The protests in Hong Kong against China’s steps to undermine local democracy are expected to strengthen on Wednesday for China’s National Day, in which hundreds of thousands in the metropolis

A man who traveled on a commercial flight from Liberia to Dallas on September 20 was diagnosed on Tuesday as being infected with the Ebola virus, becoming the first such

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) source revealed to Yedioth Aharonoth that a secret channel of communication exists between Israel and the PA in parallel to the Cairo truce talks, through which

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet in Washington Wednesday with US President Barack Obama – in their first meeting in seven months. Netanyahu will talk to Obama about the current

Police are investigating a prior incident after revealing Tuesday they suspect that Netanel Arami hy”d, a Jewish construction worker who fell 11 stories to his death on a Petah Tikva

The IDF Civil Administration ordered the expropriation on Tuesday of land between the Samaria communities of Hizmeh and Adam, both of which are located just north of Jerusalem, so as

Hesamoddin Hatami and Zahra Kolabian, two Iranian citizens arrested in mid-September for attempting to leave Kenya with forged Israeli documents, were sentenced today. A Kenyan court ordered them to serve two

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino convened an emergency meeting of senior staff Wednesday, in yet another measure to address political turmoil among his ranks.  Danino stated that the situation is not

Many Jewish leaders expressed concern about the results of the 2013 Pew Research Center Survey, which found high rates of intermarriage and assimilation among American Jews.  But amid the doom

The Ministry of Education has cancelled a school trip to Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) at the last moment, frustrated parents revealed Wednesday afternoon – ostensibly for political reasons.  No

The Housing Ministry on Wednesday published figures showing that the price of apartments in Israel rose in the second quarter of 2014 by another 4.4% compared to the same quarter

In spite of the summer’s conflict with Gaza terrorist groups and the knock to tourism during that period, Israel had maintained its sterling A1 credit rating, according to the Moody’s international

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that if the United States vetoes the resolution that he will bring before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), he will “re-examine”

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) sharply condemned Interior Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovich (Yisrael Beytenu) on Wednesday, accusing him of covering up the terrorist murder of Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami hy”d.

When Iranian nuclear physicist Ardeshir Hosseinpour was murdered in 2007, Israel was the main suspect. Now, his sister claims he was murdered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) because he

At a weekly Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government meeting on Tuesday, it was announced that Israel had agreed to allow Arab residents of Gaza to travel to pray at the

Yeshiva University announced that it will introduce a new Master of Science degree program in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) in Fall 2015. Students enrolled in the new program will have the

Hamas terrorists Marwan Kawasmeh and Amar Abu Eisha, who abducted and murdered Israeli teens Naftali Frenkel, Eyal Yifrah, and Gilad Sha’ar on June 12, were lauded with the highest status in

Britain conducted its first airstrikes against the Islamic State terrorist group (IS) in Iraq Tuesday, as part of international efforts to support local Kurdish, Shia and Iraqi government forces push

Arutz Sheva was at the scene as hundreds of concerned Jews gathered on Tuesday in the Samaria town of Givat Assaf, located north of Jerusalem near Beit El, to join in a prayer

Iran on Tuesday rejected as baseless accusations levelled by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that it poses a greater threat to the world than the Islamic State jihadist group. Speaking

A former psychologist has been executed for heresy in Iran after eight years in detention, human rights groups said Monday, according to Reuters. The execution is the latest example of

An Egyptian court sentenced 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Tuesday, judicial sources said, according to Reuters. They were convicted in a case related to deadly violence a

The “Islamic State” (IS or ISIS) group on Tuesday freed more than 70 Kurdish school children its fighters kidnapped in northern Syria in May, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Hamas commits a double war crime by using civilians as human shields and firing rockets at Israel.

The Algerian government has identified the suspects in the beheading of Frenchman Hervé Gourdel, Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Louh said Tuesday, according to the International Business Times. Soldiers of the

Two weeks after Jewish construction worker Netanel Arami died after falling 11 stories, Arutz Sheva has learned that police suspect he was murdered, thus confirming what Arami’s family and nationalist

The world’s largest PR firm, Burston-Marsteller, made the headlines last week when it was discovered that the firm had rejected Israel as a client. Although the PR firm attempted to

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and the parents of the three abducted and murdered youths have announced a new prestigious and generous annual prize highlighting efforts for national unity. The parents

The terrorist to civilian ratio of Palestinian deaths in Operation Protective Edge is an unprecedented 1:1, a news study released last week reveals – supporting earlier findings regarding the so-called