The Obama Administration has been pressuring Jerusalem to criticize an article by former Ambassador to the US, MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), in which he accused US President Barack Obama of

Extraditing to France the suspected mastermind terrorist of a deadly attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982 may prove difficult, a Jordanian source close to the case said on Thursday. “Jordan does

Top Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen last Friday, but according to US officials the CIA bagged the

A Knesset Channel poll published Thursday indicates that almost one half of the Israeli public agrees with MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), the former Israeli ambassador in the US, who said

Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to file legislation this week to fine the US State Department for refusing to release a key report on Iran’s rampant human rights

70 countries across the planet united on Thursday to express outrage over the Syrian regime’s systematic use of barrel bombs and to demand an end to the deadly, indiscriminate attacks,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night blasted the UN’s hypocrisy, after the head of the global body, Ban Ki-moon, accused the IDF of making Gazan children “suffer” last summer

Amid speculation by experts that a nuclear deal with Shi’ite Iran might force its Sunni rival Saudi Arabia to buy a nuclear weapon, likely from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed

The Shavei Israel organization brought a group of 78 Bnei Menashe immigrants on Aliyah thursday from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, which borders Burma and Bangladesh. Absorption Minister Ze’ev

Responding to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s accusations on Thursday that the IDF made Gazan children “suffer” last summer in its counter-terror operation, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) struck back

The new Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan (Likud), conducted his first tour on the job Thursday, in eastern Jerusalem. The minister met residents of Jewish neighborhoods Ma’ale Hazeitim and Shiloah

As Israel makes “historic” concessions to Muslim populations in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in allowing direct access to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – for the

The UN’s refugee chief on Thursday urged the world including Western states to open up their borders and follow Turkey’s example in hosting Syrian refugees, AFP reported.  Turkey, which has taken in some 1.8 million Syrian

Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, a staunch critic of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhu and other like-minded politicians, may be considering his own career in politics.  “My coolness to politics expired with the previous elections,”

Although not a member of the government, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman on Thursday proposed a law that is likely to be supported by the right-wing coalition. The law would strip

Joining the chorus of artists blasting Culture Minister Miri Regev for “pressuring” the Jerusalem Film Festival to cancel the screening of a movie about Yigal Amir was documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh.  Moreh, the director of the

Police arrested this afternoon 16 individuals in connection with the arson at a Galilee church Thursday morning. Police released no details about the arrests, other than to say that they were residents of

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) expressed outrage Thursday morning at reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon were planning to cut funds promised to parties

Jordan is gearing up for a possible invasion by Islamic terror groups, local media reported Thursday.  According to reports, King Abdullah II, on a tour this week of border areas

An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for an Australian-trained doctor who appeared in an Islamic State propaganda video which urges other medical professionals to join the jihadists, police said. Tareq Kamleh was shown in

The United Nation’s report on children and armed conflict is “inaccurate” and biased against Israel, said Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the UN. The UN Security Council is set to discuss

Alexander Hamilton is being taken off the $10 bill and will be replaced, for the first time, by a woman, the United States Treasury announced on Wednesday.  Treasury Secretary Jack

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is also acting Communications Minister, has ordered the Communication Ministry’s Director General Shlomo Filber to shut down a new television station funded by the Palestinian

Despite a combination of rising anti-Semitism and economic hardships, Jewish immigration from France in 2015 has so far not lived up to its high expectations.  According to figures from the Ministry

Iran and six powers are still apart on all main elements of a nuclear deal and will likely have to extend their negotiations beyond the June 30 deadline, two diplomats

Hamas has denied that it has been holding secret talks with Israel and that it had reached a long-term ceasefire agreement with the Jewish state, the Ma’an news agency reported

Iranian lawmakers have unveiled proposed legislation that a top official said would “protect the nation’s nuclear interests” but which could become an obstacle in negotiations for a deal, AFP reported

Switzerland’s Attorney General said on Wednesday that authorities have searched multiple premises in relation to an investigation into allegations that hackers had targeted venues which hosted negotiations on Iran’s nuclear

A Uruguayan army bomb squad dismantled an “incomplete” explosive device Wednesday in front of an office tower housing the Israeli embassy, officials told AFP. The embassy is located in a

The Canadian government’s public website for applying for social services and downloading official forms was briefly shut down Wednesday in a cyberattack claimed by the Anonymous group, AFP reported. Several