The Cabinet approved Tuesday the formation of a ministerial committee – to be chaired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – on the Arab sector. The committee, which was established at
The new road leading from Ramallah to the Arab town of Bitin in Samaria was opened to Arab traffic by the IDF as a “gesture” on Monday, only to be
Egyptian security forces have destroyed more than 500 tunnels infiltrating Egypt from Gaza, according to state media. Egyptian military spokesman Mohammed Samir told the state-owned Al-Ahram daily that the army had
Freshman MK Oren Hazan (Likud) has sponsored a bill that would make it mandatory for all Israeli schoolchildren to study spoken Arabic, from first to 12th grade. The trigger for
US President Barack Obama’s 16-year-old daughter Malia has attracted unsolicited attention from Kenya, where the president’s father was from, as one intrepid Kenyan lawyer on Tuesday offered a motley selection
Routine discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount is certainly nothing new. Despite its status as the holiest site in Judaism, due to Muslim pressure and threats Israeli police maintain a
Israelis in America were jubilant as David Blatt, the Israeli coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers now in his first year in the NBA, brought his team to the NBA Finals on
Egypt reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza for two days on Tuesday, Palestinian Arab border officials said, according to the AFP news agency. Maher Abu Sabha, director of border
A Catholic university in Hungary has made a course in Holocaust education mandatory for all its students, the first initiative of its kind in Europe according to Israel’s envoy to
IAF aircraft on Wednesday morning struck four terrorist infrastructures in southern Gaza the IDF Spokesperson said. Direct hits at the targets were identified, said the statement. The airstrike came in
A court in Egypt on Monday rejected a lawsuit demanding the designation of Israel as a “terrorist state”, The Cairo Post reported. According to the report, the Abdeen Court of
A top Russian diplomat on Tuesday said that no start date for the delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran has been set yet, according to The Associated Press (AP). The
Former British prime minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched an appeal in his role as UN education envoy to raise $100 million in aid for Syrian students who have taken refuge
Hamas used its 2014 Gaza war with Israel to “settle scores” with rival Palestinians, executing at least 23 in possible war crimes, Amnesty International said Tuesday, according to the AFP
Syria’s antiquities chief said on Tuesday that the historic city of Palmyra had been unharmed since Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents seized it last week. Speaking to Reuters, Maamoun Abdulkarim said
A Jewish resident of the Jewish quarter of Vienna, the capital of Austria, complained that his landlord demanded he remove the Israeli flag he had hung inside his window – or
Poland will take in 60 Syrian refugee families of the Christian faith Warsaw said Tuesday, just days after it opposed European Union plans for binding quotas on asylum seekers for its
Restrictions on Iraqi people fleeing the fighting in Anbar province are forcing some of them to return straight into conflict areas, an aid group said Tuesday. “Thousands of people fleeing Ramadi are stuck at
Diplomats in the Foreign Ministry voiced their condemnation to Arutz Sheva against the decision to distribute the authority over various functions of the ministry to different ministers in the government. Transportation Minister Yisrael
As world powers reconvene talks with Iran ahead of next month’s deadline for a deal over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that a nuclear-armed Iran
In response to the decision by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) not to renew the controversial seizure of Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva (Torah academy – ed.) in Yitzhar, Samaria, staff and students
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will act as soon as possible to tap into massive natural gas deposits off the Israeli coast, and said he won’t allow
The Wolf volcano on the northern tip of Isabela Island, the largest of the Galapagos Islands, erupted on Monday in a massive plume of lava and smoke, raising fears that
An Israeli NGO is seeking to place Israel back on the front foot, as a campaign by the Palestinian Authority to have the Israeli Football Association kicked out of world soccer federation
We are joined by our good friend Rabbi Tovia Singer who has spent many months in southeast Asia. To date he has been teaching in Malaysia, Jakarta, Papua, and other
MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid), a resident of the Gaza border region and former head of the Eshkol Regional Council, on Tuesday evening called on the government to respond to
Politicians lost no time in responding to the rocket fire from Gaza on Tuesday night, in which at least one rocket struck in the vicinity of the southern city of
A young Texan eager to fight and die for the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria was tricked into returning home – and arrested Tuesday – after receiving bogus news that his mother was sick, officials said.
The Pentagon expressed disappointment on Tuesday over a decision by Iraqi militias to impose an explicitly Shia name for a military operation in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, saying it could aggravate sectarian
Air raid sirens sounded in towns across southern Israel Tuesday evening at 9:02 p.m, as the IDF confirmed that at least one Grad rocket fired from Gaza struck near the community of Gan