Congressional legislators were astonished last year to learn that the Palestinian Authority was issuing monthly payouts totaling $3-7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to specific terrorists and their

Japan has seized the passport of a journalist planning to travel to Syria following the brutal killing of two Japanese hostages by the Islamic State group there, local media said Sunday. It was

Israeli voters want politicians free of corruption, but scandals surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu are not such a hot topic after all, a new survey finds.  The survey,

American Jewish pressure on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to cancel his upcoming speech before a joint session of US Congress has begun to build.  A number of Jewish leaders have

United States President Barack Obama suffered a huge backlash Friday after comparing the terror organization Islamic State to the Christian Crusaders of the Middle Ages.  In his speech before the

Opposition leader and Labor Chairman Yitzhak Herzog said Sunday that his meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden in Munich was not related to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu or upcoming

Labor party activists handed out free fruit in apparent violation of Israeli elections law on Friday – just days after a court injunction prevented the Jewish Home party from doing the

On Sunday, February 15, Yeshiva University’s Student Medical Ethics Society, Center for the Jewish Future, Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon and Millie Arbesfeld Midreshet Yom Rishon will partner to present

Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon addressed hundreds of students at Tel Aviv University Sunday, where he pushed his economic platform for the 2015 elections.  “ Netanyahu and Lapid

Thousands of parents nationwide are up in arms over a law that makes it mandatory to send all children from age 32 months to pre-nursery schools that are either state

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef is due to return to Israel Monday after spending the past week in Mexico. The visit was very successful, a spokesperson for the Chief Rabbi

Syrian Kurdish forces have recaptured more than a third of the villages around Kobane from the Islamic State terror group since routing the jihadists from the town a fortnight ago, a monitor

An international coalition battling against Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria is beginning to win back territory and deprive the jihadists of key funds, US top diplomat John Kerry said Sunday as he denounced

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett attacked former Science Minister Yaakov Peri (Yesh Atid) Sunday over his comments about Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked.  In an interview Sunday morning, Peri addressed

Interest rates are low, which means that people are borrowing more, and according to statistics compiled by the Pa’amonim non-profit organization, one third of Israelis took loans of some sort

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday appeared to rule out any new extension to tough negotiations with world powers over his country’s suspect nuclear program, as he met top US diplomat John Kerry for

Labor Chairman Yitzhak Herzog continues to feel the heat from his Munich meetings Sunday, as more politicians personally attack him.  Herzog attended the international Munich Security Conference this past weekend,

A knife-wielding man accused of attacking three soldiers outside a Jewish community center in the south of France was on Saturday charged with attempted murder in connection with a terrorist

Egyptian military airstrikes have killed at least 27 fighters in the northern Sinai region in one of the biggest security operations in the region in months, Al-Jazeera reported on Saturday.

Britain’s Prince Charles said the numbers of vulnerable young Muslims being radicalized by “crazy stuff” on the Internet was “frightening”, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday and of which

Despite essentially boycotting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress by planning to be abroad when it takes place, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday met with another Israeli

A shooting about 20 miles west of Atlanta has left five people dead, authorities said Saturday, according to USA Today. Seven victims, including children, were found both inside and outside

Coalition warplanes pounded a stronghold of the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria Saturday amid uncertainty over the fate of a US hostage the jihadists claim was killed in an earlier raid. The United Arab Emirates

Islamic State (ISIS) has steadily been gaining hold in Gaza since taking part in last summer’s terror war on Israel, but an attack Friday indicates the terror group may have

Despite the 2012 Levy Report proving the legality of Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria under international law, the European Union (EU) has bitterly opposed that presence and even threatened sanctions

He may currently be chairperson of the party and buoyed by its backing is emphatically insisting that he will be the next prime minister, but just under a year and a half

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday ordered the formation of a committee to oversee cases to lodge with the International Criminal Court, in an extension of his unilateral move that breaches the

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday ordered a squadron of F-16 warplanes to be stationed in Jordan to support it in strikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group, apparently taking back its decision last

Turkey’s powerful intelligence chief, one of the most steadfast allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the man who exposed a Mossad network causing major fallout with Israel, has resigned to stand

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have subjected Yazidi religious minorities in Iraq to mass rape and torture aside from killing hundreds of them at a time; the jihadist group’s newest trend against the group