Egypt’s new president, Mohammed Morsi, paid tribute on Friday to Egypt’s Muslims and Christians and symbolically swore himself in as the country’s first elected civilian president before a huge crowd

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal and top Islamist leaders in Jordan attended on Friday the burial of a senior member of Hamas who was killed this week in Damascus. AFP reported

An Israeli was attacked by two Palestinian Authority Arab hitchhikers on Route 443, which runs between Jerusalem and Modi’in, on Friday night. Channel 10 News reported that the man picked

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle weighed in Friday on a controversial German court ruling on circumcision, saying the country protected religious freedom and traditions.   “The ruling on circumcision has

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, condemned on Thursday the racist and anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi at a conference on drug trafficking in Tehran.

Several hundreds of people staged a protest march in Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday against South Africa’s plans to label products made in Judea and Samaria as “Made in the

Egyptian security forces on Friday seized a large stash of weapons, including rockets and automatic machine-guns, smuggled into the country from Libya and allegedly bound for Gaza. Egypt’s interior minister,

UNESCO’s World Heritage committee on Friday approved a Palestinian Authority bid to place the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of sites of World Heritage in Danger.

After the final families were evicted Thursday from their homes in Beit El, workers came to seal off the buildings to make sure nobody can reenter. The work was done

Senior Hamas terrorist Kamal Ghanaja, second-in-command to Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, was killed in Damascus this week. Arab media outlets said Ghanaja was shot in his apartment, which was then burned. Syrian

Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer publicly criticized Didi Dickstein on Thursday. Dickstein, whose parents and brother were murdered in a terrorist attack in 2002, was evicted this week from his

MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Unioni) has called for an Arab Israeli affirmative action initiative to be put on hold over Arabs’ refusal to perform military or national service. Ben-Ari sent a

The ‘Palestinian’ delegation to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) meeting on Friday in St. Petersburg is attempting to gain recognition for the Church of Nativity in

Hamas said on Thursday that it is concerned over the possibility that Israel would unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), as it did in Gaza in 2005.

During his election campaign, Egyptian president-elect Mohammed Morsi reiterated his commitment to jihad and to the Islamic sharia law. Morsi made the remarks in a speech broadcast on May 13

The Hamas movement which rules in Gaza presented on Thursday a video documentary, in which alleged collaborators with Israel confess to having aided the killings of senior Hamas and Fatah

A hareidi-religious young man from London will be among those carrying the Olympic Torch in Britain this summer. Efraim Goldstein, 22, was chosen due to his long history of volunteerism.

The Syrian army has gathered roughly 170 tanks near the Turkish border, Syrian rebels said Friday. Rebels told international media that forces are gathering north of Aleppo. “The tanks are

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton condemned the racist and anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi at a conference on drug trafficking in Tehran. “The

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Latvia to resolve the restitution of pre-World War II Jewish property “quickly and fairly.” Calling the issue a “piece of unfinished historical

The European Jewish Parliament (EJP) expressed its outrage on Thursday over a ruling of the German District Court of Cologne, which states that the circumcision of a child for religious

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday evening with Arab MKs Ahmed Tibi and Mohammed Barakeh about the Plesner Committee, in an apparent effort to make it possible to recruit young

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that Israel played a major role in influencing Russia to cancel its planned sale of the S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria. The

South Sudan filed a formal protest with Israel on Thursday, over the Jewish State’s treatment of the issue of the illegal South Sudanese infiltrators. In a diplomatic message South Sudan

A large explosion rocked the Syrian capital on Thursday afternoon as bloody fighting in and around Damascus continues. Syrian TV said the explosion was in the parking lot of the

Turkey confirmed reports Wednesday that it is deploying troops, including fighter jets and anti-aircraft guns, along its border with Syria. “I can confirm there are troops being deployed along the

Each of the buildings being moved from the Ulpana Neighborhood in Beit El will be “sawed” into 108 parts, which will be stored in a special storage site. They will

A leader of Hungary’s extreme-right Jobbik party, known for its anti-Roma and anti-Semitic rhetoric, has admitted having Jewish origins, prompting mockery in several online forums Wednesday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

A Texas court has convicted a Saudi Arabian national of plotting to build and use a bomb in an attack against America’s south. The 22-year-old terrorist, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari entered

Palestinian Authority water chief Shadad al-Ateli said Wednesday that discussions with the Israel to increase quantities of drinking water without raising prices are underway. Israel has sought to increase the