The Chief Rabbinate on Wednesday hinted that it was under strong pressure to remove Rabbi Shlomo Riskin from his position as Chief Rabbi of Efrat, the community he helped form

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday resigned as envoy of the Middle East Quartet diplomatic group after eight years in the job, his office said. “Tony Blair has tendered his

A substantial number of the 500,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide are suffering from poverty and need urgent help to live a dignified life in their last years, an advisor to the US secretary

At least 1,200 migrants from Syria and Afghanistan have landed in Greece over a two-day period, the Daily Mail reports Wednesday, flooding the islands of Kos, Lesbos, Chios and Farmakonisi. 30,000 have arrived in

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Wednesday that Iran and Russia would never give up their support for his regime in the face of a four-year-old armed revolt. “I assure you that the

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk has announced that he is ending his self-imposed exile and moving permanently to Gaza, according to the Associated Press. The move is being seen as a

It feels like the hottest August ever in Israel this week, but it’s actually still only May – as Israel experiences its second extreme heat wave in the space of

“Violent dispossession.” In an Arabic dialect, the word is Farhud. For decades after it occurred, many thought the nightmare was a sudden and unexpected convulsion that afflicted the Iraqi Jewish

Influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday criticized the codename given to a military operation in Sunni areas of Iraq, warning that it risked fanning the flames of sectarianism, according to AFP.  The

Ethiopian Israelis are not well-integrated into the education system, according to a report released Wednesday, and are less likely to finish their matriculation exams (bagruyot) than members of other communities. 

World War II may have ended in 1945, but the city of Cologne in western Germany nearly got a “blast from the past” on Wednesday when an un-exploded 200-kilogram (440-pound)

The record-high heat wave descending on Israel on Wednesday has led to an outburst of fires, with three homes burned to the ground and a large forest outside Beit Shemesh blazing

The same day that Gaza terrorists fired rockets at Israel, with a Grad rocket striking near Ashdod, a wide-reaching logistical drill was held on Tuesday by the IDF’s Central Command to

The Cabinet approved Tuesday the formation of a ministerial committee – to be chaired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – on the Arab sector. The committee, which was established at

The new road leading from Ramallah to the Arab town of Bitin in Samaria was opened to Arab traffic by the IDF as a “gesture” on Monday, only to be

Egyptian security forces have destroyed more than 500 tunnels infiltrating Egypt from Gaza, according to state media. Egyptian military spokesman Mohammed Samir told the state-owned Al-Ahram daily that the army had

Freshman MK Oren Hazan (Likud) has sponsored a bill that would make it mandatory for all Israeli schoolchildren to study spoken Arabic, from first to 12th grade. The trigger for

US President Barack Obama’s 16-year-old daughter Malia has attracted unsolicited attention from Kenya, where the president’s father was from, as one intrepid Kenyan lawyer on Tuesday offered a motley selection

Routine discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount is certainly nothing new. Despite its status as the holiest site in Judaism, due to Muslim pressure and threats Israeli police maintain a

Egypt reopened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza for two days on Tuesday, Palestinian Arab border officials said, according to the AFP news agency. Maher Abu Sabha, director of border

A Catholic university in Hungary has made a course in Holocaust education mandatory for all its students, the first initiative of its kind in Europe according to Israel’s envoy to

A court in Egypt on Monday rejected a lawsuit demanding the designation of Israel as a “terrorist state”, The Cairo Post reported. According to the report, the Abdeen Court of

IAF aircraft on Wednesday morning struck four terrorist infrastructures in southern Gaza the IDF Spokesperson said. Direct hits at the targets were identified, said the statement. The airstrike came in

A top Russian diplomat on Tuesday said that no start date for the delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran has been set yet, according to The Associated Press (AP). The

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday launched an appeal in his role as UN education envoy to raise $100 million in aid for Syrian students who have taken refuge

Hamas used its 2014 Gaza war with Israel to “settle scores” with rival Palestinians, executing at least 23 in possible war crimes, Amnesty International said Tuesday, according to the AFP

Syria’s antiquities chief said on Tuesday that the historic city of Palmyra had been unharmed since Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents seized it last week. Speaking to Reuters, Maamoun Abdulkarim said

A Jewish resident of the Jewish quarter of Vienna, the capital of Austria, complained that his landlord demanded he remove the Israeli flag he had hung inside his window – or

Poland will take in 60 Syrian refugee families of the Christian faith Warsaw said Tuesday, just days after it opposed European Union plans for binding quotas on asylum seekers for its

Restrictions on Iraqi people fleeing the fighting in Anbar province are forcing some of them to return straight into conflict areas, an aid group said Tuesday. “Thousands of people fleeing Ramadi are stuck at