Coalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs

The Almagor terror victims organization on Sunday contacted ministers on the Security Cabinet and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, demanding that they not block a new death penalty bill for terrorist murderers. The

The annual event of the Friends of Israel (FOI) in Milan is always a notable affair. This year, over two hundred people attended, including Israel’s ambassador to Rome and the candidates running

One of Jerusalem’s top hotels barred a band from wearing yarmulkes and tzitzit, i.e. Jewish religious garb, out of fear of offending its Arab workers.  The King David hotel invited the Inbalim band

The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court on Sunday held a hearing on the state attorney’s request, which seeks to obligate the radical leftist group Breaking the Silence to give law authorities

A Muslim woman who gained international fame after posing for a series of ironic selfies with anti-Islam protesters, as herself been outed as an anti-Semitic bigot. 22-year-old Zakia Belkhiri was feted by

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Saturday fired back at Donald Trump for comments he made after the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced their endorsement of the presumptive Republican nominee. On

Pro-Palestinian activists turned violent last Wednesday night as they protested a pro-Israel movie screening at University of California, Irvine (UCI), and in the process hunted down a Jewish woman who was

Adherents of the Vizhnitz hassidic court are in mourning after the passing of Rabbi Gavriel Tzvi Klein of Jerusalem who died on Sunday after battling an illness at the age of 64,

The backlash over Zionist Union chairperson MK Yitzhak Herzog’s talks to join in a unity government continues to intensify, as a third of his Labor faction MKs boycotted a meeting

A Torah reading was prevented on Thursday at the Ashkenazi synagogue “Bnei HaYeshivot” in Kiryat Yearim solely because the cantor prayed with a Sephardic accent, reports Kikar Hashabbat. According to one of the

Yafo Military Court President Col. Maya Heller has replaced the panel of judges in the case of IDF soldier Elor Azariya, who is on trial for charges of manslaughter after having

The leftist American Jewish group J Street on Sunday issued a response to the revelation that it received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial

Temperatures will spike again Sunday, after days of pleasant weather.  Highs Sunday will reach 33°C (91.4°F) in Katzrin; 30°C (86°F) in Tzfat (Safed); 30°C (86°F) in Ariel; 30°C (86°F) in Nahariya; 31°C (87.8°F) in Tel Aviv; 31°C (87.8°F) in

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to skip his own farewell ceremony Sunday, in disgust with his ouster and in the context of him “taking a break” from politics.  The farewell-and-swearing-in-ceremony

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s departure from his post, and from politics in general, will not affect US aid to Israel, a senior official from Washington confirmed Sunday morning.  Ya’alon’s

Political vandals threatened the doomed plane carrying flight EgyptAir MS804, EgyptAir workers revealed Saturday, writing in Arabic “we will bring this plane down” on the plane’s underbelly.  Cairo airport workers targeted

A top Palestinian Authority (PA) official insisted that a Palestinian “Right of Return” should be to modern-day Israel – not to a “Palestinian state.”  Fatah Central Committee and PLO Executive Committee

The top US military commander for the Middle East made a surprise visit to northern Syria on Saturday to witness efforts to build up local forces in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS)

Israel imported cement into Gaza Sunday after a month and a half of hiatus om transfers into the Hamas stronghold.  Construction and employment in Gaza allegedly had suffered due to the

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu began the weekly government cabinet meeting by defending efforts to expand the coalition, stating that the inclusion of the Yisrael Beytenu party will not impact on

Yisrael Beytenu joining the coalition government will bring stability, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) told Arutz Sheva Sunday. Levin noted that, over the past year, Likud had managed to achieve several long-term goals. 

What happened to Raoul Wallenberg, the brave Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews? This question has stayed unanswered for seventy years, despite the concerted efforts of family,

The Islamic State (ISIS) group appeared to try to keep morale high among its supporters in a new audio message released on Saturday, which also called for attacks on the

Conservative and big-money allies of Donald Trump are laying the groundwork for him to visit Israel this summer, an idea backed by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, The Guardian reported on

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar on Friday issued a challenge to incoming Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, who was given his request to take the post as a condition of having

(JTA) “There’s no such thing as a bad date — there’s just a funny story,” says Jessica Schechter, a 28-year-old modern Orthodox woman who teaches acting in New York City

J-Street received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran, it has been revealed. The liberal Jewish group, which bills itself as

Lag B’Omer, the day of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s (Rasbhi) passing, starts on Wednesday night this year. It is an important holiday, but there are many problems that are liable

Gilad Sharon, the son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the brother of former Likud then Kadima MK Omri Sharon who was convicted of corruption in 2006 and jailed, has