Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino Islamist jihadi group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS), beheaded a hostage from Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Monday. John Ridsdel, an ex-journalist

A court in Poland on Monday dismissed a case brought by a Holocaust survivor who was held at Auschwitz against a German broadcaster that described Nazi death camps as “Polish.” In summer 2013, Germany’s ZDF

Oil has fueled the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the past 84 years and turned what was previously a strategically negligible desert wasteland into one of the

At a facility in Judea of UNRWA, the UN body tasked with caring for “Palestinian refugees,” a festive ceremony was held on Monday honoring Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, the 19-year-old

By a huge four-fifths majority, the US Senate signed on to a joint letter pressing US President Barack Obama to hurry and settle a new defense aid package to Israel,

While neither party has settled on a nominee, and with the Republican nomination process still very much in the air, Israelis are certain about one thing – the next President

Large firefighting forces were dispatched on Monday to put out a blaze in Biriya Forest, located to the north of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), even as other crews fought

US President Barack Obama said on Monday at a trade fair in Hannover, Germany, that this is the most “peaceful and prosperous era in human history.” Obama’s comments came during

While the United States, United Nations, European Union, and other prominent international bodies have expressed confidence in the ability of a negotiated settlement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, a new

Israel responded Monday afternoon to recent claims made by the Jordanian government, according to which Israeli actions on the Temple Mount were threatening the Al-Aqsa Mosque and harming Arabs on the

In their first interview with Israeli media the family of Hamas terrorist Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, who last Monday blew up a bus in southeastern Jerusalem wounding 15 and killing himself, blamed Israel

The Jewish community in Nigeria celebrated a very special Passover this year. Thanks to a unique collaboration between the local Chabad and the EMI SYSTEMS LTD, Nigerian Security Company owned

The Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) on Monday accused an Arab journalist arrested at the weekend of belonging to a terror group, after colleagues called for international support for his

Nearly 450,000 people visited Israel’s parks and beaches Sunday, on the first day of Chol HaMoed – and Monday’s pleasant weather may see similar turnouts. Skies will be partly cloudy

The Jordanian government warned on Monday that there would be “dangerous consequences” should Israel continue to allow Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount. The announcement came after several hundred

Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal on Sunday to coordinate in future primary contests in an effort to deny front-runner Donald Trump the Republican presidential

Opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog has apologized to Zionist Union MK Arel Margalit, he stated Monday, after Herzog accused him of being behind the corruption allegations brought against the party chairman

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre pledges to rename a street and a park that honor a Nazi sympathizer who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. Alexis Carrel, a pioneering

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) will be the next Prime Minister, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) opined during a Channel 10 interview.  Shaked firmly believes that Bennett will succeed

About 700 followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland demonstrated Monday morning outside the South African embassy in Israel in Ramat Gan calling for the release of their leader who is wanted

Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall (Kotel) Monday morning, for the annual and traditional Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing) ceremony in honor of Chol HaMoed Pesach (Passover).  Congregants then said

As always, Arutz Sheva presents news highlights from the past 24 hours for all our many readers in the Jewish Diaspora celebrating two days of chag. 12 places you have

The graduate student workers union at New York University (NYU) last Friday voted to support the BDS movement boycotting Israel, and asked that NYU cuts its ties with Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai was in Toronto to meet with the Tel Aviv-Yafo Foundation, his city’s international fundraising arm, according to Canadian Jewish News (CJN). Huldai attended a luncheon

Around a week after Opposition head MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) was questioned under warning by police in a criminal investigation, police intend to recommend to close the case against him according to reports Sunday.

Norbert Hofer of the far-right anti-immigration and eurosceptic Freedom party (FPOe) on Sunday won the first round of votes in Austria’s presidential race by a large margin, in the best result

Israeli race car driver Roy Nissany on Monday finished second place in the Formula One world V8 3.5 Series championship, which took place at rainy Hungaroring in Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian-raised Nissany of the

Radical leftist journalist Amira Hass of Haaretz in the past actively encouraged the Palestinians to reject peace treaties and not to agree to the 1994 Oslo Accords, according to a Palestinian journalist.

Deputy Leader of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Kamal Khatib repeatedly accused the Israeli government of trying to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, in a common incitement