Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called on world powers to “seize the opportunity” of a landmark nuclear deal with his country, AFP reported, and insisted Tehran had taken the

Australian police have foiled what they said was an “imminent” terror attack in Sydney by arresting two men and seizing a machete, a hunting knife, a video, and an Islamic

Channel 2 News is attempting to organize a televised debate among the leaders of the various parties running for the Knesset in the March 17 elections. On Tuesday, the network

The United States denied on Tuesday that it was coordinating air strikes with the Syrian regime against Islamic terrorists, renewing its insistence that President Bashar Al-Assad must step down, AFP

After having earlier announced that it will support the barring of radical Arab MK Hanin Zoabi from the Knesset, the joint Labor-Hatnua list, known as the “Zionist Camp”, has changed

After taking Kobane, Syrian Kurdish forces are moving forward and have set their sights on taking back Tal Abyad from jihadists, AFP reported on Monday, citing a local monitor. Tal

MK Eli Yishai, chairman of the Yachad-Ha’am Itanu party, said on Monday that he would ask to serve as Interior Minister in a future coalition, a move that will likely

The assistant who supplied late Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman with the gun used in his mysterious death was fired on Monday, officials said, according to AFP. The justice ministry announced

Syria will not allow foreign ground troops on its territory to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in

A group of Democrats in the House of Representatives are circulating a petition asking Republican Speaker John Boehner to postpone the March 3 speech by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said he could accept a compromise in nuclear talks with Iran, as long as the deal is not “contrary to our nation’s interests”.

Police in Paris on Monday arrested a 38-year-old man who tried to set fire to an Israeli flag that was placed at the entrance to the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket,

The United States has delivered more than $25 million worth of military aid to the Lebanese Army, Reuters reported Sunday night, to help it “defeat the terrorist and extremist threat from Syria.” 

Prominent Jewish rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Monday condemned an Estonian modern art exhibition for making light of the Holocaust – claims the curator denied. The “My Poland: On Recalling and Forgetting” exhibition

Yesh Atid Chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid presented his plan for the nationalization of the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet LeYisrael (JNF-KKL) Tuesday, while standing in front of

Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett reprimanded EU ambassadors to Israel Monday, during a series of closed meetings at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel.  “To isolate Israel and tie its

Both Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama have assured the Israeli and American public that Netanyahu’s planned address to Congress will not harm the “unbreakable” US-Israel relationship

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky welcomed recent efforts by a group of British MPs to bolster the fight against anti-Semitism in the UK, he stated Tuesday, one day after the

Damascus receives “information” about air strikes by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Tuesday. “Sometimes, they convey a message, a

President Reuven Rivlin hosted the IDF Chief of Staff and the Forum of the General Staff on the occasion of the conclusion of the term in office of Lieutenant General Benjamin

Oscar winner Helen Mirren presented her new movie about Nazi-looted art in Berlin on Monday, saying Germany and Austria should not rest until all the works are returned, according to AFP. The

The United States added German former rapper Denis Cuspert to its list of “terrorists” over his role as a fighter with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, the State Department

The “Zionist camp” unity party of Labor and Hatnua retraced its steps regarding support for the barring of openly pro-Hamas Arab MK Hanin Zoabi, after the Arab parties threatened they would

Ahead of internationally famous rock star Alan Parsons’ performance in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, anti-Israel musician Roger Waters formerly of Pink Floyd published his call on Parsons to cancel the

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) resumed air strikes on Tuesday against the Islamic State (ISIS) group which it had suspended after the jihadists captured a Jordanian pilot in December and burned him alive, the military

The race between a right-wing and left-wing government for the 20th Knesset has become neck-and-neck, according to the latest elections poll.  Likud and Labor face off with 23 seats each,

Former Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger may be criminally prosecuted over corruption charges, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein stated Tuesday, pending an upcoming hearing on the case.  Metzger has been

EU member states have been readying themselves to enforce sanctions on Israel for Jewish communities in Judea-Samaria, diplomats revealed Tuesday – and will strike hours after the March 17 elections.

A small Japanese publisher on Tuesday issued 3,000 copies of a book of cartoons by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, including controversial drawings of Mohammed, according to AFP.  “Are You Charlie? Isuramu heito ka fushi

Former Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich derided Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett Tuesday, calling him “populist” and accusing him of fishing for votes in response to Bennett’s statements about crime