Joining the chorus of artists blasting Culture Minister Miri Regev for “pressuring” the Jerusalem Film Festival to cancel the screening of a movie about Yigal Amir was documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh.  Moreh, the director of the

Police arrested this afternoon 16 individuals in connection with the arson at a Galilee church Thursday morning. Police released no details about the arrests, other than to say that they were residents of

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) expressed outrage Thursday morning at reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon were planning to cut funds promised to parties

Jordan is gearing up for a possible invasion by Islamic terror groups, local media reported Thursday.  According to reports, King Abdullah II, on a tour this week of border areas

An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for an Australian-trained doctor who appeared in an Islamic State propaganda video which urges other medical professionals to join the jihadists, police said. Tareq Kamleh was shown in

The United Nation’s report on children and armed conflict is “inaccurate” and biased against Israel, said Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the UN. The UN Security Council is set to discuss

Alexander Hamilton is being taken off the $10 bill and will be replaced, for the first time, by a woman, the United States Treasury announced on Wednesday.  Treasury Secretary Jack

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is also acting Communications Minister, has ordered the Communication Ministry’s Director General Shlomo Filber to shut down a new television station funded by the Palestinian

Despite a combination of rising anti-Semitism and economic hardships, Jewish immigration from France in 2015 has so far not lived up to its high expectations.  According to figures from the Ministry

Iran and six powers are still apart on all main elements of a nuclear deal and will likely have to extend their negotiations beyond the June 30 deadline, two diplomats

Hamas has denied that it has been holding secret talks with Israel and that it had reached a long-term ceasefire agreement with the Jewish state, the Ma’an news agency reported

Iranian lawmakers have unveiled proposed legislation that a top official said would “protect the nation’s nuclear interests” but which could become an obstacle in negotiations for a deal, AFP reported

Switzerland’s Attorney General said on Wednesday that authorities have searched multiple premises in relation to an investigation into allegations that hackers had targeted venues which hosted negotiations on Iran’s nuclear

The Canadian government’s public website for applying for social services and downloading official forms was briefly shut down Wednesday in a cyberattack claimed by the Anonymous group, AFP reported. Several

A Uruguayan army bomb squad dismantled an “incomplete” explosive device Wednesday in front of an office tower housing the Israeli embassy, officials told AFP. The embassy is located in a

Israel is an army that whose basis is morality – no matter what outside organizations or countries say, said Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Deputy Defense Minister. Speaking at a graduation ceremony

The Bet-El Educational Center were shocked to learn of the untimely passing of our dear friend Alex Friedman,  zz”l. Alex Friedman was among our first and our staunchest supporters. A Holocaust survivor,

Syria has seen a surge in passport requests as citizens seek to flee the war-torn country, with close to a million applications lodged since January 1, media said on Wednesday. The civil war has

Alarms were heard on the Golan Wednesday afternoon, as missiles and gunshots flew – on the other side of the border. Several minutes after the alarms sounded, they ended –

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday said all effluents from Syria’s neutralized chemical weapons arsenal have been destroyed, according to AFP.  “The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons welcomes the disposal of

In Israel, the security fence has done an effective job of keeping Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists outside of Israeli communities – and other countries are learning from Israel’s success. The

Matan Katzman, a retired Givati ​​officer retired and active in the My Truth pro-IDF organization, spoke Wednesday before the EU’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, which is expected to arrive in Israel

Israel’s first museum of Arab contemporary art opened on Wednesday with a mission to promote peace – and will be open to Arabs and Jews alike. Founders of the Arab Museum of Contemporary

The suspected mastermind of an attack on a Paris Jewish restaurant in 1982 that left six people dead and 22 injured has been arrested in Jordan, a source close to the case

The Israel Prisons Service (IPS) are presently preparing for the possibility that towards the end of Ramadan, in July, terrorist prisoners will go on hunger strike to protest their prison

The United Nations peace envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, ended a three-day trip to Damascus Wednesday, condemning the deaths of civilians in both government and rebel fire, according to

Israel, Egypt and the United States are seeking to replace Mahmoud Abbas as chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Quds Press news agency reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed “senior

A 21-year-old self-declared US supporter of the Islamic State terror group was arrested in New York after trying to stab an FBI agent on Wednesday, officials said, according to AFP.  Fareed Mumuni, 21, is

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) has penned an official apology letter to the White House Wednesday, after fellow party member, former ambassador MK Michael Oren accused US President Barack Obama of

Some things could only happen in the Jewish homeland, in 2015. This is definitely one of them: a man in haredi garb riding a rollercoaster with his son fights off