Syria has complained to the United Nations (UN) about several officials who, it claims, entered the country without visas in violation of its sovereignty. These include Republican Senator John McCain,

Jerusalem District Police announced Monday that all entrances and exits to the capital will be closed when snow begins to pile up.  The decision was made as part of just

Sammy Ghozlan, the founder of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) announced Monday that he plans to immigrate to Israel.  The Frenchman, a former police commissioner whose organization

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid on Monday termed as a “trap” his stint as Finance Minister in the current coalition – he and Hatnua head Tzipi Livni were fired by

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has turned to the Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the security establishment to examine the possibility of outlawing anti-assimilation group Lehava, he confirmed Monday.  “I have

A young Israeli living in Germany was attacked by a group of seven men singing anti-Semitic songs on a Berlin subway car.  That assault, which occurred on New Year’s Eve,

MK Rabbi Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) visited Yitzhar’s Od Yosef Hai yeshiva (Torah academy) on Monday, in a show of support for the students of the facility, which was

An exhibition of colorful maps erasing Israel and presenting it as “Palestine” was funded by a Norwegian NGO, according to Palestinian Media Watch – and its sponsors include the Norwegian government and

The prison release committee decided on Monday morning to release former Ehud Olmert aide Shula Zaken early, after she serves two-thirds of her sentence over her part in the infamous

Kulanu party Chairman Moshe Kahlon presented the first female candidate for the party’s 2015 elections list Monday: Yifat Sasha-Biton, a Kiryat Shmona City Council member and former deputy mayor for

Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan (Jewish Home) has transferred 2 million shekels ($507,895) to synagogues in southern Israel and Gaza Belt communities on Monday, in order to

Just a week after handed in his resignation from the Knesset, Aryeh Deri is hinting at a return to the leadership of the Shas party. In an interview with journalist Ilana

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of not spending a “fair amount” of its budget on Gaza, despite the formation of a unity government

A group of British activists are looking into the possibility of suing Israeli soldiers for alleged “war crimes” committed during the 2010 flotilla to Gaza, the Independent reported Sunday. Scotland

The High Court said that the state could build a security fence west and north of Gush Etzion – but it would have to check with the court to see

A record number of more than 1.5 million people from around the world visited the grounds of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2014, officials said on Sunday,

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of

Journalist and radio host Sharon Gal announced on Sunday that he is joining politics and would run for the Knesset with Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party. Gal, 40, is a

Saudi Arabia’s Labor Ministry is denying a report in a local newspaper that it will be employing Jews within the Kingdom, according to Middle East Eye. On Tuesday, the Saudi

While Hamas’s terror war on Israel over the summer had a negative effect on the tourism industry, the overall number of tourists visiting the Jewish state over the entirety of

The heavy cold front closing in on Israel is expected to hit full force starting late Tuesday, with deep snows anticipated to settle in on various parts of the country

MK Moshe Feiglin failed to secure a realistic spot on the Likud Knesset list after key Likud insiders including many of his former allies turned on him. Now, as Feiglin weighs his

A large scale corruption investigation involving the Ministry of Interior is being dubbed “the Yisrael Beytenu investigation” by local media, because of the central role played in it by deputy

Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotovely has officially not been placed in a realistic spot in the Likud’s Knesset list, a final recount of votes determined on Sunday. After a close race,

The 2014 Fuel Choices Summit brought together Israeli and international start-ups, enterprises, financiers, and policy makers in the field of alternative fuels and smart transportation. Hosted by the Israeli Prime

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Sunday said that the PA will not agree to maintain the status quo and threatened that the PA will dismantle itself

Pri Galil factory workers have been barricading themselves inside the food plant in northern Israel since Saturday night.  The Hatzor Haglilit plant, which has been closed since Wednesday following a dispute

The majority of the Israeli public has low confidence in state institutions, according to the Israel Democracy Institute’s 2014 Democracy Index published Sunday.  The index, based on a survey of

High school, yeshiva, and seminary students have joined together to call on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett to disallow any type of public transportation on Shabbat

Fatah pulled down an offensive image showing the terror group’s flag over skulls with Jewish stars from its Facebook page Saturday, after a CNN interview exposed the photo and caused a PR