President Barack Obama met with Jewish American leaders at the White House in two sessions on Monday in a bid to “defuse antagonism toward him,” and to improve the chances

The Shuvu Yisrael sect heavily defended its leader Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto on Tuesday, hours after he was convicted for bribery and corruption in the Tel Aviv District Court.  “Our spiritual

Minister of Interior Gilad Erdan said Tuesday that to the best of his knowledge, the report that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor Chairman MK Yitzhak Herzog met recently is not true.

Car bombs in the Baghdad area, including one near a hospital, killed at least eight people on Tuesday, security and medical officials said. One blast hit a car park across the street from

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet), the IDF, and the Israel Police busted a Hamas cell planning major attacks during Purim, it was cleared for publication on Tuesday. 

Turkey on Tuesday deported nine Britons, including the son of a local councillor, two weeks after arresting them for attempting to cross into Syria to join jihadists, the official news agency said. The nine were

Leading Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are nearing a deal on legislation that would allow Congress to review any nuclear agreement with Iran, according to Politico.

Incoming Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich fumed Tuesday at the destruction of a Kiryat Arba synagogue on Tuesday morning, after the Civil Administration moved to demolish the structure overnight.  “The destruction of

Iran’s Defense Minister, Hossein Dehqan, on Monday welcomed Russia’s decision to lift a ban on the delivery of S-300 anti-missile rocket systems to his country, claiming the decision would help

Republican Senator Marco Rubio announced to donors Monday that he is launching a presidential campaign, AFP reports. American media reported that Rubio told major donors on a conference call about

Shots were fired outside of a synagogue in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, local daily The Tennessean reported. No one was hurt.  Police spokesman Don Aaron said a maintenance worker heard a

With coalition negotiations with United Torah Judaism in their final stages, and Shas and Kulanu not far behind, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may be on the verge of forming his

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate led a fierce assault on an intelligence base in Aleppo city Monday night after regime attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city forced rebels to shut schools, according to AFP. Along with

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once again blasted the West’s nuclear deal with Iran on Monday, stating in a lengthy series of remarks that the deal is “an agreement full of

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder in London of an imam who was a critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, police said Monday. Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found

Despite angry tension between Likud and Jewish Home throughout the coalition negotiation process, Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett said Monday night that the two parties had made headway.  The Economy

An Israeli soldier was indicted on Monday for allegedly tipping off far-right Jewish extremists that they were about to be arrested, the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) stated.  Elad Sela, a resident

Likud MKs wasted no time firing back at actress Anat Waxman Monday after she described Likud voters with contempt in a television interview. MK Miri Regev called Waxman “stuck up and elitist”

Iran has become adamant that all sanctions be dropped immediately with the signing of a nuclear deal by June 30, a demand contradicting Western positions, but that appears unlikely to

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder in London of an imam who was a critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, police said Monday. Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, was found in

Anat Waxman, a successful stage and television actress, insulted many fellow Israelis with her derisive description of Likud voters on Channel 2 Sunday. Among other things, she referred to them

In confirmation of the Yachad – Ha’am Itanu and Otzma Yehudit accusations that Shas activists committed mass voter fraud in invalidating the two parties’ joint list ballot slips, recordings reveal

Two polls that received very little fanfare were released late last month, and found that the majority of Christian and Jewish Canadians think Islam is “irreconcilable” with the West –

US officials revealed that Iran is trying to smuggle surface-to-air missiles into the Shi’ite Houthi militia in Yemen, to aid its attempts to conquer the country and stave off a

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto was taken to the Ichilov Medical Center Monday morning after apparently suffering a heart attack on the plane that brought him to Israel from New York. Rabbi

The coalition negotiations between Likud and the haredi United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party have reached the final stages of phrasing the wording of the agreement, reports IDF Radio. The agreement is

The number of Europeans fighting with jihadist groups in Syria could exceed 6,000, a top EU official told a French newspaper Monday, according to AFP. “At the European level, we estimate that 5,000-6,000 individuals

“Shi’i Islam has a greater tendency than Sunni Islam for innovative thought due to its embrace of reasoning and rationalism as a tool for interpreting the religious law,” an expert

Despite national initiatives last year to help Holocaust victims residing in Israel, the situation for many is still dire.  The Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims published on Monday,

While American Jews have supported US President Barack Obama significantly more than the general population in survey polls, that gap is narrowing, Gallup reported Friday – and disparagement is highest among the