Lawyers for Egypt’s deposed Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, on Thursday appealed his sentencing to 20 years in prison for the arrest and torture of protesters during his mandate, AFP reported.

Professor Oren Froy, senior lecturer at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, believes that Israel will move to ban trans fats, just as the Food and

MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid), former head of the Eshkol Regional Council, penned a strongly-worded letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Friday, after the altter accused the IDF of making

The Hezbollah affiliated Al-Manar TV station reported on Friday that forces of the Iran-backed terror proxy in Lebanon killed two Islamic State (ISIS) commanders and seven ISIS terrorists in two separate attacks

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (Likud) dismissed the leftist artistic elite on Friday as leftists protest in Tel Aviv, calling some of them “petty bores” and “hypocrites.” Less than two

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir escaped South Africa late Monday, just before he was due to be tried for war crimes in Darfur.  Bashir arrived in Johannesburg on Sunday for an

Common sense would seem to dictate that if one had consumed several alcoholic drinks they would avoid putting themselves and others at risk by getting behind the wheel, and even in

Twenty leftist protestors have gathered outside the Israeli Theater Awards ceremony at the Einav center in Tel Aviv on Friday, to protest alleged censorship from current Culture Minister Miri Regev

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a videotaped greeting to Israel’s Muslim citizens on Thursday, in time for the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Speaking in front of a

Former Shas MK Nissim Ze’ev, who was ousted by party head Aryeh Deri in January, spoke out on Friday in support of former Shas head Eli Yishai, who is dealing

The Libyan government announced Sunday that a US airstrike in the North African state had taken out the senior Algerian terrorist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, but on Thursday Belmokhtar’s al-Mourabitoun terrorist

Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal spoke to Arutz Sheva on Thursday, condemning the arson attack against a church in Tiberias.  “I see this as a grave matter,” he said. “This is not just a

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon attacked Israel on Thursday, saying it needed to do more to protect the lives of Palestinian Arab children during counter-terror operations in Gaza – even as international law

In response to the shooting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina – which left nine people dead and was conducted by Dylann Roof of Lexington, who

Police on Thursday arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, after he conducted a horrific shooting attack on Wednesday that murdered nine people at an historic African-American church in Charleston. Roof was arrested

The Obama Administration has been pressuring Jerusalem to criticize an article by former Ambassador to the US, MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), in which he accused US President Barack Obama of

Extraditing to France the suspected mastermind terrorist of a deadly attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982 may prove difficult, a Jordanian source close to the case said on Thursday. “Jordan does

Top Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen last Friday, but according to US officials the CIA bagged the

A Knesset Channel poll published Thursday indicates that almost one half of the Israeli public agrees with MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), the former Israeli ambassador in the US, who said

Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is to file legislation this week to fine the US State Department for refusing to release a key report on Iran’s rampant human rights

70 countries across the planet united on Thursday to express outrage over the Syrian regime’s systematic use of barrel bombs and to demand an end to the deadly, indiscriminate attacks,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night blasted the UN’s hypocrisy, after the head of the global body, Ban Ki-moon, accused the IDF of making Gazan children “suffer” last summer

Amid speculation by experts that a nuclear deal with Shi’ite Iran might force its Sunni rival Saudi Arabia to buy a nuclear weapon, likely from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed

The Shavei Israel organization brought a group of 78 Bnei Menashe immigrants on Aliyah thursday from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, which borders Burma and Bangladesh. Absorption Minister Ze’ev

Responding to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s accusations on Thursday that the IDF made Gazan children “suffer” last summer in its counter-terror operation, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) struck back

The new Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan (Likud), conducted his first tour on the job Thursday, in eastern Jerusalem. The minister met residents of Jewish neighborhoods Ma’ale Hazeitim and Shiloah

As Israel makes “historic” concessions to Muslim populations in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in allowing direct access to the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – for the

The UN’s refugee chief on Thursday urged the world including Western states to open up their borders and follow Turkey’s example in hosting Syrian refugees, AFP reported.  Turkey, which has taken in some 1.8 million Syrian

Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, a staunch critic of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhu and other like-minded politicians, may be considering his own career in politics.  “My coolness to politics expired with the previous elections,”

Although not a member of the government, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman on Thursday proposed a law that is likely to be supported by the right-wing coalition. The law would strip