The Islamic State (ISIS) group has lost around a third of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, according to figures provided Tuesday by the US-led coalition. “In Iraq, it’s about 40%,”
An IDF officer in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, also known as Nahal Haredi, was killed and another soldier was lightly to moderately wounded on Tuesday in a tragic training accident. The
The family of Netanel Arami, a Jewish construction worker who was murdered by Arab coworkers in September 2014, have turned to the new police chief Roni Alsheich asking him to “bring in
A harsh sentence was imposed Tuesday evening on an Etzion Regional Brigade corporal convicted of disclosing classified military information. Elad Sela was sentenced to 45 months in prison, will be on probation
A misspelling put a damper on an official memorial ceremony for the victims of the terror attack at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris last year. French President Francois Hollande was in
A resident of Herzliya alerted police to the location of terror suspect Ahmad Khatib on Tuesday, after the Arab from eastern Jerusalem threatened to carry out an attack in the coastal city. Police
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northeastern India early Monday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring over 90 more. The Bnei Menashe (sons of Manasseh), who claim descent from one of
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned Hezbollah for attacking IDF troops near the Lebanon-Israel border a day earlier, but also criticized Israel for retaliating. In a statement, Ban said
Leave it to Kabbalah to fill in the blanks. On one hand, everyone seems to know that the Land of Israel is special, and some of the simpler differences can
Ron Kehrmann, whose 17-year-old daughter Tal was murdered in a suicide terror attack on Egged Route 37 in Haifa in 2003, is calling on the Israel Prison Service to reject a
Israel has been in an uproar since video from a controversial wedding was leaked to the press late last month three weeks after it took place, with the groom and various
An Israeli humanitarian aid agency has dispatched a disaster relief team to assist flood victims in northern England, the UK-based Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported Tuesday. Four volunteers from the IsraAID charity arrived in London on Monday and
The father of fugitive terrorist Nashat Melhem spoke with his son shortly after he conducted a deadly shooting attack at a Tel Aviv pub, it was revealed on Tuesday night. Mohammed Melhem’s
The two female Border Police officers who accidentally shot dead Ofer Ben Ari while eliminating two terrorists during a stabbing attack in Jerusalem met for the first time with his family on Tuesday evening.
The Supreme Court will give its decision on the appeal submitted by Rabbi Yoshiyahu, the head of the Shuva Israel institute. In his appeal, Rabbi Pinto asked for the sentence of
A large force of police and border police officers are conducting an extensive search this morning for a resident of eastern Jerusalem who reportedly told his family that he intends to perpetrate
The forecast for Tuesday is mostly clear, with slightly overcast skies throughout the day. In the northern part of the country, isolated rainfall will continue throughout the day. The temperature will
About 3,500 students from Bnei Akiva and the Noam Zvia educational system took part in a “march of longing” in memory of Gush Katif yesterday (Monday). “Longing” in Hebrew is Kissufim, also
Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) used the Knesset plenum to accuse the Zionist Camp party of attempting to smear the name of the Jewish community in Judea and
Saudi Arabia’s mission to the United Nations on Monday defended the execution of 47 men, including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, saying all of the accused had been granted fair
Ever since a jihadist attack on a kosher store left four people dead a year ago, France’s Jews have grown used to soldiers patrolling their neighborhoods and schools. While a comfort to some,
The non-profit Shurat Hadin-The Israel Law Center organization has conducted an investigation which proves unequivocally that Facebook discriminates against Israelis. The investigation included an experiment in which two fictitious Facebook
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday unveiled his first television ad of the presidential election campaign, in which he reiterated his call for a temporary ban on Muslim entry
The father of an eight-year-old boy from Ofakim claims that, while his son was undergoing ear surgery in Be’er Sheva’s Assuta Hospital, the anesthesiologist left the room in the middle of
A fact-finding mission by the UN chemical weapons watchdog has found that some people in Syria may have been exposed to sarin or a sarin-like gas, according to a report
Dr. Dmitry Shumsky of Hebrew University published an article in Ha’aretz Monday in which he pointed out alleged differences between Arab terrorism against Jews and the attack on the Dawabshe family in
Following yesterday’s incident on Israel’s northern border, Russia has asked Hezbollah to calm down. According to Al-Arabia reports, Moscow, which assists the terror organization in Syria, has made a direct request
The UN envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was in Riyadh Tuesday for talks with diplomats and Syrian opposition representatives on efforts to end the nearly five-year war, an Arab source said. His visit comes amid
Professor Yaacov Katz, the president of Jerusalem College for religious women, known in Hebrew as Michlalah, eulogized Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Cooperman, the founder of the college who passed away at
According to official police statistics, which were transmitted to the Knesset by the Knesset’s own Information and Research Center, and confirmed to Arutz Sheva, a total of eight women were