Three children have died in Israel so far this summer because they were accidentally left in hot cars by harried parents who forgot they were there. But while the Knesset has

Over 9,500 athletes from 78 countries will gather in Jerusalem Thursday night for the opening of the 19th Maccabiah Games. This will be the biggest Maccabiah in history, with contests

Three unique public buildings, the first of their kind ever found in the Judea area, have been unearthed by Hebrew University and Archaeology Authority archaeologists in the past year, it

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that his intense diplomacy in six visits to the Middle East was bearing fruit and narrowing gaps between Israel and the Palestinian

A senior Syrian official has been shot dead in the southern Lebanese town of Sarafand Mohammed Darrar Jamo, a high-profile advocate for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was shot

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Amman Tuesday for talks with Arab officials in his sixth visit to the region since taking office. He is not expected to

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has suffered a significant blow after sources close to its leadership confirmed the death of Said al-Shihri in a drone strike. The Yemen-based branch

Unidentified armed Syrians infiltrated an unmanned Israeli army post in the Tel Faris area of the southern Golan Heights Tuesday night. It is believed they may have been radical Islamist

One Egyptian army officer died and five soldiers were wounded Wednesday in ongoing battles with Arab terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula. With the agreement of Israel, Egypt has increased its

The first Egyptian Cabinet since the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was sworn in on Tuesday, as the Muslim Brotherhood from which the ousted president hails rejected its legitimacy.

Iranian president-elect Hasan Rouhani has sent messages to Syria’s Bashar Assad and Hizbullah reaffirming his support for the two allies, as well as his support of confrontation with Israel. Iranian-Syrian

Two Arabs stabbed a hareidi-religious man near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening. Jerusalem Police believe that the stabbing is nationalistically motivated. A team of Magen David Adom

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denounced on Tuesday the new guidelines of the European Union, which forbid its member states from cooperating, transferring funds, giving scholarships or research grants to bodies

Fire was opened at an IDF patrol near Tel Fares in the southern Golan Heights on Tuesday night, after the troops identified two Syrians who entered an abandoned military outpost

Mortar fire from inside war-torn Syria hit the Israeli part of the Golan Heights on Tuesday, an IDF spokeswoman said. “Several mortar rounds fired from Syria exploded in northern Golan

Jewish worshippers hoping to ascend the Temple Mount in commemoration of Tisha B’Av were bitterly disappointed as, once again, police prevented them from ascending. The hundreds of Jewish worshippers who waited Tuesday morning

The European Union has issued orders forbidding its member states from cooperating, transferring funds, giving scholarships or research grants to bodies in Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem , and even

European Union nations are divided going into fresh talks this week on whether to add Hizbullah’s so-called “military wing” to its list of terrorist groups, diplomatic sources told AFP on

The civil war in Syria continues and atrocities are being committed on a daily basis, both by troops loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad as well as by the rebel forces

Arabs rioted in Beersheva Monday as they protested a government plan that would require some of them to move, while awarding them with thousands of dunams of stolen state land.

The Islamist Hamas organization is testing locally-made M75 missiles that can reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to military sources.     The medium-to-long range missiles were used against Israel

A car bombing outside police headquarters killed 13, including 10 police officers and a child, in a town 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Damascus. The attack, which occurred overnight,

Both the House and the Senate in the U.S. are promoting legislation that would allow Israelis to visit the United States without requiring a visa. Israel has been kept out

Hundreds of Jews came to the Temple Mount Monday in honor of Tisha B’Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires respectively.

In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post, Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have called on the Obama administration to cut off the aid the U.S. provides

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday evening with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and offered his greetings on the occasion of the start of Ramadan. “I called to greet

The Pakistani Taliban have visited Syria to set up a base and to assess “the needs of the jihad”, a Taliban official told the BBC over the weekend. The official

Iran is moving “closer and closer” to building a nuclear weapon and Israel may have to act before the United States does, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday. “They’re

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on an IDF position on the border with the Sinai Desert Sunday evening. The two masked gunmen reportedly opened fire before escaping into the desert in