Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and other public figures will be at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday to honor former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir. Shamir

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Ron Dermer as Israel’s next Ambassador to the United States. Over the past four years, Dermer has served as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s

Indian investigators are looking for six suspects in the bomb attack against Mahabodhi Temple on Sunday morning. Two monks were wounded in the attack. Mahabodhi Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage

Syria rejected on Monday the proposal by the opposition of a ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan, which is due to begin Tuesday. On Sunday, Ahmad Jarba, the new

Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil resigned on Monday, addressing the resignation letter to ousted President Mohammad Morsi and decrying the military coup against him, reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

U.S. sources told the Reuters news agency on Monday that congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The delay

Israeli military search and rescue team members were on holiday climbing a cliff in Wales on Sunday when a 67-year-old man fell from the mountain. The two IDF soldiers were

While the BDS movement calls for an international boycott of Israel for its alleged brutal occupation of Judea and Samaria, and its “siege” of Gaza – farmers from Gaza took

As the death toll rises in clashes between Egypt’s army and pro-Morsi protesters, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Gaza terrorists are infiltrating the Sinai to attack Egyptian army outposts. Although the army has

Parents toting their children around in baby carriages and strollers on buses and trains in Jerusalem will now be able to save some money. On Monday, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz

Up to 35 people, most of then Muslim Brotherhood supporters, may have been killed in a confrontation between the Brotherhood and the Egyptian military. It is not clear who attacked

At least 40 people were killed Monday in clashes outside a military building in Cairo, where supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi were holding a sit-in against what they are

Armed supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi kidnapped two Egyptian soldiers in the Ain Shams area of Cairo, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported Monday. An army official, cited by

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is often touted by the West as a “moderate peace partner”, has once again indicated that he is willing to resume negotiations with Israel

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is in critical but stable condition after being taken by ambulance from the couple’s Nantucket, Massachusetts home to a

The National Anti-Terror Unit on Sunday issued a travel warning for Sinai, and warned Israelis still there to come home immediately. “Given the deteriorating security situation in Sinai, which includes

Arab terrorist rioters have announced that they intend to target the Jewish community of Beit El, in the Binyamin region, and analysts say this is part of an effort to

The average salary in Israel rose 1.6% in April, the last month for which final statistics were available. The 1.6% increase was a sharp rise over the salary levels for

At least one person is dead and up to 80 others missing in a train wreck in Canada’s Quebec province over the weekend. The train was carrying crude oil in

Tragedies struck several Jewish vacation spots in upstate New York over the weekend, reported YourJewishNews.com, citing emergency workers. One incident involved a 22-month-old boy; a second involved a 14-year-old and

Latma, the nationalist weekly video satire show, has run out of funds and will go offline at the end of the month, unless new donations make it possible to keep

Unites States Ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, was honored on Tuesday by the Jewish community in Brussels at a farewell ceremony, The European Jewish Press (EJP) reported. The Ambassador, who

Republican Senator John McCain called for a suspension of United States military aid to Egypt following the army ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. “I’ve thought long and hard about

A team of 9th-graders from a high school in Rehovot, Israel, won the RoboCup 2013 international robotics competition in Holland with their robotic re-enactment of a Jewish wedding, the JNS

The United States is “not aligned” with any political party or group in Egypt following the ouster of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, President Barack Obama clarified on Saturday. Obama, who

Mohamed ElBaradei has not yet been chosen as Egypt’s interim prime minister, a presidential spokesman said on Saturday, after earlier reports indicated that the former head of the International Atomic

Mohamed ElBaradei will be sworn in Saturday as interim prime minister, his spokeswoman told CNN. The news came after state media reported that the diplomat had been summoned to the

The Israeli who was killed in a hit-and-run traffic accident in Massachusetts is Amnon Bogomolsky, of Moledet. Bogomolsky was accompanying his son on his Bar Mitzva trip to the United

Israel’s Ambassador in the United States, Michael Oren, announced Friday evening on his Facebook page that he will end his term in the fall. According to Globes, there were rumors

 More than 30 people were reportedly killed in violence in Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula, over the weekend. The clashes are between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi on one