick Saturday night, as he slowly recovers from serious gunshot wounds after an attempt on his life by an Islamist assassin last week. Kalmanovich – a Jewish Home party representative on the Jerusalem city council, and…

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Yukiya Amano revealed last Friday that Iran is refusing to answer questions about whether or not its nuclear program has included activities to build a nuclear bomb. Amano said at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC that his agency is waiting for information on “possible military dimensions,” which Iranian…

At least 100 Islamic State terrorists have been killed in the Kurdish city of Kobane during the past three days alone, according to a Syrian monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths brought the number of ISIS fighters killed in the fighting for the city, located along the border with Turkey…

Police have arrested a suspect thought to have aided the Islamic Jihad terrorist Mu’taz Hijazi, who last Wednesday in Jerusalem attempted to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick and later was killed in a gunfight with security forces. The suspect, who worked with Hijazi at the Terasa restaurant in the Begin Heritage Center where the shooting…

Amid tense ties between Israel and the United States, Secretary of State John Kerry will meet the chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Monday to discuss how to advance the frozen peace process, AFP reported on Friday. Kerry will welcome a Palestinian Arab delegation, led by Saeb Erekat, to the State Department for discussions on “the…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Iran’s foreign minister and the European Union foreign policy chief in Oman on November 9 and 10 to discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, the State Department said on Friday, according to Reuters. Kerry’s talks in Muscat, Oman with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the EU’s…

A rocket from Gaza was fired on Friday night towards the Eshkol region in southern Israel. The rocket was detected by the IDF’s tracking system. It exploded in an open region, likely within Gaza and not in Israeli territory, and for this reason the “red alert” rocket siren was not heard. There were no reports…

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Friday declared that his organization will fight Israel and will not allow it to do as it pleases on the Temple Mount. According to Channel 2 News, Haniyeh took part in a mass protest in Gaza, part of a “day of rage” that was called for by Palestinian Authority (PA)…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday phoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and apologized for the harsh comments about him that were published this week in The Atlantic. During the conversation, Kerry made clear to Netanyahu that the remarks do not reflect the position of the American government. U.S. officials said the conversation was…

Several tombstones at the Jewish cemetery of Trondheim – a town located in the northern part of Norway – were desecrated last week, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday.  The tombstones, discovered on October 25, had been vandalized with purple paint, the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten reported. “Der Furher,” a reference to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was also painted on a…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqa on Thursday lionized Mu’taz Hijazi, the Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was later killed in a shootout with police. “Hijazi was one of the heroes of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement who defended freedom and dignity,”…

Two Arabs, both aged 22 and residents of Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood, were arrested late Thursday night after they were identified by police and Border Patrol forces lurking between the light rail stations of Beit Hanina and Shuafat, carrying slingshots and stones.  Additional police and border forces had recently been stationed in the area to help eradicate…

An Orthodox Jewish minyan (prayer quorum of ten men) in Shoham, located just east of Ben Gurion International Airport, has raised controversy by allowing women to be called to and read from the Torah starting this Shabbat. According to the report in Israel Hayom, the minyan is named Nachat Ruach and meets in a hall at the city’s retirement home,…

A special new report compiled by United Nations (UN) Security Council shows that more than 15,000 foreign nationals have crossed the borders into Syria and Iraq to join the ranks of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization. According to the report, published Thursday, there has been a mass movement of civilians from around the…

What is going on in the head of a young Arab rioter engaged in the “silent intifada” of terror attacks against Jews in Jerusalem? That’s the question AFP apparently sought to answer in a series of interviews with Arab terrorists in the capital city. Hisham, a fourteen-year-old rioter born around the start of the Second Intifada, “dreams…

US President Barack Obama’s administration is coping with underwhelming performance on various fronts according to officials cited in the New York Times on Friday, who suggested he may replace some senior administration officials – including US Secretary of State John Kerry. “There is an inflection point in every presidency, and this certainly is a logical one, if…

About 3,000 police and Border Patrol officers were deployed to Jerusalem starting early Thursday morning, with most being placed in eastern parts of the city that seen seen most of the violence in past weeks, over concerns that Arab riots will continue to rage in the capital. Police will also bolster their presence around the…

As violence in Jerusalem rages on and the fear of Arab riots has placed security forces on high alert, MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List) told Channel 2 in an interview to be broadcast Friday night that “the Jews have no right to pray at the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” Tibi explained his words: “[allowing Jews…

