The Jewish mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, has been shot in the back by unidentified gunmen, the city council’s press service reports. RT reported that

A group of Arabs in the coastal city of Lod chose to mock Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Sunday evening, by launching fireworks at Jewish homes just before the

A court in Minya, Egypt, has passed death sentences on 683 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, including leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The charges are related to violent

The Union of Israel Postal Service Employees has decided not to distribute mail in Tel Aviv and central Israel from Monday, as part of a protest against a streamlining plan

The Jewish Home party has scheduled an urgent meeting for Monday morning to discuss Arab nationalist violence in the Galilee region. The meeting will also deal with the planned Arab

Menachem Sandovsky, a survivor from the Lodz Ghetto, discussed with Arutz Sheva on Monday the importance of survivors traveling with IDF officers who toured the concentration and death camps in

Hamas called on all Palestinian Arab organizations on Monday to cease any activities bound to disrupt the reconciliation efforts between the terror organization and Fatah so that a unity government

On a lobbying trip to Washington DC, Dani Dayan, Chief Foreign Envoy of the Council of Judea and Samaria, slammed US Secretary of State John Kerry for remarks he made

As they stood contemplating the meaning of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Memorial Day at 10 AM local time Monday, as sirens sounded around the country, thousands of Israelis were jarred

The United States will impose further sanctions on Russia on Monday over the crisis in Ukraine and they will include high-tech exports to Russia’s defense industry, a White House official

Hungary’s annual “March of Life” commemorating the Holocaust drew a record 25,000 people on Sunday as part of events marking 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Hungarian

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) central council on Sunday adopted a plan to pursue attempts to join 60 United Nations bodies and international agreements. The council, under the auspices of

Arutz Sheva discussed Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Memorial Day with Carol Nuriel, a senior researcher at the Anti-Defamation League, and asked her for her opinion on recent increases in the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu compared the existential danger posed by Iran to Israel with the Nazi war machine, and vowed that a Holocaust will not take place again. This is

Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day will be officially inaugurated at 8 PM Sunday night, in a ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.  In the official ceremony at Yad

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met one-on-one on Sunday with two survivors of the Holocaust, ahead of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Pella Raviv, 82, of Lodz, Poland, was seven

The United States and Germany received top marks for their efforts to track down Nazi war criminals, in a report published today by the Israeli branch of the the Simon Wiesenthal

The Palestinian Authority (PA) applied to over fifteen international agencies earlier this month, in a unilateral move which torpedoed peace talks with Israel.  But on Sunday, according to Ma’ariv, PA officials

The government approved Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid)’s financial plan to assist Holocaust survivors in Israel on Sunday, to the tune of some one billion shekel ($287,894,000) per year,

MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home), who serves as the Chair of the Knesset Caucus for French Immigration, left for France on Sunday to represent Israel as part of the Jewish Agency’s Holocaust

China should act to ensure religious freedoms, a top US opposition lawmaker said at the close of an Asia trip held as President Barack Obama also visits the region. House Majority Leader

The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres, spoke at the official commemoration ceremony for the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem. President Peres spoke about

A molotov cocktail was hurled at an Israeli car on Friday afternoon, right before the start of Shabbat, just outside of Yitzhar, the Samaria community that has recently witnessed clashes

Syrian President Bashar Assad dismissed concerns over the upcoming presidential race in Syria on Saturday, claiming that the race will be democratic amidst a chorus of foreign criticism.  “The Syrian

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon (Likud) denounced on Saturday night the speech by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas before the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Central Council. Danon particularly took

Two people were killed in clashes on Friday between protesters and police in the Egyptian city of Fayoum, AFP reported, citing local security officials. Supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed

The United States denied on Friday that Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to secure a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have failed. Rather, claimed State

Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, head of the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, expressed satisfaction on Friday over a New York court ruling which allowed the U.S. administration to seize ownership of a

Pope John XXIII, who will be canonized on Sunday, was “the best pope in history for the Jewish people,” says one of the founders of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

Iran welcomed Saturday a reconciliation deal between the the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas, which it said amounted to a coalition against the “Zionist regime,” a reference to Israel.