The far-left Meretz party faced a setback recently when a local billboard company in Ramat Gan refused to display its banner, Channel Two News reported Monday.  As part of the second wave of its campaign

Swedish prosecutors indicted Monday a former Syrian rebel accused of severely beating a pro-regime fighter in 2012 after a video of the attack was posted on Facebook. The 28-year-old is accused of violating international

Yesh Atid has managed to twist the Ponevezh Yeshiva violence to its political advantage, with the pro-enlistment comments of Former Education Minister Shai Piron on his Twitter account.  Piron wrote that he would

Indian authorities have released nine people deported from Turkey after allegedly trying to enter an area of Syria controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group, police said Monday. Police in the southern city

Kurdish forces have found the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group in a mass grave in northwest Iraq, officials

53 officers, soldiers, other military representatives, and family members of soldiers who fell in battle will be attending a special ceremony this evening (Monday) in recognition of their brave actions

The Victory in 2015 (V15) organization filed a complaint with police Monday afternoon against the Likud party and the head of Likud’s publicity campaign.  In a press conference Sunday, Likud

A senior European commissioner warned Monday about rising levels of  extremism and intolerance across the 28-nation bloc, targeting Jews, Muslims, homosexuals and even women. “There is rising anti-Semitism, there is rising Islamophobia, there

Syrian government air strikes on an opposition-held town killed at least 15 civilians in the southern province of Daraa on Monday, a monitoring group said.   “The death toll from

IDF forces successfully foiled two stabbing attacks on Sunday, both in the area of the Machepelah Cave (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hevron. Both potential stabbers – Arabs from the

Former US Secretary of State James Baker said Sunday that House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address Congress, which was extended without consulting the White

The Efrat organization’s activities are enabled through donation received from within Israel and abroad; from people with generous hearts and wise minds, who understand that saving lives is a principle of

A blast ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least nine people, a monitor said, in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett’s unsuccessful recruitment of soccer legend Eli Ohana to the party’s Knesset list cost the religious Zionist party 0.9 Knesset seats in the weekly average of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remains popular, according to a new poll released Sunday by the TRI polling firm. In addition, voters said they did not believe that last week’s elimination

Eli Yishai says he never had any doubts that his Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party could and would pass the threshold into the Knesset on its own, and insists his decision to run together with

BLITZER: Would you be willing to give up the Golan Heights to reach a peace treaty with Syria? LIVNI: Syria now, this is now not even the beginning of direct

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on Sunday put his foot down on ongoing leaks of confidential state documents to the media – using as an example Channel Ten reporter Raviv Drucker, who

Former Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, who is the Labor-Hatnua list’s candidate for Defense Minister if that list heads the next government, on Sunday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of

Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Sunday launched a pan-Arab satellite news channel aimed at challenging established networks in the region, and specifically the controversial Al-Jazeera, according to the

A senior Hamas official on Sunday slammed a decision by an Egyptian court to brand Hamas’s “military wing” a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, the group’s spokesman toned down Hamas’s initial response

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is signaling a return to politics. Iran’s hardline former president, who prided himself on his denial of the Holocaust, on Sunday launched his official website, in a possible

A reporter for Al-Jazeera English was released Sunday from an Egyptian prison and deported, after more than a year behind bars, The Associated Press (AP) reported. His two Egyptian colleagues

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday he had no idea why Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s invitation to address Congress “has become such a fuss”. Speaking to

The UN Security Council condemned on Sunday the “heinous and cowardly” murder of a Japanese journalist, after Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists claimed his beheading. “This crime is, yet again, a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday evening with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and noted that to this point, there has been no condemnation of Iran for last week’s attacks

The Central Elections Committee on Sunday issued an order preventing the use of images, photos, and statements that could be taken to imply the endorsement of the IDF of any

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid on Sunday announced his assets – and they are substantial. In line with disclosure requirements ahead of the March 17 elections, Lapid disclosed, Channel Two

Jordan vowed Sunday to do all it could to save an airman held by the Islamic State group after the jihadists killed a Japanese journalist they had been holding, AFP reports Sunday.  The kingdom “will do

Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, spoke Sunday morning at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya about Israel’s current security situation.  Among other things, he addressed the