Israel and Japan have been becoming key allies in the span of just over a year, and that growing bond connecting the two countries located on either extreme of Asia was

The new leader of Britain’s Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, has been invited to speak before the party’s pro-Israel caucus, the UK-based Jewish Chronicle reports.  MP Joan Ryan’s invitation to Corbyn to address the

Several leading nationalist voices have been expressing disappointment after Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) added Attorney Raz Nizri and Prof. Ron Shapira to the list of candidates for the

Iran’s armed forces are the best defense against “terror” in the Middle East, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, urging regional countries not to rely on world powers. “Today, the largest power against

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed indictments against five Arab teenagers in the Juvenile District Court on Tuesday, all of whom were arrested for throwing rocks at an Israeli civilian.   Two weeks

Forty two years after it ended, more information has emerged on the tensions that dogged the IDF in the wake of the Yom Kippur War. The new documents, which were

Israel defending Judaism’s holiest site is a “red line,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated to a delegation of visiting Arab MKs on Monday.  “I am very disturbed by

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) filed a new bill Monday which seeks to establish a minimum sentence for rock-throwers and Molotov cocktail throwers, following the rise in terrorism in and around

Rock-throwing terrorists aren’t just a recent Jerusalem phenomenon, according to Gush Etzion Regional Council head Davidi Perl – it’s been going on for years in many parts of Judea and

France opened a business development office in Tehran on Monday seeking to renew once-strong economic ties with Iran after the July 14 nuclear deal in the face of “fierce competition.”  French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll

Leading Religious Zionist rabbis encouraged Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) to continue ascending the Temple Mount on Monday, after an MK blamed the minister for an increase in the

Israel and Russia will coordinate their military actions over Syria to avoid an accidental exchange of fire, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday after concluding talks with Russian President Vladimir

An ISIS terrorist recruiter posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart. So reports German RTL television. At the same time, a

A new poll shows that most Palestinians no longer support the “two state solution,” which entails lopping off Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem from Israel and establishing an Arab

An entire class’s annual visit to the Temple Mount was cancelled on Monday, despite advanced coordination with the Israel Police.  Over 100 students from the Birkat Moshe Yeshiva in Ma’ale

This week’s edition of Temple Talk, the first of the year, takes us through the process of the Ten Days of Repentance and the cleansing healing of Yom Kippur, and

Jerusalem District Commander Moshe Edri on Monday evening announced that the entry of Muslims to the Temple Mount compound will be restricted in the coming days, in light of the ongoing

Israel on Monday accused Jordan of exacerbating tensions on the Temple Mount, after King Abdullah proclaimed that Jews had no business praying on Judaism’s holiest site. In response, Israel sent

172 new olim (immigrants) from Ukraine landed in Israel on Monday, many of whom are starting a new life after experiencing the horrors of civil war in the Donetsk region.  Among them:

Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) to fire the directors of Sakhnin schools on Monday, following a protest for “intifada”

Hungarian video journalist Petra Laszlo of Hungary’s N1TV station was fired after tripping a fleeing Syrian migrant father and son as they fled from police this month, but Kurdish media claimed on

Three former Israeli ambassadors and other leftist activists have asked the Brazilian government not to approve the appointment of Dani Dayan as Israel’s ambassador to Brasilia. Dayan lives in Ma’ale Shomron in

Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) criticized on Monday attempts by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, who is also Legal Adviser to the Government, to scuttle a government decision making it easier

Grammy award-winning American musician Pharrell Williams will face down a protest by thousands of anti-Israel activists at a concert in Cape Town on Monday, organizers of the demonstration said. Members of the Boycotts, Divestment

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced a cell of four Arab terrorists from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya to between two and five-and-a-half years in jail, for setting

A campaign by the Ministry of Agriculture against the “kapparot” (or kaporos) custom of twirling chickens in the air and slaughtering them on Yom Kippur Eve in order to atone

As part of the recent nuclear deal Iran on Monday handed over to the UN nuclear body alleged samples from the covert Parchin military base, which reportedly has been a

A group of Israeli leftists recently approached the government of Brazil, through the Brazilian ambassadors in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, demanding that Brazil reject the appointment of Dani Dayan,

Israel’s hold on the city of Jerusalem cannot be undermined, President Reuven Rivlin said on Sunday night, as he hosted a Selichot prayer service at the synagogue of the Presidential

A TV and newspaper personality for most of his career, Lapid heads the Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party. He served as Finance Minister in the previous government under