Interior Minister and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri met Thursday with France’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Joseph Haim Sitruk, and discussed the situation of French Jewry, and the Jewish concerns following the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night decided to appoint Nadav Argaman as the new head of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet or Shabak), as the current ISA chief

Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign defended on Thursday an endorsement from evangelical Pastor Mike Bickle, whose statements regarding Biblical prophecies about the persecution of Jews aroused the ire of some Jewish leaders.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Thursday that if Arab forces entered the Syrian war, they could spark a “new world war” and urged ceasefire talks instead. Asked about proposals by some Arab countries to

NATO is considering joining the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria and Iraq, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday. “Thanks to the leadership of NATO (head) Jens Stoltenberg we are

Over 4,000 French students attended the Jewish Agency’s Israel education fair at the Hyatt Hotel in Paris this week.  The fair, which was cosponsored by MASA Israel, presented the prospective students

After Tourism Minister Yariv Levin asserted US Reform Jews would become “irrelevant” within two generations, the denomination hit back by scrapping a planned meeting between the minister and community representatives.  The

In the wake of the recent stabbing attack in Beit Horon which claimed the life of 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman, Israel Police and the IDF investigated the circumstances of the attack. In the

A Netzah Yehuda soldier was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for the beating several months ago of two Arab terrorists detained at the Harmash base in Samaria.  He was

An Israeli parliamentarian has drawn ire and ridicule after suggesting “Palestine” is a borrowed term that Palestinians themselves cannot pronounce. “The letter P doesn’t exist in Arabic, so the borrowed term Palestine

70 percent of the Israeli populace believes that primary elections to determine the leader of a political party is a style of party leadership that brings a high level of corruption

Holocaust survivors expressed outrage Wednesday after an Austrian prosecutor appeared to justify an article in a far-right magazine calling people liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp a criminal “plague.” An article in the

Head of the Israeli news agency “Makor Yisraeli”, David Bedein, fiercely attacked the IDF Civil Administration as well as the Ministry of Education for allowing the distribution of schoolbooks that

(AFP) Israeli navy veteran Ami Daniel points at his computer screen and explains why the ship he was tracking should have been stopped and searched. It sailed near the Libyan

An indictment was filed Thursday at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court against an unnamed Israeli diplomat accused of beating his daughter. According to the indictment, Channel 10 reports, the beatings took place while the

French lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of measures to change the constitution following the November 13 jihadist attacks on Paris, but doubts remain as to whether the package will be

MK Aida Touma-Suleiman, a member of the Hadash faction of the Joint List party, on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of “deliberate incitement” against the Arab MKs which, she

MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), head of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, vowed on Wednesday to work to remove MKs who support terrorism from the Knesset, one by

A Hamas cleric recently criticized Palestinian Authority (PA) officials who said that they thwarted anti-Israeli terror attacks and declared that “Israeli blood is not on a par with Palestinian blood”.

Nabil Shaath, a member of the Central Committee of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, is calling on France and other countries in the European Union (EU) to

(AFP) A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard will go on trial Thursday for complicity in the murders of tens of thousands of people at the Nazi concentration camp. Reinhold Hanning faces court in the western

After three straight weekends of rain and cold, Israelis finally have some sun to look forward to as the week ends.  Thursday morning’s forecast will see light rain in the north and along the

Israeli history is about to be made once again, and this time by Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud). Erdan intends to establish an executive administration that will be tasked

Senior officers in the IDF’s Southern Command have begun to express concerns that the security situation along Israel’s border with Gaza is nearing the same levels of strain as during Operation

Iranian state TV has released new footage purportedly showing an American sailor crying while in captivity. The footage shows one of 10 US Navy sailors rubbing his eyes and apparently

What’s the idea of building the Holy Temple really all about? Is it relevant for our world today? Who needs it anyway? This week, as we read parashat Terumah with

Iranian state TV has released new footage purportedly showing an American sailor crying while in captivity. The footage shows one of 10 US Navy sailors rubbing his eyes and apparently