The United States House of Representatives approved legislation late Tuesday afternoon by voice vote that reaffirms U.S. strategic and military ties with Israel.  The bill restates the U.S. commitment to

Iran said on Tuesday it would insure any foreign ships that enter its waters, as part of an effort to skirt a European Union ban on insuring ships carrying Iranian

Nationalists won major recognition Tuesday with the Ariel higher education facility in Samaria (Shomron) being accepted as a full-fledged university. The college has been battling for months for university status,

An Israeli security firm says an ongoing cyber attack aimed mainly at Iran uses Persian language communications and is named after Mahdi, the “Muslim Messiah.” Seculert, based in Israel, and

Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel Monday for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. This visit precedes an expected visit by Republican Candidate Mitt Romney, who is seeking to unseat President

Jews in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem, a hotbed of angry Arabs in one of the areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority, are attacked almost daily by stones and

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a letter to Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday evening, expressing his regret that Mofaz chose to quit the unity government. “I regret your decision

Iranian Vice President Hassan Mousavi said Monday that the drought in southern Iran is part of a “soft war” launched against the Islamic Republic by the West, Fars news agency

Tunisia’s leading political party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahada party, has reiterated its opposition to normalizing diplomatic ties with Israel. Ennahada held its ninth national conference in Tunis over the weekend,

Syrian President Bashar Assad has pulled troops from the Israeli border to defend Damascus against rebels, the Israeli army intelligence chief said Tuesday.   “The Syrian military is acting very

The national unity coalition born nine weeks ago is dead, but the government lives with a solid majority of 65 Knesset Members, as it did before Kadima left the Opposition.

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority government has named a summer program for the bloodthirsty terrorist who killed 37 civilians in 1978, Dalal Mughrabi. The “Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi” summer “youth camp”

The Pentagon is building a missile-defense radar station at a secret site in Qatar and organizing its largest minesweeping exercises in the Persian Gulf, as preparations accelerate for a possible

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Tuesday in Jerusalem with Hungary’s President Janos Ader, where the two discussed “regional matters” – and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. “There is concern

Dozens of Christians in Gaza staged a public protest on Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will, the Associated Press (AP)

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad met in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday before she boarded a plane, but his message was the same: no

Giora Weiss-Tzahor, who headed the Mossad operation that located nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu so he could be brought to justice, was killed in a bicycle accident Monday. Tzahor, who was

A new high-speed Be’er Sheva-Tel Aviv rail link shortens the ride to 55 minutes and opens up the Negev and will help attract Jews to the area that is rapidly

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not hesitate to use chemical weapons against opposition forces and may have already deployed them, Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect since the

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came and went and nothing changed, not even the hot weather, except that the U.S.-led “peace process” was left behind in lost baggage. The

A U.S. military supply ship fired Monday at what appeared to be a 30-foot sport fishing boat in the Persian Gulf after it ignored repeated warnings to stop, killing one

An Olympics official admitted that Muslim countries blocked the “One-Minute of Silence” campaign to honor the 11 murdered Israeli athletes, one of the widows said. Ankie Spitzer, whose husband Andre

StandWithUs (SWU), a non-profit organization that is dedicated to informing the public about Israel and combating anti-Semitism, is countering the anti-Israel billboards that have been posted at ten Metro-North stations

Two Massachusetts tourists abducted in Egypt’s mountainous Sinai region were freed on Monday after three days in captivity, the local head of state security told the Reuters news agency. Egyptian

The United Nations Security Council will vote Wednesday on a Western-backed resolution that threatens Syrian authorities with sanctions if they do not stop using heavy weapons in towns, Reuters reported. The

The International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation (IIACF) will host on Thursday a groundbreaking event entitled “Oslo 20 Years Later,” which will bring together a panel of journalists, policy experts and

Amin Maqbul, secretary general of Fatah’s revolutionary council, said on Monday that Fatah is opposed to the opening of Gaza’s border with Egypt, as the Hamas government has demanded from