MK Basel Ghattas (Balad) appealed to Pope Francis Wednesday, asking him to personally intervene to stop Christian Arabs from recruiting into the IDF, according to Ha’aretz.  Ghattas submitted the request to Archbishop

The US team in the negotiations for peace between Israel and the “Palestinians” has demanded that Israel agree to an “informal” freeze of settlement activity outside the large settlement blocs,

At least four people were killed Wednesday in blasts in the southern suburbs of Beirut near an Iranian cultural center, the Red Cross and security sources said. The explosions hit

The Knesset passed Wednesday, in the preliminary reading, a bill proposed by MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beytenu) that would cancel the eligibility of certain terrorists freed from Israeli jails to receive

A joint press release by Israel’s financial establishment’s leading institutions warned Wednesday that the new currency known as Bitcoin is fertile ground for fraudulent activities, and highly volatile. This is

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, was nominated on Tuesday to chair the elections for the UN Human Rights Committee. 170 countries unanimously nominated Israel for this position,

Hungarian Jewish leaders said Tuesday they had begun talks with Russian authorities over the return of a huge collection of religious items looted by the Red Army during World War

Christian leaders reportedly pressured Israel to turn over control of Mount Zion in Jerusalem during a clandestine meeting of senior city officials. The meeting took place Tuesday in the office

Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission (EC), said on Tuesday that Europe would not tolerate any harm to fundamental religious Jewish rights. Barroso’s comments were made during

The strike at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem has ended, it was announced on Tuesday night, after marathon talks between management and the striking employees resulted in an interim agreement.

Riot police in the Ukraine advanced onto a central Kiev square occupied by protesters, after at least 14 people died in the worst day of violence since demonstrations erupted against

Egyptian prosecutors have charged two Egyptian men with spying for Israel. In addition, they are charging two alleged Israeli Mossad agents in absentia, Channel 10 reports. The prosecution named “Shmuel

Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, has flatly denied reports that it offered investors a portfolio that excluded Israel’s Bank Hapoalim. In fact, a spokesperson for the bank told Arutz Sheva that

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Mohammed Ali Jafari, has warned that an attack could be imminent. Jafari warned that “the enemy” is weighing an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

With billions of dollars at stake, Israel and Western energy majors are closely watching renewed Cyprus peace talks that could clear the way for major gas projects with a role

Over 5,000 people attended the Monday funeral of the families killed in Sunday’s gas explosion in the northern Israeli city of Akko, according to Walla!.  The procession began outside the Al-Jazzar

The remnants of a rural settlement that was occupied for approximately two centuries during the Second Temple Period were uncovered in this season’s archeological digs near the ‘Burma Road’ that

Two rockets fired from war-torn Syria struck the Golan Heights in northern Israel Tuesday, shortly after a secret visit to the area by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the army

Almost 30 years after the Jonathan Pollard affair was uncovered, and 20 years since her own release from a five-year prison stint for her part in the case, Jonathan Pollard’s

The Canadian government issued a new passport and identity to a Mossad agent now living there, according to Shalom Toronto. The alleged agent is accused of participating in the assassination of

Israel accepts medical patients from Gaza for treatment on a regular basis, often as many as 70 patients per day.  But even the most seasoned Israeli doctors were surprised earlier

President Shimon Peres on Monday hailed remarks by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on the issue of the “Palestinian refugees”, AFP reported. Peres, who said Abbas’s comments showed his “seriousness

The European Union signed over 12 million euros to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday, to help pay for the dismantling of Syria’s chemical weapons

The Labor party on Monday officially endorsed MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as the party’s candidate for Israel’s President. All of Labor’s MKs voted in favor of the endorsement, Channel 2 News

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the Al-Qaeda linked terror group behind the terror attack on a bus carrying Korean tourists in Taba, threatened on Monday that it would carry out more attacks. According

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out on Monday at those in Europe who are encouraging a boycott of Israel, calling their actions “an outrage.” “In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on Monday that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is “the 21st century

Atrocities committed by North Korea against its own people are “strikingly similar” to those perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II, the head of a United Nations panel said

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu kept up the rhetorical pressure Monday on the six world powers – known as the P5+1 – that are about to resume talks with Iran over its

ORT Israel, which manages a network of high schools and after school programs in Israel, will be exporting its curricula and teaching methodology to the U.S. ORT will be teaming