The ministerial committee headed by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon met Sunday evening and approved the release of 26 terrorists as part of a gesture to the Palestinian Authority, in order

Deep in the woods of Ripples, New Brunswick, some 700 Jews found themselves stepping into an internment camp during the early months of the Second World War. Now almost 70

17 terrorists who were convicted of murdering Israelis, including three who murdered senior citizens using axes, are among the 26 terrorists that Israel will set free this week. The full

Rebels in Syria claimed on Sunday that they had killed at least 42 Hizbullah terrorists, who were fighting with soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on behalf of Iran. The

An Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group killed five soldiers in Yemen in an attack Sunday, Yemeni authorities have reported. The soldiers were responsible for security at the Balhaf terminal. Most of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu officially got his powers back on Sunday morning, following a discussion between top doctors at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s authorities had been temporarily

The Housing Ministry will publish tenders for construction over more than 1,000 new homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem on Sunday. The Jerusalem tenders will include projects in historically Jewish

With the cooperation of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, there will be a total of 331 new immigrants (olim) from North America landing in Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday, August

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was recovering on Sunday morning after undergoing an emergency hernia operation overnight, his office said in a statement. The surgery, which took place at the Hadassah

Hamas plans to publicly execute two prisoners in Gaza this week as a “lesson” to others, according to Amnesty International. The organization has described the move as “deeply disturbing,” reported

A wave of bomb attacks hit Iraq over the weekend, as people celebrated the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan, with more than 60 reported dead. The BBC

In Southern Yemen, a suspected U.S. drone strike struck down two al-Qaeda militants on Saturday, USA Today reports. This marks the ninth such strike in Yemen since July 27.  

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a letter Saturday evening to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in which he complained that Palestinian Authority (PA) incitement against Israel is continuing even

Turkey plans to pull its troops from UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, according to Turkish and UN sources. The announcement came a day after two Turkish Airlines pilots were kidnapped

Masoud Barzani, president of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, issued a warning to jihadist groups in northern Syria, Saturday. Calling on Kurdish parties in Iraq to

A ten-year-old boy and four men aged 50 to 60 drowned in the course of the weekend. At around 7:30 p.m. Friday, an MDA team arrived at Charles Clore beach

Israel is to vaccinate all children against polio, after “thousands” of people in the south of the country were found to be carriers, Health Minister Yael German said on Saturday.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon called reports that Israel struck a terrorist target in Sinai “rumors and speculations” but did not deny them outright. “We will not allow rumors and speculations,

The Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Mark A. Welsh, departed Israel on Thursday, concluding a four-day work visit, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a

Ansar Bait El Maqdis, an Al Qaeda affiliate in the Sinai peninsula, vowed revenge Saturday after four of its members were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike as they prepared

The Ministry of Health decided on Friday that the operation to vaccinate children against the polio virus will be expanded to include children in all of Israel. Until now, only

Israeli authorities shut down Eilat’s airport on Thursday after Egypt sent a warning about an attack originating in the Sinai, a senior military source told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency

A Fatah MP warned of an impending security campaign by Hamas in Gaza, after its security forces raided the homes of several Fatah leaders in the enclave, reported the Ma’an

Controversial atheist British professor Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage in a tweet he made deriding the lack of academic achievements by Muslims. On Thursday, the best-selling author of “The God

At least fourteen Al Qaeda terrorists have been killed in three US drone strikes in  single day, according to Yemeni officials.  Drone strikes have been commonly employed to strike at

Egypt denied on Friday evening that Israel had carried out an airstrike in the Sinai. At least five Egyptian terrorists were reportedly killed as they prepared to launch a rocket

Two Jewish British teenage girls arrived home on Friday, badly burned after acid was hurled in their faces in Zanzibar, while the island’s authorities offered a reward for the capture

The Health Ministry has high hopes for the ongoing mass immunization program in southern Israel, a response to the discovery that roughly 2.5% of children living in the region carry

United States Secretary of State John Kerry and other top U.S. officials met Thursday evening with a small group of Jewish community leaders to ask for their support for the

In Washington, the U.S. State Department has said that negotiations between Israel and PA leaders will resume on August 14, 2013, Reuters reported. During last month’s negotiations mediated by the