Almost two years have passed since Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, but one soldier has still not been able to go home. Yitzhak Yehuda Yisre’eli was injured early in the operation,

President Reuven Rivlin opened the biennial Jerusalem International Writers’ Festival Wednesday night, which is being held at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.  The festival is attended by writers and authors from across Israel and the world,

The US State Department’s Office of the Inspector General issued a report to lawmakers on Wednesday, ruling that former Secretary of State and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated

With Lag Ba’Omer almost upon us, we invite you to be a vital part of an amazing project. In the shadow of the Kever of the Holy Tanna R’ Shimon

The Obama administration gave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s expanded coalition a chilly reception on Wednesday, with State Department spokesman Mark Toner saying the Israeli government’s new composition raised “legitimate questions”.

A rocket from Gaza was fired on Wednesday evening towards southern Israel. The rocket exploded in an open area of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, causing no physical injuries or

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (Likud) announced Wednesday night that he does not intend to run for Likud leadership for as long as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is head of the

The star-studded list of world-class pop stars and musicians performing in Israel this summer just added a new iconic member – multiple Grammy award-winning American musician Pharrell Williams. Williams, who shot to global

Likud MK Nava Boker on Wednesday reacted to the horrific rape of a 20-year-old mentally ill Jewish girl in southern Tel Aviv two weeks ago, after police lifted a gag

Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman signed a coalition agreement with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday to enter the government, but a reading of the agreement reveals that he gave up on

A protest against presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump turned into a violent riot on Tuesday night at Albuquerque, New Mexico, as hundreds of demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles at police

A Jerusalem labor court on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction against the Ministry of Transportation, halting a plan to privatize the driver testing department and ordering the Ministry and striking

An annual pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue got under way Wednesday in Tunisia where security forces were deployed heavily to ward off potential jihadist attacks. Small groups of visitors began

Hundreds of thousands of children participating in this year’s Lag B’Omer festivities will receive a special and spectacular gift: an illustrated Bible.  The “My Torah” series, published by Chabad-Lubavitch’s Full House

A man and woman, both estimated to be around 30 years of age, were found dead in an apartment in Rishon Letzion on Wednesday in an apparent double murder. The

The traditional ‘Hilula’ celebration will be held Wednesday night at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, located at the foot of Har Meron, in honor of Lag Ba’Omer.  Hundreds

Following the signing on Wednesday of a new coalition agreement bringing Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party into the government, the decision to replace former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon with Liberman

Arab terrorist Bashar Masalha has become a hero of the Palestinian Authority (PA), after murdering American tourist Taylor Force and wounding 11 others in a brutal stabbing spree in Jaffa (Yafo)

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit spoke late Tuesday for the first time about the case of Elor Azariya, the IDF soldier currently on trial for charges of manslaughter after having shot

A last minute demand by Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party will need a solution before the coalition can be expanded on Wednesday, with the addition of incoming Defense Minister

Tragedy struck on Wednesday morning, when a six-year-old boy fell from the balcony of his home on 101 Street in Ramat Gan in the coastal region. The child was seriously wounded by

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed that he has discovered his Lithuanian Jewish ancestry is not fully Ashkenazic, but actually at least partially hails from the Sephardic Jewry of Spain in tracing back through

Ahead of the Lag B’Omer celebrations on Wednesday night, Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke to Arutz Sheva about the spiritual awakening of the Jewish nation in Israel – and declared the “next step”

Switzerland’s parliament has called to stop channeling massive funds to radical NGOs with terror links that work to push forward the BDS boycott movement that economically attacks Israel. The call by

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman formally announced Wednesday morning the coalition deal reached between their two parties, at a Jerusalem press conference. The one-time allies

Two Arab residents of Judea and Samaria as well as an Arab citizen of Israel are suspected of raping a 20-year-old mentally delayed Jewish girl two weeks ago for “nationalistic” motives, as

TEL AVIV (JTA) — In 1978, when Beit Hatfutsot-Museum of the Jewish People opened, it did something big. But it did it in the smallest way possible. Among the museum’s

MK Mickey Zohar (Likud) announced on Tuesday evening that he has changed his mind and would not be resigning from the Knesset after all. Zohar had met on Monday afternoon

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman is one step closer towards being appointed Israel’s Defense Minister, after an agreement was reached overnight Tuesday on his demands to join the coalition.