The government has decided to tackle head-on the alleged “Arab refugees” issue by renewing efforts for compensation for Jewish victims of Arab pogroms . Estimates of property losses range from
Bedouin and other Arabs in the northern Negev are increasingly involved in predatory relationships with young Jewish girls, according to Voice of Israel government-run radio. The relationships sometimes begin as
The official Syrian government news agency SANA claims Israeli Druze in the Golan Heights rallied to “stand by their motherland Syria.” “The people of the occupied Syrian Golan stressed that
Heavy rains in Jerusalem have heavily damaged the President’s House and forced Shimon Peres to take up lodgings in a hotel before arrangements can be completed to move him and
It sounds like one of those diseases that should have been wiped out long ago, but malaria, unfortunately, is alive and well, especially in Africa and other tropical, third world
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that if Hamas joins the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) government, Israel will not be able to negotiate with the PA. Speaking at a conference
Canada has decided to impose new sanctions on Syria, including a ban on the export of software for the monitoring of telephone and internet communications, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird
A senior official in the Hamas terror organization confirmed on Sunday that the organization intends to focus on popular protests in the spirit of the Arab Spring. In conversation with
The Palestinian Authority, considered by many to be a moderate entity which seeks to reach a peace agreement with Israel, is continuing to glorify terror groups that carried out lethal
Israel is set to join France and recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide, according to a report Sunday on Channel 10 News. The report said that the Knesset’s Education Committee will
Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and possibly a submarine were involved in multiple attacks on targets in Sudan last week, according to local news outlets. The reports say that Israeli jets
Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beitenu head Avigdor Lieberman called Sunday for a change of tack regarding peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), and said that peace is not in
The Muslim Brotherhood was the clear victor on Saturday in Egypt’s second round of parliamentary elections. Hardliner Salafists from the al-Nour party followed closely on the Brotherhood’s heels. Abdul Moez Ebrahim
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that swine flu is back, with 12 cases reported by Friday. The most recent case was a child infected with the H3N2 virus
The Israel Antiquities Authority held a special press conference in Jerusalem’s City of David on Sunday to unveil a rare coin from the Second Temple era. The cartouche – or
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered the police and attorney general to take all measures to stop harassment against women – or me, he said at the start of Sunday’s
The United States has posted a $10 million reward for information leading to the location of Syrian-born Al Qaeda terrorist now based in Iran. “Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, more commonly
The United Nations will cut its budget for only the second time in 50 years – by some $260 million dollars. An accord struck at dawn on Saturday by the
The Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for five church bombings in Nigeria on Monday. An explosion at the St. Theresa Roman Catholic church near the Nigerian capital Abuja during Christmas
Israeli experts note a “change in the music” coming from Washington regarding the possibility that the U.S. will attack Iran militarily to prevent its acquiring nuclear weapons. The latest chord
Terrorists fired two Qassam rockets from Gaza at the western Negev on Saturday evening. One rocket exploded in an open area in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council and the other,
War scares are running high in Great Britain, while the British Foreign Ministry is trying to cool down tensions with Argentina. At the same time Britain is attempting to demonstrate
If Russian President Dmitry Medvedev believed that his reform package was going to assuage the protest movement, then the more powerful demonstrations throughout Russia today should have disabused him. The
An Israeli vehicle was fired upon when leaving the community of Maale Shomron in Samaria (Shomron) on Saturday. Maale Shomron is a mixed secular and religious community, which allows driving
Yemen’s elite Republican Guard forces fired rifles, tear gas, and water cannons on over 100,000 marchers on a road leading to the capital of Sanaa, killing at least 9 and
In what some may see as an ironic twist of fate a Hamas security officer who was grabbed by Israeli intelligence in the Sinai and transferred to Eilat three weeks
Israeli forces closed all the entrances to the Arab village of Azzun near Keddumim in Samaria (Shomron) while pursuing a terrorist on Saturday. According to the PA-affiliated and Bethlehem-based Maan News
Security forces in Bahrain stormed the headquarters of the country’s largest opposition party on Friday – firing tear gas and rubber bullets. Police also used tear gas to disperse hundreds
Hizbullah on Saturday blamed the United States for Friday’s twin car bombings in Damascus that killed at least 44 and wounded at least 100, saying Washington was the “mother of
Hamas and Fatah are preparing to release the lion’s share of their respective ‘political prisoners’ by the end of the year. “By the end of the year, all political detainees