Former Israeli Ambassador to Canada Dr. Alan Baker, the head of the Legal Forum for Israel, on Friday explained to Arutz Sheva why the Swedish government officially recognized the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine” on Thursday. Baker, who previously served as legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry, sent a message to Swedish Prime Minister Stefan…

Police were on high alert in Jerusalem on Friday, deploying 3,000 officers after Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction pledged a “day of rage” – but aside from a few incidents, it has been more of a “day of rain” in the wet capital after Jews changed to reciting the ten tal u’matar seasonal prayer…

A coalition from Israel arrived in France Thursday for an Aliyah Weekend event to promote Jewish immigration to Israel, which has been on the rise spurred on by rising anti-Semitism in France. The group included MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home), Rabbi Shlomo Aviner and Rabbi Yehuda Ben Yishai, the father of Ruthie Fogel who was murdered along…

The Lavian musical production honoring the memory of Latvian aviator and Nazi war criminal Herbert Cukurs, which has been condemned by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has outraged Jews in Latvia and abroad. Cukurs joined a Nazi killing squad during World War II and infamously became known as the “Butcher of Riga” for his atrocities against Jews in the…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) is dropping the purchase of US V-22 Osprey aircraft, raising concerns that this could further chill already frosty relations with Washington, Israel Hayom daily said Thursday. The mass-circulation freesheet said Yaalon’s decision went against the Israeli military’s wishes. The paper linked the move to budget constraints, lessons learned from the 50-day…

The “silent intifada” of terrorism in Jerusalem continued unabated on Thursday night, a day after the assassination attempt on Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick and despite heightened security, as yet another Jewish car was targeted in an Arab ambush. Roi Gifman, a resident of the Ma’ale Hazeitim neighborhood on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem…

Morocco said Thursday it has arrested two jihadists who were planning to attack banks and multinational companies in the North African country and in France. An interior ministry statement said the Frenchman and Franco-Moroccan arrested on Monday had also been planning to join the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group. It said they used the Internet to urge “individual terrorist acts in Morocco and France,”…

Jerusalem police are making preparations for the funeral of the terrorist who shot and seriously wounded Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, which will be held at 11 p.m. Thursday night. The terrorist, 32 year-old Mu’taz Hijazi of Abu Tor in southern Jerusalem, was killed Thursday morning in a police raid carried out on suspicion that…

Over the past several days a Hezbollah terrorist attempted to murder Israelis in Peru only to have his plots foiled by local authorities, revealed Channel 2 on Thursday. The terrorist, a member of Hezbollah’s international arm, was apparently planning to carry out a terror attack on Israeli or Jewish targets in the South American nation, particularly locations…

Police have decided to keep the five Jewish protesters arrested Thursday morning under detention, after they tried to enter the Temple Mount to demonstrate against the discrimination against Jews at the holiest site in Judaism. The Temple Mount was closed to Jews and Muslims following the attempted assassination of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on…

Israeli police folded to a chorus of international criticism on Thursday evening and decided to reopen the Temple Mount on Friday – for Muslims only, not for Jews. “It was decided to restore (the compound) to normal,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP. Police had ordered the temporary closure of the Temple Mount on Thursday so as to calm…

Israel must take steps to maintain its “Start-Up Nation” status as young technology companies increasingly opt to move abroad, Bank Hapoalim Chairman Yair Seroussi told Bloomberg Business News Thursday. “For Israel’s continued success in technology, we need to think about how to guarantee there is an uninterrupted advantage here,” Seroussi said. “We need to figure…

There has been an improvement in the condition of leading Jewish Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who was shot Wednesday by an Arab would-be assassin. The Director of General Surgery Unit in Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, Prof. Petachya Reisman, said that Glick is still not out of danger but improving. Glick arrived at the…

Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount for Jews and Muslims on Thursday following the assassination attempt on Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem the night before, and the US State Department lost no time criticizing Israel for the move. US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki urged Israel to reopen Al-Aqsa Mosque to Muslims, in…

The largest ice cream factory in the Middle East will be built in the city of Arad in southern Israel, Finance Minister Yair Lapid announced on Thursday. The factory, which will employ 250 people, will be built by food giant Osem. Arad, located 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) west of the Dead Sea, has been in…

Egypt on Thursday banned a pressure group that has pushed for the reinstatement of former President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was ousted by the army last year. According to Reuters, Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb issued a decree dissolving the National Coalition to Support Legitimacy and Reject the Coup, as well as…

Referring to Israel as an “apartheid state” is a “blatant lie”, Economy Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Thursday. Bennett gave a series of interviews to international media outlets and, in one of these interviews, was asked by a Sky News interviewer whether he is “worried” that the term “apartheid” is being…

Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz on Thursday said that Sweden’s recognition of “Palestine” is “an attack on the existence and security of Israel.” Steinitz, who met with the heads of the Yesha Council, said that Sweden’s move affects the chances of achieving peace in the Middle East. The reason for this, Steinitz explained, is that the…

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) on Thursday called on the government to announce new regulations regarding Jewish prayers on the Temple Mount, as a response to the shooting of leading Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Shaked said that Glick is an example of a human rights activist who conducts himself in…

Yehuda Gilck, a leading advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, has been very seriously wounded after being shot in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Arutz Sheva has learned.  Glick was shot outside the Begin Heritage center in the capital, witnesses said, after a terrorist pulled up in a scooter or motorcycle and shot him before fleeing…

Israeli drinks firm SodaStream, hit by international boycott calls, said Wednesday it was shutting a controversial factory in Judea-Samaria on Wednesday, in a decision it said was linked to a 9% fall in sales.  The firm, which manufactures a device for making carbonated beverages at home and which was embroiled in a row earlier this year involving Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson,…

Israel officially closed immigration from Ethiopia last year, as all of the Ethiopian Jews had been brought to Israel – as had those from the Falash Mura community, whose Jewish origins are spotty at best. But many of the Falash Mura families, who are from communities that intermarried with non-Jews, still have relatives in Ethiopia…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas attempted to clean up his image on Wednesday, in an interview with Channel 10, after he made a number of threats against Jews and Israelis earlier this month.  Abbas’s interview began with him denying that the recent uprisings in Jerusalem are an “intifada” – even after his “unity government” partner…

The White House is distancing itself from slanderous comments by an unnamed Obama administration official on Wednesday, after the official was quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic as having called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “chickens**t”, as well as “recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and ‘Aspergery.”  “Certainly that’s not the Administration’s view, and we think such comments…

Thousands of civil servants in Gaza queued outside post offices Wednesday, waiting to receive their first paycheck from the Palestinian Authority (PA)-Hamas “unity government” over four months after it was formally established, AFP correspondents said. However, thousands more – all holding jobs in the military and security services – were not being paid and it was unclear if and when…

The Jerusalem light rail has found itself a victim of increased rock attacks by Arabs in recent months, but a report by the State Comptroller Wednesday said that the rail system – or rather the taxpayers who funded it – had also been victims, of corruption, cost overruns, and inefficiency in the building and running…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud Central Committee chairman MK Danny Danon have agreed to bring the issue of holding the Likud primaries earlier than scheduled for a discussion at the Central Committee, it was reported on Wednesday. According to Army Radio, the two met and agreed that the Likud Central Committee would convene on…

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Wednesday held an emergency session over Israel’s plans to build 1,000 new homes in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported. According to Haaretz, while the Security Council condemned Israel over the construction, which it claimed “violates international law”, it did not agree on actions against Israel which the United States…

Susan Rice, National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama, denied on Wednesday that there was a crisis in Israel-U.S. relations, The Atlantic reports. “The relationship is not in crisis. The relationship is actually fundamentally stronger in many respects than it’s ever been,” she said during a forum in Washington, a day after The Atlantic quoted…

Like many other Jewish and Israeli organizations and officials, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for its open hostility to Israel of late – especially the recent insult to Prime Minister Netanyahu by an unnamed official. The ZOA took the opportunity to sum up the anti-Israel bias in the White…

To a long list of failed Israeli policy decisions that promise to turn into major problems down the line add the country’s approach to – rocks. According to the State Comptroller’s report issued Wednesday, Israel is likely to run out of important minerals that are mined at rock quarries by the end of the decade.…

Police have decided to close off the Temple Mount for all worshipers effective immediately. Wednesday night’s announcement came following a security assessment which was conducted following the shooting of Temple Mount rights activist Yehuda Glick. Moshe Edri, the commander of the Jerusalem District of the police, announced that the decision to close the Temple Mount…

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud), who was in attendance at Wednesday evening’s event at the Begin Center in Jerusalem before the shooting of leading Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, said that “the writing was on the wall”. “The shooter made ​​sure that it was Yehuda before he shot him,” Feiglin told Arutz Sheva, adding that the…

Doctors at the Sha’arei Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem are fighting to save the life of leading Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, the director of the hospital, Professor Yonatan Halevi, said on Wednesday night. In a brief statement outside the hospital, Halevi told reporters that Glick, who was shot outside the Begin Heritage center in…

