United Nations monitors have said that governments are not reporting new incidents of Iran violating Security Council sanctions, even though some have unfolded in plain sight. The monitors’ claims were

Egypt on Tuesday lashed out at a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report condemning “flagrant human rights abuses” during the first year of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s rule, AFP reports. The

Environment Protection Minister Avi Gabai on Tuesday promised that the ammonia tank in the city of Haifa will be removed within three years. The possibility of a leak of poisonous

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of handing a “medieval” punishment to Raif Badawi, the blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, AFP reported. Last

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu resigned on Tuesday, in a procedural move after his AK Party lost its majority in parliamentary elections earlier this week. According to the BBC, President

Sinai Province, Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate, fired rockets at the direction of an airport in Sinai used by UN peacekeeping forces on Tuesday night, Reuters reported. Security sources told the

Archaeological excavations near Highway 1, at the entrance to Abu Ghosh, have uncovered a large Byzantine-period road station that included a church. Initiated and funded by the National Roads Company,

This week’s Torah portion of Parashat Shelach features the horrendous sin of the spies, an event of such catastrophic proportions that we are still suffering from it today. In this

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau spoke on Wednesday about reports which aired late last month, according to which Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, known for his more liberal stance on

Likud MK Oren Hazan vowed Wednesday that he would not vote against the Coalition in the Knesset plenum despite the steps that have been taken against him following scandalous accusations

A resident of Haifa who refused to divorce her husband for 14 years will do no jail time and receive 100,000 shekels from her husband in return for granting the

Members of the Yazidi community, one of the Iraqi minorities hardest hit by jihadist atrocities including mass rapes and executions conducted by Islamic State (ISIS), killed 21 Sunni Arab villagers in a

In response to the bill submitted several days ago by the radical leftist Meretz party, which would have products from Judea and Samaria labeled thereby singling them out for boycotts,

The West has an interest in the “fragmentation” of the Islamic world and is partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State (ISIS), one of the world’s top Muslim clerics claimed

At the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday a panel of experts discussed what the Middle East will look like after a deal is reached with Iran on its nuclear program, and

A French mother took the government to court on Tuesday for failing to stop her teenage son from leaving the country to join jihadists in Syria. The boy, identified only

A 102 year-old woman received her doctorate from a German university Tuesday – nearly 80 years after the Nazis prevented her sitting the final exam to officially obtain it. Pediatric expert

A US commando raid in Syria last month that killed a senior figure from the Islamic State group (ISIS) produced a wealth of information about the jihadists’ finances and leadership, the

Every Jew who decides to make aliyah and move to the Jewish homeland has a unique story, but few are as dramatic as that of Uzi Hangadi, a 27-year-old who

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon met Tuesday afternoon with US Army head Gen. Martin Dempsey, at his office in Tel Aviv. The visit is Dempsey’s fifth and last to Israel as Chairman of

Israel has been fighting the Iran nuclear deal due to the great danger it poses, but senior Western officials have revealed it is also doing so because once a deal

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday warned that it held Israel responsible for the health of hunger-striking prisoner Khadar Adnan, who it claims is “in danger of dying” after 36 days of

Luxembourg apologized to the Jewish community on Tuesday for its “suffering” during the Nazi occupation in World War II, in the first such gesture since the conflict ended 70 years

In an hour-long address to the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke about the peace process and regional tensions that are creating a new reality in the

Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Tuesday that he has decided to cut state funding for a play by an Arab theater about a terrorist who murdered an IDF soldier. “I’ve ordered the

The Pentagon is drawing up plans to expand the training of Iraqi forces and Sunni tribal fighters in a step that could mean deploying more US troops, officials said Tuesday. The review of possible

The White House on Tuesday relished the US Supreme Court ruling the day before, which sided with US President Barack Obama in striking down a Congressional law calling to have

Sources close to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) revealed that after Edelstein suspended freshman Likud MK Oren Hazan from his duties as deputy speaker due to a report alleging he

Science, Technology and Space Minister Danny Danon (Likud) on Monday blasted the leftist Meretz party’s proposed bill that would have the state of Israel place labels identifying products originating from

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom (Likud) on Monday evening called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to restart peace talks with Israel without preconditions. “If the Palestinians will be serious and sit