Dozens of senior citizens who live in low-rent apartments inside or next to the Chen Hotel in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, were evacuated when a fire broke out in the building

Speaking at Ben-Gurion University Wednesday night, British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould denounced those who boycott Israel. “Everything we do is an expression of our values, and it is through

Roger Waters, composer, lyricist, singer and bassist for rock mega-group Pink Floyd, has also become a “hero to genocidal terrorists” in his later life, notes watchdog group Eye on the UN. The group

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) announced Wednesday that Jewish Lieutenant Gov. Brian Schatz (D) will fill the seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant after the passing of Sen. Daniel

A report on Israel Radio Thursday expanded on reports Wednesday night on a recent visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman recently. According to

For the first time since before World War II, the small Jewish community in the Ukranian town of Netishin held prayer services this past Shabbat – and celebrated the Bar-Mitzvah

In an interview with Israel Radio, government minister Moshe Yaalon said that the U.S. was preparing to intervene in Syria. A final decision on intervention will come if and when

Arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti is warning Israel against a third Arab intifada (uprising) – but not an armed one. Speaking to Channel 10 News from his Israeli jail cell, where he

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tried on Wednesday to limit the damage from news reports that he was planning to set up a coalition with Tzippy Livni as a chief partner.

The Senate passed a resolution Friday calling on European countries to designate Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) sponsored Res. 613, urging the European Union to designate

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently made a secret trip to Amman, where he met with Jordan’s King Abdullah, the British-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi Arabic newspaper reported on Wednesday. According to the

The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel advisory last week for Denmark in wake of warnings by Israel’s ambassador advising Jews and Israelis to refrain from wearing kippot, religious symbols,

The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that it has nabbed a cell of Saudi and Emirati members plotting terror attacks in the two countries and other states. The suspects “imported

An Iranian lawmaker has griped that female Russian technicians working at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are not respecting the country’s dress code despite being paid to wear the Islamic

In the latest blow to the Syrian government, the head of Syria’s military police has defected and has now declared allegiance to the rebel uprising seeking to overthrow President Bashar

Israel’s enemies probably will not wage war in  2013, and the Palestinian Authority will not make concessions, former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told a seminar at the University of Haifa.

The discovery, like many others, was made during road excavation, this time at a new section of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway, known as Highway 1. The archaeological site is known

A new Constitution drafted by an Islamist-majority committee has been signed into law by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. With less than one one-third of voters turning out to decide the

The memory of Prisoner Number 77 still brings hope to the heart of Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Sobolewicz as he remembers how his friend boxed for bread in the notorious Nazi

The Syrian government’s former spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, is co-operating with U.S. intelligence officials who helped him flee to Washington almost one month ago, the British Guardian reports. Makdissi became one

A suicide car bombing at a US military base near a flashpoint city in eastern Afghanistan killed at least three Afghans and and wounded seven others on Wednesday, officials said.

The Israeli Air Force has cut manpower while advancing technologically towards 2013, it says its mission is a quick victory. In a meeting with senior commanders of the IAF, the

A poll taken on behalf of the Labor Party, released Tuesday, indicates that Israelis are much more concerned with economic and social issues in the current elections than they are

The weekend media storm over Naftali Bennett’s position on how IDF soldiers should deal with orders to throw Jews out of their homes does not seem to have hurt the

Egypt’s electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, AFP reported. The commission also rejected opposition allegations of polling fraud. Samir

The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday forbade local journalists from working with “hostile” Israeli media, the AFP news agency reports. The terrorist group decided in its weekly

Palestinian Authority Chairman promised in 2011 that he would change laws that let murderers off with a light sentence if they claimed to have been motivated by the need to

Iran on Tuesday launched naval maneuvers in the Gulf, and announced plans for another exercise in the strategic Strait of Hormuz later this week, AFP reported. Revolutionary Guards naval units