Yehuda Gilck, a leading advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, has been very seriously wounded after being shot in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Arutz Sheva has learned.  Glick was shot outside the Begin Heritage center in the capital, witnesses said, after a terrorist pulled up in a scooter or motorcycle and shot him before fleeing…

Israel’s closure of the Temple Mount to all visitors – Jews and Muslims alike – following the shooting of Temple Mount rights advocate Yehuda Glick  is tantamount to a “declaration of war,” Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated Thursday.  “This dangerous Israeli escalation is a declaration of war on the Palestinian people and its sacred places and…

An article published Tuesday in The Atlantic drew ire from Israeli officials, Republicans and supporters of Israel, after it quoted anonymous senior Obama administration figures describing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as “chickens**t.” But another part of the article has drawn offense from a different group entirely. The author of the article in question, Jeffrey Goldberg, claimed he…

The Islamic Jihad terrorist responsible for the attempted murder of Temple Mount rights activist Yehuda Glick was an employee at the Terasa restaurant, located inside the Begin Heritage Center where Glick was talking moments before – and was employed at the cafeteria there despite having served time in Israeli prison for terrorism charges.  32 year-old…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s incitement is to blame for Wednesday night’s attempted murder of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Thursday morning.  “The attempt to murder Glick is a serious step up in the ongoing Palestinian incitement against Jews and against Israel,” Ya’alon said.  “When Abbas distributes lies and…

Sweden on Thursday officially recognized the Palestinian Authority (PA) as the “state of Palestine,” Stockholm’s foreign minister said, less than a month after the government announced its intention to make the controversial move. “Today the government takes the decision to recognize the state of Palestine,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement published in the Dagens Nyheter daily. “It is…

The government on Sunday will consider a proposal to expand Israeli labor laws to Judea and Samaria. The laws would apply to workers in those areas as they do to Israeli communities within the 1948 armistice lines, and would apply equally to Jews and Arabs working in Area C, under Israeli security and civilian control.…

Security forces killed an Islamic Jihad terrorist, 32 year-old Mu’taz Hijazi of Abu Tor in East Jerusalem, on Thursday morning, suspicion that he was involved in the shooting of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick.  According to one report, the forces tried to arrest the suspect, but were forced to shoot him after he retaliated violently.  “In a joint…

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) praised a sense of “closure” regarding the attempted murder of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick on Thursday, after Yamam SWAT teams eliminated the Islamic Jihad terrorist responsible just hours after the shooting. “This is closing the circle,” Aharonovich wrote on Facebook. “SWAT forces, along with the Israeli police,…

After the shooting of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick Wednesday night, police closed off the Temple Mount to both Jews and Arabs, for fear that mounting tensions between both sides would erupt into a full-fledged riot. But witnesses Thursday said that the ban had apparently been partially lifted: Arab Muslims were observed on the Mount,…

The chairman of the religious Zionist Jewish Home, Minister Naftali Bennett, and the chairwoman of secularist Hatnua, Minister Tzipi Livni, presented on Thursday to the Government Secretariat a request that the government officially ratify a compromise decision regarding contested changes in the process of conversion into Judaism, which threatened to bring down the coalition. The…

IDF forces conducting a routine patrol along the Syrian border on the Golan Heights came under fire from Syria on Thursday afternoon. The force reported that it had been targeted by gunfire, and proceeded to conduct a search for the sources of the attack. No wounds or damage was reported as having been caused by…

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Thursday instructed Knesset guard commander Brig. Gen. Yosef Griff to deploy a security attachment to accompany MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud), in a unique security detail unlike the routine attachments given to MKs. Edelstein also asked Griff to provide security to any MK, from the political right or left, who…

The Temple Institute has condemned last night’s attempted murder of Yehudah Glick, a former director of the Institute, and said that Israeli authorities must shoulder their share of the blame for the attack. “Yehuda is a selfless champion of the right for Jews to pray at the Temple Mount who works tirelessly towards this goal,…

Four Jewish activists were arrested on Thursday, after a flurry of protests against the attempted murder of prominent activist Yehuda Glick, as well as ongoing discrimination against Jews, broke out at the entrance to the Temple Mount. While throngs of people gathered to protest, the four men arrested had literally “crossed a line” as far…

The cancellation of the Tel Aviv municipality’s planned trips to Jerusalem is more than just a security move, Ammunition Hill historical site representatives revealed Thursday – it is also a financial blow with major political implications.  Alon Wald, the son of Capt Rami Wald hy”d, who chairs the department of events at the historical site,…

