Senior leaders of the Islamist Hamas terror organization will meet on Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a diplomatic source told the AFP news agency. The

United States and Taliban officials will engage in Afghanistan peace talks Thursday, senior U.S. administration officials said. The officials say prisoner exchanges will likely be among the topics discussed in

Neil Tennant, the singer in the pop duo Pet Shop Boys, on Monday rejected calls from pro-Palestinian Authority activists to cancel the band’s Tel Aviv concert, scheduled for June 23,

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not had a “close connection” with the city’s Jewish community, NYC politician Peter Vallone Jr. told Arutz Sheva. Vallone, who is running for

For the first time, an El Al plane has been outfitted with a C-MUSIC system to protect it against shoulder-fired missiles. The plane, a Boeing 737, conducted test flights with

Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect over his brutal role in organizing the deportation of some 12,000 Jews to World War II death camps,

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in Jerusalem for the 90th birthday celebration of Israeli President Shimon Peres, visited the Western Wall and expressed “continued admiration” for Jewish heritage. Clinton prayed, placed

In a speech at Hebrew University Monday, singer Barbra Streisand expressed her dismay at what she called the “discriminatory behavior” against women by members of the hareidi community. “There are

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton decided to donate the $500,000 he was paid for his speech on Monday evening back to the Peres Academic Center at which he spoke. The

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday agreed that they disagree about the situation in Syria. At the same time, reported the AFP news agency, the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unveiled on Monday a new stamp in memory of Israel’s seventh prime minister, the late Yitzchak Shamir. The stamp was unveiled in a special ceremony attended

The Egyptian government has declared a high alert in the Sinai Peninsula following a high level of Al Qaeda terrorist activity in the region. The terrorists have set up a

In a sometimes rambling speech, an aging Bill Clinton praised Israel’s high tech accomplishments, suggested ways to improve the world’s economies, described the work he has been doing since he

An Orthodox Jewish family in Toronto woke up this week to a swastika and the words “watch your children” scrawled on their garage door, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

Thousands of Islamists rallied in Cairo on Friday in support of calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration

Two bombs struck a large military airport outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday night, the main rebel army said, according to CNN. The first of a series of

Two Arab youths attacked a group of Jewish children in Jerusalem’s Homat Shmuel (Har Homa) neighborhood. About ten Jewish children established a play encampment near the neighborhood, where they played

Former United States vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized President Barack Obama for his handing of the Syrian conflict, Al Arabiya news reported. “We’re talking now more new interventions,” said the

A report on Channel Two Monday said that the brother of Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah was killed recently in a fierce battle in the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr. Khader Nasrallah

Hassan Rohani, Iran’s new President, is being termed a “moderate” in Western media, but it appears that his moderation stops when it comes to Israel. In his first speech as

A BBC documentary claims that Israeli spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller once worked for the CIA. Geller, counted a friend from personalities as diverse as singer Michael Jackson to author and

One thousand new housing units for Jews will be built in the Etzion Bloc, in Judea, the Minister of Construction and Housing annnounced. Minister Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) met Wednesday

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday opened a new Holocaust exhibition at the former Auschwitz death camp, vowing Israel would do everything to prevent another genocide of the Jewish

Almost 93,000 people have been killed thus far in the Syrian civil war, according to a report presented Thursday by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pllay. “The

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Iran maintains the right to a peaceful nuclear program. While he denounced the regime’s threats against the Jewish state as “unacceptable” he

Nearly 15 million people have signed a petition to hold early presidential elections, in a campaign seeking to “remove confidence” in Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt Independent reported. Tamarod,

At least 14 people were killed and 30 wounded when a suicide car bomber struck outside the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday. The court lies a few

Women are welcome in the IDF, but should not always have the same roles as men, said Rabbi Avichai Ronsky, a former Chief Rabbi of the IDF. Rabbi Ronsky’s remarks

Nemesysco, an Israeli technology, analyzes the human voice and spots different emotions as they are reflected through voice patterns. The technology was presented last week at the Israel Defense Exhibition

Underwater archaeologists have found an ancient structure built from large basalt stones, its base 6 to 10 feet below the sea bed of the Sea of Galilee, Lake Kinneret. The