Israelis began marking Memorial Day Tuesday afternoon, with a series of ceremonies nationwide commemorating Israel’s fallen warriors – including soldiers, police and members of the pre-state Jewish underground – as well

The US-led coalition said Tuesday its warplanes carried out 22 strikes in Iraq over 24 hours targeting the Islamic State jihadist group north and west of Baghdad. This was the

A Cairo court has sentenced former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and 12 other defendants to 20 years in prison. Morsi was convicted of inciting the killing of protesters, in an

The Jerusalem District Court cleared for publication on Tuesday details of the brutal car rampage last week which killed Shalom Sherki and critically wounded his date, Shira Klein.  The terrorist,

In response to an interview Monday in which an advertising director for Kulanu’s election campaign, Udi Pridan, called Binyamin Netanyahu “Satan,” Likud said Tuesday that “Pridan’s hate-filled statements are a

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) commended Pope Francis’s consistent comments about the evil of anti-Semitism on Tuesday, after he stated in a meeting with the Conference of European Rabbis on Monday

Thousands of mourners converged Tuesday morning on the small town of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, to pay their respects to Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a leading figure in the

Israel’s population stands on the eve of Israel’s 67th Independence Day at 8.345 million people, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) stated Tuesday – compared to just 806,000 in 1948. 

Drama at Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday: a Boeing 737 passenger jet that took off for Prague executed an airborne U-turn and landed safely, after it turned out that the tires

The Health Ministry has taken back some of its earlier claims regarding the heightened cancer risk to Haifa residents. Representatives from the Health and Environmental Protection ministries, as well as

Police have declared the rocks pelted at Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog’s wife’s car on Monday the result of an “accident,” Channel 2 reports Tuesday morning.  Footage from a security camera near the

The Health Ministry has taken back some of its earlier claims regarding the heightened cancer risk to Haifa residents. Representatives from the Health and Environmental Protection ministries, as well as

US officials Monday sought to tamp down a spat with Poland after the FBI chief suggested the country shared responsibility for the Holocaust with Germany, but dodged questions on whether he would apologize.

The outspoken praise of terrorist murderers by Abbas was reflected by the heaping accolades handed out by the PA and Fatah organizations under his control, which over the past month

Har Bracha is nestled on the southern end of Mt. Gerizim in Samaria, which is more of a mountain range than it is a single peak. The town takes its

Yet a new wrinkle has surfaced in the controversial nuclear deal being formulated by the US and world powers with Iran, as State Department representatives on Monday would not rule

A former SS guard nicknamed “The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” has admitted his “moral guilt” at the start of his landmark trial in Poland Tuesday. 93-year-old Oskar Groening is being tried

This Wednesday night marks the beginning of Israeli Independence Day, marking 67 years to the renascent modern Jewish state, and it will be celebrated by no less than 27,933 new olim

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, the influential Religious-Zionist leader who passed away Monday, touched the lives of Jews from across the religious and political spectrum. That influence was on display Tuesday at

Jerusalem Councilman Moshe Lion, who lost out to Nir Barkat in the last mayoral race, sent a letter to Barkat and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in which he expressed his

Amnesty International is facing criticism for refusing to tackle anti-Semitism in the UK, after a motion calling on the group to do so was voted down at its annual international conference.

More than 114,000 people have fled fighting over the past two weeks in the Ramadi area of Iraq’s Anbar province, the United Nations said Tuesday, expressing concern over the mounting problems faced by the

In yet another sign of trouble, ministers and officials of the Palestinian consensus government on Monday ended a visit to Gaza a day after arriving for talks on salaries of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Kulanu chairman Moshe Kahlon are close to a coalition agreement but nothing has been finalized yet, sources in both parties told the Walla! Hebrew-language website

Yeshiva University High Schools (YUHS) will host their Annual Dinner on Tuesday, May 12 at the Marina Del Rey in the Bronx, New York. Faculty honorees include Mrs. Ruth Fried,

Har Bracha is a small Jewish town. It has perhaps over 2,000 residents, to 330 families, nestled on the southern end of Mount Gerizim of Biblical fame (and the source

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Monday said he had invited Hezbollah to fight alongside his regime, AFP reported. Speaking in an interview with French television, Assad denied the presence of

An Argentine prosecutor on Monday dismissed allegations that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner tried to derail an inquiry into the bombing of a Jewish center in 1994, Reuters reported. Federal

The UN Security Council on Monday demanded that aid workers be allowed to distribute food and other supplies to residents trapped by fighting inside the Damascus neighborhood of Yarmouk, which has

Israel on Monday unblocked close to half a billion dollars it confiscated from PA tax revenues since the beginning of the year, the Palestinian Authority said. The PA said it received 1.8 billion Israeli shekels