Rescue forces were dispatched on Wednesday night to the Ashdod home of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the head of the Shuvu Yisrael sect who is currently in jail for corruption, after

The Ministry of Environmental Protection published their “Clean Coast” Index revealing that only 37% of Israel’s beaches are considered “clean” or “very clean,” while 20% were categorized as “dirty” or

Johannesburg’s Randburg Magistrates Court ruled on Thursday that Rabbi Eliezer Berland is to be extradited to Israel, reports Walla news. Berland, who heads the Shuvu Banim sect, fled from Israel in 2012 after several

Israeli media raised an uproar after security cameras apparently showed an Arab Israeli supermarket worker in Tel Aviv being hit by eight police officers – but a closer investigation of the footage

Kes Aviyahu Azariya, chairperson of the Council of Kohanim of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel, issued a letter on Wednesday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other ministers, warning about the planned

A new report by the grassroots Zionist group Im Tirtzu on Thursday exposed the leading role played by top Israeli academics in promoting the BDS boycott movement – which includes an

Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and Minister of Social Affairs Haim Katz (Likud) are initiating a new law that would provide greater protection of Youth Laws – including

There is a Jewish tradition to give boys their first haircut – known as halake – at age three on Lag B’Omer which falls on Thursday, and in order to capitalize on

Some 3.2 million people have immigrated to Israel since the founding of the state in 1948, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The

The Amman-based Arab Bank on Tuesday agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by the families of terror victims killed in attacks the plaintiffs say the Arab Bank helped

A report presented to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday sharply criticized the Hamas terror organization – not for its recent rocket attacks on Israel, but for extra-judicial killings

The stabbing of a woman at a kosher restaurant here was not a hate crime, police said. The attack Monday night at Grand Cafe Rimon, which resulted in moderate injuries to the victim

Knesset Guard Sergeant-at-Arms Brigadier General Yossi Grif warned Knesset Members from the predominantly Arab Joint List party not to ascend the Temple Mount, including during the upcoming Ramadan holiday. The

Feeling the heat over her clashes with Bernie Sanders, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is at the center of a debate among Democratic lawmakers over whether to push for her ouster as party chair. The Hill reported Tuesday that

Taylor Swift may look every bit the all-American girl-next-door, but according to white supremacists, she’s actually a Nazi at heart, feeding her legions of followers racist messages coated in the saccharine

An Israeli delegation led by a top diplomat arrived in Turkey to represent Israel at the first World Humanitarian Summit. Dore Gold, the director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, cut the ribbon of

Border control agents, working in conjunction with the Shin Bet internal security agency, confiscated a large shipment at the Tarkumia Crossing in the Hevron region. The shipment, bound for Gaza

Last October, Bezeq employee Alaa Abu Jamal went on a murderous rampage in the Malchei Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem. Ramming his car into a bus stop, Abu Jamal then exited

Israeli aircraft overnight Wednesday attacked two terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement. According to the statement, the airstrike was in response to

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday attacked Israel’s incoming Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, referring to him as “crazy”. Nasrallah made the comments in a speech marking 16 years since the

Politicians often quote unemployment data, especially around elections, in order to gain votes. But what do these figures mean?  Does the term “unemployed” refer to everyone who doesn’t have a

Top Israeli public officials and leaders gathered on Wednesday at the Knesset to honor 100 years of American Jewry’s contribution to the State of Israel. Attendees included Prime Minister Binyamin

The UN envoy for the Middle East on Wednesday expressed alarm after Hamas authorities in Gaza moved to hold public executions, and urged them to change course, AFP reports. Hamas announced

The Lag Ba’Omer celebration in the town of Meron in northern Israel was truly an expression of Jewish unity, as hundreds of thousands of Jews from around the world gathered

The Ottoman war effort in Palestine in World War I was led by German officers, and their involvement was recorded by the American Colony photographers.  German General Erich von Falkenhayn,

Arab Knesset Members from the Joint List declared on Wednesday that they intend to ignore Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s directive and visit the Temple Mount for Ramadan next month. Last

As scientists “stare” at the world we live in, they are discovering things about reality that totally revamp our previous understanding of what it is. Surprisingly, Kabbalah knew that long ago, and

Belgian prosecutors on Wednesday said they have detained four suspected Islamic State (ISIS) group recruiters, who they say may have planned new attacks in the country, The Associated Press reports.

Palestinian Authority schools have long been used to foster anti-Semitic sentiments in young Arabs. Some schools, however, have taken the messages of hate – printed in official Palestinian Authority textbooks

MK Orly Levy Abekasis (Independent) disparaged her former party, Yisrael Beytenu, on Wednesday night, noting it “did not set social goals when it entered the government” earlier in the day.