A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practicing sorcery, which is banned in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the Interior Ministry said. Amina Bint Abdulhalim Nassar was executed in
Terrorists north of the border fired a Katyusha rocket at Israel late Sunday night but it failed to reach Israel and instead injured a Lebanese woman. The attack was staged
The opposition in Syria staged a general strike on Sunday in Damascus, the stronghold of President Bashar Assad, as battles raging throughout the country left at least 100 dead and
Activists for Neighborhood Watch, a group of nationalists headed by MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) and the chairman of the Our Land of Israel movement, Baruch Marzel, held a demonstration
Turkish president Abdullah Gul on Sunday said Israel should take advantage of the changes in the Middle East to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority and the entire Arab world,
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, spoke at a recent event of Maagalim, an organization that helps disadvantaged youths. During his talk, Prosor spoke about the challenges Israel
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday that the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad would be a “blessing to the Middle East.” In a speech at the World Policy
Russia launched two satellites on Sunday, one of them designed by Israel and carrying sophisticated communications systems. A Proton-M carrier rocket blasted off from the Kazakhstan space center carrying Russia’s
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday with praise for Israel’s newest Nobel Prize laureate, chemist Prof. Dan Schechtman. Netanyahu pointed to the pattern on his tie
Defense Minister Ehud Barak alluded to the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza Sunday as he warned that Israel would strike back at terrorists there. “Since Friday, about 36 missiles have been
Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits wins the gold medal at the Perth, Australia World Championship, where the HaTikva anthem was played. Korzits’ supporters waved an Israeli flag, and Korzits draped the
Iran has discovered a vast new natural gas field in the depths of the Caspian Sea, its Petroleum Minister Rostam Qasemi announced Sunday. The news was posted on the Iranian
President Shimon Peres challenged presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday to back up their vows not let Iran go nuclear. “I want to see actual results,” the Israeli president
A slick little attempt by the Palestinian Authority to gain statehood recognition — at least on paper — in a listing at a United Nations convention on climate change was
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared war on illegal infiltrators at the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday and said he will fly to Africa to discuss sending them back home. The Cabinet
Army defectors squared off against their former compatriots Sunday in one of the fiercest battles to wrack the country in Syria’s emerging civil war. Loyalist forces backed by tanks clashed with
The downing of an American stealth RQ-170 Sentinel drone last week has caused consternation in the United States, who didn’t believe Iran capable of such an electronic or other military
Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt is expected to depart for Cairo on Monday, the Foreign Ministry announced Saturday evening. But because no secure embassy building yet exists for Israel in
Some of the participants in the 2011 Pan Arab Games, taking place in Qatar, were upset this weekend after discovering that a map showing “Palestine” presented its boundaries as only
The IDF retaliated once again for a barrage of rocket fire aimed at southern Israel overnight Saturday. According to a statement by the IDF Spokesman, IAF aircraft struck a weapons
Gilad Shalit, who was freed in October after five and a half years in Hamas captivity, thanked on Saturday the many activists who had worked to secure his release. The
Israel’s Professor Dan Schechtman was honored Saturday night by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, who awarded a gold medal to the Technion Institute researcher, part of the Nobel Prize
Israeli fighter pilots attacked terrorist targets in southern Gaza late Friday night in retalation for a barrage of rocket fire aimed at southern Israel earlier in the day. According to
Terrorists resumed their rocket fire on southern Israeli communities early Saturday morning. Two Grad Katyusha rockets slammed into the Asheklon Coastal Region, both exploding in open areas of the district. Earlier
In the biggest protests since the fall of the Soviet Union, some 50,000 people approached the Kremlin to protest the rule of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Demonstrators claimed in a
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, currently mayor of Chicago, says the bond between the United States and Israel is “rock solid.” In a televised interview with
Don’t be fooled by the beautiful, blue, calm waters you see when you go to the beach; the ocean is actually a dangerous place. Not because of the sharks and
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has gotten himself into hot water with the Arab world, and with the Palestinian Authority over an interview he gave to The Jewish Channel. Gingrich
The Washington Post castigated President Barack Obama in an editorial Friday for sending Iran “the wrong signals” in the showdown over its nuclear weapons program. “Iran has been showing signs
The rockets and missiles from Gaza continued to fly on Friday afternoon and early evening (Israel time), as it became clear that residents of southern Israel will have to spend