A 65-year-old resident of Ashkelon traveled to an unidentified Muslim country in June and has since disappeared, his daughter said in a Walla! News report published Monday.  According to the daughter, the

A SurveyUSA poll that shows Donald Trump leading over Hillary Clinton by 5 points in a presidential race reduces the gap between the two in the average of national polls

A new radar system that has been placed along the border with Gaza will give Israelis 7-8 extra seconds to run for cover in case of a mortar attack. The

Iraq has put F-16 warplanes acquired from the United States into action against the Islamic State (ISIS) group for the first time, the commander of the air force said Sunday,

Democratic Party Chairwoman and Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced on Sunday she would vote in favor of the nuclear deal with Iran. “In weighing everything, all the information, I’ve

Hamas has denied allegations by other Palestinian factions – notably the rival movement Fatah – that it is seeking to establish a separate state in Gaza in return for a

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that European countries have a “humanitarian and historic duty” to do more to shelter migrants arriving at its borders. “The world, especially Europe, has

Egyptian authorities on Sunday notified the Gaza Ministry of Interior that the Rafah border crossing would be open for three days starting Monday to allow Gazans to leave for the

Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday said that, if the United States were to legalize same-sex marriage, it should be done via Congress, noting that

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), a pro-Israel advocacy group in Canada, is calling on members of the Canadian Jewish community to join it in a protest in

The committee that was established to ascertain how police failed to prevent Yishai Schlissel from reaching the July 30 Jerusalem gay pride parade and murdering a participant has recommended that

French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that while Paris backs EU plans to label products from Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, it opposes any boycott of Israel.

Loading… Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the southern Arava region Sunday, to see from up close the start of construction of the security fence along Israel’s eastern border. Netanyahu sounded

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was the latest member of the Israeli political establishment to point out the folly of admitting large numbers of Syrian refugees into Israel. Although Israel was

To help European countries cope with the onslaught of refugees from Syria and other countries, Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholic institutions to open their doors and house refugees until

The remains of Jewish victims who were killed for the skeleton collection of Nazi anatomy professor August Hirt were buried in northeastern France on Sunday. Discovered at a forensic medical

Vandals have spray-painted anti-Semitic and monarchist graffiti on a sculpture in the French palace of Versailles. Palace staff discovered the damage, which includes phrases such as “The second RAPE of

With Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas adamant about retiring, he is said to be looking for a successor – and if that is the case, he should be looking elsewhere

Riham Dawabshe, the mother of the infant killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma in July, passed away on Sunday night at the Sheba Medical Center

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell came out in support of the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on Iran’s nuclear program. Powell, a retired general who was the top

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Sunday that Israel needed a fence in sensitive areas, to prevent becoming a victim of refugee “invasion,” such as is occurring in Europe. Yaalon was

The discovery of a large gas field in Egyptian waters does not mean “the end of the Israeli gas industry,” and is not an occasion for panic, believes Professor Idit

The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) internal security service, Avi Dichter, reacted strongly Saturday to an interview aired by Channel 2 with Mordechai Vanunu, the former

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations Saturday to press Israel to allow Palestinians effected by violence in Syria to take shelter in Judea and Samaria. “President Abbas has

New images have come to light which appear to confirm previous reports of Russian “boots on the ground” in Syria, aiding Bashar al-Assad’s overstretched forces defend regime strongholds from advancing

Riham Dawabshe, the mother of the infant killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma in July, is in a state of clinical death, Al Jazeera reported Sunday based on

The building of a border fence intended to bar those attempting to infiltrate into Israel from the east will commence on Sunday between Israel and Jordan.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and

The Dutch capital Amsterdam will compensate the descendants of Holocaust survivors who were fined for not paying their rent while imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.  “Starting today, the families’ descendants could

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden recently tried to reassure Jewish leaders in south Florida that the nuclear deal with Iran would be a vital step toward making Israel and the

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the expelled founder of France’s National Front (FN) party, launched a new party on Saturday, according to the Reuters news agency. The announcement of the new party,