The committee that was established to ascertain how police failed to prevent Yishai Schlissel from reaching the July 30 Jerusalem gay pride parade and murdering a participant has recommended that

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was the latest member of the Israeli political establishment to point out the folly of admitting large numbers of Syrian refugees into Israel. Although Israel was

Loading… Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the southern Arava region Sunday, to see from up close the start of construction of the security fence along Israel’s eastern border. Netanyahu sounded

Vandals have spray-painted anti-Semitic and monarchist graffiti on a sculpture in the French palace of Versailles. Palace staff discovered the damage, which includes phrases such as “The second RAPE of

The remains of Jewish victims who were killed for the skeleton collection of Nazi anatomy professor August Hirt were buried in northeastern France on Sunday. Discovered at a forensic medical

To help European countries cope with the onslaught of refugees from Syria and other countries, Pope Francis on Sunday urged Catholic institutions to open their doors and house refugees until

With Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas adamant about retiring, he is said to be looking for a successor – and if that is the case, he should be looking elsewhere

Riham Dawabshe, the mother of the infant killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma in July, passed away on Sunday night at the Sheba Medical Center

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell came out in support of the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on Iran’s nuclear program. Powell, a retired general who was the top

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Sunday that Israel needed a fence in sensitive areas, to prevent becoming a victim of refugee “invasion,” such as is occurring in Europe. Yaalon was

The discovery of a large gas field in Egyptian waters does not mean “the end of the Israeli gas industry,” and is not an occasion for panic, believes Professor Idit

The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) internal security service, Avi Dichter, reacted strongly Saturday to an interview aired by Channel 2 with Mordechai Vanunu, the former

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas called on the United Nations Saturday to press Israel to allow Palestinians effected by violence in Syria to take shelter in Judea and Samaria. “President Abbas has

New images have come to light which appear to confirm previous reports of Russian “boots on the ground” in Syria, aiding Bashar al-Assad’s overstretched forces defend regime strongholds from advancing

Riham Dawabshe, the mother of the infant killed in an arson attack on the Palestinian village of Duma in July, is in a state of clinical death, Al Jazeera reported Sunday based on

The building of a border fence intended to bar those attempting to infiltrate into Israel from the east will commence on Sunday between Israel and Jordan.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and

The Dutch capital Amsterdam will compensate the descendants of Holocaust survivors who were fined for not paying their rent while imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.  “Starting today, the families’ descendants could

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden recently tried to reassure Jewish leaders in south Florida that the nuclear deal with Iran would be a vital step toward making Israel and the

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the expelled founder of France’s National Front (FN) party, launched a new party on Saturday, according to the Reuters news agency. The announcement of the new party,

Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday night expressed the United States’ concern over reports of Russia’s enhanced military build-up in Syria in a telephone call with his Russian counterpart,

Pressure is building on UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), the UN agency responsible for Palestinian Arab “refugees,” as evidence mounts of a rampant culture of anti-Semitism among its employees.

After facing a backlash from Likud ministers – and the Prime Minister, himself – over his call on the Israeli government to absorb Syrian refugees, opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog responded

Luxembourg’s Foreign and European Affairs Minister Jean Asselborn arrived in Israel today for an official two-day working visit to Israel. Just last week, Cactus, the largest supermarket chain in Luxembourg,

While Israel is not “indifferent’ to the tragedy of refugees from Syria and Africa, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted on Sunday, it does not have the resources to absorb them

The Hamas terrorist group announced this morning the death of a senior “naval commando” in a “work accident” Sunday morning. Muaman al-Bakhri drowned off the coast of Gaza during a

Dozens of right-wing activists gathered Sunday morning outside the ORT-Avin high-school in Ramat Gan to protest the continued employment of history teacher Herzl Schubert.  Schubert was spotted in a video documenting a

Could there be anything more offensive than hanging the ISIS flag or a Nazi swastika at a major American university campus? The answer, according to one student leader at the

Iranian leaders view the nuclear deal signed by western powers as a “surrender” to Iran, and as cementing the Islamic Republic’s status as a “superpower.”  An analysis by the Middle

Iranian lawmakers will have the chance to give their opinions on the nuclear deal with major world powers at around the end of September, parliament speaker Ali Larijani said Saturday.

300 Gazan Arabs arrived in Jerusalem Friday to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, after Israel granted special permission for the group to pass through the