Israel’s ambassador to Egypt has quit Cairo, six months after the embassy was attacked by paid rioters and ransacked in the Egyptian capital. Officials at the Egyptian airport said Wednesday

Police have managed to re-establish contact with a convicted terrorist suspected of murdering three Jewish children and a rabbi on Monday, and three French soldiers, all Muslims, last week.  Throughout

Full details are not yet known, but if the comments of the French Interior Minister Claude Gueant are borne out, the Otzar Hatora atrocity may turn out to be an

President Obama sent his greetings to the Iranian people celebrating the New Year of Nowruz, saying he hopes it will bring a season of “renewal.” “As people gather with their

In one of his grimmest statements in months, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe in Jerusalem to discuss Monday’s terror attack on a Jewish day

Russia warned Tuesday that Iran would have no option but to develop nuclear weapons if it came under attack from either the United States or Israel. “The CIA and other

PLO official Saeb Erekat said Tuesday that President Mahmoud Abbas told US president Barack Obama that the Palestinian Authority is ready to return to negotiations if Israel commits to Quartet

US officials said Tuesday that the United States will exempt Japan and 10 European Union nations from US financial sanctions because they have “significantly reduced purchases of Iranian crude oil.”

A spokesman for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement claimed on Tuesday that Iran had paid rival group Hamas to back out of implementing the reconciliation deal between the

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he is determined to bring to justice the killer of four Jews. “You can be assured of the total

  Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird joined Israel in blocking a senior Hamas official from addressing a session of the UN Human Rights Council. Baird said he’d been “troubled” to

Pentagon war games predict an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites may quickly spiral out of control and result in a large regional war. A classified two-week war simulation conducted

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday said Iran will succeed in withstanding pressure and economic sanctions, while Israel is “besieged.” His remarks came after Iranian banks were excluded from

US President Barack Obama accused Iran on Tuesday of creating an “electronic curtain” blocking its citizens from using the Internet and social media to full effect. Addressing ordinary Iranians in

The killer of four Jews in Toulouse got off his motor bike to grab an eight-year-old girl and shoot her in the head, an eyewitness said. Miriam Monsonego was the

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey met with IDF Chief of Staff Benny. Gantz Monday after having warned Iran it will suffer if it “misjudges” America’s

The murderer who gunned down a rabbi and three Jewish children may have filmed the murders. French police suspect he is a neo-Nazi. French Interior Minister Claude Gueant revealed that

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a press conference on Monday to launch the updated and expanded Einstein Archives website, which contains a complete catalog of more than 80,000 documents

The Knesset approved on Monday the preliminary reading of a bill that requires public shelters to include infrastructure for internet access. According to the bill, which was submitted by Orly

Polish police are investigating the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in northeastern Poland, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. Perpetrators spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic images and slogans on graves, a

The two major items about Syria in today’s news were the heavy fighting in an upscale Damascus suburb and the leaked e-mails citing that Asma Al- Assad, the wife of

New York police tightened security Monday at synagogues and other Jewish institutions following an attack hours earlier on the Otzar HaTorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France. Police spokesman Paul

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday expressed dismay at what he called “the West’s blind support for Israel.” He also deplored the West’s lack of vision as a “detriment of

A United Nations report says the Palestinian Authority’s statehood bid is on shaky ground. The report, entitled “Palestinian State-Building: An Achievement at Increased Risk,” is to be submitted this Wednesday in

French police are investigating whether a neo-Nazi gang was involved in the shooting attack Monday on a Jewish day school next to a synagogue in Toulouse. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler of

The Conference of European Rabbis has expressed its shock and sadness following the killing of three people including two children outside a Jewish school in Toulouse this morning. The shootings

The murder of a Jewish teacher and three children at the entrance of  the Ozar HaTorah Jewish day school in Toulouse flashes a “red light” for Jews in the Diaspora,