Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to a proposal by MKs Zeev Elkin and Yariv Levin (Likud) that would require candidates for Israel’s High Court of Justice
Lebanese politicians came to blows live on national television over the crisis in neighbouring Syria on Monday. During the melee MPs were seen hurling insults – and chairs – at
A stun grenade was thrown late Sunday night at the home of the Head of Shuva Yisrael Institutes, Rav Yashiyahu Pinto, after Israeli television’s Channel 10 revealed that he has
France warned Israel on Tuesday not to endanger civilians after one of its diplomats and his family was wounded in a retaliatory strike carried out by the IAF. French foreign
A Jewish woman was murdered in Flatbush early Tuesday morning, Yeshiva World News reported. Witnesses reported hearing the victim scream for help, and seeing a man running away from her
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is seeking to water down a bill seeking to curtail foreign donations to Israeli NGOs involved in domestic politics. Netanyahu’s opposition comes despite broad support for
IAF aircraft attacked a terror tunnel and a center of terrorist activity in northern Gaza on Tuesday night, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. According to the statement, direct
The IDF’s “tit-for-tat” response will be replaced by an offensive in Gaza if missile attacks resume, Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security
MK Danny Danon (Likud) slammed MK Ahmad Tibi’s intention to speak at a memorial service for late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat in Ramallah on Tuesday. “Tibi continues his treacherous line
Gaza terrorists launched two Qassam rockets at Israel’s communities in the western Negev late Tuesday afternoon. One rocket hit a local kindergarten. There were no physical injuries in the attack,
Iran is morally corrupt and spoiled, President Shimon Peres told CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday night. “An attack on its moral foundations is needed.” “They are the only country that threatens to destroy
The Property Tax Authority has recognized the April incident in which Palestinian Authority (PA) police murdered yeshiva student Ben Yosef Livnat as a terror act. The Authority will compensate Roi
The Civil Administration, an arm of the IDF, plans to solve charges of bias in favor of illegal Arab buildings – by defining them as legal. Jewish leaders in Judea
Hizbullah has canceled leaves and is preparing for war, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah. “Hizbullah cancelled the vacations of all its militants, summoned thousands of its members and gave
The Arab-Israeli need for water can be a bridge to peace and not a reason for bloodshed, says Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. Speaking at the international WATEC 2011 conference
A Jewish collector of Israeli art, determined to ensure the treasure would not get lost in what he referred to as “the ghetto,” has donated his collection to the American
There are now seven billion people in the world, and as in the past, experts are wringing their hands over the possibility that Malthus could finally have his day. Malthus
France has ruled out the military option in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned Monday that such a move send events into “an uncontrollable
Tunisia’s final election results confirmed the victory of a once-banned Islamist party, the country’s election commission said Monday. According to the Associated Press, the final results for the Oct. 23
The Judea Regional Brigade of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division held an educational program for all its commanders and medical teams on Monday, in preparation for a terror attack
After the embarrassing incident in which he was caught calling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a ‘liar’, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is doing some damage control. Sarkozy, who sent a condolence
Mark Langfan, the American-Israel Security 3D-Map topographer, and this year’s co-recipient of the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award at the upcoming Zionist Organization of America dinner along with his father William, has offered
For the second year in a row, a group of American wounded soldiers toured Israel on bikes with the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). The ten-day “Soldier Ride” took them from
The large Chabad-Lubavitch community in France lost an icon Monday with the passing of its first and most important female leader, Rebetzin Bassie Azimov. Described as Chabad’s “head shlucha (female emissary) of
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that Israel would be happy to lift its blockade on Hamas-run Gaza if France would pull its weight – by sending in the Foreign
Envoys from the Quartet for Middle East Peace made no headway in restarting moribund peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after separate meetings Monday, Reuters reports. “Envoys continued
Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad said Monday he will not be used as a pretext for avoiding reconciliation between Fatah and the Hamas terror organization. “It is time to
On Monday, Jordan’s King Abdullah II publicly called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, becoming the first Arab leader to call for his neighbor’s resignation. Abdullah told the
Amir Kahanovich, chief economist at Clal Finance, one of Israel’s largest brokerage houses, says a sharp rise in the price of oil, the costs of war and the damage to
The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved two bills that aim to limit foreign funding for political NGO’s in Israel on Sunday. One bill would cap donations from foreign governments’