MK Ya’akov Litzman (United Torah Judaism), explained on Thursday that he refused an invitation to participate in a televised debate ahead of March elections in order to prevent Yesh Atid

The Hamas terror group reacted on Thursday to the decision by the Central Elections Committee in Israel to ban extremist Arab MK Hanin Zoabi from running in the upcoming elections.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday criticized U.S. President Barack Obama over his silence following the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week, Reuters reported. Speaking

An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists pending retrial, after they spent more than 400 days in prison in a case that sparked worldwide

The ex-wife of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died mysteriously after accusing President Cristina Kirchner of a cover-up in a 1994 Jewish center bombing, on Thursday criticized the probe into

Former Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirschenbaum, who was forced to resign from the Knesset due to suspicions of her involvement in the corruption scandal involving senior members of the Yisrael

A covert cell operating under the Iranian government is fueling the bloodshed throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Fox News revealed Thursday. Unit 190, a secret arm of the

Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary, was confirmed on Thursday by the Senate, AFP reports. The Senate — by a vote of 93 to five — overwhelmingly

An explosion went off Friday at a police checkpoint in the southern Turkish town of Suruc close to the Syrian border causing injuries, reports said. The cause of the blast was not clear but

Hakol Shafit, the Channel 1 TV show of right-wing satire Latma, was greeted with mixed reviews last Thursday when it debuted and broke the leftist monopoly on television satire – while

“Price tag” vandalism attacks by “right-wing extremists” against Palestinian Arabs have decreased 45% since 2013, Channel 2 reports Friday.  While in 2013 were 92 reported incidents of vandalism and sabotage against the Palestinian Arabs, in

Terrorists in Iraq have seized a major synagogue and holy site in Amara, the Elder of Ziyon blog reported Wednesday – and have already destroyed much of it.  According to the Iraqi

Senior sources in Jewish Home criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyau on Friday morning for trying “to eliminate the party,” which they claim he is doing to establish a coalition with

Yet another controversy is underway at the Sapir College in Sderot this week after it’s anti-Jewish art display – this time, over the use of a common letterhead in the

Police officers will now be required to sign an affidavit affirming that they have not been involved in criminal activity or sex offenses, Channel 2 reports Friday, after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz at his Tel Aviv office Thursday, ahead of latter’s stepping down and the IDF Chief-of-Staff changeover ceremony, to be

It’s poll time again as Israel continues to ramp up ahead of the March 17 elections, and in the latest findings Likud squeaks past the “Zionist camp” of Labor and Hatnua,

Fugitive hassidic sect leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland will be extradited from Holland, a Dutch court ruled Thursday night; Berland’s attorneys are expected to file an appeal.  Berland was hospitalized last month for

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) met on Thursday with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Ukrainian parliament chairman Volodymyr Groysman. Speaking with Yatsenyuk, Liberman discussed economic and technological cooperation and

The projected right-wing bloc is stable at 42 seats, according to an elections poll published Friday – whereas the left continues to reach new lows.  Likud is in first place

Any peaceful solution to the fighting in Syria must involve iron-handed President Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Friday. “President Assad is part of the solution,” de

The flurry of Friday polls continues, as a third survey conducted this time for Reshet Bet gives Likud a hands-breadth advantage over the “Zionist camp” of Labor and Hatnua, beating them out

Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, who is the Labor-Hatnua list’s candidate for Defense Minister if that list heads the next government, accused the government of being too “weak” against Hamas, Channel 10 reports

Likud MK Miri Regev responded on Friday morning to the “secret deal” exposed the previous evening by Yisrael Beytenu MK Faina Kirshenbaum, through which a “centrist” bloc had previously been

Police and a prayer hall were among potential targets for attack uncovered by police investigating two terrorists seized in Sydney with an Islamic State (ISIS) flag and knives this week, Australian police

France’s major TV and radio networks were formally criticized by the French broadcast regulator Thursday for serious “breaches” in the way they covered last month’s Islamist terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo, a policewoman and a

Israel will not pay compensation to the family of anti-Israel ISM activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an IDF bulldozer in 2003 in Gaza, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.

New research by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reveals that the list of journalists Hamas claimed were killed by the IDF during Operation Protective Edge last summer is

Yemen is sliding into chaos, UN special envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar, told Al Arabiya News Channel late Wednesday, saying “we believe the situation is very dangerous. Yemen is on the brink

The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), an affiliate of Yeshiva University (YU), is holding its Annual Gala Evening of Tribute on March 8 at The Grand Hyatt in New York