Prof. Shlomo Bentin, an Israeli psychologist who was a recipient of the Israel Prize this year, was killed on Friday in a car accident near the University of California, Berkeley.

Israeli measures to stop illegal African infiltrators are paying off – finally. Only 64 cross into Israel last week, compared with a previous rate of  at least 500 a week.

The Palestinian Authority has appealed to the Arab League for more money, citing the “worst budget crisis” in nearly 20 years. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met Friday with Saudi Arabia’s

Mitt Romney’s planned visit to Israel on the fast day mourning the destruction of the Holy Temples shows his understanding of threats to Israel, says his campaign adviser. “What better

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is visiting Israel Sunday and Monday but will steer clear of the Palestinian Authority, according to the PA’s Saeb Erekat, senior official of the Palestine Liberation

A Lebanese woman has been arrested in Canada on suspicion of links to the Hizbullah terrorist organization. Mouna Diab, 26, was accused Friday of supplying weapons part to Lebanon, according

United Nations monitors entered a village Saturday to probe reports of a massacre. At least 150 people were reported killed in the shelling by government troops who invaded the village

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Saturday with Islamist Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Mursi, expressing support for his new role. Clinton stepped lightly in her remarks on the relationship between

A social justice protester set himself ablaze Saturday night during a rally in Tel Aviv, blaming government officials for his troubles. He was taken to a city hospital in an

Cyprus authorities have detained a man on suspicion of being involved in planning a terrorist attack on the east Mediterranean island, a police spokesman said Friday. The Associated Press quoted

A U.S. cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program may have only just begun and could escalate with explosions triggered by digital sabotage, experts told AFP on Friday. Although the Iranian

Iran’s war games this month showcased missiles with improved accuracy and firing capabilities, The Associated Press reported on Friday, based on Iranian media reports. Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards conducted the

The German government on Friday pledged quick action to protect the right of Jews and Muslims to circumcise baby boys on religious grounds, AFP reported.   A controversial ruling by

The Israeli army has placed an Iron Dome air defence system battery by the Red Sea resort of Eilat near the border with Egypt, a statement from the military said

Syria’s opposition urged the UN Security Council on Friday to pass a binding resolution against Damascus, following reports by activists that regime forces massacred scores in the central province of

The Muslim war against Israel never stops: an IDF force shot dead an armed terrorist who tried to cross into Israel from Gaza near Kibbutz Erez Friday afternoon. A security

Military and police officials in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula said on Friday that two U.S. tourists have been abducted by a Bedouin seeking to pressure officials to release his detained relative.

Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Friday that he is convinced the new Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, will protect Gaza against Israeli aggression. Haniyeh added that he

Israel’s immigration police have been granted the power to remove foreigners without permits from Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), the Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday. According to the report,

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas visited Saudi Arabia on Friday and met King Abdullah to seek urgent aid for his administration. AFP reported that the leaders, who met in Jeddah,

Syria has begun moving parts of its vast arsenal of chemical weapons out of storage facilities, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal. The country has vast undeclared stockpiles of

The synagogue of Noisy-le-Grand of the Seine-Saint-Denis district in Paris, was vandalized on Wednesday night, in the third such incident within a ten-day period, The Algemeiner reported. “I am 73

Border Police officers shot and killed a man as he attempted to infiltrate Israel on Thursday night. The incident was under a gag order until Friday morning. A second man

The Senior Rabbi of the Havurat Yisrael Synogogue in Forest Hills, Queens served as guest chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, leading the morning’s prayers.   Rabbi

Syria’s highest ranking diplomat to defect to the opposition dismissed on Thursday the main international plan seeking to stop the violence, saying that nothing short of President Bashar Assad’s ouster

Dozens of Israelis from the town of Negohot in the Hevron Hills blocked roads Thursday in protest of terrorism. Residents of Negohot and other Hevron area Israeli towns say that

Medical files released for the first time on Thursday portray former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his 2004 death,

The United States has deployed a fleet of robot subs in the Gulf to prevent Iran from blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz with mines in the event of a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz held a late night meeting on Thursday, in yet another attempt to prevent a crisis in the coalition over a new

Syrian government troops using tanks and helicopters massacred more than 100 people in the central province of Hama on Thursday. The chief of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami