Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with the participants of the Bible Quiz on Sunday, held traditionally on Israel’s Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut).  Also present were Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), Jewish Agency

Dozens of Israeli Arabs marched from Haifa in the direction of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday, as an alleged expression of public support for Jordan’s iron-fist rule of Judaism’s holiest

Irony doesn’t get much more in your face than fans of a wheelchair basketball match beating each other up with lethal weapons until seven of them are hospitalized – and

(JTA) This year I will mark two of Israel’s most important national holidays – Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) and Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) – far away from home. These are

Hamas, which advocates jihad to destroy the State of Israel and calls to boycott the Jewish state, demanded a greater supply of electricity from Israel to Gaza on Sunday.  Hamas

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the international coalition battling the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria of leaving his country to fight the jihadists alone on its

Dennis Ross, who served as President Barack Obama’s Middle East adviser from 2009 to 2011, published an op-ed on the Politico website on Sunday, in which he said that Israel

In response to the revelations of the leaked state comptroller’s report on 2014 Operation Protective Edge, former IDF Southern Commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Yom-Tov Samia criticized the state for having

Martin Luther King III, the son of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. and President of the Drum Major Institute, held a special ceremony Sunday to honor Ethiopian-Israeli community activists.  King

The IDF’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Gen. Yair Golan, unleashed a “terror attack” on the Jewish people when he controversially began comparing modern-day Israel to Nazi Germany, a prominent journalist

Health Minister Ya’akov Litzmann (United Torah Judaism) declared war on licorice candy Sunday, noting that the candy often is filled with white gelatin and coated in

Sarit Okun, doctorate student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s communications department, has exposed the mysterious world of haredi internet culture. Many haredi Jews have long approached the internet with

A number of Jerusalem community rabbis have signed a protest letter against the creation of a cultural center for haredim in the capital. The planned center would involve channeling public funds

Rabbi Yonatan Abraham, the head of London’s rabbinic court and Vice President of the European Jewish Congress, responded on Saturday night to news that Labour UK candidate Sadiq Khan had

Activists from the haredi “Jerusalem Faction” clashed last week with police during a protest against the arrest of a “yeshiva student” earlier that week. Just a day later however, it

Crippling protests by “Palestinian refugees” in Lebanon last week over a change in UNRWA perks and benefits appears to be spreading, as this week “refugees” in Judea and Samaria are launching

Har Herzl military cemetery held the Flags for the Fallen ceremony Sunday, in a tradition preceding Memorial Day wherein the IDF places Israeli flags on the graves of fallen soldiers.  The

The Federal Court of Canada validated the decision of the Immigration Division (ID) of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada which denied a Palestinian man refugee status in Canada

As embattled Labour UK leader Jeremy Corbyn faces an ongoing scandal over his handling of anti-Semitism within his party, the victory of Labour candidate Sadiq Khan in London’s mayoral election

Shai Shirazi, one of Israel’s most well-known criminals and son of mob boss Rico Shirazi, was assassinated on Saturday night in northern Tel Aviv. Shirazi was seriously wounded from gunfire

The Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, on Sunday addressed Prime Minister and Minister of Communications Binyamin Netanyahu, demanding an immediate stop to the allocation of radio and

A secret comptroller report chiding Israel’s leadership during the 2014 Gaza conflict was leaked on Thursday, setting off a political firestorm between those looking to make political hay out against

The Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah has been accused by Syrian opposition fighters of using chemical weapons supplied by the Assad regime, the Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat reported. According to Abou

The storm over IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan’s comments on Holocaust Remembrance Day continued on Sunday, when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used his opening statement during the weekly

Israeli Minister of Science Ofer Akunis demanded a clearer apology from IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan regarding comments he made on Holocaust Remembrance Day that implicitly compared Israel to

Raed Salah, the head of the Islamist movement in northern Israel, has arrived at an Israeli prison this morning to start his sentence after encouraging violent attacks and inciting racism in

Natan Meir, husband of Dafna Meir who was stabbed to death in her home in Otniel, sent a letter to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, condemning his attitude

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was awarded 49 more delegates in Washington state on Saturday, according to district-level breakdown of the state’s primary results. The Vermont senator won the March

London’s new Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, accused Prime Minister David Cameron late Saturday of using “Donald Trump playbook” tactics to try to divide communities in a bid to prevent his

Environment Minister Avi Gabay (Kulanu) on Saturday appeared to back last week’s controversial statement by IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan, who asserted during a Yom Hashoah ceremony that he