The United States said on Tuesday that an Arab push to single out Israel for criticism over its assumed nuclear arsenal would hurt diplomatic efforts to ban weapons of mass

United Nations investigators are planning to return to Syria to follow up on more allegations of chemical weapons use, CNN reported Wednesday. Ake Sellstrom, the head of the inspection team

The government on Tuesday authorized establishment of a committee that will examine ways to eliminate cash from the Israeli economy – the better to prevent citizens from cheating on their

The newly instated British Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis has announced that he will attend the educational cross-communal conference. The Previous Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks had stayed away from Limmud

“Where is the honor in this crime?  The victim was completely insane and could not be held responsible for her body and mind.” This is the twentieth such “honor killing” so

The Dollar has continued to drop in value against the shekel and was traded at a two year low of 3.5328. The Euro also dropped slightly by 0.35% and was traded

Israel’s economy is likely to see an increase of 3.4% this year, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), which revealed on Monday that Israel’s gross domestic product will rise above the NIS 1

In an attempt to convince the West to lift international sanctions on Iran, President Hassan Rohani is reportedly willing to dismantle the nuclear facility in Fordo, a site which is

Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, nearly ended in tragedy for the Fairman family of Jerusalem. In the middle of the night, the family was targeted with

Turkish warplanes shot down a Syrian helicopter on Monday, AFP reports. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc was quoted as confirming the incident. The Syrian helicopter was detected two kilometers

President Bashar Al-Assad has smuggled part of his chemical weapons arsenal to Hezbollah in a bid to evade international inspection, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan reported Monday. The report quoted Syrian

Extensive searches are underway for Yam Levy, 23, who went on a trip to Germany on her own. Levy sent a friend pictures of herself from Immenstadt, a Bavarian town near

Philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz announced Monday that he supports Aryeh King and his “Seam Line Neighborhoods” list in Jerusalem’s municipal elections. In a letter signed by Dr. Moskowitz and his

French President Francois Hollande warned on Sunday that a deal to eradicate Syria’s chemical arms was “not an end point” and kept the option of military strikes open, as he

Egypt’s armed forces have seized a stockpile of anti-aircraft missiles in the Sinai, military spokesman Ahmed Ali said in a press conference on Sunday. The spokesman also said the army

New York City police have arrested a ring of suspected drug dealers who had been selling heroin, oxycodone and other drugs in southern Brooklyn – but had been shutting down operations

India has successfully test-fired for a second time a nuclear-capable missile that can reach Beijing and much of Europe. “The missile hit its target in the Indian Ocean in 20

United States President Barack Obama declared in a weekend interview that the US is still prepared to act militarily to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, despite the decision to hold

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said that he hopes to see real results from the United States agreement with Russia to eliminate Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. Netanyahu’s remarks, made during the memorial

The State of Israel held an official memorial Sunday for those who fell in the Yom Kippur War, 40 years ago. The ceremony took place at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Jerusalem Sunday to hold talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on the progress made in the Middle East peace talks and

A video has been released showing Border Police unit coming under attack during a routine patrol on Yom Kippur. The unit was driving through the Arab town of Anata, near Jerusalem, when

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to freeze the controversial Governance Bill put forth by Yisrael Beytenu, according to the Israeli daily Maariv. Netanyahu reportedly opposes one of the more controversial

The head of Syria’s rebel Free Syrian Army rejected on Saturday a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid-2014. “We cannot accept any part of this initiative,” General

About 400 people prayed on Yom Kippur at the new synagogue in Itamar, Samaria, which was built following the slaughter of five members of the Fogel family inside their home

A few minutes before Yom Kippur, large forces of Border Police raided the outpost community of Ramat Migron in Binyamin, and arrested seven residents for violating a Closed Military Zone

No extraordinary security-related events were reported on the high holy day of Yom Kippur, as hundreds of thousands flocked to synagogues throughout Israel. Magen David Adom teams took 1,973 people

Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syria’s chemical weapons, according to which Syria’s chemical weapons must

A four-year-old girl drowned on Yom Kippur at a mikveh – or ritual immersion pool – on Neufeld Street in Bnei Brak, in central Israel. An initial investigation shows that