With the Passover holiday on Saturday, known as the spring festival, Israel appears to have fully entered spring weather as a heat wave is set to make a visit on

Masked and armed Hamas terrorists were received with ululations of joy at the mourners tent set up for terrorist Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, who last Monday conducted a bus bombing

A first volume released under a groundbreaking project to translate the Talmud into Italian has become an unexpected bestseller, its publisher said on Friday. A first print run of 2,000

Arutz Sheva’s Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com at this time in honor of the Sabbath and the Passover holiday. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 18:55

The United States is buying 32 metric tons of Iranian heavy water, a key component for one kind of nuclear reactor, The Associated Press reported on Friday. The purpose of

This week’s show is packed with the news behind the news. Walter talks about what bothers the EU and the folly of the IDF to always only react; he discusses political

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday issued a greeting to the Jewish people for the holiday of Passover, which begins Friday at sundown. “Michelle and I send our best wishes

Jewish student leaders in Britain on Friday called on the National Union of Students’ (NUS) newly elected president to go further to address their concerns over her alleged anti-Semitism, The

UN-brokered talks aimed at ending Syria’s brutal conflict will push ahead until April 27, despite the departure of the main opposition group, negotiators said Friday, according to the AFP news

The UN Climate Summit in New York on Friday turned into a diplomatic battleground between the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) representatives.  The incident began when PA chairman Mahmoud

As part of Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon’s ongoing battle to improve Israel’s image at the United Nations, he hosted on Friday the first ever Passover Seder at the UN. 

A group of American lawmakers have introduced the Preventing Iran’s Access to United States Dollars Act of 2016 (H.R. 4995), which would prohibit President Obama from providing Iran direct or

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, on Friday gave a special message to Arutz Sheva readers ahead of the Passover holiday that begins on Friday night. Rabbi Lau hailed the

Russia on Friday denied reports in Israeli media, according to which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting on Thursday was meant to discuss an aerial incident

The Pentagon has allowed for more civilian casualties in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS), USAToday reports Friday, with targets of up to 10 risked civilian casualties allowed.  Defense department and other

Fear of US repercussions has been keeping many European business from making deals with Iran, the New York Times reported Thursday – both due to continued US sanctions on the Islamic Republic

In response to heated Cabinet discussions on negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) on an IDF withdrawal from Area A in Judea and Samaria, Women in Green activists went out

Air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods in Syria’s second city Aleppo on Friday killed at least 14 civilians and wounded more than a dozen others, the local civil defense told AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Najim Laachraoui, one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers, has been identified by several Frenchmen held hostage by Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria as one of their prison guards, sources close to the investigation

IDF sergeant Elor Azariya, the Kfir Brigade soldier who last month shot a wounded Arab terrorist in Hevron and currently is on trial for manslaughter, was released from his open

Rinat Gelman, the widow of IDF captain Eliyav Gelman who was killed by friendly fire as he fought to stop an attacking Arab terrorist on February 24, gave birth to

Fifteen-year-old Eden Dadon was anxiously awaiting the performance in Israel of Lali Esposito, an internationally famous Argentine actress and singer – but then she was seriously wounded in the Hamas

Conservative Jews of all origins will eat legumes (kitniyot) on Passover for the first time this year, following two separate rulings repealing the 800-year-old ban from Ashkenazic custom. In December 2015,

North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Un has chosen to hold a competition on state TV to find the nation’s top cooks a la “Master Chef,” even as two-thirds of his country’s

The Yarok Achshav (lit. “Green now” – ed.) organization has called on Israelis to be careful while burning their chametz (leavened goods) Friday, and to remove all plastic bags and packaging from

President Reuven Rivlin met Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at his residence Friday, after the latter’s return from Russia where he met President Vladimir Putin a day before. “This is an opportunity

Israel Police arrested two Israeli Jews in Jerusalem on Friday morning, as they carried a young goat up to the Temple Mount.  They were arrested on account of “behavior which

A gag order has been lifted on the identity of the fatality in a horrific bus crash in Haifa Thursday night, with the 20-something fatality now revealed to be 17-year-old

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, the longtime inspector of matzah (unleavened bread for Passover) for the kosher foods company Manischewitz, has sued the company for firing him after he criticized a lapse in

The head of the IDF’s Home Front Command, Yoel Strick, on Thursday night issued administrative orders against several nationalist activists including Raphael Morris, head of the Returning to the Mount