Authorities were astounded to discover Sunday that the name of a top-secret IDF unit, as well as the commander who heads the unit, had been leaked online for over a

Speaking to reporters on the Golan Heights Sunday, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said that while the Golan was relatively quiet, as were other fronts in Israel, the fronts

Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein has been named this year’s winner of the Israel Prize in Jewish Religious Literature. Rabbi Lichtenstein, dean of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in Gush Etzion, is the

CleanTech 2014, the 18th annual international event for Clean Technologies, took place last week at Air Port City, and focused on environmental quality, infrastructures and green building, renewable energy and

Hezbollah-controlled Al-Manar television last week broadcast its latest “discovery” – that the Jews control Hollywood, and are using it to mind-control hapless Americans. According to a series of reports broadcast

The Syrian opposition thanked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the weekend for his visit this past week to an IDF field hospital where wounded Syrians are being treated. Leaders of

The Lebanon branch of the Nusra Front, a Syrian jihadist group, has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in the northeastern town of Hermel, reported The Daily Star. On

A Kurdish group captured a town in Syria from Islamists on Saturday, in a battle in which at least 28 fighters were killed, most of them Islamists, Reuters reported, citing

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was received on Saturday night by thousands of opposition supporters in central Kiev after being freed from detention, the BBC reports. She has suffered

The Jewish Agency has pledged emergency humanitarian relief to Ukraine’s Jewish community Saturday night, in light of both general unrest and reports of an upswing in anti-Semitism.  Aid will include

Channel 2 reports Saturday night that the US Congress House Appropriations Committee is debating cutting off aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless its ongoing incitement against Israel stops or is

The UN Security Council adopted a unanimous resolution Saturday calling for rebel groups and regime forces alike to allow humanitarian aid convoys access across Syria, according to Al-Jazeera.  Resolution 2139 (2014) gave

Ukraine’s political situation is dissolving into controlled chaos Saturday night, as thousands of protestors storm the Presidential palace, according to the Washington Post.  Meanwhile, local reports note that government offices across

An economy facing default, a splintered opposition and regions with separatist tendencies: Ukraine’s new government will face an uphill struggle to stabilise the country, according to AFP, as the fall of President Viktor

A car bomb near a Lebanese Army outpost in the northeastern city of Hermel Saturday has killed three soldiers and wounded six others, including four soldiers, according to the Daily Star. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday she will fully support efforts by US Secretary of State John Kerry to relaunch the Middle East peace process during her upcoming visit to Israel, according to AFP.

Hope and uncertainty reign in Kiev Saturday, after the downfall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Opposition leaders, declaring that “the dictatorship has fallen,” have prepared the populace for the possibility

In the wake of the recent unrest in Ukraine, Jewish residents of Kiev have received threats by anti-Semites in recent days. Arutz Sheva’s Russian-language website reported on Friday that Jewish

Ukraine’s leader and opposition have signed a deal to end the splintered country’s worst crisis since independence after three days of carnage left nearly 100 protesters dead, AFP reported on

Channel 2 News on Thursday provided an inside look at the team which is tasked with preventing a scenario in which a flight is hijacked and forced to crash in

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Friday that U.S. attempts to forge an agreement on a framework for peace talks with Israel had so far failed but that the

Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for the removal of its chemical weapons after failing to meet a February 5 deadline, Reuters reported on Friday. However, the international mission

Germany is to offer Israeli citizens consular assistance in states such as Indonesia or Malaysia where Israel has no official diplomatic representation, Reuters reported on Friday. The new deal is

Jordan is turning to Israel for its natural gas supplies, according to Al-Ahram, after Egyptian pipelines have become unreliable.  Noble Energy, the United States based company that runs the Tamar natural

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro declared Friday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) will be obligated to recognize Israel as a Jewish state under the US framework agreement – despite

Scores of copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” kept in public libraries across Tokyo have been vandalized, officials said Friday, sparking alarm amid a rightward shift in Japan’s politics, AFP reports.  Pages in

The UK has formally resumed ties with Iran, AFP reported Thursday, after three years of diplomatic silence.  “The UK has agreed with Iran that from today bilateral relations will be conducted directly

Jibril Rajoub, one of the top officials in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ruling Fatah party, openly supports Hamas’s efforts to kidnap Israeli soldiers, Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday.  “If Hamas wants to