Hundreds of people flocked to the Western Wall (Kotel) on Wednesday night, to inaugurate Israel’s 67th Independence Day.  The prayer was organized by Rabbi Uri Sherki, who rose from the

MK Avraham Nagosa (Likud) has called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the incoming Interior Minister for the 20th Knesset to resume Ethiopian immigration to Israel (Aliyah) on Wednesday, after

In an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva today (Wednesday), Rabbi Shlomo Riskin responded to the haredi attack on his interfaith prayer session tomorrow in Jerusalem, which will include both Jewish and

Saudi-led coalition jets bombed Houthi rebels in Yemen’s third city of Taiz Wednesday, hours after Saudi Arabia announced the end of its military campaign against the Houthis. A short time

Further breaching his 2008 pre-election promises to “recognize the Armenian genocide” at the hands of the Ottoman Turks between 1915-1917, US President Barack Obama will not recognize the genocide ahead of the 100th

Pro-Israel groups are demanding action over a new course at University of California (UC) Riverside, entitled “Palestine Israel: Settler-Colonialism and Apartheid,” which attempts to paint the Jewish citizens of their

A Muslim man allegedly planning an attack on “one or two churches” has been arrested in Paris, France’s interior minister announced Wednesday, adding the IT student was also allegedly behind

A US judge has ruled that New York City must allow its buses to display a controversial ad exposing Islamist anti-Semitism. The ad in question – sponsored by the American

Deputy Samaria Council head Yossi Dagan on Wednesday appealed to Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon for help – in giving residents of Samaria the same Independence Day “treat” that other Israelis

More and more young adults are flocking to Israel to join the IDF, Haaretz reports Wednesday, with a marked increase in 2014.  Currently, some 3,484 soldiers have volunteered from more than 70

A week after the terror attack in which his son Shalom Yohai was murdered, Rabbi Uri Sherki said at a Memorial Day service on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem that while

Israel may be known for its importance to several world religions, but it is still one of the least religious countries worldwide, according to a poll released Wednesday.  57% of

Since the start of the Syrian Civil War, Israel has tried to maintain a neutral policy – Israel’s engagement with Hezbollah and Iran gets a lot more coverage than its engagement

Seventy two years after the Holocaust and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camps, more people than ever are seeking to view the site where millions of Jews

Austria’s chancellor and other top government officials on Tuesday inaugurated a monument paying homage to the 1,200 victims sentenced to death and executed by Nazi courts in Vienna, The Associated

UN Security Council member New Zealand is working on a draft resolution to revive long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), AFP reported on Tuesday. France has

Yemen’s president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Tuesday night thanked Saudi Arabia and the Arab military coalition for their support of his “legitimacy”, Reuters reports. “I extend on my behalf and

Israel will never forgive terrorists and nations who sanctify them, Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday evening, at a ceremony in Jerusalem honoring Memorial Day. “Our sons who

Two Arabs on Tuesday night tried to break into the car of Daniella Weiss, co-founder of the NACHALA Land of Israel movement and a longtime leader of the settlement enterprise

Ron Kehrmann, whose 17-year-old daughter Tal was murdered in a suicide terror attack on a Haifa bus in 2003, on Tuesday expressed his dismay over the fact that the name

Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday evening said it welcomed a halt to airstrikes in Yemen, Reuters reported. The Iranian statement came after Saudi Arabia announced that the Arab coalition has

Turkey on Tuesday appealed for more help in cracking down on foreign fighters flooding to join terrorists in Iraq and Syria, revealing it had placed 12,800 people on a no-entry list,

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein on Tuesday evening hosted the parents of Max Steinberg, the lone American soldier who was killed last summer during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Max served

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and deputy-editor of the paper Bret Stephens argued on Monday that due to US President Barack Obama’s irreversible actions, the US doesn’t have Israel’s back anymore

Perhaps for the first time in centuries, Christians are on the run. Ethnic and religious groups face persecution to various degrees at all times, but the Christian experience in the

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi films, but Israel’s army is launching a first-ever training exercise based on its new “advance guard” concept, which will see a vanguard of

In an official statement to the nation at the start of Memorial Day Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emphasized the significance of the sacrifice made by those who fell defending

The Jerusalem-based think tank NGO Monitor responded sharply to the decision by Amnesty International-UK Tuesday to reject a motion which would have had it campaign against anti-Semitism in the UK. NGO Monitor noted

The Saudi-led Arab coalition has ended its airstrike campaign against Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen on Tuesday, according to reports on Saudi TV cited by BBC. After saying the

Judea and Samaria has an odd infrastructure. Sometimes, when towns are outside the so-called ‘settlement blocs,’ they proverbially fall off the map for some people. Yet, there are over a