Over a hundred thousand people took part on Tuesday in the funeral of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, head of the famed Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the largest yeshiva in Israel and

An Egyptian pipeline which provides gas to Israel and Jordan was once again hit by an explosion early Thursday morning. Egypt’s security services told AFP that the blast occurred 40

The White House is trying to stifle diplomatic fallout from an open microphone incident in which President Barack Obama appeared to show frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In

In a last effort to encourage votes for the Dead Sea as one of the new seven wonders of nature, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has released a video in which

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) condemned Wednesday “price tag” phenomenon while simultaneously warning Israelis not to repeat the mistake made by leftists after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

The Taliban suffered an embarrassing defeat when as many at 70 fighters were killed during an attempted raid on a coalition forces base in eastern Afhganistan, the Associated Press reported

At least three people are dead after an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit eastern Turkey on Wednesday evening, causing a six-storey hotel and other buildings to collapse

Two-thirds of the Jewish public in Israel favors a tough response to Gaza terrorists’ recent attacks on civilians in the south, according to a poll conducted by the Israel Democracy

British Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed the UK would abstain in the UN Security Council should the Palestinian Authority application for statehood be brought to a vote, AFP reported Wednesday.

GOP nomination contender Mitt Romney continued wooing Jewish voters upset with the Obama administration’s policy towards Israel, this time saying US President Barack Obama had proven his disdain for the

“The IAEA report corroborates the position of the international community, and of Israel, that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. “The significance of the report is that the international community must

A Tel Aviv University researcher warns the deadly polio virus is still a threat, contrary to the widespread belief in Western countries the disease no longer exists. Dr. Lester Shulman

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a leading figure in the religious world and the spiritual head of Shas, has stepped into the debate over the fate of several Jewish communities in Judea

More than six years after the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, families from Netzarim, Atzmona and elsewhere are finally settling down in new homes. The homes are in the new

MK Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), a former IDF Chief of Staff, on Tuesday said that Iran’s nuclear program was the ultimate limtus test for US President Barak Obama’s foreign policy. “We are approaching the point

Military officials said on Tuesday that a terrorist cell that was recently targeted by IAF aircraft in Rafah was about to fire a rocket with a range of 80 kilometers,

The White House would not deny or confirm on Tuesday the reports of a conversation between President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in which the latter called Prime

Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman is considering easing the sentences of some of the Jewish prisoners currently serving time in Israeli prisons. Neeman has reportedly given Attorney Ami Palmor, who heads

  Terrorists in Gaza launched a Qassam rocket at the Shaar HaNegev region, a district with a population of 6000 located in southern Israel between Beer Sheba and Ashkelon, shortly after six

Attorneys for the government filed a motion asking Israel’s High Court to extend the deadline for them to file their position on the destruction of neighborhoods and communities in Judea

Senator John McCain, the Republican standardbearer in 2008, was highly critical of the exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama in which Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin

  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report Tuesday saying it had credible intelligence Iran is seeking nuclear weapons technology. “The agency has serious concerns regarding possible military

Top commanders in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened Tuesday to kill “dozens” of US citizens should Washington kill any of its members. “You also should not forget that American commanders have

Months after President Barack Obama hastened the end of the Mubarak regime, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants the military regime in Cairo to move faster on elections. Parliamentary

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday only “crippling sanctions” against Iran’s central bank and gas industries would halt Tehran’s nuclear program. Lieberman’s remarks were made ahead of the publication of

IDF top censor Brig. Gen. Sima Vaknin told attendees at Haifa University lecture Wednesday that public discourse about a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear program did not compromise Israel’s national