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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin flies to Poland on Monday for the inauguration of a Warsaw Jewish museum,  meetings with his Polish counterpart and other senior officials, his office said.   “Later on Monday, President Rivlin will depart for Poland, on his first official visit abroad as president, at the invitation of the president of Poland,…

Thousands of civilians on Sunday fled their homes in a battered district of northern Lebanon’s Tripoli, taking advantage of an informal truce in fighting between the army and Islamist militants, AFP reports. The lull comes after three days of heavy clashes in Tripoli, the country’s second biggest city, according to the report. The coastal city…

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri on Sunday threw his weight behind former Communications and Welfare Minister Moshe Kahlon, who last week officially cancelled his membership in the Likud party, as he prepares to form a new political party. “If [Kahlon] has ten more seats, we’ll be able to make changes together,” Deri was quoted by…

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is analyzing a video recorded by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the gunman in last week’s shooting attack in Ottawa. The National Post reported on Sunday that the video was recorded shortly before Zehaf-Bibeau embarked on the shooting spree, in which he killed a reservist at the National War Memorial and shot…

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on Sunday condemned last Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The condemnation came hours after a citizen of Ecuador, 22-year-old Karen Mosquera, died of injuries sustained in last week’s attack, in which three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun was murdered as well. “We will reject violence from wherever it comes,” Correa wrote on Twitter,…

Security sources reported Sunday that Hamas had conducted another experimental trial of firing rockets into the Mediterranean Sea. An Israeli citizen confirmed witnessing one of the launches from near the Gaza border. The test, conducted early Sunday morning, consisted of two rockets being launched from what used to be Gush Katif, in Gaza. The first rocket…

Egypt is planning to establish an expanded buffer zone between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Sinai, security officials in Cairo have stated. Forces are slated to clear the area of vegetation and structures in the coming days, as well as to remove thousands of Bedouins living in the area.  According to Egyptian newspaper, Al Yom a-Sab’a,…

Israelis changed their clocks from daylight savings time to standard time on Sunday, causing much confusion as Israelis scrambled to rectify glitches with their cell phone carriers.  But MK Yifat Kariv (Yesh Atid) intends to file a bill this week to cancel the concept of time change entirely, she announced Sunday, stating that the yearly “spring…

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin has defended the decision by the Tel Aviv municipality to cancel school trips to Jerusalem over safety concerns, and blasted criticism of their decision as an attempt by authorities to avoid responsibility for the ongoing violence in the capital. Last night, it was revealed that eighth-grade field trips to the Kotel…

Palestinian Arab workers may be barred from Judea-Samaria buses in the future, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon indicated Sunday, after years of complaints from Jewish residents – especially women – that they were being harassed by the workers in transit.  Ya’alon made the decision after a public hearing in November by MK Moti Yogev (Jewish Home)…

India has chosen to buy anti-tank guided missiles from Israel, rejecting a rival US offer, in the latest sign of burgeoning ties between the two states. The latest arms deal comes as India’s right-wing government clears projects worth $13.1 billion to modernize its ageing military, official sources said Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will…

As a result of the recent escalation of terror and violence in Jerusalem, law enforcement agencies are working Sunday to bring more security forces to the capital. An additional 1,000 Israeli Police and Border Patrol forces will be on hand to oversee security in eastern Jerusalem.  Security forces are expected to work together with the Tax Authority, the Bailiff’s Office…

The murderer of 20 year-old Israeli Shelly Dadon, hy”d, is expected to retract his confession on Monday, Channel 10 reports, ahead of the trial over the murder being held in the Haifa District Court. Police found Dadon’s body in an abandoned Migdal Haemek parking lot on May 1.  Dadon had no criminal record; she had been on her way…

Dr. Orit Galili-Zucker, who headed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political communication team between 2011 and 2013, has caused an uproar on Facebook by blaming baby Chaya Zisel Braun’s parents for “irrational” decisions that cost their daughter’s life when a terrorist ran her over.  Galili-Zucker also drew a parallel between the Brauns and the trekkers who…

Terror victims’ organization Almagor is angry at President Reuven Rivlin for invoking the murder of baby Chaya Zisel Braun – who was run over by an Arab terrorist Wednesday – at a memorial ceremony for the Kafr Kassem massacre of 1956. At the ceremony, Rivlin called for an end to “the cycle of bloodshed.” “On…

Israeli-Palestinian talks on a lasting Gaza truce are to resume after mid-November, instead of Monday as initially planned, the chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad told AFP Sunday. The announcement came after other Palestinian officials said the talks had been postponed due to Egypt’s closure of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Egypt closed…

Despite the perception that there is a “crisis” in relations between Israel and the US, the relationship between the two countries is quite healthy, according to Amos Gilad, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs and Chairman of Security Relations with Regional and Strategic Partners of the Ministry of Defense. If there are perhaps tensions between…

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Friday to condemn Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, which killed three month-old Chaya Zisel Braun hy”d and left eight wounded.  “President Abbas must condemn this attack and make clear that Fatah and the Palestinian Authority wholeheartedly oppose such acts of terror,” said Abraham…

A new hotline has been established to help Ukraine’s Jewish Community, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine organization announced Sunday, in light of the ongoing unrest in the east of the country.  The service, “910,” will provide 24-hour emergency assistance to Jews throughout Ukraine, it said, including Jewish communities in both large cities and small…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to end the de facto building freeze in Judea and Samaria and intends to approve thousands of new housing units and roads at a cost of millions of shekels, reported Channel 2 Sunday. The move is seen as a bid to strengthen the alliance with the nationalist wing of…

While Israeli officials over the weekend extolled the extension of daylight savings time to its latest date ever in Israel, others are less enamored of the system. In Russia, they change the clocks this weekend as well – and they will stay that way. From frazzled nerves to uncomfortable cows, Russia’s three year experiment with…

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved on Sunday a bill submitted by MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) that would enable the Knesset to override a High Court decision to strike down a law it had previously legislated. The bill would add a clause to the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom, allowing the re-legislation of…

Karen Yemima Muskara, 22, has died Sunday, four days after she was mortally wounded when a terrorist plowed into a Jerusalem crowd with his car Wednesday. She is the second victim of the attack to die. The first, baby Chaya Zisel Braun, died Wednesday. Karen is a citizen of Ecuador who reportedly came to Israel…

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday took up the issue of establishing a national database for pharmaceutical prescriptions. A law proposed by MK Gila Gamliel (Likud) would allow any pharmacy in Israel to draw information about a patient’s prescriptions from the health fund clinic’s database, essentially enabling all pharmacies to be part of the…

A senior Hamas official threatened Israel with violence on Saturday. Khalil al-Haya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said that Israel will be the first to pay the price for the delay in rebuilding Gaza after the recent war. Speaking with Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV, Al-Haya said that the demands placed as conditions for rebuilding Gaza…

A food cart that hands out anti-Israel propaganda with each of its sandwiches has received funding from a foundation run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s wife, The Washington Free Beacon reports. Conflict Kitchen, a pop-up restaurant located at the intersection of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, seeks to use food to…

The city of Tel Aviv has cancelled scheduled school trips to Jerusalem in the wake of the ongoing tensions in the city, Channel 10 News reported on Saturday night. According to the report, eighth graders from all schools in Tel Aviv were scheduled to visit Jerusalem this week for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah trip, but the…

The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) provoked anger on social media on the weekend when its members decided to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza by placing the heads of pigs in the kosher section of Woolworths stores, reports the News24 website. A photo which appeared on Twitter shows a man with a pig’s head,…

There is no connection between the instability in the Middle East and the Israeli-Arab conflict, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Saturday. Ya’alon’s comments in an interview with The Washington Post come one day after it was revealed that the Obama administration snubbed the Israeli Defense Minister and denied him meetings with Vice President Joe…

Legal action is escalating against Israeli Arabs who join Islamic State (ISIS), after some thirty Israeli citizens were revealed to have left their hometowns to join jihadists in Syria earlier this month.  Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (HaTnua) will set a bill making joining ISIS a criminal act in the Ministerial Committee of Legislation on Sunday,…

Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar, declared the constant cycle of violence in Jerusalem an “intifada” on Saturday night, making rumors of a so-called “silent intifada” official despite declarations from the Israeli security establishment that statements to that effect are exaggerated. “Escalating the resistance in the city is the solution to Israeli aggression,” Zahar told Hamas news…

Yitzhar residents are frustrated with the heavy restrictions still being placed on community activities – over eight months after a series of clashes between a small group of extremists and the IDF placed the local yeshiva (Torah academy) under government control.  The yeshiva was initially seized by Border Policemen in April, following clashes between an extreme element…

Dozens of masked terrorists blocked traffic and burned trash cans on a main road in Abu Tor in Jerusalem on Saturday night, in the latest outburst of unrest in Jerusalem’s “silent intifada.”  The rioters also threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at Jewish Israelis, injuring one. The wounded man was treated at the scene; Israel police…

The time changes from Israeli Daylight Savings Time (IDST) to Israeli Standard Time (IST) in the early hours of the morning on Sunday, when the time will “fall back” from 2:00 am to 1:00 am on the morning of October 26.  To enjoy the extra hour of sleep, Israelis are reminded to set their cell…

Egypt’s government has declared a three-month state of emergency in the lawless Sinai Peninsula, in response to two attacks which killed 31 soldiers Friday – making it the deadliest day since the start of an Islamist insurgency in Sinai. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said jihadists terrorists pose a threat to the very existence of the…

British recognition of a “Palestinian state” has encouraged an upswing in terror, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) stated Friday – by giving political legitimacy to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas “unity government” regardless of its culpability for attacks against innocent Israelis.  It was a reward for this terrorist attack on Israel to make such…

Israeli police braced for the funeral Saturday of a Palestinian terrorist who drove into a crowd, killing a three-month-old baby, with tensions further stoked after the IDF was forced to shoot a Palestinian teenager terrorist dead Friday.  Police were “ready for anything” after fresh disturbances in Arab east Jerusalem prompted four arrests overnight, spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP. Tensions…

Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) is reportedly considering moving to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, in a show of solidarity with Jewish residents under attack by Arab extremists. The City of David is located  in an area known to Arabs as Silwan, and is one of a number of Jewish enclaves in…

Washington confirmed Friday that the Palestinian Arab teenager who was shot dead by the IDF after he attempted to throw firebombs was a US citizen, according to AFP.  “The United States expresses its deepest condolences to the family of a US citizen minor who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces during clashes in Silwad on October 24,” State…

The names of the two Israeli women who were killed in a bus crash in Nepal were cleared for publication on Friday evening: Shira Dabush, 30, from Ramat Gan, and Omer Shemesh, 21, from Hod Hasharon. The Israeli Foreign Ministry is in contact with the families of the two victims, and the Israeli ambassador in…

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian Arab teenager Friday during clashes with rock-throwing protesters near Ramallah, Palestinian medical officials and security sources told AFP. They named the dead youth as Orwa Hammad, 17, and said he was shot in the village of Silwad. The IDF said that troops opened fire towards the teenager upon identifying…

A car bomb in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed 25 soldiers on Friday, AFP reported. The attack is one of the deadliest attacks against security forces since the military deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year. Security officials said 26 other soldiers were wounded in the attack near El-Arish, the main town in north Sinai. Security…

Two nurses infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient in Dallas have been declared free of the virus, The BBC reported Friday. One of them, Nina Pham, had a meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, hours after being discharged. “I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today,” she…

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) exchanged some Facebook banter on Friday, revolving around Israel’s ceding of territory in order to achieve peace with the Palestinian Arabs. It began on Friday afternoon, shortly before Shabbat, when Bennett posted a response to an interview Livni gave and in which she…

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the gunman behind Wednesday’s shooting attack in the Canadian capital Ottawa, had applied to renew his Libyan passport but was denied, CBC News learned on Friday. Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Wednesday before attacking Parliament Hill. Zehaf-Bibeau, whose father is Libyan, applied for the…

A student with a “blank stare” opened fire in the cafeteria of a high school north of Seattle on Friday, killing one person and wounding at least three others before fatally shooting himself, police and witnesses said, according to NBC News. A hospital official said three patients were in “very critical condition” after the 10:30…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was denied meetings with top American officials during his visit to the United States this week, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday, citing officials in Washington. While Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon did see Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, the officials said the…

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) sharply criticized Arab MK Hanin Zoabi’s (Balad) latest tirade – in which she called the IDF “worse terrorists than ISIS” – and warned she is trying to “destroy Israel.” “She crossed all lines,” Edelstein told Israel Hayom. “I would expect that all MKs from the right and the left would support having…

The brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror regime conquering large portions of Iraq and Syria has been gaining huge popularity in the West with aggressive recruitment – so much so that a new study reveals it is more popular in Europe than in many Arab states. A Washington Institute study conducted in September and published last…

Earlier this week, pro-Hamas Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) sparked outrage saying that IDF soldiers are “worse terrorists than ISIS,” and apparently the latest outburst by the MK is the last straw in the building public rage against her. While ISIS members “kill one person each time with their knife, the IDF [kills] tens of…

Jerusalem’s Committee for Planning and Construction will discuss on Tuesday a plan to build 1,600 housing units in the hareidi neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, Haaretz reports Friday – four years after the same announcement caused an international uproar.  The construction at Ramat Shlomo caused a crisis in Israel-US relations in 2010, when 1,600 units were approved just as US…

A terror attack may have been thwarted in Queens, the New York Police Department admitted late Thursday night, after an axe-wielding man savagely attacked four rookie police officers in broad daylight Thursday afternoon. The assailant deliberately targeted the officers, surveillance footage shows – running at them with the hatchet without a word while they were…

India’s Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to make a high-level visit to Israel next month, in the first Home Minister visit since a 2000 trip that began resurgent bilateral ties – the visit comes after India last month approved a $144 million missile purchase from Israel. Singh, whose position is roughly parallel to…

Two-year-old Krzys zooms down a slide in Warsaw and shrieks with delight, paying no mind to the workmen who are busy demolishing the playground walls. At first glance, there is nothing special about the old walls. But take a closer look and it becomes apparent that a couple of stones are inscribed with Hebrew. The tombstones, known as Matzevot,…

A New York doctor living in Harlem was diagnosed with Ebola on Thursday, after having returned last week from Guinea where he is thought to have treated patients suffering from the epidemic with Doctors Without Borders. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday evening at Bellevue Hospital Center that the tests had come…

Members of a Shia militia manning a checkpoint near the front lines of the battle with ISIS in northern Iraq stopped a pickup truck with a rather unusual passenger this week: a lion. It is not clear where the lion came from, or what happened to it after it was found, but fighters from the…

This article is the third and final installment of a unique series in honor of Japanese Culture Week. For the first in the series, click here; for the second, click here. What do Judaism, traditional Japanese taiko drumming, African-American gospel music, and the Shinto religion of Japan have to do with each other? For Heavenese, a…

More statements have surfaced from Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat’s Thursday speech, in which in addition to threatening unilateral UN Security Council moves against Israel next month, he blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday. “We regret all loss of life. At the same time we reiterate that the Israeli…

A bus traveling from Kathmandu to Langtang has fallen off a cliff and into a ravine in the Himalayas, Nepalese sources told Arutz Sheva on Friday morning.  The bus fell 150 meters (492 ft.) after coming off a narrow road in Belkot, Nuwakot district, about 75 kilometers (46 miles) northwest of Kathmandu, according to Kantipur Television.…

The US is investigating reports that terror group Islamic State (ISIS) used chemical weapons against the Iraqi military, after separate accounts from both an unnamed Iraqi Defense official and hospital workers treating the victims told authorities that chlorine gas had been used.  Eleven Iraqi policemen were rushed to hospital last month complaining of dizziness, vomiting,…

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) visited the shiva (mourning) house Friday of the parents of three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun, hy”d, the baby who was murdered after a Hamas terrorist rammed his car into a crowd of pedestrians Wednesday night.  “There are no words I can say to comfort a young couple who have lost their…

A set of differing polls reveals an odd lacuna in Israeli leadership Friday, with the public presented in the findings as apparently being unclear over its feelings for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.  Forty-five percent of Israelis want to see a different Prime Minister elected next Knesset term, with just 29% approving of Netanyahu so far,…

Police will restrict the entry of Muslim worshippers to the Temple Mount on Friday, after receiving intelligence information which indicates that Arab youths plan to riot and cause disturbances. In the wake of the information, the Commander of the Jerusalem District of the police, Moshe Edri, announced that only men aged 40 and over and…

Despite the attack by a Hamas terrorist in Jerusalem on Wednesday that murdered a three-month-old baby and wounded eight others, indirect negotiations between the terror group and Israel apparently are to restart next Monday. The revelation was made Thursday by a leader of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, which along with Hamas waged war on…

Hundreds of activists from the Otzma Yehudit movement, associated with the Otzma Leyisrael party that just barely missed out of the last elections, gathered Thursday night at the Ammunition Hill light rail station where three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braud hy”d was murdered by a Hamas terrorist the night before. In the protest that cried out against…

Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat on Thursday said his organization will push its unilateral UN effort to have Israel withdraw from Judea and Samaria by 2016 in November, after US warnings postponed such a push from October. “If he (Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) believes that he can sustain the status quo and (that)…

Jewish Home chairman, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, came in first in a poll of public satisfaction regarding how ministers discharge their jobs – edging out Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In the poll, which was published Thursday by the Knesset Channel, 38% of the public expressed satisfaction with the way Bennett was doing his job, compared…

Magen David Adom (MDA) released a tape recording of an emergency call Wednesday by a female witness to the Jerusalem terror attack, in which three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun hy”d was murdered. The call for medical aid was made seconds after Hamas terrorist Abdelrahman Shaludi wounded nine by running his car through a crowded light rail station…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a security consultation Thursday afternoon with Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich, Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, ISA (Shin Bet) Director Yoram Cohen, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri at Israel Police headquarters in Jerusalem. The prime minister was introduced to the Jerusalem District police officer…

This article is the second in a unique series in honor of Japanese Culture Week. For the first in the series, click here. As America and Europe become ever more critical in foisting political agendas on their relations with Israel, the Jewish state is turning its eyes to the east – where it has found…

A Border Patrol officer serving in eastern Jerusalem has for the first time revealed the police helplessness in dealing with the “silent intifada” that has been gripping the capital in recent months, as Arab rock, firebomb and even gunfire attacks rise sharply. Speaking on Channel 2‘s “Shesh Im” TV program Thursday, a day after a Hamas…

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin on Thursday gave an interview to Israel’s Knesset Channel, in which he said his nation is interested in expanding military ties with the Jewish state. “We spoke about the importing of drones from Israel,” said Klimkin after meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other officials. “That’s really important in the supervision…

Female drivers in Saudi Arabia will be dealt with “strictly”, authorities said on Thursday, according to AFP, before a right-to-drive campaign culminates on the weekend. The kingdom is the world’s only country where women are not allowed to operate cars. Activists said in early October they were revving up their campaign using social media. But…

Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Perry (Yesh Atid), formerly the head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), warned on Thursday that the situation in Jerusalem is a “ticking time bomb” which will lead to a full-fledged third intifada. “We are witnessing a very serious escalation in Jerusalem,” Perry told Army Radio, a day after…

In a surprising move, the leader of what has become known as the “Berlin Protest” or the “Milky Protest” announced on Thursday that he will be shutting down his Facebook page and returning to Israel. Naor Narkis, who launched the Facebook page exposing the lower cost of living in Berlin and encouraged young Israelis to…

The gunman who carried out Wednesday’s shooting attack in the Canadian capital Ottawa had recently applied for a passport and was hoping to leave for Syria, the country’s top cop said on Thursday, according to the Globe and Mail. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson said 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who acted alone and…

