Captain Alexander Shvarts watched on as the iron covers whirred open on the air defense system aboard the Russian navy’s Mosvka missile cruiser off the Syrian coast. “This system can fire up to twelve

Cold temperatures and localized rains will persist over the weekend after several days of rain, forecasters predict Friday morning – with snow even expected on Mt. Hermon in the Golan

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) source on Friday revealed to Israeli media that Hamas is changing its tactics in Judea and Samaria, and has given new orders to launch suicide

President Barack Obama said on Thursday that there is no specific, credible information suggesting a potential terrorist attack against the United States, The Associated Press reports. At the same time,

A Canadian teen on Thursday became only the second person in Canada to be convicted of a terrorist offense for seeking to fly overseas and join an extremist group. The

A New Yorker who was one of the first recruiters for the Islamic State (ISIS) group captured in the United States pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to provide material support to the extremists.

Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND has resumed cooperation with the Syrian secret service in the fight against Sunni Islamist extremists, according to a newspaper report Friday. The BND did not immediately comment on

The United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to restore scheduled commercial airline service between the countries for the first time in more than five decades, Reuters reported on

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump was praised on Thursday by none other than Russian President Vladimir Putin, who described the American billionaire as “talented” and “outstanding”, AFP reported. “He is

Killer rabbits hopped from the iconic Monty Python and the Holy Grail screen to real life Thursday, after a bunny named Jack attacked animal shelter staff in Cornwall. The six-month-old rabbit was

Former IDF Sayeret Matkal Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Amiram Levin came out on Friday, publishing an announcement in the leftist paper Haaretz saying that he supports the radical group Breaking the Silence. The

Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND has resumed cooperation with the Syrian secret service in the fight against Sunni Islamist extremists, according to a newspaper report Friday. The BND did not immediately comment on

Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former Foreign Minister MK Avigdor Liberman strongly opposed the normalization of ties between Israel and Turkey on Friday, saying that the covert talks in Switzerland constitute

Move over Professor Jacob Neusner and post-modern historians and archaeologists. A group of Israeli archaeologists just proved that yet another piece of the Talmud is historically accurate. Dr. Haim Cohen,

Last week the family of David Cohen, a resident of the Negev kibbutz Retamim, marked a year since his tragic death. Cohen, who was director of the pre-military academy Otzem, was

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu underwent a colonoscopy exam on Friday morning, for which he was put under a general anesthetic and made unconscious. The check was performed by Professor Eran

Turkish business owners eagerly await the return of Israeli tourism, Channel 2 reports Friday, less than 24 hours after Israeli and Turkish officials held normalization talks in Switzerland.  “We love Israelis and

Suspected Russian air strikes have killed 32 civilians, half of them women and children, in three areas in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancelled a scheduled trip to Israel, Kenya, Zambia, and Nigeria, he announced late Thursday night, citing security concerns.  Carson’s senior advisers noted that there were

Turkish business owners eagerly await the return of Israeli tourism, Channel 2 reports Friday, less than 24 hours after Israeli and Turkish officials held normalization talks in Switzerland.  “We love Israelis and

Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander was born in New York but raised in Tel Aviv during the heady years of the founding of the State of Israel. He studied in the best

The United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday recognized the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur as an official UN holiday. As part of the decision, from now on no

Finance ministers from the UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a wide-ranging resolution aimed at ramping up sanctions against the Islamic State (ISIS) group and cutting off its revenue

A US State Department official admitted on Thursday that US President Barack Obama’s administration is not sure where thousands of foreigners in the US who had their visas pulled over

A Turkish government official on Thursday evening confirmed that Israeli and Turkish officials held talks in Switzerland and may reach a deal on normalizing ties soon. “We have not reached

An Israeli official on Thursday revealed that “understandings” to normalize ties have been reached with Turkey, in a potential breakthrough for the strained relations that collapsed in the infamous Turkish Mavi Marmara

A poll conducted Tuesday shows that 53% of the Israeli public support a law that would prevent the New Israel Fund (NIF) from operating in Israel, while 24% oppose it,

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) responded with shock on Thursday night, after the lawyers of the Jewish suspects being investigated in the lethal Duma arson revealed the

Fourteen Jewish women from the community of Bonneuil-sur-Marne, southeast of Paris, fell ill as a result of an anti-Semitic poison attack Monday. The electronic lock to the community’s synagogue had

In the last day several of the Jews arrested on vague suspicions of involvement in the lethal Duma arson were allowed to finally meet their lawyers, who were shocked at