The U.S. State Department has decided to keep the office of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington open for another six months, despite anti-terrorism legislation deeming it illegal, according

The group behind last year’s controversial anti-Jihadist advertisements that appeared throughout the New York subway system is planning what is expected to be its largest campaign to date. The American

President Shimon Peres is at it again, criticizing government policy on the peace process, and demanding faster and more wide-ranging action in order to prevent what he claims will be

The pap smear — a routine test women undergo to screen for cervical cancer — could help screen for other types of cancer as well, a study said this week.

Itzik Shadmi, Chairman of the Binyamin Residents’ Council, rejected on Wednesday accusations by Danny Dayan, the outgoing head of the Yesha Council, that “the nationalist camp could lead to a

A car exploded Thursday afternoon near Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv. Nine people were injured in what police said was an attempt on the life of crime boss Nissim

The Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment Wednesday against Nadal Tubasi, a 35-year-old Arab resident of Jerusalem, who is charged with kidnapping with the intent to murder or blackmail and extort.

IDF soldiers braving the sudden cold weather received a welcome and much needed arrival today – new winter equipment. As the cold season approaches and with snow blanketing select regions

High winds, heavy rain and the prospect of snow were no obstacle to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s annual gathering of Jewish outreach workers. Five hundred Chabad emissaries (shlichim) met in Nir

Security forces have arrested five young Palestinian Authority Arab men responsible for multiple terrorist attacks, including an attack on a female driver that left a 60-year-old woman fighting for her

The Aaron Klein Investigative Radio broadcast, a show broadcast from Israel, has hit a new ratings milestone in New York. Aaron Klein was ranked the most listened-to radio personality on

Most Israelis believe that it will be impossible to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority in the foreseeable future – no matter who wins the election on January 22. According

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal in Cairo on Wednesday, Morsi’s office said. Abbas and Mashaal will first “meet

An Egyptian magazine has claimed that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy. The December 22

Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Swedish artist’s claims that he used the ashes of Holocaust victims in his artwork, an official said Tuesday. The artist, Carl Michael

An IDF soldier who has suffered from leukemia since he was a child recently won the right to be assigned to a combat unit, after the soldier sued. The army

The head of manuscripts at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Najeh Bkeirat, has accused Israel of trying to “Judaize” the Temple Mount by building a new Holy Temple. Speaking on January 4

The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp memorial and museum in southern Poland registered 1.43 million visitors in 2012, a record number in its 65-year history, officials said Friday. For several years now,

Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Syria’s chemical weapons are the real threats facing the Middle East and the stability of the entire international community, not the so-called “Israeli settlement” expansion, Prime

Palestinian leaders, who court international sympathy by portraying their people as displaced victims of Israel, are refusing to help tens of thousands of their brethren who have been displaced from

A leading Jewish group welcomed on Monday the resignation of a close adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi who last week called for Jews of Egyptian descent to return to

Israeli surveillance that spotted Syria preparing chemical bombs to load them on airplanes spurred President Barack Obama into action to win rare support from Russia to stop the plan, The

As talks of the nomination of former US Republican senator Chuck Hagel begin to heat up and his fellow lawmakers get ready to pour over his record of anti-Israel legislation,

Israel is concerned over the nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin said on Monday. “Because of his statements in the

Chuck Hagel, who was nominated on Monday by President Barack Obama as Secretary of Defense, dismissed allegations that he is against Israel. The former Nebraska senator said in an interview

Egypt announced Monday that it had foiled an attack at a Coptic church in the Rafiah area of northern Sinai. A report on the BBC’s Arabic news site said that

Thousands of Taglit-Birthright Israel participants from the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Russia and Uruguay came together on Monday to celebrate Taglit’s Mega Event Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration. For the

The leader of Vienna’s Jewish community has warned that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the country has nearly doubled over the past year, adding that Jews living in other

The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) issued a statement on Monday saying it is confident that Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who is expected to be nominated

In a report, the Shabak said that the number of “populist attacks” against Israelis by Arabs in Judea and Samaria was higher in December 2012 than during the month before.