A physician with Doctors without Borders who recently returned from West Africa is being tested for Ebola at a New York City hospital, health officials said on Thursday, according to Reuters. The doctor developed a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement quoted by…

While thousands of Jews visited the Tomb of King David on Mt. Zion over the Sukkot holiday, many of them had no place to sit while saying Psalms (tehillim), the prayers written by King David himself. That’s because, according to Rabbi Yaakov Silviya, an activist who is involved in the struggle over the fate of…

A large explosion near a bus station in northern Nigeria left five people dead and 12 others injured, police said Thursday morning. The blast occurred Wednesday night in Azare town in Bauchi state, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north of the capital, Abuja, police spokesman Mohammed Haruna wrote in an e-mailed statement. A man left a…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made a connection Thursday morning between the attacks that occurred in Jerusalem and Ottawa – both state capitals – on Wednesday. The comments were posted on his official Facebook page.  “The terror attacks that took place yesterday, at almost the same time in both ends of the world, show that terrorism…

The US-led air campaign against the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria has killed 553 jihadis, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the Observatory, 464 of that number belonged to the Islamic State – also known as ISIS or ISIL – while a further 57 were members of Al Qaeda’s official branch…

A day after the tragic attack in Jerusalem, resulting in the death of an infant girl, assaults against Jewish targets by Arab extremists continue.  Masked Arabs threw rocks at a children’s kindergarten Thursday morning. The kindergarten is located in the Ma’ale ha-Zeitim neighborhood next to Ras al-Amud, in eastern Jerusalem. No injuries or damage were…

A day after Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat threatened to join UN institutions and present a proposal to the UN Security Council as a method of getting the world to recognize “Palestine” – and thus put pressure on Israel to make major concessions – PA officials said that they would hold off on the…

A 46-year-old Haifa resident was arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of attacking a security guard and spraying pepper spray around a local Kupat Holim (health clinic) branch. As a result of the incident, six patients suffered eye burning sensations from the spray, which does not usually cause permanent damage but does induce severe discomfort.  An initial investigation…

Abdelrahman Shaludeh, the terrorist who carried out Wednesday’s attack in Jerusalem, was very active on social media making no secret of his hatred of Israel and of Jews, and his desire to participate in terror attacks. Wednesday’s attack occurred when Shaludeh arrived with his car at the Givat Hatachmoshet (Ammunition Hill) Light Rail stop and…

A new round of expert-level talks between delegations from Iran and the group of six world powers entered the second day in a row in Vienna, reported Iranian government news agency Tasnim Thursday. The talks, which began in Austria on Wednesday, are co-chaired by Hamid Baeedinejad, the director general for political and international affairs at…

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the religious-Zionist Jewish Home party, “is tipped as a possible future prime minister,” according to the Financial Times. Bennett told the Times that Israel’s counter-terror war in Gaza this summer had prompted a rightward shift among voters that will reflect in the make-up of its next government, which he said…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s senior aid Sultan Abu Al-Einen already hailed the Hamas murderer of a baby in Jerusalem on Wednesday as a “hero” – now Abbas’s Fatah party is keeping the terror glorification going. Abdelrahman Shaludi of the Shiloach (Silwan) neighborhood rammed his car into a crowd of Israelis at the Ammunition Hill…

Against the backdrop of Wednesday’s terrorist murder, President Reuven Rivlin addressed the growing Arab violence in Jerusalem at the memorial for murdered minister Rehavam Ze’evi,who was popularly known as “Gandhi,” at the Har Herzl cemetery. Ze’evi was murdered by PFLP assassins on October 17, 2001, at the Hyatt Hotel in Jerusalem. “The murderous event that took…

After the terror attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday by Hamas member Abdelrahman Shaludi that killed a baby, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed that future attacks will feel the “harshest response.” “Jerusalem is united and was, and always will be, the eternal capital of Israel. Any attempt to harm its residents will be met with the…

This is the last picture taken of Chaya Zisel Braun, the three-month-old baby girl murdered last night when an Arab terrorist drove his car into a crowd of people at a Jerusalem Light Rail station. The picture was taken at the Kotel (Western Wall) where her parents were praying just hours before her life was…

Dr. Eli Harari, founder and retired chairman CEO of Israeli flash storage firm SanDisk, is to be honored by the United States with a National Medal of Technology and Innovation. This award is the United States’ highest honor recognizing achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology. The award will be given…

The terrorist violence gripping Jerusalem continues unabated Thursday afternoon, after a three-month-old infant was murdered the day before by a Hamas terrorist in a car, and a kindergarten in the capital was attacked earlier Thursday morning. A bus driver became the latest victim of the “silent intifada” as he drove near Gethsemane park at the…

Following Wednesday night’s car attack in Jerusalem, the Legal Forum for Israel has turned to Minister of Transportation, Yisrael Katz, to input a driver’s license disqualification law for those convicted of terrorist activities. Attorney Yossi Fuchs, the Forum’s consul, wrote to Katz that the terrorist who carried out the attack, Abdelrahman Shaludeh, was tried and convicted in the past of hostile terrorist…

“It’s time to pull ourselves together,” Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednesday evening following the terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which a baby girl was killed and eight people were injured. “The Israeli government has failed in the past year to provide security for the residents of Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. What happened tonight is…

Hundreds of ‘Messianic Jewish’ missionaries raided Jerusalem during the Sukkot holiday, where masses of Israelis were taking advantage of the holiday vacation. The missionaries tried to lure in innocent Jews, claims the organization Yad L’Achim.  Members of Yad L’Achim said that some missionaries stood on Mamila Avenue, in Jerusalem, which leads to the Old City.…

A baby girl was killed and eight people were injured Wednesday, after a terrorist hit them with his car outside the Givat Hatachmoshet (Ammunition Hill) Light Rail stop.  “A private car hit passengers from the light rail near the police national headquarters. The car’s driver attempted to escape and was shot, apparently by a police officer from…

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (Likud) released an official response to a Hamas terrorist’s rampage in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, which injured eight people and mortally wounded a three month-old baby. Hamas later welcomed the announcement of the attack.  “The atrocious murder of an innocent baby girl, a victim of indiscriminate terrorism, should disgust all those…

The Canadian parliament is in lockdown Wednesday, after a series of shots were fired by an unknown gunman or gunmen. Footage of the shooting in the Parliament building can be seen here:  The attack began at the National War Memorial outside of the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. A soldier in uniform and carrying an unloaded…

The Israel Football Association has said its piece regarding the punishment it plans to mete out to the Bnei Sakhin soccer team for its strong show of support for traitorous former MK Azmi Bishara. Instead of throwing the team out of the Premier Israel league, or even suspending it from games, the Association decided to…

A Hamas spokesman openly welcomed news of a terror attack in Jerusalem by one of its terrorists, which left nine people injured and killed a three month-old baby. “This is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and invasion of our land by the Jews, particularly on the Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount –…

93-year-old Benjamin C. Bradlee, former executive editor of the American newspaper The Washington Post, passed away Wednesday evening. He died at his home in Washington, after several years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.  Bradlee was the editor of the Post from 1968 to 1991. By ruling the newspaper with an iron fist, The Washington Post became…

The United States on Wednesday condemned the terrorist attack at a Jerusalem Light Rail station. “We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement quoted by AFP. “We urge all sides to maintain…

Ireland’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed a motion calling on the Dublin government to recognize “the state of Palestine”, AFP reports. Much like last week’s vote in Britain, the move is a symbolic one that is unlikely to change policy. The motion called on the “government to formally recognize the state of Palestine…

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal declared on Wednesday that the terrorist group has proof that Mohammed Deif, the leader of its “military wing”, was not killed by Israel. Speaking to Vanity Fair magazine, Mashaal declared, however, that Hamas would not make this proof public. “Israel failed to assassinate him, but was able to kill his wife…

Canadian police are investigating a man identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as a possible suspect in the shootings on Wednesday around parliament in Ottawa, a source familiar with the matter said, according to Reuters. Police said the male suspect in the attacks was dead but did not confirm he was Zehaf-Bibeau. Some U.S. government sources said…

A man jumped the White House fence on Wednesday and was attacked by Secret Service dogs before being arrested, a Secret Service spokesman said, according to Reuters. “Dogs got him,” the spokesman said, referring to the intruder. Video showed Secret Service agents surrounding the man on the north lawn of the White House, which was…

Jewish Music superstar Yaakov Shwekey is himself a show-stopper, but in his latest benefit concert for United Hatzalah at the Jerusalem Theater, he stopped the show in honor of someone else — seven-year-old Raphael Assoulin. Assoulin is battling cancer for the second time in his young life: triumphing over brain cancer a few years ago,…

Jerusalem Councilman Moshe Lion, who ran for the post of Jerusalem mayor last year, on Wednesday blamed Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat for the security deterioration in the capital. Lion was speaking following the terrorist attack at the Ammunition Hill station of the Jerusalem Light Rail, in which a three-month-old baby was murdered and eight people were injured.…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday evening with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and asked to convey the condolences of the Israeli people in wake of the terrorist attack in Ottawa. Netanyahu expressed his full support for Canada’s fight against terrorism, in which Israel and the international community are partners, the Prime Minister’s Office…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Jordan Tuesday that Israel has no intention of changing the status quo on the Temple Mount. This means that Jews will continue to be forbidden to pray on the Mount. A bill submitted by MK Miri Regev (Likud), according to which Jews will be allowed to pray on the Mount,…

The “silent intifada” of violent Arab terrorism continues to strike in Jerusalem, where on Tuesday night, between the northern neighborhoods of Shuafat and Atarot, two Jewish men were the victims of an intense rock throwing attack on municipality-owned land. Oded Hania told Arutz Sheva he was driving in a car with a friend on the traffic route…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to withdraw support from the Conversion Bill proposed by Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua party has won him praise from Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef. The rabbi sent a letter of support to the prime minister, reported Channel 2 News. “I wish to commend the honorable prime minister for his courageous decision,”…

