State comptroller and retired judge Yosef Haim Shapira is expected to release his annual report on Tuesday, including new information on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s travel funding scandal, often referred

Israel’s unemployment rate fell to 4.9%, the lowest level in more than 30 years. Data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Monday shows that from March to April,

Human remains retrieved from EgyptAir 804 indicate the plane suffered an explosion before crashing, Egyptian investigators said on Tuesday. Flight MS804, which was lost over the Mediterranean last Thursday, has

This week Walter’s World covers an exceptional period in the Jewish calendar, as well as most extraordinary events in politics. Following in quick succession were three important commemorative days as well as

(JTA) — A municipality in southern France alerted prosecutors to a local politician’s Twitter account featuring remarks on banning Jews and dogs along with imagery from the Holocaust. Montpelier prosecutors

The Museum of the Jewish People (Beit Hatfutsot) in Tel Aviv is opening its new wing, featuring new and exciting exhibitions. Arutz Sheva visited the museum and spoke with CEO

The United States urged Russia on Monday to press Syria to stop bombing opposition forces and civilians in Aleppo and the Damascus suburbs. The appeal came in a phone call

(JTA) — British Jewish groups and lawmakers have called on the Labour Party to suspend a Parliament member who compared Israel to the Nazis.  The party said last week that

North Korea’s Ambassador to the United Nations on Monday rejected Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Speaking to Reuters, the ambassador, So

A red swastika was spray-painted at a synagogue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, reports the local WPRI-TV. According to the report, the graffiti was found on Sunday and was widely condemned

(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor, fulfilling a lifelong dream, sang the national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina Hirsch, 89, performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Saturday at Comerica

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is hesitant on the issue of a possible visit to Israel, despite reports last week that Republican Jews are laying the groundwork for such a

TEL AVIV (JTA) — David Sharan, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s U.S.-born chief of staff, will be the Israeli Cabinet’s next secretary. The appointment was announced Monday, according to Israeli

The pre-Israel Defense Forces Preparatory Academy in Beit El launches its Israel Cadet Trek 2016 this week in the Galilee. The cadets, alongside cyclists from the USA and Israel, will peddle through

Speaking on the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement last week, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared that the old Middle East created by European imperialism was dead

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday at the launch of the Knesset’s summer session, declaring that he is willing to take “courageous steps” in order to advance a peace

On Monday the Knesset Guard Sergeant-at-Arms Brigadier General Yossi Grif assigned a bodyguard to Israel’s newest MK, Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick, following threats upon his life. Glick, who

The Sylvan Adams Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) Bonei Zion Prize for 2016 was handed out at the Knesset in time for the launching of its summer session on Monday, and Arutz Sheva was on hand

A new report on housing prices in Israel offers more grim news after a glimmer hope earlier this year, showing that despite programs by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz sought to find out just how virulently anti-Israel American college campuses have become, and so he posed as a fundraiser for Hamas terror attacks at Portland State University (PSU)

Aviya Grushko, the percussionist of the Inbalim band, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday about how the prestigious King David Hotel in Jerusalem last Wednesday demanded that members of his band remove their kippot and tuck in

Coalition talks between the Likud and Yisrael Beytenu parties resumed late Monday evening, after Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman had said earlier they reached a “dead end”. The main issue

A Dutch-Jewish woman was stabbed at a kosher restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam on Monday night. She suffered lightly to moderate injuries and was taken to a local

The UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party. In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of

Yesh Atid chairperson MK Yair Lapid held a meeting of his party on Monday, where he spoke about the coalition talks with Zionist Union that collapsed, as well as the

Speaking at the Likud’s weekly meeting on Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed the party’s newest MK, Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick. Netanyahu also congratulated MKs David Biton and

The precise cause of the tragic crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 is still yet to be determined, as investigators hunt for the Airbus A320’s black boxes. But while Islamic terrorism is

A haredi soldier serving in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) recently had an emotional chance encounter with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, as reported by Channel 2. The soldier, identified

Despite losing the general election ballot on Sunday for the Austrian presidency, Alexander Van der Bellen narrowly defeated Norbert Hofer on Monday, after absentee ballots put the former Green Party

Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara on Monday announced to members of his Likud party that he is weighing whether or not to remain in the ruling party. Political sources estimate that