Kidnapped women are generally not allowed to speak with their families – except when the objective is simply to increase suffering, as is the case with Islamic State (IS, or

In the wake of Operation Protective Edge, a new project has been launched to “turn death into life,” by planting 100,000 new fruit trees in the exact areas where over

Nationalist activist Baruch Marzel of Hevron, a member of the Otzma Leyisrael party that barely missed out in the last elections, criticized the Jewish Home party on Thursday – a

Forty-three reserve force captains and soldiers in the prestigious Unit 8200, an elite intelligence corps responsible for collecting SIGINT (signal intelligence) and code decryption, have submitted a letter of insubordination

Iran and world powers remain far apart over Tehran’s nuclear program and a “difficult road” lies ahead, a senior Iranian negotiator said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Iran’s Deputy Foreign

Anti-Semitic attacks nearly doubled in France in the first seven months of 2014, the country’s main Jewish group said Thursday. A total of 529 anti-Semitic actions or threats were registered up to

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) visited eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount on Thursday with members of the Internal Affairs Committee, where he told Arutz Sheva that he is convinced the wave of

A South African Jewish online publication on Friday apologized to the country’s outspoken retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu for publishing an article comparing him to Adolf Hitler. The weekly South African Jewish Report (SAJR) had

Britain will not participate in any airstrikes on Syria but otherwise is ruling nothing out as it considers how to support U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to root out the

A Colorado woman plead guilty to conspiracy to support Islamic State (IS; formerly known as ISIS) on Wednesday, according to the US Department of Justice. Shannon Conley, 19, was arrested in April

Rob Ford, the controversial mayor of Toronto, was hospitalized on Wednesday with stomach pains, and was discovered in examinations to have a large tumor in his abdomen. Ford was struck

Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, who is favored to replace Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the 2015 elections, has sharply criticized newly proposed legislation to cancel the citizenship

Adva Biton, the mother of four-year-old rock terror victim Adelle and three other daughters, gave birth to her first son on Friday. Adelle just returned home two weeks ago after a

A court has leveled unprecedented criticism against State Attorney Shai Nitzan, who has previously been accused of a strong left-wing bias, over the “scandalous” bias he showed as Deputy Attorney General. The

Israel’s justice ministry has charged a border policeman with assaulting and injuring a 15-year-old Palestinian-American dual national in July, according to the indictment seen by AFP Thursday. The policeman, whose name remains under a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s 14th International Conference on Counter-Terrorism Thursday. This is the full text of his English address. “Thank you, Professor Reichman, for

The protest will be held on Monday, September 22 at 4:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Center and is being organized by Citizens Opposed to Propaganda Masquerading as Art (COPMA), JCC

A Palestinian Arab taxi driver attempted to run over IDF soldiers near Ariel in Samaria Thursday afternoon, before being apprehended by police.  The soldiers tried to arrest the taxi driver

Sirens have sounded in the Kiryat Shmona and Metula areas, near the Lebanese border, on Thursday night, according to the Home Front Command.  No injuries or damage have been reported. 

Speaking on the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 combined terror strikes on the United States, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel mourns those who were killed

On a bright and sunny day in June, New York witnessed two solidarity rallies – one for the three Israeli teens kidnapped in Judea and Samaria, the other against terrorist

Cuba has sent six tons of drugs and medical supplies to Gaza, official media reported Thursday. The government-run Cubadebate website said the humanitarian shipment was delivered by  officials at Cuba’s embassy in Cairo to

Israel has found an opportunity to start ethnic cleansing ,because the Arabs are  busy with what is going on in their countries – as in Iraq IS (Islamic State) expelled the

A CIA spokesman said on Thursday that a new intelligence assessment estimates that the Islamic State (IS) group can muster between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters across Iraq and Syria, The

Over 130 police officers have been injured in Arab rioting in Jerusalem, according to police spokesman Asi Aharoni – who marked Ramadan as the “turning point” for the Holy City

The United States on Thursday received the backing of 10 Arab countries for a “coordinated military campaign” against Islamic State fighters, Reuters reported. According to the report, after talks in

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed on Thursday the release of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers who were kidnapped by members of the Syrian jihadist rebel group Al-Nusra Front. “The

A 47-year-old woman from Syria who was seriously wounded by a mortar round that exploded close to her home was brought on Thursday to the Ziv Medical Center in the

Former Canadian Minister of Justice, Professor Irwin Cotler spoke to Arutz Sheva last week on the importance of hasbara, or explaining facts and myths about Israel.  “I think hasbara is part of diplomacy;

A Palestinian Authority (PA) official said Thursday the results of an autopsy prove that a Palestinian Arab prisoner Israel said had committed suicide actually died of a blow to the head.