Brandon Astor Jones, 72, was executed on Wednesday in the state of Georgia, after being sentenced to the death penalty a full 36 years ago. Jones, together with Van Roosevelt

Three life sentences have been handed out to the terrorist Bilal Abu Ganam who murdered three innocent civilians in a terror attack that took place in the Jerusalem neighborhood of

The city of Homs in western Syria has been wracked by years of conflict, having stood at the epicenter of the uprising and subsequent civil war against dictator Bashar al-Assad.

An historical moment of note took place on Wednesday in the IDF: the first commando brigade training session came to a close. The training session was conducted over four consecutive

Two female border police officers aged 19 and 20 have been seriously wounded in a shooting attack close to Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. Both officers have been evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah

A bill that would make it easier to dismiss a Deputy Knesset Speaker due to inappropriate behavior suffered a setback on Tuesday when the Knesset rejected its first reading. The

The FBI has launched a Facebook page in Farsi to solicit tips on the whereabouts of former agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran nine years ago, AP reported

The UN’s special envoy on Tuesday warned that all hope to resolve Syria’s civil war would be lost if the latest attempt at peace talks failed, after the opposition said

Iran has no problem with American companies investing in its economy and creating joint ventures, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The comments came as Rouhani called

Peace agreement notwithstanding, Israeli culture symbols are apparently still not welcome in Egypt. An Egyptian parliamentarian is demanding that his government investigate how an Israeli book was allowed into an

The damage to farmers across Israel due to the stormy conditions and frost from last week is upwards of 14 million shekels (just over $3.5 million). The number was reported

The religious leadership of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has expressed fierce opposition to the new decision of the Israeli government to expand the non-Orthodox mixed prayer section of the Western Wall

As part of operations to destroy Hamas smuggling tunnels from Gaza, Egyptian security forces recently found a large rigged tunnel in northern Sinai. An Egyptian security source revealed the find,

A new poll has found that just under half of the Jewish public in Israel supports the annexation of Judea and Samaria, indicating that the notion of establishing a Palestinian state in

MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), Chairperson of the Knesset Lobby for Students and Higher Education, told Arutz Sheva during an interview that Israel fell asleep on the job with respect to

A member of Hamas’s “military arm,” the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, has died after an underground tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip Tuesday. The terrorist was identified by Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV

After the intensely spiritual experience of the Sinai Revelation that we read about in last week’s Torah portion of Yitro, this week’s Parashat Mishpatim serves to ground us and instructs

Police are leaning towards recommending the criminal investigation against former Interior Minister Silvan Shalom be closed, according to Channel 10. Shalom resigned as a minister and as a Likud party

All around the world, parents and Jewish teens seek to balance the need for an affordable quality education and the desire for Jewish expression. Jewish parents look for ways to

Syria’s Red Crescent on Tuesday delivered aid to a town under government siege outside the capital Damascus, aid workers and a monitor said, according to AFP. “The Syrian Arab Red

Hamas on Tuesday claimed that it arrested an intelligence agent who had provided information to Israel for 14 years. A website affiliated with Hamas’s internal security agencies in Gaza claimed

Secretary of State John Kerry will announce “significant new contributions to support relief efforts” for Syrian refugees later this week, the White House said on Tuesday, according to the Reuters

A top UN official said on Tuesday he was “alarmed” by the condition of a Palestinian Arab journalist on hunger strike in Israel over his detention without trial, AFP reports.

Transform your identity as an addict to a leader by changing your story. Esther is a food addict. She has created a story in her mind, and depending on the

An Israeli court on Tuesday postponed a hearing to determine whether the leader of a Jewish gang that burned a Palestinian teenager alive is sufficiently sane to be held responsible.

With an unusual choice of language, US Secretary of State John Kerry waded into Islamic theological debate on Tuesday when he branded the Islamic State terror group “apostates.”   The

Discoveries in an Israeli cave dating back 200,000 years show that early humans ate turtles alongside plants and large game animals, the Tel Aviv university said on Tuesday.   Turtle

A few days ago, the Police Department’s 100 emergency hotline received a report that a Mercedes truck was stolen in Ashkelon. According to GPS settings, the truck had departed Ashkelon and

An eight-year-old girl collapsed and died in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Atta, apparently after breathing in helium from a balloon. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics were called to