German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday admitted that anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe. Speaking in her weekly podcast and quoted by Haaretz, Merkel called for action

At least 19 people are dead as a result of “Snowzilla”, the nickname that has been given to the blizzard pounding the United States East Coast, as of Saturday night. Officials quoted

A senior British MP has compared a violent anti-Israel riot at a London university last week to kristallnacht, as condemnation of the violence carried out by pro-Palestinian activists continues to mount. In an interview with Sky

An off duty volunteer police officer in Sderot played a pivotal role in arresting a burglar in the southern city last Saturday.   The volunteer who was not on shift

Leftist singer Achinoam Nini announced Sunday her intention to quit the Israeli Union of Performing Artists (IUPA) following its decision to honor singer and composer Ariel Zilber with a lifetime achievement award.  “During this

Deputy Attorney General for Special Projects Amit Isman, has decided against opening a criminal case into the Im Tirzu “foreign agents” video. According to a letter sent by Attorney Ilona Inbar

Controversial anti-Israel politician and London Mayoral candidate George Galloway has been accused of “fascism,” after refusing a man entry to his events because he is pro-Israel. Jewish activist Ben Gross of

Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators rioted outside a Shabbat reception for Jewish attendees of a gay activism conference in Chicago on Friday night, JTA reports Sunday.  The Creating Change conference was hosted by A Wider

The citizens of Palermo didn’t wait for a round number to commemorate the expulsion, forced conversion and persecution of Jews in Sicily over five centuries ago. Earlier this month, exactly 523 years

The ties between India and Israel are about to get tighter. The Indian government recently raised the proposal to ask for Israeli help in building a ‘smart-fence’ similar to the

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s senior political adviser, Itzik Ashkenazi, on Saturday took to Twitter to blast the Jewish Home party, saying its presence in the coalition is “harmful”. According to

Gaza terrorists on Saturday night attempted to attack southern Israel with a rocket, but missed their target and the rocket exploded on the Palestinian side of the border. There were

Suspected Russian raids killed 33 civilians in war-ravaged eastern Syria on Saturday, amid reports US forces are building up an air base to bolster their fight against jihadists further north. Meanwhile, senior diplomats scrambled

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously considering a presidential bid on an independent ballot, according to sources close to the Jewish billionaire. Bloomberg is willing to spend

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) went on TV to state his threat that he will stop voting with the coalition, after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Friday evicted 200 Jews from

The first German feature-length biopic on the Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank who was murdered by the Nazis will premiere next month at the 66th Berlin film festival, organizers said Friday. “Das Tagebuch

Youthful Bnei Akiva guides in Chicago sent flowers to the family of Dafna Meir, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist last week on Sunday at the entrance to her

Norwegian Ambassador to Lebanon Lene Lind met last Wednesday with Ali Baraka, a senior Hamas official in Lebanon who functions as the terrorist organization’s representative in the country. According to

US President Barack Obama called former President Shimon Peres over the weekend to wish him well, after Peres suffered a heart attack. In the conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their

Several members of the US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq and Syria are doing “nothing at all” to help destroy the jihadists, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday. His

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) municipality in Bethlehem, Judea, held an event in late December honoring 52 terrorist prisoners from the city serving life sentences, with a particularly ironic twist taking

Even as Israel is set to receive its own first snowstorm of the year, the East Coast of the US has come in for a particularly serious blizzard, with already at

US President Barack Obama called former President Shimon Peres over the weekend to wish him well, after Peres suffered a heart attack. In the conversation, Obama thanked Peres for their

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an opposition organization in Syria, reports that a Syrian woman was publicly executed by her son after she attempted to have him quit ISIS. The execution

The rain and snowstorm bearing down on Israel began on Saturday with periodic rains from the north of the country to the Negev in the south, with several thunderstorms also

An Israeli Holocaust survivor may be the world’s oldest man at 112, Guinness World Records said Thursday, providing he can find the documents to prove it. His family say Yisrael Kristal was born in

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday joined in on the global condemnation following Israel’s initiative to declare 1500 dunams (371 acres) of land north of the town of Almog, near

A spokesman for the Kremlin on Friday denied reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a senior intelligence official to Damascus late last year to ask Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday said he backs Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon with regards to the eviction of Jews from their Hevron homes earlier in the day. “We all

President Barack Obama will visit the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on the evening of January 27, where he will take part in the first ever ceremony in the United