Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett has taken aim at controversial comments by one of his own party’s MKs, who spoke in support of separate rooms in maternity wards for Jewish
In a culinary first, a British Jewish celebrity chef created English dishes, including a bacon sandwich, for consumption in space. Heston Blumenthal spent two years preparing the dishes for the
(JTA) Six years after a White House religious advisory panel grappled with how the government should fund faith groups, its recommendations are being implemented. The Orthodox Union on March 31 praised
David Keyes, Prime Minister Binyamn Netanyahu’s new spokesperson, has been accused of sexual assault, Army Radio reports. The accusation came in the form of a Facebook post which was quickly
During a hearing on the IDF soldier who shot a neutralized terrorist on Tuesday, military judge Brigadier General Doron Piles revealed that the soldier’s platoon commander, who was at the scene,
A Palestinian official on Tuesday denied Israeli charges of syphoning off cement imports to Gaza and warned of a potential “explosion” unless a cement ban is lifted. Earlier, Israel announced it had stopped private
The Civil Administration has destroyed several illegal Arab buildings at the Khirbet Marjam archaeological site, near Kochav Hashachar The site contains archaeological findings from the time of the Bible, as
(JTA) Israel and the United States agreed to enhance energy cooperation between the two countries. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and
A military court has heard testimony for the first time from the soldier who shot dead a wounded terrorist in Hevron, sparking an ongoing controversy and triggering a manslaughter suit
Ancient implements dating back to the Second Temple period has been discovered at Magdala, a 2,000-year-old Jewish town in the Galilee region. The implements – a decorated bronze incense shovel, used for
Two Jewish men in their early twenties sought a novel way of getting round draconian restrictions on Jewish visits to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount: dressing up as Muslims. The pair were stopped
A senior official involved in the investigation against opposition head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) told Channel 10 that the case could soon turn into a criminal investigation. According to the official, mounting
The Kulanu party, which campaigned on economic reforms and lowering the cost of housing, is subtly changing its goals. Rather than lowering the cost of housing in general, it is
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), General Yoav Mordechai, has announced that Israel will freeze its transfer of cement to the private sector in the Gaza Strip.
(JTA) Nine people, Israelis and Palestinians, have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling unsafe meat into Israel from the Palestinian Authority and selling it, with forged kashrut certifications, to Israeli restaurants.
The head of the Israel Bar Association, Efi Naveh, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the left-wing attack on Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home), following her criticism of the Supreme Court on
Numerous maternity wards around Israel separate Jewish and Arab women, even though such a practice is completely forbidden by the Ministry of Health. Reshet B reported Tuesday morning that the
(JTA) Hundreds of Israeli companies and some 850 Israeli shareholders are listed as having offshore accounts in a dump of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers. The 11.5 million
(JTA) A “Game of Thrones” actor added his star power to an elaborate April Fool’s joke by SodaStream. Hafthór “Thor” Björnsson, who stars as giant Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in
The Israel Security Agency (ISA, also known as the Shin Bet or Shabak) has cleared for publication the details about a shooting attack in the Samaria community of El Matan that it prevented.
Israel has told the United Nations that it will suspend private imports of cement in Gaza after some of the supplies were diverted, a UN spokesman said Monday. UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov is working
Croatian Jews said Monday they would boycott a commemoration ceremony for victims of the country’s most notorious World War II death camp, accusing authorities of failing to respond to a revival of pro-Nazi ideology. “Jewish municipalities
Who Really Owns YOUR Credit Card Miles Points? As we mentioned in one of our previous columns, one of the great perks about using credit cards is the ability to
Following yesterday’s knife attack in Rosh Ha’ayin in which a 30-year-old mother of three was wounded, the Arab Israeli suspect’s mother denies the incident was a terror attack, claiming that
The probe into alleged corruption by opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog may turn into a criminal investigation, a senior official involved in the probe told Channel 10 News on Monday.
Negotiating teams from Israel and Turkey will meet on Thursday in Europe in an effort to bridge the remaining gaps standing in the way of a reconciliation agreement between the two
The Pentagon on Monday confirmed it had targeted “senior” Al-Qaeda leader Abu Firas al-Suri and other jihadist fighters in an air strike in Syria, AFP reported. Pentagon press secretary Peter
The family of Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, the terrorist who was shot by a soldier in Hevron last week after a stabbing attack against Israelis, on Monday threatened the IDF with