WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump reportedly is set to name as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, whose congressional career was marked by his leadership on pro-Israel issues. The
Facebook closed tens of pages linked to the terrorist organization Hamas, including the personal account of senior Hamas member Ezzat al-Rishq. Rishq condemned the action, tweeting, “I condemn Facebook’s administration
(AFP) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday he has never faced pressure from Russia to step aside, as US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Moscow seeking to revive
The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee visited Kiryat Arba and Har Hevron on Thursday morning, following the recent terror attacks. Thirteen-year-old Hallel Ariel and Rabbi Michael Mark were killed
Rabbi Avi Shayish, a divisional chaplain in the IDF reserves and the rabbi of Rehovot’s Orot Hanan group, has called on military decision makers to restore the authority for growing
“Black Lives do not matter to most black people…Only the lives that are taken at the hands of cops or white people, matter.” So wrote Officer Jay Stalien, a policeman
Fatah recently organized a victory parade in honor of Ashraf Hani Rith, who was released from prison after serving 15 months for throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. The celebration took
In an op-ed in Newsweek, Israel Intelligence Minister Israel Katz detailed his plan for ruining Hezbollah, without devastating Lebanon, Hezbollah’s main base-of-operations. Katz points out how Hasan Nasrallah, the organization’s
Felipe Rodriguez and Navon Kaplan are two olim hadashim (recent immigrants) who have been struggling in their efforts to join the IDF. For the past week, they have been protesting
For the past several days, members of the Regev Battalion woke up at the crack of dawn to practice conquering buildings and dealing with riots – dodging Molotov cocktails and
The health of a Palestinian terrorist on hunger strike for a month in protest at his detention without trial by Israel is deteriorating, a Palestinian official and family members warned
Transcripts from the interrogation of the two terrorists who perpetrated the Sarona market attack in Tel Aviv have been released, revealing the motivations of the two murderers and their radical
Recent months have seen an ongoing legal battle between the pilots of Israeli airline El Al and the management of the company, Mako reported. These proceedings have resulted in numerous
A gang of three Jewish teens were arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged “price tag” arson attack on an Arab village in northern Israel. The arson, which
CIA chief John Brennan has indicated that he will quit his job before he carries out the order of the next president to employ “waterboarding,” an interrogation technique simulating the
Border police foiled an attempted terror attack in Jerusalem Thursday morning. During an arrest operation in the Shuafat neighborhood in northeastern Jerusalem, Arab residents attempted to intervene on behalf of
The Supreme Rabbinical Court recently sentenced a haredi man to five years in prison for refusing to give his wife a Gett (divorce document required for divorce by Jewish law).
Be’er Sheva Deputy Mayor, Ofer Kardi, Chariman of the Shas movement in the southern city, told Arutz Sheva that the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the gay pride parade to
A Palestinian doctor who helped save a Jewish family moments after they were targeted in a deadly terrorist attack has been honored by local Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
Sabri Saidam, the Minister of Education of the Palestinian Authority, called for European countries and their academic institutions to boycott universities and colleges that function within Judea and Samaria. At
A Tel Aviv district court convicted on Thursday the terrorist responsible for a deadly attack in the Panomama building in Tel Aviv last November that left two dead and one
Israel on Wednesday opened the Erez Crossing between Israel and Gaza to allow the transfer of vehicles carrying goods for the first time in nine years, officials said, according to
MONTREAL (JTA) — A former professional football player fined a year ago by the Canadian Football League for anti-Semitic tweets is still posting such material. Khalif Mitchell, apparently referring to
The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram came under fire this week for a simple mistake it posted on Twitter. Following the visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to Israel, the newspaper
(JTA) — A Jewish overnight camp in Southern California will cut short its first session by several days due to a salmonella outbreak. Moshava California, a Bnei Akiva of Los
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog is pressing Syria to explain why it has four undeclared warfare agents, its head said Wednesday, after an American official accused Damascus of continuing to
BERLIN (JTA) — Police in 14 German states reportedly conducted raids on 60 individuals in an attempt to root out the sources of anti-Semitic and other hate postings on the
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday took to Twitter to hail the new pro-Israel Republican party platform. “The Republican platform is most pro-Israel of all time!” he tweeted, in
(JTA) — Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel sent incoming British Prime Minister Theresa May a warm welcome. The Israeli prime minister wrote May, who officially succeeded David Cameron as prime minister
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