The Israel Defense Forces launched a new campaign on Sunday aimed at urging soldiers to refrain from hitchhiking, in an effort to prevent abductions. Billboards with the campaign’s slogan, “Don’t

British Airways first landed in Israel with seaplanes in the Kinneret in 1932, when it was known as Imperial Airlines. Now it flies Boeings twice a day to Tel Aviv.

The government officially submitted to the Knesset Monday a bill for elections on September 4, immediately after the summer vacation and less than two weeks before the Rosh HaShanah holiday.

Palestinian Authority, Syrian and Algerian flags were waved in a Paris celebration of Socialist Francois Hollande’s victory over French President Nicolas Sarkozy.    Thousands packed Bastille Square and broke out

Hundreds of prominent Muslim clerics in India have demanded that India break off diplomatic ties with Israel, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Monday. Defense trade between Israel and India

Born in New York and raised in Israel, Itamar Gelbman seeks to bring a Jewish and Israeli voice to the United States Congress by running in the May 29 Republican

The Palestinian Authority provides parents with cartoons that teach children to destroy Israel, even though PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said that evidence of incitement against Israel is outdated. The

The IDF is preparing for the possibility that the government will decide to expand the recruitment of hareidi-religious Jews, and is preparing accordingly, the IDF website reported on Sunday. The

The Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) congratulated Francois Hollande on his winning the presidential election in France, while alerting him of the resurgence of anti-Semitism and intolerance of religious freedom in the

Having taken back the French presidency after 17 years in exile, the French Socialists must be regarded as heavy favorites to complete a political sweep in June when France votes

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that President Bashar Assad’s grip on Syria is getting weaker by the day and “victory is close,” according to a report

Yemeni Al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso, who was wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was killed in an air raid in eastern Yemen on Sunday, according

The Irish band “Dervish” has caved in to Palestinian Authority Arab cultural terrorism, canceling its tour in Israel after threats online. The band pulled out of a three-date concert tour

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu kicked off the election campaign Sunday in a speech at the Likud convention in Tel Aviv, in which he took credit for making people feel safer

Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France’s new president, according to early estimates cited by the BBC. According to projections based on partial results, Hollande got about 52% of

The ban on new construction in Judea and Samaria officially ended in 2010. In practice, however, many communities remain unable to build. In Ofra, north of Jerusalem, a freeze on

A planned terror attack in Israel was thwarted on Sunday evening, for the third time in several days. According to a report on Channel 2 News, Border Polices officers arrested

A group of Arabs activists removed Israeli flags from main bypass roads between cities in the northern Binyamin region early Saturday, the Ma’an news agency reported. The activists replaced Israeli flags with Palestinian

President Shimon Peres is flying to Canada Sunday for a five-day visit with the pro-Israel government and Jewish leaders, with the Iranian nuclear threat tops the agenda. Canada is considered

The special children of the SULAM organization went last week to pay their condolences to Prime Minister Netanyahu on the death of his father. Professor Benzion Netanyahu, who passed away

Chabad rabbis burst into tears on the Sabbath after discovering that thieves stole six Torah scrolls from their 160-year-old Tzemach Tzedek synagogue in the Old City area of Tzfat. A

Detroit Tigers’ outfielder Delmon Young apologized today during a pre-game interview inside the Detroit Tigers’ dugout at Comerica Park for attacking tourists while drunk and hurling anti-Semitic slurs. “I would

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to call Sunday night for elections September 4, one year before his term is to expire. Current polls show the opposition has no chance

Japan’s final active nuclear plant was switched off on Saturday with fanfare, banner-waving and celebration by anti-nuke activist marchers in Tokyo. For the first time in 40 years, the country

Disaster was narrowly averted twice on the Sabbath as Jews in Yitzhar prevented Palestinian Authority Arabs from destroying their community with fire. Some grazing land was set alight, but homes

Magicians from all over the world got together in Holon, just south of Tel Aviv, this week for the International Magicians Convention. Part of the convention was the Magic Show