New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie, after meeting with Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren Monday, said he will make his first official visit to Israel in the spring. He likely

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that “a Jewish state has no meaning because a state is neither Jewish nor Catholic.” He made the same remark several times this week in

Act II of the European Summit is going to take place on Wednesday (Act I concluded on Sunday), when the world will see whether the hints about “progress” in stanching the

Sen. John McCain says NATO might have to move from Libya to Israel’s back yard in Syria now that Qaddafi is gone. “Now that military operations in Libya are ending,

Jason Alexander, better known as George Costanza for his role on the hit television series, “Seinfeld” visited the Israeli Knesset on Monday and joined a discussion in an event hosted

Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday the Obama administration was recalling all training materials used by the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate

Egypt has agreed to free Israeli-U.S. citizen Ilan Grapel, held prisoner in Cairo since June. The dual national is to be released in exchange for 25 Egyptian prisoners being held

Jordanian King Abdullah II told participants at the World Economic Forum this week that Israel must be assured of its security. More than 1,000 people from 50 nations participated in the

President Shimon Peres visited the Shalit residence at Mitzpe Hila in the Galilee Monday and met freed hostage Gilad Shalit and his parents, Aviva and Noam. The Shalits waited for

Mohammed Hassan Khalid, a high school honors student from Pakistan, has been formally charged with helping Colleen LaRose, aka “Jihad Jane,” to kill the Swedish cartoonist who drew a caricature of the Muslim

Kassam rockets will strike metropolitan Tel Aviv if the Palestinian Authority receives an independent state, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Monday. Speaking to media prior to a discussion on Wednesday

Israel’s Jerusalem District Police commander announced the city had returned to normal security levels after being on high alert on Monday. The General Security Services, however, are continuing their to pursue

According to reports in Israel’s Hebrew-language media, the IDF is expected to recommend Israel make ‘gestures’ to the Palestinian Authority in order to bolster its stature following last week’s deal

An officer in an elite IDF unit  told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that he and other members of his unit are upset over deal to release Gilad Shalit. Last week, Israel released

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he inaugurated the city’s new Magen David Adom station. The station is named after Bloomberg’s father, the late

A failed suicide bomb terrorist, freed in the trade for Shalit, urges schoolchildren to succeed where she failed and become martyrs. Gaza Arabs jubilantly welcomed 26-year-old Wafa al-Biss along with

Hundreds of IDF officers have signed a petition protesting the use of petitions signed by officers like them for furthering political causes. The officers are angry at a recent document

Israel is ready to provide whatever assistance Turkey needs in light of a deadly earthquake that struck the country Sunday morning, President Shimon Peres has declared. “At this difficult time,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. In his remarks, Netanyahu addressed last week’s return of Gilad Shalit, as well as the

A makeshift memorial to a young father and son murdered by Palestinian Authority terrorists was defaced overnight. The memorial was covered with Arabic writing, and with a picture of a

Egypt sees reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah as a “top priority,” Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Yasser Othman said Sunday. Egypt brokered a deal between the rival groups, but

The largest Jewish community in Samaria, Ariel, has a population of 20,000 – but this number increased by about 50% Sunday as 12,000 students from all over Israel began their

Gaza continues to receive hundreds of tons of humanitarian goods via Israel’s land crossings each month — even as de facto Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh allocates thousands of dollars

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu received a pleasant surprise at work on Sunday – a birthday party complete with a cake and candles. His wife and children appeared in his office

An Egyptian man has been jailed for three years with hard labor, for insulting Islam in posts made on his personal Facebook page. The verdict has caused concern among those

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is recommending that Israel not set into law its terms for negotiating with terrorists. The MK said Sunday that subjecting such terms to a law would

The nation whose “Jasmine Revolution” launched the Arab Spring in the Middle East is holding its first free national elections. The polls come less than a year after a desperate

Border Police foiled a possibly fatal terrorist attack at the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hevron Sunday morning and arrested the young knife-wielding attacker. The terrorist was carrying a 6-inch long knife

“Many people” were killed in a powerful earthquake that struck eastern Turkey Sunday morning, according to a local mayor “There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed; there is

An IDF reservists’ group called “My Israel” is calling on soldiers to sign a petition not to participate in future terrorist swaps that would free murderers with blood on their