An American citizen who was arrested by Egyptian security forces in August in El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, has died in jail after apparently committing suicide. James Henry Lunn, a

Facebook will acquire Israeli startup Onavo, which developed an application to help users save money on internet data connection charges. The deal is said to be worth up to $200

After a long break, the Knesset went back to work Monday for its winter session. Opening the session was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who spoke from the podium about a

Jerusalem’s incumbent mayoral candidate, Nir Barkat, is a born-and-bred Jerusalemite. A successful businessman, Barkat first ran in the Jerusalem mayoral race in 2003, losing narrowly to hareidi candidate Uri Lupoliansky. He

What looks to be a dry ice explosion in a bathroom cubicle in Los Angeles Airport has caused delays to flights as a police investigation gets underway. NBC reports that the

Russia was set to mark Monday the 70th anniversary of a revolt at the Sobibor death camp led by a Red Army officer, the biggest and most successful prisoner escape

The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that six of its aid workers and a member of the Syrian Red Crescent had been kidnapped by gunmen in Syria,

In his Friday sermon, an imam at the Palestinian Al-Yarmouk camp south of Damascus gave local residents permission to eat dead cats and dogs. The camp has been under siege

Two car bombs exploded on Sunday near Syria’s state television headquarters in central Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported. The agency said the building located at the Syrian capital’s

Four men have been arrested in London in a counter-terrorism operation, the Metropolitan Police have said, according to the BBC. Scotland Yard said they were held under the Terrorism Act

Iran plans to send yet another monkey into space…that is, assuming the last monkey sent into space wasn’t a fake. According to Press TV, the Deputy Head of the Iran

Transport Minister Yisrael Katz has decided to name a planned new major entrance road to Jerusalem after Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ztz”l, who passed away last week. The new road, currently

The Ministerial Law Committee on Sunday approved for a Knesset vote legislation that would increase the penalties imposed for those who attempt to deny women their rights in public spaces.

Tens of thousands of people, including a large number of well-known hareidi rabbis and yeshiva deans, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, were gathered in northern Jerusalem Sunday night to commemorate the ending of the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu informed cabinet members at his weekly meeting on Sunday that Israel is “seeing an increase in terrorist activities in recent weeks.” Referring to the recently exposed terrorist

An Orange County, California resident pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges accusing him of knowingly providing material support and resources to Al Qaeda. The indictment charges 24-year-old Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, who

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia were in part responsible for their recent political setbacks, accusing them of having been too conciliatory in opting to

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon announced Sunday that Israeli engineering company Elbit Systems had been chosen to co-manufacture hi-tech helmets for pilots of the US F-35 stealth fighter. He said in a

Two Palestinian Authority resident Arab men have confessed to the murder of Israeli man Sariya Ofer late last week, the Shin Bet has revealed. The two were arrested on Friday

Imagine the frustration. Sitting, talking to your date, trying to connect, but every time the topic of  living in Israel comes up they get a blank look on their face.

Almost 50 rebel fighters have been killed in three days of skirmishes between jihadists and mainstream rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo, reports Al Arabiya. The UK-based Syrian Observatory

Economics Minister and Bayit Yehudi party chairman Naftali Bennett issued a statement Saturday evening as a memorial for slain former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was held in Tel Aviv. “On the

An earthquake was felt in Israel on the Sabbath at about 4:15 PM local time. The quake was measured at 6.4 on the Richter scale, and had its epicenter beneath

The memorial service for Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke will be held in Italy, his lawyer told AFP Saturday after Argentina, where the former SS officer wished to be buried,

Ten days after publishing a front-page editorial blasting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly as “combative” and sarcastic, the New York Times has published an interview-profile

One protester was killed on Friday after security forces shot at a march by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi near Rabaa Al-Adawiya, reported Al-Ahram. Rabaa Al-Adawiya is the site

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan called Thursday’s incident when gunmen kidnapped and released him in the same day as an attempted coup against his government in a national television address

Iran is going to offer a new set of proposals during the upcoming talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany on its nuclear energy