Anwar Abd al-Hadi, director of the PLO Political Department, met with Dr. Faisal Miqdad, deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Foreign Ministry headquarters in Damascus, and briefed him on developments in the

  Iranian state television announced Monday that it had launched a monkey into space for a second time, just 11 months after it claimed to have successfully conducted tests with

After five days in the dark residents of several Samaria communities finally have power – after the Israel Air Force parachuted generators into their towns. After days of round the

Araleh Pamp, a senior medic with ZAKA, began aiding in delivery after hearing a man calling for help, saying his wife was in labor. Pamp was helped by a midwife

A unique artwork exhibition was unveiled last week in Tel Aviv, showcasing the work of gifted artists currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The “Colors in Rifle Barrels”

The Turkish government has supplied Syrian rebel forces with more than 47 tons of weapons in the past few months it has been revealed – this despite the Islamist government

The European Union on Monday pledged “unprecedented” levels of support to both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the event that the two parties reach a final status agreement which

The Lebanese soldier who shot dead IDF First Sergeant Shlomi Cohen in an unprovoked attack Sunday evening is already back at his post on the Israel-Lebanon border, according to reports. According

At least 36 people, including 15 children, were killed in regime air raids on rebel districts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human

  At a panel discussion held at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) last Wednesday, Justice Minister MK Tzipi Livni delivered opening remarks in which she stressed the need

An IDF soldier was killed on Sunday evening after being hit by sniper fire near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. The attack took place near Rosh Hanikra, in northwestern Israel,

Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, hosted a series of meetings with Israeli officials in which the interim deal with Iran about its nuclear program was discussed, the

A woman whose car was stuck on one of Jerusalem’s snow-covered streets found herself being helped on Sunday by none other than Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. Yaalon and his staff,

United States Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Sunday that concrete progress has been made in peace talks between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority (PA), but said details will

While the situation in Jerusalem has gotten the lion’s share of attention in the wake of the major winter storm that hit Israel over the past few days, there are

Bus service to and from Jerusalem on Highway 1 was halted Sunday evening, and public transport inside Jerusalem will be halted later in the evening, IDF Radio reported. The reason

Still facing the fallout of one of the region’s biggest snowstorms in memory, residents of the Binyamin “Gav Hahar” (Samarian Foothills) communities, from Har Bracha near Shechem, to Beit El

Schools, kindergartens and day care centers in Jerusalem will not open Monday, because storm damage has made some of the institutions unsafe, and because of the danger posed by icy

A soldier from the Lebanese army opened fire at an IDF force near Israel’s northern border with Lebanon on Sunday evening. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that

The Magen David Adom (MDA) first response group responded to more than 10,000 calls for help since last Thursday, as Israel faced one of the heaviest snow storms ever to

The Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) has risen by over 10 centimeters in the aftermath of this weekend’s storm. The news is a kernel of good tidings after the brutal barrage

A family from Nokdim, in the Gush Etzion area, spent the Sabbath with a loved one’s body after the heavy snow in the region made it impossible to remove the

An IDF unit on Sunday came to the aid of a snowbound woman who was set to give birth in the town of P’nei Kedem, at the far eastern reaches

Nearly 3,000 families in the Shilo and Binyamin regions have been cut off from both electricity and water for three days. Entire communities have been snowed in, leaving the families

Israel’s historic snowstorm over the weekend has caused millions of shekels of damages to agriculture, Maariv reported Sunday. Much of the damage affected vegetable farms and greenhouses.  Farmers are hoping not to

While some Israelis complained about what they perceived as Israel’s lack of preparedness for the intense winter storm which hit the country over the weekend, President Shimon Peres has chosen to highlight

Thousands of IDF soldiers spent the weekend and Sunday helping those left without power by the heavy snowstorm that hit late last week. The IDF’s Logistics branch supplied 1,000 warm

A woman living in the snowbound hilltop community of Yitzhar in the Shomron (Samaria) phoned the town’s crisis center on Shabbat (Saturday) morning and informed them that she is in labor.

MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home) on Saturday evening approached Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit and the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea and Samaria, General Eitan Dangot, and updated them on

Israel will allow the import of 450,000 liters of industrial diesel to Gaza on Sunday morning in order to allow the region’s sole power plant to begin working again, an