Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, seized a hospital in northwestern Syria on Friday, where at least 150 Syrian regime soldiers and dozens of civilians had been holed up under rebel assault for nearly a month, a
Israel is back on the European music map as Nadav Guedj, at the tender age of 16, passed in the second round of semi-finals on Thursday night and made it to
Three residents of the Binyamin town of Kokhav Hashahar who were arrested in a controversial police entrapment case have been denied their request to be let out to pray in synagogue
An Israeli Arab who fought for Islamic State (ISIS) has died in terror operations for the group, it announced Friday morning. Younis Medni Azaam, 27, from the town of Taibe in
US President Barack Obama has described the loss of key Iraqi territory to Islamic State as a tactical setback, while insisting the war against the jihadist group is not being
President Reuven Rivlin read “with shock” on Arutz Sheva‘s website Thursday of the vandalism and sacrilege at the Bnei Akiva branch in Nazareth Illit, which targeted a synagogue inside the
Born into a good Catholic family, Anita Gentile was raised with strong values, parents who encouraged her to believe in herself and a very creative grandmother. These factors combined to
It seems like almost every week another new invention comes out of the the Start Up Nation. But not all of them do quite a well as this one in
After a Swiss court reportedly ordered an Israeli oil firm to compensate Iran over a scrapped joint venture, Israel said Thursday that its laws prohibited any payment to “the enemy.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Eli Groner, Israel’s current economic attaché in Washington, as Director of the Prime Minister’s Office. Before his appointment as economic attaché in 2011, he served
The alleged “suicide” of a Jewish student from London in 2003 was actually a set up by a far-right German cult, who murdered him and covered up his death by staging a
A branch of the Bnei Akiva religious-Zionist youth movement in Nazareth Illit (Upper Nazareth) was ransacked and its synagogue defiled this week, in a suspected act of nationalistic vandalism by
In the wake of the car terror attack in eastern Jerusalem Wednesday, Jerusalem City Council member Aryeh King urged all Israelis to be more aware – not just of local terrorists,
An Israeli military court said Thursday it had ordered the release of Palestinian legislator Khalida Jarrar, who was detained at her home in Ramallah on April 2, AFP reported. At
President Barack Obama is continuing his criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments on a Palestinian state and Arab-Israelis before the last elections. In an interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg
The Islamic State group seized positions from Iraqi security forces east of Ramadi Thursday as it tried to keep its momentum after capturing the city, officials said. The jihadists pressed
US President Barack Obama defended his policies regarding Iran in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic published Thursday, and claimed that most US Jews still support him. There’s “not really
The Spokesman for the Israeli Consulate in New York flatly denied Thursday that Israel’s Consul-General in New York decided to allow the New Israel Fund to take part in the
Assistant US Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, Thomas Countryman, recently visited Israel and held talks with senior Foreign Ministry officials, about the possibility of making the Middle
A senior diplomat in the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced on Wednesday that the PA will submit two suits against Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on
France will host a high-level meeting of the international community on combating the threat posed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group next month in Paris, authorities said on Wednesday, according
The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA), Jibril Rajoub, stressed on Wednesday that the organization will not drop its bid to have Israel suspended from FIFA, AFP reported. Rajoub’s
The United States said Wednesday it plans to sell thousands of bombs and missiles to Israel as well as 10 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia, in deals worth about $1.9
A German court said on Wednesday that this week’s session in the trial of a 93-year-old former SS sergeant who served in the Auschwitz death camp has been called off
The leader of Sinai Province, a terrorist group in Egypt with links to the Islamic State,on Wednesday called on followers to attack local judges, Reuters reported. The call was made
France’s foreign minister on Wednesday said that Iran wants 24 days’ notice before international inspectors could visit its nuclear sites in the event of a suspected violation of a deal
The leader of the Houthi rebels in Yemen on Wednesday backed peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, next week, hours after they were announced by the United Nations. According to The
Newly appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely delivered a speech Thursday at a Foreign Ministry reception where she made clear her vision for Israel’s future. “The most important motto the Transportation
(Qalamoun, AFP) On a windy hilltop overlooking the mountainous Syrian border, a fighter from Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group says the battle against Syrian rebels in the area is among the toughest the
The controversial decision by the Israeli Consulate in New York to allow the far-left New Israel Fund (NIF) – which favors boycotts of Jews living in Judea and Samaria –