Israel’s UN mission on Friday launched a campaign to get official UN recognition for Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, AFP reports. The United Nations has decreed

Jewish pilgrims began arriving on Friday at Ghriba, Africa’s oldest synagogue, on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba for an annual gathering taking place amid heavy security. Police and soldiers

Two Israeli journalists were attacked on Friday afternoon while covering a riot by Palestinian Arabs near the Ofer prison, west of Ramallah. The two journalists, who work for the Hebrew-language

Iran on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over a decision by an Argentine court declaring an agreement with Tehran to probe the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center as “unconstitutional.”

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is in charge of the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA), met in London with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Channel 2 News reported on Friday.

Security forces dispatched reinforcements to Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem early Friday, ahead of the funerals of two Palestinian Arab terrorists who were killed during Thursday’s “Nakba Day” riots, which mourn

A well-planned firebomb attack on a bus full of Jewish schoolgirls Tuesday could easily have ended in tragedy, but no news source even reported that it took place, except for

Despite apparently reducing illicit purchases that breach UN sanctions, Iran is pursuing development of ballistic missiles, according to a confidential UN report obtained by the Reuters news agency on Thursday.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday marked the dedication of the September 11 Memorial Museum. The dedication was attended by former New York mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani, New

Arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role in planning suicide terror attacks, has welcomed the Hamas-Fatah unity pact and stressed that there

Hezbollah, Lebanon’s most powerful terrorist organization, stated Friday it had warned the Maronite patriarch of the “negative repercussions” of his plan to accompany Pope Francis to Jerusalem this month. “We presented our perspective

Security forces expelled a family by force and destroyed their home in Givat Assaf in Samaria on Friday morning. The Supreme Court had ordered the evacuation of the small community,

Two Arab terrorists from Hevron approached the home of Monique and Sraya Ofer last October. Moments later, Sraya was murdered – with 44 blows from an axe.  On Friday, Monique

A pregnant Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday for refusing to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said, according to The Associated Press (AP).

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that he has seen “raw data” indicating that the Syrian government has used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in a

Pope Francis apparently feels very at ease over his visit to Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled areas during his May 24-26 visit to Israel. The Vatican reported on Thursday that he

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met on Thursday with Israel’s chief peace negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in London, AFP reported. Officials in Washington emphasized the surprise meeting happened

This past week, Religious Zionists of America (RZA) sponsored the first official visit to the United States by the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau. RZA Chairman, Martin Oliner,

“When the world is full of great opportunities, it’s also full of great threats,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today during a troop talk to U.S. and Israeli troops taking

Arutz Sheva got the chance to talk with Rabbi Allen Schwartz, who recently deciphered the previously lost commentary of a famous Jewish scholar from the Middle Ages. Rabbi Schwartz has been the

The security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), established in the 1993 Oslo Accords, have reportedly continued in previous weeks despite the PA’s torpedoing of peace talks by

The mayor of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, gave his first interview Thursday after surviving an assassination attempt, to Israeli TV Channel 1. Kernes’s relatives had three senior Israeli doctors flown into

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet later Thursday with Israel’s chief peace negotiator Tzipi Livni in London, a US official said. The meeting comes a day after the

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced 79 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi to jail terms of between five and 10 years over their involvement in deadly clashes, judicial sources

In what appears to be another step in the implementation of the Hamas-Fatah unity agreement, Gaza security forces on Wednesday began leaving Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s house in

Hundreds of Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza rioted on Thursday for “Nakba Day,” the Arabic word for catastrophe designating the creation of the Jewish state of Israel 66

Israel and the United Kingdom have set up a new bilateral fund for joint research into cyber defense, to the tune of 7 million NIS (£1.2 million, or just over

Christian Arab residents of the village of El-Khader in the Bethlehem area were savagely attacked by local Muslims as they celebrated a Christian holiday last week. A report by CAMERA,

In an interview with Japanese media Wednesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that he was asked by US Secretary of State John Kerry if Israel was prepared to make peace

A deal between the US State department and the Iraqi government appears to have been struck to keep the Iraqi-Jewish archive in the US, the World Organisation of Jews from