The Education Ministry on Thursday backed away slightly from its disqualification of a novel depicting a love story between an Israeli and Palestinian which it earlier deemed inappropriate for study

Germany will reinstate individual interviews for Syrian asylum seekers from Friday, the interior ministry said on Thursday, essentially tightening an official procedure that had been relaxed for citizens of the

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas blasted Israel on Thursday, claiming that it was the Israeli government which refuses to work towards a peace agreement with the PA and wishes

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told forces on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf Thursday that the war against the Islamic State (ISIS) group was starting to bear its fruit. “The war (against ISIS)

The Canadian government said Thursday it had welcomed more than 6,000 Syrian migrants by the end of 2015, falling short of its pledge to take in 10,000 but vowing to meet that target next month.

Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the Bnei Akiva yeshivas and a leading religious Zionist figure, on Thursday harshly criticized the impending decision to close the IDF Rabbinate’s Jewish Consciousness Department. “Harming

French President Francois Hollande said in his New Year’s Eve address to the nation Thursday that France “has not finished with terrorism yet.” Speaking six weeks after Islamic State (ISIS) gunmen and suicide bombers

The Syrian regime army launched an attack on Thursday in order to try and regain control of south-western territory that the government has lost over the last three years. The rebels

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met with a German dignitary just days after Samir Kuntar’s assassination and told him that Hezbollah would extract a heavy price from Israel for Kuntar’s death.  

Following yesterday’s arrival of “Breaking The Silence” at Tel Hai College, located near the city of Kiryat Shmonah, one enterprising pizzeria owner from the town promised a free pizza to

Prosecutors filed indictments with the Be’er Sheva District Court on Thursday against two Arabs originally from Jerusalem accused of planning a bomb attack on a hotel in Eilat.  The pair, identified

Six inebriated men reportedly shouted anti-Semitic slurs at a group of people they identified as Jewish in Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter on Tuesday. Citing Hungarian watchdog, the Forum against anti-Semitism, JTA reported the incident occurred

The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) began intensive bombardment near the Gaza Strip this morning in the area surrounding the Egyptian town of Rafah. According to Palestinian media reports EAF planes entered

The two Arab children detained in Jerusalem Wednesday carrying knives in their pockets have denied police accusations they were planning to carry out a stabbing attack in the capital.  The Jerusalem Magistrates Court

The Kremlin published on its official website Wednesday Christmas and New Year’s greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin to numerous other heads of state. In his message to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu,

According to estimates by the Central Bureau of Statistics, as of December 31, 2015, the population of Israel stands at 8.462 million people.  An approximate 6.335 million people are Jews, making

An IDF soldier in his 20s was been injured in a car-ramming attack near the Arab village of Huwara in Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead at the scene by security

With year-end Top Ten lists filling newspapers, magazines, TV shows and the internet, one of the most important concerns the way in which the media portrays Israel. Entitled “Top Ten

Two British teenagers, fined in June on charges of stealing artifacts from the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, will now face trial for the same offense, a Polish prosecutor said Wednesday. The two, back

Loading… Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has announced his opposition to Jews celebrating the secular New Year, known as “Sylvester” in Israel. In a special interview with Arutz Sheva, Riskin asserted that

Israel’s Education Ministry has disqualified a novel which depicts a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from use in high schools across the country, Haaretz reported Wednesday.  Dorit Rabinyan’s

Knesset Finance Committee chairman MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) launched an unusually harsh attack on MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) Wednesday during a discussion of budgetary transfers.  “We hate you,” Gafni

A new ticket price reform for public transportation will be taking place beginning January 1st, 2016. The reform will affect the majority of the Israeli population and be focused on Israel’s

Just hours after Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot paid a visit to Israel’s northern border with Syria, IDF forces in the Golan Heights have been placed on high alert over

As part of his campaign against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for leadership of the Likud party, freshman MK Oren Hazan has circulated among members of the ruling party a list of his achievements since

An Israeli minister and close ally of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sought Wednesday to play down revelations the United States spied on the premier’s private communications. “I didn’t fall off

The coalition faced another tough loss in the Knesset on Wednesday after a vote on a bill it supported ended with a tie.  At the end of a stormy debate, the

President Barack Obama’s administration is preparing new sanctions on international companies and individuals over Iran’s ballistic missile program, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday, according to the Reuters

The Jewish youth held for nearly a month in connection to the deadly Duma arson spoke out Wednesday a day after after his release from Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) custody.  

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Wednesday his committee will look into a report that the United States spied on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu