The US Department of Defense has loosened uniform regulations for religious garb, meaning Jewish soldiers in America will now be able to wear a kippah and grow a beard while

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry defended on Thursday the nuclear deal that was reached between Iran and six world powers, but said that the military option was still on

A hareidi man who fought in every major war in Israel has won an award for a book that tells his life’s story. Lieutenant-Colonel (res.) Yaakov Laniado will be given

Michael and Yitzchak Gross, ages 5 and 7, remain in extremely serious condition Thursday following the tragedy that killed their two young sisters. The Gross children were made critically ill

Next week, a delegation of Members of Knesset, Holocaust survivors, and senior public officials will embark on a historic visit to the site of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Israeli security forces announced Wednesday that they had foiled a global jihad plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem’s Convention Center. But U.S. officials told

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a conference of global information technology leaders Thursday at the 2014 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, and praised Israel as “an innovation nation”

Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) blasted President Barack Obama and his policy towards Syria on Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Speaking to Phoenix radio station KFYI, McCain compared Obama

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is not ruling out the possibility that he will one day address the Knesset. Abbas made the comments to the Institute for National Security

United Nations officials have condemned a recent surge in executions in Iran, after a report by Amnesty International revealed that an average of two people were executed every day so

The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has posted threats to bomb Tel Aviv on its official Facebook page. The threats came in the form of a

The identities of the children killed Wednesday in an apparent case of criminal negligence in Jerusalem have been revealed: Avigayil Gross, 2, and Yael Gross, 4. The two will be

Israeli archaeologists uncovered amazing finds this week, including a 1500 year-old church, five ancient inscriptions and an elaborate mosaic, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday.  The IAA discovered the

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon praised the IDF strike Tuesday that killed a terrorist in Gaza who had been firing rockets into Israel, including 2 rockets launched during former Prime Minister

Russia is trying to hunt down three potential suicide bombers, all female Muslims, who are suspected of planning to carry out threats to attack the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics starting February

The four year-old daughter of a Jerusalem family poisoned in their Givat Mordechai home has died Wednesday, as disturbing new information about the material responsible surfaces.  Dr. Ovadiah Shemesh, Deputy

For years, Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria have been accusing Arab and leftist activists of falsely blaming them for “price tag” revenge attacks that they never carried out. Now,

President Shimon Peres has reportedly come out against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demands that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize Israel as a Jewish state. “The stubbornness of the Prime Minister

Jerusalem has been hit by another tragedy, following the gas explosion in Gilo on Sunday night that killed a young couple and their baby son. A family with young children

The Shin Bet and Israel Police have uncovered a Global Jihad terror cell in eastern Jerusalem that was directed from Gaza and which was planning to carry out a murderous

Both the United States and the United Nations expressed horror on Tuesday over photographic evidence which showed that Syrian government officials committed serious war crimes in the form of systematic

The Palestinian Authority (PA) accused Israel on Tuesday that it did not want peace, after the leftist Peace Now organization revealed that the Israeli government had approved plans to build

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon took part Tuesday in a celebration of the Netzach Yehuda (Nahal Hareidi) brigade. The brigade, the IDF’s majority-hareidi combat unit, was celebrating 15 years since its

UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency said Tuesday it is delaying for five months an exhibit on Jewish connections to the Holy Land, which it postponed last week after objections

A terror suspected, thought to have been planning attacks in London, will have restrictions on his movement lifted by the end of January, according to court papers released Tuesday. The

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and his counterpart from Kazakhstan, Adilbek Dzhaksbekov, signed a security agreement on Monday, formally sealing the defense ties between the two countries. The agreement, which was

Member of Knesset Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) had a narrow escape this week when terrorists threw a large concrete block at his car. The attackers struck late on Sunday night,

The Long War Journal reports Tuesday that a Sinai-based Salafist group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s rocket fire on Eilat.  The jihadist group, named Ansar Jerusalem or Ansar Bayt al Makdis, posted on

An explosive device went off Tuesday morning close to the security fence separating Israel and Gaza, near Kisufim. No one was hurt. After a year of relative quiet following the

An explosion has taken place in a Hezbollah-dominated southern suburb of Beirut, reports from Lebanon say. Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV showed flames and smoke pouring out of the front of a