While the winner of Israel’s elections has yet to be announced, the big winners Tuesday were the country’s malls, restaurants, beaches, and parks – with nearly all filled to capacity

Exit polls from Tuesday’s elections, released at 10 p.m. as the polls closed, showed Likud Beytenu winning with 31 seats. Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party surpassed all its achievements in

Voter turnout for Israel’s elections was high Tuesday morning, with 38.3% of voters exercising their right to vote by 2:00 p.m. The turnout for this hour was 4.4% higher than

Top Jewish organizational leaders met with President Obama’s controversial defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, and Vice President Joe Biden, in what seems to be an effort to placate widespread Jewish

A suicide car bombing in central Syria killed at least 30 people on Monday, a watchdog said, also reporting a powerful blast in Damascus, AFP reports. Meanwhile, the Arab League

Russia announced Monday that it was sending two airplanes from its emergency services fleet to Beirut, Lebanon, to evacuate about 100 Russian citizens from Syria. The decision reflects Moscow’s belief

Gunshots were fired on Monday evening towards a security guard’s post at Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. Locals reported that they heard the sound of gunfire coming from the

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has sought the assistance of the Jewish rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center after the organization had alerted the acclaimed celebrity that his name is

The veteran American television reporter Barbara Walters has been hospitalized after falling and hitting her head, her employer ABC News said Sunday. “Barbara Walters fell on a stair (Saturday) evening

President Barack Obama issued an impassioned call for national unity and equality on Monday, warning political “absolutism” must not thwart change and renewal, as he was inaugurated for a second

The Israel Air Force on Monday conducted a successful test of an upgraded Iron Dome rocket system. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the new, upgraded system would

The bodies of two Canadian Islamist terrorists were found Monday at the remote gas complex which played host this past week to a four-day hostage crisis that has left at

Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Algeria have threatened more attacks in Algeria if France does not cease its military assistance to nearby Mali, which is fighting a coup attempt by Islamic jihadists.

The State of Israel “remains the region’s only Free country,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a democracy watchdog organization based in the United States. The report,  “Freedom

Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood is continuing to get closer to Iran. According to a Sunday report in PressTV, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will soon visit Cairo in order strengthen

Islamists in Britain, who protested outside the French Embassy in London last week, threatened that Islam will dominate France and England, and called to implement Islamic sharia law in all

A report Sunday said that Israel had made a deal with South Sudan to purchase oil from the country, which is the newest country in Africa. The report by several

While Election Day has been getting all the publicity, another, more traditional event takes place this week as well – Tu Bishvat, the Mishnaic New Year for Trees which has

Advocates for Israel across the United States are using the upcoming elections as an opportunity to educate their peers about democracy in the Jewish State via “I Vote Israel.” The

The Arab League issued a call for Israeli Arabs to vote on Tuesday’s elections. The League, the umbrella group of Arab states in Africa and the Middle East, most of

The United States has issued a travel alert warning its citizens not to travel to Algeria following massive attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in which seven Americans were taken hostage.

Israel’s coalition government took the time on Sunday to remember Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman, 70, who succumbed over the weekend after a long, fierce battle with cancer. In his opening

There has been a surge in the death toll in the attack by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a gas installation in southern Algeria, authorities say. The Algerian government previously informed journalists

The Palestinian Authority Arabs who set up an illegal outpost north of Jerusalem on Friday do not intend to back down. The Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency quoted the Arabs as

Saudi Arabia will contribute $20 million each month to the Palestinian Authority, a Saudi official said Saturday, according to a report in the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. The Kingdom’s envoy

The 2013 elections began in Israel on Saturday night. The elections opened quietly, with some IDF soldiers stationed in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv casting their ballots. Voting among

“History will not forgive those who do not stop Iran’s nuclear program,” was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s message during a meeting with top U.S. senators on Saturday evening. The delegation

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces used non-lethal chemical weapons against rebels in Homs in late December, the French daily Le Monde reported on Saturday. The report cited intelligence service sources.

A three-year-old toddler was seriously wounded on Saturday night, after being hit on the head by a rock at the community of Geva Binyamin-Adam in the Binyamin region, northeast of

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attacked Bayit Yehudi in televised interviews Saturday night, and mentioned the “exclusion of women” as a point of contention with the religious Zionist party. Netanyahu told