Members of families who have lost loved ones to terror attacks protested on Monday night outside the Metzudat David Hotel in Jerusalem, where US Secretary of State John Kerry is

Rabbi Yousef Hamadani Cohen, the former chief rabbi of Iran’s tiny Jewish community, died on the weekend of a prolonged illness, media reported on Monday. English-language state media Press TV said Cohen had

Live fire was exchanged between North Korea and South Korea on Monday, after a North Korean maritime drill strayed into South Korean waters.  The semi-official South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that

Economy Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett on Sunday criticized the Israel Hayom newspaper and referred to it as “Pravda” – a reference to the press organ of the

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday night declared victory for his party in local elections, and also took the opportunity to warn his rivals that they will “pay

President Shimon Peres began a state visit to Austria on Sunday, where he attended, along with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, a Holocaust memorial service in the Judenplatz in Vienna. The

J Street, an American Jewish group that claims to be pro-Israel, has been embarrassed by revelations that two of its activists wore T-shirts glorifying an infamous PFLP (Popular Front for

US Secretary of State John Kerry will be making another visit to Israel on Monday, in yet another attempt to save the failing peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian

Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier who was kidnapped and held by the terrorist group Hamas for five years, wrote to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a heartfelt request to demand

The Antiquities Authority and police cooperated last Friday to arrest suspects who allegedly stole ornate stone ossuary burial chests, which were used by Jews in Israel during the Second Temple

Senior lawmakers in the United States said on Sunday that investigators had found no evidence thus far pointing to terrorism in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 three weeks

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have scored a victory in Sunday’s local elections, as his party took a strong lead in the polls, AFP reports. If the

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is considering yet another visit to the Middle East in order to save the failing Israel-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace process. American officials who spoke

Saudi princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, plead for their freedom over Skype on Friday, confirming to Britain’s Channel 4 News that they are being held against their will in a royal compound in Jeddah.

A court in Egypt on Saturday sentenced to death two supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi, who were convicted of throwing youths off an apartment block roof, AFP reported. One

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has come under fire from various quarters for ignoring and even whitewashing human rights abuses in authoritarian states while focusing almost all of

Thousands of Jews in France attended a special Aliyah fair that took place in the heart of Paris Sunday. The fair was sponsored by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry and

The first-ever archaeological excavations at the Nazi death camp Treblinka in Poland have revealed new mass graves, as well as the first physical evidence that this camp held gas chambers.

Antwerp, Belgium, a center of the world diamond business, has a substantial hareidi community, and has the reputation of being a “quiet” city when it comes to anti-Semitism. But that

Israeli-made products – including those made by Jews living in Judea and Samaria – are back on the shelves of Dutch stores, just in time for Passover. A boycott declared

Iran has named as its next ambassador to the United Nations, a member of the militant group that held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran 34 years ago. Bloomberg news reported Sunday that

A suicide bomber killed three Lebanese soldiers and wounded several others Saturday, in an attack on a Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) checkpoint in the flashpoint town of Arsal, on the

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group was not looking to start a war with Israel, despite recent clashes along Israel’s northern border. In a televised

The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff is heading to Israel for talks on mutual strategic interests after Israel’s defense minister upset Washington with remarks criticizing US foreign

Israeli police used force on Saturday to break up a riot by Arab extremists in Jerusalem, injuring several people including two journalists, news photographers said.     Several rioters and

Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz, says that it depends on Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas – aka Abu Mazen – whether or not the fourth

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official said a release by Israel of imprisoned Arab terrorists would not go ahead on Saturday as envisaged but he hoped there would only be

Four people, including an Egyptian woman journalist, were killed in Cairo Friday as police clashed with Islamists protesting against ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s presidency bid, a security official told

U.S. President Barack Obama reportedly promised Saudi King Abdullah that the United States would not accept a “bad deal” with Iran, an American official said Friday. According to Reuters, the

IDF soldiers were able to prevent two terrorists from infiltrating into Israel in the Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, on Friday night. According to the IDF, the soldiers