The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel advisory last week for Denmark in wake of warnings by Israel’s ambassador advising Jews and Israelis to refrain from wearing kippot, religious symbols,
The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that it has nabbed a cell of Saudi and Emirati members plotting terror attacks in the two countries and other states. The suspects “imported
An Iranian lawmaker has griped that female Russian technicians working at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are not respecting the country’s dress code despite being paid to wear the Islamic
In the latest blow to the Syrian government, the head of Syria’s military police has defected and has now declared allegiance to the rebel uprising seeking to overthrow President Bashar
Israel’s enemies probably will not wage war in 2013, and the Palestinian Authority will not make concessions, former IDF intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told a seminar at the University of Haifa.
The discovery, like many others, was made during road excavation, this time at a new section of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway, known as Highway 1. The archaeological site is known
A new Constitution drafted by an Islamist-majority committee has been signed into law by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. With less than one one-third of voters turning out to decide the
The memory of Prisoner Number 77 still brings hope to the heart of Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Sobolewicz as he remembers how his friend boxed for bread in the notorious Nazi
The Syrian government’s former spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, is co-operating with U.S. intelligence officials who helped him flee to Washington almost one month ago, the British Guardian reports. Makdissi became one
A suicide car bombing at a US military base near a flashpoint city in eastern Afghanistan killed at least three Afghans and and wounded seven others on Wednesday, officials said.
The Israeli Air Force has cut manpower while advancing technologically towards 2013, it says its mission is a quick victory. In a meeting with senior commanders of the IAF, the
A poll taken on behalf of the Labor Party, released Tuesday, indicates that Israelis are much more concerned with economic and social issues in the current elections than they are
The weekend media storm over Naftali Bennett’s position on how IDF soldiers should deal with orders to throw Jews out of their homes does not seem to have hurt the
Egypt’s electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, AFP reported. The commission also rejected opposition allegations of polling fraud. Samir
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday forbade local journalists from working with “hostile” Israeli media, the AFP news agency reports. The terrorist group decided in its weekly
Palestinian Authority Chairman promised in 2011 that he would change laws that let murderers off with a light sentence if they claimed to have been motivated by the need to
Iran on Tuesday launched naval maneuvers in the Gulf, and announced plans for another exercise in the strategic Strait of Hormuz later this week, AFP reported. Revolutionary Guards naval units
A MiG-21 combat aircraft flown by a Syrian pilot who defected to Jordan in June was found to have been upgraded back in Syria to carry chemical weapons and to
An action committee composed of donors and organizers has been established in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn to assist six hareidi families who lost their homes in a large fire
Doctors say that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces probably are using “Agent 15,” which causes paralysis, but the even worse news is that he has more deadly chemical weapons. The
Major General Nitzan Alon, the Head of the IDF’s Central Command, has signed a document Tuesday that grants formal approval to Ariel University – formerly known as Ariel University Center
At a time of great financial strain on a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Australia, an influential community member and longtime supporter was able to avert financial crisis that threatened the closure
Armed Forces personnel in North Sinai, in cooperation with local Bedouins, foiled an attempt on Monday to smuggle 17 rockets to Gaza, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. A
In a response to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which accused Hamas of war crimes against Israelis, the terror group has claimed it did not mean to harm innocent
Jack Klugman, a son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants who rose to fame as an actor on “The Odd Couple,” has died at the age of 90. He portrayed a
The Hamas terrorist organization is denying reports of its intent to take over Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria. Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri was quoted in a report posted
Three more people have been wounded in a fresh round of road terror attacks near the Palestinian Authority Arab village of Beit Ummar. An Israeli bus came under a hail of
American media has just discovered its government is helping Israel build a “secret” underground bunker. “Site 911” will be equipped with aluminum-encased mezuzot. The tender for the construction project –
Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood will expand by 1,200 housing units due to approval by a Jerusalem district zoning committee. Approval of the next step in the process came Monday after the committee
No one wanted to be president less than Mitt Romney, his son said in an interview which came out Sunday that raises new questions about the candidacy of the losing