Gaza’s Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, on Friday urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas not to begin talks with Israel, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry continued his efforts

An American citizen was killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Friday during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi, Al-Ahram reported. A total of two

A Hollywood blockbuster depicting a worldwide zombie apocalypse has become yet more fuel for the fire in the debate on Israel. According to many PA supporters, the film’s depiction of

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Thursday evening and met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as part of his efforts to restart peace negotiations between Israel

A retired United States general and former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking details related to the Stuxnet virus that hit Iran

A 19-year-old soldier was killed Thursday in a fall from a train. The cause of the accident is not yet clear. He had apparently been hanging from the outside of

Efraim Halevy, who has previously served as the Head of Israel’s Mossad Intelligence Agency, is the incoming Chairman of a program that will help certify the Jewish identities of thousands

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has been indicted on charges of killing four people and using a weapon of mass destruction. He faces 30 charges linked to the

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 109th anniversary of the death of the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stressed that any peace deal with the Palestinian

The Shin Bet, working in cooperation with the IDF and police, has exposed a PFLP terror cell from Shechem and Hevron with links to a terror network abroad. A member

Among the weapons seized were handguns, M-16 assault rifle parts, dozens of magazines and a large variety of ammunition and military equipment. Three suspects were arrested in connection with the

Cyprus has signed a deal with the US-Israeli Noble Energy firm to build a liquified natural gas plant to exploit its untapped reserves. A memorandum of understanding was signed between

Billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich, who fled with his parents from the incoming Nazis as a small child, and U.S. justice as an adult until winning a pardon, has died at the age

White House officials met this month with Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, a deputy of radical Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who has been banned

US Secretary of State John Kerry voiced confidence on Wednesday that Israeli and Palestinian leaders both wanted peace as he called for progress “as soon as we can” in moving

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon hinted Wednesday that Israel may call up its combat soldiers for a major operation in the near future. Yaalon spoke as he and Prime Minister Binyamin

After 65 years, the Knesset is finally considering a law to officially designate Israel as a Jewish State. Three different political parties are involved in submitting the bill. The new “ Israel, the

Opposition forces say that Syrian Army regulars are again using chemical weapons in the battle to win the savage civil war raging across Israel’s northern border. The rebels reported late

A Palestinian Authority resident Arab has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking a young Israeli couple in Tel Aviv and brutally raping the young woman. Ahmed Bani

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that peace with the Palestinian Authority can only be achieved through negotiations. The comments came in the wake of reports that, after refusing

Israel believes that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s willingness to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may be a ploy meant at buying time so he can make more unilateral moves

An Israeli security guard who shot dead a Jewish man at the Western Wall is suspected of murdering him after “a verbal confrontation”, a court protocol revealed on Tuesday, according

What lies down the road for Israel? A study released by the Central Bureau of Statistics Tuesday indicates that there will be fewer Jews relative to the population, and a

An ancient road that led from Yafo (Jaffa) to Jerusalem has been found in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. The road is believed to date back to the Roman

About 58% of the Arab citizens of Israel say that the Palestinian Authority Arabs would be justified in starting a violent rebellion (“intifada”) if the diplomatic process does not advance.

French intelligence agents arrested three suspected members of an Islamist terror cell on Tuesday, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, a day after six others were held in an anti-terror swoop,

Two wounded Syrians were admitted to Israel overnight for hospital treatment, a military spokeswoman told the AFP news agency on Tuesday, the latest in several dozen cases to be allowed

Six people were arrested in the Paris region on Monday in coordinated raids on members of a suspected radical Islamist cell allegedly planning terrorist acts on French soil, a source

After refusing to talk to Israel for three years, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has caved in to pressure from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and has agreed to