President Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first American president to speak at the embassy of a foreign country, when he visited the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., and spoke

A 27-year-old Jewish Canadian woman was stabbed overnight in Montreal, local media reports Wednesday.  Police were called to the scene of the attack at the intersection of Monkland and Girouard streets at around 12:45

The annual ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held Wednesday at the UN General Assembly.  In an unprecedented move, Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon gave up his

An 85-year-old man suffering hypothermia was evacuated unconscious and in serious condition from his home in Bat Yam to Wolfson Hospital in Holon on Wednesday evening.  Magen David Adom medic Roni

Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage associated with the development of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes. Resulting from anatomical deformation, excessive pressure and poor blood supply, it

Following the revelation it had ignored eyewitness reports of Nashat Milhem’s whereabouts, the Israel Police issued a staunch denial of any wrongdoing on Wednesday evening.  Milhem gunned down three people in Tel Aviv

Meir Ettinger, 24, of Samaria and Jerusalem, lost consciousness Tuesday after a week-long hunger strike in his isolation cell in Be’er Sheva’s Eshel Prison. He was taken to receive medical care.

Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev (Likud) has brought her “Loyalty in Culture” bill to the Knesset Education Committee. The proposed bill, which has already been passed to the Justice Ministry

Sadly, 2016 has begun much like 2015 ended – with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse across the spectrum in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. Stabbings,

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on Wednesday spoke to reporters about commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The scar, the indelible scar that the Shoah (Holocaust) has left

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said during a discussion in the plenum Wednesday that there are no words to describe the hypocrisy of world leaders, who invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich decided Wednesday to break his promise from last Friday, when he said he would not vote with the coalition until the return of 200 Jews evicted that morning

A genetic disease heretofore unknown in the scientific literature has been discovered by doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. The doctors who succeeded in treating the disease are referring

Nominations are now being accepted for the second annual Jerusalem Unity Prize. The prestigious award was originally created by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and the Sha’ar, Frenkel and Yifrah families in memories

Transparency International (TI) has published its findings regarding which countries were the most corrupt in 2015. In ranking 168 countries, Israel ranked 32 from the top. TI ranked their findings

Meir Habib, a Jewish member of the French parliament, on Tuesday said that the strengthening of relations between France and Iran should take place only on the condition that the

Both the United States and the European Union (EU) on Tuesday reiterated their opposition to Israeli “settlement activities” in Judea and Samaria. But, speaking after UN chief Ban Ki-moon appeared

A year and a half after the Beach Boys cancelled a concert in Israel, the band’s lead singer has announced that he will perform in the Jewish state, Haaretz reported

Canada’s Liberal-led government will begin to lift some of the sanctions on Iran, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion said on Tuesday, according to the CBC. “It’s true that the

President Reuven Rivlin is to make public on Wednesday previously unreleased documents including a handwritten request for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Rivlin’s office said in a statement that the request to then

In Jerusalem, the city council has decided in conjunction with the parental committee that schools will open as usual on Wednesday, despite the cold in the wake of the storm

Sony Corporation has purchased the Israeli chip manufacturing company Altair for $212 million or 25 billion Yen. The Israeli company that was almost recently purchased by the Chinese conglomerate Infotmic has

IDF forces and Civil Administration crews mapped out the homes of the two Arab terrorists who on Monday conducted a lethal stabbing attack in Beit Horon, Samaria, in which 23-year-old Shlomit Krigman

Channel 10 news reports that the Teachers Federation is set to strike Wednesday morning in middle schools as well as high schools across the country, due to government promises being left unfulfilled

Jewish-Canadian businessman Paul Bronfman has told Toronto’s York University to take down a poster promoting violence against Israel or lose his financial support. The poster, which has been hanging on the

A Hamas tunnel collapsed on Tuesday night in the al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, Palestinian Authority-based media reported. Anywhere from six to 11 people were killed in the incident, according

A 23-year-old arrested by the FBI for planning a shooting attack in Milwaukee originally planned to attack Israelis, it was reported on Tuesday. According to WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, the suspect,

Jerusalem police issued an administrative decree on Tuesday against Yair Kehati, a central activist in the “Return to the Mount” movement, distancing him from Temple Mount and the area leading

In the past several days the Palestinian Authority has arrested the brother and son of a Palestinian Arab man who sold two houses to Jews in Hevron, Arutz Sheva has

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that Europeans were not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism, in a statement on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.   Netanyahu, who has