A young Canadian woman abruptly left her family to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria after purportedly being radicalized while studying religion online, AFP reported Wednesday. The 23-year-old’s

The Comptroller’s Report on housing prices is “a very important document that we place a great deal of importance on,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday. “We believe that

The back and forth banter between Israel and the United States over Iran’s nuclear aspirations continued on Wednesday, as Secretary of State John Kerry questioned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s judgment

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday that he “condemned with the greatest strength” a decision by three French lawmakers to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he described as “a butcher.” “I

A church-owned building in Jerusalem was torched overnight, the Israel Police said in a statement Thursday morning.  Arsonists set fire to an annex of a Greek Orthodox Seminary just outside

Islamic State terrorists have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians from villages in northeastern Syria in recent days, a monitoring group said Thursday, more than twice as many as previously reported. “No fewer than 220 Assyrian

Adolg Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf  (My Struggle) is returning to German bookshelves in early 2016, sparking public and political outrage across the country.  For 70 years, the State of Bavaria in

An Iranian-American engineer in a key US company and nearly smuggled sensitive fighter jet plans to Iran has pleaded guilty. He could be sentenced to 20 years in prison and

Amit Barak, one of the founders of the Im Tirzu organization and an activist advocating IDF service for Christian Arabs, is demanding that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein open an investigation

Iranian forces conducting military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, blew up a mock US aircraft carrier. State television showed Iranian speedboats surround the ship and hit it with what the

An Arab satellite television network report claimed Thursday that a US-led coalition airstrike against Islamic State targets in areas they control has killed a “large number” of the organization’s top commanders. It is

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and IDF have uncovered two terrorist cells, whose members carried out, recently, a number of shootings at Israeli vehicles and at an IDF

It’s been four months since veteran Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick was gunned down in an attempted assassination in Jerusalem. Four bullets fired by an Islamic Jihad assassin pierced his body, and

The worst forecasts of the expected jump in gasoline prices materialized Thursday, as the Economics Ministry announced that the new price of gas beginning Sunday would be NIS 6.46 per

The IDF on Thursday suspended air exercises, after several “close calls” in recent weeks demanded a review of procedures and safety practices, Israel Air Force officials said. The exercises would

Kurdish forces have prevented displaced Arabs from returning to disputed areas of Iraq that Kurdish leaders want to incorporate in their autonomous region over Baghdad’s objections, a report said Thursday. Human Rights Watch warned

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will be the Guest of Honor – via pre-recorded video – at a giant Chabad youth event this Sunday. That same day, modern Jerusalem’s busiest synagogue, and

Students in Israeli Religious Zionist high schools are demanding that the four religious parties running in this election – Jewish Home, Yachad-Ha’am Itanu, Shas, and United Torah Jewry – put

Police can no longer require suspects to strip for a search unless they have a very good reason to believe that a suspect is hiding weapons or drugs on his

President of Israel Reuven Rivlin hosted a delegation from Apple Wednesday, led by CEO Tim Cook, currently on a visit to Israel. “It is a great privilege to host you and

The State Comptroller’s Office Wednesday published a damning report on the conduct of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, just one week after State Comptroller Yosef Shapira officially rebuked him over excessive spending on running his

Jews who attempt to ascend to the Temple Mount have a great many obstacles placed in their way – and the latest consists of mobs of Muslim women who form

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he “respects” US President Barack Obama but stressed he has no choice but to travel to America to lobby against a nuclear deal with Iran. “I

An Australian who travelled to Syria to join Kurds battling jihadists has been killed, a monitor said Wednesday, adding he was the first Westerner to die fighting alongside the Kurds. “An Australian man

54% of Jewish American college students experienced anti-Semitism on campus during the 2013-2014 academic year, according to a landmark study released Tuesday – and one conservative think-tank is determined to

Egypt’s former mufti expressed doubt recently that the Islamic State (ISIS) indeed burned alive a Jordanian pilot it kidnapped in Syria. In an address posted on the internet on February

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid continued on Tuesday to blame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the housing crisis in Israel, ahead of a new report by the State Comptroller

For the second time in as many years, Yeshiva University men’s basketball player Benjy Ritholtz has earned one of the highest academic honors a college student-athlete can earn, as the

The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Tuesday said that an Iran nuclear deal was “at hand”, AFP reported. “We cannot miss this opportunity,” Federica Mogherini said at Chatham House, a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday night that he will not form a unity government with the “Zionist Camp”, headed by Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua chairwoman Tzipi