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A supersize ambulance to cope with the growing number of obese patients in the emirate has been unveiled by the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance...

The Torah they got “is a piece of art. It is one of the most beautiful Torahs anyone's ever seen…”

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman compared an editorial by The New York Times that was critical of Prime Minister Benjamin...

A helmet allowing ground control to take over an aircraft should the pilot lose consciousness, an unmanned aerial vehicle evacuating wounded soldiers under fire...

The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and the Ruderman Family Foundation are launching The Ruderman Family Foundation Opportunity Initiative, which will place young...

U.S. State Department official Wendy Sherman, America’s lead negotiator with Iran, recommended that the U.S. Senate hold off on additional Iranian sanctions before scheduled...

Tunisian Jews believe they are in danger, the head of a Tunisian rights group said following attacks on the community. Yamina Thabet, head of the...

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews has gone over budget and the official opening of its permanent core exhibition has been pushed...

The Obama administration underscored potential cuts in defense assistance to Israel in making its case against the federal government shutdown. “In the absence of a...

e particularly struck that the wineries - which produce wonderful wine - are so close to the very active borders with very hostile neighbors.

Police say it was not terror, but what was it? Video below shows wild chase after the woman tried to ram the White House gate and then sped away, sending the capital into a panic before she was gunned down.

Praying in a minyan on an airplane is forbidden if it robs others  passengers of their sleep or interferes with the duties of stewards...

Netanyahu takes his media blitz as close as possible to Iran, speaking on BBC’s Persian channel. “You are slaves, and we are not suckers,” he said. He threw in a couple of words in Persian for good measure.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu focused the Iranian nuclear threat on the United States Thursday, telling Americans through a CBS interview that Iran is developing...

A Greek court has ordered the head of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party held in jail until his trial following six hours of testimony...

An IDF soldier is in stable condition after being struck in the face by a machine gun bullet that was fired from a tank...

The Western Wall Rabbi told Haredi girls to – in effect – let the Women of the Wall pray as they wish. An analogy to “let sleeping dogs lie” would be taken the wrong way.

Assad’s army has surrounded a village near Damascus that the regime gassed with chemical weapons last month, and it is not letting basic food...

President Shimon Peres and Knesset Members Moshe Feiglin and Avigdor Liberman were shared the same podium Thursday on the 12th anniversary of the assassination...

Like him or not, Netanyahu is at his best as a speaker. He was stunning as Ambassador to the UN in 1984. He wowed over in Congress two years ago. Now he media blitzed the US. Truth triumphs a bad press.

Six Syrian rebel groups came out with a call to the two major rebel factions – al-Qaida's Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

A postdoctoral fellow at Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School identified a genetic protein involved in the development of glioblastoma, a common and aggressive brain cancer. Regina...

Israel’s antitrust regulatory commission is investigating whether the Google-Waze merger constitutes a monopoly. The Israel Antitrust Authority opened its investigation on Wednesday, the Israeli business...

A federal judge reprimanded an attorney working on behalf of jailed former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin. In a meeting Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge Linda...

Practices covered by the resolution include female genital mutilation and the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons.

The chain Hobby Lobby, following a blog report that it did not stock Hanukkah merchandise, said it was evaluating its inventory, and also looking...

"Everyone is nervous."

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Move over Kohn Kerry and let the moviemakers take over. It took five years of negotiations for an IMAX visual tour of Jerusalem, including the three major religions, to come to the screen.

The gigantic (as it was billed) pro-Settlement rally in Binyanei Ha’uma on Wednesday night, was a gigantic success.