The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, told member-states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a first address on Monday that the Palestinians plan to join the ICC

The Judea-Samaria police raided the homes of members of the activist group Lehava Tuesday morning, including the home of the organization’s chairman Bentzi Gopshtain, and arrested them on suspicion of

One Palestinian Arab terrorist was shot dead by IDF forces overnight Monday/Tuesday, after several threw a pipe bomb at the Duvdevani unit during a raid.  Two terrorists attacked the IDF

Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, whose Hatnua party recently merged with Labor, voice her approbation on Tuesday of the nighttime arrest of ten members of the Lehava anti-assimilation organization over

Less than 12 hours after the press conference in which former Shas chairperson Eli Yishai announced his new Yachad party after 30 years in the Sephardic-hareidi party, Shas appears to

The Hamas-affiliated Al-Rai website reported on Monday that Saudi Arabia recently sent an angry message to the Hamas leadership over the group’s rapprochement with Iran, which Riyadh considers to be

Israel’s Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that  a test of the Arrow missile defense system was a success,  after the short-range missile system intercepted its target smoothly. However, later reports

After former Shas chairperson Eli Yishai split with the hareidi party over steep demands by chairperson Aryeh Deri and launched his own Yachad party on Monday, a new poll on

A Greek politician has come under fire after saying that Greek Jews don’t pay taxes, at a time of particular tension for the country’s small Jewish community. Panos Kammenos, who

Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, who survived an assassination attempt on his life in October, has filed a complaint against an Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher Tuesday, after a viral video was

Interior Minister Gilad Erdan has filed a formal request to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to allow the citizenship of three Israelis involved in terror attacks to be revoked, he announced

Austrian authorities said Tuesday they have ordered a Saudi-financed school to close due to allegations of anti-Jewish teachings and for failing to give the names of staff. The Saudi School in Vienna “is being

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday night (Tuesday morning local time) that the self-proclaimed Islamic “sheikh” who took more than a dozen people hostage in a cafe in

French police launched raids across the country on Monday, dismantling a network sending jihadist fighters to Syria, a police source told AFP. Elite and anti-terror police units descended on around

Iran condemned on Monday night the attack in Sydney, Australia, in which an Iranian born man took dozens of people hostages in a cafe. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham condemned

Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin is known for his strong criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but even he thought that former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni

The National Union/Tekuma party, headed by Minister Uri Ariel, rejected on Monday evening reports that Ariel and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett are close to signing an agreement to run

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group is continuing to strictly enforce Islamic Sharia law on areas of Syria it has captured. The group’s “police force” in the city of Homs

A 93-year-old man arrested in September on suspicion of serving as a guard at Auschwitz, the Nazi’s deadliest concentration camp during the Holocaust, will be tried in 2015, a German

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a response to the resolution of the hostage crisis in Sydney on Monday night, after three people were killed and four injured in a police

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid met with Kulanu Chairman Moshe Kahlon Monday evening amid talks of a Center consolidation.  Members of Yesh Atid have recently made no secret of their

The IDF has been cleared of accusations of irresponsibility in the death of convicted terrorist and Palestinian Authority (PA) official Ziad Abu Ein, a Border Police official leaked to Channel 10

His motives are a mystery and his acts described as random and deranged, but analysts say the gunman who took a Sydney cafe full of terrified people hostage could still

The heart-attack death of a Palestinian Authority minister after a scuffle with Israeli soldiers last week has led to a Fatah call to “respond in kind.” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW),

Likud’s Legal Advisor, Attorney Avi Halevy responded Monday night to the Likud Court’s ruling not to hold primaries for the Chairman of Likud and the Likud party list on the

Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and New South Wales premier Mike Baird were scheduled to hold a press conference Monday night (5:00 am Tuesday local time; 8:00 pm IST), where they were to clarify the details of

Former Shas Chairman Eli Yishai held a press conference Monday night in Jerusalem in which he announced the establishment of a new party to run in upcoming elections for the

Police have now stormed the cafe in Sydney where a radical Muslim cleric has held tens of people hostage, according to live footage from the scene – and New South

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid took more jabs at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, during a professional conference for the Association of Insurance Agents. “Next to Netanyahu, you must not

Hours after a terrorist took 40 people hostage at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in central Sydney, Belgium dealt with its own hostage crisis Monday morning.  At around 10 a.m. four armed