News Briefs

For the first time, the United States has extradited to Israel a suspect wanted for tax-related offenses.

A historic Jewish building in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David was firebombed by local Arabs , with supporters recording and posting the videotape on YouTube.

The final version of a defense funding act headed for President Obama's desk includes enhanced Iran sanctions the president opposed as well as additional...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the nomination of U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as the next U.S. secretary of state. "I welcome the nomination...

Mortimer Zuckerman has pledged $200 million to endow a Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. The Zuckerman Institute will pursue cutting-edge research in neurobiology...

Couldn't happen to a nicer gal – forced to betray her loyalists, Livni will have to live with the king of intrigues.

Bakeries in Syria are a "high value" target since fuel and flour shortages have resulted in erratic bread production.

On Sunday, the Palestinians launched a rocket from the Gaza Strip, an official military source confirmed. The rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards...

The third conference for the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria will be held in Jerusalem.

Simply put, Kerry is an Arabist, but his Arabism tends to favor the more extremist Arabs.

Egyptian blogger, Maikel Nabil Sanad, was shouted down today during his visit to Israel... by Arab students studying at Hebrew University.

A minority rights association in Tunisia filed an incitement complaint against an imam who prayed for the removal of Jews from the earth.

Greek police on Thursday said they had discovered hundreds of Jewish marble headstones destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II.

Senior Israeli security official Amos Gilad told Israeli Army Radio on Sunday morning that Syria’s chemical weapons are still secure despite concerns that Syrian president Bashar Assad will transfer his arsenal to Hizbullah in the event of his defeat in a bloody two year civil war.

In what the Israeli police are now calling a nationalistic (terror) attack, an Arab taxi driver drove into a border policeman at the Oz police station near Jaabel Mukaber in Jerusalem.

Two people and a horse were killed on Friday in three different traffic accidents in Israel, bringing the total number of people killed this year in vehicular accidents in Israel to 283.

In a series of interviews with the Associated Press, Palestinian officials have detailed a plan of incrimination and isolation it expects to employ in the event that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is re-elected in January.

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, voted to make boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israel part of its official policy.

Egyptians want an Islamic state.

Hundreds of articles detailing the real life and passionate fight of the Jewish community of Hebron to maintain their historic and modern claims to the city purchased by the Jewish patriarch Abraham have been published online.

Mekki was a judge who was part of the pro-democracy movement which fought for judicial reforms during the Mubarak regime.

Over the past few days the Kinneret has been steadily rising, and on Saturday it rose by 12 centimeters reaching 212.07 meters below sea...

On Sunday, Jews will be fasting on the 10th of Tevet in memory and commemoration of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (588 BCE), which...

Naftali Bennett goes on the offensive, questioning whether Netanyahu is planing another Expulsion/Disengagement based on his statements.

Over Shabbat, an IDF officer was injured by stone throwers near Beit Omer (near Hevron). The officer was taken to the hospital and is now...

In the latest batch of IAF graduates, 16% of the graduates are religious or traditional, and 13% of the new pilots and navigators were...

Clinton probably figured she didn't need this on her record when she runs for the top job in 2016.

The real bonus to Bennett and his party came from the Likud party, which has been hemorrhaging votes in the polls to the Beit Yehudi list.

An envelope containing checks worth more than half a billion dollars was found by a man praying at the Western Wall on Wednesday. The envelope...

Overnight, Palestinians attacked a soldier at the Al-Ram (A-Ram) checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, and stole his weapon.