Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is to apply immediately to join the International Criminal Court, senior officials said Wednesday, after the UN Security Council rejected a resolution to recognize the

In response to the incessant Hamas rocket barrage during Operation Protective Edge that led international airlines to impose a temporary flight ban on Ben-Gurion International Airport in mid-July, Israel concluded a

The United Nations (UN) Security Council failed on Tuesday night to adopt a resolution on Palestinian statehood, AFP reports. Only eight countries voted in favor of the resolution, two voted

Cash-strapped Channel 10 has received a six-month reprieve from Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein. The Second Authority for Television and Radio, which oversees Channel 10, announced Tuesday night that Weinstein stated

Chinese state media on Tuesday reported that the Asian economic superpower, which holds the world’s second largest GDP, will begin negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with Israel next

Russia expressed regret at the failure of the Palestinian Authority (PA) resolution at the UN Security Council on Tuesday, describing it as a “strategic error.” “Russia regrets that the UN Security Council

Israeli diplomats forcefully responded to the UN Security Council vote Tuesday night that saw the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) unilateral bid for recognition as a state and demand for Israeli withdrawals

Think of Judea and Samaria (Shomron), the Biblical regions of the West Bank, and most likely the first thing that springs to mind is political strife and negative news headlines.

Arab farmers in the Shiloh Bloc of Samaria, where Arab assailants have in the past caused massive damage to Jewish agriculture, prepared to arrive Wednesday to plow adjacent to the

The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s draft resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Judea-Samaria failed in a UN Security Council vote Tuesday night – and an Israeli businessman may have contributed

Anti-Semitism in France is, unfortunately for the country’s Jewish residents, a growing industry – and French Jewish community activist Avraham Azulai, who is running for a spot on Jewish Home’s

Israel needs a strong Likud – and a strong Binyamin Netanyahu leading it, said MK Miri Regev. Speaking Wednesday, after she cast her vote in the Likud primaries taking place

US President Barack Obama had already played six games of golf during his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, but on Sunday his seventh round nearly landed him in the PR sandbox

A Palestinian house in the village of Yatta, near Hevron in the Judea region, was firebombed last night in what appears to be a “price tag” attack. Five children and

Wednesday marks the last day of 2014, and year-end figures released today by The Jewish Agency for Israel and Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption show it has been a

One of the world’s largest publishing houses is distributing school Atlases in Middle Eastern countries which totally erase any reference to the State of Israel, it has been revealed. HarperCollins’

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist organization behind the Palestinian Authority (PA) complained loudly on Wednesday, after the unilateral PA bid demanding statehood and Israeli withdrawals was shot down in

Israel in recent days signed the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), in which the country commits not to sell weapons to terrorists and criminal groups. Israel has taken on provisional

The IDF has frozen a directive to pull military patrols from communities along the Gaza border, Channel 10 reports Wednesday – at least, until Sunday.  Soldiers guarding the Jewish communities most

A new research study led by NASA has reversed commonly held theories about carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, finding that the emissions in fact are absorbed by tropical forests at a

The Palestinian Authority is claiming it has the necessary nine-vote majority to enable it to pass a resolution through the UN Security Council calling for recognition of a “Palestinian state”

Bentzi Gopshtain, director of the Lehava anti-assimilation organization, has recently been the subject of a police crackdown and intensive media scrutiny – but according to him, the arrests and press

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird has joined calls urging the United Nations Security Council to vote down a resolution drafted by the Palestinian Authority calling for an imposed solution on the

Controversy embroiled Shas chairperson Aryeh Deri submitted a letter of resignation Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud), after being discredited in video recordings released to

The UN Security Council will vote later Tuesday on a draft resolution from the Palestinian Authority (PA) unilaterally demanding recognition as a state and Israeli withdrawals, Jordan’s ambassador and diplomats said. “We have decided

After Israel last Thursday secretively returned for burial the bodies of Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal, the two terrorists who carried out the massacre on a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem last month

The past several days have been filled with headlines concerning the Yachad – Ha’am Itanu party. Headed by former Shas chairman Eli Yishai – who broke away from the hareidi-Sephardic

As 2014 winds to an end, the very last plane of olim (immigrants) from North America making aliyah to Israel with the organization Nefesh B’Nefesh landed on Tuesday morning, closing

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday visited a base in the Judea and Samaria region of the Border Patrol’s special mista’aravim unit, an elite squad of undercover forces disguising themselves as

At midnight on Tuesday night, the gasoline prices for gas stations around Israel will be updated. The price for a liter of 95 octane unleaded Benzene for self-service (including VAT)