Israel’s poor are not getting ahead -but they are not falling behind, either, new numbers from the Central Bureau of Statistics show. In 2013, Israel’s top earners made 8.5 times

An entire German high school class is being investigated by authorities, the Daily Mail reports Wednesday, after the 29 ninth-graders were found to have been communicating to each other in Nazi slogans

There is no rent control in Israel – but there should be, a student group said. And if the Knesset does not pass a law regulating rents, students will stage

Chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee MK David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu) submitted the controversial Conversion Bill of MK Elazar Stern (Hatnua) to the Knesset on Wednesday. The full Knesset

Minister of Construction and Housing Uri Ariel (Jewish Home), fired back early Wednesday afternoon at Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) for his refusal to transfer funds for paving roads

A senior IDF commander on Wednesday acknowledged to Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) that the Iran-proxy terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon has likely dug terror tunnels into Israel. IDF Northern Commander Maj. Gen.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has responded directly to personal attacks made against him by “senior US officials” in a report published Tuesday evening. Speaking at a special Knesset session marking

Islamist groups have decried the visit to the Temple Mount by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday morning. On his early-morning visit, mayor Nir Barkat toured the Mount together with

Two apps designed by Yeshiva University’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs (CPA), “This is Yeshiva University” and “Cardozo Life,” have won highly competitive awards from the University College Designers Association (UCDA), the US’s

The state prosecutor has submitted a recommendation to the Attorney General to prosecute radical Arab MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad), for inciting violence against police officers, according to Channel 10. The

The Pentagon will buy another 43 F-35 fighter jets worth roughly $4 billion from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, officials said Tuesday, four months after it was briefly grounded following an

Gunmen opened fire inside a Lebanese hospital on Tuesday, after a man refused to allow doctors to shave his stomach hair in order to perform an operation. The incident occurred

A small but loud demonstration took place today outside the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill, close to the site of last week’s deadly terrorist attack.

Egypt has ordered residents living along the country’s eastern border with Gaza to evacuate within 48 hours but put that on hold after they protested, The Associated Press (AP) reported

“The United States administration is planning to throw Israel under the bus,” Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday night, responding to harsh words against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

The Israel Hayom newspaper on Tuesday urged its readers to phone and e-mail the office of MK Eitan Cabel (Labor) in mass numbers, and voice their displeasure over the bill

The back and forth banter between Jerusalem and Washington over Israeli plans to build new homes in its capital continued on Tuesday. As The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg quoted anonymous officials

The United States said Tuesday it will boost security at government buildings, after threats from Islamist groups and following two attacks last week in Canada that killed two soldiers, AFP

The Civil Administration has extended an appeals period for Palestinian Arabs against the declaration of nearly 4,000 dunams (about 1,000 acres) in Gush Etzion as state land, IDF Radio reports Tuesday. 

Activists from grassroots Zionist student organization Im Tirtzu and concerned citizens will gather today (Tuesday) at 5:00 p.m. in front of the National Headquarters of the Israel Police at Ammunition Hill in

Israel is running out of hospital beds, the Ministry of Health reported Tuesday – with the number of beds per population declining 11% in nine years. As of mid-2014, there

Those ubiquitous plastic bags from the supermarket: it seems every Israeli has a bunch of them rolled up under the kitchen sink, because you never know when they’ll come in

Israel’s UN Mission in New York is starting to go on the counter-attack against Hamas, and is seeking for the United Nations to officially declare Hamas a “terrorist organization.” The

Palestinian Authority officials strongly condemned Israel on Monday after it announced plans for 1,000 new homes in eastern Jerusalem, the Ma’an news agency reports. Among those was senior negotiator Saeb

At least 850 people have been executed in Iran in the past 15 months as part of a worsening human rights situation under President Hassan Rouhani, who has been branded

A spokesman for Jordan’s mission to the United Nations said on Monday his country will request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council meeting on behalf of the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held an urgent meeting early Tuesday afternoon with the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, in order to reach understandings that would defuse

The Israeli and Polish presidents on Tuesday hailed a Warsaw museum chronicling the vibrant 1,000-year history of Poland’s Jewish community devastated by the Holocaust, as an investment in future ties

Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) sharply criticized the American condemnation of building plans in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, which were finally given government approval by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

The Knesset Committee for Internal Affairs and Environmental Protection, headed by MK Miri Regev (Likud), has approved “continuity” for the Infiltration Prevention Bill on Tuesday, placing it on a short