The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigration Absorption put on a celebration to welcome dozens of new olim from Brazil today (Monday). Dozens of people from São Paulo,

A federal judge in Argentina has rejected a request to reopen an investigation into allegations by the late special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, according to which former President Cristina Fernández de

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Defense Ministry to begin the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria from Tuesday. “The task that was set before our Defense Ministry and armed forces has

For the first time in history, an Israeli rabbinical court has sentenced a man to prison because his son will not grant his wife a divorce. The court ordered that

Bernie Sanders may be the first Jew to have won a presidential primary, but his Jewishness is not going to help him in Tuesday’s Florida contest, according to pollsters and

The Knesset has passed a bill against illegal Arab infiltrators for its second and third readings, by a vote of 44 to 16. The new law focuses on punishing those

Oops… she did it again: Kaiya, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s dog, bit a security guard stationed at the prime minister’s residence. The incident, which is hardly the first, occurred recently and

Human Rights Watch urged Egypt on Monday to annul the jail sentences handed to four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam after they were seen in a video mocking

(AFP) One in three Syrian children have known nothing but a lifetime of war, UNICEF said Monday, as the country’s conflict enters its sixth year this week. Forced from their homes

Israeli Sociological Association, which includes over a thousand professors and researchers, announced Monday plans to impose an academic boycott on Ariel University, Army Radio reported. President of the Association, Professor

Despite its small size and relatively few natural resources, the State of Israel has forged a reputation as always being among the first to send emergency aid or rescue workers

Since the start of the five-year conflict, chemical weapons have been used at least 161 times in Syria, according to the Syrian-American Medical Society (SAMS) report released Monday. According the

An Israeli researcher at Ariel University in Samaria has discovered a revolutionary new method to stop the uncontrolled bleeding common in victims of stabbings – a medical innovation which could save countless lives in Israel and worldwide.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) discussed Monday the ongoing wave of terrorism, as well as the Ministry of Finance’s activities and goals it set for itself. In regards to the

The Torah contains lists of commandments given to guide every single aspect of Jewish life. A disproportionate 5% of these mitzvot are specific to Passover: that means 1 in every

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging Uruguay to take action, following last week’s murder of a Jew by a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar”. The Jewish merchant, David Fremd, was

A delegation from Hamas began an official visit to Cairo on Saturday, meeting with Egyptian Intelligence Service officials upon arrival at a hotel in the capital, the website of the

In what could be interpreted as another sign that rapprochement with Turkey is close, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night issued a statement condemning the suicide car bombing in

Two attacks occurred within a mere 30 minutes in Kiryat Arba, next to Hevron in Judea. In the first attack, at around 6:45 a.m., two Arab terrorists in a car

Indonesia has detained 14 people, including several children, as they allegedly tried to travel to Syria, police said, where hundreds of their countrymen have joined extremist groups like ISIS. The Indonesians were

The Interior Committee headed by MK Dudu Amsalem (Likud) the proposed “illegals law” on Sunday. The law aims to administer harsher punishment on employers who hire illegal Arab infiltrators, and to

A Hamas delegation to Cairo has asked Egyptian authorities to stop destroying its tunnels leading out from the Gaza Strip. The Hamas representatives, led by senior member Moussa Abu Marzouk, tried

After filling a petition to the Supreme Court, the Women of the Wall are asking for a response document to allow them to bring a Torah scroll to the traditional prayer

The head of a major international advertising agency made crude anti-Semitic remarks, racist comments, and jokes about raping female colleagues, an employee’s lawsuit alleges. Gustavo Martinez, CEO of J. Walter

At least 14 civilians and two soldiers were murdered by terrorists armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles in a shooting attack in Africa’s Ivory Coast on Sunday, which targeted the Grand Bassam

After the Foreign Ministry decided to “boycott” Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom, MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Camp) met with her anyway in Stockholm.  In an issued statement, Livni

Avi Solomon, a 32-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday about his incredible story and his dream to represent Israel in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics – even

A court in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday evening ordered a ban on access to Facebook and Twitter, after images from the deadly car bombing earlier in the