Japan is working with Jordan to free both a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot being held by Islamist extremists, officials said Tuesday, days after terrorists executed another hostage, according to AFP.  The self-styled

To mark Israeli Space Week, about 300 IAI employees posed in a way that spelled out “IAI” for what they called a “satellite selfie”: a photograph taken by the cameras

Former minister Avi Dichter is appealing to the Supreme Court over the District Court’s decision to freeze the recount in Likud’s primaries – a decision that would place MK Tzipi

The ubiquitous social media site Facebook crashed Tuesday morning, just after 8:00 am IST.  Attempts to access the site result in a “page not found” or loading loop, or alternatively

MK Zevulun Kalfa has announced his resignation from the Jewish Home Knesset list, in an act of protest at the decision by party head Naftali Bennett to place former soccer

Panos Kammenos, whose nationalist Independent Greeks party has entered into an unlikely coalition government with the radical left-wing Syriza, once walked the corridors of parliament wearing a T-shirt that read:

European Parliament President Martin Schulz of Germany took part in the fourth International “Let My People Live!” Forum against anti-Semitism this week, where he had harsh words for the recent rise of the racist

The Roundtable of Speakers of Parliament in the European Union expressed “grave concern” Tuesday about the rise in anti-Semitism witnessed in Europe. “We, the gathered here today in Prague for

Turkey will host a ceremony to commemorate Holocaust victims in its capital for the first time in a sign of solidarity with the Jewish community, an official said. “The ceremony will take

Belgian security forces arrested three suspected Islamist terrorists in fresh counter-terror raids after foiling a major plot to attack police earlier this month, officials said Tuesday. The three arrests were made in the

Labor is maintaining a strong lead over Likud in elections polls Tuesday, after a Panels Politics poll for the Knesset Channel held on Monday night gave leaders Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni a

President Reuven Rivlin began the second day of his trip to the United States with a visit to the West Point US Military Academy.  Rivlin was greeted by the Dean

Many Hungarians chose “bad instead of good” in helping deport Jews to Nazi death camps, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday in his first acknowledgement of his country’s complicity in the Holocaust. “We were

A radical Muslim leader pleaded not guilty in a Bosnian court Monday to charges of inciting terrorism for having encouraged his followers to fight alongside terrorists in Syria and Iraq. The radical cleric, Husein

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit party has released its list for the 20th Knesset Monday, ahead of the Thursday deadline for the March 17 elections.  The list is

The weekly BeSheva newspaper, an Arutz Sheva-associated publication distributed free around the country, has become the third-largest weekly journal in Israel. So reports the TGI (Target Group Index) consumers-and-media analysis organization.  BeSheva, a

Egypt’s Emergency State Security Court on Monday overturned an earlier decision to list Hamas as a terrorist organization, the Ma’an news agency reported. The court ruled that determining whether or

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid announced his party’s Knesset list Monday night – mere days before the deadline to do so.  “We have learned from our initial mistakes that if

The IDF has begun digging trenches along the border with Syria, Walla! News reports Monday night, amid fears of real escalation between Israel and Islamists in neighboring Syria and Lebanon.  The mechanical

Member of the Jewish Home party’s Central Committee gathered Monday evening to confirm the party’s unification with Tekuma and to present its official joint list for the 20th Knesset.  “First

The left is gaining ground, according to a Channel 2 poll released Monday night, with Labor three seats ahead of Likud.  Labor is projected to gain 26 seats in the 2015 elections,

A former CIA officer was convicted on Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter. According to The Associated

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett explained on Monday evening the reasoning behind his recruiting former soccer legend Eli Ohana to the party. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Bennett said that he

Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, announced on Monday night that she plans to disband Argentina’s intelligence agency, in the wake of the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman last

The United States Central Command confirmed on Monday night that Kurdish forces have pushed back the Islamic State (ISIS) group and now control 90 percent of the key Syrian town

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday held a working meeting in New York with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, upon whose invitation Rivlin will address the UN special session for

Film director Steven Spielberg on Monday warned that Jews are again facing what he called the “perennial demons of intolerance”, from anti-Semites who are provoking hate crimes and trying to

The Jewish Home party surprised Israelis on Monday evening by announcing that former Israeli soccer superstar Eli Ohana had joined the party. Ohana, 50, played with the Beitar Jerusalem soccer

The United States said Monday that the battle for control of the Syrian town of Kobane was continuing, despite claims by Kurdish leaders that their forces have recaptured the area

It has become known as “Survivors’ Street” – a small road in Haifa where about 100 Holocaust survivors are living out their last days side-by-side, keeping alive memories and testimony of the