With Gilad Shalit and Ilan Grapel freed from the clutches of their Hamas and Egyptian captors respectively, attention is now turning to yet another Israeli in prison in Egypt – 

Meir Indor, Head of the Almagor Terror Victims’ organization, criticized on Wednesday the deal Israel signed with Egypt to free Ilan Grapel. Indor told Arutz Sheva that by agreeing to

While Israel has made numerous – so far unsuccessful – attempts to persuade the Palestinian Authority to temper its anti-Israel school curriculum, which essentially denies Israel’s right to exist and

Egyptian security sources say Ilan Grapel won’t be returned to Israel until mid-to-late afternoon. According to a report published on the Arabic-language website of the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Grapel’s

A military vehicle was that was on patrol south of Bethlehem hit a roadside bomb near Khirbet Eliya on Wednesday evening. The bomb exploded, causing damage to the vehicle. The

Saudi Arabia’s controversial Islamist and preacher, Sheikh Awad al Qarni, offered a bounty of $100,000 for the kidnapping of any IDF in ‘Palestine’ who can be used as leverage to

An obscure political action group has started a controversial campaign in Egypt demanding the country’s military ruler, Hussein Tantawi, run for president. “We originally planned to launch the campaign around

Terrorists from Gaza fired a Grad missile towards southern Israel late Wednesday evening. The IDF Spokesperson said that the missile exploded in Ashdod. There were no physical injuries, but several

Ahlam Tamimi,  sentenced to 16 life sentences for her involvement in the “Sbarro” suicide bombing on 9 August 2001 in Jerusalem, says she had no regrets and stressed she would,

The High Court rejected Wednesday evening motions against the deal with Egypt for freeing Israeli anarchist Ilan Grapel, who was arrested when he took part in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

Hani Ressami, who murdered yeshiva student Erez Samuel in Hevron, was released last week as part of a deal with Hamas to exchange 1,027 terrorists for the freedom of kidnapped

Muammar Qaddafi’s son and heir-apparent, Saif al-Islam, has escaped Libya and is reported to be heading for Niger, its southern neighbor. According to Rissa ag Boula, a Nigerian presidential adviser

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is friendly to Jews, but his problem is Zionists – although he says there are only 10,000 of them in the entire world. Speaking

Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair headed a delegation that is holding separate meetings with  Palestinian Authority and Israeli officials in what seems an impossible mission to bring the two

The Foreign Ministry Wednesday issued a situation assessment to Israeli embassies worldwide that lambasts Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) and says that an agreement between Israel

The temperature in the province of Van in eastern Turkey is falling, and snow is predicted. Search and rescue teams are rapidly being transformed into recovery units, as officials begin

Benny Katzover, Chairman of the Shomron (Samaria) Residents Committee, welcomed on Tuesday the appointment of Hagai Mordechai to the position of Commander of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division. Mordechai

The Chinese government will help Israel build an extension of its railway from Nahal Tzin to the southern city of Eilat. A memorandum of understanding is soon to be signed

European Jews have begun voting for the first-ever European Jewish Parliament, which will comprise 120 members, as in the Knesset. More than 1,000 candidates have registered for the parliament, which

A chartered Boeing 747 packed with supplies is being sent by Israel’s Defense Ministry to eastern Turkey’s disaster zone following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Van province, killing

Egypt is set to release US-Israeli citizen Ilan Grapel Thursday morning at the Taba crossing. He is expected to be returned to Israel at 9:00 a.m., in exchange for 22

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s new memoir sheds some light on the groundbreaking offer made by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas

Foreign and Israeli anarchists are helping terrorists to gather intelligence, Yehudah Hendler of Esh Kodesh said in an interview with Arutz Sheva. The anarchists, he said, help Arabs from Palestinian

The Dun Bradstreet financial company lavishes praise on Israel’s top leaders. It names Rami Levy as well as some more unfamiliar people. “History will reveal that, especially in these times,

The IDF’s Ashdod-based Navy unit deals with terrorist activity on a daily basis, security reconnaissance commander “D” said in the military’s Mahane magazine. .The routine security reconnaissance company of the

A group of hackers Swedish hackers calling themselves the “telecommutist cluster” say they raided the Syrian government telecommunications agency and learned it is using US technology to control Internet access,

The US State Department paid Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati a unannounced late-night visit after Hizbullah arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah on Monday publicly declared his March 8 coalition allies would ensure

Israel has agreed to release 28 prisoners out of the 81 Egyptians in its jails for alleged Israeli spy, Ilan Grapel. Israel has stated that none of the prisoners are

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks Monday criticizing Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas were “deeply troubling,” according to UN spokesman Richard Miron. Miron, spokesman for UN Special Envoy for the