According to Mako, Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev has sent a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelbilt, petitioning him to withhold governmental aid to large movie-house Tel Aviv

A video circulated on social media Tuesday depicts rebel fighters beheading a boy after capturing him north of Syria’s second city Aleppo, a monitor said. The video shows the boy

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of suspected dissidents from Turkish society continues apace, and has now been expanded to include teachers, university deans, civil servants and media. Erdogan’s government

Prosecutors have filed charges against 46-year-old Sason Tuina for threatening a judge. In March 2015, Tuina was found guilty of threats, possessing a knife and behavior that could threaten public

A fire burned a home Wednesday in a Palestinian Arab village where an arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists a year ago killed a toddler and his parents, residents and

Police and detectives on Wednesday morning visited the family of Yishai Shlissel, who murdered one person and wounded several others in a stabbing attack at last year’s Jerusalem Pride Parade.

(AFP) With jihadist attacks proliferating around the world, the United States has reassembled its coalition partners for meetings Wednesday and Thursday to review a two-year-old war that has so far

Iran’s influential parliament speaker hit out at Washington Wednesday, accusing it of disrupting implementation of last year’s landmark nuclear deal and failing in the fight against ISIS. Ali Larijani, a

The Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, has released a video slamming the Palestinian Authority for building a monument to honor the terrorist who planted a bomb which killed

As the number of haredim serving in the IDF steadily rises, many of them find themselves facing challenges and opposition, sometimes extreme, from home. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned the

The Police Spokesman’s Office announced today (Wednesday) that a man has been arrested after he threatened in a letter to commit suicide due to distress over the gay pride parade

United States Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Paris this week for talks with Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas on peace prospects with Israel, the State Department

The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix has taken over ownership of the metropolitan area’s Jewish News. Under an agreement signed last Friday, the newspaper, which has been an independently

North Korea says its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on American targets in South Korea and were personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un,

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump narrowed his deficit to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to 7 percentage points from 15 points late last week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday finds.

The rector of a Brazilian federal university apologized to the Jewish community over a public notice seeking to hire a “racial-ethnic relations” educator required to teach Zionism as a racist

Manuel (Manny) Batshaw, who was considered “the architect of Montreal’s Jewish community,” has died at 101. Batshaw, who died Monday, won praise for his work over the past nearly half

The mayor of a Polish town where locals killed and buried hundreds of Jews added his voice to a growing chorus of officials seeking to exhume the bodies from a

State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday acknowledged that the public was kept in the dark about a side deal of the Iran nuclear agreement that would lift some of

Argentine Jewish leaders called on the country’s government to make the investigation of the AMIA Jewish center bombing a “national priority” at a ceremony commemorating the attack that killed 85

A military court in Gaza on Tuesday sentenced three local residents to death after they were convicted of providing information to Israel’s security services. The Palestinian Interior Ministry, which is

As the Pokemon Go phenomenon grows, some institutions connected to European Jewry’s darkest hour have taken precautions against it. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum in Poland has banned the

On Tuesday afternoon, the Knesset held a special discussion in commemoration the Second Lebanon War. Many dignitaries, led by President Reuven Rivlin, attended the event along with soldiers who fought

A young haredi woman received a most unwelcome surprise last Thursday, when a planned summer trip to Spain was derailed at the airport by a simple bureaucratic error – one

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) spoke at Tuesday’s Knesset special event in commemoration of the Second Lebanon War. He began by saying that “‘The Second Lebanon War’ quickly developed a

Rabbi Eliezer Berland lost consciousness on Tuesday, following a hearing in Ayalon Prison. His followers reported that the rabbi was evacuated to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in Tel Aviv. Rabbi Berland

Rabbi Eli Sadan, the head of the Bnei David pre-military academy in Eli, spoke with the academy students on Tuesday evening. His co-head, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, was also present. Channel

Culture Minister Miri Regev attacked on Tuesday an announcement by Army Radio that the publicly funded station would be dedicating a program to the nationalist Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish. “It

JTA – Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency rolled out its Israel Advisory Committee last week — no one noticed. Blame the unrelenting news cycle, if you will: July 14

Forces from the IDF’s Arayot Hayarden (lit. the Lions of Jordan) Unit, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and the Israel Police on Tuesday night seized weapons that were smuggled