The week after Hanukkah, downtown Jerusalem was pretty much deserted. Between the tough security situation and the onset of winter, Jerusalemites have begun to head out less than usual, at

Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar who murdered four Israelis, including four-year-old Einat Haran by repeatedly smashing her head with his rifle butt, is the newest hero among Palestinian Arabs. Kuntar was

Former Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal was brought in for investigation under warning on Thursday by police, on suspicions that he sexually harassed several women. Magal’s lawyers Oded Gazit and

Turkish defense sources revealed on Thursday that Ankara is interested in a rapprochement agreement with Israel not only so as to buy natural gas from the Jewish state – but

Veteran educator Sarah Eliash minced no words in an interview with Arutz Sheva, regarding the video of extremists waving guns and knives at a wedding, and holding up what is

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels advanced Thursday against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria’s north in a new offensive backed by US-led air strikes, its spokesman said.

Originally printed by Forward Magazine and then reprinted by the Jewish Press, a report is making the rounds claiming that the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) no longer exists – but it would seem to

We miss our brothers and sisters, and understand their hestiation to come to Israel. But what’s the problem? Simply put, Israel is full of lunatics that enjoy being happy! How come Israel

The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, and politicians from across the spectrum in Israel denounced on Wednesday evening a video broadcast on Channel 10 News in which extremist teens

24 Israelis have been murdered since the current wave of Arab terror began in October, according to updated figures released Wednesday evening by Magen David Adom. This number includes victims

On the basketball court of the Israeli Defense Forces school for Medicine (Training Base 10), there stood an overjoyed Gal and Carole Zamura shoulder to shoulder. Gal had just completed a

Senior Jewish Home officials appear wary of the party’s chances of maintaining its alliance with National Union-Tekuma given the ideological differences between the two factions.  In conversation with Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, Tekuma sources said,

“Israel is under a continuing onslaught of terror,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday evening at the 90th birthday party of former Likud minister Moshe Arens.  “The whole world is

The argument that Islamic State is not Islamic because it mainly murders Muslims doesn’t hold water, says Middle East and Islam specialist Raymond Ibrahim. Raymond Ibrahim, writing for FrontPage Magazine on

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) asserted during a Knesset discussion on anti-IDF NGO Breaking the Silence Wednesday that left-wing incitement on social media has “passed all bounds” in

Activists from the “Jews do not answer Jews” organization staged a presentation-cum-protest in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square this Wednesday afternoon, reenacting the alleged torture of right-wing activists under the supervision

A new book illustrating each one of the 613 commandments according to Maimonides’ count has been published by artist Archie Rand. Rand began working on the original masterwork for the

They are too easily pushed off of center stage and out of our consciousness. We commiserate and empathize with their situations but all too soon, sometimes just a day or

Two of three men injured in the stabbing Wednesday afternoon outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem have succumbed to wounds incurred at the scene. “Despite vigorous efforts to save him, the wounded man

Russia on Wednesday rejected allegations by human rights group Amnesty International that Moscow’s strikes in Syria have causedmassive civilian casualties, saying its report was made up of “cliches and fakes.” “We examined this report,”

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accused watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch of “incitement against the Palestinians and the Palestinian curriculum,” the group revealed Wednesday – for PMW’s work exposing the statements against Israelis

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a special visit to the Knesset Wednesday, as part of his official state visit to Israel.  Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) who opened the session, noted in

MK Yoav Kish (Likud) submitted his controversial “Shatulim” (lit. “planted” – Heb. – ed.) bill on Wednesday in an effort to offer the public more transparency about the funding of Israeli

The two Arab terrorists who stabbed three Israeli civilians outside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon have been identified as a pair of former convicts, both of whom were arrested for terrorism

The IDF’s Northern Command ordered local farmers on Wednesday to avoid standing for long periods near the border fence as well as to keep their distance from the area as best

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tried to defend himself on Tuesday, after the night before he used a Yiddish cuss word against Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton during a rally.

Haredi extremists have long dehumanized haredi IDF soldiers by portraying them as pigs, and some even smeared feces on the door of a haredi soldier in June, but on Tuesday night the

Attorney Ariel Atari, a senior criminal defense attorney, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday that if the admission of one of the Jewish suspects in the lethal Duma arson case was indeed extracted under

Amnesty International said on Wednesday Russian air raids have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria, many in targeted strikes that could constitute war crimes, since beginning nearly three months ago. Some attacks “appear to have

A 16th-century copy of the Talmud sold at auction Tuesday for $9.3 million in New York, a global record for any piece of Judaica, auctioneers Sothebys announced. The extremely rare Babylonian Talmud had been expected