The left is gaining ground, according to a Channel 2 poll released Monday night, with Labor three seats ahead of Likud.  Labor is projected to gain 26 seats in the 2015 elections,

Member of the Jewish Home party’s Central Committee gathered Monday evening to confirm the party’s unification with Tekuma and to present its official joint list for the 20th Knesset.  “First

The IDF has begun digging trenches along the border with Syria, Walla! News reports Monday night, amid fears of real escalation between Israel and Islamists in neighboring Syria and Lebanon.  The mechanical

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid announced his party’s Knesset list Monday night – mere days before the deadline to do so.  “We have learned from our initial mistakes that if

Egypt’s Emergency State Security Court on Monday overturned an earlier decision to list Hamas as a terrorist organization, the Ma’an news agency reported. The court ruled that determining whether or

Film director Steven Spielberg on Monday warned that Jews are again facing what he called the “perennial demons of intolerance”, from anti-Semites who are provoking hate crimes and trying to

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday held a working meeting in New York with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, upon whose invitation Rivlin will address the UN special session for

The United States Central Command confirmed on Monday night that Kurdish forces have pushed back the Islamic State (ISIS) group and now control 90 percent of the key Syrian town

Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, announced on Monday night that she plans to disband Argentina’s intelligence agency, in the wake of the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman last

Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett explained on Monday evening the reasoning behind his recruiting former soccer legend Eli Ohana to the party. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Bennett said that he

A former CIA officer was convicted on Monday of leaking classified details of an operation to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions to a New York Times reporter. According to The Associated

The United States said Monday that the battle for control of the Syrian town of Kobane was continuing, despite claims by Kurdish leaders that their forces have recaptured the area

The Jewish Home party surprised Israelis on Monday evening by announcing that former Israeli soccer superstar Eli Ohana had joined the party. Ohana, 50, played with the Beitar Jerusalem soccer

It has become known as “Survivors’ Street” – a small road in Haifa where about 100 Holocaust survivors are living out their last days side-by-side, keeping alive memories and testimony of the

A week after the Chief Rabbi of Iran sharply blamed the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris for causing their deaths by “insulting” Mohammed, the founder of Islam, members

Former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit party and MK Eli Yishai’s Yachad – Ha’am Itanu were in last minute talks Sunday night to form a joint list and ensure

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been conducting a nearly four-year bloody crackdown on his own people, said US plans to train vetted rebels to fight Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists were “illusory”

Several young Arab assailants armed with rubber straps, sticks and rocks entered the Hadar neighborhood in Haifa on Sunday, where they began beating passersby with the sticks and shouting “slaughter the

As Australian troops join US-led efforts to combat Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, one of the country’s political figures has reportedly taken matters into his own hands and gone to the Middle East

Leftist Israeli filmmakers are known for negatively portraying IDF soldiers, as recently exemplified by “5 Broken Cameras,” but a new documentary is seeking to push the envelope and go back in time

With elections just seven weeks away, Israel’s journalists are fully fledged participants in the contest between left and right, as a leading article in Monday morning’s Israel Hayom website shows.

Israel’s ambassador to the United States stressed on Sunday night that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Washington, where he will address Congress, is not meant to show disrespect

Ronen Moshe, the media adviser to Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon, and the owner of the public relations firm Together, is suspected of bribery and fraud in aggravated circumstances, as part of the corruption

The saga over the Likud primaries continued Monday as MK Tzipi Hotovely won her appeal to the Tel Aviv District Court against the Likud Court’s decision to hold a recount.  Fully accepting the petition of

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman met with his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow Monday. At the meeting, the two ministers discussed the continuing and strengthening of relations and cooperation between Israel and Russia.

Reservists from the Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200 who penned a letter protesting their IDF service during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza over the summer will be dishonorably discharged, the IDF

Members of a Muslim gang who carried out a terrifying anti-Semitic attack in England last summer have pleaded guilty to racially aggravated common assault, according to the UK’s Daily Mirror. Newcastle Crown Court heard

New Saudi King Salman is expected to use President Barack Obama’s stopover on Tuesday to push for greater US involvement in resolving Middle East crises, analysts say. Obama, accompanied by

Americans on the East Coast have been bracing themselves for a record snowstorm Monday, after the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for “historic” and “life-threatening” snowfall.  Up to

Did Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog reveal classified information about the operation that killed an Iranian general and Hezbollah’s Jihad Mughniyeh, a week ago? Speaking at a conference in the Emek