News Briefs

The crew were on a routine training mission.

A New York state judge ruled that the New York City “big soda can” ban promoted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg is illegal. It was...

The year’s biggest photo op gets underway next week. Obama will smile in Jerusalem and Ramallah and pray in a church that he can “fool all the people all of the time.”

An Israeli-made pill may be on its way to make the world slimmer. The “slim pill” to reduce obesity could go on the market as a medicine, with the help of a major pharmaceutical company.

Israelis are excited over the latest tourists – locusts – while the Agriculture Ministry is making sure the pests have a short stay. Armchair preachers are having as field day with the new arrivals.

Cohn's effort highlights an increasing tendency, in an effort to achieve "fairness" towards accused terrorists, of marching along a road littered with the civil rights of others.

President Barack Obama will have to eat kosher for Passover meals, without bread, during his stay the King David Hotel next week, Haaretz reported. "We're...

Barbra Streisand will make her official performing debut in Israel at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference,...

The Muslim Brotherhood regime is ignoring the “systematic” destruction of Antonopoulos, one of Egypt’s biggest archaeological sites, the Egypt Independent reported Monday. Monica Hanna, a...

Approximately one of every 30 Arabs in areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority is a drug addict, according to statistics reported by the Bethlehem-based...

Israel's Prime Minister's Office launched an app to follow President Obama's visit in real time. The app, which is available though Israel's Apple store, will...

Rather than applying consistent and professional standards to fact-finding, the claims of are often the products of instant speculation.

The network coordinated hundreds of smuggling operations of nuclear equipment from India and Germany to Iran.

Al-Rimawi was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Although many people thought Harper was Jewish, she was actually Catholic. "I'm not Jewish, but I guess I've always been a Zionist without a word for it," she said.

Things have been rather quiet of late during the prayers.

The protesters were claiming that there are Jewish burial caves nearby, which may not be disturbed.

Unlike most other Nazi allies or Nazi -occupied countries, Bulgaria saved its entire Jewish population from deportation to concentration camps.

An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.

Safety and security of the Jewish residents of the Binyamin region has been compromised.

Syrian rebels have been receiving weapons since the start of the civil war without the approval of the Security Council or the Arab League....

Daylight Savings has not arrived in Israel, yet.

North Korea's repeated willingness to ignore the demands of the international community to desist from testing nuclear weapons testing can only send the worst signals to Iran, which is that the U.N. will have meetings and denounce actions, but will not prevent further tests.

The new government will be much smaller than the last one.

Arabs escalated their Temple Mount riots from stones to firebombs.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu blames MK Aryeh Deri for sawing mistrust among the Orthodox parties.

The Philippine government says the Syrian rebels who had promised to release 21 Filipino U.N. peacekeepers have failed to do so, and persist in...

Julio Acevedo was arraigned in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn and was ordered held without bail.

Apple has rented from the Ofer Investments Group office space in the town of Ra'anana, outside Tel Aviv, for its third research and development...

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), a veteran Jewish lawmaker who for years was a major influence in defense policy, will not seek reelection. Levin, 78, was...