Egypt’s military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has widely been expected to run for president and win the mid-April elections. Those rumors came closer to confirmation on Tuesday as Sisi declared

The United States has quietly instituted a policy of denying visa requests from members of Israel’s security services, Maariv/nrg reports. Senior security personnel who spoke to the paper said that

Anonymous criminals damaged two sets of gas balloons in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv on Tuesday, apparently in an attempt to cause a lethal explosion. Dozens of residents were

The new government in Ukraine said Monday that Russia’s navy ordered two of its ships off the shores of Crimea to surrender. Ukrainian defense ministry spokesman Maksim Prauta said that

A rocket slammed into the Ashkelon coast Monday evening, according to 0404 News.  The ‘Color Red’ siren was sounded in several communities within the Hof Ashkelon region, forcing families into shelters. 

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Monday that events in the Ukraine are directly related to President Barack Obama’s “feckless” policies. The people of the Ukraine demanded to no longer be

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) revealed Monday that new construction in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) increased by 123.7% in 2013. The announcement surfaces several hours before Prime Minister Binyamin

Russia’s foreign ministry said Monday that warnings by United States Secretary of State John Kerry over Russian military intervention in Ukraine were “unacceptable” threats, according to AFP.  “We consider the threats against Russia made in

The IDF’s Legal Advisory for Judea and Samaria came under fire Monday during a heated session of a Knesset committee specializing in Judea and Samaria, which is chaired by MK

In the latest anti-Semitic attack in the Ukraine, vandals on Friday sprayed swastikas and graffiti reading “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in Simferopol in the Crimea region, reported

Two members of Libya’s interim parliament were shot and wounded by protesters who stormed the General National Congress (GNC) in downtown Tripoli on Sunday, officials and witnesses said, according to

An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned the murder trial of deposed president Mohammed Morsi to Tuesday, after “bad weather” prevented him from being transported from prison to court, AFP reported.

Israeli opposition leader and head of the left-wing Labor Party Isaac Herzog addressed delegates at AIPAC’s annual policy conference Sunday, and took the opportunity to promote his political vision for

While hareidi groups demonstrated in Jerusalem Sunday against the law that would require yeshiva students to serve in the army, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz visited with troops of

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has officially endorsed the annual Israel Apartheid Week, which is held annually on campuses and is used to delegitimize Israel. According to the

Hezbollah was likely behind a rocket attack near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early Saturday morning, security and military sources told Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star on Sunday night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a proposal from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to set up a contact group on Ukraine, the German government said Sunday, according to AFP.

One day ahead of his meeting Monday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama is urging the Israeli leader to make peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Speaking

BBC News reports Sunday that Ukraine has called up its reservists to defend against neighboring Russia.  Secretary of the National Security and Defense of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy stated Sunday that the

Libyan officials recently caught several members of a Muslim extremist group as they attempted to send deadly chemical weapons to Syria, Channel 2 reports. The report quoted Colonel Mansour al-Mazini

Female mikvah facilitators (Hebrew: balaniot) have expressed outrage over a new law that would impose a 50,000 shekel fine for unwanted questions. The balaniot are responsible for supervising Jewish women’s

Masked Palestinian Arabs broke into a IDF checkpoint near the Palestinian Authority (PA) settlement of Beit Furik, northeast of Shechem, after they cut through barbed wire fence surrounding the post. 

A suspected terror stabbing took place in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Sunday evening. A man aged 31 was stabbed on Jabotinsky Street, next to the Dor Alon gas station.

Hundreds of thousands of hareidi protesters gathered Sunday afternoon at the entrance to Jerusalem, for a prayer rally protesting the law that the Knesset intends to pass which would place

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Netanya is set to grow significantly in the coming years. The city’s planning commission on Sunday voted to authorize construction of 50,000 housing units, expand land appropriated for industrial and

As of Sunday afternoon, a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu set for Monday is still on. Netanyahu left Israel on Sunday for Washington, where he is

Acting Ukrainian President Olexander Turchynov has placed the Ukrainian armed forces on “high alert” Saturday night after Russian forces stormed the Crimean peninsula over the weekend, Fox News reports.  Turchynov reportedly ordered increased security

Russian parliament issued a de facto​ military takeover of Crimea, Ukraine, on Saturday, according to the Washington Post, despite the US warning Moscow on Friday not to intervene in the embattled country.  At

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (Likud) is the minister with the highest approval rating in Israel, according to a poll by Millward-Brown. 58.9% of Israelis polled approve of Ya’alon’s leadership so far, Channel