The Palestinian Authority is planning to open a duty-free shop in Jericho, a senior Fatah official said Tuesday. The official, Muhammad Shtayeh, told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency that PA

During the week of the anniversary of the death of PLO arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, the Palestinian Authority held events and broadcast TV programs celebrating him and his terror attacks. The

IAF aircraft struck a terror tunnel in northern Gaza on Tuesday night, according to a statement by the IDF Spokesman. The statement said that direct hits were identified and that

IDF forces carried out a series of contingency maneuvers along the Blue Line on Tuesday to prepare for a possible attack as it constructs a 6-meter high separation wall between

The British National Health Service cancelled a workshop on conflict resolution that was scheduled to be led by an Israeli lecturer, following protests of trade union members who objected to

UN observers in Syria on Tuesday found themselves under pressure to curtail 13-months of violence and buttress a UN-brokered ceasefire deal as at least clashes continue. Rights activists in the

Rep. Mike Turner on Tuesday charged that President Barack Obama was trying to be “a better John Wayne” than Mitt Romney. “The important aspect here is discussing what we’re going

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to announce early elections at Likud’s scheduled faction meeting on Sunday. According to sources within the Likud, September 4 is being discussed as Election

Investigators tasked with investigating the deaths of 21 civilians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in 2009 concluded IDF soldiers were not reckless or negligent. “The investigation has completely refuted

Detroit Tigers’ outfielder Delmon Young will lose $250,000 in pay and has been banned from the field for seven days after being charged with assaulting a man and yelling anti-Semitic

A South Carolina middle school teacher has been accused of dragging a student under a table during class, saying, “This is what the Nazis do to Jews,” police said Monday,

Four weeks after she was trounced by MK Shaul Mofaz in Kadima’s primaries, former Kadima chair Tzipi Livni resigned Tuesday from the party. In her farewell speech, she prided herself

Visiting Democratic Sen. John Kerry told President Shimon Peres Tuesday preventing a nuclear-armed Iran is part of American efforts “to keep the world free from terror.” The senator, chairman of the

B’nai Brith has attributed the increasingly high number of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada to a “sustained undercurrent of anti-Jewish bias,” said an organization official.   The League for Human Rights

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that if international efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program fail, any military action against Tehran should be led by the United States and

Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned on Monday that as long as Iran poses a threat to Israel with its nuclear program, all options are on the table. Speaking with journalists

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a partner for peace on Monday, but repeated his demand that Netanyahu choose “between peace and settlements.” Abbas, who spoke

New Jersey governor Chris Christie implied on Monday that he would be open to the possibility of being Mitt Romney’s vice presidential nominee. During a visit to a high school

Amr Moussa, a frontrunner in the Egyptian presidential race, criticized the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt on Monday and said that “the Camp David accords were dead and buried

Turkey said it will block EU participation in an upcoming NATO summit unless the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is also allowed to participate, reported Today’s Zaman. EU member

An Iranian envoy voiced hope on Monday that talks with the UN nuclear watchdog in mid-May would help resolve “outstanding issues.” However, Iran’s ambassador to the Vienna-based IAEA, Ali Asghar

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that a decision on whether to hold early elections will be made by the end of the next week. Netanyahu, whose father died at

A hospital in eastern Jerusalem hospital is at risk of being shut down due to financial difficulties, which it blames on the Palestinian Authority, according to a statement released Sunday.

Israel and Egypt are set to conduct a prisoner exchange on Sunday in which 63 Egyptians will be swapped for an Israeli national convicted of spying for Israel, Israeli sources

The latest Palestinian Authority tactic for United Nations sympathy is the prisoners’ hunger strike, which it now says is a humanitarian disaster. Hamas’ supreme leader Khalid Mashaal said Sunday that

Public figures from both sides of the political spectrum eulogized Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, the prime minister’s father, after he passed away on Monday. Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin, said, “I

The Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee approved on Monday a bill sponsored by MKs David Rotem and Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beitenu) that cuts by half the National Insurance benefits to