On Thursday, former Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that he would not contend for leadership of the Likud party against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the upcoming Likud primaries. “In

Amidst speculation of a split, Jewish Home Knesset members issued a letter Saturday night to three members of Tekuma calling on their members to remain united with Jewish Home and

US Secretary of State John Kerry left early Sunday for a series of meetings in Europe seeking to head off an end-of-year UN showdown over a Palestinian bid for statehood, according to AFP. His first

A majority of Israelis believe that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will continue in his role after the next elections, a poll published by Channel 10 News on Saturday night found.

The Jewish Home party under Naftali Bennett and the Tekuma / National Union faction within it have yet to reach agreement over Tekuma’s part in the list for the coming

With at least half a dozen members of the defunct Hatnua Party joining the Labor Party – and guaranteed slots among the first 21 “realistic” candidate seats on the Labor list –

Environmental rescue workers and officials of the Parks and Nature Authority have turned the tide in the battle against the oil spill in the Arava last week, said Ofir Akunis,

Details on the deal between Labor party head Yitzchak Herzog and former Hatnua head – and Justice Minister – Tzipi Livni were revealed on Sunday. The back-room deal cooked up

The IAF scrambled jets to defend Israel’s skies Sunday when Hamas sent a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into the air and flew it over a parade in Gaza marking the

A new natural gas field containing about 3.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas has been discovered about 150 kilometers (93 miles) off Israel’s coast. The Royee field contains, according

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin presented his campaign platform Sunday, noting in a special interview with Arutz Sheva that his particular angle in the primaries against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is his stance

One of the five youths arrested for terrorizing Jewish children on a school bus in Australia earlier this year consented to visit the Sydney Jewish Museum as well as attend a

On the 27th anniversary of its establishment, terrorist organization Hamas continues to send threatening messages to Israel – this time via an especially provocative parade in Gaza and with the

The organizers of Ireland’s national memorial for the Holocaust have banned any mention of Israel, the Jewish Chronicle Online reported last week – demanding the master of ceremonies “not to refer to the

In a series of articles about the “Efrat” organization, Arutz Sheva presents a number of personal stories and anecdotes, through which the organization’s activities and strivings towards preserving human life

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Rome on Sunday for a flurry of meetings about a looming showdown at the United Nations amid a European-led drive to push

When the government instituted rules several years ago demanding that service providers provide timely service to customers, it meant business – and on Sunday, cable company HOT learned just how

Hassidic singing star Avraham Fried capped off a gala event at the Jerusalem Convention Center (Binyanei HaUmah) last night, marking a new round of the three-year study cycle of Maimonides’

People close to MK Eli Yishai, the former head of Shas, have applied to the Party Registrar to register a new party under his leadership. The name they selected is

The Labor party convention has approved the agreement for unification with Hatnua, which generously gives the party six slots in the joint list for the Knesset, including places 2, 8

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yoav Galant denied on Sunday reports that he will be placed in the 11th spot in Likud’s list for the Knesset – one of two spots to which

If MK Eli Yishai plans to bolt Shas and take right-wing votes with him, Aryeh Deri will make up for those votes with more support from women. That seems to

From now on, everyone in Israel gets a day off – a full one, consisting of 25 hours away from their job – and not just bits and pieces of

Jewish Home Chairman, Naftali Bennett, and Uri Ariel, who heads the Tekuma faction inside Jewish Home, were preparing to meet Sunday evening in order to try and hammer out differences

The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Saturday condemned the night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens and stressed the need to catch the perpetrators, AFP reports. In

In the wake of reports that MK Eli Yishai is about to leave the Shas party, the Shas Council of Torah Sages on Saturday night instructed MK Aryeh Deri not

The Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties were involved in some back and forth bantering on Sunday, after Yisrael Beytenu chairman, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, said he would not rule out

A man suspected of running an influential Twitter account promoting the Islamic State (ISIS) has been arrested in southern India, the BBC reported on Saturday. The man, a 24-year-old working

Former Justice Minister MK Tzipi Livni was a guest on Saturday night on the satirical television program “Matzav HaUma” (lit. State of the Union), which airs on Channel 2. Most

Dalit Halevy Palestinian Authority (PA) press agency SAFA has published portions of the minutes of a meeting held November 26 between senior PLO official Yasser Abd Rabbo and another PLO