Residents of the largely hareidi city of Bnei Brak and theJewish Samarian city of Ariel feel relatively safe, according to a police survey. Residents of the mixed Arab-Jewish cities of Lod

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is promising to develop Jerusalem for the benefit of younger citizens as well as olim (new immigrants). Barkat spoke to Arutz Sheva at a huge aliyah

After witnessing a terror attack in Jerusalem as a child, Eli Beer decided that he wanted to be a doctor and help people, the director of United Hatzolah told an

A Jerusalem structure that served as a hospital in the Crusader era has been opened to the public, after archaeological digs and research carried out by the Antiquities Authority. The

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea hinted on Sunday that Hizbullah is behind two rocket attacks on the Baabda presidential palace area last Thursday. He accused the movement of “declaring war

The U.S. State Department announced on Sunday that it will extend the closure of 19 embassies and consulates in the Middle East through Saturday, including a small number of additional

Iran’s new president will have to deal with an economy that is showing signs of foundering, according to a Washington Post report published over the weekend. Western sanctions are cutting

The U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, arrived in Israel on Sunday for a work visit, the Israel Defense website reported. General Dempsey arrived as

A planned visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was canceled by Egyptian authorities. The visit, originally scheduled for several months ago, was postponed several times due to the

Two Israeli soldiers were among the four people who were killed in Sunday’s accident on Highway 6, it was cleared for publication Sunday evening. The two soldiers are Hai Ben-Naim,

Gaza’s Islamist rulers are nervous. The fall of Mohammed Morsi – the Islamist president of Egypt and scion of Hamas’s parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood – has left them isolated. The

The IDF and Shin Bet have released their report on terrorist attacks in the month of July. Over the course of the month, 38 Israelis were wounded in terrorist assaults.

Top U.S. officials are reviewing the threat of a terrorist attack that has led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a

Hassan Rouhani has officially replaced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Rouhani’s election was endorsed on Saturday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in the capital, Tehran.

Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday, citing prison breaks across nine nations in the past month, reported the New York Times. The international police organization said that Islamist

Ex-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Saturday evening that there is no chance that “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) will lead to a peace deal. “Nine months

The U.S. intelligence community has been leaking information on Israeli air strikes in Syria, and U.S. President Barack Obama is behind the leaks, according to a report in the World

Destroying Israel is the interest of the entire Arab world, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah declared on Friday. AFP reported that the head of the Lebanese terror group made a rare

The United States issued a worldwide alert on Friday, warning of plans by Al-Qaeda to launch an attack in the Middle East or North Africa in August, AFP reported. The

A freely-distributed Finnish paper notorious for its anti-Semitic content has said it would tone down its editorial line after being criticized by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center, AFP reported on

Syrian opposition leaders said on Friday that United Nations inspectors would have “unfettered” access to areas under rebel control to investigate the use of chemical weapons, AFP reported. The Syrian

A 50-year-old Syrian woman was brought on Friday evening to Israel after being wounded during the civil war that is raging in her country. The woman, who was listed in

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, responded Riday to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s remarks in which he was cited as saying that Israel “has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world

Security forces are on heightened alert Friday morning in the Wadi Ara region in the lower Galilee, after about 1,000 Arabs tried to block a major traffic artery there Thursday.

At least two rockets slammed into an area south of Beirut that houses the Defense Ministry and presidential palace on Thursday night, Lebanon’s state-run news agency reported. There were no

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed on Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives’ decision to tighten sanctions on Iran. “Following the Iranian elections the House of Representatives has sent a clear

The annual Gay Pride parade and rally was held in Jerusalem on Thursday evening. Several roads were shut down during the parade, which traveled through the downtown area to a