Senior Fatah official Mahmoud al-Aloul said Friday there is no plan to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, the semi-official Maan News reported. The central committee member said officials were calling for

Bosnia’s trio of presidents said Thursday they could not agree on whether to support PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statehood bid at the United Nations. Bosnia’s presidency has been shared by

An attempt by a Palestinian Authority Arab to enter the community of Itamar on Thursday disguised as a hareidi Jew was thwarted at the last moment. The incident began in

About fifty people demonstrated on Thursday evening outside the home of Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman in Jerusalem, demanding the release of Jewish prisoners. The demonstrators held signs which read “release

The fact that Turkey agreed to accept aid from Israel to assist in rescue efforts of the thousands who were injured or killed has no political meaning, Turkish Foreign Minister

Yitzchak Hershkowitz’s struggle to claim property he bought and paid for fairly and squarely was bumped up a notch this week, as he tried to pave a road to the

The British government gives over half a million pounds Sterling annually, funding Israeli political organizations – nearly all of them leftist – but gives nothing at all to groups in

Hamas interior minister Fathi Hamad said Israel’s 2005 “Disengagement” from Gaza, “helped us conceal Gilad Shalit for five years.” Hamad was referring to the absence of an Israeli military presence

Syrian troops began planting mines along a border region it shares with northern Lebanon on Thursday, a local Lebanese official told AFP. “Officials told us the

Ilan Grapel was released from an Egyptian jail and boarded a jet bound for Israel on Thursday afternoon as a part of an exchange for 25 Egyptians held in Israeli

Despite the oceans of conflict that continue to divide Palestinian Authority Arabs from Israelis, a U.S.-based American Jewish group has begun a cross-cultural initiative to create dialogue between the two.

Meir Indor, Head of the Almagor Terror Victims’ organization, criticized on Wednesday the deal Israel signed with Egypt to free Ilan Grapel. Indor told Arutz Sheva that by agreeing to

With Gilad Shalit and Ilan Grapel freed from the clutches of their Hamas and Egyptian captors respectively, attention is now turning to yet another Israeli in prison in Egypt – 

The ruins of a former Jewish town in northern Gaza on Wednesday night became the launching pad for Grad Katyusha attacks on southern Israel. Military sources said three missiles fired

While Israel has made numerous – so far unsuccessful – attempts to persuade the Palestinian Authority to temper its anti-Israel school curriculum, which essentially denies Israel’s right to exist and

Egyptian security sources say Ilan Grapel won’t be returned to Israel until mid-to-late afternoon. According to a report published on the Arabic-language website of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Grapel’s

Saudi Arabia’s controversial Islamist and preacher, Sheikh Awad al Qarni, offered a bounty of $100,000 for the kidnapping of any IDF in ‘Palestine’ who can be used as leverage to

A military vehicle was that was on patrol south of Bethlehem hit a roadside bomb near Khirbet Eliya on Wednesday evening. The bomb exploded, causing damage to the vehicle. The

Terrorists from Gaza fired a Grad missile towards southern Israel late Wednesday evening. The IDF Spokesperson said that the missile exploded in Ashdod. There were no physical injuries, but several

An obscure political action group has started a controversial campaign in Egypt demanding the country’s military ruler, Hussein Tantawi, run for president. “We originally planned to launch the campaign around

The High Court rejected Wednesday evening motions against the deal with Egypt for freeing Israeli anarchist Ilan Grapel, who was arrested when he took part in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

Ahlam Tamimi,  sentenced to 16 life sentences for her involvement in the “Sbarro” suicide bombing on 9 August 2001 in Jerusalem, says she had no regrets and stressed she would,

Hani Ressami, who murdered yeshiva student Erez Samuel in Hevron, was released last week as part of a deal with Hamas to exchange 1,027 terrorists for the freedom of kidnapped

Muammar Qaddafi’s son and heir-apparent, Saif al-Islam, has escaped Libya and is reported to be heading for Niger, its southern neighbor. According to Rissa ag Boula, a Nigerian presidential adviser

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is friendly to Jews, but his problem is Zionists – although he says there are only 10,000 of them in the entire world. Speaking

The temperature in the province of Van in eastern Turkey is falling, and snow is predicted. Search and rescue teams are rapidly being transformed into recovery units, as officials begin

The Foreign Ministry Wednesday issued a situation assessment to Israeli embassies worldwide that lambasts Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) and says that an agreement between Israel