A father of eight from central Israel has won Israel’s latest lottery. As the sole winner, he will receive the entire jackpot of NIS 26 million. The winner only buys lottery

Holocaust historian Professor Yisrael Gutman passed away Tuesday at the age of 90. Gutman’s considerable contribution to humanity’s knowledge regarding the Holocaust included an encyclopedia of the Holocaust. He also

The Venezuelan government has expelled three senior US diplomats, accusing them of conspiring with the right-wing opposition to “sabotage” the country’s economy. In a typically incendiary and hyperbolic statement, Venezuelan President Nicolas

An Al-Qaeda-linked group based in the Sinai Peninsula has denounced the Egyptian army as “an enemy of Allah” because of its crackdown on Sinai terrorists. The Sinai has become increasingly

Jews in the United States are overwhelmingly proud to be Jewish, yet nearly one in five of them describe themselves as having no religion, according to a Pew Research Center

Iran’s recent conciliatory remarks have to be matched by “transparent, verifiable, meaningful actions,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday. “Iran is committed to Israel’s destruction,

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met on Monday at the State Department with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In remarks to reporters before the meeting, Kerry said, “Israel, as everybody

At the conclusion of his meeting Monday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack H. Obama said that Washington would not ease up on its sanctions against Iran unless

Alert IDF soldiers on Monday night prevented a terror attack at the Gaza border fence. The incident occurred near Kibbutz Nachal Oz, Channel Two reported. Several Gaza Arabs approached the

At least 42 people have been killed and scores wounded in a series of car bomb blasts in Baghdad, as the country faces one of its bloodiest years since 2003.

Islamist terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula have claimed the killing of three Egyptian policemen. One of Monday’s attacks targeted a police station in El Arish in North Sinai, killing two policemen as they sat eating breakfast

For the first time, Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem has recognized an Egyptian national, the late Dr. Mohamed Helmy, as a “Righteous Gentile,” for the assistance he gave Jews during

A study released by the Steinhardt Social Reseach Institute (SSRI) and Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University has yielded some interesting and somewhat unexpected information about the size of

Israel was among those who warned Kenya’s government of the high risk of an attack before the deadly assault on a Nairobi mall by Islamist terrorists, security sources have told

Hebrew University biochemists Professor Aharon Razin and Professor Haim (Howard) Cedar are considered favorites to win 2013 Nobel Prize in the fields of medicine or chemistry for their research on

At their meeting on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will discuss the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority and the recent developments in Iran and Syria,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has arrived in New York. He is scheduled to meet U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday,

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has rejected calls by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for a so-called “third intifada” in Judea and Samaria, saying it would “not allow the West Bank

Channel 2‘s website says that Indian security forces have arrested a Global Jihad terrorist who they believe planned to carry out terror attacks against Jewish targets in India. The investigation revealed

Islamist gunmen have stormed a school in northern Nigeria, massacring at least 50 students, in the latest attack by Islamist terrorists in the region. Coming just days after a deadly

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the head of Israel’s negotiating team in talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), spoke Saturday night at the opening of a conference organized by the left-wing

As fighting continues in Syria, 43 Islamist groups have united to form a joint “Army of Islam.” The groups have agreed to act under the joint leadership of Sheikh Mohammed

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu plans to tell the United Nations General Assembly that Iran has enough uranium to produce nuclear weapons, according to the Sunday Times. An unnamed senior Israeli

IAF fighter jets were scrambled into Israel’s skies twice Saturday, for reasons that are unknown. Such events usually occur when it is believed that a foreign aircraft is invading Israeli

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has told his government ministers not to grant any interviews to the press regarding diplomatic matters – including the efforts currently being made by the United

A telephone call Friday between US President Barack Obama and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is being hailed as a historic development. The call is the first of its kind between

A French diplomat who physically attacked an Israeli soldier during a demonstration in support of illegal Bedouin squatters will be deported from Israel, an official has told the Israel Hayom paper.

Western diplomats have hailed a “significant shift” in Iran’s attitude towards its nuclear weapons program, following the highest-level of talks between the United States and Iran in six years. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and

Three Arab rioters were arrested for throwing rocks Friday, following disorders at the Damascus Gate (Shaar Shechem in Hebrew) to Jerusalem’s Old City.  Another youth was arrested following a disorder next to the Church

UN weapons inspectors are launching investigations into three additional alleged chemical weapons attacks, in addition to their investigations surrounding a series of attacks in Damascus suburbs on August 21 which