The Palestinian Authority on Sunday sent a warning to Israel, over what it calls its attempts to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Speaking during a meeting of
Israel’s security cabinet ended marathon talks on proposed cuts in defense spending late on Sunday night. The final decision in the matter is expected Monday morning, before the budget is
Israel has opened a new diplomatic mission in the Gulf, the ultra-leftist daily Haaretz reported on Sunday, citing finance ministry costings for 2014 prepared for submission to the government this
A total of 686 candidates are vying replace Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country’s upcoming June national election, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported. Among those who have registered to
Israel’s security cabinet was to discuss on Sunday proposed cuts in defense spending of over a billion dollars, as part of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s austerity plans which include tax
Several days after a stabbing attack was foiled at the last minute at Joseph’s Tomb (Kever Yosef), the IDF has issued a reminder to Jews not to visit the tomb
More than 10,000 people from some 50 countries on Sunday marked the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen in Austria. A somber procession was
Israeli Premier Binyamin Netanyahu is “fully determined” to halt sales by Russia of advanced missiles to Syria when he visits Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin, Energy and Water
More Israelis support than oppose the Women of the Wall organization’s demand to change the rules at the Kotel (Western Wall) to allow their form of prayer services. Pollsters from
Israeli civilians are suffering the consequences of Palestinian Authority riots, according to a recent flood of reports to Arutz Sheva. PA residents regularly clash with IDF soldiers at certain points
A military judge has reduced the sentence imposed on a terrorist in an Israeli prison, Haaretz reports. According to the report the judge, Amir Dahan, claimed that the detention conditions
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, officials said Saturday, amid concerns Moscow may be about to deliver advanced missiles to Syria. Putin’s spokesman
Twin car bombs in Turkey killed 41 people and injured 100 others Saturday. The double blast occurred in a crowded area of the small town of Reyhanli in the southern
Israelis marched late Saturday in an echo of mass cost of living protests in 2011, but this time their ire focused on finance minister Yair Lapid who came to power in January
Tests that were conducted on wounded Syrians who arrived in Turkey suggested that chemical weapons may have been used by Syrian security forces, the Turkish foreign minister said on Friday,
El Salvador established diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority on Friday, the Global Post reports. The move comes a week after Denmark and Finland became the latest European countries to
A Budapest court has handed down prison sentences of two and three years to three men who verbally abused visitors to the World Jewish Congress (WJC) that was held in
Facebook is in talks on a potential $1 billion deal to buy the Israel-based GPS mobile navigation app Waze, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The report, citing unnamed sources,
The Obama administration is ignoring the link between radical Islam and terrorism, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Thursday. In an interview with Fox News, Rep. Michael
A German opera house has cancelled an opera featuring graphic Nazi imagery following a wave of public protests on opening night. The Düsseldorf opera house announced that it would cancel
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, condemned on Thursday a report by the Church of Scotland that questioned the divine right of Jews to the land of Israel. Taub
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, charged on Thursday that the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s government has used chemical weapons against its people. Speaking to NBC News, Erdogan called on
As part of his ongoing efforts to get Israel and the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday hosted talks with special
U.S. prosecutors have charged a third man in connection with an “al-Qaeda-supported” plot to derail a passenger train at the Canada-U.S. border, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday. According to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is in Beijing, attended a festive dinner Thursday evening with senior Chinese economic leaders, Chinese government representatives and Israeli and Chinese business people. At the
Syria will supply Lebanese terror group Hizbullah with “game-changing weapons” despite air strikes reportedly aimed at cutting off the flow of arms to the Lebanese Shiite terror group, Hizbullah’s leader said on
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday for the annual Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) parade. Members of youth groups and visitors from across the country took part
On a tour of the Great Wall of China Thursday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the wall was an apt simile for Israel’s situation. China had constructed a wall
Israel has warned the United States that Russia plans to sell advanced weapons to Syria, a report in the Wall Street Journal Thursday said. The deal is set to take
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, several days after the alleged Israeli air raids on Syrian targets and as Washington steps up its Middle