The large brushfire near Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood has been contained, firefighters stated Wednesday night, but stated that firefighting would continue well overnight.  “Much of the fire has been contained,

Iraqi officials accused Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces of taking advantage of the crisis near Baghdad Wednesday, saying that Syrian warplanes struck several border areas in Anbar province Tuesday.  At

Operation Brother’s Keeper will continue at full force, the Security Cabinet declared Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after it announced that the search for three yeshiva students kidnapped by

Dear women, I come to you today as a woman to woman, mother to mother, from the bottom of my heart.  Day after day and with a breaking heart, I

A group of American victims of terror and family members of those who have been injured or killed in attacks sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) have moved

Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have successfully pulled off a scheme designed to dupe the US into continuing to give aid to the Hamas-Fatah Unity government – all because of a

Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visited the town of Tzufim in Samaria Wednesday, for a tour on life in Judea and Samaria (Shomron).  Chairman of the

An Egyptian court has sentenced a Coptic Christian man to six years in jail for “insulting Islam” and stirring up sectarian strife in his village, his lawyer told AFP on

A large brushfire has spread Wednesday afternoon near Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood.  Fire Department spokesman Yoram Levy told Arutz Sheva that the department has yet to contain the fire as of

The United States on Tuesday expressed its support for Israel in the wake of its airstrikes on Syria Sunday night. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters, “We support

Gary Oldman has apologized for defending controversial remarks about Jews and gays made by fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin. “I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in

The IDF will be holding a drill in the Gaza Belt, as the region of communities surrounding Gaza is known, on Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. As part of the drill,

Economics Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett announced Wednesday that he intends to lead an effort to stop Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) from continuing the policy

Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor on Thursday released a report, revealing how anti-Semitic hatred fueled the Presbyterian Church USA’s vote last Friday to join the boycott against Israel. The decision by the

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar on Tuesday issued a direct threat against Israel. Al-Zahar, who spoke at a memorial ceremony for terrorists who died in a “work accident”, declared that

An elevated network of hover cars is to be built in Tel Aviv, the BBC reports. A 500m loop will be built on the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening addressed participants at a Taglit-Birthright event in Caesarea, calling on them to “tell the truth” about Israel in their home countries. Netanyahu also

Two rockets were fired back-to-back by terrorists in Gaza on Tuesday evening, only to be shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system. A later rocket landed in a

Terrorists from the Boko Haram Islamist group in Nigeria have kidnapped more than 60 more women and girls in the northeast of the country, just months after abducting hundreds of

The Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes on terrorist targets in Gaza on Tuesday night. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that the airstrikes targeted five concealed rocket launchers

Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday criticized the United States’ release of five Taliban terrorists in exchange for kidnapped soldier Bowe Bergdahl. Speaking to Arutz Sheva

63 Palestinian Arab prisoners have suspended the hunger strike which they have observed in Israeli jails since late April, one of their lawyers said Tuesday, according to AFP. “The strikers,

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Director Abraham Foxman spoke to Arutz Sheva at the Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem on Monday, explaining the current face of anti-Semitism in global media.  Antisemitism “is, unfortunately, a

The IDF searched 120 more homes in the Hevron area for abducted teens Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha’ar (16), and Eyal Yifrah (19) overnight Monday, bringing the total number of

Nearly two weeks after Gilad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16), and Eyal Yifrah (19) were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, over 15,000 IDF soldiers have conducted nightly raids in the Hevron

A suspected car bomb blew up outside a café near a Lebanese army checkpoint in Beirut late Monday, security sources told The Daily Star. The sources said a suicide bomber

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Tuesday that military forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were behind a cross-border attack that killed an Israeli teenager.  “We received all the analyses

The International Committee For the Land of Israel and Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva (Torah academy) held a gala dinner in honor of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee Monday, in gratitude for

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s blessing toward the abductors of three yeshiva students Tuesday, calling the terror organization out on the difference between its face

The final stockpile of Syria’s chemical weapons has been shipped out of the country, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Monday. CNN quoted Ahmet Uzumcu, the