The planned new party uniting Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) and MK Eli Yishai (Shas) “is meant to move the entire political system to the right,” said elements involved in

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he hoped to head off an end-of-year showdown at the United Nations over the Palestinian Authority’s planned push for statehood in meetings

A bomb attack slightly damaged the shuttered French Cultural Centre in Gaza City Friday night without causing casualties, two months after a fire forced its closure, police and an AFP

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Chairman of Yisrael Beytenu, said Saturday that he does not rule out joining a coalition with the Labor party after it united with Hatnua, but criticized

The UN Security Council called for a speedy and transparent investigation after a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official died during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers. The PA leadership has blamed

A Frenchman was ordered into detention Friday as investigators probed his ties to Mehdi Nemmouche, a compatriot charged with killing four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in May. The 27-year-old

A task force investigating the provenance of priceless paintings found in a Nazi-era art hoard said Friday it had received more than 200 queries about specific works by possible heirs,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not promise Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett that he will be appointed as defense minister after the elections, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Channel 2

The United Nations’ (UN) human rights chief on Friday said the circumstances of the death of senior Palestinian Authority minister Ziad Abu Ein were “disturbing” and called for a timely

Greek police on Friday said a far-left group was likely responsible for a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but

Portugal’s parliament on Friday adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the Palestinian state, following a growing number of similar votes around Europe. Parliament’s motion, filed jointly by

Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide, on Tuesday emphatically stated that Iran’s genocidal threats to “wipe Israel off the earth” are “totally unacceptable.” Dieng

An unusual opinion piece was written on Thursday by homosexual journalist Gal Ohovski in Channel 10‘s Mako Magazine, in which he warned leftist Labor party head Yitzhak Herzog that he has to

Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan announced Friday that he will be running in the Jewish Home party primaries for the 20th Knesset.  Rabbi Ben-Dahan has worked adamantly

A vending company in Tulsa, Oklahoma is under fire on Friday, after a four-year-old boy presented a toy ring with Nazi insignia on it to his shocked mother.  Leona Kelley

As the elections frenzy continues ahead of a March 17 voting date, a new poll published Friday morning confirms the newly combined Labor and Hatnua party would become the largest

A Likud-Jewish Home pact could still be on the table, Likud sources told Channel 10 Thursday night – despite Jewish Home’s opposition to the idea.  The report contradicts a similar report

Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon is invested in the party for the long term, Channel 10 reports Friday – instituting a rule that he would remain chairman until 2023.  The former

Recordings from a closed meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud activists from the party’s Central Committee were released by Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) on Friday, and in them Netanyahu can

A terrorist attacked a Jewish family with acid in the Gush Etzion region south of Jerusalem Friday, wounding six people including a number of young children. According to Magen David

A new twist in the apparently imminent possibility of a split in the hareidi Shas party occurred, as key senior rabbis in the Sephardic community vowed they would leave the

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said he supported Egypt’s crackdown on tunnels linking the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula and any other action the country took

Yesh Atid held a “women’s conference” in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park Friday, which was attended by party chairman Yair Lapid, former Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, and several other Yesh Atid MKs.

The Greek government condemned on Friday as a “terrorist assault on democracy” a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire, but fortunately wounded no one.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership has decided to postpone a critical meeting over whether to halt security coordination with Israel until Sunday, Channel 10 reports Friday – the second postponement in

The hareidi Shas saga refuses to subside, as shocking new statements by chairperson Aryeh Deri disparaging his rival, former chairperson Eli Yishai, give further indications the two will split early

Likud could still prevail over Hatnua head Tzipi Livni’s pact with Labor, according to a new poll released Friday – with a major gain over the leftist bloc that contradicts

Members of former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit (lit. Jewish Strength) party met in Jerusalem on Friday morning, and decided to officially announce the party will be running in

Former CIA Director James Woolsey spoke to Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) on Thursday, and emphasized that the ongoing incarceration of Jonathan Pollard (60), now in his 30th year behind American prison bars, has

A classified internal military video presentation showing previously unseen footage of a terrorist attack near the Zikim base on July 8, has found its way to Arabic websites. The IDF