On one of the most anticipated and media-hyped days of the American calendar, President Obama spoke to NBC’s Matt Lauer, just prior to the awaited NFL championship game. The President, as

Israel’s security agencies see an increased danger to top Israeli official as the fourth anniversary of the death of Hizbullah senior terrorist Imad Mughniyeh nears. According to the Yisrael Hayom

Forces loyal to Syrian strongman Bashar Assad renewed their attack on the city of Homs Monday. At least 50 people have died since morning, according to reports from the city

Qatari mediation efforts between rival PLO groups Fatah and Hamas have succeeded and the twin terror organizations have signed a reconciliation agreement, it was reported Sunday. The impasse over the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday responded to an agreement signed by Fatah and Hamas in Doha saying the Palestinian Authority “can’t have it both ways.” The agreement ends an impasse

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he does not think Israel has decided whether to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear program. In an interview with NBC quoted by

Professor Moshe Ma’oz of the Hebrew University’s Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Humanities expressed doubt on Sunday Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government is on

Hamas has endorsed a proposal by Qatar that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas assume the role of prime minister in an interim unity government that would prepare for general elections,

President Shimon Peres’ bodyguards were involved in an altercation with three Arabs Sunday evening, Channel 2 television reported. The reason for the fight is not yet clear. The incident reportedly

Twenty months after the Mavi Marmara incident, a Turkish ship carrying medical aid for Gaza has arrived at Ashdod Port in Israel. Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reports that Turkish Deputy

A 15-year-old missing Jewish teen was found by police on Sunday in an Arab village located in the Triangle, an area west of Hadera populated mainly by Israeli Arabs, whose

The Histadrut Labor Federation has set a general strike for Wednesday after having received the go-ahead from the National Labor Court, which lifted an injunction it imposed last week. The

The northern British city of Manchester outstripped London last year in anti-Semitic incidents, figures released Thursday showed. The Community Security Trust (CST), which records anti-Semitic incidents, noted last year was

Security personnel have made an arrest in connection with the terror stabbing of a guard at the entrance to the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim in December 2011, it was

The Al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Jihad terrorist group in northern Sinai has claimed responsibility for attacking the Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan overnight Saturday. It was the 12th such

Minister of Defense Ehud Barak approved Sunday the decision by the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, to appoint Major General Amir Eshel as the new

Iran is upset over a television promotional spot for Israeli cable provider HOT, and is threatening to ban an electronics firm whose product is featured in the spot. The commercial

The Iranian parliament’s official website has published an article calling on the government to attack Israel before the end of the year. According to Israeli TV Channel 2‘s veteran Middle

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delieverd a terse retort Sunday to the threats issued Friday by Iran’s “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and tied it to events in Syria.   “We

Talia Ben-Eliezer, daughter of MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), was released over the weekend after being arrested at an airport in New York late last week for purchasing painkillers without the

The renewed flare-up of tensions between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands two months before the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war in which Britain defeated Argentina has prompted

Saboteurs blew up an Egyptian pipeline that supplies gas to Israel and Jordan, for the 12th time in the past year, security officials said told AFP. The officials told the

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed Russia and China’s veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis on Saturday, saying it “undermines” the United Nations. AFP quoted a statement

About 1,000 Palestinian Authority Arabs marched in Hevron on Saturday in protest of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s austerity plans. AFP reported that in the largest protest to date against

Israel has placed its consulates and embassies around the world on high alert, and has warned Jewish institutions in North America, South America, and Europe, to be on guard –

In a move that was decried by the U.S., France, and Arab countries, Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a U.S.-backed proposal at the UN Security Council to condemn Syrian

Some 1,500 Israelis from around the country are set to tour Samaria on Wednesday, Tu Bishvat, as part of a special program organized by Samaria residents to introduce more Israelis

Iran is conducting yet more military exercises in the Straits of Hormuz. Iranian officials said that the exercises were in response to a European boycott of Iranian oil, and that