Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, formerly Chief Rabbi of Ireland, will replace retiring Rabbi Jonathan Sacks as Britain’s Chief Rabbi. Rabbi Sacks, who also is in the House of Lords, will retire

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Monday with U.S. Senator-elect Ted Cruz (R-Texas). At the start of their meeting, the Prime Minister said, “I’m welcoming you to Israel on your

The United Nations is sending chemical weapons kits to UN troops in the Golan Heights because of growing fears over Syria’s deadly non-conventional arsenal, officials said Monday, according to AFP.

The Jewish People owe the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye “an immense historic debt,” Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said after the pro-Israel senator died Monday at

The Palestinian Authority said Monday night it will file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over progress in plans for a housing project in Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.

The British government is planning to exclude Hebrew from its list of officially recognized languages for primary schools, in a move that could damage Jewish education in the country, the

The United States, as expected, condemned on Monday Israel’s plans to build new homes in Jerusalem. The condemnation came after the Interior Ministry decided to go ahead with plans to

Pope Benedict XVI received Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas on Monday and called on all parties involved in the Middle East crisis to find the courage to work together for

A Hamas terror cell has been uncovered in northern Jerusalem, it was released for publication Monday. The Israel Security Agency (Shabak, or Shin Bet), Jerusalem police and Border Police uncovered the

Moshe Tzarfati of the fledgling Am Shalem political party, led by MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, reiterated in an interview with Arutz Sheva the party’s intention is to reach out to

El Al Airlines will begin a trial project next month ahead of transferring all flight manuals on its Boeing 777 fleet to iPads, Israel’s business daily Globes news reported. When the

Developers were told this week they must reduce a long-planned housing project in Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood by 100 units – and then re-submit the plan before receiving “final approval.”

Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted against the Israel Defense Forces near Yitzhar in Samaria around noon Monday, in another test of the military, and then threw rocks at a rescue team

Three residents of the northern Arab village of Tuba Zangariya were injured Sunday in a family feud involving gunfire and an intentional car collision. Seven people have been arrested and

A huge explosion, apparently at a Hizbullah weapons depot, rocked Lebanon near the border Monday morning, the country’s state news agency reported. Hizbullah immediately accused Israel of carrying to an

The Finance Ministry on Sunday released an optimistic forecast for economic growth in Israel for 2013. The forecast shows the economy growing 3.5%, half a percent more than senior economists

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro thanked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres for their expressions of condolences after the massacre at a school in Newtown, Connecticut on

An Arabic-speaking man shot at a female guard in Bnei Brak, adjacent to Tel Aviv, early Monday morning in what police say apparently was not terrorist attack. The guard was

Neither side in the conflict in Syria can win using military methods, the country’s vice president has admitted. In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, which will be published

Islamists backing a new constitution for Egypt claimed victory on Sunday in the first leg of a referendum, AFP reported. Meanwhile, the opposition alleged polling violations and called for nationwide

A mosque in the Palestinian neighborhood of Yarmouk in southern Damascus that was sheltering some 600 refugees from neighboring districts was been attacked from the air and hit by at

After threatening that Ankara could set off “World War III” if it allows the U.S. to deploy Patriot missiles on its border with Syria, a report Sunday said that President

American Muslims are trying to mainstream the word “jihad,” which literally means struggle, and reclaim it from Muslim extremists. The campaign features Muslims describing their personal struggles — the meaning of

Only 10 percent of Americans sympathize with the Palestinian Authority, according to a new Pew Center poll, which shows that the United States public is also going isolationist. In answer

An IDF officer who is the assistant foreign liaison officer to international organizations in Gaza is none other than a young native of Arizona named Nira Lee, who moved to

A soldier who suffered moderate wounds in a training exercise Sunday was evacuated by the helicopter of the Chief of Staff, who had been in the area moments before. The

President Barack Obama has decided to nominate Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of state and could make a formal announcement as early as next week, a Democrat