The Israeli air raid on Hezbollah weapons in Syria last Sunday was the most extensive yet, in terms of the number of targets hit, according to a report on Al
The planned new party uniting Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) and MK Eli Yishai (Shas) “is meant to move the entire political system to the right,” said elements involved in
MK Eli Yishai is leaving the Shas movement, according to sources close to him. Yishai served as Shas’ chairman for years, until the political comeback of MK Aryeh Deri, his rival. At
Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett fired back Saturday evening at veteran reporter Nahum Barne’a of Yediot Aharonot, after Barne’a used nasty language to describe Jewish Home’s religious-Zionist
Meretz chairwoman MK Zehava Galon said on Saturday that the upcoming elections must be the last ones in which Binyamin Netanyahu contends. “Bibi is the dybbuk that has overtaken Israeli
The UN Security Council called for a speedy and transparent investigation after a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official died during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers. The PA leadership has blamed
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Chairman of Yisrael Beytenu, said Saturday that he does not rule out joining a coalition with the Labor party after it united with Hatnua, but criticized
A bomb attack slightly damaged the shuttered French Cultural Centre in Gaza City Friday night without causing casualties, two months after a fire forced its closure, police and an AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he hoped to head off an end-of-year showdown at the United Nations over the Palestinian Authority’s planned push for statehood in meetings
A Frenchman was ordered into detention Friday as investigators probed his ties to Mehdi Nemmouche, a compatriot charged with killing four people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in May. The 27-year-old
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not promise Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett that he will be appointed as defense minister after the elections, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Channel 2
A task force investigating the provenance of priceless paintings found in a Nazi-era art hoard said Friday it had received more than 200 queries about specific works by possible heirs,
Portugal’s parliament on Friday adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the Palestinian state, following a growing number of similar votes around Europe. Parliament’s motion, filed jointly by
Greek police on Friday said a far-left group was likely responsible for a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire but
The United Nations’ (UN) human rights chief on Friday said the circumstances of the death of senior Palestinian Authority minister Ziad Abu Ein were “disturbing” and called for a timely
Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan announced Friday that he will be running in the Jewish Home party primaries for the 20th Knesset. Rabbi Ben-Dahan has worked adamantly
An unusual opinion piece was written on Thursday by homosexual journalist Gal Ohovski in Channel 10‘s Mako Magazine, in which he warned leftist Labor party head Yitzhak Herzog that he has to
Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide, on Tuesday emphatically stated that Iran’s genocidal threats to “wipe Israel off the earth” are “totally unacceptable.” Dieng
A Likud-Jewish Home pact could still be on the table, Likud sources told Channel 10 Thursday night – despite Jewish Home’s opposition to the idea. The report contradicts a similar report
As the elections frenzy continues ahead of a March 17 voting date, a new poll published Friday morning confirms the newly combined Labor and Hatnua party would become the largest
A vending company in Tulsa, Oklahoma is under fire on Friday, after a four-year-old boy presented a toy ring with Nazi insignia on it to his shocked mother. Leona Kelley
Recordings from a closed meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Likud activists from the party’s Central Committee were released by Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) on Friday, and in them Netanyahu can
Kulanu party chairman Moshe Kahlon is invested in the party for the long term, Channel 10 reports Friday – instituting a rule that he would remain chairman until 2023. The former
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said he supported Egypt’s crackdown on tunnels linking the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to the Sinai Peninsula and any other action the country took
A new twist in the apparently imminent possibility of a split in the hareidi Shas party occurred, as key senior rabbis in the Sephardic community vowed they would leave the
A terrorist attacked a Jewish family with acid in the Gush Etzion region south of Jerusalem Friday, wounding six people including a number of young children. According to Magen David
The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership has decided to postpone a critical meeting over whether to halt security coordination with Israel until Sunday, Channel 10 reports Friday – the second postponement in
The Greek government condemned on Friday as a “terrorist assault on democracy” a night-time gun attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens that saw the building sprayed with gunfire, but fortunately wounded no one.
Yesh Atid held a “women’s conference” in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park Friday, which was attended by party chairman Yair Lapid, former Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, and several other Yesh Atid MKs.
Members of former MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari’s Otzma Yehudit (lit. Jewish Strength) party met in Jerusalem on Friday morning, and decided to officially announce the party will be running in