Roger Garaudy, one of the most controversial French philosophers of the twentieth century, died on Friday at the age of 98. While Garaudy embraced a perplexing variety of ideologies during

Official projections show the conservative New Democracy party as coming in first with about 130 of Parliament’s 300 seats, ahead of the anti-bailout radical left Syriza party, the Huffington Post

Al-Qaeda’s leader has urged Egypt to cancel its peace treaty with Israel and to establish Islamic rule, The Associated Press (AP) reported. He said the goal is to stop Israel from

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said Sunday that the peace process with Israel is “clinically dead” just days before PA negotiator Saeb Erakat meets U.S. Secretary of

The Israel in India Facebook page, launched by the Israeli Embassy in August 2010, has received almost 20,000 ‘likes’, a figure surpassed only by the pages of the US and

An umbrella organization of French Jewry, CRIF, responded with “indignance” after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris’s Diderot University included a question on whether IDF

The office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claims discussions with Givat Ulpana residents on a court-ordered expulsion are at a “standstill,” but they told Arutz Sheva no such discussions are

UN: No Additional Monitors in Syria The United Nations announced Saturday that it won’t send additional monitors to Syria; the international body decided to suspend the mission, saying it’s just

Swiss branches of two Israeli banks have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly helping Americans conceal their offshore assets. The indictment, filed June 14 with the U.S.

American Voices in Israel, promoted by major U.S. Jewish groups, has launched Africa’s Voices in Israel to widen support for the Jewish State. The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish

South Sudanese family boarded buses for the airport in cities around the country Sunday, often in tears, but voluntarily, ready to go home. Many wearing backpacks, several dozen families were

A Jewish trucker ended the lives of two Palestinian Authority Arabs who attempted to kidnap him and steal his vehicle on a road in the Hevron Hills area of Judea

A German newspaper reported on Saturday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will end his political career when his second term ends next year. Ahmadinejad can’t run in Iran’s

The chairman of the Yesha Council, a body made up of community leaders in Judea and Samaria, wants the body’s plenum to convene and vote on its confidence in his

IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Yoav (Poly) Mordechai said Friday that Syria’s allies Iran and Hizbullah are coming to realize that Bashar Assad’s regime has “reached its end.” “Another week is

Dozens of Hevron area Arabs went on the rampage Saturday night during the funerals for four Arabs who died in a traffic accident earlier in the day. The rioters hurled

Voter turnout in the first day of the second round of the presidential elections in Egypt was low, compared to the first day of the first round. In this final

Remains of a two Grad rockets were found in southern Israel over the Sabbath. One may have been fired from Jordan. Friday night, residents of southern Israel heard explosions. On

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday his country is considering providing communications equipment to Syrian rebels to encourage a “stronger revolt” against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The Al-Arabiya

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to salvage its waning political fortunes, according to a report in The Associated Press. The runoff vote set for Saturday

The Borough Park Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn was defaced with Nazi swastikas in a half-dozen different spots, including on a synagogue, on Friday. The New York Daily News reported that

Officials with the Turkish Islamist group IHH denied on Friday claims that an official investigation has been launched against IHH President Bülent Yıldırım over alleged links to al-Qaeda. Turkish media

Activists on Friday urged women to get behind the wheel for Sunday’s first anniversary of the Women2Drive campaign, which has resulted in the arrest of people defying Saudi Arabia’s ban

The European Union announced on Friday a new round of sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, The Associated Press reported. The report said that a ban will begin Sunday

An Israeli grassroots organization has told Arutz Sheva that it sent a letter in which it criticized a New York Jewish community organization for what it called the uncalled-for insertion of

Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Friday that it would be disastrous if the 300 homes promised by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Beit El are not built. Ya’alon

Police said on Friday they have arrested a bus driver in connection with the accident that occurred in the Samaria town of Karnei Shomron on Friday morning and which claimed

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will demand the release of 123 long-term prisoners before agreeing to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday. Speaking to

The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has asked UEFA to bar Israel from hosting the 2013 European Under-21 Championship, AFP reported on Thursday. The reason for the request is what the

A fire broke out Thursday at a massive daycare center located in a synagogue complex in the city of Bnei Brak. Responders were able to get all 150 children to