MK and reservist colonel Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) toured the embattled neighborhoods of Shiloach/Silwan and Shuafat in eastern Jerusalem Tuesday, and suggested that the military be deployed to deal with Arab violence there. At Shiloach’s Yemenite Village, Yogev visited houses recently bought by Jews and said that “the Arab neighbors made us feel welcome and…

A resident of Gaza was arrested on Wednesday morning by security forces after having illegally infiltrated into Israeli territory. The man was not armed, raising questions as to the intent of his infiltration that investigators will seek to answer. In the Eshkol Regional Council area roughly 500 meters into Israel the man was nabbed by…

The world-leading Israeli defense company Elbit Systems announced Wednesday that it has been awarded contracts from an unnamed Asian country for roughly $85 million, as Israel’s Asian ties continue to blossom. Most of the contract is for an avionics upgrade program to the American-made Northrop F-5 fighter jet, and the rest is for the supply…

In an interview with Yedioth Aharonoth, Justice Minister and Hatnua party chief Tzipi Livni revealed Wednesday that she intends to establish a united political front with Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid “for the advancement of the peace process.” “I have been holding conversations with Yair Lapid recently,” she told the newspaper. “I will say…

Israelis are starting to flock to veganism and forego all meat and animal products, to the point where even the IDF now has options for vegan soldiers. “Four percent of Israelis define themselves as vegans, it’s the most vegan country in the world,” according to Omri Paz, organizer of the “Vegan Fest” fair, where stands offered pea-based hot…

The crux of his remarks, on which Langfan further elaborated in his op-ed “The Sick Logic of Wealthy Jewish Met Opera Donors,” was that by legitimizing the Palestinian terrorist murder of an American Jew in a wheelchair “because there is an Arab-Israel conflict,” the Met in fact put a “bulls-eye on the forehead of every American…

The global recruitment pull of the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group continues to surprise, as three American teenage girls from a suburb of Denver were stopped in Germany on their way to join ISIS in Syria, US officials revealed Tuesday. The three girls are all US citizens, and consist of two sisters of Somali…

With college and university sessions starting up again next week, the Israel Higher Education Authority on Wednesday released a report analyzing the number of students in institutions, where they live, what they are studying, etc. The study included statistics for 65 institutions of higher education, including seven universities, 65 colleges, and 21 teacher training institutes.…

Jerusalem District Police Commander, Major General Moshe Edri, presented a comprehensive plan to quell Jerusalem’s “silent intifada” on Wednesday – one day after declaring intent to form a new task force to combat the violence.  The plan includes reinforcing police officers, including special forces (Yamam) in both covert and overt operations against rioters in the holy city,…

An Israeli NGO is set to release a report it says shows tens of cases in which the European Union has actively worked to breach the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, by changing the facts on the ground in Area C to unilaterally harm Israel in final status talks with the Palestinians.…

More Israelis will be able to go to Australia to visit or work, after a new agreement between the two countries was signed Wednesday. Israel’s ambassador in Australia signed the deal with government officials there to allow up to 500 Israelis to enter the country annually on work/tourism visas. The visas will be granted to…

Israel has been providing the international coalition to defeat Islamic State (ISIS) with intelligence, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon confirmed Monday – but has no intention of physically joining the campaign.  Ya’alon revealed Israel’s involvement during an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose.  First, however, he expressed confidence in the operation – specifically the chances of eliminating…

Tens of thousands of Jews are expected Wednesday night at the Tomb of Shimon Hatzaddik, identified in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers, a Talmudic compilation of wise sayings and concepts by the Sages) as one of the “last of the Great Assembly” – the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, which helped fashion Jewish religious life during…

Arabs threw rocks in three different locations in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening, as the unrest in the city and its vicinity continues. In Wadi Joz, rocks was thrown at a bus. The vehicle’s windshield was damaged, but there were no injuries. In Beit Hanina Arabs threw rocks at an Israeli vehicle, which sustained damage, but…

Qatar, a key provider of funds to terrorist groups including Hamas, has its sights set on control of the United Nations (UN) as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is poised to step down in 2016 after his second five-year term. The gas-rich Gulf state’s Emir said he would back former Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) said Tuesday he shared with his US counterpart his country’s concerns about thedirection of talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear program. In an audio message released by Ya’alon’s office after his meeting with Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, Ya’alon said they also talked about the conflicts in Iraq and Syria and…

Britain’s most senior police officer revealed shocking statistics on Tuesday, according to which five UK citizens are leaving each and every week to join the brutal Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was quoted by the Huffington Post saying: “the advance of IS across Iraq and…

The IDF has confirmed rumors, circulating since last summer’s war with Gaza terrorists, that Hamas was planning a massive attack on Israeli communities by hundreds of terrorists who would infiltrate into Israel via the vast network of “terror-tunnels” dug from Gaza into Israeli territory. In an exclusive Vanity Fair report, IDF spokesperson Lt. Colonel Peter Lerner finally…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II is pressing Israel not to pass a bill allowing Jews to exercise their religious rights and pray on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, a senior official of the Hashemite kingdom revealed on Tuesday. Jordanian Ambassador to “Palestine” Khalid al-Shawabka told the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency that a bill proposed by…

Israel’s top police officer on Tuesday pledged a new task force to combat ongoing violence in Jerusalem, after Arab extremists hurled Molotov cocktails at an apartment purchased by Jewish families in an attempt to drive them out just hours after they moved in. “We are moving ahead with a comprehensive program incorporating the latest technology,…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to move away from unilateral actions stoking tensions and make the “tough compromises” needed to end their decades-old conflict.   Ban spoke to the UN Security Council after returning from a visit to the Middle East where he saw first-hand the destruction in Gaza…

An Egyptian military court sentenced to death seven members of an Al Qaeda-inspired jihadist group Tuesday for carrying out deadly attacks on the army, military officials said. Two other members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) were sentenced to life in prison, which amounts to 25 years in Egypt, AFP reports. The Sinai-based group has claimed…

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, declared Tuesday that if the United States vetoed the PA’s UN resolution for a timetable to “end the Israeli occupation”, the PA would apply for membership to 522 international organizations and statutes. Erekat said in a statement quoted by the Ma’an news agency that the PA should…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu plans to warn the heads of the parties in his coalition that unless they compromise on issues of religion and state, the coalition will fall apart and new elections will be held, Channel 2 News reports. According to the report, Netanyahu plans to relay this message in a meeting with the…

Canada’s federal government on Tuesday raised its internal threat level due to an increase in “general chatter from radical Islamist organizations” such as the Islamic State (ISIS), the Canadian Press reports. Jason Tamming, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, said the move means intelligence has indicated an individual or group within Canada or…

A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for the man accused of scaling the White House fence and running into the building with a knife, The BBC reported on Tuesday. Omar Gonzalez, 42, has pleaded not guilty to several charges stemming from the incident. He was tackled inside the White House on September 19,…

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he was setting up an investigation into attacks on United Nations facilities during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, as well as into the use of UN sites to store weapons, according to Reuters. Speaking at a monthly meeting of the UN Security Council on the Middle…

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that U.S. airstrikes around Kobane, coupled with pressure from Syrian Kurdish fighters on the ground, had helped to keep Islamic State terrorists from taking the city but it warned the town could still fall. “The constant pressure from the air and … the pressure from the ground by these Kurdish…

Members of the Jewish Home party welcomed on Tuesday evening the election of two new Chief Rabbis for Jerusalem. Former Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar was elected as the new Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, while Rabbi Aryeh Stern of the Halacha Brura Institute was voted in as Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi. In a statement,…

The terrorism wave in Jerusalem and the vicinity continued on Monday evening, as Arabs threw firebombs towards “Beit Ovadia”, a home in the Shiloach (known as Silwan by local Arabs) neighborhood, near Ir David (City of David). Miraculously, there were no injuries among the residents of the house, who moved in just one day earlier…

Rabbi Eli Sadan, founder of the first and leading pre-military yeshiva academy in Eli, says the State of Israel is not yet ready for a Torah-observant IDF Chief of Staff. He later added that he feels the same way regarding a religious prime minister. Speaking with Channel 10, Rabbi Sadan says that given the situation…

Arabs from the village of Dura al-Kara in Binyamin infiltrated into the Jewish community of Beit-El Monday night, and threw two Molotov cocktails at the home of Avi Zarbiv. Zarbiv told Arutz Sheva that there were no injuries.  “The Molotov cocktail bombs hit my balcony and my bedroom window. The balcony window broke and caught…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has announced that he opposes the Conversion Bill sponsored by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and her Hatnua party, and that he supports the hareidi position regarding conversions, reported Amit Segal on Channel 2 Monday. After months in which heavy pressure against the bill was brought to bear by hareidi factions, elements…

Official action is being taken over the offensive posters showing religious IDF soldiers as pigs on Monday, one week after they have begun circulating again in hareidi neighborhoods such as Meah Shearim and Bnei Brak. Yesh Atid MKs Shimon Solomon and Ronen Hoffman have filed a police complaint with the Tel Aviv District Police over…

A former National Union of Students (NUS) President voiced condemnation for the Goldsmith University and its Student Union’s rejection of a motion to commemorate the Holocaust.  The motion brought before the student body posed recognizing “the unspeakable horrors” of the Holocaust, other genocides, totalitarianism and racial hatred. The motion also called on the union to organize commemorative…

Two kosher butchers have admitted to doctoring non-kosher meat and selling it to Jewish institutions for “years,” German newspaper Juedische Allgemeine reported earlier this week, during proceedings against them in the Frankfurt District Court.  Leslie W., 48, and his partner Akiwa H., 56, are being tried for fraud after they sold more than 88,000 pounds of non-kosher meat…

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced a rare find of “tremendous historical significance,” it announced Tuesday: a fragment of a stone engraved with an official Latin inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Hadrian. IAA researchers stated during the announcement that the stone fragment, found during a series of excavations north of Damacus Gate, may be…

Former Olympic and Paralymic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison by a South African court Tuesday for the “culpable homicide” of his girlfriend in 2013. Judge Thokozile Masipa announced the sentence after she convicted him of culpable homicide, or negligent killing, but acquitted him of murder last month. Pistorius’ lawyers had…

