Syrian state media paid tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Wednesday, saying he had taken an “honorable” position on the two-year-old uprising against the Damascus regime. The Venezuelan president,

Soldiers at the Tapuach checkpoint in Samaria have arrested a Palestinian Authority resident who had planned to commit an attack. The would-be attacker approached the checkpoint late Wednesday morning. When

The president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress narrowly escaped with his life on Monday after he was targeted in an assassination attempt in central Kiev. Vadim Rabinovich, a businessman and president

President Shimon Peres kicked off a European tour Tuesday with a homage to 22 Belgians honored for their bravery in saving Jews during the Holocaust. Their names are to be

United States aviation authorities announced Tuesday they had opened an investigation into a pilot’s sighting of a small unmanned aircraft in the air near New York’s John F. Kennedy International

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday, according to CNN. In a national broadcast, Maduro said Chavez died Tuesday at 4:25 p.m. local time. He

Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) praised Israeli democracy in a speech Sunday at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington.  Cornyn recalled a time in 2001 when former Prime Minister

A German museum for the first time on Tuesday returned a painting despoiled by the Nazis to the estate of a late German Jewish art dealer, the AFP news agency

Gaza’s third international marathon has been cancelled after Hamas refused to allow women to run, the UN agency for “Palestinian” refugees said on Tuesday. UNRWA officials said more than 800

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering the possibility of approving a “meaningful package of gestures” toward the Palestinian Authority in advance of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel this

A day after a car crash claimed the lives of a young hassidic couple in Brooklyn and their son was born prematurely in an emergency procedure, the baby died on

If Syria’s chemical weapons fall into the wrong hands, the world may begin to experience terrorist attacks using chemical weapons, researcher Yiftah Shapir of the Institute for National Security Studies

Seventeen of the world’s 1,426 billionaires are Israeli, according to Forbes. The business magazine on Monday released its list of “the richest people on the planet,” membership in which requires

More than 70 flatbed trucks of foodstuffs and other goods are sitting at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza, locked out by Hamas. The crossing was closed last week following a

A day after a car crash claimed the lives of a young hareidi couple in Brooklyn and their son was born prematurely in an emergency procedure, the baby died on

A relatively small swarm of locusts has arrived in Israel, according to Agriculture Ministry officials. By sunrise Tuesday, they’ll be dead, officials vowed. The swarm crossed the border from Egypt,

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released $250 million in financial aid to Egypt on Sunday, with a pledge of more if President Mohamed Morsi implements economic and political reforms.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Riyadh Monday that Washington will work to “empower” Syria’s opposition, while warning arch-foe Iran that time for talk on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions

The president of the Egyptian Jewish community was acquitted last week of fraud and embezzlement of 3 million Egyptian pounds ($450,000), the Egyptian Independent reported. Carmen Weinstein, who was acquitted by

Researchers say they have, for the first time, cured a baby born with HIV — a development that could help improve treatment of babies infected at birth. There is an

The Obama administration has been better for Israel than the last eight administrations, Vice-President Joe Biden told a large crowd at the AIPAC conference Monday. “We’ve stood shoulder to shoulder

While Secretary of State John Kerry will not travel to Israel during his first tour of the Middle East since assuming the top U.S. diplomatic post, he will be meeting

Gunmen have attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the Libyan foreign ministry said Sunday, days after dozens of Egyptian Christians suspected of

U.S. President Barack Obama has demanded a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, according to an unconfirmed report by World Tribune. The report quotes anonymous “Israeli sources.”

Arutz Sheva spoke on Sunday with David Kreizelman, Foreign Policy Associate at the Jerusalem Office of AIPAC, who is currently taking part in the AIPAC 2013 policy conference in Washington.

When Israel says that all options are on the table regarding stopping a nuclear Iran, it means what it says, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said at the AIPAC 2013 conference

An Arab terrorist attempted to stab a male and female Border Police team Sunday evening at a checkpoint near Tayibeh, in central Israel. He was arrested and did not succeed

A hareidi-religious man and his pregnant wife were killed on their way to hospital in Brooklyn early Sunday, when a vehicle struck the car for hire in which they were

Diplomats Dennis Ross and Elliot Abrams agreed on a Sunday panel at the AIPAC conference that Iran is successfully deceiving the P5+1 countries in the negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear weapon

Jews have become the main object of hate speech in Turkey, followed by Armenians, Christians, and Greeks, according to a periodic report on hate speech in Turkish media, released by