Members of the Hamas terrorist group that controls Gaza have threatened Israel with genocide. According to Jonathan Dahoah Halevi of the Alternative Angle blog, the comments were made last week

MK Yitzchak Herzog has won the Labor primaries Friday morning, winning by a 16% margin.   The 125 polls which allowed Labor members to choose between current Labor party leader MK

A truck bomb exploded in a fruits and vegetables market in Iraq late Thursday, killing at least 48 people.  ABC News reports that witnesses told police that a man parked the truck containing

Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas member of parliament and senior figure in the terrorist organization, threatened increased Hamas missile range in the next confrontation, saying that if Israel struck Gaza, Hamas would fire

Officials in the United States condemned on Thursday the extremely hateful remarks against Israel made by Iran’s supreme leader, but not before Israeli officials expressed disappointment at the fact that

A bipartisan group of 14 senators vowed on Thursday to craft a new set of sanctions on Iran, reports Politico. The senators said that it is a top priority of

Abdulrahman al-Khayyal was arrested by Saudi religious police after offering free hugs in the capital city of Riyadh. He apparently was inspired by a viral Youtube video of a fellow Saudi,

The increasing frequency of rock and firebomb attacks targeting Israeli motorists in Judea and Samaria has led the IDF and police to crack down on “road terror.” This week, 21

An Israeli university’s online course in Arabic has drawn interest throughout the Arab world, Maariv/nrg reports. The Technion is offering an online course on nanotechnology in Arabic with Professors Hossam

A drone attack on an Islamic seminary in Pakistan, likely carried out by the US, left 5 dead on Thursday. The attack comes despite Pakistan’s opposition to US drone strikes.

An Iranian citizen was recently arrested in Azerbaijan after he was observed looking at the Israeli embassy in Baku in a suspicious manner. According to Channel 10, which reported the

Swedish Jew and outspoken opponent to anti-Semitic violence Annika Hernroth-Rothstein has filed for asylum in her own country, Elder of Ziyon reports. The move is a public statement of dissent against the Scandinavian

More Israelis die from cancer than from other causes, data from the Central Statistics Bureau reveals, with heart disease as a close second.  Maariv reports that the data, released Wednesday, analyzes over

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted on Wednesday on the need for a “real” solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, AFP reports.  Putin said that

A Kuwaiti newspaper reported Wednesday that Russia was set to transfer billions of dollars worth of arms to Egypt before the end of the year. According to the report in

Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s latest controversial comments on Israel are”unacceptable” and “complicate” ongoing negotiations on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, a French government spokeswoman said Wednesday.   “Khamenei’s comments

Two IDF soldiers were injured in an operational accident on Tuesday evening on Israel’s northern border. The soldiers were hurt in an explosion in the Har Dov region. According to

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s granddaughter was returned to Gaza on Tuesday after being hospitalized in Israel. Doctors at Petah Tikva where she was treated determined that it was impossible to save

An ongoing archaeological dig in the ancient Jewish village of Shilo in Samaria (Shomron) has turned up a stone altar dating back thousands of years. The altar is believed to

The IDF carried out multiple airstrikes Tuesday evening in the Khan Younis area in Gaza. IDF sources say the strikes hit their intended targets – a weapons factory and two

At odds with Washington over terms of an emerging international nuclear agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will on Wednesday take his campaign against the deal to Moscow.    

Top US military leader and chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, said on Monday at a regional summit of international business executives in Washington that the US

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at an Israeli-French technology conference Tuesday, contrasted Israel’s goals with those of Islamic radicals as a matter of modernity and anachronism.  Referencing the scientific studies before him,

An IDF photographer was the target of a Molotov Cocktail attack this week, according to the IDF’s official blog – and so was a bus full of schoolchildren.  The photographer,

The United States will keep two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for another year to help bolster the country’s air defenses against threats from Syria’s civil war, the Pentagon said

The IDF’s hareidi combat battalion has won a coveted IDF prize for excellence and is a candidate for four more prizes. The battalion was selected for the IDF Department of

A granddaughter of Gaza’s Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been hospitalized in Israel in critical condition, according to AFP.  Amal Haniyeh, 1, suffers from a serious infection of the digestive tract which has affected her

Burak Kran, a former player on the German national soccer team, has been killed in Syria after joining the Syrian rebel forces, German and Turkish media sources report. He fought alongside

U.S. Secretary of State of John Kerry said Monday that Israel has “every right” to voice opposition to a potential nuclear deal with Iran. At the same time, he told

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday paid homage to Holocaust victims at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, AFP reported. Ban, who last week announced his visit to