The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, USA, has put on display a rare letter signed by Adolf Hitler in 1919 that calls for the “removal of the Jews.”.
Israeli scientist Daniel Schechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. Schechtman is a distinguished professor at the Institute of Technology in Haifa. “This
More than 10,000 people accompanied Rabbi Hanan Porat, 67, to his final resting place Wednesday, after his death Tuesday following a long struggle with cancer. The MK, who served nearly
The Palestinian Authority is losing no time is pushing its agenda of gaining diplomatic ground as a full member in as many United Nations committees and agencies as possible, in
A senior Fatah official and confidant of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for Tony Blair to be replaced as international Middle East envoy. Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Fatah Central
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Israel is a “threat” to the Mideast because it possesses nuclear weapons, AFP reports. “I right now see Israel as a
The prosecution does not plan on asking for a death sentence for Amjad Awad, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the horrific murders of five members of the Fogel family
Jewish Home chairman MK Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz visited the Binyamin hilltop community of Givat Assaf, which is under threat of an expulsion. Joining Hershkowitz on the tour was National
The German government has launched a last-chance blitzkrieg on the dormant cases of hundreds of former guards and other personnel at Nazi death camps. The investigations come in the wake
Mainstream Arab violence is escalating in Israel. Two young Arab Israeli men from the Lower Galilee town of Kfar Yafia, a suburb of Nazareth allegedly opened fire at police Wednesday
Palestinian Officials in Ramallah blasted Tuesday a decision by US lawmakers to freeze a bloc of $200 million in aid to their fiscally teetering apparatus. The officials’ angry rhetoric came
The “Arab Spring” may yet yield a winter of discontent, says Mohammed el-Baradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and current candidate for the presidency of
Iran’s Fars news service quoted what it said was a conversation between Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in which Assad threatened to “shower Israel with
Iranians who fled their country after converting to Christianity have received death threats in their new homes overseas, according to the religious rights group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). At least
European nations are calling for a vote on a UN resolution that would consider sanctions against Syria if President Bashar Assad’s government does not immediately halt its military crackdown against
Nobel Peace Prizes have lately been awarded with a view to providing encouragement rather than necessarily recognizing something accomplished. Although the Arab Spring is a work in the making it
Amjad Awad on Tuesday pleaded guilty to the horrific slaying of five members of the Fogel family in Itamar on March 11. Amjad, 19, who perpetrated the mass murder with
The Jewish community of Shvut Rachel, located 30 miles north of Jerusalem, will reportedly receive final state approval. The State told the High Court of Justice in a brief that
After Sunday’s report that Egypt is set to release dual U.S.-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel after nearly four months, another report released on Monday sheds some more light on the deal
The Obama administration is lobbying Congress to unblock $200 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority that was frozen because of its statehood bid in the United Nations, Reuters reported
The Palestinian Authority’s minister for prisoner affairs said on Monday that hundreds of PA Arabs in Israeli jails have joined a hunger strike to protest against worsening their prison conditions,
Documents on the murder of Jews in eastern Europe are to be made available to researchers worldwide after generations in which they were hidden or inaccessible. The Holocaust-era files will
Former IDF soldiers may find themselves called back to duty more frequently this year as the IDF responds to growing terrorist threats from Sinai. Following the deadly attacks near Eilat
The United States has imposed additional sanctions on Syria after a particularly violent weekend. The Treasury Department announced Monday that it will prohibit American companies from selling telecommunications equipment to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Monday with United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in Jerusalem. Netanyahu thanked Panetta for coming to Jerusalem and told him, “You’re coming to
Egypt, which currently provides about 40 percent of Israel’s natural gas through its Sinai Peninsula pipeline, has reportedly agreed to halt sales to the Jewish State during a conference in
A telecom employee arrested last year for allegedly being part of a network of Israeli spies in Lebanon began a hunger strike on Monday to protest his continued incarceration. Tareq
Two out of three of the scientists who have won this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries on the immune system are Jews. But in a poignant development, one
An Iraqi poet who converted from Islam to Christianity, and who expressed pain over the loss of six million Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, has paid the price for his
Some of the funniest moments of Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.