The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday against the controversial French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, deciding that freedom of speech did not protect “racist and anti-Semitic performances,” AFP reports.  Dieudonne, as he is commonly known, was

(AFP) French-Jewish philosopher Andre Glucksmann, a former Maoist who veered to the right after condemning the crimes of communism, has died at the age of 78, his son said Tuesday.

The soldier who gained fame when he spoke out against the IDF on a German television program, while wearing the military uniform, is at the center of a new firestorm.

The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)’s 2015 Democracy Index was presented to President Reuven Rivlin Tuesday, the 13th annual report on several topics – including the influence of citizens in government decisions, confidence

Jewish Home Chairman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, said Tuesday that he opposes the idea of a “two state solution,” when asked about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s reported promise in Washington

The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Tuesday passed in a first reading a new law by freshman MK Oren Hazan (Likud), establishing the country’s name as the “State of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly Tuesday, in a speech touching on a number of hot-button topics. Netanyahu began by hailing Israel’s booming economy

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) Tuesday threw his weight behind efforts by left-wing and Arab MKs against Bentzi Gopshtain, head of the Lehava anti-assimilation group, who attended a Knesset meeting earlier

Syrian regime troops on Tuesday broke a more than year-long siege by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group at a major military air base in the northern province of Aleppo.  A group of soldiers broke

The French army has stepped up its bombing campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s oil infrastructure with two new strikes in eastern Syria, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Tuesday. “We struck again

A Border Police officer fought off a knife-wielding rioter with his bare hands Tuesday afternoon, preventing an arrest operation from turning deadly. The incident in question occurred near A-Tira village, near

The British academic who pioneered IVF treatment, Lord Robert Winston, has dismissed academic supporters of the anti-Israel boycott as “mostly second-rate academics from minor universities who have never done anything.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed on Tuesday at a meeting on the Russian defense industry that his country is developing several advanced weapons that are capable of penetrating “any missile defenses.” Putin noted that

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama have started talks in Washington Monday. Speaking at the start of the meeting, Obama told reporters that “the security of

Aryeh Binyamin, the gabbai (administrator) of the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, reacted sharply to the words of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Monday, after the latter called synagogue supporters “thugs” and

A team of Israeli researchers have quantified the full effect of the terror war on Israeli citizens Monday, concluding that anxiety among the Israeli public has more than doubled over

The French army on Sunday bombed an oil supply center held by the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS) in eastern Syria, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday.   “We intervened

Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Vienna for the latest round of negotiations on the conflict in Syria on Saturday, the State Department said on Monday, according to

A senior member of Hamas boasted on Monday that the terrorist group was closer than ever to “liberating Jerusalem”. Speaking with the Quds Press news agency, Hamas political bureau member

Arab foreign ministers searched on Monday for ways to halt what one called Israel’s “dangerous escalation” of violence against Palestinians – i.e. to stop Israel to defend itself against terrorists.  Weeks of knife, gun

World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald Lauder on Monday praised President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for meeting face-to-face at the White House and “taking this opportunity to

President Barack Obama on Monday belatedly joined more than a billion other Facebook users, launching his own personal page for the first time, AFP reported. It is unknown whether the

Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday admitted that the passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula may have been downed by a terrorist bomb, The International Business Times

Ahmed Mansara, the 13-year-old Arab terrorist who along with his 15-year-old cousin stabbed a 13-year-old and 21-year-old in Pisgat Ze’ev in Jerusalem, is expected to confess to his crimes and not serve

White House spokesman Josh Earnest admitted on Monday that it is unlikely that the “two-state solution” for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be reached before President Barack Obama leaves office. Speaking

MK Shuli Mualem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) attacked Monday the reported Israeli approval of the construction of a second new Palestinian Authority (PA) city in Samaria. Security officials exposed to Walla that

A Jordanian police officer has shot and killed two American instructors at a training facility for Iraqi and Palestinian Authority forces near Amman. The shooter killed himself after carrying out the

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) will head for Munich, Germany, on Tuesday to lay the cornerstone for a memorial room for the eleven Israeli athletes murdered there in the 1972

Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas), who recently abandoned the Economy Ministry to expand the authority of the Negev and Galilee Ministry under his control, announced on Monday the transfer of 20

China has conducted a test of an advanced new missile that could knock out US satellites and wreak havoc to the American defense industry, indicating Beijing is gaining the upper