After resigning from the government on Sunday, MK Benny Begin (Likud) made clear Monday during a Likud faction meeting that he has no intention of giving up his Knesset seat. “I
The public war of words between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman continued on Monday with an attack on the Prime Minister at the Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting.
The leader of the tiny Jewish community in Myanmar (Burma), Moses Samuels, passed away on Friday in the city of Yangon where he lived, at the age of 65. A statement
France’s education minister on Monday warned against “militant secularity” in a country where a long-standing ban on veils, Jewish kippahs and other religious signs in schools continues to cause controversy, according to AFP. “We have to
Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on Monday targeted weapons caches of the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi rebels just outside Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, placing the city in danger. The Mount Noqum military
Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday addressed the Israel Day Concert in Central Park in New York. “My first trip to Israel was in 1973, I was
District Judge Chani Slotky sentenced a Bedouin woman, Halas Alarjan, to just 12 years in jail Sunday, for the cruel murders of her three children, and the attempted murder of
Kurdish militia in Syria wrested control of a dozen villages from the extremist Islamic State group (ISIS) either side of the jihadist’s bastion province of Raqqa on Sunday, a monitor said.
Yair Garbuz, the man who may have lost Zionist Camp/Labor the 2015 elections by railing against “mezuzah kissers,” joined the ranks of those he criticized in his infamous pre-election Rabin
In this week’s show, Jay Shapiro tries to figure out the Prime Minister’s plans for the future. Brilliant on the foreign stage but fumbling domestic politics – how long can Netanyahu last?
A group that is operating in Gaza and which says it is associated with ISIS has claimed that it killed a top Hamas commander. According to the group, which calls itself
Five Jewish residents of Metzad, south of Jerusalem, were arrested Sunday on suspicion that they attacked Arabs and leftists in November. The incident took place near Metzad – also known
Yisrael Beytenu has filed the third no-confidence motion against the 34th government of Israel since it was sworn in earlier this month, the party announced Sunday, over Israel’s inability to successfully deter
Yesh Atid has once again filed a no-confidence motion against the 34th government of Israel on Sunday, this time over the division of Foreign Ministry responsibilities to six different ministers.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Sunday with German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, one of six international foreign ministers visiting Israel in the coming weeks with plans to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Acclaimed American actor Al Pacino has received staunch support from the Anti-Defamation League over his decision to bow out of a play adapted from the novel of a well-known supporter of
With Gilad Erdan firmly sworn into the government as Public Security Minister, Likud is preparing for the eventuality that Benny Begin will resign from his governmental role in keeping with
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been hospitalized in stable condition after being injured in a cycling accident near Scionzier in France, according to the US State Department. According to AP,
Hollywood actor Michael Enright has become the latest westerner to join Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi group. The UK-born Enright – who played minor roles in several box office
More than 130 ex-Nazis, including SS guards, may have collected over $20.2 million in retirement benefits, according to the Social Security Administration’s inspector general. The I-G stated that, of those funds, $5.7 million were paid to
Hamas is planning to kidnap more Israeli soldiers, a spokesperson for the terror group said Sunday. According to Abu Obaideh, kidnapping IDF soldiers is one of the best ways to
Freshman Likud MK Oren Hazan will demand to be appointed deputy foreign minister, his associates informed Channel 2 on Sunday. The announcement comes as coalition party leaders gear up to appoint members of their
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday the first bill submitted by Minister Ayelet Shaked, stiffening the punishments and penalties meted out to individuals convicted of rock throwing. The
The head of the Shvut Yisrael Yeshiva in Efrat was booted off the Temple Mount Sunday morning – for the “crime” of closing his eyes. In a Facebook post, activist
Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militiamen burned alive a Sunni man in Iraq, in a gruesome reenactment of sorts of ISIS’s own torching of a Jordanian pilot earlier this year. Members of the
Although the law proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to increase the punishments for rock throwers got all the headlines Sunday, the Ministerial Law Committee approved a second law proposed
An Israeli businessman in Brazil was killed last week as he tried to resist a pair of robbers. Police in the northern Brazilian city of Belém said that the Israeli
The Likud party on Saturday night once again denied that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had offered the Foreign Ministry to Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid. Lapid, speaking earlier to Channel
A day after withdrawing his request to have Israel suspended from FIFA, the head of the Palestine Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, on Saturday clarified he intends to try to have