A heated television debate between a Jordanian member of parliament and a local activist this week led to the parliamentarian pulling a gun on the activist in front of the

The defection of a top general from the Syrian regime is “significant” and signals cracks in President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle, the Pentagon said Friday. “We welcome this defection and

The United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed on Friday three officials to conduct a fact-finding mission on how the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron) affect

Chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games, Lord Coe, said that he will hold a “personal” moment for the Israeli athletes brutally murdered at the Munich

French president Francois Hollande on Friday called for stiffer sanctions against his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, and increased support for rebels seeking Assad’s ouster, at a meeting of Western and

In October 2004, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was holed up in his Ramallah compound, the Mukata. IDF intelligence got reports that his health was deteriorating. Initially, it was assumed

Some of the newest members of the religious-Zionist Jewish Home party have yet to enter the Knesset, but are already taking the lead. Former CEO of the Council for Judea and

A recently released letter indicates Adolf Hitler made the dramatic intervention to protect a Jew, Ernst Hess, a judge during the interwar years. Hess was Hitlet’s company commander from the

A British Muslim convert, who appeared in a BBC documentary, was reportedly one of six people arrested over a suspected terror plot, just over a mile away from the site

A group of Coptic activists in Egypt announced the establishment of the Christian Brotherhood to counter the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Arabiya news reported. The idea was first

An Arab security prisoner from the Palestinian Authority claims he was recruited by Israel’s security services to poison late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat. Lebanon’s Al-Miadin television broadcast a copy of

Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were found scrawled on a building used by the Jewish Agency in St. Petersburg in Russia. Among the epithets was one that read “All Jews should

A Syrian general who was a leading member of President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle has defected to Turkey, a Damascus-based website with close links to the regime reported on Thursday.

The archaeological excavation site on Mount Gerizim, near Shechem, was officially inaugurated in a special ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud), Shomon Regional

Libya’s outgoing National Transitional Council said on Thursday that Islamic law sharia should be the “main” source of legislation and that this should not be subject to a referendum. “The

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Israel and Egypt as part of an eight-nation tour which began Thursday, the State Department announced. “Clinton will travel to France, Japan,

A poll conducted for Channel 10 News on Thursday found that 46 percent of Israelis believe that the Kadima party should quit the coalition if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does

Russia dismissed rumors on Thursday that it would offer political asylum to embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as a “joke.” “It is either an attempt to mislead serious people dealing

The IDF is preparing thoroughly for another war while implementing many lessons from the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Galilee Division Commander Brig. Gen. Hertzi Halevi

A former senior Syria Army officer estimates in a report that the Syrian Army has lost 6% of its armored vehicles in the ongoing civil war. The former staff officer,

Russia has unveiled a new and advanced variation of a cruise missile that can be launched from a standard naval container, which Israel is concerned will find its way into

The United States and Pakistan temporarily patched up the crisis in their relations whose immediate cause was mistaken attack by US helicopters on Pakistani border positions on November 26. The

WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and companies that have done business with the country. The so-called ‘Syria Files’ show how

Leader of the extreme right Hungarian political party challenged Slomo Koves, the Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi of the Unified Hungarian Congregation, to a public debate on anti-Semitism, Politics.hu reported. Jobbik party leader

The officer commanding United Nations monitors in Syria said Thursday his unarmed observers could not resume their mission due to violence in the country reaching “unprecedented levels.” Maj. Gen. Robert

An IDF source on Thursday said Israel will resume construction of its incomplete security barrier in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) in the coming weeks. Restarting construction of the barrier –

Swiss scientists this week reported that they found high concentrations of polonium in body fluids on items used by late PLO arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat before his death in 2004. The

Deputy Prime Minister and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz strongly rejected on Wednesday evening Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s welcoming of the Draft Law committee’s recommendations. “The chairman of Kadima received the

An Al-Qaeda-inspired group has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks across Syria, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The report cited the SITE monitoring group, which tracks jihadist chatter on the

Rabbi Moshe Shapir, editor of the Shas party’s journal, fiercely criticized Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz in an article on Wednesday. The article was published after the Draft Law committee headed