The Rabbinate has come out in criticism of a new campaign circulating on “Voice of Israel” radio, which advertises wedding ceremonies not in line with traditional Jewish law that are

The Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) has opened an official inquiry following the publication of a video showing a Border Policeman grabbing a little girl’s bike in Hevron. The video

The Education, Culture and Sports Committee decided to recognize the Armenian genocide on Monday at a meeting initiated by Meretz Chairwoman MK Zehava Galon. “It is our moral obligation to

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked opined on Tuesday that despite the internal cat-fights between Jewish Home and Likud this past week, the coalition will survive until the next term. In a

During a lecture this morning, former President Shimon Peres, who turned 93 today, was interrupted for a surprise birthday celebration in front of hundreds of soldiers and officers of the

A series of special events are being held in the Knesset today (Tuesday), marking 11 years since the uprooting of the towns of Gush Katif and northern Samaria, as part

The Knesset Ethics Committee leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev for appearing in a promo for a TV show. MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), had recently filed an official complaint

A special Knesset committee convened this morning to discuss the rights of a boy from the village of Yitzhar, who has been legally distanced from his parents’ home, on the

In the latest round of Hillary versus Donald, the Republican presidential nominee called Hillary Clinton “the devil,” referring to her abuse of competitor Bernie Sanders in her race to the

Prosecutors have filed an indictment in the Jerusalem District Court against Muhamad Alkam, 18, who lives in Shuafat, for premeditated murder in an argument over change at the grocery store.

A new study put out by the University of Haifa, which assessed the level of fear among Israeli Jews and Arabs during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead,

A young woman who returned home to The Netherlands with her two children after fleeing Syria has been arrested on suspicion of links to the jihadist Islamic State group, officials

Russian warplanes pounded the southern edges of Syria’s Aleppo city overnight, slowing a “last chance” rebel offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a monitor said Tuesday. Jihadists and rebel groups

The EU on Tuesday named top British diplomat Julian King to the new post of security commissioner tasked with fighting terrorism, organised and cyber crime as London prepares to quit

At the end of their investigations into the attempted a terror attack on the Jerusalem Light Rail, Israel Police and Shabak have submitted a joint prosecutor’s statement against the Arab

A 60-year-old woman has given birth at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot to a healthy baby girl, Channel 10 reported this morning (Tuesday). The girl weighed 2.2 kilograms (4.8

The intense heat of the Jerusalem summer has arrived. For many families it is a time for relaxation and fun. But for an impoverished family with two children and an

Shells fired by Syrian rebel groups killed at least 28 civilians in southwestern districts of the battleground city of Aleppo over the last 24 hours, a monitor said late Monday.

The police is recommending that the criminal investigation against opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) be closed, Channel 2 News reported on Monday. According to the report, the police

Alon Day could make history as the first Israeli to drive in a NASCAR national series race. Day, a 24-year-old from Ashdod, Israel, is poised to make his debut in

A new CNN/ORC Poll has found that Hillary Clinton has a 9% lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump. The poll was released hours after a CBS poll found that

The diary of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler was discovered filed in an archive in Russia. The diary, actually a service calendar including dates, meetings and military decisions, was discovered

A letter written by Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved some 1,200 Jews from the Nazis, to his bookkeeper Itzhak Stern is for sale online. The letter is on

A Chinese consortium has agreed to purchase the Israeli social media games company Playtika for $4.4 billion in cash. The consortium is buying the company from Caesars Interactive Entertainment, which

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres appeared to criticize Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that carrying out his isolationist foreign policy vision would be “a very great mistake.” In an

A leader of French Jews criticized Muslim intellectuals whose petition against local jihadists omits any mention of anti-Semitic violence. The petition, signed by dozens of academics and celebrities, appeared Sunday

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has published a new ad accusing the Democratic Party of being “stridently anti-Israel” and featuring a string of attendees at last week’s Democratic convention criticizing

Is the demise of the Donald Trump movement finally beginning? After polls taken in the wake of the Republican National Convention (RNC) showed Republican nominee Trump with a lead over

The Knesset Ethics Committee decided today (Monday) on the punishment of a severe reprimand for MK Hanin Zoabi (Joint Arab List) for her inflammatory comments in a plenum debate around

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and a delegation of eleven UN ambassadors from around the world visited the Max Brenner restaurant in the Sarona Market in Tel