Israeli authorities arrested on Thursday two Palestinians who tried to stab IDF soldiers in Samaria, the army said, adding that one of them was shot and wounded. The suspects carrying knives approached

As the annual Eurovision Song Contest approaches, the Stockholm theater hosting the event has published the rules about waving flags, and enumerated several flags that will be forbidden. Flags with commercial messages,

JTA — A Dutch Christian organization is planning to sail a “replica” of Noah’s Ark to reach Brazil during the Summer Olympics and the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

JTA — Swastikas were spray-painted at a park and an elementary school in a Washington, D.C., suburb with a large Jewish population. The swastikas were discovered Sunday in Rockville, Maryland,

As Passover and Shabbat end tonight, people across Israel are celebrating Mimouna. Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel (Likud) is taking part in the festival at the Dahan home in Yavne,

(JTA) — Polish clergy and researchers will hold a seminar in Kielce about a historically significant pogrom in which locals killed Holocaust survivors in that city 70 years ago. Occurring

On Thursday, police in Italy released arrest warrants for six people for planning to join ISIS, Reuters reports. Three of the suspects reportedly wanted to carry out attacks on the Israeli

Two Bedouin students from the village of Rahat were released on Saturday night, after they had been kidnapped in Turkey. Reshet Bet reports that their families were asked to pay ransom for

(JTA) — Nearly 500 people attended the first Jewish film festival of Casablanca, which was organized in the Moroccan city by a Sephardic Jewish woman from Atlanta. The three-day event,

The Kinneret Authority reported that since the beginning of the Passover holiday, approximately 500,000 tourists visited the beaches of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).   With that, nearly 300 tons

Jerusalem on Thursday responded to the looming French peace initiative, which is to involve an international effort forcing peace talks on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). As part of the

Doctors Without Borders condemned Thursday the “outrageous” air strike on a hospital it was supporting in the war-torn northern Syrian city of Aleppo, where doctors were among those killed. Local rescue workers said the overnight

An horrific children’s play in which a seven-year-old Palestinian girl “stabbed Jews” took place at a recent event partly funded by Interpal, a UK charity supported by Labour party head Jeremy Corbyn

North Korea fired a medium range missile in a test on Thursday that failed spectacularly, marking the second such failure in two weeks during tests of the Musudan missile. A South

Johannesburg’s Randburg Magistrates Court ruled on Thursday that Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is wanted in Israel on suspicions of multiple cases of sexual assault, will remain in prison until a decision regarding

(JTA) I was feeling nervous about coming to Brussels for seder with my family. Making the 130-mile trip there from my home in Amsterdam meant taking my 5-month-old son on

(JTA) A civil trial focused on control of the $500 million Koret Foundation is pitting its founder’s widow, Susan Koret, against its former president and current board member, Tad Taube.

In honor of the last day of Passover in Israel – which starts Thursday evening – Arutz Sheva will be going offline, and returning on Saturday evening with the end

After a heat wave hit Israel during Chol HaMoed (the Intermediate Days of Passover), the weather is expected to cool down, especially for cities in the mountainous regions. Tonight, as the

In what has become a yearly tradition at the holy site, hundreds of Jewish worshipers packed the Cave of the Patriarchs (also known as the Cave of Machpela) in Hevron for

It appears to be the end for the Bernie Sanders campaign. While the Vermont Senator is not formally withdrawing from the race, his campaign’s recently announcement “reassessment” appears to signal

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he plans to lay off “hundreds” of campaign staffers throughout the country a day after winning just one of five primaries on Tuesday. Sanders,

A three-year-old child was injured on Wednesday during a BBQ accident at the Mayan Tzvi Fishing Park in Zichron Yaakov. The boy suffered burns all over his body. United Hatzalah

Yitzhak Geniram, one of the founders of the post-1967 Jewish community in Hevron and a member of the Jewish underground in the 1980s, passed away Wednesday night. Geniram was also

A freedom-of-the-press watchdog cited the Sheldon Adelson-owned Israel Hayom daily in downgrading Israel’s status from “free” to “partly free.” “Israel declined due to the growing impact of Israel Hayom, whose

This week marked the 96th anniversary of the first international recognition of Jewish national rights in the Land of Israel – namely, the San Remo Conference. The San Remo Conference was an international

On Thursday, a Hainan Airlines flight landed in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, marking the first commercial Chinese flight to Israel. The plane’s arrival was welcomed by state ceremony at the

Hundreds of Jewish worshipers prayed at Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem on Wednesday night, defying Muslim violence at the holy site. The Jewish pilgrims were accompanied by a heavy IDF security

Anti-Semitism is on the rise again, said Secretary of State John Kerry, and the US is reaching out to Jewish communities across Europe suffering from harassment and hate crimes. Speaking

Belgium extradited Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam to France on Wednesday, causing a media frenzy after his own lawyer called him a “moron.”  Abdeslam, 26, was one of four terrorists who