The White House on Wednesday indicated that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad should not be part of any transitional unity government, echoing views from regime opponents inside the war-shattered country. Responding

The President of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages, Rabbi Shlomo Cohen, has offered his encouragement to party head Aryeh Deri, as reports come out of a new police investigation into

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded to a letter in which US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for an investigation into claims that Israel carries out extrajudicial killings against Palestinians. “The

Im Tirtzu, a Zionist activist organization, held a special ceremony this week in recognition of the work of Sara Zoabi on behalf of the IDF and the Zionist movement. But

Yair Farjun, the head of the Ashkelon Beach Regional Council, has revealed the sad reality of the families evacuated from Gush Katif to senior members of the Hemed religious education administration.

Syria’s main opposition High Negotiations Committee on Wednesday flatly rejected a demand from President Bashar al-Assad for any transitional government to include his regime. “International resolutions speak of… the formation

Arutz Sheva spoke with several new arrivals from Ukraine, to understand their perspective on their new home. All of the olim shared their joy as they looked forward to the freedom

New indications that the Republican Party could be headed for a split came on Tuesday during a town hall meeting in Milwaukee a week before Wisconsin’s GOP primary on April

Help can come from the unlikeliest of places, particularly when spies and assassinations are involved. In the 1960s a number of former Nazi scientists were assisting Egypt develop advanced rockets, which

Attorney Binyamin Malka, one of two lawyers defending the IDF soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday about the ongoing court drama. At

Hamas on Wednesday called to “saturate” the ground in blood during a large ceremony held on the border of Gaza for “Land Day,” in the 40th annual marking of the event. Arab

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month ordered the “main part” of his forces out of Syria in a surprise withdrawal – but according to a Reuters analysis on Wednesday, he has since

French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday he was scrapping contested constitutional reforms proposed after the Paris attacks, in an embarrassing U-turn for his already beleaguered government. The reforms included a plan to strip convicted

The Associated Press news agency cooperated with the Nazi regime during the 1930s, a German historian has exposed. In an article for the Studies in Contemporary History journal, historian Harriet Scharnberg revealed archival

MK Amir Ohana (Likud) has submitted an urgent query to Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) about the latest revelations of NGOs acting against the IDF from within Israel. Ohana asked

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot sent a letter Wednesday warning troops to use “appropriate force,” after a soldier was caught on video shooting dead a wounded Palestinian terrorist. The soldier

The head of the Jewish Home party’s Anglo Forum is vying for a place on the party’s Presidential Board. Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) Anglo Forum Chairman Jeremy Saltan announced his candidacy yesterday for a

The Mukosieiev family is eager to be starting a new life in Israel. The family consists of  Serhii (age 46), Elena (age 44), their son Davyd (age 14) and Serhii’s mother

With European Jewry on edge after a series of terror attacks that have rocked the continent, one of the victims personifies a growing trend among Jews in Europe. Walter Benjamin,

The FBI told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in last week’s suicide attacks in Brussels, the

France on Tuesday hailed the recapture by Syrian forces of the ancient city of Palmyra as “positive news”, but stressed that Damascus bore the main blame for the war in

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has apologized for using the label “occupation” – no, not in the context of Israel’s presence in its Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria which he regularly

In 1945, Aleksandar Lebl returned to Serbia after escaping the attempted genocide of all Jews in World War II and reclaimed his family’s confiscated house. But the 93-year-old is one of the very few

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) was revealed on Tuesday night to be the subject of a corruption investigation, but according to reports another senior politician is also being investigated in the

MK Mickey Rosenthal of the Zionist Union party’s Labor faction on Wednesday morning criticized Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, after it was revealed the night before that he

Action film legend Jean-Claude Van Damme is currently in Israel on a five-day visit to the Holy Land, but the famous martial arts star apparently let opponents of Israel get

Yaffa Deri, the wife of Shas chairperson and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, expressed optimism on Wednesday morning regarding the police investigation against her husband on suspicions of corruption, which was revealed the night

Attorney Ilan Katz, who is heading the defense team for the soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, said on Wednesday that the soldier’s lawyers will not