Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he “respects” US President Barack Obama but stressed he has no choice but to travel to America to lobby against a nuclear deal with Iran. “I

Egypt’s former mufti expressed doubt recently that the Islamic State (ISIS) indeed burned alive a Jordanian pilot it kidnapped in Syria. In an address posted on the internet on February

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Tuesday said that an Iran nuclear deal was “at hand”, AFP reported. “We cannot miss this opportunity,” Federica Mogherini said at Chatham House, a

For the second time in as many years, Yeshiva University men’s basketball player Benjy Ritholtz has earned one of the highest academic honors a college student-athlete can earn, as the

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid continued on Tuesday to blame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the housing crisis in Israel, ahead of a new report by the State Comptroller

The shooting attack in the Czech town of Uhersky Brod on Tuesday in which eight people were killed was not a terrorist attack, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said Tuesday

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday night that he will not form a unity government with the “Zionist Camp”, headed by Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua chairwoman Tzipi

The American public has grown more supportive of the US fight against the Islamic State group, with nearly two-thirds now backing the air campaign against the jihadists, according to a

A video released by ISIS in Libya and published by the Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat shows the two perpetrators of a deadly attack on the Corinthia Hotel in January threatening that ISIS’s

The Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), arrested a 17-year-old Jewish youth in a nighttime raid on Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar, Samaria. The youth was taken to

A Palestinian Arab mosque was set alight in a village near Bethlehem Tuesday, with anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew sprayed on a nearby wall, Palestinian witnesses said. The fire was discovered in

A group of Iranian dissidents said on Tuesday that Iran has an “underground top-secret site” that is enriching uranium intended for nuclear weapons and which has been hidden from the

The Israel Electric Corporation on Wednesday limited the electricity flow to Shechem and Jenin, after doing so earlier in the week to several other Palestinian Authority-controlled areas. The IEC did

After having flown missions over Afghanistan and Libya, French Rafale fighter pilot “Sharpy” now faces fresh challenges on his new assignment against the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in Iraq.  

Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Yisrael Beytenu party could distribute copies of Charlie Hebdo as part of its campaign ahead of a March 17 general election.   Foreign

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reportedly declined an invitation to meet with U.S. Senate Democrats during his trip to Washington next week, Reuters reported late Tuesday. The invitation was extended

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday that Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech in Congress is “destructive” to the relationship between the two countries. Rice made the comments in

The United States has condemned the abduction by the Islamic State terrorist group of dozens of Assyrian Christians in Syria and demanded their immediate release. It was the first mass

Famed Israeli singer-composer Rami Kleinstein, 52, who has always been secular, has begun to conduct kiddush ceremonies to welcome the Sabbath and to lay tefillin every morning. Kleinstein is growing

In an interview with Yisraeli magazine, Minister Naftali Bennett, Chairman of the Jewish Home, said that the party is regaining steam after a drop in popularity last month. “Large forces in

Nearly 1,000 Assyrian Christian families have fled their homes in northeastern Syria after jihadists kidnapped dozens of members of their community, an activist said on Wednesday.   Osama Edward, director

The subject of biased and even false reporting of the Arab-Israeli conflict by foreign and international media outlets is never far from the headlines.  Just this week, an absurd allegation by

A powerful ex-spy who exposed explosive evidence linking Argentine President Cristina Kirchner to a cover-up of Iranian involvement in a deadly bombing has been accused by the government Tuesday of running a smuggling ring and committing

Jewish Home Chairman and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett is joining Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington next week, he announced Tuesday night, in order to support Israel’s position on the

Two Norwegians accused of fighting with Islamic State (ISIS) extremists appeared before an Oslo court Tuesday charged with aiding a “terrorist organization”, in Norway’s first ever trial of suspected jihadists.

Anti-Semitism is on the rise not only in Europe, but in the US as well, a recent study has shown.  More than 50% of American college students have been victims

Another anti-Semitic cab driver has been unearthed in the Big Apple, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday, after one cabbie told a 51 year-old Jewish woman that “all Jews must die.”  On

The Turkish Army preparing to attack the Suez Canal, 1914 (Library of Congress) In January 1915, the German-led Turkish army attacked British forces along the Suez Canal.  The British blunted

Labor is on top again in yet another elections poll published Tuesday – and Yachad Ha’am Itanu may be on the upswing too.  Labor would garner 24 seats in the