Israeli Jews are significantly healthier than Israeli Arabs both physically and emotionally, a Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) study released on Wednesday reveals. The CBS polled 200 experts from government ministries, the

Fringe nationalist groups are resurgent in Germany in the wake of the ongoing refugee migrant crisis facing Europe. But while the migrants in question are predominantly Muslim and virtually all

While Israeli Jews have in recent years given strong backing to Republican presidential candidates over their Democratic rivals, that may be about to change in 2016. In 2004 the Tel

The family of Muhannad Halabi, the Arab terrorist who murdered two Israelis in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in early October, bought a new villa north of Ramallah in

Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Oren Hazan (Likud) responded on Wednesday to the news that the family of Muhannad Halabi, an Arab terrorist who murdered two Israelis last October, has purchased

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has reached a temporary resolution with senior sources in the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to which the PA will transfer 20 million shekels (over $5.2

Security Cabinet ministers are to receive an update on Wednesday on the formerly secret talks between Israeli representatives and the Palestinian Authority (PA), regarding the PA demand to remove IDF

A Syrian fighter who appeared in a gruesome video cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it has been shot dead by rival rebels, a monitoring group said. Known by

If you’re an Israeli business looking to gain ground in the U.S. market, a whole new window of opportunity is open.  The 2016 J-Biz Expo, which will take place on June

A Florida teenager accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi in Florida can remain out of jail on bail through the end of his murder trial, a judge ruled. Prosecutors did

The national Pesach tennis tournament of the Israel Tennis Centers (ITC) is to be held from April 14 to 21, and during the event the very first annual Anna Michael

The parole committee on Wednesday rejected the request of former President Moshe Katzav, who asked to reduce by a third his seven-year sentence for two charges of rape and sexual crimes.

The former principal of a Jewish day school in Melbourne is being sued by one of her alleged victims. The lawsuit filed last week against Malka Leifer in Victoria’s Supreme

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has pulled into a statistical dead heat with front-runner Donald Trump, a new Reuters/Ipsos national poll showed on Tuesday. Cruz’s gains mark the first time

The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Tuesday met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow as he looked to lay the groundwork for peace talks expected

Arutz Sheva was on hand as emergency personnel participated on Monday in a drill simulating a tsunami wave, meant to raise public awareness and practice appropriate and effective responses in

CNN is projecting that Ted Cruz will win the Republican primary in Wisconsin, while Bernie Sanders is holding a lead on the Democratic side. Sanders is hoping to pull off

Senior Republican lawmaker John McCain warned Tuesday that the United States-led coalition is headed for “slow, grinding failure” unless it scales up the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group

The Obama administration on Tuesday designated Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect of last November’s terror attacks in Paris as a “global terrorist,” The Hill reported. The decision means that

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he is ready to work with Israel to stop the “mutual incitement” between the sides, the Ma’ariv newspaper reports. Abbas

The United States military is considering pulling troops from a base in the northeastern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the increasing threat from Islamic State (ISIS) group

A Syrian rebel group allied with Al Qaeda said it had downed a warplane over northern Syria on Tuesday, with the pilot reportedly captured. In a statement on Twitter, Ahrar

(JTA) After three firebombs hit the synagogue of this poor and heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its profile. Like dozens of

The military court on the Kirya army base in Tel Aviv denied the prosecution’s request regarding the remand of the IDF soldier who shot a seemingly neutralized terrorist dead in

The New York Observer said its editor would no longer consult with the campaign of Donald Trump, whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns the weekly. The statement Tuesday, reported Monday by

A Scottish college student was accused of violating “safe space” rules and told she risked being expelled from a meeting after she spoke out against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Belgium’s Defense Ministry denied reports that some soldiers had guarded synagogues in Brussels without ammunition in their rifles. The denial last week by the ministry’s press department came in response

Czech and Jewish community officials on Tuesday signed a memorandum to boost the security in and around Jewish institutions due to increased concern over global terrorism.   “The problem in