The United Nations Security Council on Saturday approved the expansion of the UN ceasefire observer force in Syria from 30 to 300. The council also demanded an “immediate halt to

Following the brutal and tragic murders in Itamar last year of Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth and three of their children, Mizrachi UK, a branch of the national religious

Five unarmed UN monitors toured Homs, the battered city at the heart of the Syrian uprising, on foot on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. The report noted the monitors encountered

One million people are expected to visit 44 military cemeteries after the 8 p.m. siren Tuesday, Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers. Another siren will sound at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Immediately following

US lawmakers are considering an aid allotment of $680 million to strengthen Israel’s Iron Dome short-range rocket shield. The move by Republican lawmakers comes in the face of previous attempts

Border Police on Saturday arrested two terrorists from Shechem at the Tapuach Junction in northern Samaria. The two young Arab men, aged 17, were carrying four pipe bombs, a makeshift

The Counter-Terrorism Bureau on Saturday issued a call to Israelis in the Sinai Peninsula to immediately leave the area and return to Israel. Families of Israelis staying in Sinai were

Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein, Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin, Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov who heads the Knesset’s symbols and rituals committee, and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat

A powerful blast killed ten members of the security forces in the southern Syrian region of Quneitra on Friday, state television reported. The report blamed the explosion on “terrorists.” “An

One of the leaders of the Syrian opposition is saying that the Syrian people will seek regional peace, including with Israel. In an interview with Kol Yisrael radio, portions of

Egypt’s Islamist and secular forces packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square with tens of thousands of protesters on Friday, The Associated Press reported. It was the biggest rally in months in which

The rockets that were fired from Egypt toward Israel earlier this month were smuggled from Libya, an Israeli defense official told The Associated Press on Friday. The official was referring

European nations and Russia proposed rival UN resolutions on Friday, both calling for expanding the number of UN cease-fire monitors in Syria from 30 to 300, but disagreeing on possible

Five years after Hamas seized Gaza from Fatah in a violent putsch the Fatah central committee is laying the groundwork to replace Hamas in the Palestinian Authority’s 2012 elections. According

A senior Hamas leader on Thursday said that if the terror group came to power in a future ‘Palestinian state,’ it would not abide by any previous peace agreements with

Defense Minister Ehud Barak – in Washington to meet with American officials ahead of the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 – said Iranian supreme leader Ayatolla

The UN human rights office on Friday charged that three men sentenced to death in Hamas-run Gaza were executed unlawfully. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s spokesman, Rupert

The IDF infantry has begun distributing a new device for use by its platoon commanders: a laser rangefinder. The IDF Website reports that the device is about the size of

The South African Reserve Bank has come under fire after an article last week revealed that one of its directors supports Nazi policies. According to the article, which was published

The Pentagon held a ceremony on Thursday in honor of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The ceremony was attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. “Today we pause to

Google’s “Street View” service in Israel has been officially launched, according to a Channel 2 News report on Thursday. The report noted that the launch came several days earlier than

A synagogue has been dedicated in Basel, Switzerland for the first time in more than 80 years. The Feldinger Chabad Jewish Centre is the first new synagogue in the city since

A group of some 20 Arabs attacked a Jewish family as they drove to their home in Tekoa on Thursday afternoon. Akiva Ami-El, his wife Keterya, and their two-year old

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called upon Jewish youths visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau Thursday to be “proud that the Jewish people rose from the dead.” He termed the voices calling Israel a threat

An apparent nationalistic terror crime was perpetrated in Jerusalem Thursday evening. Assailants believed to be Arabs stabbed a haredi-religious Jew, aged around 20, at the “hotels junction” near the Tomb