As the Knesset opened its winter term Monday, Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud) made clear that he does not think this is the right time to call new elections. “I

Rabbi Dov Lior has stepped down from his position as chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, located adjacent to Hevron in Judea, in a surprising announcement to the religious council that

I have been asked to explain why I wrote a book based on a single Jewish prayer, and more specifically, why I wrote on Adon Olam. Curiously, my response to

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni vowed on Sunday night to “bury” a bill, approved earlier by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, that would enable the Knesset to override a High Court

Media outlets two months ago touted “coexistence” as Muslim Arab Mahmoud Mansour (26) married Moral Malka (23), a Jewish woman he met in their native Yafo – now Mansour has been

The mother of Abdelrahman Shaludi, the Hamas terrorist who last Wednesday murdered three-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun hy”d and 22-year-old Karen Mosquera hy”d with his car in Jerusalem, is a “martyr”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin flies to Poland on Monday for the inauguration of a Warsaw Jewish museum,  meetings with his Polish counterpart and other senior officials, his office said.  

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has followed the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) directives banning Jews from praying on the Temple Mount – but on Monday, he and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat outlined the sorry state of security in the capital Monday, in a session of the Knesset’s Interior Committee. Barkat disputed the claims that the deterioration in

Before the start of the Winter Knesset session on Monday, members of the radical Arab Knesset party Balad held a press conference at the parliament building – in which they

Thousands of civilians on Sunday fled their homes in a battered district of northern Lebanon’s Tripoli, taking advantage of an informal truce in fighting between the army and Islamist militants,

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on Sunday condemned last Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The condemnation came hours after a citizen of Ecuador, 22-year-old Karen Mosquera, died of injuries sustained in

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is analyzing a video recorded by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the gunman in last week’s shooting attack in Ottawa. The National Post reported on Sunday that

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri on Sunday threw his weight behind former Communications and Welfare Minister Moshe Kahlon, who last week officially cancelled his membership in the Likud party, as

As a result of the recent escalation of terror and violence in Jerusalem, law enforcement agencies are working Sunday to bring more security forces to the capital. An additional 1,000 Israeli

India has chosen to buy anti-tank guided missiles from Israel, rejecting a rival US offer, in the latest sign of burgeoning ties between the two states. The latest arms deal

Palestinian Arab workers may be barred from Judea-Samaria buses in the future, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon indicated Sunday, after years of complaints from Jewish residents – especially women – that

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin has defended the decision by the Tel Aviv municipality to cancel school trips to Jerusalem over safety concerns, and blasted criticism of their decision as an

Israelis changed their clocks from daylight savings time to standard time on Sunday, causing much confusion as Israelis scrambled to rectify glitches with their cell phone carriers.  But MK Yifat Kariv

Egypt is planning to establish an expanded buffer zone between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Sinai, security officials in Cairo have stated. Forces are slated to clear the area of

Security sources reported Sunday that Hamas had conducted another experimental trial of firing rockets into the Mediterranean Sea. An Israeli citizen confirmed witnessing one of the launches from near the

A new hotline has been established to help Ukraine’s Jewish Community, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine organization announced Sunday, in light of the ongoing unrest in the east of

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Friday to condemn Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem, which killed three month-old Chaya Zisel Braun hy”d and left

Despite the perception that there is a “crisis” in relations between Israel and the US, the relationship between the two countries is quite healthy, according to Amos Gilad, Director of

Israeli-Palestinian talks on a lasting Gaza truce are to resume after mid-November, instead of Monday as initially planned, the chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad told AFP Sunday. The announcement came

Terror victims’ organization Almagor is angry at President Reuven Rivlin for invoking the murder of baby Chaya Zisel Braun – who was run over by an Arab terrorist Wednesday –

Dr. Orit Galili-Zucker, who headed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s political communication team between 2011 and 2013, has caused an uproar on Facebook by blaming baby Chaya Zisel Braun’s parents for

The murderer of 20 year-old Israeli Shelly Dadon, hy”d, is expected to retract his confession on Monday, Channel 10 reports, ahead of the trial over the murder being held in the Haifa

Karen Yemima Muskara, 22, has died Sunday, four days after she was mortally wounded when a terrorist plowed into a Jerusalem crowd with his car Wednesday. She is the second

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved on Sunday a bill submitted by MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) that would enable the Knesset to override a High Court decision to strike