Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon visited on Sunday evening the home of Golani fighter First Sgt. Oron Shaul, who was declared a fallen soldier whose place of burial is not known

Hamas terrorists fired a barrage of rockets towards Israel, including Tel Aviv, just before midnight on Sunday night, when a new 72-hour ceasefire went into effect. Just before midnight, residents

Hillary Clinton devoted a large part of an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to strong support for Israel. Clinton expressed support for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s insistence on

Outgoing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won his country’s first direct presidential election, provisional results show. With almost all votes counted, Erdogan had won about 52%, against 38%

A lasting truce must lead to the lifting by Israel of its blockade of the Gaza Strip, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal told AFP in an exclusive interview in Doha on

Jewish Home Chairman, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, said Sunday that Israel prefers the security of its citizens to international approval of its actions. He made clear that he did not see

Terrorists from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq’s human rights minister told Reuters

The Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, took reponsibility for a shooting attack that it claims to have executed Sunday south of Bethlehem. Fatah is headed by Palestinian

Gordon Howie, a right-wing-fringe candidate in the upcoming general election for South Dakota’s US Senate seat, apparently has a positive opinion for Adolf Hitler and his ‘Mein Kampf.’ A bizarre

A new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza has been agreed between Israel and the Palestinians following mediation by Egypt, a Palestinian official said Sunday. Israel confirmed Sunday evening that the 72-hour truce will

The Security Cabinet met on Sunday to discuss the future of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, which is now in its thirty-third day. During the meeting, Interior Minister Gidon Sa’ar (Likud)

Israeli actors on Saturday responded to a discriminatory cancellation of their show at Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing a silent version of their hour-long play while confronted by around 200

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to vanquish his two rivals in elections Sunday to become the next Turkish president, promising to expand the post with new powers as opponents worry Turkey is

A senior Hamas source has revealed the terrorist group’s antagonism both towards Egypt’s mediation in truce talks regarding the ongoing conflict with Israel, as well as towards the Arab League.

United Nations (UN) representative Matias Bank on Saturday said his organization is not hurrying to address the numerous analyses disproving the Palestinian Arab tally of casualties in Gaza. The figures have

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has signed an international manifesto “supporting Palestine,” demanding that Israel respect UN resolutions and withdraw from “Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.” Castro, who will be 88

Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud), a member of the Knesset’s Security Cabinet, reaffirmed Saturday night Israel’s commitment to destroy Hamas’s terror tunnel network while hinting at a renewed IDF ground

Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper is to run a controversial advertisement condemning Hamas’s use of human shields as “child sacrifice” – the same ad that was rejected by another British paper, The Times.

Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir (Yisrael Beytenu) is expected to announce soon that he is resigning from the Knesset, but staying on as minister. Shamir’s resignation will allow another member of

Hamas played a double game Sunday, with its negotiators reportedly agreeing to a ceasefire in Cairo, and its terrorists in Gaza launching missiles at Israel. Israel insists that it will

As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) continues its bloody conquest of Iraq and Syria and begins invading Lebanon, all in the name of establishing a global

The Palestinian Arab delegation in Cairo – comprising of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah (Palestinian Authority) members – have tentatively agreed to a cease-fire, PA state television reports Sunday. IDF

The Defense Ministry has requested an extra 16-18 billion shekels ($4.6-5.2 billion) for 2014-2015, Globes reports Sunday, to cover costs from Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.  Six to eight billion shekels

For Malachi and Tanya Avital Ben-Yehuda of Riverdale, New York, terrorist rockets peppering southern Israel were inconsequential compared to their firm dedication to the Jewish faith and homeland. The Ben-Yehuda’s,

An Arab terrorist was apprehended Sunday morning, after he tried to infiltrate the Binyamin area community of Beit El, located to the north of Jerusalem in Samaria, armed with a

A Palestinian official said that indirect negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza were expected to resume in Cairo on Sunday with an Israeli delegation scheduled to arrive in the city, where a

Nobel laureate Professor Yisrael (Robert) Aumann has an idea that could turn the tables on Hamas’s rocket terror against Israel. In a recent lecture, he described his vision for a

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Friday laid the blame on Israel for the ceasefire in Gaza not being extended, saying the Jewish state did not provide a clear response

The global coffee company Starbucks released a statement this week to clarify apparent misconceptions about the company’s patronage of Israel, Huffington Post reports. In a fact sheet updated August 5,

Famous Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan, an Israeli cinema pioneer, died Friday at the age of 85. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Golan lost consciousness while strolling outside his house in