Following Tuesday’s publication of a startling report by the National Insurance Institute on poverty and social gaps in Israel, MK Shelly Yehimovich (Labor) who formerly served as her party’s head

MK Eli Yishai, former chairperson of Shas who on Monday split from the party and launched his Yachad party, explained the move and his falling out with Shas head Aryeh

Benny Katzover, head of the Shomron (Samaria) Residents Council, told Arutz Sheva he is worried about how the coming March 17 elections may negatively effect Israel. “I’m worried because in the reality

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on Religious and Islamic Affairs assured in his televised weekly sermon last Friday that Israel will be destroyed, and that military options are

European Union lawmakers stopped short on Tuesday of proposing a joint motion urging EU members to recognize “a state of Palestine”, settling instead on a compromise resolution that peace talks

United States Vice President Joe Biden marked the beginning of the Hanukkah holiday on Tuesday, by taking part in a candle-lighting ceremony on the White House lawn. “Jewish heritage is

An international conference in Geneva on Wednesday called on both Israelis and Palestinians to respect humanitarian rights laws in Judea-Samaria, but was condemned by Israel as a “political exercise,” AFP reports.   Switzerland gathered diplomats

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg on Wednesday informed the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel, which he chairs, that he was resigning in order to throw

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday decried the decision by the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations, while expressing appreciation to the United States for

Cuba has freed Alan Gross – a US contractor jailed on the communist-ruled island since 2009 – on humanitarian grounds at the request of the United States, a US official said Wednesday. US

Luxembourg’s parliament voted Wednesday to urge the government to recognize a Palestinian state, AFP reports Wednesday – the latest in a series of similar moves around Europe aimed at pressuring Israel to move forward the peace process.

The decision is by the European Union to remove Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations is a “very puzzling” one, according to former Israeli ambassador to the US Zalman

Rabbi Haim Amsalem, who broke off from Shas and failed to make it into the Knesset in the last elections with his Am Shalem party, told Arutz Sheva that he is calling

The EU said Wednesday it still considers Hamas to be a “terrorist” group even though a European court ruled that it should be temporarily removed from the bloc’s terrorism blacklist.

The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the recognition of a Palestinian state “in principle” on Wednesday, following a series of votes on the issue in EU nations which have angered Israel.

Talk of a merger between Eli Yishai’s newly-founded “Yachad” party and the National Union faction of Housing Miniter Uri Ariel are looking increasingly unlikely following statements made Tuesday evening by

Ahead of the traditional period of shloshim on Wednesday marking thirty days since the Har Nof synagogue massacre in which four Jews at prayer and a police officer were murdered by two

Learn and Return, an organization that works to prevent Jewish women and girls from getting trapped in abusive relationships with Arab men, has uncovered the shocking truth of an epidemic

In a meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat in London on Tuesday, Kerry reportedly finally promised to veto a PA

Hezbollah says it recently exposed a Mossad agent embedded among its “elite operations unit”, in what the Iranian-backed terror group says is “the most serious breach in Hezbollah’s history.”

Former MK and primaries contender in the radical leftist Meretz party Mossi Raz, who also is the former secretary general of Peace Now, paid a condolence visit in Ramallah on

Australian media has unearthed new details about “hate sheikh” Man Haron Monis (49), who took just over a dozen people hostage in a Sydney cafe Monday before being killed along with

As the first night of Hanukkah began on Tuesday evening, a 15-year-old Arab terrorist wielding a knife was arrested at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea and confessed in investigation

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took part in a ceremony marking the first night of Hanukkah together with two elite army units Tuesday night – the Oketz canine unit and the

A Jerusalem court on Tuesday accepted an appeal filed on behalf of a Jewish woman who was banned from entering the Temple Mount because she was carrying a bottle of

Canada reiterated on Tuesday that it will not attend Wednesday’s anti-Israel conference in Switzerland, which will deal with “respect for international humanitarian law in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) assigned territories”.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sent Jews around the world his traditional greeting in honor of the holiday of Hanukkah. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, began on Tuesday evening.

The Afghanistan Taliban on Tuesday condemned their Pakistani counterpart over an attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 141 people. “The intentional killing of innocent people, children and women

The Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) and the Israel Police’s Central District have declared a hit-and-run in Samaria a crime – not a terror attack – Tuesday, despite

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman criticized the UN Security Council’s pressure on Israel Tuesday, noting that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) demands to force Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria within