In case the diplomatic efforts to reach a deal on Iran’s controversial nuclear program failed, it was revealed Tuesday that the US had a very intricate contingency plan, involving a

An old and lost piece of Mozart music that had been missing for more 200 years was performed in Prague on Tuesday night, for the first time since being rediscovered. The piece was a

An old and lost piece of Mozart music that had been missing for more 200 years was performed in Prague on Tuesday night, for the first time since being rediscovered. The piece was a

Israeli officials expressed outrage late Tuesday, after the International Law Forum argued that the US Customs’ January 23 “reissuing” of orders to importers to label all products from Judea and Samaria as not being from

The Knesset Science and Technology Committee discussed on Tuesday a new project that will allow for easier access to pictures, testimonies and files about Holocaust survivors.  Committee Chairperson MK Uri Maklev

Two professors from Boston’s Jewish Wheelock College have filed complaints with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the school, in the claim that they suffered anti-Semitic discrimination that damaged

Paris city council has adopted two resolutions condemning boycotts of the state of Israel, in the latest blow to the anti-Israel boycott movement in Europe. The two non-binding resolutions were

Zion Square, a central and historic square in Jerusalem, is to be renamed Tolerance Square in memory of Shira Banki, a young woman who was murdered by a crazed zealot

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was likely satisfied by what he heard from German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Merkel, who in the past has

Does investing in rental property lower the risks posed by market volatility? Doug discusses the advantages and disadvantages of investing in the rental property market in the United States. Renting

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are leading among the Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in South Carolina’s Republican primary, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released on Tuesday. The poll found that

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Palestinian Arab hunger striker who has fasted over 80 days must stay in the northern Israeli hospital where he is being held, after

Ibrahim Khreisheh, the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, recently said that it may “be useful” to ask Arab and European countries “to allow the Jews to

Nearly 2,500 people left Gaza during a three-day humanitarian opening of the border with Egypt, according to Hamas authorities – but Egypt has now sealed the border off again. The

American Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power joined Israeli UN envoy Danny Danon for a countrywide tour of Israel to understand the Jewish state’s complex security situation. Following a

Israeli mobile firm Partner announced on Tuesday it has begun operating under its own name after splitting with French company Orange following a major diplomatic dispute last year. Orange announced

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Egyptian diplomat and the UN’s sixth Secretary General, died Tuesday at age 93. Egypt’s state-run newspaper Al-Ahram said he died in a hospital in Cairo, to which

The Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, is in some trouble after video emerged of him dancing with Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, one of the heads of Od Yosef

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has voiced his concern over Israel’s emerging alliance with Sunni Arab gulf states, and urged Arab leaders to break ties with the Jewish state. Nasrallah made

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed France’s diplomatic plan for an international conference on Middle East peace with recognition of a Palestinian state if talks fail. Netanyahu called it

Jewish historian Stephan Templ is being held in an Austrian jail for allegedly “defrauding the state” over a restitution claim, although crucial new evidence has been discovered. Templ, 55, was

The Jewish star of a hit Swedish TV series has said he left the show due to the unbearable levels of anti-Semitism in the city of Malmo, where the show

Channel 2 reporter Yair Sherki, the mainstream channel first reporter to sport peyot (earlocks worn by many religious Jews) – is feeling some remorse about his latest scoop. It was Sherki who

In an interview with Time Magazine, Former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres said that the reason that Israel achieved the Oslo accords was due to the fact the

Police apprehended a 26-year-old Arab who was caught carrying a knife outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. The Arab man aroused police suspicion and was questioned by police who searched

Nissan Slomiansky, chairman of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, predicted that the controversial “expulsion law”, which would enable the Knesset to expel members for expressions of support for terrorism,

The bus driver under investigation for Sunday’s horrific bus crash which left six dead and 12 wounded was allegedly using his phone and driving wildly in the moments leading up

Lebanese media sources revealed on Tuesday new details regarding the Hezbollah terrorist, Imad Mughniyah, who was killed eight years ago in a car bombing.  The al-Akhbar news site reported the Mughniyah

Belgian police on Tuesday arrested ten people in the Brussels area who are allegedly part of a network recruiting people to fight with the Islamic State group in Syria, prosecutors said.