In the wake of the shooting of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home) said that he would file a bill with the Knesset making it illegal to employ convicted terrorists. Glick’s shooter, according to reports, was an Islamic Jihad terrorist who had been imprisoned in Israel for a number of crimes…

The crisis in relations between the Israeli government under Binyamin Netanyahu and the US administration of Barack Obama, which has stooped to name calling against Netanyahu, has received a mixed reaction among Israeli politicians. “Netanyahu is behaving like a political pyromaniac and has brought relations with the United States to an unprecedented low,” Opposition Head…

Even as the Jerusalem Municipality and police step up their efforts to crack down on terror in the capital through the aid of surveillance balloons, Arab rioters attacked a Jewish car on Wednesday right by the Jerusalem District Court – for the second time this week. The Arab assailants launched a barrage of rocks on…

As part of its countermeasures to deal with the “silent intifada” of Arab terror gripping the capital, the Jerusalem Municipality last week launched an aerial surveillance unit to aid the police and enforcement officials in their struggle against Arab violence. The Municipality explained that the new unit will provide real-time intelligence information to aid forces…

In a new documentary video entitled UNRWA Goes to War, journalist David Bedein builds a seemingly incontestable case against UNRWA, showing the close symbiotic relations between it and the terror group Hamas. The video shows that not only did UNRWA schools serve as repositories for rockets in the last Gaza war, and not only were…

The same Tuesday night that a senior official in US President Barack Obama’s administration was quoted calling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “chickens**t,” yet more officials indicated the US is warming up to cooperation with Iran – the Islamic regime seeking nuclear weapons that has repeatedly declared its desire to destroy Israel. Senior US and Arab…

The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization continues its campaign of propaganda videos, calling on Muslims to come from around the world to Iraq and Syria where they have seized large tracts of territory, and to guard and expand the “caliphate.” In the new video, which has since been removed by YouTube, a “shahid” (martyr)…

While President Obama and the United Nations continue to adamantly oppose any Ebola-related travel-ban, the US Department of Defense-funded Ebola study that was reported by Arutz Sheva earlier in the month has been updated with results which continue to show a dramatic reduction in the likelihood of importation of Ebola into a country if an…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not cave into pressure, officials in his office stated on Tuesday night, in response to harsh comments attributed to Obama administration officials. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic quoted two officials in Washington who described Netanyahu, among other things, as “chickens**t” and ‘Aspergery’, highlighting continuing tensions in relations between the…

Israel’s poor are not getting ahead -but they are not falling behind, either, new numbers from the Central Bureau of Statistics show. In 2013, Israel’s top earners made 8.5 times those on the lowest income level, the CBS said, a statistic that has been more or less consistent for the past two decades. The numbers…

An entire German high school class is being investigated by authorities, the Daily Mail reports Wednesday, after the 29 ninth-graders were found to have been communicating to each other in Nazi slogans on a regular basis. Students in class 9A at the Landsberg Gymnasiums near Leipzig had formed a specialized WhatsApp group for the anti-Semitic comments, and…

There is no rent control in Israel – but there should be, a student group said. And if the Knesset does not pass a law regulating rents, students will stage a mass walkout, going on strike in protest over the high cost of rent in Israel. MK Stav Shaffir (Labor) is one of the sponsors…

Chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu) submitted the controversial Conversion Bill of MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) to the Knesset on Wednesday. The full Knesset is to vote on the bill for a second and third reading next Monday, after appeals to the bill this Monday were overruled and it…

Minister of Construction and Housing Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), fired back early Wednesday afternoon at Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) for his refusal to transfer funds for paving roads outside the large “blocs” of Jewish population in Judea and Samaria. “The reality of a freeze cannot go on and we will not agree to…

A senior IDF commander on Wednesday acknowledged to Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) that the Iran-proxy terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon has likely dug terror tunnels into Israel. IDF Northern Commander Maj. Gen. Yair Golan equivocated by noting on Hamas’s use of terror tunnels, saying “we have no positive information meaning that there are tunnels. The situation is…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded directly to personal attacks made against him by “senior US officials” in a report published Tuesday evening. Speaking at a special Knesset session marking 13 years since the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehava’am Ze’evi (also known by his nickname “Ghandi”) by Palestinian terrorists, Netanyahu began by addressing the comments,…

Islamist groups have decried the visit to the Temple Mount by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday morning. On his early-morning visit, mayor Nir Barkat toured the Mount together with a police escort, after weeks of intermittent clashes fueled by Islamist groups on the site.  But police said the day passed in “relative calm” after…

