The United States and Pakistan temporarily patched up the crisis in their relations whose immediate cause was mistaken attack by US helicopters on Pakistani border positions on November 26. The

The officer commanding United Nations monitors in Syria said Thursday his unarmed observers could not resume their mission due to violence in the country reaching “unprecedented levels.” Maj. Gen. Robert

Leader of the extreme right Hungarian political party challenged Slomo Koves, the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Congregation, to a public debate on anti-Semitism, Politics.hu reported. Jobbik party leader

WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and companies that have done business with the country. The so-called ‘Syria Files’ show how

An IDF source on Thursday said Israel will resume construction of its incomplete security barrier in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) in the coming weeks. Restarting construction of the barrier –

Swiss scientists this week reported that they found high concentrations of polonium in body fluids on items used by late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat before his death in 2004. The

Deputy Prime Minister and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz strongly rejected on Wednesday evening Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s welcoming of the Draft Law committee’s recommendations. “The chairman of Kadima received the

Rabbi Asher Idan, the director of the Jerusalem-based Kol HaNa’ar, was attacked and robbed on Tuesday while traveling on the subway in Paris. The incident occurred as Rabbi Idan, who

Rabbi Moshe Shapir, editor of the Shas party’s journal, fiercely criticized Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz in an article on Wednesday. The article was published after the Draft Law committee headed

An Al-Qaeda-inspired group has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks across Syria, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The report cited the SITE monitoring group, which tracks jihadist chatter on the

MK Yariv Levin (Likud) welcomed on Wednesday the conclusions of a panel, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Edmund Levy, that there is no “occupation” and international law allows Jews

Egypt’s newly elected Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, received a phone call from his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Wednesday. According to a report in Egypt’s state news agency, Ahmadinejad

A Syrian general and a number of soldiers defected and crossed into Turkey on Wednesday, a Turkish diplomat told AFP. The general is the 15th such high-ranking officer to flee

Arutz Sheva visited CleanTech 2012, the largest exhibition of water technology, infrastructure and environment in Israel. The international exhibition took place in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and Wednesday for the

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and the French President Francois Hollande this week. Erekat said Abbas will stress the importance of

President Shimon Peres met Wednesday afternoon with MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) in order to try and hammer out a replacement for the Tal Law that regulated the enlistment

A group of nine Canadian senators warned the United Church of Canada on Wednesday that a boycott of Israeli goods from Judea and Samaria could spark a rift with the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday welcomed the Draft Law committee’s report with its recommendations, saying they are “moving us in the right direction.” In his remarks, Netanyahu concurred with

The giant eBay website is strengthening its operations in Israel, and its CEO will make his first-ever business visit to the Jewish state in September, when he will deliver a

Iran on Wednesday claimed it has the capability to destroy US bases “within minutes.” US “bases are all in range of our missiles, and the occupied lands are also

A particle consistent with the Higgs boson has been discovered and may help explain the origins of mass in the universe. Physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known

Egypt’s newly elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi denied media reports claiming he plans to visit Iran and expand the “axis of evil.” Less than a week after denying that

Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz issued a clear ultimatum to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday afternoon to adopt new draft law proposals if he wants to keep Kadima in the coalition.

Yigal Amir, serving a life sentence in prison for murdering Prime Minister Rabin, has won for the first time freedom from solitary confinement. Prison officials, after the latest twice-annual review,

Officials in Ramallah said Wednesday they will allow the exhumation of late PLO arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat’s remains for an autopsy. The former PA leader died at a military hospital outside

Internet search giant Google has reached a deal with French anti-racism groups who filed a lawsuit over the “Jew” suggestion in the auto-complete feature of the search engine. The initial lawsuit,

Russian officials say a Turkish jet recently shot down by Damascus entered Syrian airspace twice to test the country’s anti-aircraft defenses. The Interfax news agency cited an unnamed senior member

Syria’s embattled Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meddling in Damascus’ affairs to protect Israel. Why didn’t Erdogan “do anything after the Marmara ship