An Israeli car dealer escaped injured but alive after driving into an ambush planned by Palestinian Authority resident thieves posing as clients seeking to buy vehicles. The attack took place

President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked Congress to delay votes on authorizing military strikes against Syria in order to give Russia time to get Syria to surrender any chemical weapons

As tensions north of the Israeli border mount, the country’s tourism industry is proving surprisingly resilient, showing only a minor drop compared to August last year, and even a slight

El Al, Israel’s leading national airline, has suspended all daytime flights to the resort city of Eilat. The announcement comes on the heels of Israel Aviation Authority (IAA) guidance regarding the flight path,

As of yesterday, Turkey has enforced a controversial law placing limits on the sale and advertising of alcoholic beverages throughout the country, despite ongoing criticism, the Hürriyet Daily News reported. According to the new

A tour bus came under a hail of rocks at the Mount of Olives at 8:15 p.m. Monday evening – just as activists were saying that security at the location

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has hailed the discovery of one of the oldest Torah ornament ever found in archaeological digs as a “wonderful gift to the Jewish people.” Yesterday, after the archaeologists found an

Russia has transferred several S-300 missile batteries into Syria, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported Tuesday. The transfers took place despite statements by Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, that Russia

A loud gunshot was heard from within the Jordanian House of Representatives as one Member of Parliament opened fire this morning, the Albawaba Middle Eastern news site reported. According to

Jewish residents of Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighborhood have been the victims of repeated rock attacks by Arab residents of the neighborhood. One of the Jewish residents of Abu Tor, Ruth

The world could learn a lesson from the way Israel fights terrorism, said Cressida Dick, the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations at the London Police. She spoke on Monday at

President Barack Obama’s media blitz began on Monday evening, as he gave interviews to six television networks in which he presented his case on Syria. In his interview with NBC

An official with the Palestinian Authority appeared to confirm on Monday that the European Union’s guidelines, which boycott Israeli entities operating beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines, were engineered as part

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has revealed his plans to strengthen and encourage the integration of women at the workplace. The new regulations include grants and financial awards for employers deemed to

A report presented Monday at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s (ICT) World Summit on Counter-Terrorism said that Syria had a large stockpile of chemical weapons, and was likely to use

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on Syria’s Assad regime to give up its chemical weapons stockpile as a way of avoiding military intervention by western states. In talks

The “Middle East” is no longer just Israel and the countries surrounding it, said retired U.S. General John Abizaid Monday. The region now extends from Asia through to Africa, if

Abraham Foxman, who heads the US-based Anti-Defamation League, told IDF Radio Monday morning that elements in the White House asked the ADL and other Jewish groups to help it in

Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are being held under a mantle of secrecy, but a statement made during a lighthearted moment Sunday appears to reveal that that

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in London on Sunday, AFP reports. Kerry insisted earlier that Israelis and PA Arabs were determined to

As US President Barack Obama attempts to rally support in Congress for a strike on Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry is waging a diplomatic offensive with the same objective.

RAF Typhoon fighters won a mid-air showdown with two Syrian warplanes heading towards Britain’s main base in Cyprus, the Sunday People reports. The dramatic confrontation came after President Bashar Al-Assad’s

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed on Sunday the claims by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad that there is no evidence he used chemical weapons against his own people. Asked

Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defense system near Jerusalem Sunday, an AFP correspondent said. The correspondent said the battery was set up west of the city. A military spokeswoman

As part of its annual effort, the Tzohar organization will be organizing prayers at 250 locations around Israel for Yom Kippur, aimed specifically at secular Israelis who would most likely

An intelligence report prepared by a European country has found that Syrian President Bashar Assad has handed control of missile installations over to foreign fighters, Lebanon’s A-Nahar reports. Assad has

Tens of thousands of Tunisians took to the streets this weekend calling for the Islamist-led government to step down. Protesters chanted slogans opposing the leading Ennahda party and waved Tunisian

Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard, who was the last surviving witness of the Nazi dictator’s final days in the bunker towards the end of World War II, has died, his agent

The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Prisoner Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, on Friday announced the dates for the release of terrorist prisoners from Israeli jails, reports the Ma’an news agency. As a

The US military is planning a more extensive military operation against regime targets in Syria than had been previously planned, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Unnamed “US officers”