It has been cleared for publication that Hamas’s armed wing planned a large-scale abduction of residents from the community of Kerem Shalom in the first week of Operation Protective Edge last

The United States Senate on Tuesday rejected an amendment toughening legislation that would require that any nuclear agreement with Iran be approved by Congress, hours after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders will announce his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, presenting a liberal challenge to Hillary Clinton, The Associated Press (AP) reports. Sanders,

Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman, on Tuesday quit his membership in a leading Jewish organization targeted by a deadly bombing in 1994, reports The Associated Press (AP). Timerman announced his

Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid on Tuesday evening blasted the coalition agreement reached between the Likud and the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party. The agreement, reached earlier on

Representatives from Syria’s opposition National Coalition will meet the UN’s Syria envoy in Geneva next month as he seeks to revive peace talks, the group’s president said Tuesday, according to

The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an

Three members of Hezbollah, two of whom are accused in a deadly 2012 bombing targeting Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, were on Tuesday placed on a special American terror watch list,

President Francois Hollande announced Wednesday that France would increase its defense budget by close to four billion euros ($4.4 billion) over four years, in response to Islamist terror threats after the Paris jihadist attacks in January, reports AFP. He also

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid sharply criticized the emerging coalition agreement between Likud and United Torah Judaism (UTJ). The two parties agreed to cancel the law passed by the previous government,

Mere days after Mount Hermon in the north was covered in unseasonable snow “you only see in January” last Friday amid surprising cold around the country, Israel is bearing the

A former employee of Al Jazeera America (AJA) has claimed he was fired after protesting his boss’s frequent “anti-American and anti-Semitic” rants, as well as his open discrimination against women employees.

Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician convicted of leaking Israeli nuclear secrets nearly 30 years ago, was detained by police over Independence Day, under suspicion of breaking the conditions of his

Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician convicted of leaking Israeli nuclear secrets nearly 30 years ago, was detained by police over Independence Day, under suspicion of breaking the conditions of his

Apple, the iconic global technology giant, is further building its presence in Israel by expanding the size of the offices in its new Herzliya headquarters. According to a report in the

Israel allowed 14,000 tons of building material into Gaza on Wednesday, the defense ministry said of the largest single shipment since last summer’s Hamas terror war – despite the fact that Hamas is

An Iranian civilian plane breached the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s no-fly zone in Yemen, leading coalition forces to bomb a runway at the Sana’a airport on Tuesday to prevent it from

UK Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron has come out strongly in support of Israel, saying he feels it is “important to speak out” and defend the Jewish

New figures for 2014 published by the Defense Ministry on Wednesday morning show that record high expenditures were made acquiring domestic products, showing that a large portion of the ministry’s

Police from Jerusalem’s Moriah precinct arrested a woman on suspicion of setting a fire at a gas station on Bethlehem Road Tuesday. Security camera footage shows the woman approaching a man who

The leadership of the Arab sector in Israel called a nationwide Arab strike Wednesday to protest the enforcement of the law against structures built illegally by Israel’s Arabs. The Arab

Former US President Jimmy Carter is to arrive in Gaza on Thursday and meet with top leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization. “Carter will arrive in Gaza on Thursday through the

The IDF rescue team dispatched to Nepal to aid in earthquake disaster relief efforts opened the gates to its field hospital on Wednesday morning, where it will work to mend

US officials have denied reports Tuesday that the Iranian navy opened fire on and captured a US cargo ship – however, the ship which was captured is apparently largely owned by American

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino on Tuesday announced that the police officer who was caught on a security camera brutally assaulting an IDF soldier in uniform on Sunday in the coastal

Yohanan Gol, a resident of Beit Shemesh, revealed in a radio interview on Tuesday morning that he was assaulted by Arab assailants at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives cemetery two weeks ago,

Negotiating teams from Likud and the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party finalized a coalition agreement draft on Tuesday, making UTJ the first party to reach a deal in coalition talks.

In the latest in a string of exposed smuggling operations by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, a gag order was lifted on Tuesday revealing that the Israel Security Agency (ISA), IDF and

The Jewish Home party convened a stormy faction meeting Tuesday afternoon, following its dramatic decision to cut off coalition negotiations with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Earlier Tuesday the party said

Israel has long complained of the UN’s vocal bias against it, but a new report by the UN Convention against Corruption on Tuesday recognized that the Jewish state’s fight against public corruption