New York on Tuesday passed what supporters called the toughest gun ownership law in the country, becoming the first US state to impose new restrictions in the wake of last

The Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) party has found support in new places, with activists finding a positive response in Bedouin and Druze communities in the Galilee. Activists Aryeh Yitzchaki and

Facebook has apparently caved in to pressure from pro-Palestinian Authority activists, temporarily banning Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh and setting up what may be a structure for anti-Israel support in future

It is time for the United Nations Security Council to act, and not just talk, over the threat of Syrian chemical weapons, Israel’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday. Speaking at

Young men from Judea and Samaria are most likely nationwide to enlist as combat soldiers in the IDF, according to new data on army enlistment. Other localities led in overall

The United States on Tuesday condemned the venomous anti-Semitic remarks made by Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi prior to his election, and urged him to immediately clarify his views. “The

Twin blasts ripped through the university campus in Syria’s second city Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 82 people and wounding scores more, the provincial governor said, according to AFP.

Sources close to Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the Prime Minister would remain solid in his policies, especially regarding Israel’s determination not to return to the 1948 armistice lines, despite

President Barack Obama’s controversial nominee for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, has sought to temper the concerns of pro-Israel lawmakers by backtracking on comments he made in 2006 about a

The revival of past video interviews given by Egypt’s President, in which the leader calls Jews “blood-suckers,” and “the descendants of apes and pigs” and calls on Palestinian-Arabs to drive

Italy temporarily closed its consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday and pulled its staff out of the country following a failed gun attack on the consul in eastern Libya, the foreign

Researchers at the Hebrew University Institute of Medical Research Center have discovered a mechanism by which breast cancer cells switch on their aggressive cancerous behavior. The discovery provides a valuable marker

The United States is considering removing requirements for Israelis to acquire visas for tourist visits. A bill is scheduled to set to be introduced in Congress this week to allow

HaTnua chairwoman Tzipi Livni responded Tuesday to news reports which stated that US President Barack Obama said numerous times in private conversations that recent actions by the Israeli government and

The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in Bloomberg View, has revealed that U.S. President Barack Obama said repeatedly recently that Israel does not know what its own best interests are. When informed

New York has taken a big step toward becoming the first US state to enact tough new restrictions on assault weapons in the wake of the elementary school massacre in

Jordan’s King Abdullah met a delegation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday, warning that the stalemate in peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and

Egypt is set to host another meeting between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction and its rival Hamas, the Egyptian Al-Ahram daily reported on Monday. According to the report,

A U.S. court has ruled that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has the right to cover up a document linking it to a 2002 suicide bombing that killed two Americans and

A shaft to a smuggling tunnel into Gaza was discovered Monday afternoon by IDF forces who were engaged in combat near the security fence in southern Gaza. The IDF has

The youngest of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by righteous gentile Oskar Schindler has died in Southern California at the age of 83. Leon Leyson died Saturday in Whittier

A Viennese court has sentenced a leading neo-Nazi figure in Austria to nine years in prison for his role in launching an extreme-right website that glorifies Nazism. Gottfried Kussel, 54,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday said he does not believe that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is serious about reaching a peace agreement with Israel. “In the reality of

At least 26 children were killed in violence in Syria on Monday, a watchdog said, fuelling international calls for a war crimes probe into the 22-month conflict. Reports of the

President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik, announced that he will be running for the governorship of Siaya, a county in western Kenya, as an independent candidate. Malik Obama, 54, made

Oil exploration companies got the green light to go ahead with drilling of wells off the coast of Herzliya Monday, after the Tel Aviv Regional Building and Planning Commission withdrew

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have been living on a warship, with security provided by Russia, intelligence sources told Saudi newspaper Al Watan. The report has not been confirmed

Population data for 2011 released by the Central Bureau of Statistics Monday revealed that while the growth rate of the Arab population in Israel continues to decline, it is still

Angry activists poured scorn on prosecutors Sunday for leading an overzealous campaign against Internet freedom fighter Aaron Swartz, with his family suggesting it contributed to his suicide. Swartz, who was

Hamas is already preparing for the next clash with Israel and its military wing recently test fired improved long-range missiles, the Yisrael Hayom daily reported on Sunday. The report in