A new tourism center was approved on Thursday night for the City of David National Park, located just 20 meters (65 feet) south of Jerusalem’s Old City walls, a short

Sirens were sounded in the Ashkelon region Friday. According to Channel 2, only one rocket has been fired and no one was reportedly hurt in the attack. The sirens sounded less

Yeshiva University (YU) continues to prove that Jewish observance and secular academic excellence can go hand in hand. A student at YU-affiliated Stern College for Women has won the prestigious

A salvo of kassam missiles was fired from the Hamas-enclave of Gaza on Thursday night towards Sderot and the surrounding communities. As of now, three rockets have been identified as

Israel on Thursday informed the Palestinian Authority (PA) of a series of punitive measures against it, following the PA’s request to join 15 international conventions. According to Kol Yisrael radio,

An IDF soldier was killed, and another soldier wounded lightly, as the military vehicle they were driving in crashed and flipped over on Thursday. The soldier’s name has been released

Arab snipers in Gaza shot at IDF civilian workers working near the security fence on Thursday. None were injured in the attack, although engineering equipment was damaged by the gunfire.

American legislators have expressed disappointment with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas’s latest gambit – applying for membership in United Nations organizations as the “state of Palestine.” Both Republican and Democratic

The Obama administration said on Wednesday that Iran’s nomination of a former hostage-taker as its ambassador to the United Nations is “extremely troubling”, the BBC reported. State Department spokeswoman Marie

The UN’s special envoy on Mideast peace, Robert Serry, confirmed on Wednesday that he has received requests from Palestinian Authority (PA) officials to join 13 international conventions and treaties, according

Four people, including the shooter, have been killed and 14 injured after a gunman opened fire Wednesday afternoon (local time) at Fort Hood, the large military post in Texas, reports

US Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted there is little he can do to salvage disintegrating talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, challenging Israeli and PA leaders and

Finance Minister Yair Lapid is setting out to fix one of the biggest problems faced by small businesses in Israel – the long delay that most face before getting paid.

An IDF soldier has been lightly injured by gunfire from suspected smugglers along Israel’s southern border with Egypt. The IDF’s spokesperson’s office would only confirm that the soldier was injured

The new road connecting the neighborhoods of Pisgat Ze’ev and Neve Ya’akov Highway 443 was dedicated a few months ago by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transportation, hoping

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is still trying to save the faltering peace talks, on Wednesday phoned Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the PA-based Ma’an news agency

Bereaved families, along with the Almagor Terror Victims’ Association and the ‘My Israel’ grassroots organization, are staging a march against the fourth batch of terrorist releases in Jerusalem Wednesday evening. 

Bombings outside Cairo University killed an Egyptian Brigadier-General, the Egyptian interior ministry has said, and also wounded seven bystanders, some of whom were members of security forces outside the institution. Al-Jazeera and

Apparently, Washington DC has taken to heart US President Barack Obama’s statements in January, when he claimed marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol and acknowledged smoking the drug in

Roughly 20 extreme-left activists and Arab protesters arrived at Hevron in Judea this week, but their plans to spark a confrontation with Jewish residents of the ‘Peace House’ and IDF

A senior source in the Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed on Wednesday that the organization wanted US Secretary of State to continue the peace talks, despite PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s breach

Local Arabs broke into an abandoned building in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem, located in the southwest of the capital. In response, residents of the neighborhood turned to Jerusalem

The death toll in the three-year-old Syrian civil war has topped 150,000, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, according to AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had

The United States Congress on Tuesday easily passed an aid package for Ukraine that includes sanctions against Russia for annexing Crimea, AFP reports. The House of Representatives voted 378 to

A single shot from a British marksman’s rifle killed a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and five of his fellow terrorists, as they were about to launch a bloody attack, The

British Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood over concerns the group is planning radical activities from a base in London, his Downing Street office

Israel reissued a call for tenders on over 700 housing units in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo on Tuesday, according to the extreme-left group Peace Now. Gilo is over

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for the first time made matzah, the traditional unleavened bread eaten on the upcoming Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover). The matzah-making experienced occurred during