Sources in the Ethiopian community have charged that the Israeli government has not been aggressive enough in trying to discover the whereabouts of Avraham Mengistu – at least in part

Police and Border Patrol forces arrested overnight Thursday a terrorist released from jail several years ago during the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal.  Shalit, an IDF soldier serving on the border

Avraham Nagosa, a Likud MK from the Ethiopian community, said Thursday that Israel must do everything possible to find Avraham Mengistu, the Israeli who crossed into Gaza last year and

A day after Yisrael Beytenu struck a highly publicized deal with Likud, MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu) announced the Knesset could expect increasingly closer cooperation between his party and the coalition.  “Cooperation is

The Belgian government said Wednesday that it has in recent months helped 244 Christians to escape from Syria and move to Belgium with refugee status, most of them families with children. The humanitarian operation

They say the motto of every Jewish festival is the same: They came, they tried to kill us, they failed – let’s eat! That may not be entirely accurate, but it

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein turned to the President and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, demanding to immediately remove Facebook pages that incite against Jews and Arabs. Edelstein turned to Zuckerberg

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) announced on Wednesday plans to regularly publish his appointment calendar for public viewing. According to Walla! News, Ariel’s datebook will be published every two months

This year, close to 300 students in 30 high schools across North America mastered significant portions of the Talmud—and competed for top awards—through Yeshiva  University’s Bronka Weintraub High School Bekiut Program.

Palestinian news media has prominently glorified one of the most dangerous Palestinian arch-terrorists in a recent interview, Palestinian Media Watch revealed Wednesday.  Abdullah Barghouti was arrested in March 2003 and sentenced in

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government was served its first legislative defeat in the Knesset on Wednesday, thanks to a sneaky political maneuver from the opposition.  Put forth by Yesh Atid

Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic State terror group took down the website of the Syrian Observatory for HumanRights monitor on Wednesday and threatened its director, AFP reported.  The group calling itself the

A senior Democratic senator said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama believes the chances of a nuclear agreement with Iran are “less than 50-50,” even as he works to reassure

Even before the BBC’s new documentary on last summer’s war in Gaza airs, the broadcasting organization has admitted that it distorts the truth in order to make the Palestinians appear

Islamic State has seen a spike in activity around Israel over the past several weeks, with activity not only heating up on the Golan Heights border with Syria, but in

International superstar and U2 frontman Bono heaped praise on former Israeli president Shimon Peres during the rock band’s concert in Toronto on Tuesday night.  Bono lionized the veteran Israeli politician, who was in

Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, spoke with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday amid outrage over Religious Services Minister David Azoulay’s (Shas) recent comments on Reform Jewry.  “First of all, I want to believe

Hamas has no intentions of slowing down on terrorism, a senior official asserted, despite security crackdowns from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the wake of a series of recent attacks in

Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount have been told repeatedly that they are banned from entering Judaism’s holiest site due to Ramadan over the past several weeks – and one

In the wake of several recent terror attacks in the area, IDF Central Command chief, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, toured the Binyamin Regional Council on Wednesday, accompanied by council head Avi Roeh.  Numa

A Palestinian Arab man lured his four children into attempting to steal Second Temple-era antiquities, the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday, by claiming there was a “demon” hiding treasure

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said Tuesday that a French diplomatic bid to advance a United Nations resolution to restart the peace process between Israel and the

Iran on Tuesday rejected reports by Jordanian state media that a terror suspect arrested in Jordan on suspicion of planning attacks against the kingdom is linked to an Iranian group.

German prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 3½-year prison sentence for Oskar Groening, nicknamed “the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, a former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied

It has been ten years since the 2005 Disengagement plan, which saw the Israeli government and the IDF expel all the Jewish residents of Gush Katif in Gaza. On Tuesday,

American lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would ramp up military cooperation with Jordan, including accelerated arms sales to a Middle East ally contending with growing threats from Islamist extremism,

This week’s Torah portion of parashat Pinchas begins with an act of zealotry, of righteous indignation, which earned Pinchas a unique ‘eternal priesthood’ – and a covenant of peace. What

The United States special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) group was in Ankara on Tuesday to meet Turkish officials, after speculation Turkey could launch a military

Hours after Iran and major powers extended their talks on a final agreement, an official said talks had to wrap up in the next 48 hours. The official made clear

An online campaign calling for the death penalty to be applied to terrorists was launched on Wednesday by MK Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu), whose terrorist death penalty bill is facing a