A spokesman for Jordan’s mission to the United Nations said on Monday his country will request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council meeting on behalf of the

At least 850 people have been executed in Iran in the past 15 months as part of a worsening human rights situation under President Hassan Rouhani, who has been branded

Palestinian Authority officials strongly condemned Israel on Monday after it announced plans for 1,000 new homes in eastern Jerusalem, the Ma’an news agency reports. Among those was senior negotiator Saeb

Israel’s UN Mission in New York is starting to go on the counter-attack against Hamas, and is seeking for the United Nations to officially declare Hamas a “terrorist organization.” The

Those ubiquitous plastic bags from the supermarket: it seems every Israeli has a bunch of them rolled up under the kitchen sink, because you never know when they’ll come in

The fight against Ebola has hit the high seas, Walla! News reports Tuesday – as Israeli ports have been advised to screen all passengers arriving in the Holy Land. Ports in

US-Israeli relations have suffered over the past month, with the State Department making multiple condemnations against Israel for both building Jewish homes in Jerusalem and for increasing its fight against

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to ignore the torrent of criticism from the international community Tuesday, declaring that Israel would continue to build Jewish homes in Jerusalem. Netanyahu made the

The Knesset Committee for Internal Affairs and Environmental Protection, headed by MK Miri Regev (Likud), has approved “continuity” for the Infiltration Prevention Bill on Tuesday, placing it on a short

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) sharply criticized the American condemnation of building plans in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, which were finally given government approval by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

The Israeli and Polish presidents on Tuesday hailed a Warsaw museum chronicling the vibrant 1,000-year history of Poland’s Jewish community devastated by the Holocaust, as an investment in future ties

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting early Tuesday afternoon with the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, in order to reach understandings that would defuse

American Airlines canceled a London-bound flight out of Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday after a passenger’s phone picked up a WiFi network named “Al-Quida Free Terror.” LAX police officers

A Monday editorial in the main PA daily newspaper shows the extent to which the war against Israel is waged on the “incitement” front. The Ramallah-based Al-Hayat Al-Jadida referred to

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat toured the Temple Mount Tuesday together with the commander of the Israel Police’s David District, Brig.-Gen. Avi Biton, and City Director Amnon Merhav. The mayor ascended

Israeli citizens are being driven into the poorhouse, Opposition chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) stated on the Knesset plenum on Monday, and recent budgetary decisions are to blame.  “I was

With the opening of the Knesset’s winter session Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu granted an interview to hareidi radio station Kol B’Ramah making it clear that he has never boycotted the

Dozens of residents of south Tel Aviv demonstrated in front of the government complex in Jerusalem on Monday night, demanding an end to the constant flow of infiltrators into the

At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured Monday by two bomb blasts in and around Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, BBC News reported.  Today’s casualties add to the list of hundreds killed in

Tunisia’s Ennahda party, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the 2011 “Arab Spring” revolts, conceded defeat on Monday in elections that are set to make its main secular

Two U.S. lawmakers are trying to pass legislation in Congress that will end federal benefits for people the government has identified as suspected Nazi war criminals, The Hill reports. The

Syrian rebels, led by Al-Qaeda loyalists. launched a major assault on the government-held city of Idlib on Monday in a bid to consolidate their control over the northwest, a monitoring

The EU said Monday it was seeking Israeli clarification of reports it planned to build another 1,000 homes in Jerusalem, threatening once again to sever ties with the Jewish state if it failed to

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has called for clarification from Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Monday, after the Minister stated Sunday that he would ban Palestinian Arab workers from state-funded buses

Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped at least 30 boys and girls from the town of Mafa in Borno state in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, CNN reports.  The news of the kidnappings was slow

The Knesset approved on Monday evening the first reading of the controversial “surrogacy law”, which was authored by Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid). 45 MKs voted in favor and

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmud Abbas said Monday he has called for an emergency UN Security Council session over the constant cycle of Arab rioting and violence, according to AFP – blaming Israeli “aggression” for

The Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday released a new video featuring British hostage John Cantlie, in which he speaks from what is alleged to be the besieged Syrian city of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has given the green light for construction of about 1,000 new housing units in Jerusalem, in what some are spinning as an end to the building

Chabad emissaries to the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, Rabbi Hezki and Chana Lifschitz, received a surprise telephone call from Israel on Saturday night after Shabbat, from none other than the