As speculated, United States President Barack Obama on Friday named Ashton Carter, a technocrat and academic with deep experience working in the Pentagon, to replace Chuck Hagel as defense secretary.

U.S. President Barack Obama met on Friday with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House, saying he was “concerned” about the tensions between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. “We

Channel 10 News reported on Friday evening that Hatnua chairwoman Tzipi Livni and Labor chairman Yitzhak Herzog are very close to reaching an agreement under which they will run together

Reports on Friday indicated a rapidly forming coalition between Opposition and Labor party chairman Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua chairperson Tzipi Livni, in which the two would likely form a joint

The National Unit for Prison Investigations arrested a 20-year-old prison guard on Friday, after the jail guard had planned to pass a cell phone to a Fatah terrorist jailed in

Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal has blamed the rise of terror in Jerusalem and in Israel as a whole on a “spontaneous reaction to Israeli stubbornness,” in an interview with Sky

Is the rift between President Reuven Rivlin and singer Amir Benayoun over his recent song against Arab Israelis who commit terrorist attacks, which Rivlin responded to by disinviting him from

A new US poll found that a full 34% of Americans support a one-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by which all of Israel’s territory would become a single state

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made a surprising statement during his annual state of the union address, in which he talked about his country’s “absolutely legitimate” annexation of Crimea

More than 140 Canadian citizens have been involved in terror activities outside Canadian borders, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS), Michel Coloumbe, and the Royal Canadian Mounted

The Jordanian parliamentarian who led a prayer in parliament in honor of the two terrorists who murdered five people in a Jerusalem synagogue has reaffirmed his hatred for Jews. “I

Outgoing United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that he and President Barack Obama had “no major differences” that led to Hagel’s resignation, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Hagel

Tel Aviv district police launched a massive crackdown Thursday night closing 30 African bars in the Old Central Bus Station of the city, which served as crime dens for illegal

Jonathan Pollard (60), who just recently began his 30th year of incarceration in the US on charges of spying for Israel, lost consciousness on Friday and was admitted to a

Yesh Atid MK Rabbi Dov Lipman sharply criticized Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an interview with Arutz Sheva on Friday, claiming that Netanyahu is unsuitable to be Prime Minister and that

Members of the Lehava anti-assimilation organization, led by director Bentzi Gopshtain, protested on Thursday night outside the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul over the employment of Arab workers

A recently published report claiming that Washington is determined to condemn the Israeli government even more in the next several months for its construction in Judea-Samaria is a media ploy

Coalition chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) and Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked signed Thursday an agreement which would benefit both parties in the 20th Knesset elections. The agreement, a “surplus

Housing Minister Uri Ariel, head of the National Union party’s Tekuma faction that ran on a joint list with Jewish Home in the last elections, spoke on Friday morning about

The cost of the massive pipeline oil spill in the Arava desert, near Be’er Ora 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Eilat in the southern Negev, will cost Israel a whopping

MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) aroused controversy Thursday when he said, in a conference hosted by Besheva magazine, that public leaders should not rely exclusively on G-d. “We have to hope,

The judicial branch in Israel is more powerful than the executive and legislative ones, Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked stated Thursday at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv

Rome has a new walk on its historical tourism circuit on a dark page of history: a virtual stroll through the streets of the ghetto to which Jews were confined for more

Former Likud Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who last month stepped down to take a break from politics, is reportedly currently considering a comeback to challenge Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for

A new poll shows that Opposition and Labor party chair Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua head Tzipi Livni would be the largest party if they unified into a leftist front – although

Amid great tensions over hareidi enlistment, about 60 hareidi soldiers joined the ranks of the IAF Tuesday as part of the Shahar Kahol project, writes the IAF Website. The new

Palestinian Authority (PA) Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein demanded that Israel transfer to the PA the bodies of the two “martyr” Arab terrorists Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal, who murdered five

To a thronging crowd in the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber in the UN’s headquarters in New York City, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor declaimed Wednesday that

MK Nissim Ze’ev (Shas) told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid indeed tried to organize a putsch against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with the hareidi parties,

An official in Hamas recently vowed to annihilate the “brothers of apes and pigs” – that is, the Jews. The comments by former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad aired on