Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the central Memorial Day ceremony at the Har Herzl cemetery Monday. “It is very difficult, and perhaps impossible,” he said, “for someone who did not

Israel transitioned from sadness to joy Monday, marking the yearly switch from Memorial Day to Independence Day at the traditional ceremony at Har Herzl just after sundown.  Israel juxtaposes the

Students at the pre-military academy of Lod over the weekend met with residents of the Ramat Eshkol neighiborhood in the city, urging them to fly the Israeli flag on Independence

In a message to the Diaspora for Independence Day, President Shimon Peres called Israel “a miracle.” Israelis and Jews should be proud of what they have accomplished, Peres said, but

The US Supreme Court Monday upheld the right to pray at government meetings, in a divided decision which said the practice did not violate religious freedoms. Voting along ideological lines, the court’s five conservative

Hamas and Fatah are continuing to hold talks ahead of the planned elections, as stipulated in the unity pact signed between the sides recently. Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas,

A delegation of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is scheduled to visit two of Iran’s nuclear sites, the state-run Press TV reported on Sunday. “As the International

Ahiya Klein, the IDF soldier who nearly lost his sight in a clash with terrorists in Gaza, spoke on Sunday at a ceremony in honor of Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day)

Speaking at a 31 March New York conference on the legal issues posed by the question of the Iraq-Jewish archive, American attorney Nat Lewin said that the community should not

Twenty-five French citizens have been killed fighting in the ongoing Syrian Civil War, officials announced Friday, as the phenomenon of foreign nationals fighting in the Islamic holy war mushrooms.  Spanish

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Saturday urged government bodies tasked with providing relief in war-torn Syria to increase “cooperation” with international and local organizations, state television reported, according to AFP.

Kiev claimed Ukraine is now “at war” with pro-Russian gunmen late Saturday night, just days after the Kremlin warned that it had received “thousands” of pleas for help from civilians

The family of fallen IDF soldier Zion Tayeb (of blessed memory), who was killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, opened his grave on Saturday night on Har Herzl without

Two people were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of desecrating Israeli flags in Jaffa late last week. Police arrested a 30-year-old woman from Jaffa and a 19-year-old male from

The Iranian regime has banned access to the WhatsApp messaging application because it is owned by a Jewish “American Zionist”, Fox News reported Saturday. The announcement came some two months

Bereaved fathers, Ron Kerman Yossi Zur and Yossi Mendelowitz have stepped up their campaign against the national Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, now calling for bereaved families to boycott the

US lawmakers are to consider a bill banning the US government from funding any international projects which discriminate against Israelis in Judea and Samaria. Republican Congressman Steve Stockman, who represents the 36th

The number of Jews emigrating to Israel from increasingly volatile Ukraine has jumped by 142 percent this year so far compared to 2013, the Jewish Agency said Sunday. A total

The deaths of 42 people in Odessa that greatly added to the toll of Ukraine’s crisis had its roots not only in the worsening political confrontation but also rampant football

Israel’s 66th Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) celebrations kicked off Sunday in New York, bringing thousands of Jews from across the city together at the JCC in Manhattan to celebrate. Events

Riot police in Brussels Sunday used water cannon to disperse a crowd defying a ban on a gathering of controversial far-right figures including French comic Dieudonne, which critics called an

Between Memorial Day of 2013 and this Sunday, 57 soldiers and terror victims have joined the list of Israel’s fallen, as did 50 disabled IDF veterans who died as a

Finance Minister and Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid made media headlines Saturday night, after he insisted in an interview with an American newspaper that Israel could – conceivably – hold

US diplomats in Nigeria on Friday claimed that “groups associated with terrorism” could be planning to attack a hotel in the financial capital, Lagos, in a travel note to citizens warning of

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to close roads leading into and out of Judea and Samaria  for Palestinian Authority (PA) residents from Sunday evening to Tuesday night, the IDF

Tunisians are embroiled in a heated debate over allowing Israeli tourists into the country, which does not recognize the Jewish state, before an annual pilgrimage that attracts Jews from around the world, according

Presidential hopeful MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) will undergo a kidney transplant next week, Channel 2 News reported on Friday. According to the report, a suitable donor for Ben-Eliezer, who has

Pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk have shot down two Ukrainian military helicopters, during a “counterterrorism” operation ordered by Kiev to clear the area of insurgents. According

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has ordered the group’s official branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, to halt fighting against its rivals in the Islamic State of Iraq and the