The UN’s peace envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has extended wide-ranging talks in Geneva by another month until July, his spokeswoman said Wednesday, according to the AFP news agency.

150 of the Jewish world’s leading change makers from 32 countries convened in Jerusalem this week for the 2015 ROI Summit, ROI Community’s flagship program. ROI Community is an initiative

Spanish lawmakers were set Thursday to give final approval to a law to right a “historical mistake” and ease the path to citizenship for the descendants of Jews it expelled

French telecoms group Orange said its boss Stephane Richard was heading to Israel Thursday for a two-day visit after his plans to cancel ties with a local firm sparked a boycott row. Richard was

Continuing a well-worn theme in the Palestinian Authority, a top diplomat in the PA on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of using “Goebbels tactics of the big lie” to

At least 20 members of Syria’s Druze minority have been killed in an unprecedented shoot-out with Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in northwestern Syria, a monitor said on Thursday, according to AFP. The Syrian

Israel’s Cultural Institutions Forum said it would convene an emergency meeting regarding freedom of speech on Sunday after cabinet ministers imposed sanctions on two Israeli Arab theaters.  According to a Channel

Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, considered one of the deans of the haredi yeshiva world and head of the Eida Harechedit of Jerusalem, advised a well-known haredi businessman to sell all his

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Thursday morning in Jerusalem with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey. “You’ve been a wonderful friend and a grand champion of

Fourteen original works of art by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler will go up for auction in southern Germany later this month, AFP reported on Tuesday.  The watercolors and drawings date to between 1904

Israel has officially denied any connection to allegations that it spied on Iran and Western powers discussing Tehran’s nuclear program. Speaking to Army Radio Thursday, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotlvely said “there

Turkish authorities have reportedly asked a senior Hamas commander to scale-back his activities in Turkey, in order to avoid Ankara being accused of abetting terrorism. According to Haaretz, Turkish intelligence transmitted the

Lebanon last week received a shipment of U.S. arms worth $146 million. The arms consisted of AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles, the third major arms shipment the country has received this

A Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) donated to the Knesset has disappeared just one day after the event, Arutz Sheva discovered in an independent investigation Wednesday, based on what may be a double standard about

Even though they are legal, police in Israel most definitely do not want you riding electric bikes – and are coming up with creative ways to discourage their use. In

US President Barack Obama’s antipathy to Israel is not only a matter of public perception, former Ambassador to the US Michael Oren will reveal in a new tell-all book: it

Although no longer in the government, Yisrael Beytenu supports the efforts by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) to shut down an anti-Israel play, and remove it from the “cultural

Israel attempted to use a sophisticated virus to spy on nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1, according to a report released Wednesday – by hacking into the servers of hotels

The US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group must do more to target the jihadists’ command centers, French army chief Denis Mercier said Wednesday, according to AFP. He compared operations

In a letter to Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), Orange CEO Stephane Richard again proclaimed his “affection” for Israel, and said that he had been “badly hurt by the

This week Ira and Rod share more of their personal stories. Ira speaks about the obstacles and struggles of waiting two and half years to receive Israeli citizenship, and they

President Barack Obama on Wednesday approved the deployment of 450 more American military trainers to Iraq, a cautious bid to reverse gains by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, AFP reports.

Norway has agreed to take in 8,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2017, under an agreement reached Wednesday by most of the Scandinavian country’s political parties. The country now plans to welcome 2,000

Israel vehemently denied Wednesday night that it had been involved in spying on Iran or in planting viruses in European hotels to monitor the talks between Iran and Western powers

Israel and the U.S. have signed an important strategic air force agreement, the Israel Air Force revealed Monday. The ASNR (Air Senior National Representative) agreement, signed last week, covers a

At least 100 people attended a funeral on Wednesday – for a 93 year-old Holocaust survivor they had never met.  Former banker Rachel Steinmetz wrote Facebook posts and Tweets asking

American Jews are more likely to support a nuclear deal with Iran than the general American population, according to a poll published by leftist organization J-Street Wednesday.  59% of Jewish

A Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Scotland is due to become a tourist attraction, British media reported Wednesday, if a development company can greenlight the plan.  The Cultybraggan Camp in Perthshire,

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, on Tuesday called on Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman to “stop the nonsense” and join the coalition. Bennett’s call to