The IDF’s military police have opened an official investigation into the fatal shooting along Route 443 early Tuesday morning, which resulted in the death of a Palestinian bystander. The 15-year-old Arab
One out of every 113 people in the world was forced to leave their home and is now classified as a “refugee” or “asylum seeker,” according to recently-released information from
Bentzi Gopstein, the head of the anti-assimilation organization Lehava, successfully stopped Christian missionaries from holding a conversion ceremony in Rishon Leziyon on Saturday. “My family and I, together with 50
Rabbanit Yael Cohen, the wife of Shas’s spiritual leader, passed away Tuesday morning. She was about 78 years old and had been hospitalized due to a serious illness. The rabbanit was
MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ), the head of the Knesset Finance Committee, has expressed his opposition to the growing trend of haredi youths pursuing academic studies. Earlier this week, Gafni provided
A car bomb killed several Jordanian soldiers and wounded others outside a refugee camp near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the army said. “At 5:30 a.m. a car bomb exploded in the Rukban district
Police in Brussels arrested a man after they were alerted to a “suspicious situation,” the BBC reports. According to AFP, he was wearing a fake suicide vest. The situation, which was treated
Turkey and Israel will this weekend announce a deal on normalizing ties, ending a six-year diplomatic crisis sparked by a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which 10 Turkish nationals died,
Sixty percent of the Israeli public believes that the current political establishment is purposefully concealing the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Yemenite children. The data comes from a new survey
A group of Palestinians shot overnight, one of them fatally, after throwing rocks, may have been “uninvolved bystanders,” the IDF said Tuesday. “From initial inquiry, it appears uninvolved bystanders were mistakenly hit during the
A day after the furor erupted over the Ministry for Religious Services’ decision to terminate the Chief Rabbi of the Ethiopian community, Rabbi Yosef Hadane explains why he will not insist
TORONTO (JTA) – A rare breed of sheep said to be descended from Jacob’s flock referenced in the Bible will be shepherded to Israel with the help of a Canadian
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian Arab and seriously wounded two others near the village of Beit Ur overnight Monday, Palestinian security officials told AFP. They said the dead man
Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS) group drove Syrian regime troops out of Raqa province on Monday, killing dozens of fighters in a lightning counter-attack, a monitoring group said. The
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tensions between Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly were behind Lewandowski’s departure announced Monday by the campaign. On the same day,
Iranian intelligence officials said Monday they had broken up “the biggest terrorist plot” to ever target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, The Associated Press reported. An anchor
IDF forces, in cooperation with the Border Police and Civil Administration, demolished overnight Monday the home of terrorist Bashar Masalha in the Palestinian Arab village of Hajja, located 18 kilometers
The Obama administration has concluded that uranium particles discovered last year at a secretive Iranian military base likely were tied to the country’s past, covert nuclear weapons program, The Wall
An Israeli official on Monday evening expressed optimism about the chances of Israel and the United States reaching an agreement on the American military aid package to Israel. “The gaps
Broad support from women and minority voters has helped Hillary Clinton open an early lead over Donald Trump nationally, a new poll released on Monday finds, according to The New
The Spanish village formerly known as “Kill the Jews” is twinning with an Israeli town, JTA reported Monday. In late 2015, the ancient Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudios, which translates as
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he had read a memo from a group of frustrated diplomats urging strikes against the Syrian regime and found it “very good.”
A group of Muslim activists in Jerusalem, backed by the Palestinian Authority, have launched a new campaign to deter Muslims from selling property to Jews in the Israeli capital. Activists
A new survey found that people in the UK are more accepting of immigrants than other countries in Europe. In particular, they expressed a willingness to accept Jewish migrants. The Times reports that
The chief rabbi for Samaria and the community of Elon Moreh, Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, was questioned by the Civil Service Commission’s disciplinary division on Monday. Rabbi Levanon was under investigation
“In our era, miracles of God are implemented by the actions of people.” That’s how veteran Temple Mount activist and Likud MK Yehuda Gick summed up the legacy of American-Jewish
Among the countless human rights causes supported by Jewish philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz, Jerusalem always figured high on his agenda. Determined to return lands and properties seized from Jews by Arabs
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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat spoke at the funeral for Dr. Irving Moskowitz on Monday, noting that the philanthropist “did many great things in the city of Jerusalem. “Sometimes in the world
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Monday met Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for the first time, the Pentagon said, offering few details about the visit. “They have had a good