News Briefs

Some 400 truckloads of goods are expected to arrive this morning at the crossing.

Jews were the most frequent targets of hate speech in Turkey, followed closely by Armenians.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz expressed concern Sunday that U.S. financial difficulties would affect Israel's economy. "We are very worried about the financial difficulties in the...

Hecklers in the Rockaways, battered by Superstorm Sandy, booed Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Chuck Schumer at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sunday. “For...

The city of Warsaw agreed to hand over ownership of an ancient cemetery to Poland’s Jewish community. The Brodno Cemetery, on the eastern banks of...

Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Nabil Qassis announced on Sunday he is quitting his post as the bloated budget grows and labor unions and politicians...

Outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to be the first foreign defense minister to meet with newly confirmed U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck...

The White House has appointed Philip Gordon as  Special Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region, as the Obama administration...

Nachman Glauber’s rabbi told him to rush his wife to the hospital on the Sabbath after she said did not feel her unborn baby moving. The couple was killed in a crash. The baby was later delivered.

The Muslim Brotherhood has won its reward for driving the Egyptian into the ground - $190 million in immediate aide from the US n return for promises of reforms it promised t carry out a year ago.

Joan Rivers ignored critics of her crass joke about the Holocaust at the Oscars last week and decided to have a go with Hitler,...

Israel's highly advanced medical innovations and treatments have been utilized by patients across the Middle East.

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, opened the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC)annual policy conference with an appeal for pro-Israel outreach to African...

Syrian President Bashar Assad told the London Sunday Times that Britain is funding terrorists, an accusation he formerly has reserved for Israel and the...

Michael Ben-Ari has provided great copy for the media since he was a National Union MK. His new party to counter the “leftist” Jewish Home lost out. Now he knows what Israel needs – another party.

Refusing service is "a commandment one must obey even at the cost of their own life."

An inmate at the Will County Adult Detention Facility has sued the jail and Will County, Illinois Sheriff Paul Kaupas, on the grounds that...

The admission was included in the Sands' annual regulatory report published on Friday.

A swarm of 30 million locusts has attacked the fields of Giza, southwest of Cairo.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been facing growing criticism since the second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution.

After failing to assemble a coalition within the legally allotted month, Prime Minister Netanyahu went back to President Shimon Peres on Saturday night to...

In an appearance with his Turkish counterpart, John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's likening of Zionism...

The cost to Israel of a visit by President Obama is likely to be as much as 10 times the cost of a visit from any other head of state.

The money was contingent on hanging a sign revealing who were the givers.

Everybody wants to avoid the embarrassment of Joe Biden's visit, when plans for East Jerusalem construction were published during his stay in Israel.

A similar statement was attributed to Bibi himself during his chat with Yair Lapid.

Syria sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday protesting the granting of a license...

There is a single picture of a Yachad visit to an Israeli Jew's grave. Whose grave is it? Baruch Goldstein's.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply on Thursday condemned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement about Zionism and its comparison to fascism, calling it...

Samer Issawi, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 210 days, was taken to an Israeli hospital on Wednesday from the...