Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz not only researched suicide methods before fatally crashing a passenger jet into the Swiss Alps in March – he also practiced dives before the crash, it

A proposal by the Attorney General could cause grievous damage to kosher consumers, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau said Wednesday. “The decision to allow ‘alternative’ kashrut certificates is an erroneous

Ruth David, the former Chief Prosecutor for the Tel Aviv District, was arrested Tuesday and spent the night in custody. She is suspected of obstruction of justice and corruption-related offenses

Ayelet Shaked, says Judea and Samaria settlement pioneer Daniella Weiss, is the right person in the right place at the right time to serve as Justice Minister. “There are many

Just two hours before a midnight deadline, Likud and Jewish Home have struck a coalition deal – paving the way for a right-wing government.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jewish

MK Yitzhak Herzog, head of Zionist Union, angrily denied a report Wednesday that he had turned down an offer by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be Israel’s Foreign Minister. Herzog

Worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron on Wednesday chased away an unwanted guest – Jibril Rajoub, a top Palestinian Authority terrorist. Rajoub was seen trying to enter

The head of Denmark’s intelligence agency stepped down on Wednesday, AFP reported, as an investigation criticized parts of the police response to February’s deadly twin terror attacks in Copenhagen. “After careful consideration, I

Hamas is developing an air attack capability – by recruiting Palestinian students in Malaysia to carry out attacks on Israel using paragliding equipment, a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence

The IDF has finally pledged to investigate repeated warnings that Hamas is rebuilding terror tunnels into Israel via the Gaza Belt, Channel 10 reports Wednesday – after months of media exposés and complaints

The United States wants the UN Security Council to set up an investigation on the use of chemical weapons in Syria following reports of chlorine gas attacks, diplomats said Wednesday. The investigation would

Yossi Langosky, the IDF officer who established the technology department of the army’s Intelligence Unit, said Wednesday that all of Israel’s land borders – north, south, and east – were

A Hungarian prosecutor on Tuesday ordered a man to read up on the Holocaust after he shared a picture on social media depicting Auschwitz as an imaginary fun camp, reports

The UN’s peace envoy for Syria on Tuesday launched wide-ranging consultations in Geneva with regional and domestic players, including Iran, in a bid to revive stalled talks to end the

The United States authorized commercial ferry services to Cuba for the first time in more than a half-century on Tuesday, another major step in improving relations between the two countries,

Negotiations aiming at reaching a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program will resume on May 12 in Vienna, the European Union and Tehran said Tuesday, according to the AFP news

French judges re-examining the evidence surrounding the 2004 death of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat have concluded their investigations, the prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said

Senator Bob Corker, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Tuesday that he sees an “overwhelming” vote to pass the Iran nuclear review bill as soon as Thursday,

Palestinian Arab officials visited Syria for the second time in less than a month on Tuesday to discuss efforts to protect the Yarmouk neighborhood of Damascus and its residents from

Despite a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State (ISIS) for Sunday’s shooting attack in a Dallas suburb, the White House said Tuesday it was “too soon” to tell if

He may be out of the Knesset but he’s far from being out of influence. Rabbi Elan Adler sat with Dov Lipman to assess what he’s doing now and what

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor on Tuesday addressed the UN General Assembly for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, and warned that the forces

Islamic and Western countries have begun their annual two-week military exercise in Jordan, named Eager Lion. About 10,000 military personnel are taking part in the exercise – up from 8,000

Police detectives and Israel Security Agency (ISA) agents on Wednesday morning issued administrative distancing orders to three Jewish youths, leading one rights group to warn Israel’s legal system is being warped.

After negotiations that extended into the wee hours of the night, Likud has agreed to appoint Jewish Home’s Ayelet Shaked as the new Justice Minister. Shalom Shlomo, a confidant of Bennett,

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has said Iran will not take part in negotiations with world powers if threatened with military action over its nuclear program. In comments reported by

The US will stop managing Afghan airspace by June 30 as an air-traffic control contract with the local government expires, potentially signalling the end of international flights to and over

Jewish residents of Jerusalem scored a significant victory Wednesday, reclaiming a building formerly owned by Jews before being ethnically-cleansed by Arab armies in 1948. The Jewish residents entered the structure before

The Sudanese army claimed it shot down an Israeli drone, after Arab media reported on Wednesday that Israeli war planes struck sites around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, destroying weapons sites