MKs have been left sizzling over the fact that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) appears to be negotiating with the hareidi parties currently in the opposition, Yediot Aharonot reports Tuesday. The government struck down a controversial conversion bill over the past 48 hours, leading to an uproar from all sides of the political spectrum and speculation that elections…

The Palestinians have never been interested in a “Two-State solution,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated Tuesday – but only in hurting Israel.  “Their goal is not to establish a Palestinian state along ’67 borders, but to destroy the Jewish state,” Ya’alon stated, in an interview on PBS. “That is the reason why they have never said…

MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home) praised Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s reported decision to remove the proposed Conversion Law from the agenda of Sunday’s government session. The bill, proposed by the Hatnua party’s MK Elazar Stern, would have made it possible for local rabbis to carry out official procedures of giyur – conversions into Judaism –…

The funeral of Israel’s first religious female IAF navigator, Lt. Tamar Ariel z”l, will be held in the cemetery in her home community of Masuot Yitzhak on Tuesday.  New details about Ariel’s death during the avalanche earlier this month that ravaged Nepal’s Thorong La mountain pass were revealed to Galei Yisrael radio Monday. A survivor, Eitan Idan, revealed to…

There was such a large police presence and so many police barricades that anyone passing by would think that terrorists were at large. There were no terrorists on Broadway—although terrorists would soon be mounting the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. The police were protecting the right of the Opera House to present the Palestine Liberation…

Former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani has penned an article in The Daily Beast in which he explains why he joined a demonstration outside the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night before the first performance of the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.” As a story attempting to recount the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, “the opera…

Students in high schools near Gaza suffered academic lapses due to Hamas’s war on Israeli civilians, according to matriculation exam results released by the Ministry of Education on Monday. 5.64% fewer students in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council passed their matriculation exams, the data revealed – 64.07%, down from 69.71% last year.  A decrease is…

A new report by the Temple Organizations Headquarters harshly criticizes the police for their inability to secure Jewish access to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – during the recent Sukkot holiday. The report, which was released Tuesday by the group’s leader Assaf Fried, detailed how police continue to arrest Jews who…

This article is the first in a unique series in honor of Japanese Culture Week. Jerusalem held the official opening ceremony of Japanese Culture Week on Monday, as the Israeli capital became awash with the culinary, musical and visual experiences of the Land of the Rising Sun – it’s “close neighbor” according to the visiting…

Hundreds took part on Tuesday afternoon in the funeral of Lt. Tamar Ariel z”l, Israel’s first religious female IAF navigator who was tragically killed last week in a lethal Nepalese avalanche. The 25-year-old’s body arrived in Israel on Monday night along with that of Agam Luria z”l (23), who was likewise killed in the disaster that claimed the…

The Moked 100 police hotline in Jerusalem received a report Tuesday morning that a toddler, estimated to be about two years old, was spotted wandering around the Beit Hakerem neighborhood, alone.  Officers from the Moriah unit took the girl into custody and embarked on the difficult task of returning her to her parents.  The police…

A new set of rules and guidelines has been released for IDF soldiers, it was revealed Tuesday, so as to improve the military’s image and increase soldiers’ sense of seriousness regarding their duties.  Oren Ebman, until recently head of the Ground Forces and Division Commander, last week published a list of rules for the use of…

One of two Canadian soldiers run over by an Islamist extremist has died from his wounds Tuesday morning, according to NBC news. Late Monday night, Canadian police shot dead the attacker – a “homegrown” jihadist fanatic – after the 25 year-old man attacked soldiers without warning in a parking lot in his hometown. Martin Couture-Rouleau, a…

Faten Nassraldin, 34, from Dalit El Carmel, is expected to soon become the first female Druze officer in the Israel Police, the corps announced on Tuesday.  Nassraldin began her tenure at the Israel Police four years ago, in the Criminal Investigations division in Zichron Ya’akov (near Haifa). But on Tuesday, she received her post and…

Speculation was rampant Monday night that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to shelve the Conversion Bill, introduced by MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua), is part of his preparations for new elections, possibly next spring. Several media outlets reported on Monday night that the reason behind Netanyahu’s move is to get closer to the hareidi parties in…

Former Nazis should not be collecting Social Security benefits, the White House declared on Monday, a day after an Associated Press (AP) investigation revealed that millions of dollars have been paid to war crimes suspects and former SS guards even after they were forced out of the United States. “Our position is we don’t believe…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made clear on Monday that if Hamas rebuilds the terror tunnels, Israel will stop the rehabilitation process of Gaza. Ya’alon, who is visiting the United States, made the comments during a meeting with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters in New York. “We want the people of…

Iran is taking further action to comply with an interim nuclear agreement with six world powers, a monthly UN atomic agency report released Monday and seen by Reuters shows. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made clear that Iran is meeting its commitments under the temporary deal, as it and major powers…

Israeli and Palestinian Arab negotiators are to resume talks on a durable Gaza ceasefire next week in Cairo, a senior official in Hamas said Monday, according to AFP. “Hamas and the Palestinian factions will take part in a session of indirect negotiations with the occupation (Israel) on the 27th of this month at the invitation…

President Reuven and First Lady Nechama Rivlin hosted the Global Forum of the National Library Monday evening. Members of the Israel National Library attended, as well as other notable international figures in the field of culture, academia, and science.  The President began his opening address by stating: “I welcome you here tonight, and your decision…

The bodies of Agam Luria, 23, and Lt. Tamar Ariel, 25, who were killed in last week’s deadly avalanche in Nepal, arrived in Israel on Monday night. Ariel, who was Israel’s first religious female air force navigator, will be brought to rest on Tuesdy afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the cemetery in her home town of…

The body of a fourth Israeli killed in last week’s deadly avalanche in Nepal has been identified by search and rescue teams. 36-year-old Michal Cherkesky of Givatayim was missing for six days before her body was discovered Monday morning. Her family had told reporters they were “praying for a miracle”, and that they feared she was…

On Sunday morning the IDF claimed “color red” rocket sirens sounded in the Gaza Belt and Negev regions were a false alarm – on Monday, “color red” sirens were heard yet again in the Eshkol Regional Council area near Gaza, and again the IDF claimed a false alarm. According to Yedioth Aharonoth, the alarm was reported as…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, who heads Yisrael Beytenu, said Monday that his party intends to resubmit a court motion asking that the Balad party be disqualified from running for Israel’s Knesset. Liberman wrote on his Facebook page that “The Balad party has turned into an arm of Hamas, and it helps it while using the…

Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Monday appraised that the PA will succeed in garnering enough UN Security Council votes to demand Israel withdraw from Judea and Samaria by a certain deadline. “I will inform the Israelis of their diplomatic downfall in the Security Council before the start of next year,” al-Malki told…

Sources in the Hezbollah-led ruling March 8 Alliance of Lebanese political parties revealed that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah refused UN special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura’s request to meet last Thursday, instead sending his deputy Sheikh Naim Qassem Hezbollah views the request by the UN envoy to meet Nasrallah as a victory to the terrorist organization,…

Israeli billionaire Haim Saban was thrown a surprise 70th birthday party by his wife Cheryl Saban on Saturday night, and he used the occasion to call on former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run in the 2016 presidential elections. Saban had planned to hold his birthday party on the Hawaiian island of Lanai according to MSN…

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has spelled out his plan for restoring order to neighborhoods in Jerusalem where Arab attacks on Jews have become daily occurrences, and said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu also forcefully demanded action by the security forces in a recent high-level discussion.  Barkat enumerated the neighborhoods currently under attack – from Armon…

After a similar move last month led to American condemnation and Arab riots, nine Jewish families on Sunday night moved into their homes in Jerusalem’s Shiloach (known as Silwan by local Arabs) neighborhood. The neighborhood is located adjacent to the City of David, an area thought to be the heart of the Jewish capital in…

American C-130 military transport aircraft made “multiple” airdrops of weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters fending off Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in the strategic Syrian town of Kobane, despite Turkey labeling the Kurds “terrorists.” According to US Central Command on Monday, the drops consisted of equipment from Kurdish authorities in Iraq, and were…

Members of Knesset, Orit Struk and Yariv Levin, heads of the Land of Israel Lobby in the Knesset, have prepared ten laws for applying sovereignty over ten different areas in Judea and Samaria. We discussed with MK Struk the laws that have been proposed and that are awaiting for the right moment to be moved along in…

A 12-year-old boy collapsed Monday on the steps of his school Chafetz Chaim on Ha’Ahim Suleiman Street in Rishon Letzion.  United Hatzalah medics and a Magen David Adom (MDA) team were immediately called to the scene. The boy, in critical condition, was taken to Assaf Harofeh Hospital while medics gave him CPR. Doctors soon pronounced…

MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home), Chairman of the Knesset Caucus for Israel in France, sent a letter to the mayor of Paris suburb Valenton Monday morning calling for a name change to a street named after arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti.  Barghouti, who has called for an armed uprising against Israelis on multiple occasions since his imprisonment, is…

Nigeria – Africa’s most populous country – has been declared officially free of Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday.  WHO may declare an Ebola outbreak over if two incubation periods of 3 weeks pass without any new cases. The last reported case in Nigeria was discovered 6 weeks ago on September 5.  The…

IDF spokesman Brigadier General Moti Almoz spoke Monday morning addressing an upcoming update of IDF soldiers’ living expenses (monthly salaries).   “Soldiers do not get paid for their military service, but rather living expenses,” Almoz informed. “The problem is the increase in cost of living recently. In 2015, the monthly payments will be updated for…

A group of Dutch Christians vowed to boycott a Church’s exhibition on “jailed Palestinian children,” a member of the group told the Trouw daily newspaper, over protests that the art display promoted anti-Semitic views.  The Dutch Coalition for Palestinian Children in Israeli Detention brought the exhibition to Utrecht’s famous Domnkerk Church, or St. Martin’s Cathedral, last…

