News Briefs

The Hamas al-Aqsa TV channel called on Palestinian children to kill all Jews, wherever they are. According to Palestinian Media Watch, which posted a YouTube...

At 91, most people would be happy to retire. As his career in public office draws to a close, however, is Shimon Peres preparing one last push to resuscitate the failed Oslo process?

According to halacha, or Jewish law, anyone with a Jewish mother is considered Jewish.

"We thought that an incident like this would bring here a march of MK’s, ministers and maybe even the president, but evidently an incident like this doesn't particularly bother the leaders of the state; it only bothers the citizens," said a resident.

Students at the Or Menachem yeshiva in Tzfat told reporters that police only responded to a graffiti attack on the grave of the Talmudic...

Arresting Jewish activists on the Temple Mount cannot change the facts: More and more Jews are vying for the right to pray at Judaism's holiest site

FM: Mahmoud Abbas’ actions brought Hamas to power in Gaza and now they will rise in Judea and Samaria.

Israel Police arrested an eight-month pregnant woman in Yitzhar before dawn Wednesday on suspicion of incitement.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman slammed a report claiming Israel has been “spying” on America.

The Prime Minister’s Office has denied President Shimon Peres ever reached a deal with PA Chairman Abbas.

Iranian Fars news agency reports a massive explosion in Qazvin city in Iran. The explosion supposedly happened in a "storage facility".

Jerusalem District and Border Police blocked a protest march by Jews on Tuesday to the Temple Mount.

Sixteen finalists, boys and girls, were facing off on at The Jerusalem Theater stage to win the annual 2014 International Youth Bible Quiz this year.

Kharkov's Jewish Mayor Gennady Kernes is slowly overcoming near-fatal wounds and is on the road to recovery at Haifa's Rambam Hospital.

Site-seeing crowds overwhelmed at least four heritage sites on this Yom Ha'Atzma'ut, prompting officials to close their doors on Israel's Independence Day.

U.S. lawmakers met in Cuba on Monday with imprisoned American Jewish social worker Alan Gross, jailed on a 15-year sentence in Havana.

PM Netanyahu's message to the world on Israel's Independence Day.

Egypt is to receive 4.5 BCM (billion cubic meters) each year for 15 years, valued at 1.1 to 1.3 billion dollars a year.

Four suspects were arrested in connection to the murder of 20 year old Shelly Dadon of Afula.

Students at a school in California who were given an assignment to compare propaganda with actual evidence on the Holocaust have instead been told to abandon the project.

A full-page advertisement reproducing Israel’s Declaration of Independence appeared in The New York Times and USA Today.

The purpose of the video is to inspire Jews around the world while reminding them of the significance and miracle of the Jewish State.

The IDF sings HaTikvah, the Jewish national anthem, at the kotel in the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem.

A former New York City police officer was arrested for spray painting anti-Semitic graffiti in Boro Park.

Young, and young-at-heart Israelis flood streets of downtown Jerusalem to celebrate return of Jewish sovereignty to Land of Israel.

A group of self-hating, anti-Zionist Israelis has used Yom HaAtzma'ut to launch a smartphone application to memorialise the Palestinian “narrative” of Israel’s War of...

Community officials say Yom HaAtzma'ut celebration will be 'non-political', but Bay Area remains hub of pro-Palestinian activity

Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed

A special monument is located at the end of the trail that connects Israel’s Yad Vashem, the official memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and Mount Herzl, the national cemetery for Israeli leaders and fallen soldiers.

The Central Bureau of Statistics released its traditional Yom Ha’atzmaut statistics report on the citizens of Israel.