The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted former Danish parliament speaker Mogens Lykketoft to head its 70th anniversary session, the Associated Press reports Tuesday.  Lykketoft will be president of the UNGA for

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was reproached by the American Association of University Professors this weekend months after rescinding its job offer to a professor who posted virulently anti-Israel tweets

Russian forces are heavily shelling eastern Ukraine (Donbass region), the Ukrainian military announced Monday, as the front lines continue to heat up despite the Minsk II ceasefire agreement signed four months

US President Barack Obama’s antipathy against Israel persists despite critical help from Jerusalem during the Syrian chemical weapons scandal in 2013, Bloomberg revealed Monday.  Obama faced an awkward moment of truth in

A fired-up MK Rabbi Shai Piron (Yesh Atid) took to Facebook on Monday to mediate between left and right-wingers in the wake of actor Oded Kotler, referring to Likud voters as

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman announced Monday his party’s virulent opposition to the force-feeding bill which was authorized for legislation by the government on Sunday.  Initiated by Internal Security Minister

US President Barack Obama’s radical worldview makes it impossible for him to empathize with Israel’s position, Israel’s former Ambassador to Washington said Monday.   Former US envoy Michael Oren, who

The Jerusalem District Court sentenced three Israeli Arabs to prison terms on Monday, for planning a terror attack against Jews for the Nof Yerushalayim event hall in the capital.  In its

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised on Monday the Likud Central Committee’s decision approve his proposal for a change in the Likud primaries.  Netanyahu’s proposal stipulates that party members will choose candidates for

The District Governor of Ile De France has contacted the State Attorney’s Office on Monday, after the French newspaper Liberation reported that two prominent historical sites turned away a group of students

While initially condemning the remarks made by actor Oded Kotler against Culture Minister Miri Regev, opposition chairman Yitzhak Herzog asserted Monday that Regev’s language was just as damaging.  Kotler, one

A Libyan military spokesman on Monday said that it is too early to determine whether Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was targeted by an American airstrike in Libya, had indeed

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot concluded on Monday that, in light of the challenges the IDF faces in the cyber sphere, a cyber command should be established in order

The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) filed a formal complaint with the Toronto Police earlier this month, after an anti-Semitic advertisement was featured in the May issue of

Allegations against freshman MK Oren Hazan (Likud) keep rolling in, with a number of his former female employees claiming Monday that he exploited his position as their boss and sexually harassed

After much speculation, former Florida governor Jeb Bush has officially announced Monday his candidacy for the 2016 US presidential race, Reuters reported.  Speaking at Miami-Dade College, Bush, 62, vowed to take on Washington

Israeli legal rights group Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center has threatened to sue Coca-Cola on Monday, after Palestinian Arab franchise leader Zahi Khouri openly called for a boycott against Israel.  Attorneys Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and

Five years after the Mavi Marmara scandal, a new flotilla leaving for Gaza could cause another international crisis, Channel 2 reports Monday.  The flotilla is expected to join with several Swedish ships this

Israeli citizens are extremely concerned at the possibility of cyber attacks against the Jewish state, with half of the country’s Jewish population prepared to allow the state to monitor their

Madrid’s new mayor Manuela Carmena resolved her first major political crisis on Monday, AP reported, accepting the much-demanded resignation of her newly-appointed culture affairs commissioner.  Opposition parties slammed Ahora Madid party member

In his address Monday to the Yesha Conference, former Israeli Ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren (Kulanu) covered a wide range of topics, spanning the roots of US President Barack Obama’s

Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Monday expressed concerns over reports that negotiators with Iran are prepared to make far-reaching concessions. According

Schneor Shiff, COL An historic day took place at the Knesset on Monday, as the Israeli parliament saluted the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Chabad movement. The special day was attended

Cyprus believes it thwarted a Hezbollah plot to attack Israelis or Jews, its foreign minister said Monday, according to the Reuters news agency. The comments come after a 26-year-old Lebanese-Canadian

A day after causing an uproar in Israel by implying that Likud voters were a “marching herd of beasts”, actor Oded Kotler on Monday sought to clarify his remarks. Speaking

Three British sisters are feared to have travelled with their nine children to join up with jihadists in Syria, a lawyer for the children’s parents said Monday, according to AFP.

Top Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a suspected American drone strike in Yemen’s Hadramout region, two Yemeni national security officials said Monday, according

More than 3,000 children, youth, soldiers and adults from Samaria and across Israel on Monday took part in the annual Shomron March, in memory of former Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi,

At least 20 people were killed and 100 wounded on Monday in Syrian rebel rocket fire on government-held parts of the city of Aleppo, Syrian state media said, according to