An appeals court for urgent matters in Egypt turned down Saturday a legal challenge by members of the Muslim Brotherhood against a verdict ordering the seizure of the group’s funds

Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, a group named after Al-Qaeda’s jihadist Syrian affiliate, has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s suicide car bombing in a stronghold of the Hezbollah that has killed at

Iran has received the first installment of $4.2 billion in frozen assets as part of a nuclear deal with world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told ISNA news agency

Two of the largest banks in northern Europe have announced they will boycott Israeli banks because they operate in “occupied territories”, the Walla! Hebrew-language news website reported on Saturday. The

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday threatened Israel that a failure in the peace talks would lead to global boycotts and delegitimization of the Jewish state. The warning

A car bomb has ripped through the eastern Lebanese town of Hermel, in the Bekaa region, according to local media. The bomb apparently detonated at a gas station in Zahraa

An Egyptian jihadist group said Saturday that it fired a rocket at the Red Sea resort of Eilat which was intercepted by Israeli air defences, its second in a fortnight.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Israel for bilateral talks at the end of February, accompanied by a number of her ministers, a spokesman said on Friday, according to

Some 300 Palestinian Arabs, accompanied by Israeli leftist activists, set up an outpost near Jericho on Friday, AFP reported. According to the report, the Arabs and leftists took over around

A 27-year-old man died on Friday afternoon after drowning in a water well near the Givat HaDagan neighborhood in the city of Efrat in Gush Etzion. Magen David Adom paramedics

Terrorists fired a rocket at the Israeli resort city of Eilat on Friday night. Residents reported hearing two loud explosions before 10:00 p.m. local time, and a siren indicating that

EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton will chair a meeting of top international officials working on the Israel-Palestinian Authority (PA) peace process on Saturday, AFP reports. “This meeting takes place

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon met with German counterpart Ursula von der Leyen in Berlin on Thursday and discussed the possible purchase of surface ships to defend natural gas fields in

The United States on Friday issued warnings to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in the wake of the delay in removing his chemical weapons stockpile. AFP reported that Secretary of State

Lebanese Sheikh Omar Atrash, 24, has confessed to helping transport bombs and terrorists to aid in attacks in Syria, Lebanon and Israel, The Daily Star reports Friday.  The Sunni preacher disclosed that

“Wiping entire neighborhoods off the map is not a legitimate tactic of war,” Ole Solvang, an HRW emergencies researcher, stated to the press. “These unlawful demolitions are the latest additions

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has once again been exposed glorifying terrorism and the murder of Jews. The movement’s official Facebook page recently praised past and present

A trip to Israel in 2006 forced Tunisia’s new Tourism Minister to resign just hours after she was sworn in, Al Arabiya reported Thursday, citing Tunisia’s state news agency TAP.

President Shimon Peres said Thursday that the present time period is “the most crucial time since the establishment of the new Middle East in 1948.” Peres’s comments were made during

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted several terror-related sites in Gaza on Thursday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrikes targeted a

Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza fired a rocket Thursday night at southern Israel. No damage or injuries were reported as the lethal projectile landed in open space in the Sdot Negev

“A.”, an IDF officer, was instrumental in preventing a terrorist attack near the Binyamin community of Neve Tzuf yesterday. IDF soldiers shot dead a terrorist gunman who opened fire on their

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has blacklisted 2 Israeli companies over their involvement in construction in the eastern part of Jerusalem. The ban was announced Thursday by Norway’s finance ministry. The

Germany will boost funding for efforts to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners and may invite Jewish representatives to join a mediation body, the government said Wednesday, according to

Egyptian military officials said Wednesday that troops backed by helicopters and armored vehicles have killed eight terrorists in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The officials who were quoted by The Associated Press

Actress Scarlett Johansson has stepped down as an ambassador for Oxfam due to the group’s support for a boycott of Israel. A statement released by a spokesman for the actress

Residents of Judea and Samaria make up more than 16 percent of the new officers fresh out of the latest courses for company and battalion commanders, according to the IDF’s

Actress Natalie Portman’s husband has revealed his plans to convert to Judaism. Benjamin Millepied, French dancer and choreographer, is currently living with his wife in her native Israel. He told

A Torah scroll, dedicated through an International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) program, was presented to the IDF’s Iron Dome unit, which was recently deployed to guard the Haifa area. At

This past Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a number of prominent American Jews were among the visitors to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland. Eric Cantor, US House