Shock has rippled through the political scene Wednesday, after Interior Minister and longtime Likud MK Gidon Sa’ar announced his upcoming resignation from politics.  Coalition Chairman MK Yariv Levin (Likud), said

Interior Minister Gidon Sa’ar (Likud) will be leaving politics, he announced Wednesday, and will hand his resignation in after the holidays later this month.  First, however, he reflected somewhat on

Terror attacks in Jerusalem are becoming too common, angry Jerusalem residents protested Wednesday afternoon – and Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch (Yisrael Beytenu) has neglected to deescalate the situation.  “There

Former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the US National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday. James Bamford, writing

Tomorrow evening Scotland will decide whether or not to break away from the United Kingdom and become an independent state. The looming referendum has been fiercely contested, with Scottish nationalist

A crowdfunding initiative to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem has gained steam, the Temple Institute stated Wednesday, and is close to reaching its $100,000 goal.  The indiegogo campaign has

Twenty-four (24) hours after construction worker Nathaniel Ro’i Arami, 27, fell to his death from the eleventh floor of a Petah Tikva construction site, it is still unclear what happened

A 30 year-old Yemenite man was charged in a US court Wednesday on conspiracy of attempting to help the Islamic State terror group, becoming the second US citizen in one

The Israeli Airport Authority (IAA)’s employees have chosen to identify with postal workers threatened with dismissal on Wednesday, according to Channel 2, and have announced a general strike at Ben-Gurion

The Jewish population in Judea and Samaria grew by an impressive 2% in the first half of 2014, according to statistics released by the Yesha Council. The Council, which represents

Kurdish Peshmerga forces claim to have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) military commander Tuesday. According to Kurdish news outlet Rudaw, 39-year-old Yasin Ali Suleiman Shlash, also known as Abu Abdullah, was

A woman in her fifties from the Golan Heights was arrested on Wednesday, after police received information that she had stolen thousands of shekels from an elderly man she cared

Police began forcibly evicting around 20 families from the Tel Aviv suburb of Givat Amal Bet on Wednesday morning, despite the Tel Aviv Municipality’s request to wait on the action

Amos Shocken, the publisher of ultra-leftist newspaper Haaretz, met a few days ago with about 100 former readers of the newspaper who cancelled their subscriptions to the paper because they

“I’m going to hold the holidays elsewhere with friends,” said Silvia Orshovsky of Ein Hashlosha, who owns a local market that was hit by a mortar round during the operation. “We’re

Former Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin took the side of Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) in the current flap between Bennett and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon over information that

According to several senior US analysts, the Islamic State (ISIS) extremist jihadi danger not only threatens western Europe – the presence of hundreds of Chechen fighters in the ISIS ranks

Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal has reportedly become a persona non grata in his erstwhile home of Qatar, after the Gulf state decided to expel the terrorist group’s leader due

Twenty-four (24) hours after construction worker Nathaniel Ro’i Armi, 27, fell to his death from the eleventh floor of a Petah Tikva construction site, it is still unclear what happened

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction has exposed that Hamas is running a human trafficking network, smuggling Gaza residents to Europe for $2,000 to $3,500 per person. The

Algeria will impose more government control on training for the country’s imams in a bid to fight Islamic extremism, its religious affairs minister said in comments published in local media

Israel’s Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz on Wednesday urged the European Union (EU) not to make a “bad deal” with Iran over its nuclear program, ahead of crucial talks. Steinitz suggested outgoing EU foreign policy

Hamas this morning denied claims that its Political Bureau chief, Khaled Mashaal, was being expelled from longtime ally Qatar. The initial report came just days after seven leaders of the

The owner of the Migdal Insurance company, Shlomo Eliyahu, donated an elaborate Torah scroll in the memory of murdered Israeli teenagers Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha’ar (hy”d) Tuesday,

MK Amnon Cohen (Shas), chair of the Knesset’s State Control Committee, ordered State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on Wednesday to investigate the government and Security Cabinet’s decisions during Operation Protective Edge – with

A mortar shell from Syria exploded in the Golan Heights early on Wednesday afternoon, landing on the Israeli side of the Quneitra crossing that is the only point of access

Interior Minister Gideon Saar has instructed the Population, Immigration and Border Authority (PIBA) to allow the registration of a new nationality – Aramaean – in the identity cards of Christian

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told the Congress on Tuesday that he recommends deploying US ground forces against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq,

MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home) sharply criticized Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon for cracking down on suspected unauthorized leaks of IDF information to Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Tuesday