Beginning Friday morning, prisons will stop their policy of releasing illegal entrants to Israel once they have passed a security check, Voice of Israel radio reports. Instead, those who enter

Mosab Hassan Yousef’s life has been far from simple. Born in Ramallah to the founder and leader of Hamas, he made an about-face as a young adult and for several

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected this week a claim by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Moscow is sending a new shipment of attack helicopters to Damascus. Russia,

The Turkish Islamist group IHH is under investigation for allegedly funding global terrorist network Al-Qaeda, Turkish media outlets have reported. IHH President Bulent Yildirim has been accused of funding the

Hundreds of activists arrived on Thursday evening at 15 intersections across the country and held solidarity protests with the residents of the Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El. The protests took

Syrian authorities claimed on Thursday to have arrested a terrorist who was planning to commit a suicide attack in a mosque. According to the state news agency SANA, the terrorist

Egypt’s constitutional court ruled on Thursday disqualified the country’s parliament, just three days before presidential elections. The court ruled that one third of the seats in the Islamist-dominated parliament were

Arab terrorist guerillas fired at an IDF force that operated near the security fence separating Israel and Gaza early Thursday afternoon. No one was hurt. Arab news outlets reported that

In Turkey’s latest rebuff of Israel, Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz has decided to renege on an agreement in principle to provide Israel with information about ballistic missile launchings from

A poll of Israelis finds that they trust the United States to come to Israel’s help in an existential threat, but do not trust President Barack Obama. The poll was

Three thousand students, parents, soldiers, and Israelis of all ages and backgrounds on Wednesday joined together to celebrate Jewish life in Samaria, by participating in the Shomron March. This year,

Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists attacked in the southern Negev Eshkol region on Thursday morning, firing at a Jewish farmer driving a tractor. The tractor’s windshield was shattered but the driver was

The Ruderman Foundation has announced its selection of its inaugural year’s ten winners of its 2012 Prize in Disability. The award is presented to those who foster full inclusion of

In a new report, Amnesty International described the horrible conditions in Syria, confirming reports of torture, executions, arson, and other actions by the government or its agents against Syrian citizens.

Representatives of Brazil’s Jewish communities are voicing their opposition to the upcoming meeting between their president, Dilma Rousseff, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his visit to Brazil next week.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent a letter to Norwegian Minister of Justice Grete Faremo, following the hate crime on Monday, in which a 16-year-old Jewish student in Oslo was

The expansion of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is the most “urgent” problem in the Mideast, according to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. She said in a

France is enforcing a ban on the “niqab” and not allowing Muslim women into the country if they refuse to take off a face veil upon request. Three women who

Supporters of the Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have demanded that Queen Elizabeth decline the 35.60 karat diamond placed in the Tower of London to mark her

France has called on the United Nations to authorize using “all means” necessary to end the carnage in Syria, bringing the civil war closer to the edge of a proxy

The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded that Norwegian authorities take immediate action against perpetrators of anti-Semitic hate crimes following the heinous hate crime on Monday, in which a 16-year-old Jewish student

Billionaire casino king Sheldon Adelson, a strong  supporter of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is donating $10 million to a super political action committee (PAC) that backs the GOP’s Mitt Romney,

Thirty young Yeshiva University students are on their way from New York to join their Israeli counterparts on a summer-long science project. The undergrads are set to participate in a

The Palestinian Authority is making a bid to list the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as located in the “country of Palestine.” The issue arose with the question of

The government has begun construction to fortify all schools located in the area located seven to 15 kilometers from Gaza. Home Front Defense Minister Matan Vilnai officially launched the project

President Barack Obama’s support from Jews in New York State has plummeted in the past month and he now can count only on a slim majority to vote for him.

The State Comptroller and Ombudsman’s report regarding the Mavi Marmara incident states that Israel’s mechanism for hasbara – the Hebrew word that refers to Israel’s global public relations effort –

The Prime Minister’s Office responded to the Comptroller and Ombudsman’s report on the handling of the Mavi Marmara incident by saying that “In the test of results, Israeli citizens are

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s condition stabilized on Tuesday, but his lawyer said the 84-year old former president does not trust his doctors in the prison hospital and fears they

UN observers in Syria were attacked on Tuesday with stones, metal rods and gunfire that blocked them from a besieged rebel-held town, where civilians were feared trapped by government shelling.