The State Attorney’s Office told the High Court last week that it no longer opposes allowing Israelis to officially change their sex, even without undergoing an operation. The announcement was

The new female haredi party B’Zhutan has already been threatened with excommunication and other forms of backlash by members of the haredi community, to the point that Deputy Attorney General

MK Shimon Solomon is retiring from the nitty-gritty aspects of politics, he stated in a letter he sent to members of his Yesh Atid party on Thursday, and will not be running

Syria’s regime-tolerated domestic opposition and members of the main exiled group demanding the president’s ouster met Thursday in Cairo to discuss Moscow’s invitation to host talks with the Damascus government.

Despite the White House’s cold response to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader is welcome to give a speech at “any time” in the United States, top US diplomat John Kerry said Wednesday.

Argentine investigators probing the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman have found a footprint and a fingerprint in a recently discovered access hallway to Nisman’s apartment, according to local media.

Yael Kliger, a resident of Betar Illit and an activist for dialogue between different sectors in Israel, has sent a letter to the Attorney General asking him to open an

What do a rabbi, an archbishop, a top Islamic academic and former British prime minister Tony Blair have in common? Quite a lot, it turned out, at an unusual panel on religion

MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) blamed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the White House’s cold shoulder towards him Wednesday, after it stated that Netanyahu’s invitation to speak to Congress was a

Following an appeal filed by Honenu, an NPO that fights for the rights of Jewish nationalist suspects, police released two members of Itamar’s security team Wednesday evening, two days after

The students of Yeshiva University  will hold their annual Seforim Sale, NorthAmerica’s largest Jewish book sale, from Feb. 1 to Mar. 1, 2015, in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Ave on YU’s

Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) and his staff have implemented a new program to rebuild and expand Gaza Belt region communities Wednesday, to the tune of some

The White House gave an icy response to news that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was invited to address Congress next month, saying it was a departure from diplomatic protocol, according to AFP.  “We

Minister of Public Security, Yitzhak Aharonovich, held a special situation assessment meeting at the Rahat police station Wednesday, following a week of rioting in the southern Bedouin town that has

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, on Wednesday called on the Security Council to condemn the terrorist attack on a bus in Tel Aviv, in which some 20

The American political website Politico on Wednesday shed some light on the invitation extended to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to address the United States Congress. According to the report, House

Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iran’s first vice president under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been sentenced to five years in prison and fined, AFP reported Wednesday. Appointed by Ahmadinejad after a

Turkey’s Prime Minister said on Wednesday that his country’s ties with Israel can be restored if Israel “stops killing children”. Speaking to a reporter from Kol Yisrael radio on the

Argentina’s Jewish community called for “truth and justice” Wednesday, convening a demonstration at the site of a 1994 bombing in the wake of the suspicious death of the prosecutor investigating

MK Shuli Mualem (Jewish Home) said on Wednesday evening that the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was a wake-up call to people who still think peace with the Palestinian Authority

Even after MK Tzipi Hotovely was named as the candidate in the #20 spot on the Likud’s Knesset list, the saga continued on Tuesday. Hotovely replaced Avi Dichter, originally slated

In his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama spoke about the “deplorable anti-Semitism” in the world. The speech dealt mostly with economy-related issues, but

A Rome court on Tuesday convicted six men of spreading pro-fascist and anti-Semitic ideas with banners, posters and graffiti in the Italian capital, according to The Associated Press (AP). A

Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch is calling for “lone wolf attacks” against the United States and the West in a new video, days after claiming responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo killings, the

Iran is honoring its commitment not to expand atomic activities that could be used to make weapons while it negotiates with six world powers on a lasting nuclear deal, according

Former head of Military Intelligence, Res. Gen. Amos Yadlin, who joined the Labor party on Monday, may condition his remaining an MK on being appointed Defense Minister, Channel 1 News

Diplomats must take a fresh look at the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the hopes of reviving the negotiations after March elections in Israel, the EU’s foreign policy chief said

Greece will extradite to Belgium an Algerian man with suspected links to a jihadist cell dismantled by Belgian security forces last week, a justice source said Tuesday, according to the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded to the attack on a bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday morning, in which an Arab terrorist stabbed at least 12 people, seriously wounding three