Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Likud MK Gilad Erdan Wednesday in an effort to convince him to join the government. Channel 2 and Army Radio reported that Netanyahu offered Erdan the Internal
A Swiss court has ordered an Israeli oil firm to pay Iran $1.1 billion in compensation over a joint venture from before the 1979 Islamic revolution, state news agency IRNA said Wednesday. A
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued a statement Wednesday welcoming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to indefinitely “freeze” measures banning Palestinian Arab workers from traveling on Israeli buses in Judea and
Moves to ban the Israel Football Association (IFA) from international soccer club FIFA will not help coexistence, Science and Technology Minister MK Danny Danon (Likud) told Arutz Sheva Wednesday night. “Boycotting Israel will not help them,” Danon
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on Wednesday, for discussions over peace talks and the situation in the Middle
The United States is taking an “extremely hard look” at its strategy in Iraq after Islamic State terrorists captured the town of Ramadi, a top US official said Wednesday. And he
Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) fighters recaptured the north of Syria’s historic city of Palmyra Wednesday in another setback to efforts to repel the advancing jihadists after the fall of
An Israeli court has ordered the Greek Orthodox church to stump up $2.9 million in fees owed to a local lawyer for cases dating back to 2002, court authorities said Wednesday. The Israel
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) on Tuesday met with visiting Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende, and told her guest that there is a consensus among Israelis that Jerusalem must
Congressional investigators have issued a subpoena demanding that former Clinton White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal testify next month before the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attack in
New Beginnings: This week Israel begins to read the fourth book of Torah, Bamidbar, the book of Numbers which tells the story of the generation of the desert…the generation that
A football player in Canada who was fined by the Canadian Football League (CFL) and his team over anti-Semitic tweets has apologized for his action, The Canadian Press (CP) reports.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Tuesday for more donor aid to support the economic recovery of the Palestinian Authority (PA)-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria and of Gaza,
Ministers from 47 European nations agreed for the first time on Tuesday to harmonize their laws to stop so-called foreign fighters travelling to Iraq and Syria to join jihadist groups,
Poland is preparing an extensive list of the personnel who served in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, the EFE news agency reported on Tuesday. According to new data, more
The United Nations will explore options with Israel’s new government for a return to negotiations on creating a Palestinian state within a reasonable timeframe, the body’s new envoy said Tuesday,
The government failed Tuesday to approve the makeup of the Diplomacy and Security Cabinet, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked that the decision about the forum’s composition be postponed. The
Deputy Defense Minister MK Eli Ben-Dahan said Wednesday that he was caught off guard by the Defense Minister’s decision to freeze a plan to have Jews and Arabs ride separate buses in
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) reports that both The Washington Post and The Washington Times “stumbled” in covering Pope Francis’ canonization of two Arabic-speaking nuns born in the
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said Monday that he doubts Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s present government can survive for more than a year unless it is expanded. “There is an
Two Israeli border policewomen have been wounded in a suspected car-terror attack in Jerusalem, close to the Mount of Olives. A police statement reported that two police officers were run over
Jewish residents of the London neighborhood of Golders Green are bracing themselves for a potentially sizable neo-Nazi rally organized by a coalition of far-right fascist groups. The rally’s organizers say they
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinian Arab workers from riding the same buses as Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria when
A year after a Muslim gunman murdered four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Jews across Europe increasingly fear for their safety and warn they are on the frontline
Archaeologists have confirmed that a Lithuanian power station was built using stolen Jewish tombstones. Earlier this month Gledrius Sakalauskas, a local resident, noticed that many of the stones used to
Reports are arising about secret negotiations between Israeli and Hamas officials to find a way to deliver goods more efficiently to Gaza. Discussions are currently focusing on building a floating
This week Ira and Rod are joined by self-described “Noahide” Richard Abbott from the United Kingdom. Richard could never understand why he was enamored by Jews and Judaism. It was
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Tuesday with the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, to discuss Palestinian Authority efforts to boot Israel out of the world football governing body later this month.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday praised Iran’s support as a “key pillar” in his fight against rebels, as a third Iranian official visited Damascus in less than a week.
A rebel coalition including Al Qaeda’s local affiliate seized the Syrian regime’s largest remaining military base in northwest Idlib province on Tuesday, after an explosion and heavy clashes, a monitor said.