Two apps designed by Yeshiva University’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs (CPA), “This is Yeshiva University” and “Cardozo Life,” have won highly competitive awards from the University College Designers Association (UCDA), the US’s first and only association for professionals involved in the creation of visual communications for educational institutions. The YU apps received two out of four awards…

The state prosecutor has submitted a recommendation to the Attorney General to prosecute radical Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), for inciting violence against police officers, according to Channel 10. The charges apparently relate to footage earlier this year in which Zoabi can be seen verbally abusing two Arab Israeli police officers in Nazareth, and urging…

The Pentagon will buy another 43 F-35 fighter jets worth roughly $4 billion from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, officials said Tuesday, four months after it was briefly grounded following an engine fire, according to  AFP.  Although final details have to be worked out, the “handshake agreement” will mean the price of each plane will drop…

Gunmen opened fire inside a Lebanese hospital on Tuesday, after a man refused to allow doctors to shave his stomach hair in order to perform an operation. The incident occurred at the Mortada Hospital in Lebanon’s Baalbek region, according to the Daily Star, and began when a surgeon said he would need to shave a patch of…

A small but loud demonstration took place today outside the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill, close to the site of last week’s deadly terrorist attack. Activists from the Im Tirzu organization were joined by ordinary Jerusalemites and Jerusalem university students in calling for police to crack down on ongoing Arab…

Egypt has ordered residents living along the country’s eastern border with Gaza to evacuate within 48 hours but put that on hold after they protested, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday. The ultimatum is part of Egypt’s buffer zone plan, which follows a lethal terror attack last Friday that killed 31 Egyptian soldiers in…

“The United States administration is planning to throw Israel under the bus,” Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday night, responding to harsh words against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which were attributed to senior officials in the Obama administration. “Israel is stronger than all those who curse it,” said Bennett, after Jeffrey Goldberg of…

The Israel Hayom newspaper on Tuesday urged its readers to phone and e-mail the office of MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) in mass numbers, and voice their displeasure over the bill he authored and which would limit the distribution of free newspapers, such as Israel Hayom. The bill, first proposed in March, is scheduled to come…

The back and forth banter between Jerusalem and Washington over Israeli plans to build new homes in its capital continued on Tuesday. As The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg quoted anonymous officials in the Obama administration who launched a verbal tirade against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki had some words of her own…

The United States said Tuesday it will boost security at government buildings, after threats from Islamist groups and following two attacks last week in Canada that killed two soldiers, AFP reports. The “precise actions” and “precise locations” were not specified in the statement by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, who said they would vary,…

The Civil Administration has extended an appeals period for Palestinian Arabs against the declaration of nearly 4,000 dunams (about 1,000 acres) in Gush Etzion as state land, IDF Radio reports Tuesday.  Israel announced that it would declare 4,000 dunams as “state land” in September. The decision was one of Israel’s responses to the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens…

Activists from grassroots Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu and concerned citizens will gather today (Tuesday) at 5:00 p.m. in front of the National Headquarters of the Israel Police at Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem, to protest the severe deterioration in security in the capital. The licensed protest will be held near the light rail station where three-month-old…

Israel is running out of hospital beds, the Ministry of Health reported Tuesday – with the number of beds per population declining 11% in nine years. As of mid-2014, there were just 1.87 beds per every 1,000 people in Israel, compared to 1.91 in 2010 and 2.09 in 2005. The Ministry of Health stated that…

Those ubiquitous plastic bags from the supermarket: it seems every Israeli has a bunch of them rolled up under the kitchen sink, because you never know when they’ll come in handy. But all that is about to change. The Knesset approved Monday night in the first reading a bill that sets a price tag of…

Israel’s UN Mission in New York is starting to go on the counter-attack against Hamas, and is seeking for the United Nations to officially declare Hamas a “terrorist organization.” The Israeli Mission commented that, “Surprisingly, to date the UN has not officially recognized any organization in the world as a terrorist organization.” This week, Colonel…

Palestinian Authority officials strongly condemned Israel on Monday after it announced plans for 1,000 new homes in eastern Jerusalem, the Ma’an news agency reports. Among those was senior negotiator Saeb Erekat, who said the decision “amounts to evidence of an intent to further commit crimes defined by and punishable under international law.” “The announcement by…

At least 850 people have been executed in Iran in the past 15 months as part of a worsening human rights situation under President Hassan Rouhani, who has been branded as a “reformist”, a UN official said Monday, according to AFP. Ahmed Shaheed, the rights rapporteur for Iran, described a “surge in executions,” giving Iran…

