Hunger striking terrorist prisoner Muhammad Allaan emerged from a coma Tuesday, only to pledge to resume fasting if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours, an Arab group
Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site,
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday returned the mandate to form a government to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Anadolu news agency reported. Erdogan received Davutoglu at 7.30 p.m.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Tuesday welcomed the announcement by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez that he would vote against the nuclear deal between Iran and six world
Iran’s Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Tuesday gave a run-down of the army’s upcoming military buildup, and revealed that a new fighter jet announced in February has been delivered
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on Tuesday announced he will oppose the Iran nuclear deal, become the second Democrat to announce his rejection of the agreement after Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, visited the northern theater Tuesday and received briefings from top commanders. Netanyahu used
“He can win by getting one-third plus one of either house, so he’s still got a great likelihood of success,” he said of the president. However, he added that the
Seven decades after the Nazis liquidated the Lodz Ghetto and sent its remaining Jews to Auschwitz, the Jerusalem-based nonprofit Shavei Israel, in partnership with the Lodz Jewish community, announced today
Police in Thailand have identified a suspect in Monday’s terrorist attack in the heart of the capital Bangkok, which killed at least 21 people and left dozens wounded. A large
For the second time in less than a week, a Jewish congregation in San Antonio, Texas, uncovered anti-Semitic graffiti on its property Monday morning, the My San Antonio news website
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, on Monday night called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon and on the Security Council to condemn the latest series of terrorist attacks against
Thailand’s army chief on Monday hinted that the bomb blast at a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 22 people may have indeed been a terror attack, according to Reuters.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday voiced “serious concern” over reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) group has used chemical weapons in Iraq. “Recent reports
Egypt has opened its border with Gaza for the first time in two months, The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday. The Rafah border crossing opened Monday for four days,
An expose by a British paper has revealed that a senior Amnesty international official has links with Hamas and a wider secret global Islamist network, once again raising questions about the NGO’s alleged
Mohammed Allan, the Islamic Jihad member whose hunger strike drew world attention, has woken up in Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital. The doctors treating Allan say that they have ceased anesthetizing him
For more than six months, MKs from United Torah Judaism (UTJ) have been working the Ministry of Defense’s legal advisor, Ahaz Ben Ari, in order to come up with an
230 olim, among them 59 lone soldiers, arrived in Israel Tuesday morning aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight Tuesday morning. The new olim were welcomed at the airport in a special
In advance of the upcoming Sukkot holiday season, Israeli distributors of the four species (arba minim) are predicting that the shmitta Sabbatical year will take a very heavy toll on their sales,
An elderly Jewish woman was assaulted while visiting the Temple Mount Tuesday morning – and police did nothing to protect her or arrest her attacker. Brenda Rubin, a resident of
A top Iranian official has said that Iran will sign a deal to purchase advances S-300 missile systems from Russia by next week. Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan
A second explosion has been reported in the Thai capital of Bangkok Tuesday, just a day after a bomb attack at a popular tourist site killed more than 20 people
Israel denied reports circling the Arab world on Monday of long-term ceasefire discussions being held in Qatar’s capital of Doha on behalf of the Jewish state and Hamas. One report suggested former
As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine and popular shopping mall in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. But, “no Israelis
More than 300 liberal American rabbis wrote members of Congress Monday urging them to support the international nuclear deal with Iran, signaling the US Jewish community is split over the
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin responded to reports Monday that some of the rabbis on the new independent conversion courts do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle. Riskin, the Chief Rabbi
As many as 27 people have been reported killed and dozens wounded in an explosion near a shrine in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, as the death toll continues to rise.
Britain’s Labor Party has said it will launch an official investigation after dozens of anti-Semitic hate messages were sent to non-Jewish MPs who criticized the front-runner in the party’s leadership race.
The fate of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is still undecided but it will not leave the country open to US influence, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday.