News Briefs

Saul Kagan founded the Claims Conference, which brought in tens of billions of dollars in payments to survivors of the Holocaust. He also helped found Yad VaShem in Jerusalem.

Britain thrusts a knife in Israel’s campaign to keep Iran under pressure until it comes clean on its nuclear program, but France suddenly has become Israel's closest if not only European ally.

Several hundred women dare to pray near the Western Wall where they usually are prohibited. Several hundred men also are there. Women of the Wall? No. Meet the Women of the Temple Mount.

Welcome to Israel, home of Middle East culture that can take you away from Western-style consumerism. Our tour today begins at the Azriella Mall in...

A Palestinian Authority woman pulled out a knife in front of a soldier at a checkpoint in Samaria Monday and was arrested before she...

It is absolutely critical that religious Jewish girls have a support network throughout their IDF service.

"Our friend, the U.S. government, forced us at the time to agree to the Gaza elections, and the result was: Hamas took over."

The widow of Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority paid for the Swiss medical tests on the late Palestinian leader’s body that showed he...

The superintendent of a New York State school district that has been accused of anti-Semitic harassment said the district “has a long history of...

Netanyahu quipped bitterly last night: "I suppose Iran is building those ICBMs in order to launch medical isotopes to the Iranian patients orbiting the Earth."

In her Funny Girl op-ed Sunday, Maureen Dowd neglected to give the URL to our article. Turns out we've run several...

Kerry's gloves came off last week, now former legal counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs removed his. The difference? The Israeli's speech sans gloves are steeped in law and fact.

Israel has unaccustomed company in its fight against a “bad deal” with Iran. Saudi Arabia and Egypt oppose it. Now, Netanyahu appeals to American Jews to tell Obama and Kerry, “No, you can’t.”

An Iranian deputy minister was shot dead, apparently by an unidentified passenger, Sunday night, Iranian media reported. Rahmat Abadi, the deputy minister of industry, mines...

Israel has turned over to Egypt 90 stolen antiquities that were found on sale at a Jerusalem auction hall, the Egyptian Al-Ahram news agency...

A lead IDF delegation of experts in the fields of search, rescue and medicine has left for the Philippines, which was struck by Typhoon...

The Oslo Accords state that the Palestinian Authority is committed to stop all incitement. Kerry last week openly warned Israel of a new intifada. On the other hand, the US did not commit itself not to incite.

Belgium is hinting that others in the European community may soon follow suit.

The Israeli-based SodaStream company will be back at the Super Bowl in February after its controversial commercial at the last game. The company, which has...

Worldwide fears and violence over foreign workers have reached Saudi Arabia, where police in Riyadh killed two people, wounded another 68 and arrested more...

Women of the Wall Vice Chair Batya Kallus serves as an adviser to Sikkuy, a signatory to the Haifa Declaration calling for the abolishing of the State of Israel.

Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht with a visit to a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin. “Connecting Jews in Germany to their...

The king of Spain, who is recovering from hip surgery, left his residence for the first time since the operation to greet a delegation...

A group that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity removed from its website references to a scheduled fundraiser appearance by George W. Bush, though...

The lesson of Kristallnacht is to speak out “against anti-Semitism and intolerance,” President Obama said in marking the 75th anniversary of the pogrom that...

An array of liberal Jewish groups lauded the U.S. Senate for passing a bill that would extend federal anti-discrimination protections to gays. “Today’s bipartisan Senate...

The United Nations’ cultural body suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel two years after they stopped paying dues in protest...

Yachimovich warned that it's obvious the Americans "are sick and tired of us, and they're saying very harsh things."

"We are for an agreement, that's clear. But the agreement has got to be serious and credible."

Four Syrian civilians who were seriously injured in the Syrian civil war were brought to Israel on Friday night and treated at Ziv hospital...