Violence ravaged Syria into 2013 on Monday, with the gruesome discovery of what activists said were dozens of tortured corpses in Damascus, AFP reported. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has affirmed to Channel 2 that as elections approach, he stands behind the principles he outlined in his speech at Bar Ilan University in 2009. Channel

Hamas will spend $897 million in Gaza in 2013 under a budget approved Monday. The Gaza parliament, dominated by Hamas, voted for the spending. Gaza leaders estimate the income for

Despite protests by privacy groups, Israel will begin amassing biometric data on its citizens beginning Tuesday. The pilot program for the biometric database will greatly enhance the ability of authorities

An improvised bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the public prosecutor in the Libyan city of Benghazi causing material damage but no fatalities, a security source said. “Initial evidence suggests

About 83 percent of Israelis believe that pulling back to the indefensible pre-1967 borders will not bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict nor bring a peace accord with the

An Israeli from Bat Yam has been arrested, and is under detention, in Egypt. Andrei Pashnichikov, 25, has been in jail in prison since Friday, he told his mother by

Daily, there are security incidents that do not make it to the media, but that doesn’t make them less serious, according to a top security officer in the Binyamin region.

Iranian forces have combined cyber warfare tactics and maritime war games in a drill for the first time as the Islamic republic’s naval units staged maneuvers in the Strait of

The number of Israeli Jews passed the emotional 6 million mark in November, and the total population will pass 8 million in February, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

The High Court Monday morning reduced by one year a jail term for Anat Kam, convicted of stealing and exposing IDF documents while she was a soldier. She turned over

Times are changing in the US, where children’s clothes “in-fashion” includes bulletproof vests and backpacks as mass murders become routine. A bulletproof clothing designer in Colombia has launched a new

Major media outlets’ reviews of 2012 and predictions for big news stories in 2013 indicate that Israel finally may have to spend less time defending itself as the Palestinian Authority’s

President Shimon Peres spoke with Christian leaders on the eve of the new year on the Gregorian calendar and said that peace is a Biblical commandment. Often repeating what arguably is

Naftali Bennett, who heads the merged Jewish Home-National Union slate of Knesset candidates, reminded President Shimon Peres Monday that the Oslo Accords “brought us more than 1,600 murdered Israelis.” Responding

Signs are increasing that Syria’s embattled president has little hope left for himself, The Washington Post reported over the weekend. Accounts of conditions inside the Syrian regime in recent days

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized Sunday after doctors discovered a blood clot during a follow-up exam related to a concussion she suffered this month, her spokesman said,

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party’s new logo shows all of Israel as Palestine, claimed on Sunday that he seeks peace with the Jewish State. Abbas, who met

Former Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D) was formally sworn into the United States Senate on Thursday while holding a Tanakh, or Hebrew bible. Schatz, who is Jewish, was chosen

Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen offer $160,000 in gold for killing the US ambassador, three months after the US envoy to Libya was murdered. The US State Dept. presumably will take

In 2012, 278 Israelis were killed in traffic accidents – the lowest number in the past 50 years, and significantly below the important psychological barrier of 300 killed. Transportation experts attributed

A small U.S. commercial plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Iran earlier this month, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Sunday. Head of the state-owned Iran Airports

The left and right political wings traded jabs Sunday over remarks by President Shimon Peres in favor of negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas. Kadima Chairman Shaul Mofaz explained that Peres –

A rare amateur video shows a small Russian aircraft crashing on a highway and killing four people after overshooting the runway. Four people, all of them crew members, were killed.

The Fatah party, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has made official what it has been saying quietly and has adopted a new logo showing all of Israel as Palestine. The

A rock-throwing Arab teenager nearly killed a baby Sunday morning when the huge rock he hurled at the car crashed a few inches from the infant. “We were saved by

Israel has launched an offshore platform for natural gas, a step towards energy self-sufficiency for the first time in history. The platform, taller than Israel’s highest building, is located 24

Arab terrorists threw a firebomb at an IDF force that was on routine patrol south of Shechem on Saturday evening, Channel 2 News reported. Nobody was hurt in the attack.

A 31-year-old woman has been charged with murder as a hate crime after shoving a New York man to his death in front of an oncoming subway train, authorities said

Egypt will pursue a relationship with the Hizbullah terror group as a “real political and military force” on the ground in Lebanon, the Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon told the Lebanese