Hizbullah has canceled leaves and is preparing for war, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah. “Hizbullah cancelled the vacations of all its militants, summoned thousands of its members and gave

A Jewish collector of Israeli art, determined to ensure the treasure would not get lost in what he referred to as “the ghetto,” has donated his collection to the American

France has ruled out the military option in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe warned Monday that such a move send events into “an uncontrollable

Tunisia’s final election results confirmed the victory of a once-banned Islamist party, the country’s election commission said Monday. According to the Associated Press, the final results for the Oct. 23

After the embarrassing incident in which he was caught calling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a ‘liar’, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is doing some damage control. Sarkozy, who sent a condolence

The Judea Regional Brigade of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division held an educational program for all its commanders and medical teams on Monday, in preparation for a terror attack

Mark Langfan, the American-Israel Security 3D-Map topographer, and this year’s co-recipient of the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award at the upcoming Zionist Organization of America dinner along with his father William, has offered

For the second year in a row, a group of American wounded soldiers toured Israel on bikes with the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP). The ten-day “Soldier Ride” took them from

Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad said Monday he will not be used as a pretext for avoiding reconciliation between Fatah and the Hamas terror organization. “It is time to

Envoys from the Quartet for Middle East Peace made no headway in restarting moribund peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after separate meetings Monday, Reuters reports. “Envoys continued

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that Israel would be happy to lift its blockade on Hamas-run Gaza if France would pull its weight – by sending in the Foreign

The large Chabad-Lubavitch community in France lost an icon Monday with the passing of its first and most important female leader, Rebetzin Bassie Azimov. Described as Chabad’s “head shlucha (female emissary) of

Amir Kahanovich, chief economist at Clal Finance, one of Israel’s largest brokerage houses, says a sharp rise in the price of oil, the costs of war and the damage to

On Monday, Jordan’s King Abdullah II publicly called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, becoming the first Arab leader to call for his neighbor’s resignation. Abdullah told the

The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved two bills that aim to limit foreign funding for political NGO’s in Israel on Sunday. One bill would cap donations from foreign governments’

Moody’s Investors Service warned Monday that the failure of the Hizbullah-dominated government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon could lead to international sanctions on

Iran has rejected claims a terrorist cell busted by Qatar and Bahrain had links with the Revolutionary Guards or the Basij paramilitary militia. The denial comes on the heels of

Kenya’s prime minister, visiting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, asks Israel to help his country get rid of Al Qaeda terrorists. Kenya’s soldiers have crossed into Somalia

Iran, worried by possible sabotage or an attack at the hands of Israel, has raised to five years the jail term for the crime of visiting Israel. State television reported

Israel paid Syrian President Bashar Assad’s grand-uncle $100 million for the Golan Heights before the Six-Day War in 1967, says a former close friend to assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

Israel’s cabinet voted Monday to maintain its freeze on tax revenue transfers to the Palestinian Authority. The decision was taken contrary to recent reports the two-week freeze would be short-lived

A Palestinian Authority TV program recently stated that the rain in Jerusalem washes away the impurity of the footsteps of Jews on behalf of Muslims who come to pray in

“Mossad,” the Israeli international intelligence agency, was behind Saturday’s explosion at a missile base next to Tehran, in the estimation of an official Western intelligence source cited by TIME magazine

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the Knesset Monday that talk about Jordan as the Palestinian state works against Israeli interests and “contradicts reality.” “The statement that Jordan is Palestinian is

IDF forces paid visits Sunday to the homes of seven of the terrorists who were freed in the Shalit deal, according to a report in the Palestinian Authority (PA) based

Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi, Head of Israeli Central Command and Colonel Guy Hazut, commander of the IDF’s Judea Brigade, came on Sunday to the home of Rabbi Dan Mertzbach from Otniel who

Vandals threw a firecracker on Sunday night at the home of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto in Ashdod. The firecracker exploded in the rabbi’s yard. No one was hurt in the incident,

On November 9, five US Congressmen ventured into otherwise uncharted territory, at least by the standards of traditional diplomatic delegations to Israel. A strong affinity to Israel and genuine frustration

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Konstantin Grishchenko, visited the Kotel (Western Wall) on Sunday. He was accompanied by Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Reuven Dinel, and Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel, Hennadii Nadolenko. The

Iran said on Sunday it had detected Duqu, a computer virus that experts say is based on Stuxnet, the virus that hit the Islamic Republic’s computers last year. “We are