In a frank, if disappointing, admission Thursday, National Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz, a member of the security cabinet, said that current Israeli policy had failed to protect citizens from terror.

Dvir Litman, whose sister Sarah-Tehiya married Ariel Bigel Thursday night, told Arutz Sheva about the mixed emotions after his father and brother was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack. “We are feeling

Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II left for Jerusalem Thursday for the funeral of a senior cleric, the first visit by the head of Coptic Christians in decades, a church spokesman

Dozens of Arab and Jewish journalists have signed a petition against the government’s decision to close down newspapers, web sites, and other media outlets tied to the Northern Islamic Movement,

A bus carrying dozens of passengers overturned on Thursday morning between Kokhav Hashahar and Migdalim in the Binyamin region of Samaria.  Rescue forces and Hatzalah medics were deployed to the

Four of the main suspects in the Islamic State (ISIS) Paris attacks were on a list of radicalized people compiled by Belgium’s intelligence services as early as June this year, officials said on Thursday.

The battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq has become an international priority but faces a patchwork of conflicting agendas and strategies from a wide array of actors. A US-led

Henya Beigel, the mother of the groom Ariel who on Thursday night married Sarah-Tehiya Litman in Jerusalem, spoke with Arutz Sheva minutes before the the wedding ceremony. Litman’s father and brother were murdered

Sarah-Tehiya Litman and Ariel Beigel were to be married in Jerusalem on Thursday, two weeks after Litman’s father and brother were murdered in a shooting attack near Hevron. Just hours before the wedding,

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) this week completed a wide-reaching drill that included all branches of the force. In the drill, named “Over and Over,” the plane division was put

A 19-year-old Palestinian Arab terrorist was shot dead on Thursday by IDF forces according to Palestinian Authority (PA) medics, as he was in the process of hurling a firebomb at

The investigation into the circumstances of the fatal crash that took place early Thursday afternoon near Kochav Hashahar, in the Binyamin region, is ongoing. Corporal Stav PArtosh, 19, of Maale

There was a 13% increase in the number of Israeli Arabs volunteering for National Service, said the Shluchot group, which works to encourage such voluntarism. Despite intimidation by Islamist elements in

A court hearing will be held on Thursday in the case of Ahmed Mansara, the 13-year-old terrorist accused of attempted murder in the stabbing attack in Pisgat Ze’ev last month. 

US President Barack Obama awarded on Tuesday the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 “extraordinary” recipients, including several notable American-Jewish artists.  Among those Jews awarded the United States’ highest civilian honor were actress-singer

A day after Syrian media reported that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck a base belonging to the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah, a Saudi news site gave new details on Wednesday.

The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, including a middleman it alleged buys oil for the regime from the Islamic State (ISIS) group. “The Syrian government is responsible

The IDF on Wednesday issued a recommendation to the political echelon, asking that it arm and militarily strengthen the Palestinian Authority (PA) in apparent hopes that doing so will end

Tensions are running particularly high in Judea in the area between Gush Etzion and Hevron, south of Jerusalem. The area has been hit hard by by numerous terror attacks in

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) visited numerous educational institutions in Tel Aviv on Wednesday as part of the Annual Day of Appreciation for those Wounded in Israel’s Wars and

The son of the Israeli Navy’s former commander-in-chief, Admiral (res.) Eliezer Marom, was dismissed from his military service, Channel 2 revealed on Wednesday night.  According to the report, the younger Marom was discharged

Hamas is taking issue with statements by Secretary of State John Kerry, who said that Israel has the right to defend itself from the current wave of Arab terrorism. In

Magen David Adom (MDA) on Wednesday listed its tallies up to this point of how many victims it has treated since the ongoing wave of Arab terror first broke out

One of the Russian pilots of a fighter jet shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border told state media on Wednesday that there was no prior warning. “There was no warning, not by radio

An Italian media pundit has sparked controversy after suggesting that Hebrew, Arabic and other foreign languages should be banned from synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship.  Alessandro Sallusti, editor-in-chief of

An investigation by the US military on Wednesday revealed that the bombing of a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in Afghanistan’s Kunduz on October 3, which left 30 civilians dead, was

Israel is not planning to approve arms for the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces or any other “gesture” to the PA, including the release of terrorists, sources close to Prime