U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he is keeping a watchful eye on the tension between Israel and Iran, over the country’s alleged clandestine nuclear program. Speaking to

Israel provided a rare moment of unity at the CNN-sponsored Republican debate in Jacksonville, Florida on Thursday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich both sought

Four Jewish pilgrims from the United States were arrested before dawn on Friday in Shechem as they sought to pray at Joseph’s Tomb. The four, associated with the Bratslav Hassidic

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby said on Thursday that the League’s peace plan, which aims to end Syria’s political crisis, will be submitted to the United Nations Security Council early next

When military leaders in Egypt announced they had lifted Cairo’s emergency law, earlier this week, they neglected to mention they left themselves a loophole. Rights activists say Cairo’s interim junta

Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for war. “In comparison to 10 years

More than three months after he was released from Hamas captivity and returned to his home in Mitzpe Hila, Gilad Shalit attended a Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball game at the

The United States arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, The Associated Press reported on Thursday. The report cited

The current U.S.-led push to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions through steadily increasing economic and diplomatic pressure is beginning to show results and it would be “premature” to

Israel presented this week, for the first time, its principles regarding the borders of a future Palestinian state. The borders were presented during Wednesday’s meeting in Jordan between attorney Yitzchak

Hamas’ Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh’s recent official tour opened the door to financial cooperation between the terror group and Turkey, a high-ranking Hamas official told the Al-Sharq newspaper on Thursday.

American policy towards Egypt appears to be on a contradictory course. On the one hand, Under Secretary of State, Robert Hormats, part of a delegation conferring last week with Egypt’s

The Egyptian military foiled a planned attack on a natural gas plant in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, the Egyptian daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. According to the report masked men

The head of the National Union, MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh), launched a counterattack against politicians who he says want to push religious men out of the IDF, and replace them

Israel has called off its serious travel warning regarding after Thai authorities detained Lebanese suspect, uncovered arms cache. Two weeks after Thai authorities detained a Lebanese man with suspected links

More than two thirds of young men from Samaria who join the IDF serve in combat units. IDF statistics show that 67.1% of the young men who enlist serve in

President Shimon Peres Thursday called upon the Iranian people to topple the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Speaking at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, Peres blamed the Iranian president

An Israeli hacker team called “IDF Team” succeeded Thursday in temporarily disabling the website of the Iranian English language television station, and of the Teheran Health Ministry. The sites were

British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a speech before the Council of Europe, the 47 nation grouping that is responsible for the European Court of Human Rights. Britain has been

PLO officials went on the offensive and sought to blame Israel for the failure of exploratory contacts with Israeli negotiators as they met with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton

Officials in Gaza City and Ramallah confirmed reports that the Palestinian Authority would likely cancel elections scheduled for May which began to circulate earlier this week Fatah leader Thiab al-Loh

Hamas Gaza-chief Ismail Haniyeh indicated Wednesday he has added Iran to the itinerary of his international tour. Hainyeh recently returned from the first leg of his tour to drum of

The US Federal Reserve says it will extend its freeze on interest rates until the end of 2014 in its longest longest-running response to the ongoing global financial crisis. Reserve

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman voiced pleasure Wednesday with the European Union’s newest sanctions against Iran and said that this is the first time that determined and meaningful steps have been

The threat posed by a missile attack on Israel is not as terrible as people think, according to Haim Rosenberg, the former head of long-term planning at Rafael Advanced Defense

MK Michael Ben Ari is still being refused a visa to enter the United States – but the lawmaker says Hamas terrorists are allowed to visit. In an interview with

Palestinian Authority hackers briefly managed to pull down a few sites in Israel Wednesday night in the ongoing cyberwar launched by Iran and anti-Israel Arabs. Among the sites that fell

The final “exploratory” meeting between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization ended Wednesday in Amman with no progress, official said. PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli attorney Yitzchak Mocho made

Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, formerly a Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, said on Wednesday that he believes that the pro-Israel Republican candidate, Newt Gingrich, who won Saturday’s