63 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt were sentenced Thursday to three years in jail on charges including rioting, thuggery and weapons possession, Al Arabiya reports. It was the largest number

Tunisia’s Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh resigned on Thursday, as part of a plan to end months of political deadlock which has fuelled mounting social unrest, AFP reported. His resignation

MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) has asked Knesset members to join him in requesting an urgent plenum discussion regarding a video advertisement produced by nationalists, attacking US Secretary of State John

Teva on Thursday named Erez Vigodman, 54, as new CEO of the company, after last October’s resignation of Dr. Jeremy Levin. Vigodman will succeed acting President and CEO Eyal Desheh,

The health of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon has worsened over the past hours, hospital officials said on Thursday, describing him as being in “extremely critical” condition. “Over the past

Russia has once again blocked a UN Security Council statement that would have expressed outrage at deadly airstrikes by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces and condemned the use of missiles

The Israeli Air Force struck terrorist targets in Gaza Wednesday morning, wounded two Palestinian terrorists in the south of the Islamist-controlled territory, medical and security sources said.   “Two Palestinians

A French court on Wednesday convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country’s controversial burqa ban declared

United States President Barack Obama invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington on Wednesday, hoping to mend fences after a row provoked by revelations of U.S. eavesdropping on her cellphone,

Syrian Islamist rebels from the Islamic Front have captured a key Al Qaeda base in the northern city of Aleppo. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, fighters found

Police conducting a routine traffic stop in Indiana on New Year’s Day got much more than they bargained for. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, was arrested on Interstate 70, west of

A dramatic development has been made in the investigation of the 2013 murder of a Toronto-based Jewish couple.  Rochelle Wise, 66 and David Pichosky, 71 were found strangled to death

In a new memoir, former US defense secretary Robert Gates delivered bruising opinions about President Barack Obama’s leadership in the Afghanistan war. Gates said that by early 2010 he had

The IDF has decided to let female soldiers serve as kashrut (Jewish dietary law) inspectors for the first time. Brigadier General Rachel Tevet Vizel, Advisor to the Chief of Staff on

Thousands of illegal infiltrators, protesting since Sunday over a new law allowing their detainment in facilities for up to a year as their status is clarified, took their masses from Tel

Jacoby, who stands at 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 140 pounds, has gone missing in the midst of a record-breaking cold chill striking the US. Ellen Pulda, a spokesman

Syria has moved the first batch of chemical weapon materials out of the country after transporting it from two sites to the port city of Latakia and onto a Danish

The United States on Tuesday accused Iran of helping “brutalize” Syria as Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to talk to Russia about Tehran’s potential role at a peace conference,

A bill to slap new sanctions on Iran if it goes back on an interim deal under which it agreed to limit its nuclear program has gained support since it

Harry Styles of One Direction, considered to be the most successful pop group in the world, has started taking private Hebrew lessons in order to, among other things, be able

Israelis living in the town of Itamar in Samaria (Shomron) were dismayed when their power suddenly went out Tuesday afternoon. While at first the power outage appeared to stem from

French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday backed attempts to ban controversial comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala from performing a one-man show that has been widely condemned as anti-Semitic, according to AFP Hollande urged local officials

Two Palestinian Arab men who were fleeing for their lives in Samaria (Shomron) late Monday night found shelter in the Israeli community of Beit Aryeh. The two approached Israeli residents

Israeli government officials were attacked by Bedouin rock-throwers during an official tour of Israel’s southern Negev region Tuesday morning. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told of the attack in a message

Police opened fire on a car of suspected thieves as they attempted to break through a police barrier Tuesday afternoon in the Galilee, running over two police officers in the

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa (religious edict) banning online chatting between unrelated men and women, Iranian media reported on Monday, according to Al Arabiya. Ironically,

Most Israelis favor the possibility that President Shimon Peres will remain in his position for a second term, according to a Channel 2 News poll released Monday evening. 63% of

An Israeli-made rifle has been named the winner of the 2014 Golden Bullseye Award for American Rifleman Rifle of the Year. The rifle is the TAVOR SAR, which was introduced

An American woman nicknamed “Jihad Jane” was jailed for 10 years on Monday, after plotting to carry out deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia including the murder of a