Andrei Pashnichikov, the Israeli who was arrested in Egypt in December, has been sentenced to two years in prison, Egyptian media reported on Monday. Pashnichikov was arrested after he was

Hamas is making at least a million dollars a day in “tax” money from Gaza smugglers, a senior IDF officer said Monday. Colonel Wael Tafesh, who is a top IDF

Israeli firms Delek Drilling and Anver Oil and Gas Exploration signed an agreement Monday to acquire a 30 percent stake in exploration rights for gas and oil off the southern

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi Chairman MK Naftali Bennett held their first meeting in five years Monday. The meeting started shortly after 12:00 noon in the government offices

The international Israel advocacy organization StandWithUs has teamed up with Bridge Houston to counter an anti-Israel billboard that has been erected in Texas. The new ad encourages the public to

Pope Benedict XVI announced on Monday that he will be resigning from his post on Feb 28, as he no longer has the strength to fulfill the required duties. The

One of the goals of U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel is to deliver a message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not to carry out any “military surprises”

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Sunday that the French government will be taking steps in the coming days to deport several radical Muslim clerics from the country in an

In another terror incident that was mostly ignored by mainstream Israeli media, Arabs hurled three firebombs at a building that houses Jewish families in the Abu Tor neighborhood of southern

Palestinian Authority factions meeting in Cairo wrapped up two days of talks aimed at reconciling rival groups Hamas and Fatah late on Saturday, although divisions remained over how exactly to

Iran and Hizbullah, its Lebanese terror proxy, are building a network of militias inside Syria to preserve and protect their interests in the event that President Bashar al-Assad’s government falls

Yemen on Sunday demanded an explanation from Tehran over an Iran-linked arms shipment seized last month and rejected interference in its internal affairs, state news agency Saba reported. “The Yemeni

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett will meet Monday at noontime in the government compound at Tel Aviv’s Kirya district. This is the first time the

The “first lady of the IDF,” Sarah Braverman, who parachuted into Europe with famed Jewish heroine Hanna Szenes, fought in the Palmach, and established the IDF Women’s Corps, passed away Sunday

The death of a resident of the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Ata is being investigated, after he keeled over and suffered an apparent heart attack – as police handed

Jordanian police were forced to fire tear gas at a mob of Syrian refugees Sunday after they rioted at the storehouse of a Norwegian charity in a northern refugee camp.

David Hartman, director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and author of numerous works on modern Jewish philosophy, passed away on Sunday. He was 81. Hartman, ordained as an

 Iraq allegedly has agreed to allow 50,000 Iranian Basij militia troops into the country to help suppress riots against the government and seize Arab and other foreign embassies, including that

A court in Egypt on Saturday ordered that video-sharing website YouTube be blocked for a month for hosting an anti-Islam film that triggered deadly outrage across the Muslim world last

Republican opponents of former Senator Chuck Hagel welcomed the decision by the Senate Armed Services Committee last Thursday to postpone the expected panel vote on President Barack Obama’s highly controversial

Palestinian Authority factions meeting in Cairo to seal a reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas were to hold a second round of talks on Saturday after the failure of initial

The IDF was able to foil on Saturday yet another attempt by Palestinian Authority Arabs to set up an illegal outpost in Judea and Samaria. Some 30 PA Arabs had

Katyusha rockets fired on a camp housing Iranian dissidents near Baghdad killed five members of the Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) opposition, Iraqi security officials said Saturday. About 40 MEK members were

MK Uri Ariel, the head of Bayit Yehudi’s coalition negotiations team, said in an interview published Friday that the hareidi leadership is sowing unnecessary panic regarding the plans to enlist

Deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon said Saturday that he does not know why former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed him from his position in the Foreign Ministry. He has since been

Former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman accused his former deputy, Danny Ayalon, of a lack of integrity, in a Saturday television interview. Ayalon said earlier in the day that the Foreign

Thousands took to the streets across Egypt on Friday, after opposition groups called for “Friday of dignity” rallies demanding President Mohammed Morsi fulfill the goals of the revolt that brought

Iran once again denied on Friday that it was involved in a terror attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israelis last July, AFP reported. Iran’s ambassador to Bulgaria reiterated on

Spanish police arrested a suspect for plotting terrorist attacks in Spain and elsewhere in Europe, authorities said Friday, according to AFP. They arrested Mohamed Echaabi, a 22-year-old Moroccan, on Thursday

Cyprus has given the “state of Palestine” an embassy, even though it still says that a “Palestinian state” needs to be established through negotiations with Israel. AFP reported Cyprus said