A Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) donated to the Knesset has disappeared just one day after the event, Arutz Sheva discovered in an independent investigation Wednesday, based on what may be a double standard about

US President Barack Obama’s antipathy to Israel is not only a matter of public perception, former Ambassador to the US Michael Oren will reveal in a new tell-all book: it

Even though they are legal, police in Israel most definitely do not want you riding electric bikes – and are coming up with creative ways to discourage their use. In

Although no longer in the government, Yisrael Beytenu supports the efforts by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) to shut down an anti-Israel play, and remove it from the “cultural

The US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group must do more to target the jihadists’ command centers, French army chief Denis Mercier said Wednesday, according to AFP. He compared operations

Israel attempted to use a sophisticated virus to spy on nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1, according to a report released Wednesday – by hacking into the servers of hotels

In a letter to Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), Orange CEO Stephane Richard again proclaimed his “affection” for Israel, and said that he had been “badly hurt by the

President Barack Obama on Wednesday approved the deployment of 450 more American military trainers to Iraq, a cautious bid to reverse gains by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, AFP reports.

This week Ira and Rod share more of their personal stories. Ira speaks about the obstacles and struggles of waiting two and half years to receive Israeli citizenship, and they

Norway has agreed to take in 8,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2017, under an agreement reached Wednesday by most of the Scandinavian country’s political parties. The country now plans to welcome 2,000

Israel vehemently denied Wednesday night that it had been involved in spying on Iran or in planting viruses in European hotels to monitor the talks between Iran and Western powers

Israel and the U.S. have signed an important strategic air force agreement, the Israel Air Force revealed Monday. The ASNR (Air Senior National Representative) agreement, signed last week, covers a

At least 100 people attended a funeral on Wednesday – for a 93 year-old Holocaust survivor they had never met.  Former banker Rachel Steinmetz wrote Facebook posts and Tweets asking

American Jews are more likely to support a nuclear deal with Iran than the general American population, according to a poll published by leftist organization J-Street Wednesday.  59% of Jewish

A Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Scotland is due to become a tourist attraction, British media reported Wednesday, if a development company can greenlight the plan.  The Cultybraggan Camp in Perthshire,

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, on Tuesday called on Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to “stop the nonsense” and join the coalition. Bennett’s call to

United Nations monitors have said that governments are not reporting new incidents of Iran violating Security Council sanctions, even though some have unfolded in plain sight. The monitors’ claims were

Egypt on Tuesday lashed out at a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report condemning “flagrant human rights abuses” during the first year of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s rule, AFP reports. The

Environment Protection Minister Avi Gabai on Tuesday promised that the ammonia tank in the city of Haifa will be removed within three years. The possibility of a leak of poisonous

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of handing a “medieval” punishment to Raif Badawi, the blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, AFP reported. Last

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu resigned on Tuesday, in a procedural move after his AK Party lost its majority in parliamentary elections earlier this week. According to the BBC, President

Sinai Province, Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate, fired rockets at the direction of an airport in Sinai used by UN peacekeeping forces on Tuesday night, Reuters reported. Security sources told the

Archaeological excavations near Highway 1, at the entrance to Abu Ghosh, have uncovered a large Byzantine-period road station that included a church. Initiated and funded by the National Roads Company,

This week’s Torah portion of Parashat Shelach features the horrendous sin of the spies, an event of such catastrophic proportions that we are still suffering from it today. In this

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau spoke on Wednesday about reports which aired late last month, according to which Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, known for his more liberal stance on

Likud MK Oren Hazan vowed Wednesday that he would not vote against the Coalition in the Knesset plenum despite the steps that have been taken against him following scandalous accusations

A resident of Haifa who refused to divorce her husband for 14 years will do no jail time and receive 100,000 shekels from her husband in return for granting the

Members of the Yazidi community, one of the Iraqi minorities hardest hit by jihadist atrocities including mass rapes and executions conducted by Islamic State (ISIS), killed 21 Sunni Arab villagers in a

In response to the bill submitted several days ago by the radical leftist Meretz party, which would have products from Judea and Samaria labeled thereby singling them out for boycotts,