Cuban Jewish leaders met with imprisoned Jewish-American contractor on the last day of Hanukkah, two days after Gross marked his fourth year in jail in Cuba. “During the encounter we could see that he was in better spirits, more physically recovered,” according to a statement from the Beth Shalom Temple in Havana according to the […]

None of us support violence and we found out about the story in the media, just like every one else.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, has come up with a fantastic plan to solve Israel’s apartment shortage but it has one large problem –  a cost of approximately $14 billion, according to an estimate by Globes business newspaper. That may be par for the course for the former journalist who didn’t […]

Development of a modern highway has unearthed the discovery of an Islamic period fountain in a private garden outside the richer ares of Old Ramla, near the airport.

Moshe Kachlon, the former Likud minister who busted the mobile phone oligarchy in Israel, announced on Sunday he is forming a new party to run in the next scheduled elections in 2017, assuming the current coalition holds together that long. Kachlon resisted appeals from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to run again in the previous elections […]

An estimated 7 million foreign workers live in Saudi Arabia, which does not recognize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Israel is among the countries with a high risk of corruption in defense budgets.

The Pentagon is fielding more than 35,000 troops in the Persian Gulf as a “bulwark against aggression.”

At an International economic forum in Jakarta, the foreign ministers only wanted to hear how Israel can help their respective countries.

To date, all the Bedouins’ legal land ownership claims that reached the courts have failed.

Doesn’t it look like the bus in the photograph is pushing the bearded guy along the slick pavement? Is the guy drinking a cup of coffee calmly? No, it’s just a Haredi demonstrator in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, blocking the bus during a protest against the government proposal to draft Haredim into the military. It’s a […]

Demanding no enrichment, Obama said, was unrealistic.