News Briefs

An attempt to persuade Univ. of Washington to divest from Israel failed Tuesday in 'Rachel Corrie country.'

Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.

Haifa was crowned the ‘smartest’ city in the Middle East by the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona.

Israel Police asks the public to help find 19-year-old Bat-El Aminov, missing since Tuesday.

The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.

An Israeli scientist created a prostethic for a turtle based on the design of a Lockheed-Martin warplane.

The Finance Ministry has closed its fist over funding to Israel's defense establishment for fiscal 2015.

Now Hamas is being given a strategy for making acceptable its unalterable hostility towards the Jewish state.

Allow Chloé to help you and those you know how to stop punishing truth and rewarding intimidation.

Presumably, Bat Ayin children suspected of price tag crimes, but no charges have been filed; several teens held for more than a week without seeing a lawyer

Ties set to expand between Israel and developing world

Hundreds of students, relatives and family friends accompanied Rabbi Moshe Horowitz, rosh yeshiva of Jerusalem's Beit Midrash LeTorah yeshiva,  on his final journey to the...

The heads of UCLA and the University of California system criticized a student-led pledge that urged candidates for student government to refuse trips to Israel sponsored...

Three Israeli students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won second place at the International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students conference (ICAMES), a world-wide engineering project competition organized by the Engineering Society of Bogazici University in Istanbul.

IDF soldiers fought their way through gunfire and Molotov cocktails to arrest suspected terrorists in Samaria.

Two illegal workers from the Palestinian Authority died in a moshav fire near Latrun.

Six Arab protesters were arrested Tuesday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after they harassed Jews on the site.

The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.

Soros's organizations are quietly trying to influence politics. While Adelson does his influencing openly. Why is only Sheldon attacked?

The Jewish community in Lebanon has officially denounced the State of Israel as the country's sole synagogue prepares to reopen in Beirut.

U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.

A Labor party lawmaker has been suspended from membership in subcommittees of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for leaking classified information.

Just because speech is constitutionally protected doesn’t mean that it is wise, fair or productive.

The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.

95.2% of all respondents to the online survey said they viewed anti-Semitism as “very worrisome” or “worrisome.”

US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from...

Palestinians are the only refugee group in the world with a relief organization dedicated to their issue. Other refugee populations have been resettled; why are Palestinians different?

Having a baby is hard work. But Israel really makes it worth all the effort – starting with one particular hospital in Jerusalem.

The International Solidarity Movement claims to be a non-violent protest movement, but why do it's members consistently support violence?

Senior IDF officers visited the Western Wall today to prepare for next week’s Jerusalem Day celebrations in the capital. Members of the IDF Joint Chiefs...