News Briefs

Over the past few weeks, IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot has been systematically curtailing the authority of the Military Rabbinate.

YouTube has quietly corrected its error in suspending the PMW media watchdog account.

No one can match the British when it comes to delivering a whipping, even when it is only a verbal tongue lashing.

A Rare 2,500 Year Old Seal Bearing the Name “Elihana bat Gael” was Discovered in IAI Excavations at the City of David, in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.

The overall Health Ministry's budget for 2016 is around $7.55 billion, up 23% from 2015.

Trump and Clinton continue to lead their respective parties, while Cruz and Sanders continue to give chase.

YouTube shut down a whistle blower account as if it was inciting violence, rather than revealing incitement.

The necropolis covered more than 7 acres and originally contained more than 100 tombs between 2200 and 650 BCE — roughly the time of the first Israelite kingdom.

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) said, "People are trying to protect [the migrants] under the pretext of human rights. Do the residents of Tel Aviv not have rights?"

"My life began with Ronnie," she told Vanity Fair magazine in 1998.

Some of the suspects said they had received training from Hamas in Gaza, including in “tracking” and “planned operations.”

Nazzal confessed during his interrogation that while in Egypt he was active in locating and recruiting students from Judea and Samaria.

"Freedom of religion should not become a factor in harming the quality of life."

Swiss rabbis are irritated at foreign rabbis stepping into a local issue where they see no ineed to intervene.

As victories go, this one required double the lying power and did little to promote dialogue inside Israel's society.

Local anti-Semitism in Philadelphia was unbridled and unapologetic at a meeting over neighborhood gentrification.

Apparently, PA security forces have been intimidating teachers with personal attacks in recent days. It's what they do.

'Jews for Bernie' has won over 45 rabbis who at least support the Sanders economic policy.

The chief rabbis concluded that a new outline altogether was needed for the Kotel, one which would not recognize the reform at all.

Four hundred loyal supporters in Florida rallied for Iran to return American hostage Bob Levinson.

Military forces captured a Hamas terrorist in Hebron overnight, and two wanted suspects in Beit Omar.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden left Washington for a 5-day trip to the Middle East Saturday night.

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer spent 30 years as a Labor Party leader; he served in numerous government positions.

Bahrain has worked for a long time to persuade other Arab nations to blacklist Hezbollah and Iran.

Russia is punishing Iran for handing fancy weapons to Hezbollah, while Ankara cozies up to Tehran for trade.

The uptick in rock-throwing attacks along Hwy 31 between Arad and Hura signals an ominous change.

The Turkish government seized control of the country's biggest-selling newspaper this weekend.

The main application of splitting water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen is that the hydrogen can then be used to deliver energy to fuel cells for powering vehicles and electronic devices.

The left would lose even more than Likud if the elections were held today, with Labor dropping from 24 to 18 seats.

Peres invited Campbell personally, and this will be her first visit to Israel, unless Roger Waters gets to her between now and next Tuesday.