News Briefs

A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at Sinai Sun hotel in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish in a midnight attack on Thursday, Al  Ahram...

The ongoing persecution of Egypt’s Coptic Christians—including the unprecedented attack on St. Mark’s Cathedral, among other incidents—is highlighted in the latest monthly report by...

At a memorial service for Israeli soldiers who died during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command Major General...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee urged Senators not to cut assistance to Egypt. “We do not support cutting off all assistance to Egypt at...

Now we know why the Palestinian Authority does not stop incitement. That would be racism, according to the logic of a PA minister, who calls Bennett a racist for saying terrorists should be eliminated.

In response to a "specific," "credible," and "serious," threat, the U.S. will close most embassies and consulates across the Middle East and parts of Asia

Syrian rebels and Assad’s forces are fighting it out to see which side is more brutal and inhuman. An explosion at a rebel-bombed Syrian army depot looks like an Atomic bomb blast.

Is Bibi now Sharon Number Two? Sharon turned on backers and expelled Jews from Gaza. Bibi frees terrorists and chases surrender. A new poll shows his star soaring and Lapid’s dropping. Bibi the “peacenik?”

Obama’s trust of Netanyahu and Abbas not upset Kerry’s peace process cart is zero, so he called both leaders on Thursday just in case they forgot who is calling the shots.

Members of the U.S. Congress have introduced legislation to award Israeli President Shimon Peres the Congressional Gold Medal. Spearheading the push to award Peres the...

The directive is discriminatory and based on a legal premise that is completely wrong.

Like his policies or not, Netanyahu, knows how to talk. See the video to his response to the chutzpah of an Arab MK who says Arabs were in Israel before Jews and will be afterwards.

A judge in Geneva sentenced a Swiss blogger on Tuesday to six months in jail for denying the Holocaust and inciting hate. The 55-year-old man,...

At least one Haredi Knesset Member and Arab MK showed in the Knessset on Wednesday that they communicate with each much better than with...

Israel in the Golan and Eastern Kinneret area forced to go to bomb shelters and Syrians battle right along the border.

The accused was using an email account which he checked in Jerusalem Internet cafes.

The Israeli civil rights group Shurat HaDin has filed a class action lawsuit under Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 against University of Sydney...

Swedish Jews, particularly those who reside in Malmoe—the country’s third-largest city—are growing concerned over an increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents, many perpetrated by “young...

Iran has “taken many actions that have compounded suspicions that it has not stopped its uranium laser enrichment activities,” despite claiming in 2003 that...

New Iran sanctions that overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday aim to cut Iranian oil sales from 1.25 million barrels...

By Cnaan Liphshiz More than a year after his alleged molestation by a male teacher, 6-year-old Ehud (not his real name) still won’t tell everything...

By Talia Lavin New York loves nothing so much as a good scandal. So considering the carnival of a mayoral race that is now unfolding,...

Last night, the "only democracy in the Middle East" became a lot less democracy and a lot more Middle East.

This might be the earliest example of written Hebrew found to date.

As far as the half million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria—most of whom are Jewish Home voters—the referendum bill leaves them in the cold.

Syria moved a number of their anti-ship cruise missiles before Israel allegedly destroyed their storage area in a July 5 attack.

Family members of those murdered by Arab terrorists who may be released will continue crying out for justice to every member of the Israeli government. They hope everyone else will also.

Internal Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch announced that he plans to restrict gun ownership in Israel even further. Aharonovich will now require a psychological exam, besides...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid have decided to appoint Professor Leo Leiderman as the new governor of the Bank of...

Black hat extremists in Beit Shemesh are giving Israel a black eye again. A Haredi couple tells a woman to go back to the bus. Police arrest them, and rioters smash bus windows.