The Counter-Terrorism Bureau on Saturday issued a call to Israelis in the Sinai Peninsula to immediately leave the area and return to Israel. Families of Israelis staying in Sinai were

Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein, Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin, Minister of Tourism Stas Misezhnikov who heads the Knesset’s symbols and rituals committee, and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat

One of the leaders of the Syrian opposition is saying that the Syrian people will seek regional peace, including with Israel. In an interview with Kol Yisrael radio, portions of

A powerful blast killed ten members of the security forces in the southern Syrian region of Quneitra on Friday, state television reported. The report blamed the explosion on “terrorists.” “An

European nations and Russia proposed rival UN resolutions on Friday, both calling for expanding the number of UN cease-fire monitors in Syria from 30 to 300, but disagreeing on possible

The rockets that were fired from Egypt toward Israel earlier this month were smuggled from Libya, an Israeli defense official told The Associated Press on Friday. The official was referring

Egypt’s Islamist and secular forces packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square with tens of thousands of protesters on Friday, The Associated Press reported. It was the biggest rally in months in which

Five years after Hamas seized Gaza from Fatah in a violent putsch the Fatah central committee is laying the groundwork to replace Hamas in the Palestinian Authority’s 2012 elections. According

Defense Minister Ehud Barak – in Washington to meet with American officials ahead of the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 – said Iranian supreme leader Ayatolla

A senior Hamas leader on Thursday said that if the terror group came to power in a future ‘Palestinian state,’ it would not abide by any previous peace agreements with

The UN human rights office on Friday charged that three men sentenced to death in Hamas-run Gaza were executed unlawfully. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s spokesman, Rupert

The IDF infantry has begun distributing a new device for use by its platoon commanders: a laser rangefinder. The IDF Website reports that the device is about the size of

The South African Reserve Bank has come under fire after an article last week revealed that one of its directors supports Nazi policies. According to the article, which was published

The Pentagon held a ceremony on Thursday in honor of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The ceremony was attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. “Today we pause to

Google’s “Street View” service in Israel has been officially launched, according to a Channel 2 News report on Thursday. The report noted that the launch came several days earlier than

A synagogue has been dedicated in Basel, Switzerland for the first time in more than 80 years. The Feldinger Chabad Jewish Centre is the first new synagogue in the city since

A group of some 20 Arabs attacked a Jewish family as they drove to their home in Tekoa on Thursday afternoon. Akiva Ami-El, his wife Keterya, and their two-year old

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called upon Jewish youths visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau Thursday to be “proud that the Jewish people rose from the dead.” He termed the voices calling Israel a threat

An apparent nationalistic terror crime was perpetrated in Jerusalem Thursday evening. Assailants believed to be Arabs stabbed a haredi-religious Jew, aged around 20, at the “hotels junction” near the Tomb

Norway’s confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik told the court trying him on Thursday he only had a slim chance of surviving his bomb and shooting rampage. A total of

Al-Azhar students and political activists in Egypt are calling for a protest Friday in front of Al-Azhar’s administrative office after Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa made a rare visit to Jerusalem

The war of words between Tehran and the six-members of the Gulf Cooperation Council over three disputed islands continues to escalate. Iran’s ground forces commander warned the military is ready

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine, it was announced Wednesday. Eric Cantor, the majority leader in

The British government has suffered a series of embarrassments recently and is lagging way behind the opposition Labour Party in the polls (despite the lackluster Labour leadership). It believed that it

A 500-year-old painting auctioned by the French government during the Nazi occupation in World War II was returned on Wednesday to a Jewish family who proved it was sold illegally.

Syria is moving to liquidate its gold reserves to raise revenue as Western and Arab sanctions targeting its central bank and oil exports cut into its cash reserves. Syria’s foreign

In honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem has produced an innovatinve and poignant poster. Dorielle Rimmer Halperin, the

President Shimon Peres told his personal story at the central Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on Wednesday. “I was born in Wieszniev. Half of the townspeople came to

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered a hard hitting speech centering on the Iranian threat, in the central Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem Wednesday. Such a direct reference to

A female IDF officer, 20, was killed Wednesday when lighting pole collapsed on stage during rehearsals for next week’s Independence Day celebrations on Mount Herzl. MDA paramedics responded to the