Members of an Iranian opposition group said Thursday that a delegation of North Korean nuclear experts visited nuclear installations in April – after the framework agreement limiting Iranian nuclear activity had

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may have promised additional funds to the Internal Security Ministry, but aides to Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon asserted Wednesday they were unsure where that money would materialize

Kutiba Atian, a 21-year old Arab from Jericho, was indicted Thursday on charges of murder, attempting to destroy evidence, and illegal entry into Israel for the April murder of 24-year-old Polish

The Israel Railways workers committee announced on Thursday that all operations would be shut down starting on Sunday.  According to the committee, the strikes is a result of “the continuation

Palestinian terrorists in Judea and Samaria threw two pipe bombs at IDF forces on Wednesday night. The first attack occurred as soldiers conducted an arrest operation in Jenin. None of the

A British police chief has requested London’s Jewish community to provide proof an extremist rally being planned for July 4 in Golders Green will be anti-Semitic, so authorities can shut

The term “settlement bloc” should be banned, at least in right-wing circles, according to David Elhiyani, head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council. “I told my friends in the Likud

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid lashed out Thursday morning at FIFA, shortly after a vote scheduled for Friday on ousting Israel from international competitions was postponed.  “Who is FIFA threatening to boycott?”

Radio: anti-Semitism has reappeared in the form of opposition to Israel government policies that are being overwhelmed by a Palestinian narrative that has the world believing that the Palestinians are

The United States made clear on Wednesday that it will not consider an extension to reach an agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear program, despite indications from France and Iran that

Occasionally Iris Yifrah, the mother of murdered 19 year-old Eyal Yifrah, still sends WhatsApp messages to her son’s cell phone – one year after he was kidnapped.   “I always message him,

Israel’s electric consumption hit an all-time high on Wednesday, with 11,334 megawatts of power passing through the Israel Electric Company (IEC)’s power lines. The company was able to handle the

The IDF on Wednesday celebrated the 61st graduating class of the army’s General Officer’s Course. The ceremony was held at the IDF base in Kibbutz Gelilot in central Israel, with

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called Wednesday on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to resume peace negotiations, saying the situation on the ground was “not sustainable,” according to AFP.  Mogherini issued the remarks after eyewitnesses

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu thanked former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his service in the Middle East Peace Quartet on Wednesday night, after Blair announced his resignation.  “In recent years,

The Chief Rabbinate “has no right to use its power to extend community rabbis’ contracts for purposes other than extending those contracts,” said Rabbi Haim Druckman, a long time advocate

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s football chief on Wednesday refused to back down on a threatened vote to expel Israel from football’s governing body after talks with FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Earlier, Arab delegations walked

The Chief Rabbinate on Wednesday hinted that it was under strong pressure to remove Rabbi Shlomo Riskin from his position as Chief Rabbi of Efrat, the community he helped form

A substantial number of the 500,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide are suffering from poverty and need urgent help to live a dignified life in their last years, an advisor to the US secretary

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday resigned as envoy of the Middle East Quartet diplomatic group after eight years in the job, his office said. “Tony Blair has tendered his

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Wednesday that Iran and Russia would never give up their support for his regime in the face of a four-year-old armed revolt. “I assure you that the

At least 1,200 migrants from Syria and Afghanistan have landed in Greece over a two-day period, the Daily Mail reports Wednesday, flooding the islands of Kos, Lesbos, Chios and Farmakonisi. 30,000 have arrived in

It feels like the hottest August ever in Israel this week, but it’s actually still only May – as Israel experiences its second extreme heat wave in the space of

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk has announced that he is ending his self-imposed exile and moving permanently to Gaza, according to the Associated Press. The move is being seen as a

Influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday criticized the codename given to a military operation in Sunni areas of Iraq, warning that it risked fanning the flames of sectarianism, according to AFP.  The

“Violent dispossession.” In an Arabic dialect, the word is Farhud. For decades after it occurred, many thought the nightmare was a sudden and unexpected convulsion that afflicted the Iraqi Jewish

Ethiopian Israelis are not well-integrated into the education system, according to a report released Wednesday, and are less likely to finish their matriculation exams (bagruyot) than members of other communities. 

World War II may have ended in 1945, but the city of Cologne in western Germany nearly got a “blast from the past” on Wednesday when an un-exploded 200-kilogram (440-pound)

The record-high heat wave descending on Israel on Wednesday has led to an outburst of fires, with three homes burned to the ground and a large forest outside Beit Shemesh blazing

The same day that Gaza terrorists fired rockets at Israel, with a Grad rocket striking near Ashdod, a wide-reaching logistical drill was held on Tuesday by the IDF’s Central Command to