Some 2,500 people attended a rally against anti-Semitism in the English city of Manchester Sunday, as British Jews remain concerned over a spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes in the UK. Anti-Semitism rose dramatically worldwide during this summer’s war between Israel and terrorists in Gaza, but Europe was particularly hard-hit by the wave of hatred. While…

An Israeli firm will supply Egypt with natural gas, a company spokesman said Monday, more than two years after sabotage halted the flow of Egyptian gas to Israel. For more than a decade Israel relied on Egypt for roughly 40 percent of its gas needs in line with an export accord signed in 2005 by the two countries which are…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon reiterated on Sunday that Israel and the United States share an important relationship which Israel appreciates. Ya’alon, who is visiting the U.S., met with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We greatly appreciate your personal support for Israel; in your statements and in your attitude you give us moral and ethical…

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) has created a new firestorm with the latest in a long series of provocative remarks and actions. In an interview for Channel 2 News Online, Zoabi said that IDF soldiers are “worse terrorists than ISIS.” While ISIS members “kill one person each time with their knife, the IDF [kills] tens…

A recently published statistical analysis funded by US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) predicts that there will be approximately 230,000 Ebola infected people in the West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone by December 31, 2014. This would mean approximately an additional 220,000 cases by the end of 2014, above what currently exists in…

Israel will continue to build in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday. Netanyahu was speaking at the inauguration of a new road to be named for former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir. The government commemorated the memory of Shamir in special ceremonies Sunday. Netanyahu also discussed the ongoing talks between Iran and Western countries, saying…

Heaven has answered the newly introduced prayers for rain that began in Israel on Thursday, Shemini Atzeret – in spades. Major thunderstorms whooshed through the center of the country Sunday night, downing trees and causing power disruptions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and points in between. Debris fell on Road 1, the main thoroughfare into Jerusalem…

The daughter of the leader of Gaza’s Hamas terror militia, Ismail Haniyeh, received emergency medical treatment in an Israeli hospital in Tel Aviv earlier this month, according to Reuters news agency. Ichilov Hospital confirmed the report and said that the daughter had been released over a week ago. “Ismail Haniyeh’s daughter was indeed hospitalized for…

Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States, an Associated Press (AP) investigation revealed Sunday has found. According to AP, the payments flowed through a legal loophole that has given the U.S. Justice Department leverage to persuade Nazi…

President Barack Obama suffered a bit of an embarrassment on Sunday, when he made a rare appearance on the campaign trail but attendees chose to leave as he spoke. According to Reuters, Obama’s appearance came at a rally to support the Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland. With approval levels hovering around record lows, Obama…

MK Itzik Shmuli (Labor) blasted MK Hanin Zoabi on Sunday night, after she said that IDF soldiers are “worse terrorists than ISIS.” While ISIS members “kill one person each time with their knife, the IDF [kills] tens of Palestinians with one button,” she said. In a post on his Facebook page, Shmuli used unusually harsh…

The British government will order a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and a network of Islamist groups accused of fuelling extremism in Britain and across the Arab world, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. Prime Minister David Cameron launched an inquiry into the Brotherhood earlier this year, prompted by concerns it was stoking an Islamist ideology…

The talks between world powers and Iran “are moving in the wrong direction”, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz warned on Sunday. In an opinion piece entitled “Don’t Make a Bad Deal With Iran”, which was published in The New York Times, Steinitz wrote that Israel “is deeply concerned about the trajectory of the ongoing negotiations concerning…

The tensions between Hamas and Fatah continued Sunday, as Hamas urged the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Fatah’s Mahmoud Abbas, to facilitate the entry of construction material into Gaza. “Reconstruction of Gaza is one of the most important tasks the PA should carry out according to the reconciliation agreement, but on the condition that there…

Hamas’s so-called “military wing”, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is claiming that Israel is holding the bodies of two of its field commanders, the Turkish Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday, citing a Palestinian Arab source. According to the report, the two went missing during Israel’s self-defense Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer. After…

MK Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu) said Sunday that legislation to strip MK Hanin Zoabi of her Israeli citizenship would soon be introduced. Ilatov slammed Zoabi for her equation of the IDF with ISIS, the Islamic State, which has conquered large portions of Iraq and Syria. In an interview Sunday on Channel Two, Zoabi said that…

On Sunday morning, Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – were appalled to find that Muslim worshippers had daubed anti-Semitic graffiti equating the Jewish Star of David to the Nazi swastika. Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick first uploaded a photo of the shocking graffiti onto his Facebook account, along…

Residents of the Binyamin region community of Dolev (54km/33 miles outside of Jerusalem) protested over safety cutbacks on Saturday night, demanding that the IDF increase patrols in response to a local outbreak of terror.  Several fires and incidents of vandalism have been reported in the area, as well as break-ins by Palestinian Arabs in nearby…

Benjamin Disraeli once said “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of Earth and of Heaven” – and indeed this city embodies Mankind’s aspiration to a higher cause. Unlike other ancient cities Jerusalem is very much alive, full of activity and offering unrivaled possibilities to…

The Jewish community of Hungary has expressed great concern in recent days, following the results of local elections, where far-right party Jobbik has become the second largest party in Hungary, after winning control of fourteen cities and towns. This represents a significant achievement for the party – which, in the previous local elections four years…

The phenomenon of biker gangs joining the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) has become international, the British Daily Mail reports Sunday, after a German motorcycle club has pledged to go to Kobane, Syria, to fend off the Islamist invasion.  The Cologne-based Median Empire Motorcycle Club has strong Kurdish links, according to the daily, and have recently posted…

Spain will begin training Iraqi forces later this year to battle Islamic State (ISIS) forces, Associated Press reported. However, Spain has ruled out taking part in ground operations in Syria, officials said Saturday. Defense Minister Pedro Morenes made the announcement in Washington, after meeting Friday with US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. “We could be starting up by…

“Code red” sirens heard early Sunday morning have been declared as ‘false alarms,’ by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), as no rocket was found to have hit Israel. Sirens sounded throughout the Negev and Ramat HaNegev Regional Councils, as well as in the Gaza Belt area.  This is just one incident in a series of…

Ten civilians have allegedly been killed by US airstrikes in the last several days, a rights group said, but Washington claims there is “no evidence” to back up the report.  According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), seven civilians were killed on Friday when an air strike hit a gas plant near…

A survey by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs demonstrates the resistance of a vast majority of Israelis to Palestinian statehood, the division of Jerusalem and giving up the Jordan Valley, Israel Hayom reports Sunday.  The newspaper reported that in response to the question of whether the spread of Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq altered one’s…

Planning councils in northern Israel on Sunday approved a plan to develop a major tourist center in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. The project will include hotel rooms, places of entertainment, retail and service centers, and transportation services. The plan was developed last year by the Kiryat Shmona local council, in an attempt to…

Two of the most destructive anti-Semitic blood libels of the Middle Ages have been brought back to life by the Palestinian Authority to promote hatred of Israelis, reports the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). In July, the official PA daily wrote that Jews use the blood of Palestinian children as the ingredient in matzah – unleavened…

Anat Ariel, whose daughter, Captain Tamar Ariel z”l, was killed in an avalanche in Nepal’s Annapurna Ridge last week, said that she had not worried when Tamar went on the trip, because she knew her daughter was a very responsible person. “I was not worried on her trip to Nepal,” she told IDF Radio. “The…

The partnership holding the license for drilling at the Tamar natural gas site on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding with Egypt to export Israeli gas to the world’s largest Arab state. Israel will sell as much as 2.5 billion cubic meters (BCM) of gas to Egyptian industrial, non-governmental customers. The gas will be shipped…

While tensions remain high in South Tel Aviv between Jewish residents and illegal immigrants from Africa – with many Jews saying they fear to go out because of the high crime, anti-social behavior and other issues the illegals have brought in their wake – a group of about 150 members of the Young Leadership of…

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have showed incredible bravado, boasting to the Western world that they would “overcome” an international coalition and military campaign hours after airstrikes pummeled their Syrian stronghold. But even ISIS became unnerved over the weekend, after multiple security breaches were shown to have revealed sensitive intelligence on the group to the international…

Politicians and community leaders slammed the Bnei Sakhnin soccer team for its support of ex-MK Azmi Bishara before a game over the weekend. MK Amnon Cohen (Shas), head of the Knesset State Control Committee, said that he would personally head an investigation into where Bnei Sakhnin was getting its funding. “We must re-examine the criteria…

The latest “survivor” of the Holocaust has been discovered by the Shem Olam Institute in Kfar Haro’eh. A parchment of the Scroll of Kohelet, a tome written by King Solomon and traditionally read on the Sukkot holiday, was recently found, and will be put on display by the Institute. The scroll, researchers said, was apparently…

U.S. President Barack Obama revealed over the weekend that his credit card was “rejected” at a New York restaurant last month as he was visiting the United Nations, USA Today reports. “It turned out I guess I don’t use it enough — so they thought there was some fraud going on. Fortunately, Michelle had hers,”…

Military forces in Egypt arrested the leader of the military wing of the Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis in north Sinai, the website of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper reports. The arrest took place on Friday, according to the report. An official source said that the leader, Walid Attalah, is suspected of orchestrating an RPG attack late Thursday in…

The Bnei Sakhnin soccer team, a team based in the Arab-Israeli city of Sakhnin, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) east of Akko in northern Israel, caused outrage on Saturday night when it honored former MK Azmi Bishara before a game. Bishara fled to Qatar several years ago, after it was revealed that he had passed information…

A plane carrying seven Israelis who were injured in Tuesday’s avalanche along the Thorong La mountain pass in Nepal landed at the Ben Gurion International Airport on Saturday night. From the airport, the injured were taken by ambulance to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and to the Tel Hashomer Hospital for treatment. 30…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman responded on Saturday night to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett’s fiery response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s linking of peace talks with ISIS. Speaking to Channel 2 News, Liberman said Bennett’s criticism was harmful and did little more than gaining him a few more votes. “We’ll go to the facts:…

