JTA – It was an incongruous sight: The U.N. General Assembly hall filled to capacity with 1,500 cheering people waving miniature Israeli flags and singing “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. No,

Dozens of Iranian college students were arrested in the city of Qazvin, Iranian officials said, in what observers say is part of a wider crack-down on “immoral behavior”. According to

Yitzhak Weingot, the father of 15 month-old Eliya who died this week after being forgotten in a hot car, spoke in an emotional interview with haredi radio station Kol Hai about his

Two babies were hospitalized at Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva for being infected with herpes during circumcision, Kikar HaShabbat reports Wednesday night – and a prominent mohel has demanded that fellow mohels get checked for

A Border Police officer who last month was filmed drawing his side-arm and taking aim at haredi protesters was questioned under warning, police revealed on Wednesday. The incident in question

Archaeologist Dr. Gabi Barkai, a member of the Committee for Preventing the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities, welcomed a decision Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made Tuesday to stop the Jordanian

JTA – Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos called on the Justice Ministry to take action against a neo-Nazi lawmaker after he made anti-Israel comments in parliament. Speaking during a debate

Two people – both males – are dead in a murder-suicide at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Wednesday.  The shooter murdered his victim in Engineering Building 4, in Boelter Hall

Despite a high fertility rate and the relatively high proportion of new immigrants who settle in the city, Jerusalem’s Jewish majority has been in decline for decades. While Jews made

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to decide whether to go ahead with air drops in Syria after the Damascus regime allowed convoys to enter

Dramatic new video footage has emerged from the scene of the shooting of a wounded terrorist in Hevron last March, which appears to show someone moving the terrorist’s knife closer

US State Department officials welcomed comments by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reaffirming his support of the two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria –

The French vessel Laplace has picked up signals from downed EgyptAir flight MS804’s black boxes, Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry announced Wednesday.  “Black boxes” are the crucial components of any aircraft which record

Police have arrested Bassem al-Safadi, a reporter and photographer for the Iranian Arabic-language channel al-Alam, on suspicion of incitement and supporting terror. Al-Safadi has already been taken before a court

Could Donald Trump actually win the presidency? A slew of recent polls shows the presumptive Republican nominee closing in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in traditionally Democratic states,

The Dalai Lama says that “too many” refugees have already entered Europe, and that most should leave again once the danger in their home countries abates. “When we look into

IDF paratrooper recruits who were being bused to their induction ceremony at the Western Wall (Kotel) were told to close the curtains on the bus windows as they arrived at

It may yet become a TV movie, involving detectives, hideouts, false disguises, a dramatic arrest, and then the happy ending. So far, however, it is merely a true story that

The European Union’s senior legal advisor has declared that employers are within their rights to forbid workers from wearing religious articles, including kippot, headscarves and crucifixes. The issue arose when

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) is seeking alternatives to legislature that would completely decriminalize the personal use of soft drugs, Walla! News reports Wednesday, following a debate over a similar bill

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, the head of the Tekuma faction in the Jewish Home party, leveled unusually harsh criticism at his party chairperson Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday. In an

The Haifa District Court on Wednesday sentenced the Arab Israeli terrorist Alla Raeed Ahmed Zayud to 25 years in jail for launching a combo car ramming and stabbing attack at Gan Shmuel east

Egypt has agreed to investigate allegations that one of its diplomats referred to Black Africans as “slaves and dogs” during a UN conference last week – while at the same

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu is facing a longstanding court case alleging she verbally abused workers at the Prime Minister’s Residence, and after her lawyer defended her on Tuesday the

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon spoke to Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the Building Bridges Not Boycotts international summit at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, terming the anti-BDS

MK Dr. Yifat Sasha-Biton (Kulanu), chairperson of the Children’s Rights Committee in the Knesset, has submitted a bill obligating kindergartens and infant day care centers to contact the parents of children

US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters have opened a new front against the Islamic State group in northern Syria, thrusting into a strategic jihadist pocket along the Turkish border, a monitor

Two Arab men accused of raping a mentally handicapped Jewish girl are to be released from police custody, after their alleged victim suddenly withdrew her complaint. Police confirmed they will

Oleg Ivanov, a member of the diplomacy and public policy group Jewish Diplomatic Corps (JDCorps), spoke to Arutz Sheva about his organization’s struggle against the BDS boycott movement targeting Israel, and about rising anti-Semitism

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna who is considered second-in-line to Pope Francis, gave a special interview to Arutz Sheva at the sidelines of a convention of the Conference of European Rabbis