The UN agency for Palestinian Arab refugees said on Tuesday that it cannot afford to repair Gaza homes damaged in last year’s war with Israel – because donors have failed

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has slammed as “utterly despicable” an Islamic State (ISIS) threat to kill a Japanese hostage within 24 hours unless Jordan releases a jihadi bomber. “This

Hours after former minister Avi Dichter appealed to the Supreme Court over the District Court’s decision to freeze the recount in Likud’s primaries, the Supreme Court on Tuesday evening accepted

President Barack Obama’s efforts to thwart new sanctions against Iran seem to have worked. A group of 10 Senate Democrats said on Tuesday they wouldn’t vote for new sanctions against

Kadima chairman MK Shaul Mofaz officially announced on Tuesday that he is retiring from political life and will not run for the 20th Knesset, though Kadima is still planning to

The IDF on Tuesday night attacked artillery targets belonging to the Syrian army, in retaliation for rocket attacks earlier on Tuesday towards the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. “[The rocket

After weeks of tension and public calls for former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit and MK Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu to run on a technical bloc joint

President Reuven Rivlin met Monday evening in New York with parents of IDF Lone Soldiers from the United States who fell in battle during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza over the summer, the Government Press Office announced

The number of anti-Semitic acts doubled in France during 2014, with acts involving physical violence leading the increase, the country’s main Jewish group said on Tuesday. Some 851 anti-Semitic acts were registered in

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett confirmed Tuesday morning that he intends to place Dr. Anat Roth in the 14th spot in the Jewish Home’s Knesset list. Bennett noted Roth’s move from left wing to

Asked about the way he circumvented the White House in inviting Binyamin Netanyahu to address Congress, House Speaker John Boehner told CBS‘s 60 Minutes: “I gave ’em a heads up

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino faces yet another scandal in the police force Tuesday, after his direct subordinate was identified as the prime suspect in a sexual harassment case.  Deputy Police

The ubiquitous social media site Facebook crashed Tuesday morning, just after 8:00 am IST.  Attempts to access the site result in a “page not found” or loading loop, or alternatively

Former minister Avi Dichter is appealing to the Supreme Court over the District Court’s decision to freeze the recount in Likud’s primaries – a decision that would place MK Tzipi

To mark Israeli Space Week, about 300 IAI employees posed in a way that spelled out “IAI” for what they called a “satellite selfie”: a photograph taken by the cameras

Japan is working with Jordan to free both a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot being held by Islamist extremists, officials said Tuesday, days after terrorists executed another hostage, according to AFP.  The self-styled

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group threatened Tuesday to kill a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot within 24 hours if Amman refuses to free a jailed female jihadist. The video released on jihadist

The BBC is no stranger to controversial statements tinged with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments, including shocking questions at the recent Paris anti-terror rally and talk of a powerful “Jewish lobby” –

European Parliament President Martin Schulz of Germany took part in the fourth International “Let My People Live!” Forum against anti-Semitism this week, where he had harsh words for the recent rise of the racist

Panos Kammenos, whose nationalist Independent Greeks party has entered into an unlikely coalition government with the radical left-wing Syriza, once walked the corridors of parliament wearing a T-shirt that read:

MK Zevulun Kalfa has announced his resignation from the Jewish Home Knesset list, in an act of protest at the decision by party head Naftali Bennett to place former soccer

The Roundtable of Speakers of Parliament in the European Union expressed “grave concern” Tuesday about the rise in anti-Semitism witnessed in Europe. “We, the gathered here today in Prague for

Labor is maintaining a strong lead over Likud in elections polls Tuesday, after a Panels Politics poll for the Knesset Channel held on Monday night gave leaders Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni a

Belgian security forces arrested three suspected Islamist terrorists in fresh counter-terror raids after foiling a major plot to attack police earlier this month, officials said Tuesday. The three arrests were made in the

Turkey will host a ceremony to commemorate Holocaust victims in its capital for the first time in a sign of solidarity with the Jewish community, an official said. “The ceremony will take

Many Hungarians chose “bad instead of good” in helping deport Jews to Nazi death camps, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday in his first acknowledgement of his country’s complicity in the Holocaust. “We were

President Reuven Rivlin began the second day of his trip to the United States with a visit to the West Point US Military Academy.  Rivlin was greeted by the Dean

The weekly BeSheva newspaper, an Arutz Sheva-associated publication distributed free around the country, has become the third-largest weekly journal in Israel. So reports the TGI (Target Group Index) consumers-and-media analysis organization.  BeSheva, a

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit party has released its list for the 20th Knesset Monday, ahead of the Thursday deadline for the March 17 elections.  The list is

A radical Muslim leader pleaded not guilty in a Bosnian court Monday to charges of inciting terrorism for having encouraged his followers to fight alongside terrorists in Syria and Iraq. The radical cleric, Husein