With elections on the horizon, members of the Knesset Interior and Environmental Protection Committee decided that the time was right for some new legislative regulations – specifically, on the size

The government on Sunday authorized an expenditure of NIS 17 million ($4 million) for the reclamation of lands in the Arava that were damaged in the recent major oil spill.

A senior officer in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has been killed in Iraq, according to Iranian officials. AFP cited a statement from the elite Iranian military force declaring simply that “Brigadier

IDF soldiers and National Service volunteers should be given the right to vote in the Jewish Home party primaries on January 14, 2015, according to MK Moti Yogev. Yogev turned

The Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence, spent Christmas in Israel with his family, as part of a nine-day vacation, which includes some work meetings with government and business leaders.  While

In 79 days, Israelis will go to the polls and vote for the makeup of Israel’s 20th Knesset – but before that happens, the parties need to decide on their

Treasury and Histadrut labor union officials on Sunday agreed on a framework to raise the minimum wage in Israel to NIS 5,000 per month for full-time workers. The increase will

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attended a meeting on security in Jerusalem on Sunday with top officials, including the Public Security Minister and Jerusalem Chief of Police. At the meeting, it

Hamas on Sunday prevented dozens of children orphaned during its 50-day war with Israel from entering Israeli territory in a pre-arranged trip, organizers and officials said – despite Israel making the effort to allow

Residents of the Samaria community of El-Matan, where Arab terrorists last week firebombed a car, badly injuring an 11 year old girl, are demanding that the government reopen a road

Kids have a right to speak out, even if that speaking out is done against serving in the IDF, according to Itai Benowitz, principal of the Israel Arts and Sciences

Some 10,000 full-time married yeshiva students received on Sunday their last-ever government stipend, ending a tradition that has been extant for 33 years. Since 1981, students who learn in yeshiva

An explosive recording has been released showing former Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slamming current party chairman Aryeh Deri for corruption, as tensions continue to escalate between Deri and

Officials in Shas were confused and embarrassed on Saturday night, following a rant by Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the head of the party’s Council of Torah Sages, in which he insulted

Dr. Anat Roth used to be an activist with the leftist Peace Now organization and an advisor to former Labor leaders Ehud Barak and Amram Mitzna, but now has had

Egypt announced it has banned a Hollywood film based on the Biblical book of Exodus because of what censors described as “historical inaccuracies”, reports the BBC. The head of the

Yesh Atid chairman, MK Yair Lapid, on Saturday vowed that his party would never split Jerusalem, even at the expense of an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Speaking at

Several Jewish Home MKs have welcomed the candidacy of senior Walla! News editor and Sayeret Matkal veteran Yinon Magal for the 2015 elections Sunday, praising his values and outspoken resolve to

Indonesia air traffic control has lost track of a flight to Singapore, Indonesia’s air transportation director general, Djoko Murjatmodjo, told AFP Sunday – with 162 people on board.  AirAsia flight QZ8501 from the

Judge Ido Druyan of the Tel Aviv Magistrate Court, convicted Yitzhak Rochberger Sunday morning of falsifying documents, corporate fraud and breach of trust. Rochberger, the former mayor of affluent Tel Aviv suburb Ramat

Ben Ammi Ben Israel, the spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites in Dimona, died Saturday, leaving his followers in shock.  “It was an honor and a blessing to have

Amir Ohana, the head of Likud’s Gay Forum, has announced his candidacy in Likud’s upcoming primaries, saying he wants to show that members of Israel’s gay community, who traditionally gravitate

Four days before the Palestinian and Iranian soccer teams were to meet for a friendly match, the Palestinian Football Association cancelled the match due to “technical” problems, Al-Monitor reports. The

Hamas on Saturday continued to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) draft resolution to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, as the Security Council prepares to vote on the resolution, likely

A firebomb was thrown Saturday night at an apartment balcony in southeast Jerusalem in what police are calling a terrorist attack.  Fire broke out on the balcony at the building

President Christina Fernández met Yair Tawil and several members of his family at her office on Tuesday to hold the unusual ceremony, dating back over 100 years. According to Argentinian

Walla! News editor Yinon Magal has joined Jewish Home, he announced Sunday morning, and he is not apologizing for it.  Magal is running the Jewish Home party primaries, he stated Sunday,

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has published a report documenting photographs of Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers “killing time” at the Lebanon-Israel border.  Preliminary information suggests the pictures were

Moscow State University has launched an ambitious project to collect and cryogenically freeze the DNA of “every creature that has ever lived,” in an effort it compares to the Biblical

As election fever continues the polls keep churning out, with the latest conducted for Reshet Bet radio released Saturday showing Likud and Labor still neck and neck, and Yisrael Beytenu hampered by