Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made its first investment in an Israeli company by funding start-up Visualead, a provider of QR code technology, the companies said in a statement Tuesday. QR, or quick

The Japanese government said Tuesday it will not give in to “terrorism” after a video emerged in which Islamic State (ISIS) threatened to kill two Japanese men unless a $200 million ransom was paid,

Judea and Samaria district police on Tuesday arrested two residents of the town of Itamar in Samaria who are members of the town’s security team, on suspicion that they were involved in

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid’s stance on legalizing marijuana is malleable, he revealed Monday – dependent on how the legalization process works in other countries.  Lapid has previously taken a

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman could not have committed suicide, a colleague of his insisted Tuesday morning – and was probably murdered by terrorists ahead of a probe into the 1994 bombing

The Islamic State (ISIS) group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, ina video posted on jihadist websites on Tuesday. In the video,

The Jewish Home list for the 2015 elections will remain the same, the party announced Tuesday, despite a last-minute overnight recount of the primaries votes.  Two candidates, Professor Asher Cohen

An Iranian general and a senior Hezbollah commander killed in yesterday’s airstrike in the Syrian Golan Heights were not actually the intended targets, a senior Israeli military source told Reuters Tuesday. The

The Iran-backed Shi’ite terrorist organization in Yemen, the Houthis, have besieged the presidential palace in the capital city of Sana’a where they have grabbed de facto control in recent months,

Up to four thousand people from Muslim former Soviet Central Asian countries are believed to have joined Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, a report published on Tuesday said. Often driven by poverty,

The latest Panels Politics polls carried out on behalf of the Knesset Channel reveals no significant changes in the standing of the parties running for the 20th Knesset – but suggests

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to stand firm Tuesday after the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group threatened to kill two Japanese nationals, saying the ISIS threats would not intimidate him to freeze a multi-million

The Yad L’Achim anti-assimilation organization announced that six invitations to Jewish weddings have been received at its offices over the past few weeks – and all from women whom the organization

Kulanu’s party platform includes a strong stance on national security, General (ret) Yoav Galant, the #2 candidate on Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu list, stated Tuesday. “Without military-strong security you cannot do anything

Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat threatened a new approach vis-a-vis Israel in the wake of about $127 million in taxes collected for the PA being frozen, a response to the PA

Two hundred members of the Salafi Jihadism movement of Islam demonstrated violently in front of the French Cultural Center in Gaza on Monday.  The protest in Gaza City was organized as a reaction to

In the wake of deadly Paris terror attacks which left 17 dead, the Secure Community Network has urged Jewish institutions to report any threats, vandalism, or attacks.  SCN is the official homeland

Pensioners’ Minister Uri Orbach is on the mend, his office stated to the press Monday night, after he was admitted to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital for intensive medical treatments Sunday. 

Renowned Israeli poet Natan Zach sparked controversy anew Monday when he published an ad in Haaretz showing support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.  The simple announcement reads as follows: “To Abu Mazen

Syria has begun destroying its remaining chemical weapons production sites, despite being hampered by bad weather and logistical problems, the world’s chemical watchdog said Monday. “Destruction operations commenced in December,” Organization for the Prohibition

Egyptian jihadists claimed Monday to have bombed a pipeline in the Sinai that carries gas to Jordan, saying it was targeted over Amman’s role in the United States-led war on the Islamic State terrorist

Former head of Military Intelligence and Res. Gen. Amos Yadlin has joined the Labor party, Labor announced Monday. Yadlin has been appointed to the #11 spot, at Labor leader Yitzhak

United States Senator John McCain on Monday urged the deployment of international ground forces to combat terrorists in Syria andIraq, as he toured the Middle East with a Senate delegation. “For months we’ve been

The IDF has raised the terror alert level on Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights, foreign media reported Monday night, after the IAF reportedly attacked a Syrian military

More than 2,000 Iranians protested on Monday outside the French embassy in Tehran, chanting “Death to France” and urging the ambassador be expelled because of a cartoon of the Prophet

Canadian special forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Iraq in recent days, in the first confirmed ground battle between Western troops and ISIS, a senior officer was

Germany’s “anti-Islamization” movement PEGIDA vowed at its first press conference Monday to take to the streets again next week, after a march was cancelled over a terrorism threat. Asked about

The number of anti-Muslim incidents in France has soared since the Islamist attacks in Paris two weeks ago, an organization that tracks Islamophobia said Monday. The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said 116 anti-Muslim incidents

United Nations (UN) peacekeepers serving in the Golan Heights saw drones flying before an Israeli airstrike on Syria that killed an Iranian general, a UN spokesman said Monday, according to

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday said the fight against “terrorism” needs a new Muslim religious discourse in addition to security and military measures, AFP reported. “The rise in