A senior American Treasury official will travel to Israel this week to discuss the nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers with senior Israeli officials, the Treasury Department said
This Thursday marked a full year since a ceasefire was sealed between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization last August 27, bringing Operation Protective Edge to a close – but
A billboard in central Tel Aviv announcing the opening of an Iranian embassy that met with disbelief and curiosity turned out to be a hoax, organizers of the eye-catching stunt have revealed. “Opening
Analysts revealed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) launched an unofficial war on Kurdish forces last month as a ploy to make up for its historic
Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsch asks the question why G-d Almighty did not destroy Amalek instantaneously as he had done to the Egyptian army at the Splitting of Yam Suf. Hashem
Parshat Ki Teitzei is the most mitzva-rich of all sedras, with 74 of the Torah’s 613 mitzvot – slightly over 12% of all the mitzvot in this one of the
Two French journalists were arrested on Thursday and remained in detention on Friday, after they tried to extort 3 million euros ($3.4 million) from Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, according to
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon condemned the increase in threats and violence against haredi IDF soldiers and their recruiters on Thursday, just after reports surfaced that dozens of threatening phone calls had been
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) was “stunned” by the “stridency and personal nature” of attacks against him, after he announced his support for the Iran nuclear deal, reported the Jewish Week
The key suspect in a 1996 bombing that killed 19 US airmen in Saudi Arabia was arrested this month at Beirut airport on arrival from Tehran, a Lebanese security official said Thursday. “Internal
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the U.S. Representative for New York’s 12th congressional district, said Wednesday she will vote against President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. “There are strong arguments for
Haredi soldiers and recruiters are receiving threatening messages from extremists within their own community, victims revealed to the Israeli press on Thursday, as part of an ongoing incitement and hatred
President Reuven Rivlin visited Christian sites in the Jordan Valley on Thursday, and met with Church and community leaders, ahead of his upcoming visit to Italy and the Vatican next week. As
Eleven Jewish former members of Congress signed an ad in Thursday’s New York Times urging their former colleagues to support the nuclear deal with Iran. “We championed the U.S.-Israel alliance
Terrorist forces threw a firebomb at a Border Police vehicle in the neighborhood of A-Tur in eastern Jerusalem Wednesday, and succeeded in setting it ablaze. The policemen who were inside
Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders have set September 15-16 as the dates for their first congress in nearly 20 years after Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced his resignation as head of a top executive body. The meeting
Spain public radio RNE said Thursday it had removed an episode of a program that linked Jews to Satanism from its website after receiving complaints from Jewish groups, AFP reported.
An Arizona man has been charged with supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) by helping a New York college student get terror training in Syria, NBC News reported Thursday. Ahmed Mohammed
Hamas on Thursday published a new propaganda video which, it claims, sheds new light on the circumstances surrounding the death and kidnapping of the body of IDF soldier Lt. Hadar
The High Court for Justice decided Thursday to temporarily block a new IDF order that forbids secular soldiers to grow beards, as the court reviews a motion filed against the
The United States will be isolated on the world stage and its influence diminished if Congress rejects the Iran nuclear deal, the US ambassador to the United Nations has warned. In an editorial
Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu defiantly played a concert just outside of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Thursday, days after a Spanish music festival had cancelled – and then reinstated –
Israel wants to use its leading edge in agricultural innovation to help improve food production across Africa, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in Milan on Thursday. Visiting Israel’s pavilion at the World Expo
The Internal Security Ministry reacted angrily to the attempts of several former police commissioners to block the planned appointment of Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch to the position. Five former police commissioners as well
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, two former Obama administration officials urged for Israel to be provided with bunker-buster bombs, in order to be able to make a credible threat
A group of nearly 200 retired generals and admirals sent a letter to Congress Wednesday urging lawmakers to reject the Iran nuclear agreement, The Washington Post reported. The letter is
Iran on Wednesday dismissed British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond’s recent remarks that Tehran has changed its policies on Israel, stressing that the “Zionist regime” had no place in diplomatic talks
Democratic presidential candidate Doug Shreffler talks about his campaign, which follows the motto “as good as it gets”. What are the main issues that he would deal with, if elected,
The black man who allegedly shot to death two journalists during a live broadcast on Wednesday before taking his own life has apparently claimed he was sent over the edge
The Israel Air Force on Wednesday night launched an airstrike against a weapons manufacturing site belonging to Hamas in central Gaza. According to a statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit,