U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, held intensive talks on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program on Wednesday, returning for an evening session before handing

French authorities have reportedly identified the accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four people in a siege on a kosher supermarket in Paris last Friday, the Express reported Wednesday. Forces

Jewish Home will hold their primaries Wednesday as planned, after the Central region District Court rejected a temporary injunction on holding the vote issued at the last minute by the Lod

Three Israeli security guards who worked at the US consulate resigned in the wake of a plan to hire 35 Palestinians from East Jerusalem as armed security guards who are currently undergoing training

MK Shelly Yechimovich received the most votes in Tuesday’s primaries in the Labor party, according to preliminary results published Wednesday morning. Yechimovich will be placed in the number 3 spot

Meretz Chairman MK Zahava Gal-On intends to petition the Attorney General to stop plans from Minister of Construction Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) to house immigrants from France in Judea and Samaria.  Ariel sent a letter

The White House voiced alarm Tuesday at a surge in anti-Semitism in Europe and the world, after last week’s attack in Paris on a kosher supermarket, in which four Jewish people were murdered. “The

Hours before the voting in the Jewish Home primaries is scheduled to begin, Batya Kahana-Dror announced on Facebook that she is removing her candidacy. Kahana-Dror heads Mavoi Satum, an NGO

A group of former employees in the Hamas-run government in Gaza went on a hunger strike Tuesday, following a day of protests over unpaid salaries. An employees’ union official told

Almost half of British Jewish people fear they have no long-term future in Britain or Europe, according to a new survey cited by AFP. The poll of 2,230 British Jewish

Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists have publicly executed a woman accused of adultery in northwestern Syria, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that in total 14 people had been executed for

Following the horrific attacks in Paris last week that included a hostage crisis at a kosher supermarket, where four Jews were murdered by an Islamist terrorist, a large wave of

The National Planning Council on Tuesday authorized the establishment of a new city that will be specifically geared to the hareidi community. Kassif, to be located in the eastern Negev,

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Western “shortsightedness” and “support for terrorism” in the revolt against his authoritarian rule were to blame for last week’s attacks in Paris, state media reported Wednesday. In his first

More hareidi men are working than ever, and the employment rate for hareidi women is about the same as it is for the general population, a new report by the

Muslims were well-represented at Sunday’s solidarity rally in Paris, as world leaders and international powers convened to join the general public in condemning the Islamist terror attacks last week which

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of “playing games with the Islamic world,” on Tuesday, according to the Daily Mail, warning fellow Muslims to be “aware.” “French citizens carry

Hackers declaring support for Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists appeared on Wednesday to have taken over a Facebook page promoting North Korea’s state-run airline Air Koryo, deriding the communist nation’s leader Kim Jong-Un as a “crying

Leader of the House of Commons and former British foreign secretary William Hague has told Britain’s Jews that there is no need for them to leave the country following recent

Jew-hating French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala has been detained by police for a Facebook comment appearing to back terrorist murderer Amedy Coulibaly, reported the BBC Wednesday. Coulibaly shot dead a

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced Wednesday that it was awarded contracts by the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), in a total amount of approximately $54 million, for the supply and maintenance

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit has held a meeting with the rabbinical counsel of MK Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party, reacting to widespread calls for the two religious nationalist parties to run

Women In Green (WIG) continues its campaign calling for voters to select parties and candidates who support Israeli sovereignty in one form or another in Judea and Samaria in the upcoming March 17

A Republican congressman from Texas offered a swift apology Tuesday after he essentially compared US President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler in a tweet about last week’s deadly attacks in

In a meeting of the council of hareidi Talmud Torah school managers, MK Ya’akov Asher (United Torah Judaism, UTJ) declared that arranging the budgeting for hareidi academic institutions is a prerequisite

A poll shows that over 71% of expected Bayit Yehudi (the “Jewish Home” party) voters do not consider themselves religiously observant. This is a surprising finding for a party that

Troops marching through Jewish districts and foreign legionnaires patrolling grimly under the arches of the Eiffel Tower – Paris is witnessing a rare deployment of armed forces on home soil after last week’s

The Jewish Home party’s primary elections are set to take place tomorrow, after a highly successful recruitment drive. But now, just hours before polling stations throughout the country are set