News Briefs

U.S. officials have labored in recent weeks to lower expectations about the revival of the peace talks.

In addition to providing impeccable services to the hundreds of dignitaries and members of the press, both hotels have also had to contend with the food limitations of next week's Passover holiday.

So far the Ethiopian Israeli beauty queen, Yityish Aynaw, has been the recipient of more attention from the president's advance team than have American Israeli victims of terror.

The Obama administration refused on Monday to participate in a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Israeli settlements and slammed the body for its...

Supporters for the release of Jonathan Pollard from his U.S. federal prison cell are planning a large rally at 6:30 p.m. in Israel on...

Syrian rebels have narrowly elected a Syrian with American citizenship as their interim leader, opponents say the move is ridiculous because of their lack...

European MDs keep up their fight against circumcision. Despite universal acknowledgement it helps prevents disease, they charge that US pediatricians in favor of circumcision are “culturally biased.”

"The AAP’s circumcision recommendations contradict its own bioethics policy statement, which requires pediatric care to be based only on the needs of the patient."

Yityish Aynaw may have a meeting set up with President Barack Obama when he travels to Israel later this week, but getting one with...

The White House wasted ho time in expressing dissatisfaction with Israel's new Ministry of Housing Uri Ariel, one day after he took office. Ariel...

Coming to Israel this afternoon or late morning on Wednesday, or going to the airport to meet friends and relatives? President Barack Obama also is...

An alternative media project asked readers to document incidents of segregation and humiliation of Arabs from Israeli public life. The findings proved that claims of ”apartheid” are a farce.

Newly-appointed Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin has warned one of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin’s grandchildren that her remarks about him are grounds for...

At least 11 terrorists previously were accused in the murder of Daniel Pearl, but neither the mastermind nor killer has been caught. The arrest of a terrorist in Pakistan may provide the key.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will remain acting Foreign Minister at least until July, when a trial is scheduled for a criminal charge against Avigdor...

Israeli aircraft on Monday released scarlet heat balloons over Lebanon's regional waters, in the first such violation in around a year, Lebanon's state-run National...

Approximately 60,000 Americans and Canadians will spend more than $200 million this Passover, and many of those with enough money are hiring a chef...

Israeli military officers and religious students are objecting to the selection of supermodel Bar Refaeli as part of an ad campaign to raise Israel's...

The anti-Israel movement in a snapshot: A young woman who was writing a message of peace for Israel was physically and verbally assaulted, and thrown out of a public park, by people who claim to be, and are referred to by the mass media, as "peaceful," "non-violent," "free speech" activists.

The “Likud Beiteinu” party, a merger of the Likud and the Yisrael Beiteinu party headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, will remain, he told...

The 33rd Knesset is off to a flying start. MKs kissed and hugged each other, Haredim walked out, and Arabs called the coalition”racist.” Tomorrow, the Knesset return to more bickering.

Any chance of Israel producing uranium have come to a quick end for the time being with Israel’s Gulliver Energy company’s announcement Monday that...

PA Arabs already have put banana peels on a spiked carpet for Obama’s visit to Bethlehem. Vandals sprayed swastikas on an Obama banner. Then a car ran over it and others set the banner on fire.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu surprised many Likud followers Monday by naming his long-time nemesis Moshe Feiglin as of one several Deputy Knesset Speakers. The...

The Syrian army staged a rare bombing attack on Lebanon, near the border with Syria, Monday in an apparent attempt to strike at a...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will present visiting President Barack Obama a one-of-a kind replica of the Israeli and American Declarations of Independence etched on...

A Greek soccer player has been banned for life from playing for the national team after giving the Nazi salute during a game. Giorgos Katidis,...

Two men, one of them an Israeli who was bumped from his flight even though his luggage was on board, learned quickly at Newark airport that bomb hoaxes are no joke. Both were arrested.

The U.S. Department of Education outlined new efforts to bring non-profit schools into federally funded programs, an initiative that had been sought by Orthodox...

The victim was injured lightly in the leg.