A religious scholar in Saudi Arabia has put a ban on a common childhood pastime, Gulf News reports Monday – building snowmen.  Mohammad Saleh Al Minjed released a fatwa (Muslim religious ban) on building

The manager of the Paris kosher supermarket attacked on Friday plans to immigrate to Israel, his brother told a German daily newspaper.  In an exclusive interview Sunday, Joel Oalid, told the

“CyberCaliphate,” a hacker group that claims association with terrorist organization Islamic State, apparently gained control of the official Twitter and YouTube accounts of United States Central Command on Monday (CENTCOM). 

Temple Mount activist and assassination attempt survivor Yehuda Glick has reached out to legal rights group Honenu Monday, in an appeal to the High Court for Justice to testify about

Investigators from elite police unit Lahav 433, working in conjunction with the Israeli Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) uncovered that certain non-governmental organizations are being used to finance terrorist organizations.  The offices

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for “daring” to attend the weekend’s anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading “state terrorism” against

The funeral for the four victims of Friday’s terror rampage at a Paris supermarket will be held at 12:00 pm Tuesday, after an early-morning burial at Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuchot cemetery. 

An Iranian living in Yemen has been charged with promoting the Baha’i faith and trying to convert residents of the Muslim country for Israel’s benefit, state news agency Saba reported Monday. The man,

President Barack Obama spoke by phone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday, and reiterated that the United States opposes the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) bid to join the International Criminal

As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to

Ten thousand Syrian refugees will be brought to Canada over the next three years, Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has announced. The announcement, which was made last week, comes in

Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir will likely be the next Yisrael Beytenu MK to resign from the Knesset, Channel 2 News reported on Monday. According to the report, the background for

US Secretary of State John Kerry announced Monday that he would travel to Paris later this week for talks with French officials, after the series of lethal attacks by Islamist terrorists last week. “I will

Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum of Yisrael Beytenu has decided to resign from the Knesset, reported Channel 2 Monday. She plans to exercise her right to remain silent in the

The Deputy Minister for Religious Services, Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan (Jewish Home), is advancing a plan to recognize the rabbinical certificates of French rabbis, in order to hasten aliyah from

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday that one of the three Islamist terrorists that killed a total of 17 people last week “undoubtedly” had an accomplice and vowed to continue the hunt.

France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, its interior minister said Monday, after last week’s deadly terrorist attacks, one

As the French Jewish community copes with tragedy following the brutal Islamist terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket Friday that left four Jews dead, members of the Betar Zionist movement in

The Knesset Members for Shas have been summoned to an unscheduled meeting at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, reported Kol Yisrael public radio Monday. Shas chairman Aryeh Deri – who

Despite Egypt’s largely secular military-backed government, an Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for “insulting Islam,”

The American creator of “Maus,” a graphic novel about the Holocaust, has denounced the “hypocrisy” of US media for refusing to republish the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was targeted in a

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make an historical visit to the Middle East starting this Friday through next Wednesday, with Israel featuring prominently as bilateral ties between the two

A BBC news correspondent has apologized for his “poorly phrased question” during an interview Sunday night at the Paris “million-man march” against terror – comments which were slammed as anti-Semitic

MK Shelly Yechimovich (Labor) has asked the public to stop donating money to her election campaign Monday, noting that she has raised 274,700 shekels ($69,400) from 956 private donors and reached

Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced Monday that despite reports to the contrary, Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal remains in the country.  “All reports concerning the departure of Mashaal

On Monday, two days before the Jewish Home primaries, Deputy Minister of Education Avi Wortzman abruptly fired his media advisor Udi Tenne, for offensive comments made against MK Shuli Muallem (Jewish

Student leaders and grassroots community organizers are fighting for representation in the upcoming World Zionist Congress, claiming that the official Zionist movement has become “fossilized” and no longer relevant to

Former deputy minister with Yisrael Beytenu, Danny Ayalon, claimed on Monday to reveal the secret behind the recent slew of resignations from Avigdor Liberman’s party, saying Liberman had forced the party

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited on Monday the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris where four Jews were murdered by an Islamist gunman Friday. To the cries of “Bibi, Bibi” – his nickname

Kulanu chairperson Moshe Kahlon vowed on Monday to disband the Israel Land Authority (ILA) – the government body tasked with managing state land that makes up 93% of the currently annexed