The Yom Kippur fast day on Wednesday will be accompanied by relatively comfortable weather in most of the world but much warmer in Israel. Temperatures will rise in Israel on

A bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution that calls on the Obama administration to pressure the United Nations to prevent Iranian President Mahmoud

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday likened Israeli pressure on him to draw a clear “red line” over Iran’s nuclear ambitions to “noise” he tries to ignore, AFP reports. Interviewed

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called on the international community Sunday to stop donating money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if that money goes to terrorists and their families. Ayalon

Hamas’ politburo chief, Khaled Mashaal, is not seeking re-election, a Hamas official told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency on Sunday. Senior Hamas official Salah Bardawil told Ma’an that Mashaal will

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the “potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric, counter-rhetoric and threats from various countries in the Middle East.”

Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi is announcing prayer times through SMS as well as on television to encourage the Jewish community to attend synagogue on Yom Kippur. “Every year, more and more

The Palestinian Authority (PA) said on Sunday it was ending restrictions limiting the number of traders who can import Israeli goods into the territory, in a bid to reduce spiraling

Israel has held new talks with the Palestinian Authority over the development of a gas field off the coast of Gaza, the Israeli foreign ministry said in a new report

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that should Israel attack his country, the Islamic Republic will retaliate. Ahmadinejad made the comments in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan. The full

Britain, France and Germany have officially called for new European Union sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, diplomats told AFP on Sunday. The foreign ministers of the three countries

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed pride in the government’s recent investment in health during a meeting Sunday. “We’re adding 1,000 beds in hospitals, after a decade — prior to this

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on Sunday assured the country’s Jews that they could wear their kippas “with pride”, in a dismissal of far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s call for a

Pikuach Nefesh, the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, has sent a congratulatory message to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, praising him for accurately stating the opinion of Jewish Halakhah regarding the

A Canadian diamond firm says it has designed a diamond that that can be cut to show the six-pointed Star of David. Embee Diamond Technologies, based in the Canadian province

Rep. Joe Walsh, an incumbent Republican congressmen running for reelection in Illinois, issued a statement Saturday vowing to “pursue and expose” the radical Islamic threat, following the arrest of a

A Palestinian Authority official has expressed outrage over Jewish bar mitzvah celebrations at the Western Wall (Kotel). Ahmed Kariya, head of a PA committee on Jerusalem affairs, told Al-Ayyam that

Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike if Israel prepares to attack it, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told broadcaster Al-Alam on Sunday, a day after his boss warned that conflict

A hidden interceptor transmitted valuable information at the Fordow site and apparently self-detonated when it was discovered, the Sunday Times of London reported, quoting Western intelligence sources. The mid-August explosions

Pakistan’s foreign minister on Friday thanked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for criticizing the anti-Islam film that has been widely accused of sparking the protests that have spread throughout the

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, together with a high-ranking delegation, arrived in New York Saturday evening to attend the 67th annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, IRNA reported. In an

A restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side was defaced by vandals, who scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls, The New York Post reported Friday. “It was like someone came

The Libyan authorities said late Saturday they had decided to dissolve all militias and armed groups that do not come under State authority, AFP reported. The move, a day after

A large archaeological site in the north has uncovered an extensive treasure chest of ancient finds, including flint tools, during excavations for a highway. Some of Israel’s most interesting historical

Friday’s terrorist fire that killed an IDF soldier was at least the 23rd major attack since the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the “New Middle East,” a phrase

Israel has rejected the idea of any modification to its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed any possibility of altering the treaty during a radio interview

German judicial authorities officially announced for the first time Friday that Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim, known as “Doctor Death”, died in Egypt in 1992. A regional court in the