A spokesman for Jordan’s mission to the United Nations said on Monday his country will request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council meeting on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA), reports The Associated Press (AP). The spokesman, Laith Ibrahim Obeidat, confirmed the request and said his country, a council member, will ask…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting early Tuesday afternoon with the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, in order to reach understandings that would defuse the coalition crisis on the Conversion Law. The meeting follows a vote in the Knesset’s Law, Constitution and Justice Committee Monday, in favor of the…

The Israeli and Polish presidents on Tuesday hailed a Warsaw museum chronicling the vibrant 1,000-year history of Poland’s Jewish community devastated by the Holocaust, as an investment in future ties between their countries. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews was “symbolic of our looking to the future”,…

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) sharply criticized the American condemnation of building plans in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, which were finally given government approval by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday. The plans included about 660 housing units in the northern neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, and about 400 more in Har Homa in Jerusalem’s…

The Knesset Committee for Internal Affairs and Environmental Protection, headed by MK Miri Regev (Likud), has approved “continuity” for the Infiltration Prevention Bill on Tuesday, placing it on a short track for legislation. Laws are passed in the Knesset only after being approved by the plenum in the first, second, and third readings; if a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to ignore the torrent of criticism from the international community Tuesday, declaring that Israel would continue to build Jewish homes in Jerusalem. Netanyahu made the remarks during the cornerstone-laying ceremony at a new port in Southern Ashdod.  “We will continue to develop the ports in order to lower commodity prices,…

US-Israeli relations have suffered over the past month, with the State Department making multiple condemnations against Israel for both building Jewish homes in Jerusalem and for increasing its fight against Palestinian Arab terror.  However, it has not damaged the military cooperation between them, as the Israel Aerospace Industries, together with representatives of the Israeli Ministry…

The fight against Ebola has hit the high seas, Walla! News reports Tuesday – as Israeli ports have been advised to screen all passengers arriving in the Holy Land. Ports in Haifa and Ashdod will now screen all arriving passengers for signs of the Ebola virus, including vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding, or fever above 38 C (100.4…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat toured the Temple Mount Tuesday together with the commander of the Israel Police’s David District, Brig.-Gen. Avi Biton, and City Director Amnon Merhav. The mayor ascended the Mount in order to get a close look at the police’s preparations for dealing with ongoing Muslim rioting in the compound. The visit was…

A Monday editorial in the main PA daily newspaper shows the extent to which the war against Israel is waged on the “incitement” front. The Ramallah-based Al-Hayat Al-Jadida referred to last week’s terrorist attack in which a Hamas member and resident of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan rammed his car into a crowd of Jews and…

American Airlines canceled a London-bound flight out of Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday after a passenger’s phone picked up a WiFi network named “Al-Quida Free Terror.” LAX police officers boarded the plane about 10 p.m. and investigated the incident, reported the Los Angeles Times. A photograph posted online of one passenger’s phone shows it…

At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured Monday by two bomb blasts in and around Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, BBC News reported.  Today’s casualties add to the list of hundreds killed in bomb attacks across Iraq in recent months.  The first attack occurred when a suicide bomber drove a Humvee – likely captured from government forces –…

Dozens of residents of south Tel Aviv demonstrated in front of the government complex in Jerusalem on Monday night, demanding an end to the constant flow of infiltrators into the city which is driving crime rates sky-high.  “Bring back our neighborhoods now!” protestors screamed. A protest tent was also erected outside.  Shefi Paz, protest organizer…

With the opening of the Knesset’s winter session Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu granted an interview to hareidi radio station Kol B’Ramah making it clear that he has never boycotted the hareidi public.  “The hareidi parties were not shunned by the coalition because of me,” Netanyahu said, explaining that “it was not me who objected to…

Israeli citizens are being driven into the poorhouse, Opposition chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) stated on the Knesset plenum on Monday, and recent budgetary decisions are to blame.  “I was young and I am old, and I do see the righteous forsaken and his children seeking bread,” Herzog began, paraphrasing Psalms. “There are those who…

Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped at least 30 boys and girls from the town of Mafa in Borno state in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, CNN reports.  The news of the kidnappings was slow to be revealed due to lack of telecom service in the region – a result of Boko Haram’s near five-year insurgency against the Nigerian government. However,…

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has called for clarification from Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday, after the Minister stated Sunday that he would ban Palestinian Arab workers from state-funded buses in Judea and Samaria following years of debate over the issue.  Deputy Attorney General, Dina Zilber apparently turned to the Attorney for the Ministry of…

