Some polls have shown former Shas chairperson Eli Yishai’s new Ha’am Itanu party not passing the Knesset threshold in coming elections, and talk of a joint list with Uri Ariel’s

Muslim extremists have been upping their violent campaign against Jewish visits to the Temple Mount in recent months, claiming that the presence of religious Jews is tantamount to an “invasion”

Chabad in Sydney has set up a menorah as a tribute to the victims of last week’s terror attack.  The attack began when an Islamist gunman took dozens of people

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett on Sunday morning led party members in praising the decision by the Tekuma/National Union faction to formally unite with his party, ending weeks of

A poll published Saturday night on Channel 10‘s “Hamateh Hamerkazi” program found that respondents place responsibility for Israel’s weakening financial situation on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu more than on former Finance

Yehuda Glick has announced he will run for a spot on the Likud Knesset list for upcoming elections, the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported.  The Temple Mount rights activist was shot multiple times

After the arrest of ten activists from the Lehava anti-assimilation organization last Tuesday – after which a court dismissed the arrests leading to the release of all ten last week

For the third consecutive year, volunteers from Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli visited and lit Hanukkah candles with 150 Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans in the Jerusalem area.  Shishi

The offices of suspended Knesset member Hanan Zoabi were vandalized over the weekend, officials of the Balad party said. The offices, located in the city of Nazareth, were ransacked, with

Security was stepped up at police and fire stations across France on Sunday after a knife-wielding French convert to Islam was shot dead after attacking three police officers.   Bertrand

Two Israeli men convicted of “Price Tag” vandalism have been sentenced to two and a half years in prison each. A Magistrates Court sentenced Yehuda Landsberg and Yehuda Savir to

The government’s “price target” plan to lower the cost of apartments for first-time homebuyers kicks in on Monday. The cabinet easily passed the plan, which was proposed by Housing Minister

​ In a recent children’s television show sponsored by terrorist organization Hamas, a young boy was asked to a send a message to the enemy. He responded by reciting a

After the Mifal Hapayis’ (Israel’s official state lottery) Landau Prize to radical leftist poet Yitzhak Laor was cancelled last week, it was decided again to award Laor the prize, causing Gilit Chomsky

United States President Barack Obama has signed into law the 2014 United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act.  The bill, meant to strengthen the US-Israel alliance, passed unanimously in the House of Representatives

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) on Sunday hit out at Hatnua chairperson Tzipi Livni, over reports she asked US Secretary of State John Kerry to shoot down a unilateral

Michael Bloomberg’s charity announced last Monday that it will provide urban innovation grants to Israel’s two biggest cities – Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.  Tel Aviv, located along the Mediterranean in

In France last weekend, a good dose of Jewish humor was recruited in the battle against anti-Semitism.  The Organization of Jewish Europeans (OJE) launched a bold campaign to fight against

At a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told IDF soldiers that Israel faced a multi-front struggle – both on the battlefield and off. “In this struggle

President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday joined residents of Nitzan in southern Israel who were among those thrown out of their homes in the 2005 disengagement for a Chanukah candle lighting

Over 1,000 people gathered Sunday in Tel Aviv to set a new world’s record for “dreidel-spinning” – the largest number of Chanukah tops spun in tandem ever recorded by the

In an explosive TV interview aired last week, Iraq’s Grand Mufti Rafi Al-Rifa’i, the highest Sunni authority in the country, accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Iraqi government,

The IDF’s military court handed an indictment Sunday to Maher Al-Hashalmoun, the Palestinian terrorist who murdered 26-year-old Dalia Lemkos as she waited at a bus stop in Gush Etzion. Al-Hashalmoun

The Islamic State (IS), which has firmly established itself as the ruling entity in a large portion of Syria and Iraq, has recently begun instituting Shari’a Islamic law as the

Anne and Horatio Spafford, founders of the American Colony (seen here and on the main page), arrived in Jerusalem in 1881 after losing their four daughters in a shipwreck.  Millennialists and Utopian Christians, they established a

Expect changes – lots of them – in the opinion polls during the run-up to next March 17th’s elections, said Professor Avi Degani of the Geocartographia Polling Institute. In fact,

Al-Qaeda on Sunday slammed the Taliban for being “too violent,” as the heads of the international terrorist group lectured the Afghani Islamists over their killing of nearly 150 schoolchildren last

The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, AFP reported Saturday, citing

Egypt said Saturday it aims to end differences with Qatar, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with an envoy from the Gulf emirate, reports AFP. Ties between Cairo and Doha

The members of the Tekuma Central Committee have officially decided that the party will not split off from the Jewish Home. The Central Committee voted on the issue late Saturday