The Jewish community in New York is in shock following the death of the self-proclaimed “Facebuker Rebbe”, Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, who was killed this past week in a car accident

President Reuven Rivlin departed for New York on Saturday night, where he will address the United Nations Special Assembly to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday. As well, Rivlin

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called on party activists Sunday to buy “thousands” of copies of the controversial “Mohammed edition” of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, which they will then distribute

Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid and several of his party’s members took to the streets Sunday morning with a new campaign declaration.  Standing at the entrance to the Kirya (a

A light aircraft crashed Sunday morning near the Superland amusement park in Rishon Lezion in central Israel.  The plane crashed into a shed at the airstrip and then caught on

Many bus commuters throughout Israel will be forced to find other modes of transportation Monday, as the Egged bus cooperative goes on a full-fledged strike. The strike will last for just

MK Ibrahim Sarsur, head of the Ra’am Ta’al Arab party, warned Israeli shops against selling copies of the French Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine. “There are red lines that cannot be

United States President Barack Obama called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday to offer his condolences and express his and the US’s solidarity against terrorism.  Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa is believed

The distraught father of a Japanese hostage believed executed by his terrorist Islamist captors told Sunday how his mind had gone “totally blank” when he heard the news of his son’s death. “I thought

As yet another round of talks between Western countries and Iran on the latter country’s scaling back its uranium enrichment program wrapped up with no progress last week, Iran announced

The Anti-Semitism Report for 2014 will be presented Sunday during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Channel 2 News reported.  The Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, Avraham Duvdevani and WZO’s

Jerusalem city Councilman and Land of Israel activist Arieh King has been working to prevent the sale of the last Jewish-owned property in the area of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate to

MK Rina Frenkel (Yesh Atid) is retiring from politics, she announced in a mass email to party members Saturday night.  “After two years of work as a member of the

US President Barack Obama strongly condemned Saturday the killing of a Japanese hostage by the Islamic State group, though the execution has not yet been independently confirmed. “The United States strongly condemns the brutal

Increasing numbers of young women are altering the profile of Australians joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, Attorney-General George Brandis said Saturday, enticed by the “false glamor” of the organization.

Herzl Biton, the bus driver who was seriously injured while fighting terrorist Hamza Mohammed Hassan Matrouk during a stabbing spree in Tel Aviv Wednesday, described his ordeal in an emotional Channel 10 interview

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has requested that veteran journalist Caroline Glick be appointed to the #11 spot on the Likud list, Likud sources stated Saturday night.  Glick is a veteran

A Syrian refugee child has been beaten by a restaurant manager in the Turkish city Istanbul for eating a customer’s leftovers, local media reported on Saturday. A photo circulating on social media shows

US-led forces have carried out dozens of air strikes in Iraq to back up Kurdish forces advancing against Islamic State jihadists near the strategic city of Mosul, the American military said Saturday. Over

Economics professor Manuel Trajtenberg has been appointed to the #11 spot on the Labor list, Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog announced Saturday night – despite earlier reports that former Military Intelligence

While Jewish Home officials have urged Yachad Ha’am Itanu’s Eli Yishai and Otzma Yehudit’s Michael Ben-Ari to unite, such a pact could actually harm a right-wing bloc, according to a

A colleague who says he gave a gun to an Argentine prosecutor found fatally shot earlier this week has been barred from leaving the country, justice officials in Buenos Aires said. Authorities

Nationalist journalist Erel Segal on Friday informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he would not run for the Knesset with the Likud. Segal’s announcement came a day after reports surfaced

Miss Lebanon can breathe a sigh of relief: Despite the fact that a photograph of her alongside with Miss Israel appeared on the internet, she will not be stripped of

A knife-wielding 18-year-old Arab from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya was caught and arrested in the vicinity of the President’s Residence in the capital on Friday night. The incident took

At least as many anti-Muslim acts have taken place in France since the terror attacks this month as for all of last year, a leading Muslim group reported Friday, according

The Arab parties of Balad, Hadash and United Arab List, which decided to run on a joint list on Thursday, introduced the new union on Friday and declared their goal:

The unending saga surrounding the Likud primaries continued on Friday, as the Likud court ordered a recount of all the ballots in the primaries. The court’s ruling came despite the

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) assessed the Northern Command headquarters in Tzfat (Safed) on Friday, in a special meeting attended by the GOC Aviv Kochavi, Chief of Operations Gen. Yoav Har-Even and other

Islamic State (ISIS) recruiting is not just a problem of the West, revealed Chinese vice-minister of Public Safety Ministry Meng Hongwei, as he spoke with Malaysia’s Minister of Home Affairs Ahmad