Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, on Monday said no agreement was reached at a last-ditch meeting with a nationalist party to form a coalition alliance, reports The Associated Press (AP).
The State Department in Washington on Monday said it was too soon to tell if a blast at a renowned shrine in Bangkok that killed at least 16 people was
American Jewish musician Matisyahu on Monday responded for the first time to his being disinvited from a music festival in Spain due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Two hundred and thirty two new immigrants to Israel departed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday, aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter Aliyah flight. The flight was facilitated in
The United States condemned on Monday Syrian airstrikes on a rebel-held town that left nearly 100 dead, and insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go. “Yesterday’s air strikes, following its other recent market bombings
Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday told CNN that he plans a two-day trip to Israel. He’ll depart Tuesday. He said the trip to the
Turkey and the United States said Sunday that Washington would withdraw its Patriot missile batteries from the country in October, after bolstering Ankara’s air defenses against threats from Syria’s civil
Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson accused President Barack Obama Sunday of being anti-Semitic, as evidenced by Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Carson told Fox News Sunday, in response
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction is up in arms over reports of long-term ceasefire discussions held in Qatar’s capital of Doha, negotiated by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
World Jewish Congress (WJC) President Ronald S. Lauder on Sunday expressed “outrage” and “utter bewilderment” at news that a music festival in Spain had disinvited American Jewish musician Matisyahu for
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that
A capital murder trial will begin this week for a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people last year outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish
Around 50 hard-line students and activists in Iran staged a rally, calling on the parliament to reject the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last month, The Associated Press
Gerald Molen, the producer of Schindler’s List, has responded to 98 prominent Jews in Hollywood who published an open letter in support of the nuclear deal with Iran, according to
Danish police said Sunday they had arrested a man on suspicion of torching a mosque in Copenhagen earlier in the day, AFP reported. “At 11:31 a.m. (0931 GMT), the police
The toll in Syrian government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100 Monday, as the UN’s humanitarian chief expressed horror and appealed for civilians to be protected. Sunday’s series of raids on
The state on Monday submitted to the Supreme Court its response to the release petition of Mohammad Allaan, a jailed Islamic Jihad terrorist who has been hunger-striking more than 60 days.
Just three months before the 20th anniversary of the nationally traumatic assassination of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a new book about the murder has been published – once again opening
A terrorist stabbing attack was thwarted Monday afternoon near the town of Tapuach in Samaria. The terrorist approached Border Patrol officers standing at Tapuach Junction, and attempted to attack him with a
Azizi Brum, a 57-year-old Jewish resident of Ashkelon, arrived at Barzilai Hospital in the coastal city on Sunday where protests continued, as Arabs demonstrated in support of the hunger-striking Islamic Jihad
Some of the rabbis on the “independent” conversion courts announced last week outside the framework of the Chief Rabbinate do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle,
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor met this week with Carmen Lapointe, UN Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, and submitted a demand for an investigation into the behavior of Rima Khalaf,
Intelligence officials are comparing a newly discovered secret Islamic State document to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” as it blames Israel for the rise of the Islamic State and crowns U.S. President
Arabs and Jews rioted against each other at Ashkelon Junction Sunday, not far from Barzilai Hospital, where a hunger-striking terrorist prisoner is being treated. The Arab rioters demand that the
Charges were filed Sunday against an Arab man from Hevron who ran over a soldier on July 19, after a police chase. According to the charge sheet, a soldier and
Arsonists set fire to a small roadside synagogue in north-central Israel before dawn in Friday, but the fire was put out before it could consume holy books and tefillin (phylacteries). The
The WSCI – World Science Conference Israel – opened Sunday at the Hebrew University campus in Jerusalem. The conference’s participants included Nobel Prize winners from the world over. Among
In an effort to lessen confusion among soldiers operating in Judea and Samaria regarding the recently tightened open-fire orders, the commander of the Border Police – a combined military and
At least 82 people were killed in Syrian regime air raids Sunday on a town outside Damascus, a monitor said, as the UN’s top humanitarian chief held talks with government
A massive arms cache seized by security forces in Kuwait was smuggled into the gulf state by Iran, and was destined for a Hezbollah “sleeper cell,” Kuwaiti media reported Sunday.