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Tel Aviv University Professors Yona Keisari and Itzhak Kelsonhave developed a tiny radioactive wire which irradiates tumors from the inside out.  The cancer-killing "cluster...

Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea is dead at age 69. North Korean media reports that he died on December 17 while traveling...

At 10pm on Sunday, 509 Palestinian security convicts were released in the second phase of a massive prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel in exchange for captured soldier Gilad Shalit.

At 7:30am Baghdad time, the final convoy of US troops left Iraq, ending an almost nine-year military operation which began with the toppling of Dictator Saddam Hussein.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday security forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shot at least 20 people to death in...

At least nine people have been killed and over 300 wounded in two days of violent clashes between Egyptian security forces and protestors.

South Korea has joined the list of nations who will sanction Iran in the hopes of stopping its nuclear program.

Two people died today when a light plane crashed onto Menachem Begin Street in Modi'in this morning. Shmulik Segel, Zaka's Modi'in director said, "It...

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) has publicized the list of prisoners scheduled to be released in the second stage of the Gilad Shalit deal...

IDF troops tore down two buildings in the small Mitzpe Yitzhar neighborhood early Thursday morning. Local residents did not resist.

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Netanyahu found himself trying to extinguish a political and religious brushfire in his own government this week after Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Sunday closed the Mughrabi Gate bridge, which leads to the Temple Mount.

WASHINGTON – Iran’s nuclear program appears to be racing ahead. The Middle East peace process is in shambles. And a series of recent flare-ups have highlighted ongoing tensions between the Obama administration and elements of the pro-Israel community.

After sharp criticisms from three U.S. officials, Jews wondering whether Obama can be trusted on Israel.

An abandoned mosque in Jerusalem was vandalized and set on fire in the early hours of Wednesday.

The Mughrabi Bridge, the closure of which for safety renovations raised a maelstrom across the Arab world, has been reopened on Wednesday.

Israel’s decision to close a bridge to the Temple Mount deemed unfit for use is a “declaration of religious war on the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem,” according to a statement by a Hamas spokesman.

A group of 50 young residents of Judea and Samaria broke in to an IDF base early Tuesday morning, in response to orders given to destroy nearby Jewish communities.

Professor Dan Shechtman of Haifa’s Technion University received the Nobel Prize in Chamistry at an awards ceremony and gala ball in Stockholm on Saturday evening.

An Arab woman was wounded in southern Lebanon on Sunday when a Katyusha rocket aimed at Israel landed short of its mark.

“I will be grateful for the rest of my life,” freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit told supporters in a pre-recorded message on Saturday night.

IDF jets carried out retaliatory strikes in Gaza on Friday and Saturday after at least five rockets were fired from there into civilian areas in southwestern Israel. The IDF reported direct hits on multiple targets in terror centers in southern and northern Gaza, including a weapons factory.

The number of Jewish babies born in Israel has increased by nearly 20% since 2001, while at the same time the number of Muslim and Christian newborns has dropped by 5% and 10%, respectively, this according to Israel's Immigration Authority.

The IDF expressed regret for the incidental death of civilians in Gaza after striking a Hamas training facility overnight. The IDF said the strike on...

In response to the 7 rockets that hit Israel last night from Gaza, overnight Israel attacked a Hamas training base in Gaza. Palestinians claim that...

The IDF has announced that residents up to 30 kilometers from Gaza must stay in their bomb shelters. tonight. Earlier in the evening they...

Sobhi Batash a senior commander in the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade was killed in an IAF attack on Thursday. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade claimed...

IAF kills two terrorists in Gaza. Multiple missiles hit Israel. IDF says the terrorists were planning an attack along the Israeli-Egyptian border aimed at Israelis.

A delegation of Israeli mohels (ritual circumcisors) returned from a two week trip to Africa last week, where they prepared a UN medical team for a mass African circumcision.

Five leaders of an Islamic charity convicted of using the organization as a means of funneling money and supplies to Hamas were denied an appeal by a US federal appeals court on Wednesday.

When Rabbi Henry Soussan went through training at Fort Jackson in 2002, area Jewish options were limited, and being able to participate in Jewish holiday celebrations was tough. Nearly 10 years later, the instructor at the Columbia, South Carolina installation’s chaplain school is proud of the Chabad-Lubavitch-run Aleph House, which gives civilians and soldiers a Jewish base while they’re away from home.