Pro-Israel philanthropist Newton Becker died on Sunday, January 2, The Jewish Journal reported. Becker is survived by his wife, Rochelle, and his son, David. He died at the age of

Bulgaria’s security services recently thwarted a planned terror attack against Israeli tourists in the capital Sofia, it was published on Sunday. According to reports, the Bulgarians were able to locate

Hamas’ Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, promised “difficult days” for Israel on Sunday, AFP reported. Speaking at a rally in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Haniyeh urged Arab Spring revolutionaries

Iran has the ability to temporarily block the Strait of Hormuz but the U.S. “would take action and reopen” it, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Martin Dempsey said Sunday,

Iran has again threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, this time using the excuse of a military exercise set for January 27. According to Esmaeil Kowsari, a Iranian legislator

  MK Rav Menachem Moses of United Torah Judaism voiced opposition Sunday to attempts to tear down the Ulpena Neighborhood of Beit El. MK Moses, who is also Deputy Education

Iran’s underground uranium enrichment plant will go into operation “in the near future,” regime officials claim. “The Fordow nuclear enrichment plant will be operational in the near future … 20%,

The Arab League is meeting in Cairo to decide whether it’s time to invite the United Nations to join its mission to Syria, after repeatedly having to increase its monitor

A Dubai fitness center has pulled an ad that featured train tracks to the Auschwitz death camp and the slogan,” Kiss your calories goodbye.” Phil Parkinson, manager of the Circuit

At least 11 people died early Sunday in clashes between government forces and army defectors in the province of Dera’a. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the

Border Police Sunday morning foiled large-scale terrorist attacks by Palestinian Authority Arabs who carried pipe bombs and an 8-inch commando knife when they were searched at a security fence checkpoint

Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, who fought German soldiers in WW II and later thought about converting to Judaism, led a three-Senator delegation to Israel Sunday, starting off with a meeting

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has just completed a trip to Iran. He is trying to cool down two crises. The first is the escalating talk of war and sanctions

  The Iranian Foreign Ministry thanked the United States on Saturday after an American Navy destroyer rescued 13 of its fishermen from Somali priates. U.S. officials had announced Friday the fishermen

Is Google supporting the revolution in Syria? The answer is yes, according to a report on a Syrian website on Saturday. The website, Damas Post, said that Google Earth has

The rate of IDF combat service by Jewish youth in Judea and Samaria – ‘settlers’ in mainstream media language – is 60 percent higher than the countrywide rate. Last month’s

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood denied on Saturday that it plans to uphold the peace treaty that was signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979, Channel 10 News reported. According to the

Despite the recent reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, tensions are continuing and on Saturday, Hamas denied a delegation of senior Fatah officials entry to Gaza. “When we wanted to enter

Hackers who attempt to attack Israel in cyberspace will be met with a “forceful response,” warned Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Saturday — one comparable to the response meted

Six suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of the leader of the Christian community in Jaffa (Yafo), Gabriel Cadis. The chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association

  The New York-based Anti-Defamation League issued a friendly reminder to GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum Friday that Americans prefer to maintain their separation of church and state — even

A top Syrian Air Force colonel defected to the opposition along with dozens of other Syrian Army soldiers, Arab media reported Saturday. According to the report by the pan-Arab satellite

  Four Jews were injured on the Sabbath by Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists who hurled rocks at them in the Samaria neighborhood of Givat Ronen. The Arabs climbed to the

Despite recent tensions between Iran and the United States, the U.S. Navy announced on Friday it had rescued 13 Iranian fishermen being held by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea.

A Hamas official slammed Jordan’s King Abdullah on Thursday and said his fate will be similar to that of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Mustafa Sawaf, editor-in-chief of the Gaza-based,

At least 25 people were killed in Damascus on Friday, after a bomb exploded at a busy intersection, The Associated Press reported. Dozens were wounded in the attack, the report

An Israeli blogger claimed on Friday that he was able to figure out the identity of the Saudi hacker who exposed the credit card numbers and information of thousands of

Iraq’s security situation continues to worsen in the wake of the Obama administration’s pullout of US forces. A coordinated wave of bombings targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least 78 people

Turkey’s former military chief was arrested Friday for allegedly “attempting to destabilize” Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government via the Internet, Ankara’s state-run Andolu Agency reported. An arrest warrant was issued against Gen. Ilker

US State Department Victora Nuland told reporters Thursday that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood had assured Washington it would uphold extant diplomatic accords, including the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty signed by Anwar