Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet with the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate on Tuesday, after he addresses the Congress, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on
The head of the United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO, on Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the world body’s Security Council following the mass destruction by jihadists of ancient artifacts
Pop star Madonna told French radio on Thursday that “intolerance” was now so high in France and Europe that “it feels like Nazi Germany,” according to the AFP news agency.
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Thursday he had ordered a preliminary investigation into alleged fiscal misconduct at the private and state residences of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, reports AFP. The
The Israel Electric Company (IEC) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) reached a temporary settlement Thursday, after the IEC introduced rolling blackouts in protest to outstanding debts. Under the agreement, the
The 2015 Tel Aviv marathon has begun on the wrong foot Friday, after two 30 year-old runners were taken to Ichilov Hospital in critical condition – and after 75 additional people were
Pro-Palestinian rallies and groups are being used to aid the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, according to a book the group released this month – united under the front
A series of posters from a rabbinic organization have attempted to encourage voters to think of the consequences of a leftist government Thursday, via new poster campaign throughout Israel. The Rabbinical
Meretz has bottomed out in public support polls, according to the latest pre-elections survey Friday – falling even past the fledgling Yachad-Ha’am Itanu party. Labor and Likud are still tied
Saudi Arabian national and Al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Al Fawwaz has been found guilty of the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania late Thursday, after a New York
Kurdish fighters seized the eastern and southern outskirts Friday of a key Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
Danish police said they arrested Friday a third alleged accomplice in the Copenhagen shootings, nearly two weeks after the attacks that killed two people. The suspect is “charged with
The Egyptian body which rules on Islamic law on Friday condemned the Islamic State group’s destruction of Iraqi artifacts, saying Mohammed’s own companions had never demolished ancient heritage. The Dar
French President Francois Hollande on Friday condemned the “barbaric” destruction by Islamic State terrorists of priceless ancient artifacts in Iraq’s city of Mosul. “Barbarism affects people, history, memories, culture,” Hollande told reporters in Manila
An eight-way televised debate Thursday between the heads of most of parties expected to enter the next Knesset included heated confrontations between Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) and Zehava Galon (Meretz),
US President Barack Obama is sending National Security Advisor Susan Rice and UN Ambassador Samantha Power to address the AIPAC convention next week. The two are “widely seen as among
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a landmark series of regulation on how Americans will access the internet Thursday, voting for “net neutrality” in a 3-2 sweep – and sparking immediate
IDF, Border Police and Israel Police forces launched a large-scale operation Thursday to block and contain the wave of rock throwing terror in Judea and Samaria. The operation was launched
Any Arab MKs to join the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 20th Knesset will not be privy to classified information, MK Yariv Levin (Likud) stated Thursday. “The general committee will
Jordan and Israel signed a deal on Thursday to build a pipeline to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea and combat regional water shortages, according to AFP. The official Petra news agency
Differing polls place Likud and Labor in very different spots for the 20th Knesset elections Thursday, after one poll places the two at a tie and another gives Labor a
A Danish man whose Facebook comments appeared to back the gunman behind the deadly Copenhagen attacks will not face charges of condoning terrorism, a prosecutor said Thursday to AFP. The unidentified man had posted
An Argentine judge on Thursday dismissed the case against President Cristina Kirchner for allegedly shielding Iranian officials from prosecution over the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, AFP reports. The long-unsolved bombing at the Argentine Jewish
An anti-Israel organization on Wednesday unveiled a new bus ad that uses Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming Congress speech to call on the Obama administration to cut Washington’s aid to
The United States and Iran have a “mutual interest” in defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, AFP reported. He stressed, however, that
Over the course of the last academic year, four doctoral students and one recent alumna of Dr. Roee Holtzer’s Neuropsychology and Cognition Lab at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of
Former Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac is facing up to two years in prison for social media posts that prosecutors have deemed to be critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The
The White House on Wednesday backed comments by National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who said in an interview that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech in Congress is “destructive”
Austria’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law banning foreign sources of financing to Muslim organizations and requiring imams to be able to speak German, AFP reported. The law, first introduced
Three New York residents have been arrested for plotting to join extremists fighting in Syria and two threatened to carry out attacks within the United States, officials said Wednesday, according