Palestinian Authority resident terrorist Wael Salaman Mohammed el-Arjeh, of Hevron, has been convicted of two counts of murder in the deaths of Asher and Yonatan Palmer. He will be sentenced

Nehorai Danino, 13, who was wounded in an ATV accident Wednesday, died Tuesday of his injuries at Sheba Medical Center. Danino was in an ATV that overturned, during the shooting

Terrorists in Gaza fired a mortar shell at the western Negev on Tuesday evening. The attack did not cause injury or damage. There was apparently a second shell fired that

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin confirmed Tuesday morning that the apology to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident is connected to the concern that Iran might obtain a nuclear weapon.

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) says that she intends to streamline the justice system. “When I entered the role of justice minister,” she wrote on her Facebook page, “I said

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas blamed the government of Israel on Tuesday for the death of a terrorist prisoner who suffered from terminal cancer. “The Palestinian presidency holds the government

The United States has placed a destroyer off the South Korean coast to defend against a possible missile strike, the latest in a series of publicized American deployments to counter

Veteran Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was re-elected as head of the Islamic terrorist movement after a meeting in Cairo late on Monday. There had been speculation that Meshaal, 56, who

A law banning “normalizing ties with the Zionist occupation” as well as co-education schooling in the Gaza Strip has entered into force, the education minister for Hamas, said on Monday.

March 2013 was the bloodiest month yet in the course of the two year-long civil war ravaging Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The watchdog organization

Nearly 12 years after the event, New York City will begin a new search for the remains of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on the Twin Towers of the

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was hospitalized Monday after suddenly falling ill. Fayyad was at his office in the PA capital of Ramallah, in Samaria (Shomron), when he was

Thousands of people on Monday attended the funeral of Hani Trudi, a police officer assigned to the Kiryat Shmona station in northern Israel. He was killed Sunday night after he

Israelis were wrapping up the Passover holiday on Monday evening, preparing to put away their Passover dishes and return to their normal, bread-based diet. For many Israelis, the end of

After long being sidelined for Roman excavations, an archaeological dig in western Germany has unearthed myriad traces of daily life in one of Europe’s oldest and largest Jewish communities. From

Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas signed an agreement on Sunday confirming their “common goal to defending” Jerusalem and their opposition to efforts to “Judaize” the

The iconic Eiffel Tower of Paris was evacuated Saturday evening in response to what appeared to be a bomb scare at around 7:00 p.m. local time. The 1,063-foot tower, a

An ancient synagogue near Damascus has reportedly gone up in flames after being robbed and vandalized. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces are each blaming the other over the

A young woman sustained a head wound in Samaria on Saturday night when Palestinian Authority Arab attackers hurled rocks at the vehicle she was riding in. The woman, age 25,

Once again, extremist Muslims tried but failed to prevent Jews from accessing the holiest site in the Jewish faith, with the threat of attacks. Dozens of Arab teens hurled rocks

Israeli military medics transferred a wounded Syrian to a hospital in Israel after he crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights and was found to be in serious condition,

Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised his defense minister in the wee hours of Thursday morning last week with an order for surprise military drills to test battle readiness in the

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast that killed 10 people and injured 31 others near the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar on Friday. A suicide bomber rode a motorbike

Minister of Economy and Trade, Naftali Bennett , Chairman of the Bayit Yehudi party, wrote a Facebook post Friday in which he spoke of his feelings during the visit to Israel by

The winter that ended this week saw Israel’s most bountiful rainy season in a decade. However, farmers have an unpleasant surprise: despite the heavy rain, it was a drought year

Four years after drilling began in the Tamar offshore field, some 80 km off the Haifa shore, natural gas began flowing Saturday evening from the offshore platforms to Ashdod. The

Serbia strongly condemned Saturday the appearance on streets of Belgrade of apparent anti-Semitic posters, marking the 14th anniversary of the NATO bombing campaign to stop Serbian forces in Kosovo. “Those

Two IDF soldiers were slightly hurt on Saturday when Arabs rioted near Kalkliya, about 10 kilometers northeast of Tel Aviv. Hundreds of Arabs rioted near the Kalkilya checkpoint. Security forces

Minister of Agriculture Yair Shamir, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon and several MKs took part in an annual rally at the site of Homesh in Samaria, a community that was

New recruits to the IDF will get new “smart card” IDs that can be swiped to pay for rides on buses and trains, Yisrael Hayom reports. Soldiers currently ride trains