Leading Russian internet company Yandex has become the latest technology giant to invest in Israel’s “Silicon Wadi”, purchasing Israeli geolocation startup KitLocate. KitLocate provides an energy-efficient alternative to other mapping and

The Ukrainian government continues to step up its defenses against a possible military invasion from Russia, the Kyiv Post reports Tuesday, after Moscow moved to annex the Crimean peninsula.  Kiev’s interim Finance

Two Christian women were publicly beheaded by Islamist terrorists in southeastern Somalia, as part of a campaign to “wipe out” any Christian presence in the east African country. The Morning Star reported

Russian President Vladimir Putin released an official statement recognizing Crimea as a “sovereign and independent state” on Monday evening, after a controversial referendum vote in the peninsula showed overwhelming support

An investigation into Friday night’s skirmishes between Israel and Lebanon – during which an explosive device was detonated on the Lebanese side of the border and the IDF retaliated with

An Arab branch of the international hackers’ movement Anonymous is threatening to mount a large scale cyberattack on Israeli government websites on April 7. A similar attack took place last

More than one week after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace, authorities have extended their search – and refocused investigations on the pilot and co-pilot as possible suspects. 

A prisoner serving a life sentence claims he has information on missing IDF soldier Guy Hever, who was last seen in 1997. The State Attorney’s Office said that it has

US President Barack Obama on Monday told Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas that both he and Israeli leaders must make tough political decisions and take “risks” for peace. Meeting Obama

Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, promised the Deputy President of the Rabbinical Council of Europe and the Rabbi of Ukraine, Rabbi Dov Bleich, to beef up protection of Jews in

Egyptian authorities have arrested a local resident for “loving Israel,” the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported on Sunday. According to the report, the 24-year-old was arrested in the Sohag governorate in

Amid a diplomatic row between Jordan and Israel over the killing of a Jordanian judge, Israeli doctors last week saved the life of a seven-year-old Jordanian-Palestinian Arab boy. The Israel

A suicide car bomb attack killed four people late Sunday in an area dominated by the Hezbollah terrorist group near the Syrian border, a Lebanese security source told AFP. The

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday “to make the tough decisions that will be necessary” before an April 29 deadline for

Latvian veterans who fought on Nazi Germany’s side against the Soviets in World War II staged a march in Riga on Sunday, amid a heavy police presence and low-key protests,

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will meet Monday with United States President Barack Obama. Analysts expect the meeting will be a tense one. According to previous reports, Abbas plans to

Residents of Jerusalem are celebrating the holiday of Purim on Monday. While most of the country celebrated Sunday, in Jerusalem the holiday is held one day later, in commemoration of

Five children’s lives were saved at Schneider Children’s Medical Center over the weekend, in a pre-Purim transplant marathon. The transplant operations – two liver transplants, two kidney transplants and a

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas plans to demand that Israel release arch terrorists and freeze construction in Judea and Samaria in return for Abbas agreeing to extend peace talks,

Gaza’s lone power plant, shut off since Saturday due to a fuel shortage, will remain off until Monday according to the terror organization Hamas’s government. The responsible party for the

In the wake of “conclusive” suspicions of hijacking in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished without a trace along with its 239 passengers last Saturday, Israel has

A research study presented recently by an Ariel University team shows a distinct generational difference in the integration into Israeli society of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. According to

An IDF soldier has complained that three men tried to force him into a car at the Hamra Junction in the Jordan Valley Sunday. According to the soldier, he was

Film star Scarlett Johansson told the Observer that she has no regrets over her decision to promote SodaStream, a company headquartered in Israel, with a factory in the Biblical heartland

A passenger tragically passed away on an El Al flight from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv last week. Fellow passengers note the 60-year old man passed out several times while

An Israeli couple in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev were rescued from a near-lynching last Friday, right before Shabbat. Zalman Hetzklovich and his wife were walking in Kiev’s Independence Square

Last week, already married with several children, Ovadia and Rachel Oved got married, for the second time – this time in a Jewish ceremony. Both of them are former fighters

Further evidence that the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 last week may have been a planned terror attack has surfaced on Sunday, according to the Telegraph, after a British court