US President Barack Obama released a statement on Thursday in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying the day marks a time “to reaffirm our responsibilities to ourselves” and to future
European Parliament President Martin Schulz told Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday that he “understands” Ankara’s reaction to a vote calling the 1915 mass killing of Armenians a genocide,
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained on Thursday that Iran’s drive to find a solution in talks over its nuclear program had spurred his decision to renew a contract to deliver S-300 missile
Last year, the film “X-Men: Days of Future Past” was released to critical acclaim, in which the protagonist team of superheroes sends one of their own 50 years into the
Thousands of young Jews from Israel and across the globe marched alongside Polish teenagers Thursday in the March of the Living ceremony, in memory of Holocaust victims at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
A US man has been charged with supporting a terrorist organization after he allegedly trained in Syria with Al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front and planned an attack on US soil, the Justice Department said Thursday. A federal
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) held a special meeting in Gaza on Wednesday ahead of “Prisoners Day” on April 17, in which it discussed the situation of Arab terrorists currently jailed
Passengers who took the Egged Line 101 bus in Jerusalem Thursday morning were treated contemptuously by their driver, an Arab from eastern Jerusalem, who refused to stop the bus in
The top United States military officer said Thursday that delivery of Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Iran will not affect America’s ability to strike at Tehran’s nuclear facilities if
Tunisian troops have captured a large arms cache including Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and explosives, a security source said on Thursday, according to a Reuters report. The discovery of the arms
Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid on Thursday spoke to the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, and sharply criticized a call by 16 EU countries to label
White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested Thursday that Moscow’s move to lift its ban on supplying anti-aircraft systems to Iran shows the weakness of Russia’s economy after being hit by
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday welcomed Iran’s assistance in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists, but warned Tehran to respect Baghdad’s sovereignty. “Everything must be done through
This past week, the Palestinian Authority (PA) arrested several terrorists in the Balata ‘refugee camp’ outside of Shechem (Nablus). The fighting there was reported to be with members of a
President Reuven Rivlin is working behind the scenes towards the formation of a unity government made up of Likud and the Labor-Hatnua joint list, known as the “Zionist Union”, Channel
Major world powers and Iran will hold fresh talks in Vienna on April 22 and 23 to build on the framework accord reached on Tehran’s nuclear program, the European Union
Members of the Beitar youth movement on Thursday conducted their annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony outside the German Embassy in Tel Aviv – an activity, the group said, was more
The European Union parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing the mass-murder of Armenians by Ottomoan Turkey in 1915 as a genocide. The decision to recognize the genocide –
The conflict in Syria has left more than 220,000 dead since it began four years ago with an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, a key monitoring group said Thursday. “We
Over 500 people in Ashdod attended the funeral of a Holocaust survivor whom they did not know Thursday morning – after a message on social media went out Wednesday night
Students and faculty at the Bnei Tzvi yeshiva in the town of Bet El in southern Samaria were in mourning Thursday, after the death of Shalom Yohai Sherki in what
Eugene (Aryeh Leib) Lebovitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. In this show, he tells of his experiences as a teenager in the ghetto, through the “selections” at various work camps, the miracles that saved
Some 2,000 people gathered in the small town of Nir Galim in southern Israel to participate in a Holocaust Memorial Day gathering, where the featured speaker was outgoing IDF Chief
Although the Shemittah year prohibitions against planting new trees are largely kept around Israel, in both secular and religious community, the Judea town of Kfar Adumim will be planting olive
Minute’s silence at Jerusalem’s Martyrs’ Forest Israelis throughout the country stood for a minute’s silence Thursday morning, as the sirens sounded in honor of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
Nearly three decades after it was established, CNN has “discovered” the town of Mevo Horon – and declared it an “illegal settlement,” according to Yehudit Tiar, one of the town’s
A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday jailed deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi’s former chief of staff for three years, after he was convicted of abusing his powers, AFP reported. The
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday dismissed pressure from the U.S. Congress over a preliminary deal on his country’s nuclear program, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Speaking a day after
Hamas on Wednesday demanded that the national unity government with longtime rival Fatah commit to previously agreed-to understandings regarding salaries of civil servants. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said Wednesday that President Barack Obama was “responsible” for making sure that Washington respects a final agreement over Iran’s nuclear program, even though Congress