Shas leader Aryeh Deri, who on Sunday resigned from his position as Economy Minister to become Israel’s first ever Periphery Minister, may soon be appointed Welfare Minister, Channel 2 News

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri is calling on Muslim supporters to band together to confront the “threat” from the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq, Reuters reported on Sunday. The

The fact that “many Jews are leaving Europe is most alarming,’’ writes European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans in a letter to Rabbi Menachem Margolin, General Director of the European

A Palestinian Arab attempted to stab an Israeli Jew Sunday afternoon at Einun junction, north of Kiryat Arba and Hevron.  The IDF confirmed in the minutes after the attack (update: 1:55

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed the cabinet secretary and chairman of the National Security Council to intervene in the issue of sports boycotts against Israel on Sunday morning, following an urgent

Economy Minister Aryeh Deri officially resigned Sunday, opening the way for the government to greenlight a multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant Noble Energy, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.

Jerusalem District Police and Israel Security Agency officials have arrested a Palestinian Arab resident of Abu Dis on suspicion he planned the terror stabbing on Haggai Street in Jerusalem’s Old City

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Israel’s multibillion dollar gas deal with US energy giant Noble Energy at the start of his Cabinet meeting on Sunday.  “Today we are taking a major step toward advancing

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to power following Turkey’s elections today. Almost 90 percent of the ballots have been counted, and the official

Zehava Shaul, whose son Oron Shaul was killed in Operation Protective Edge, and whose body is being held by Hamas, expressed anger Sunday at the security establishment’s decision to hand

Former Balad MK Said Nafaa began his one-year prison sentence on Monday – a year and a half after he was convicted of illegally entering an enemy state and of

Over the weekend, the IDF’s intelligence branch sent a letters to all officers and soldiers, warning them against foreign attempts to enlist spies from among the IDF’s ranks. Channel 2 reports that

The European Union on Sunday said it was allocating an extra 28 million Euro ($31 million US) to Jordan to help it meet the urgent needs of Syrian refugees as winter sets in. EU

The immigration crisis rocking Europe has once again underlined how events far away in the Middle East can have a massive impact on Europe and other western democracies. But how democratic leaders

Arabs in Haifa threw a rock that hit a Jewish youth in the head Saturday, and tension between Jews and Arabs in the northern port city has been growing, according

The president and founder of MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), Yigal Carmon, says the American media has dangerously refused to notice that Iran has not only not approved the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office on Sunday evening clarified that the state of Israel invests heavily in Jerusalem, after the mayor of the capital, Nir Barkat, sent a strongly-worded letter

Three Border Police were reported hurt in a car terror attack at Bayt Einun Junction near Hevron. One victim suffered head wounds that were initially described as moderate but his condition later deteriorated and

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today, after months of dialogue with the Ministry of Finance about strengthening Jerusalem reached a dead end. Barkat

Dr. Michael Ben Ari, Chairman of Otzma Yehudit, said Sunday at the 25-year memorial ceremony for Rabbi Meir Kahane Hy”d that he intends to run in the next Knesset election.

The commander of the IDF’s Homefront Command, Major General Yoel Strik, paid an official visit to the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical service today, along with additional senior officers

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday evening described the outcome of a general election which swept his AK Party back to a parliamentary majority as “a victory”. “Today is

Gunter Schabowski, a German politician who accidentally led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, has passed away at the age of 86. During a press conference in 1989, Schabowski, then a

(AFP) Barack Obama’s decision to send special forces to Syria is too little and too late, say critics, who accuse the US president of lacking a strategy for the war-torn country.

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved Sunday for legislation a bill submitted by MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) called “Parents and their Children.” The law would make Israel the first country

The IDF on Saturday debunked Palestinian Arab claims that its use of tear gas to break up Arab riots in Judea was at all connected to the death of an eight-month-old boy, after the Palestinian

The Palestinian Authority (PA) health ministry on Saturday issued a report of the toll of October’s terror wave, in which it stated that 71 Palestinian Arabs died – all of them

Officials in the Jewish Home party on Saturday night accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of “betraying” voters on the right, after Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid said in a television

After five straight days of severe storms across Israel last week, rain will return this week to greet November.  Sunday will be partly cloudy with a slight increase in temperature. In

While a slim majority of Israelis feel Jews living in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) prevent peace with Palestinian Arabs, a slim majority also does not believe in building freezes to