The Likud Central Committee will meet Monday in Ariel to approve conduct rules for its primary elections. The primaries will determine the party’s leader as well as its Knesset list
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett expounded his political vision and discussed upcoming elections Saturday night at the Saban Forum in Washington during an interview with Martin Indyk, US President Barack’s Obama’s
Prominent Israeli novelists and left-wing thinkers Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, and David Grossman have attached their signatures to a letter calling on European parliaments to recognize the “State of Palestine”
Daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported Sunday morning that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is looking into the possibility of forming a new coalition with hareidi parties without holding an election, and
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on Friday night at the Saban Forum in Washington and said that her country should strengthen its ties with Israel. Clinton dismissed
Shas is not obligated to support Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the elections, its chairman MK Aryeh Deri made clear on Saturday night. “We have no obligation, but I do
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai is considering becoming an MK, Labor members close to Huldai’s office told Walla! News Sunday – and has already been making preparations for a national campaign ahead of
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party has denied blame for the current round of elections Sunday, after Likud sources and MK Yariv Levin claimed the party refused to cooperate
Eight teenagers from the northern Israeli town of Fureidis were recently arrested on suspicion of involvement in manufacturing pipe bombs and throwing a pipe bomb at a police car, it
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee debated Sunday a groundbreaking proposal to offset the money Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority (PA) by funneling money given to terrorists back
A Palestinian man who was injured in the November 5 car attack at a Jerusalem light rail station outside the Old City succumbed to his wounds Sunday. Abd al-Karim Nafith
An Eilat resident filed a class action suit in the Tel Aviv District Court Sunday, on behalf of all the residents of Eilat against the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) for
With elections in the air, pollsters are already working frantically to predict how Israel’s 20th Knesset will look come March 18. Will a “right-wing” bloc mobilize to ensure a staunchly
France’s interior minister vowed Sunday to make the fight against anti-Semitism a “national cause” after the country was rocked by a brutal anti-Semitic attack on a young couple in Paris.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, admitted on Saturday night he has an “arrangement” with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, according to which
Egyptian authorities have enacted new rules that ban their countrymen from travelling to Turkey without a permit, a move intended to stem terrorist recruitment, Egyptian airport officials told The Associated
British-born American journalist Luke Somers and a South African teacher, Pierre Korkie, were killed on Saturday by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen during a failed rescue bid. According to the BBC,
Former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni says she is “ready to be Prime Minister”. Speaking to Channel 2 News on Saturday night, the head of the Hatnua party confirmed reports that
Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) is joining in on the efforts to secure the release of Jonathan Pollard. Herzog, currently in the United States for the Saban Forum on
Lander College for Men (LCM)-Beit Midrash L’Talmud (Talmud study hall) in Queens, NY will host an honorary “Chag HaSmicha” dinner for its students next week Sunday, as a tribute to
Chabad’s annual Yud Tet Kislev holiday will be commemorated this week in a number of memorable ways. The main event will be held this coming Wednesday and Thursday at the
Dr. Inna Rogatchi, president of the Rogatchi Foundation, author, film-maker, philanthropist and publicist whose op-eds on Arutz Sheva aattract a wide audience, has become the third person and the first woman
Israel’s former ambassador to the United States Dr. Michael Oren addressed the Saban Forum Saturday on the topic of the political process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority – and
US Vice President Joe Biden Saturday dismissed the “malarkey” about efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, and reassured Israel its security would not be put at risk. “There’s absolutely no daylight,
Col. (res.) Danny Efroni, Chief Military Advocate General (MAG) of the IDF, ordered investigations to be launched by the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) against soldiers over claims of unusual incidents during
Egypt held its “Badr 2014” military maneuver between October 11 and November 6, its largest exercise since 1996 which was only half the size – according to a senior security
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly is working to advance Likud primary votes, so as to prevent former Likud Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar from challenging him for leadership of the party.
After losing consciousness and being hospitalized last Friday, 60-year-old Jonathan Pollard has emerged from the imminent danger posed to his health – and been returned to his jail cell, where
As reports flood in of a hareidi coalition being eyed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and even Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid, who ran on an anti-hareidi ticket, a new
Pakistan’s military on Saturday said it eliminated Al-Qaeda’s global operations chief, Adnan el Shukrijumah, who had planned bombing attacks on trains in New York and London. Shukrijumah was taken out