Yoram Kaniuk, one of Israel’s leading secular writers, died at age 83 Saturday. Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 17, he joined the Palmach fighting force

The world-renowned Ohr Naava Women’s Torah Center will begin to operate in Israel with Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi, to assist young women who are in trouble. The group reaches out to

The United Nations said on Friday that Russia cannot send troops to the Golan Heights peacekeeping force, after President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to bolster the force, AFP

President Bashar Al-Assad’s troops have been using innocent civilians as human bait to lure rebels from their hiding places, according to Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi. A recent video distributed

The Israel Defense Exhibition (ISDEF) 2013 was held this week in Tel Aviv, featuring the latest and most relevant achievements of the global HLS and defense industry. Arutz Sheva’s Yoni

The United Nations has evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is directly orchestrating atrocities against his opponents, Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told The Daily Telegraph on

Poverty has risen dramatically in the New York Jewish community since 2002, according to UJA-Federation of New York’s “Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 Special Report on Poverty,” released

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday that his country’s peacekeepers replace departing Austrian troops which monitor the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. “Considering the difficult situation that

The civil war in Syria is becoming a religious war which splits the Muslim world between Sunnis and Shiites, notes Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevi. The rebels belong to Sunni

May 2013 saw a decline in the number of terror attacks carried out against Israelis by Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists, according to the monthly report by the Israel Security Agency

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to his country overnight Thursday from a North African tour, facing thousands of supporters who welcomed him back at the airport, a show

The U.S. Administration under President Barack Obama is on defense after media revelations of large-scale surveillance programs that tapped into ordinary U.S. citizens’ use of telephones and the internet. The

Indian police arrested three men Thursday over the gang-rape of an American tourist who was attacked after she hitched a ride in a truck, an officer told the AFP news

The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet Leyisrael) said on Thursday that it will not take part in an upcoming gala event attended by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and will

Bulgaria denied Thursday backtracking over whether Hizbullah was behind a bomb attack last July on its soil that killed five Israelis, saying earlier comments were misinterpreted, AFP reported. “Bulgaria has

A 39-year-old Chabad rabbi was attacked by a group of young men in the German city of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, according to media reports. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gurewitz was reportedly attacked in the KOMM German shopping

Iran and Hizbullah are doing everything they can to keep Bashar Assad in power in Syria, said a special report by the The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

Austria is pulling its United Nations peacekeeping force from the Golan Heights, the government said in a statement released Thursday. Austria accounts for about 380 of the 1,000-strong UN force

At least 14 people, including 10 border guards, were shot to death Wednesday by gunmen who established a mock Iraqi military checkpoint in Ramadi, CNN reported.  The victims were driving in two vehicles

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) on Wednesday expressed opposition to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Samantha Power for the post of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “We understand

The Arab League condemned on Wednesday Hizbullah’s involvement in the Syrian civil war, the Lebanon-based Naharnet reports. Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi announced after a meeting of the League’s foreign

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to “give peace a chance.” Speaking at a Knesset session called by the opposition and which dealt

In an ongoing effort to recruit and attract jihadists, Al Qaeda’s “Inspire” magazine continues to promote anti-Semitic narratives, depicting Jews as being at war with Islam and calling for the

NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spoke to Arutz Sheva about Sunday’s gathering of thousands of Jew in New York City to celebrate the Israel Day Parade. The parade is “a

Bulgaria’s foreign minister said Wednesday that evidence that Hizbullah was behind a bomb attack last July on its soil that killed five Israelis was “circumstantial” and “not categorical” at this

The Hamas government in Gaza has slammed Fatah for creating a new Palestinian Authority government. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has tasked Rami Hamdallah with serving as Prime Minister and putting

Two Zionist, one a Pakistani Muslim and the other an Egyptian Christian Reverend, explained to Arutz Sheva why “anti-Zionist” has become the new code word for anti-Semitism in the Muslim

There is a problem within Islam that goes beyond the existence of religious extremists, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has posited in what seems like a change in perception, writing in

The government has announced a plan to solve the shortage of teachers in Jewish schools by hiring 500 teachers from the Arab sector. While posts in Jewish state schools are

The mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood of Agash in Ramle has become the scene of an ugly campaign of harassment. Jews living in the neighborhood have reported several incidents of vandalism as