An Iranian living in Yemen has been charged with promoting the Baha’i faith and trying to convert residents of the Muslim country for Israel’s benefit, state news agency Saba reported Monday. The man,

Ten thousand Syrian refugees will be brought to Canada over the next three years, Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has announced. The announcement, which was made last week, comes in

As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to

Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir will likely be the next Yisrael Beytenu MK to resign from the Knesset, Channel 2 News reported on Monday. According to the report, the background for

The Deputy Minister for Religious Services, Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan (Jewish Home), is advancing a plan to recognize the rabbinical certificates of French rabbis, in order to hasten aliyah from

Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum of Yisrael Beytenu has decided to resign from the Knesset, reported Channel 2 Monday. She plans to exercise her right to remain silent in the

US Secretary of State John Kerry announced Monday that he would travel to Paris later this week for talks with French officials, after the series of lethal attacks by Islamist terrorists last week. “I will

France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, its interior minister said Monday, after last week’s deadly terrorist attacks, one

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday that one of the three Islamist terrorists that killed a total of 17 people last week “undoubtedly” had an accomplice and vowed to continue the hunt.

The Knesset Members for Shas have been summoned to an unscheduled meeting at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, reported Kol Yisrael public radio Monday. Shas chairman Aryeh Deri – who

As the French Jewish community copes with tragedy following the brutal Islamist terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket Friday that left four Jews dead, members of the Betar Zionist movement in

Despite Egypt’s largely secular military-backed government, an Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for “insulting Islam,”

The American creator of “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, has denounced the “hypocrisy” of US media for refusing to republish the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was targeted in a

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an historical visit to the Middle East starting this Friday through next Wednesday, with Israel featuring prominently as bilateral ties between the two

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Labor) has asked the public to stop donating money to her election campaign Monday, noting that she has raised 274,700 shekels ($69,400) from 956 private donors and reached

A BBC news correspondent has apologized for his “poorly phrased question” during an interview Sunday night at the Paris “million-man march” against terror – comments which were slammed as anti-Semitic

Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Monday that despite reports to the contrary, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal remains in the country.  “All reports concerning the departure of Mashaal

On Monday, two days before the Jewish Home primaries, Deputy Minister of Education Avi Wortzman abruptly fired his media advisor Udi Tenne, for offensive comments made against MK Shuli Muallem (Jewish

Student leaders and grassroots community organizers are fighting for representation in the upcoming World Zionist Congress, claiming that the official Zionist movement has become “fossilized” and no longer relevant to

Former deputy minister with Yisrael Beytenu, Danny Ayalon, claimed on Monday to reveal the secret behind the recent slew of resignations from Avigdor Liberman’s party, saying Liberman had forced the party

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited on Monday the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris where four Jews were murdered by an Islamist gunman Friday. To the cries of “Bibi, Bibi” – his nickname

Kulanu chairperson Moshe Kahlon vowed on Monday to disband the Israel Land Authority (ILA) – the government body tasked with managing state land that makes up 93% of the currently annexed

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday met with leaders of the French Jewish community in the wake of the horrific attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris last Friday, in

Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing with Gaza for three days for special cases, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Egypt said Sunday, according to the Ma’an news

Iran and the United States will explore ways to give impetus to nuclear talks when their chief diplomats meet in Geneva on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said

Austria has detained two teenage girls after they tried to travel to Syria to marry fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS), a spokesman for the prosecution was quoted by Reuters

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Sunday hailed the unprecedented rally against terror in Paris as a strong message to the world, but added he would expect a similar reaction

Signs are increasing that former MK Aryeh Deri is on the verge of returning to lead the Shas party, just two weeks after he handed in his resignation from the Knesset. The

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he appreciated the “very firm position” taken by French leaders against “the new anti-Semitism and terrorism” in France. “Our common enemy is radical,

Several hundred people gathered outside France’s embassy in Argentina Sunday in repudiation of the jihadist attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead earlier in the week, reports AFP. Demonstrators