Conventional wisdom had it that Israelis had largely stopped buying apartments as they waited for former Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s zero-VAT sales plan to kick in, but Central Bureau of

A special committee reviewing the long list of heroic acts by IDF soldiers during Operation Protective Edge has decided to award the Medal of Courage – the second most prestigious

Daniel Nachman Biton has been named as the 7 year old boy who died in a fire overnight Tuesday/Wednesday in Beit Shemesh, it was cleared for publication Wednesday. Initial reports

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, stated that the IDF would continue to quash escalation along the Gaza border Wednesday, after a skirmish left a soldier critically injured.

More details have emerged over the capture of a Jordanian pilot flying over Syria who was shot down by Islamic State forces and taken captive, Jordanian sources revealed Wednesday night. 

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren will be joining Moshe Kahlon, the Kulanu party head announced Wednesday. Kahlon courted Oren, he said, because of his “responsible political positions,

Israel will not accept a deterioration of the situation along the Gaza border, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz stated Wednesday afternoon.  “Hamas must figure out that if it will continue to

The Ministry of the Interior in Gaza is deploying security forces on the border with Israel and intensifying its presence in the area in order to prevent Palestinian Arabs from

Hamas announced on Tuesday that it opposes the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) draft resolution presented to the UN Security Council which demands that Israel withdraw from Judea and Samaria by 2017,

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that he is confident that a lasting agreement can be struck with world powers over his country’s disputed nuclear program, AFP

Belgium’s Minister for Animal Welfare, Ben Weyts, has advised a European Jewish group of his intention to “enforce in all aspects” a Belgian law facilitating the practice of ritual slaughter

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Wednesday that Israel is not interested in an escalation in Gaza but will respond to any acts of aggression from terrorists in the region.

The Otzma Yehudit (lit. Jewish Strength) party, headed by former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, held its inaugural conference in Ramat Gan on Wednesday evening, and declared, “We are the real

Two Arabs from the Tul Karem area were caught red-handed Sunday digging in a protected archaeological site. The two were found at the bottom of a 4.5 meter hole in

The United States on Wednesday said that a Jordanian F-16 warplane was not shot down by the Islamic State (ISIS) as the group has claimed. A military statement quoted by

The IDF soldier critically wounded in an exchange of gunfire between the IDF and Palestinian Arab terrorists along the Gaza border Wednesday has made a slight improvement, officials at the

MK Moshe Mizrahi said Thursday morning that the massive corruption scandal exposed Wednesday indicates a serious affair that meets the criminal definition of organized crime.  Thirty senior officials were arrested Wednesday

A total of ten Palestinian Arab terrorists were arrested overnight Wednesday/Thursday, after a special operation by the Samaria Brigade and the Duvdevan Unit of the IDF in Shechem (Nablus) exposed

Israel has silently returned the bodies of the terrorists responsible for the Har Nof massacre last month, Radio Israel reports Thursday morning. Ghassan and Uday Abu al Jamal, who carried out the massacre on

A Jewish cemetery in Greece was vandalized on Tuesday with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti signed by racist group “Larissa Skins.”  The capital and largest city of the Thessaly region of Greece, Larissa

Two bodies were found overnight Wednesday/Thursday, in a burned-out car on farmland near the Nesher power station, on Route 6 near Ramle.  Police found the car after several callers complained of

The family of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, captured by Islamic State terrorists in Syria on Wednesday, have called on the organization to release him.  Al-Kasasbeh’s plane crashed Wednesday morning over Raqqa province

MK Hanin Zoabi’s Balad party announced on Wednesday that it plans to file a complaint with the police against MK Danny Danon (Likud), over a new animated campaign video released

MK Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) on Tuesday said a “wake-up call” was required in France amid a growing trend of anti-Semitism in the country. Shaked’s comments were made during a

Sony Pictures on Tuesday backtracked on its cancellation of the movie “The Interview”, saying it would make the controversial Seth Rogen comedy available at a limited number of theaters starting

Labor leader MK Yitzhak Herzog and Hatnua chairwoman MK Tzipi Livni dismissed on Tuesday evening the remarks made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu about Jerusalem, accusing him of making a

The Cabinet on Tuesday evening, in a telephone vote, decided to appoint MK Tzahi Hanegbi (Likud) as Deputy Health Minister (in addition to his role as Deputy Foreign Minister). As

A 10-year-old boy died in a fire that broke out in a private home in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday night. The boy’s father, aged 45, was seriously injured in the

Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, said this week that he was deeply troubled by the anti-Semitism in Europe in general, and in Britain in particular. Speaking at a

After Gaza terrorists breached the truce last Friday with a rocket attack, they broke it again on Wednesday morning with a round of sniper fire targeting IDF forces in the vicinity