The man behind the controversial Facebook movement to encourage Israelis to move to Berlin for economic reasons is “shocked” at the ripple effect his campaign has caused, Channel 10 reports Saturday night.  Naor Narkis, 25, began the Facebook page exposing the lower cost of living in the German capital earlier this year. But he never imagined…

A shirt design has caused more than a fashion faux pas, Channel 10 revealed Saturday, after similarities were drawn between the pattern printed and the symbol for the Nazi SS. Mango, a popular European women’s brand, has debuted a shirt covered in tiny lightning bolts reminiscent of the SS logo.  Ironically, outrage over the shirt broke due…

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman called Jews visiting the Temple Mount a “herd of cattle” on Saturday, less than 24 hours after he incited violence against Jews visiting Judaism’s holiest site and called to prevent their access “by all means.”  “The Palestinian leadership will be taking the necessary legal measures, at the international level, regarding the aggression…

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) called Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas an “anti-Semite” on Saturday, after Abbas called to stop Jews from visiting the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – “by all means.” Abbas is trying to “inflame” tensions in the region, Liberman said.  “The words reveal, again, the true face of…

Three teenage girls from Toronto attempted to join ISIS, the Toronto Daily Star reported Friday, in order to become the brides of Islamist terrorists.  All three girls, aged 15-18, are of Somali heritage, according to the daily; two were sisters.  The three attempted to enter Syria via Turkey – boarding a flight from Toronto to Cairo, then…

Thirty-nine people have been killed and sixty people are missing after Tuesday’s avalanche along the Thorong La mountain pass in Nepal, military and police officials said Saturday night. Meanwhile, 36 Israelis have yet to contact their families since the disaster, which occurred roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) northwest of the capital city of Katmandu. Alarm for their…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized Economic Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Saturday night, after the latter issued a fiery response to the words of US Secretary of State John Kerry Friday linking peace talks with ISIS.  According to Ya’alon, Bennett’s criticism lacks respect for the financial and diplomatic support the US has provided for…

The US State Department highly disparaged the remarks of Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) against Secretary of State John Kerry’s linkage of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and ISIS, claiming that Bennett was “distorting” the remarks for his “own political purposes.”  “I would take issue with the part of your question that Israeli leaders, plural, have…

An Israeli citizen feeling unwell arrived Saturday at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where he was rushed into isolation after he said he had recently returned from Africa.  The hospital staff decided not to take chances and took “Ebola procedures” for fear that the man had contracted the disease.  However, the man was admitted…

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday encouraged Islamists to continue efforts aimed at preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, calling on Palestinian Arabs to prevent “settlers” from entering the site using “all means” necessary. His comments came days after Israeli police once again clashed with Muslim extremists protesters violently demonstrating against…

Manal Mousa (25) and Haitham Khalaily’s (24) attempt to win ‘Arab Idol’ is no less dramatic than the obstacles they need to overcome just to participate in competition which takes place in Lebanon, where Israelis are barred from traveling. Their goal is to win Arab Idol, the Arab world’s premiere television song competition. But the…

US hits Islamic State positions in Syrian town of Kobani after US general says US’ mission was to ‘defeat and ultimately destory’ Islamic State by aiding Iraqi army. US fighter aircraft launched six air strikes on Islamic State positions near Kobani, Syria, and its allies hit militant targets in Iraq, the US military said on…

The US is working directly with Kurdish fighters in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, the State Department announced Thursday, in order to defend the city of Kobane along the Turkish-Syrian border.  The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, part of Democratic Union Party (PYD), is in contact with US officials outside the tumultuous region, State Department…

Congressman Peter King (R-NY) is outraged after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials dismissed Ebola after a “cursory” exam of an African man, who died on a plane to JFK Airport Thursday in a fit of vomiting. The unnamed 63-year-old had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria the night before,…

Israel last Wednesday asked the UN to demand the disarmament of the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon a day after it wounded IDF soldiers with two explosives set on the border – instead, this Thursday the UN sent an envoy to chat with the terror group’s deputy leader. UN special envoy to Syria Staffan…

In the heart of Tel Aviv’s secular club scene, Jews rejoiced in the Torah on Thursday night for the second hakafot, a set of additional celebrations at the end of the Simchat Torah holiday that comes after Sukkot. Arutz Sheva was on scene to witness the rejoicing taking place in Tel Aviv’s iconic Barby Club, where Yoni Genut…

Organizers of the Facebook protest urging Israelis to move to Berlin have claimed there are 9,300 Israelis who want to emigrate to Germany – but the statistics tell a different story, in which the number of Israeli émigrés is in fact rapidly shrinking. In 2012, just a year after the massive wave of social protests…

The Jerusalem Light Rail should not go through Arab neighborhoods, a former Jerusalem District Police Commander claimed Friday – after multiple incidents with the system have led to an influx in intracity terror.  “I wish there was someone on the Israeli police that would make a decisive move regarding this,” Commander (ret.) Aryeh Amit stated…

The search continues on Friday for hikers still missing since the lethal avalanche on Nepal’s Thorong La mountain pass Tuesday, in which three Israelis have already been confirmed among the 27 dead found until now. Nepalese rescue teams are trying to rush the search for those stranded in the deep snow drifts amid fears that…

In a touching tribute to one of Israel’s 66 fallen soldiers during last summer’s 50-day war, the town of Benei Re’em in Israel’s central Nahal Sorek region held its fifth annual charity run, and dedicated it in the memory of IDF soldier Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin h”yd. Goldin, an officer in the IDF’s elite Pulsar…

With the self-imposed deadline of November 24 looming over the negotiations between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) and Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and effective ruler, tweeted a graphic last week which outlined Iran’s 11 “Red Lines for Nuclear Talks.” These included a “red line” of…

Members of the Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, part of the Islamic Front coalition, blew up a Syrian army post on Tuesday by digging attack tunnels in rocky terrain – similar to that of the Israeli-Lebanese border – in an incident further raising fears that Hezbollah may use the same techniques. Al Jazeera Arabic reported on…

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed on Friday that the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has begun training pilots on three captured fighter jets, relying on the knowledge of Iraqi pilots who have joined the group. Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the monitoring group, said witnesses in northern Syria have seen the…

Arab terrorists hurling molotov cocktail firebombs at Jewish homes, trying to burn entire families as they sleep – it has become part of a routine of terror in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, where a “silent intifada” has been raging under the radar of major news outlets. A new video shows just shocking and potentially…

Anticipating yet another Muslim “day of rest” on Friday punctuated by the explosions of fireworks, rocks and general mayhem on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, Jerusalem District Police Chief Yossi Pariente decided to limit entry for Muslim visitors. Muslim male visitors will be limited to those over the age of 50, in…

The UK’s National Union of Students (NUS) has rejected a motion condemning the radical Islamic State terrorist group – also known as ISIS or ISIL – on the grounds that it could be considered “Islamophobic,” sparking a row over the dominance of radical-left groups within the student body.  The decision by NUS’s National Executive Committee…

The Jewish neighborhood of Kidmat Tzion, located in eastern Jerusalem adjacent to Abu Dis, celebrated ten years on Thursday with a surprise guest – Israeli mizrahi (“oriental”) music superstar Kobi Peretz, one of Israel’s top singers. Peretz highlighted the festivities that were attended by many figures leading the struggle to maintain a Jewish presence in…

France moved closer Thursday to adopting a new, tough anti-terrorism law which would slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate approved the draft law, AFP reports. The bill comes as authorities are increasingly wary about the number of French citizens and residents travelling to fight…

The Israeli army is to investigate the reported killing of a Palestinian teen during a clash near Ramallah Thursday.  The youth, 13, was killed Thursday by IDF gunfire in the course of an attack on soldiers at Beit Lakia, northwest of Ramallah. A military source told Arutz Sheva that the confrontation began after an IDF…

Former US President Jimmy Carter established an office of his Carter Center human rights group in Egypt in 2011, when Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood movement was voted in as president – now he is pulling out amid a crackdown on the Islamist group. In addition to closing the office in the Nile state,…

Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane, along the Syrian-Turkish border, say they have succeeded in pushing out Islamic State forces from most of the city. Intensified US airstrikes are said to have played a decisive role in enabling Kurds to mount a counterattack after holding out against the odds for over a month…

Fuel-tank problems on his US Air Force plane forced Secretary of State John Kerry to fly home from Vienna on a commercial airliner. The grounding left Iranian negotiators in Vienna chuckling at what they said was the irony of the situation, reports Washington Wire. “So it is not just our planes,” Iranian Foreign Minister Javad…

Once of the main sources of information coming out of Nepal after the recent deadly avalanche has been the country’s Chabad Center in the country’s capital, Kathmandu. Israeli Rabbi Hezki Lifshitz, who runs the center, has been following developments closely; at least three Israelis are among the dead and 13 others were wounded in the…

Parents in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood called Magen David Adom paramedics to their home on Thursday during the Shemini Atzeret holiday, after their three-year-old daughter showed signs of being poisoned. The toddler was defined as being in lightly wounded condition, after apparently suffering the effects of a recent application of pesticides that were sprayed in the…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an evaluation on Thursday evening to check state agencies’ preparedness for the Ebola epidemic currently spreading around the globe. Present at the consultation were Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid), Health Ministry Director Gen. Prof. Arnon Afek, and Ben Gurion International Airport Director Shmuel Zakai. In the meeting, a briefing…

A senior IDF commander responsible for the Gaza region has revealed that the IDF was caught off guard by the number of Hamas terror tunnels leading into Israel – and warns that there likely are more tunnels remaining, ready for use in attacks. An engineering unit captain in the Gaza Division identified only as Lt.…

An Israeli woman killed in the Anapurna Ridge avalanche in Nepal has been identified as Lt. Tamar Ariel, 25, of Masuot Yitzchak. Ariel had made history in 2012 when she became the IAF’s first religious female navigator. She had served in that capacity in the Ha’emek Squadron, based at Ramat David in the Galilee. She…

