A university professor accused of the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue will learn Thursday whether Canada’s Supreme Court will hear his final plea to avoid extradition to France, AFP reports Wednesday.  Canada’s highest court

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is to meet Washington’s top diplomat to discuss the upsurge in violence in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, his spokesman told AFP on Wednesday.   The

Thousands of Jewish Israelis were expelled from their homes during the 2005 Disengagement – but soon, some of them may have a chance to return. MKs Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) and

MK Ahmed Tibi (Raam-Taal) on Wednesday once again verbally attacked an MK. This time, the target was MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home). The argument between the two occurred during a

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Ukraine, Russian officials have insisted over the past several months – but local Jewish leaders say that life for Ukrainian Jewry is actually “safer

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a special meeting in his office between Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, and Israel Security Agency (ISA or

Israel has reportedly prevented members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel, set up to investigate “war crimes” allegations following last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, from entering the country.

Border Police officers were able to foil an attempted stabbing attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs on Wednesday night. The officers identified a suspect approaching them. They called on

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including three Jewish civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Mississippi in

The Egyptian military said one of its navy vessels came under a “terrorist” attack in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, leaving eight servicemen missing at sea, according to AFP. The military

An Iranian official on Wednesday commented on recent reports that U.S. President Barack Obama had sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to the Al-Monitor news

Emergency crews on Wednesday rescued two window washers who were trapped on a hanging platform dangling perilously at the 68th floor of the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center building in

The United States Wednesday sharply condemned Israeli plans to build 200 new Jewish homes in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, according to AFP, warning such moves would only “exacerbate” spiraling tensions in the city. State Department spokeswoman

Channel 2‘s main investigative news program, Uvda, has vindicated Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, who has claimed that the operation the IDF launched against Hamas’s terror tunnels

A Border Police officer was arrested Tuesday after new evidence in a six-month-long investigation indicated that the officer used live fire instead of a rubber bullet, to shoot a 17-year-old

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) told a Knesset committee Tuesday that in two weeks, she will submit a bill based on the US’s Foreign Agent Registration Law, in an effort to

An Arab video propaganda video that has been circulating on the internet since Tuesday shows an IDF jeep driving away as a mob of Arab youths descends upon it. The

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas does not want to take responsibility of the Gaza Strip, because he is afraid of entering into a conflict against Hamas, accuse senior Israeli officials. 

Danny Magner, Chairman of the Student Association (ASAT) at the Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, spoke with Arutz Sheva about ongoing Arab student protests – outside the gates of the

Senior police sources told Channel 2 News Tuesday night that in their estimation, “the riots will end soon.” Arab riots erupted and spread across the country in the wake of the police

Last week, I spoke to King Abdullah of Jordan, and I reiterated Israel’s commitment to maintain the religious status quo on the Temple Mount. I will continue to make every

Following a reported act of arson against a mosque, Arabs are rioting at the entrance to Al-Mughayir, a village near Ramallah, and preventing police from entering the village. Arab sources

Judea-Samaria residents have registered their discontent over recent changes to the bus system, Arutz Sheva has learned Wednesday, noting that the routes which lead to Jerusalem purposely stop on the outskirts of

The Canadian-Israeli woman who volunteered to fight ISIS – at least, according to Voice of Israel public radio – is Jill Rosenberg, aged 31. She made aliyah in 2006 and

Two radical anti-Israel activists have been banned from entering the German parliament building for chasing a senior left-wing politician into a lavatory after he cancelled a meeting with them. The

Senior IDF officers met Tuesday with senior Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials, to discuss measures aimed at easing tensions in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew-language Walla! news site,

Deputy Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) has accused right-wing MKs who voted for the “Israel Hayom” bill this morning of hypocrisy. The bill passed its first Knesset reading this morning by

The Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem approved 200 apartments for construction Wednesday afternoon in various neighborhoods – including some beyond 1949 Armistice lines.  This is the first stage

The Ku Klux Klan – once the foremost hate group in America, known distinctly for their white hoods and cross burnings – have stepped up a leafletting campaign distributing racist

Arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving several successive life sentences in Israeli prison, was transferred to solitary confinement Wednesday, following his attempts to inflame the situation in Judea and Samaria