Turkey on Tuesday deported nine Britons, including the son of a local councillor, two weeks after arresting them for attempting to cross into Syria to join jihadists, the official news agency said. The nine were

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), the IDF, and the Israel Police busted a Hamas cell planning major attacks during Purim, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday. 

Car bombs in the Baghdad area, including one near a hospital, killed at least eight people on Tuesday, security and medical officials said. One blast hit a car park across the street from

Incoming Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich fumed Tuesday at the destruction of a Kiryat Arba synagogue on Tuesday morning, after the Civil Administration moved to demolish the structure overnight.  “The destruction of

Iran’s Defense Minister, Hossein Dehqan, on Monday welcomed Russia’s decision to lift a ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile rocket systems to his country, claiming the decision would help

With coalition negotiations with United Torah Judaism in their final stages, and Shas and Kulanu not far behind, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may be on the verge of forming his

Shots were fired outside of a synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, local daily The Tennessean reported. No one was hurt.  Police spokesman Don Aaron said a maintenance worker heard a

Republican Senator Marco Rubio announced to donors Monday that he is launching a presidential campaign, AFP reports. American media reported that Rubio told major donors on a conference call about

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder in London of an imam who was a critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, police said Monday. Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once again blasted the West’s nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, stating in a lengthy series of remarks that the deal is “an agreement full of

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate led a fierce assault on an intelligence base in Aleppo city Monday night after regime attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city forced rebels to shut schools, according to AFP. Along with

An Israeli soldier was indicted on Monday for allegedly tipping off far-right Jewish extremists that they were about to be arrested, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) stated.  Elad Sela, a resident

Despite angry tension between Likud and Jewish Home throughout the coalition negotiation process, Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett said Monday night that the two parties had made headway.  The Economy

Likud MKs wasted no time firing back at actress Anat Waxman Monday after she described Likud voters with contempt in a television interview. MK Miri Regev called Waxman “stuck up and elitist”

Anat Waxman, a successful stage and television actress, insulted many fellow Israelis with her derisive description of Likud voters on Channel 2 Sunday. Among other things, she referred to them

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder in London of an imam who was a critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, police said Monday. Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found in

Iran has become adamant that all sanctions be dropped immediately with the signing of a nuclear deal by June 30, a demand contradicting Western positions, but that appears unlikely to

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto was taken to the Ichilov Medical Center Monday morning after apparently suffering a heart attack on the plane that brought him to Israel from New York. Rabbi

US officials revealed that Iran is trying to smuggle surface-to-air missiles into the Shi’ite Houthi militia in Yemen, to aid its attempts to conquer the country and stave off a

Two polls that received very little fanfare were released late last month, and found that the majority of Christian and Jewish Canadians think Islam is “irreconcilable” with the West –

In confirmation of the Yachad – Ha’am Itanu and Otzma Yehudit accusations that Shas activists committed mass voter fraud in invalidating the two parties’ joint list ballot slips, recordings reveal

Despite national initiatives last year to help Holocaust victims residing in Israel, the situation for many is still dire.  The Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims published on Monday,

“Shi’i Islam has a greater tendency than Sunni Islam for innovative thought due to its embrace of reasoning and rationalism as a tool for interpreting the religious law,” an expert

The number of Europeans fighting with jihadist groups in Syria could exceed 6,000, a top EU official told a French newspaper Monday, according to AFP. “At the European level, we estimate that 5,000-6,000 individuals

The coalition negotiations between Likud and the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party have reached the final stages of phrasing the wording of the agreement, reports IDF Radio. The agreement is

Iraq has exhumed the remains of 164 people believed to have been massacred by jihadists from mass graves in Tikrit, the human rights ministry said Monday. “Search teams have discovered the remains of 164

Germany’s most famous writer, Gunter Grass, best known for his 1959 novel “The Tin Drum” but whose reputation was tarnished by his admission he had served in Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s Waffen SS,

According to the Reuters news agency, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday lifting a ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile

While American Jews have supported US President Barack Obama significantly more than the general population in survey polls, that gap is narrowing, Gallup reported Friday – and disparagement is highest among the