Leading Religious Zionist rabbis encouraged Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) to continue ascending the Temple Mount on Monday, after an MK blamed the minister for an increase in the

France opened a business development office in Tehran on Monday seeking to renew once-strong economic ties with Iran after the July 14 nuclear deal in the face of “fierce competition.”  French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll

A new poll shows that most Palestinians no longer support the “two state solution,” which entails lopping off Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem from Israel and establishing an Arab

An ISIS terrorist recruiter posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart. So reports German RTL television. At the same time, a

This week’s edition of Temple Talk, the first of the year, takes us through the process of the Ten Days of Repentance and the cleansing healing of Yom Kippur, and

An entire class’s annual visit to the Temple Mount was cancelled on Monday, despite advanced coordination with the Israel Police.  Over 100 students from the Birkat Moshe Yeshiva in Ma’ale

Jerusalem District Commander Moshe Edri on Monday evening announced that the entry of Muslims to the Temple Mount compound will be restricted in the coming days, in light of the ongoing

172 new olim (immigrants) from Ukraine landed in Israel on Monday, many of whom are starting a new life after experiencing the horrors of civil war in the Donetsk region.  Among them:

Israel on Monday accused Jordan of exacerbating tensions on the Temple Mount, after King Abdullah proclaimed that Jews had no business praying on Judaism’s holiest site. In response, Israel sent

Yisrael Beytenu chairman and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) to fire the directors of Sakhnin schools on Monday, following a protest for “intifada”

Hungarian video journalist Petra Laszlo of Hungary’s N1TV station was fired after tripping a fleeing Syrian migrant father and son as they fled from police this month, but Kurdish media claimed on

Three former Israeli ambassadors and other leftist activists have asked the Brazilian government not to approve the appointment of Dani Dayan as Israel’s ambassador to Brasilia. Dayan lives in Ma’ale Shomron in

Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) criticized on Monday attempts by Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, who is also Legal Adviser to the Government, to scuttle a government decision making it easier

Grammy award-winning American musician Pharrell Williams will face down a protest by thousands of anti-Israel activists at a concert in Cape Town on Monday, organizers of the demonstration said. Members of the Boycotts, Divestment

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday sentenced a cell of four Arab terrorists from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya to between two and five-and-a-half years in jail, for setting

A campaign by the Ministry of Agriculture against the “kapparot” (or kaporos) custom of twirling chickens in the air and slaughtering them on Yom Kippur Eve in order to atone

As part of the recent nuclear deal Iran on Monday handed over to the UN nuclear body alleged samples from the covert Parchin military base, which reportedly has been a

A group of Israeli leftists recently approached the government of Brazil, through the Brazilian ambassadors in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, demanding that Brazil reject the appointment of Dani Dayan,

Israel’s hold on the city of Jerusalem cannot be undermined, President Reuven Rivlin said on Sunday night, as he hosted a Selichot prayer service at the synagogue of the Presidential

A TV and newspaper personality for most of his career, Lapid heads the Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party. He served as Finance Minister in the previous government under

Binyamin Netanyahu is determined to implement harsher penalties against rock throwers and “neighborhood terrorists,” sources close to the Prime Minister said Sunday. Speaking to confidantes, Netanyahu made it clear that

Five members of the radical Arab Joint List visited King Abdullah II of Jordan Sunday and told him to turn up the pressure on Israel in opposition to any Jewish

The saga of supermodel Bar Refaeli’s “wedding of the year” this Thursday continues: after having her “no-fly zone” order over the wedding space at the Carmel forests overturned by the

An IDF soldier was lightly to moderately wounded on Sunday night by a mob of Arab terrorists, as he took part in guarding a mass visit by Jews to the ancient tomb

The head of the UN atomic watchdog was granted access Sunday to a controversial Iranian military site where it is alleged covert research to build a nuclear bomb took place,

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said most Iranians support the nuclear deal he signed with the United States and that state institutions will likely ratify it. In an interview with

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas told a number of European diplomats last week that he does not intend to announce the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority or the cancellation of

The chairman of the far left Peace Now organization, Yariv Oppenheimer, announced on Sunday that he would be stepping down, instead serving as the Secretary-General of the organization in the

A rocket that was fired from Gaza exploded overnight Sunday, around 4:00 a.m., in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern Israel. The rocket exploded in an open region, causing no

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson caused an uproar on Sunday when he said in a television interview he would not support a Muslim as President of the United States.