The Palestinian Arabs will not have a “state” but rather an “autonomy”, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told the Israel Hayom daily newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. “Our efforts to create shortcuts over the last two decades — from Oslo until present day — have all failed,” he said. “We know how to live with…

A senior member of Hamas said on Wednesday that ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arab factions will resume in Cairo later this month. The announcement by Khalil al-Haya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, was reported on the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen network. The Egyptian-mediated talks are meant to cement an open-ended ceasefire agreement announced…

U.S. warplanes hit Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists with 18 bombing raids near the Syrian town of Kobani Wednesday and Tuesday, to support besieged Kurdish militia there, Central Command said, according to AFP. The latest raids targeted several ISIS positions and 16 buildings occupied by the group, the military said. U.S. fighter jets and attack aircraft…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday evening that one Israeli was among the dead in an avalanche in Nepal. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the victim’s family has been notified and that local search and rescue operations will resume at dawn on Thursday. The Department of Israelis abroad, the Foreign Ministry’s situation…

Gunmen have assassinated a Syrian lawmaker in the restive central province of Hama, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday, citing Syria’s state-run news agency and a government official. The Syrian news agency SANA said the parliamentarian, Waris al-Younnes, was gunned down while travelling on a road linking the city of Hama with the town…

The U.S.-led military mission against the “Islamic State” (ISIS) now has a name – Operation Inherent Resolve, The Hill reports. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, announced the name on CNN on Wednesday, according to the report, ending months of uncertainty over what to call the operation which began in…

Anti-Israel British MP George Galloway will not be prosecuted over remarks in a speech during which he declared that his constituency, Bradford, was “an Israel-free zone”, reports Jewish News Online. The comments, made by the Bradford West MP in August, caused an outcry on social media and complaints were made to West Yorkshire Police. On Wednesday, the…

A senior U.S. official said on Wednesday that a deal on Iran’s nuclear program was still possible by late next month and there were no talks now about extending the deadline, Reuters reports. Speaking before a meeting between the U.S., Iranian and European Union foreign ministers, the State Department official said “we’re working on creative…

Four hikers were killed in an avalanche in Nepal on Tuesday, in a natural disaster that claimed the life of an Israeli tourist along with two Polish tourists and a Nepalese guide. The avalanche occurred on the Thorong La mountain pass, located roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) northwest of the capital city of Katmandu, Nepalese…

Hundreds of Jews began ascending to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – on Wednesday, in honor of Hoshana Rabba, the seventh and final day of Sukkot. However, the police closed off the Mount to visitors at 10:15 a.m., because of Muslim rioting that was led by Arab Knesset members.  Police said…

Pressure from the Chief Rabbinate and the Derech Emuna Rabbinic organization has succeeded in causing police to cancel an evangelical Christian prayer service, that was planned for Wednesday at the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, near the Hulda Gate. International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) organized the prayer vigil for the “restoration” of Jesus and called on…

Women FOR the Wall (WFW), a grassroots organization of traditional women dedicated to preserving the sanctity of the Western Wall, has issued a challenge to the most recent campaign launched on Jerusalem city buses by the ultra-liberal group Women of the Wall (WoW). While the signs call on young girls to celebrate their Bat Mitzvot…

After it was revealed last Friday that a Jewish girl was among 100 French women and girls joining the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, another Jewish girl has been revealed as having joined ISIS – and trying to blow up her parents’ shop for jihad. The girl, a 17-year-old identified…

Arieh King, Jerusalem councilman and director of the Israel Land Fund, told Arutz Sheva about the struggle he has been engaged in over the last year to keep a block of buildings in the “Eshel Avraham” Georgian neighborhood area of eastern Jerusalem in Jewish hands. The site in question consists of a dunam of property, and three…

Rescue forces are trying to locate missing persons after an avalanche Tuesday in the Annapurna Mountain Range – 160 kilometers northwest of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.  BBC reports that at least sixteen people, including 3 Israelis, were killed in the avalanche. Other deaths includes 3 Polish tourists, a Vietnamese and 9 Nepali guides. Fourteen tourists, including 4…

Former Chief Military Rabbi, Brigadier General Rabbi Avichai Ronski, who served as a company commander in Sayeret Shaked during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, recounted his experiences of Simchat Torah 41 years ago.  Tuesday night, the Rabbi led a Torah study in honor of Hoshana Rabbah, in Lod. As part of the night of…

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has perpetuated another “drug libel,” Palestinian Media Watch reports Wednesday – a continuation of the anti-Semitic trope (“blood libel”) whereby Jews are accused of purposefully harming their neighbors in odd and counterintuitive ways.  In this round of Palestinian incitement against Jews, the Governor of Ramallah Laila Ghannam claimed in an official PA TV interview that Jews…

Nahal Oz, a kibbutz in the South located near the Gaza Strip saw its share of tragedy during this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge.   On July 28, a group of Hamas terrorists emerged out of a tunnel near Nahal Oz and killed five IDF soldiers. Nahal Oz was also home to 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was killed…

An extraordinary exhibition into the later works of Rembrandt opened at the National Gallery in London on Wednesday, AFP reports, revealing the energy, innovation and empathy of the Dutch master right up to his death. Featuring about 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints loaned from collections around the world, “Rembrandt: The Late Works” is the first in-depth exploration into the final stage…

Tragedy occurred Wednesday on Hoshana Raba, the last day of Sukkot, as a car crashed into a sukkah booth traditionally dwelt in during the holiday, wounding a father and his one- and four-year-old sons. The incident occurred on Jerusalem’s Menahem Meshiv Street, in the capital’s northern Kiryat Zanz neighborhood. Apparently the crash happened after the…

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is apparently still very upset over Economics Minister Naftali Bennett’s direct contact with IDF officers during Operation Protective Edge against Hamas. In an interview with the ultra-leftist paper Haaretz, Yaalon attacked Bennett without naming him. “A certain minister received a report from the field and said that there was a brigade (Givati)…

Opposition Chairman and Labor Party Head MK Yitzhak Herzog said Wednesday on IDF Radio that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu profits politically from Israel’s increased diplomatic isolation, claiming it deflects attention from his failed social and economic policies, including the high cost of housing. Relations between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama are at all-time low,…

The Israel Police will restrict the entry of Muslim worshipers to the Temple Mount on Wednesday, due to intelligence information that was received about plans by Arabs to riot at the compound, as they have done several times already in recent days. The decision was made by the Jerusalem District Commander of the police following…

The Judea and Samaria district police emergency call center received a call on Monday night around 9:30 p.m. from four family members from the central coastal region who were driving home from Jerusalem and took a wrong turn – ending up in Ramallah. The police receptionist who handled the call reported to her unit captain…

The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime. “Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it’s no longer forbidden,” public prosecutor spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP. “You just…

Counter-extremism and pro-Israel groups are protesting the first ever London-based conference to encourage European states to trade with Iran following the easing of sanctions. Several grassroots and communal organisations published a joint letter urging prominent business people to withdraw from the two-day Europe Iran Forum this week. Some 200 business leaders are currently expected to…

The World Health Organization released an updated projection on Tuesday of the Ebola epidemic gripping the globe, and warned that by December the lethal virus may infect as many as 10,000 new people per week in West Africa. That figure represents more infections each week that the total 8,914 reported cases overall up until this…

Does yesterday’s symbolic vote in Britain’s parliament to recognize a “Palestinian state” reflect a failure on the part of pro-Israel advocacy groups to make Israel’s case effectively?   That depends on who you ask. According to Paul Charney, Chairman of the UK’s leading Israel advocacy (or “hasbara”) group the Zionist Federation, the answer is no.…

The Islamic State terror group (also known as ISIS or ISIL) recently released what it says was a letter written by murdered American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff just days before his execution, and justifies his killing by noting that he was a Jew. Sotloff was beheaded by ISIS days after the first such execution of another…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday that any recognition of “Palestine” as a state must be “helpful to peace” as part of a two-state solution, and not just symbolic – a not-so-subtle criticism of the UK’s non-binding vote Monday to recognize “Palestine.” Britain’s move came in the footsteps of Sweden, which shockingly announced recognition of “Palestine” on…

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, thinks the United States, Israel and the “wicked” British government are behind the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) terrorist group, Al-Akhbar reports. According to the report, Khamenei’s comments were made Monday, in his first speech since undergoing prostate surgery last month. “America, Zionism, and especially the veteran expert of…

U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters on Tuesday that the effort to dismantle the terror group ISIS “is going to be a long-term campaign,” CNN reports. Obama’s comments were made after a closed meeting with the heads of foreign militaries. “There will be days of progress and there are going to be periods of setback,”…

A final deal on Iran’s nuclear program is still possible despite the difficulty of the negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, according to The Hill. “I don’t believe it’s out of reach, but we have some tough issues to resolve,” Kerry was quoted as having told reporters during a press conference in…

A Libyan already behind bars was indicted Tuesday on new charges arising from the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, including crimes punishable by the death penalty, the Justice Department said, according to The Associated Press (AP). The new 18-count grand jury indictment, which includes multiple counts of murder, had been widely expected…

MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am-Ta’al) responded on Tuesday evening to MK Miri Regev’s (Likud) demand that he be dismissed from the Knesset for flying to London to convince parliamentarians to vote in favor of recognizing “Palestine”. Tibi, in his response, sarcastically suggested that Regev forgot to take her medication when she made her demand. “I’m surprised…

As has been widely noted in Israel, but quite scantly elsewhere in the world, the demand that Hamas be relieved of its lethal missiles has been all but forgotten. Media analyst and policy expert Dr. Aaron Lerner, head of the IMRA news agency, proposes that Israel issue work permits to Gazan Arabs on a one-for-one…

An explosion rocked the area near Egypt’s High Court of Justice in central Cairo on Tuesday night, government officials have confirmed. According to Al Jazeera, Brigadier General Abdel Fattah Othman, a spokesman for the ministry of interior, said nine civilians were injured in the blast. Most of the injuries were minor, he said. Bomb experts…