The great Torah Sage, head of the worldwide LIthuanian-hareidi yeshiva world, and leading Torah luminary of this generation, Rav Yosef Shalom ben Chaya Musha Elyashiv, passed away at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem

Bulgarian police are investigating Wednesday’s terror attack in Burgas, which killed seven people, including five Israelis, and wounded 35. The attack occurred when an explosive device planted on a bus carrying

Michele Bachmann, former Republican presidential contender and representative of Minnesota’s 6th congressional district, challenged President Barack Obama’s record on Israel during her keynote address at the 7th annual Christians United

The Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency, has issued unprecedented orders to postpone scheduled flights to 11 locations in Eastern Europe. Ben Gurion Airport management has announced that changes in

Yemeni president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi called on Tehran to stay out of Yemen’s internal affairs on Wednesday after security officials in Sanaa announced they had uncovered an Iranian spy ring

The Knesset’s State Control Committee held a session Wednesday on the subject of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries who came to Israel in the late

Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a somber statement following the murderous terror attack at Burgas airport in Bulgaria. “A few hours ago, there was a grave terror attack in a

Seven Turks attacked American soldiers Wednesday and attempted to put bags over their heads in the southern province of Antalya, Hurriyet daily news reported. The attackers, members of the Turkish

Authorities in Hungary have arrested Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminal. He was tracked down this week by Britain’s The Sun newspaper after decades in hiding.

The United States House of Representatives approved legislation late Tuesday afternoon by voice vote that reaffirms U.S. strategic and military ties with Israel.  The bill restates the U.S. commitment to

Iran said on Tuesday it would insure any foreign ships that enter its waters, as part of an effort to skirt a European Union ban on insuring ships carrying Iranian

Nationalists won major recognition Tuesday with the Ariel higher education facility in Samaria (Shomron) being accepted as a full-fledged university. The college has been battling for months for university status,

An Israeli security firm says an ongoing cyber attack aimed mainly at Iran uses Persian language communications and is named after Mahdi, the “Muslim Messiah.” Seculert, based in Israel, and

Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel Monday for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. This visit precedes an expected visit by Republican Candidate Mitt Romney, who is seeking to unseat President

Jews in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem, a hotbed of angry Arabs in one of the areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority, are attacked almost daily by stones and

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a letter to Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday evening, expressing his regret that Mofaz chose to quit the unity government. “I regret your decision

Iranian Vice President Hassan Mousavi said Monday that the drought in southern Iran is part of a “soft war” launched against the Islamic Republic by the West, Fars news agency

Tunisia’s leading political party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahada party, has reiterated its opposition to normalizing diplomatic ties with Israel. Ennahada held its ninth national conference in Tunis over the weekend,

Syrian President Bashar Assad has pulled troops from the Israeli border to defend Damascus against rebels, the Israeli army intelligence chief said Tuesday.   “The Syrian military is acting very

The national unity coalition born nine weeks ago is dead, but the government lives with a solid majority of 65 Knesset Members, as it did before Kadima left the Opposition.

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority government has named a summer program for the bloodthirsty terrorist who killed 37 civilians in 1978, Dalal Mughrabi. The “Sisters of Dalal Mughrabi” summer “youth camp”

The Pentagon is building a missile-defense radar station at a secret site in Qatar and organizing its largest minesweeping exercises in the Persian Gulf, as preparations accelerate for a possible

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Tuesday in Jerusalem with Hungary’s President Janos Ader, where the two discussed “regional matters” – and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. “There is concern

Dozens of Christians in Gaza staged a public protest on Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will, the Associated Press (AP)

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad met in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday before she boarded a plane, but his message was the same: no

Giora Weiss-Tzahor, who headed the Mossad operation that located nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu so he could be brought to justice, was killed in a bicycle accident Monday. Tzahor, who was

A new high-speed Be’er Sheva-Tel Aviv rail link shortens the ride to 55 minutes and opens up the Negev and will help attract Jews to the area that is rapidly

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will not hesitate to use chemical weapons against opposition forces and may have already deployed them, Nawaf Fares, the first Syrian ambassador to defect since the

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came and went and nothing changed, not even the hot weather, except that the U.S.-led “peace process” was left behind in lost baggage. The