The Turkish Science Minister has become the latest public figure to make outrageous claims over Islam’s hand in science and technology, the Hurriyet Daily News reported Friday – this time, claiming

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will discuss a proposal to pay off the debt owed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the Israel Electric Company with money that

Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) paid a visit Sunday to the Bilingual School that was attacked by arsonists and proclaimed zero tolerance to intolerance. “I came here

Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, has been invited to speak at Ben Gurion University on “Religious Aspects of the Israeli – Palestine Conflict and the

In a wide-ranging interview in Asharq Al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi Arabian paper, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri warned Qatar to cease its efforts to destabilize Egypt and stated that concerning ties

A Tel Aviv synagogue was vandalized Sunday with graffiti reading, “In a place where the Jewish State Bill will be legislated, books will be burned.” The vandals left a pile

Bread could be in short supply in Israel within a few weeks. The Histradrut labor union announced Sunday that workers at Angel Bakeries, the country’s largest producer of bread, had

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet on Monday with Finance Minister Yair Lapid – who heads Yesh Atid – and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni – who heads Hatnua

Depending on the procedure, Israelis can find themselves waiting just a few days for necessary heart, lung, or stomach surgery – but can wait months, or years, for other procedures,

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino toured eastern Jerusalem Sunday and spoke to police and Border Police officers who are part of the beefed up force patrolling the city streets, following a

Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Labor) is confident that he will be Israel’s next Prime Minister. “I think today it is clear that I present an alternative to [Prime Minister

Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Carmi Gillon on Saturday night launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government. “Israel is headed today by

One person was killed in Cairo on Saturday night, in clashes that erupted after an Egyptian court dismissed a murder charge against former President Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is close to making a decision regarding elections, his associates said Saturday night. According to the associates, Netanyahu is closer than ever to deciding on early

The Arab League on Saturday backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s plan to seek UN endorsement for a timetable for declaring an independent state, and rejected recognizing Israel as a Jewish nation, AFP reports Saturday.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has extended the military seizure order on Yitzhar’s Od Yosef Hai yeshiva Saturday night – this time for another six months.  Chief of Central Command, Nitzan Alon,

A fire broke out at a dual Arabic-Hebrew language kindergarten school building in Jerusalem’s Pat Saturday night, in an apparent “price tag” attack in the capital.  Firefighters managed to extinguish

A Knesset plenum vote on the ‘Jewish State Law’ has been postponed yet again, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s advisor Nir Hefetz stated Saturday night – five days after the vote

French MP Meir Habib met with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Prime Minister Manuel Wells to discuss Paris’s hearing on Palestinian statehood on Friday, where he stressed that recognition of

A department store in Sweden is sweeping a toy scandal from its shelves, the Local reports Saturday – after customers complained that a toy soldier selection appeared to be modeled after Nazi

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon officially declared Major General Gadi Eizenkot the next IDF Chief of Staff on Saturday, explaining that Eizenkot is “an excellent candidate who is worthy and experienced”

An umpire and former captain of Israel’s national cricket team died on Saturday after being hit in the jaw by a ball, the country’s cricket association said. The umpire collapsed during the course of

An indictment against three Israeli Arabs was filed in the Jerusalem District Court on Friday, after the three allegedly planned to attack Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick or MK Moshe

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been acquitted on charges of corruption and killing protesters during the 2011 uprising on Saturday, in the final verdict in a lengthy retrial which

MK Ofer Shelah, faction leader of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, on Friday verbally attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who is waiting for a response after the weekend

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s party Yisrael Beytenu is veering sharply to the left, according to a document leaked to Yediot Aharonot Wednesday – a leak that comes amid high tensions over

Disturbing new details have emerged about an incident Thursday, in which a young female police officer was run over in Bat Yam while trying to arrest a driver committing sex

A 17-year-old Arab woman carrying a knife was arrested outside of Hevron’s Cave of Machpelah, preventing a potentially fatal stabbing attack on an IDF soldier. The Arab woman refused to

A funeral for a fallen soldier was held in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery on Thursday, in an emotional ceremony to mark the life of a young man who died fighting

Former Likud Minister Moshe Kahlon held a meeting of his new party on Thursday, in preparation for upcoming elections in the Knesset which may come sooner than expected. Kahlon, who