‘Code red’ rocket alert sirens sounded near the Gaza border and in the Sdot Hanegev and Sha’ar Hanegev regions just after 7:05 pm Monday night.  At least one rocket struck

Israelis are, per capita, one of the world’s smallest consumers of pork products – and that’s a healthy thing, the World Health Organization said in a new report. Much of

With just a single vote between it and oblivion, the common wisdom has it that the fall of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is just a matter of time. Recent polls,

Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed the need for a smartphone app that Israelis could use to call for help in

More than 24 hours after the major winter storm that hit Israel Sunday morning, some 40,000 households, mostly in the Sharon region, were still without power – and politicians are

The US State of Colorado signed a lucrative trade agreement with Israel last week. Colorado had already signed an RD agreement with Israel in 2010, but the two states decided to

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein clarified Monday that security forces are prohibited to fire at a terrorist already neutralized – despite the unprecedented Arab terror wave. Weinstein issued the ruling as a response to a

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) dismissed a top commander Monday, after terrorist prisoners were found at the Nafha detention facility with contraband mobile phones.  Nafha is considered one of the

The Israeli Air Force on Monday evening launched airstrikes against two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement the airstrikes were

The United States was quick to express concern on Monday evening, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu indicated he is considering taking away the Israeli ID cards from Arab residents of

The female bishop of a church in Stockholm says she wants to take down the crosses in the religious institution – so that Muslim migrants will feel more at home.

Whether or not it has a partner in the effort, Israel will act to reduce the tension with the Palestinians, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday. Speaking at a Knesset

At least 120,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Idlib since the beginningof October, the United Nations said on Monday. “This is up from

MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Camp) demanded Monday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fire Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely “immediately, tonight,” over “messianic” comments she made that “could inflame the entire

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) supports full freedom of religion on the Temple Mount, he affirmed Monday, as well as the controversial agreement between the US, Israel, and Jordan

343 university professors from the United Kingdom signed a letter supporting an Israel boycott, and the letter is due to appear as a full-page advertisement in the British Guardian Tuesday.  Simon Johnson, the

Speaking at a Knesset event commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the event was “traumatic” for Israelis, and that still

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom on Sunday asked Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to examine the possibility of revoking the citizenship of the Arab-Israeli who paraglided into Syria to join Islamist rebels there.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday said he welcomed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statement regarding maintaining the “status quo” on the Temple Mount – so long as it is implemented.

Saudi Arabia, which holds a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, is set to execute a Shiite cleric who called for pro-democracy protests in the country, Reuters reports Sunday.

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto violated a court order Monday by not boarding a plane to return from New York to Israel to stand trial for corruption, with his followers claiming he collapsed

The High Court needs to know its place, MK Nissan Slomiansky (Jewish Home), chairman of the Knesset Constitution Committee, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday, after the director of Israel’s Courts

Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman on Monday morning issued a grave warning, in response to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s rare public appearance last Friday. Liberman spoke about Nasrallah, who heads the Lebanese

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that he is considering taking away the Israeli ID cards from Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem. He

The Southern District Court on Monday issued an indictment to the Be’er Sheva Magistrate’s Court against 20-year-old Omer Al-Okabi, the brother of the terrorist Muhaned Al-Okabi who conducted a lethal attack

MK Yisrael Eichler of the haredi UTJ party caused a firestorm of indignation at the Knesset Monday when he compared the Women of the Wall (WoW) to the Islamist murabitat

Just days after the horrific fire that burned down the historic Congregation Poile Zedek Synagogue in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the synagogue’s Rabbi Abraham Mykoff recalled the difficult events of last

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson doubled down Sunday on comments in which he said an armed Jewish population could have stopped the Nazis from carrying out the Holocaust. Carson said

After a freak, severe winter storm hit Israel Sunday morning, knocking out power in dozens of communities throughout the country, thousands of homes are still without power – not necessarily

“No power in the world” can stop the “intifada”, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh declared on Sunday, according to the Ma’an news agency. Speaking at a demonstration in Beirut, Haniyeh said,