Two Israeli-American chemists were officially awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Tuesday. Professors Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt were given the prestigious award in a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Republicans were left steaming on Tuesday, after President Barack Obama shook the hand of Cuban leader Raul Castro at the memorial ceremony in Johannesburg for late South African leader Nelson

PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Tuesday called on the NBC network to halt production of a drama series due to be filmed in eastern Jerusalem, the Ma’an news agency reports.

At a memorial ceremony held in Johannesburg on Tuesday for late South African leader Nelson Mandela, US President Barack Obama made a surprise move on his way to the podium by

The disagreements between the Jewish Home and Yesh Atid parties were in the headlines again Tuesday as Yesh Atid decided to prevent the transfer of funding to Israeli communities in

The Israel Pediatric Association has issued a strong warning against the use of vaporizers (humidifiers) in children’s bedrooms, Kikar Hashabat reports. Many parents use such machines during the winter in

Four soldiers were injured in the Golan on Tuesday afternoon in what appears to have been a training accident. Their injuries were reportedly caused by an explosion in a tank

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to a peaceful Middle East. Speaking with visiting Guatemalan President Otto Fernando Perez

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud) will represent Israel at Tuesday’s memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, it was announced on Monday evening. Edelstein will be accompanied

Iran on Tuesday dismissed an offer from Israel’s president to meet his Iranian counterpart as a “propaganda ploy”, and reaffirmed its opposition to the Jewish state’s existence.    “This propaganda

Syrian cities under rebel control are being ruled by a strict interpretation of Islamic, or Sharia, law – as a video surfaced this week showing a man being served with lashes demonstrates. 

He was just in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but United States Secretary of State John Kerry will be making yet another visit to the region this week. State Department

Israel is to allow construction materials for UN projects back into Gaza after reaching an agreement with the world body, UN officials confirmed Monday, confirming statements made by a senior

An Al-Jazeera reporter was fired last week for questioning the objectivity of the investigations surrounding the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, according to The Washington Free Beacon. The reporter was

The ballroom of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square was packed wall-to-wall on Tuesday night Dec. 8 as over a thousand people came out in support of the small but

Egyptian sources said Monday night that Egyptian Army soldiers had eliminated Ibrahim Abu Atiyeh, a terrorist belonging to the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Beit al-Makdis terror group. Abu Atiyeh was a

Hamas has “resumed” relations with Iran after a temporary falling out over the Syrian conflict, according to AFP. “Relations between Hamas and Iran have resumed,” senior official Mahmud al-Zahar told reporters at a

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on Monday visited Pakistan to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other officials. His visit, the first by a US Secretary of Defense

The IDF is currently close to stopping gas mask production and distribution, according to one senior official, due to developments indicating a lowered threat to Israel of spillover from the

Jewish groups in Canada, and foremost among them the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), are trying to advance a parliamentary committee’s recommendation calling on the government to recognize

Kissin, a two-time Grammy Award winner and widely regarded as one of this generation’s greatest classical pianists, was given an Israeli identification card (teudat zehut) and Israeli passport. After receiving

On Monday, Energy Minister Silvan Shalom announced that representatives of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) will sign an “historic” agreement to cooperate in linking the Red Sea with

The Iranian Fars news agency claimed in a report on Sunday that the head of the Saudi intelligence service recently met with several senior Israeli security officials, including the head

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday at the Saban Forum and said that stopping Iran’s nuclear program is not enough – Iran’s policy of genocide must change, too. Netanyahu quoted

A visit to Israel by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Sunday was marred by a dispute over a new security scanner on the Gaza border, an Israeli official said. Rutte

Ukraine’s opposition has threatened to march on President Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential palace and seal him inside if he does not give in to their demands, the BBC reported Sunday. Hundreds

The Secretary of the Hamas government in Gaza, Abd el-Salam Siam, said Sunday in a press release marking 26 years since the outbreak of the First Intifada that the Gaza

A top military commander of Hezbollah, which is helping Syrian troops battle rebels, has died in fighting in Syria, a Lebanese security source said. “Ali Bazzi, a high-ranking Hezbollah military

An archeological dig south of Highway 44 has turned up the foundations of a home and garden believed to be 900 years old. The home was built from hewn stone.

Israel held its first join conference between the Defense and Energy industries in Herziliya Thursday. Arutz Sheva had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Gal Luft, Conference Head of Steering Committee and Co-Director of Institute