The EU said Monday it was seeking Israeli clarification of reports it planned to build another 1,000 homes in Jerusalem, threatening once again to sever ties with the Jewish state if it failed to follow the bloc’s plan for the Middle East, AFP reports Monday.  If the reports are confirmed, “it will call once again into serious question Israel’s commitment to a…

Syrian rebels, led by Al-Qaeda loyalists. launched a major assault on the government-held city of Idlib on Monday in a bid to consolidate their control over the northwest, a monitoring group told AFP. Rebels seized control of most of Idlib province early in the three and a half year old civil war but troops have…

Two U.S. lawmakers are trying to pass legislation in Congress that will end federal benefits for people the government has identified as suspected Nazi war criminals, The Hill reports. The two lawmakers, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), are putting the bill together in the wake of last week’s revelation that millions of…

Tunisia’s Ennahda party, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the 2011 “Arab Spring” revolts, conceded defeat on Monday in elections that are set to make its main secular rival the strongest force in parliament, Reuters reports. Official results from Sunday’s elections – the second parliamentary vote since Tunisians set off uprisings across much…

The Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday released a new video featuring British hostage John Cantlie, in which he speaks from what is alleged to be the besieged Syrian city of Kobane. The film begins with footage shot from an “Islamic State Army” drone, according to The Guardian. The video differs from previous ones in which…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmud Abbas said Monday he has called for an emergency UN Security Council session over the constant cycle of Arab rioting and violence, according to AFP – blaming Israeli “aggression” for the unrest, both throughout Jerusalem in general and on the Temple Mount in particular.  Abbas’s comments surface amid high tensions in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, which…

The Knesset approved on Monday evening the first reading of the controversial “surrogacy law”, which was authored by Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid). 45 MKs voted in favor and 15 voted against the bill, which seeks to extend the eligibility for surrogacy so that same-sex couples as well as men and women without partners…

Rabbi Dov Lior has stepped down from his position as chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, located adjacent to Hevron in Judea, in a surprising announcement to the religious council that comes after 37 years serving in the post. After the rabbi steps down, the Religious Affairs Ministry is to decide on a replacement to serve…

As the Knesset opened its winter term Monday, Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud) made clear that he does not think this is the right time to call new elections. “I think that in the end, common sense will prevail and everyone will understand that this is not the time to head for elections,” he told…

Chabad emissaries to the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, Rabbi Hezki and Chana Lifschitz, received a surprise telephone call from Israel on Saturday night after Shabbat, from none other than the Israeli Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau. Rabbi Lau expressed his gratitude to the couple for their selfless work in helping the Israeli victims of two…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has given the green light for construction of about 1,000 new housing units in Jerusalem, in what some are spinning as an end to the building freeze in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria – an unofficial freeze that Israel took upon itself under US pressure during the Obama presidency. Netanyahu has given…

The mother of Abdelrahman Shaludi, the Hamas terrorist who last Wednesday murdered three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun hy”d and 22-year-old Karen Mosquera hy”d with his car in Jerusalem, is a “martyr” according to his mother. Shaludi’s family raised a ruckus after police limited the number of attendees at the terrorist’s Sunday night funeral at the feet…

Media outlets two months ago touted “coexistence” as Muslim Arab Mahmoud Mansour (26) married Moral Malka (23), a Jewish woman he met in their native Yafo – now Mansour has been arrested for drug trafficking and assaulting a police officer. Mansour was arrested last weekend after more than 10 grams of cocaine were found on him, Channel…

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni vowed on Sunday night to “bury” a bill, approved earlier by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, that would enable the Knesset to override a High Court decision to strike down a law it had previously legislated. “As the head of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, I will bury the High Court…

I have been asked to explain why I wrote a book based on a single Jewish prayer, and more specifically, why I wrote on Adon Olam. Curiously, my response to this question begins and ends with righteous gentiles and would-be Jews; which is somehow fitting given that it is the time of year that we…

Before the start of the Winter Knesset session on Monday, members of the radical Arab Knesset party Balad held a press conference at the parliament building – in which they removed the Israeli flags from behind their seats to a corner of the room. Party spokesperson Sami Ali who arranged the hall before the conference…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat outlined the sorry state of security in the capital Monday, in a session of the Knesset’s Interior Committee. Barkat disputed the claims that the deterioration in security began around the time of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. “Even before Operation Protective Edge, the state of affairs in Jerusalem as regards riots,…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has followed the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) directives banning Jews from praying on the Temple Mount – but on Monday, he and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon did let Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government President Rami Hamdallah pray at the site. The permission given to Hamdallah was announced through the semi-official PA news…