News Briefs

President Obama on Friday renewed America's 33-year-old state of emergency against Iran.

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The Bahá'í Shrine in Haifa has been voted Israel’s most beautiful building by 40,000 readers of Yedioth Ahronoth.

Thousands of Syrian refugees poured across the border into Turkey on Friday after heavy fighting between Syrian opposition and loyalists to President Bashar Assad led to the deaths of 46 people in two days in the northeast and 68 throughout the rest of the country, including 47 civilians.

Soroka Hospital Completed the Surgeries on the Injured Soldiers.

Details will be updated here.

According to the IDF Spokesperson, in response to recent events, overnight IAF aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing facility, two weapons storage facilities, and two rocket-launching sites in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as a weapons storage facility and a terror activity site in the southern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed. The Ma'an Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli tank shells killed 4 Palestinians and wounded 30 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to medics and other witnesses.

Radio Darom (South) reports that 3 people in Sderot were injured from shrapnel from a rocket launch. The injuries are listed as light to...

Below are any changes to the starting time of schools in Southern Israel. 9:15 AM All schools around the Gaza border have canceled classes. ---------------- Ashdod schools...

AP reports that Western diplomats announced that the long planned meeting of the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) countries has been cancelled because Israel, not...

Latest rocket launches and alarms Trivia: As of 11:03 PM 858 rockets were launched at Israel from Gaza in 2012. More than 60 rockets this...

The Palestinians are reporting that the IDF his a 4 man terror cell in Northern Gaza. The terrorists are being transported to a Gazan...

10:44PM: The two suspected terrorists who were seen crossing near the security fence, near Be'eri, have been captured. They have been taken in for interrogation. 10:40 PM: Two suspected...

Red Alerts in Eshkol and Kissufim. Iron Dome took out two missiles targeting Ashdod and Ashkelon. School is cancelled tomorrow in Ashkelon, Gan Yavneh, and Ashdod.

The four soldiers injured in Saturday evenings attack are being treated at Soroka hospital. They were very seriously injured.

The "Red Alert" missile siren has been going off in cities and towns around Gaza for the past half hour. Residents have reported hearing...

The IDF has told Israeli residents near the Gaza border to stay within 15 seconds of their bomb shelters as they are expecting barrages...

Noam Shalit has officially thrown his hat into the political arena and is running for a spot in the Labor party, with the goal of removing the Likud from power.

Gazans hit IDF jeep with anti-tank missile and soldiers were injured. The IDF hit back harder than is usually does of late.

Palestinians and anarchists seem upset that Arabs and Jews can peacefully work and shop together, as once again they protest in front of the Rami Levy shopping center.

The 12-person delegation will be offering rescue, rehabilitation, and communal resource services to New York residents of Far Rockaway and Long Beach, as well as the Atlantic City-Margate area along the Jersey Shore. They will also be identifying areas with vulnerable populations and allocating resources to older people and families with young children who have suffered significant damages to their homes and have no power.

An update from the IDF Spokesman's office: An engineering force that operated at the site located a number of powerful explosive devices. With the end of this force's activity, as it worked to repair the border fence, an explosion occurred in a terror tunnel. This was a very large explosion that exposed a tunnel roughly four meters deep and four meters wide. An empty IDF vehicle that was in the area was thrown into the air from the force of the explosion.

A construction worker building the security fence along the Gaza border was lightly injured in an attack Thursday evening. The man was injured from a...

Only three days ago, popular singer and songwriter Mordechai Ben David shot and distributed a video depicting the destruction of his neighborhood, Sea Gate, at southwestern tip of Brooklyn, NY, in an effort to raise awareness—and donations—to rebuild this thriving Jewish community.

Puerto Rico voted in favor of full U.S. statehood.

Filner is one of a growing list of Jewish politicians who have been embraced by J Street.

The Israel Defense Forces galvanized its internationally-recognized emergency response team to assist in a search and rescue operation in Ghana Wednesday night, after a shopping center collapsed in the country’s capital.

In an interview published on November 7 by Israel’s Globes online business magazine, Ha’aretz editorial board member Gideon Levy spoke frankly and openly about his “hatred” of Jews making their lives in Judea and Samaria.

A gun battle took place between Israel Defense Force soldiers took place early Thursday when Israeli soldiers defended a work crew near Kibbutz Nirim which came under fire from terrorists across the border fence in Gaza.

Three mortar shells landed in Israel’s Golan Heights on Thursday morning, in what security officials are saying is an accidental firing as part of the bloody battle between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and a growing militant opposition.