News Briefs

Police commanders brief Knesset on activities over past month, take responsibility for messing up boys' SOS call

Sanity prevails: leadership of UC Irvine student government vetoes ban on American and other flags

For the first time ever, Israel is hosting the OECD Global Education Industry Summit.

YooGuide, an Israeli startup, has won “The Investors Choice Application” award at the NYC Big Apps 3.0 competition for its app, The Funday Genie.

During a press conference with President Shimon Peres on Thursday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte unequivocally stated that products made over the 1967 Green...

The "storm of the century" that spread as far south as the Sinai peninsula and Egypt.

An April 19, 2013 Quinnipiac University survey gives Weiner 15 percent of Democratic primary voters.

Pool staff began to tell Middle Eastern swimmers the Sauna was out-of-order if there were women inside.

How did smugglers of arms to Iran escaped the law for 10 years. How could Israeli Jews even think of helping the enemy?

Formal impeachment proceedings against Israeli Arab MK Basel Ghattas are in the initial stages; sufficient signatures have been obtained.

Kerry still pushes for talk and talks on Iran, but the US delegate to the IAEA accuses Iran of “deception.” Kerry admits Iran is bringing a military strike closer to reality.”

Many in Israel's media have suggested the writing is on the wall: Katsav is going home, having served 4 years and 8 months of his 7-year sentence.

During his time undercover, the agent purchased twelve “Carlo” submachine guns, three Kalashnikov assault rifles, two home-made M16 rifles, four pistols, a stun grenade, ammunition and drugs.

Members of one clan ran over members of the other clan.

There is no middle ground: if we talk about Islam as a source of terrorism, our values will be compromised and the greatest nation on Earth will crumble. The choice made is to forbid considering Islam as the motive - so that we can...what? Be taken down in a halo of smug superiority by those who exploit this latest greatest American Achilles Heel? Rubin points out, most current policy makers and opinion shapers prefer to avoid considering Islam as the motive for terrorism. The fear of short term pain is indulged, at the expense of preventing the real danger that will follow. And we are being lied to - "albeit for virtuous reasons" - by the politicians and the mainstream press.

The Russian government has evicted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to the US State Department, accusing the organization of using its money to influence elections.

Ron Dermer, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is set to replace Michael Oren as Israel's ambassador to the United States, an...

Smotrich argued that the political leadership are confusing laws with morality, and worse, they're inventing twisted moral values.

Netanyahu's patron Adelson has taken on himself the mission of mending the rift between the PM and the candidate.

Belgium is investigating whether Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group was involved in Saturday's deadly terror attack.

Never underestimate Iran’s technology. Never underestimate Iran’s capability to lie. It claims it has a drone that can reach Israel. And if is true, an expert suggests to The Jewish Press, “So what?

It “essentially makes missile defenses useless,” said Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.

The High Court on Sunday rejected the settlement deal between the State and the residents of the outpost Migron, allowing an extension of their evacuation date until August this year, and not next weekend, as was the original decision. But Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Danon threatens "If the court does not approve the Migron agreement, we will confirm it via primary legislation."

Prof. Qun, president of ECNU, said the cooperation with the University of Haifa is one of ECNU’s most important international projects.

The United States has quietly approved a plan to relocate its consulate from the eastern section of Jerusalem to a western Jerusalem neighborhood, with...

On this year's 9/11, Netanyahu says Israel remains committed to fighting the forces of militant Islam.

He served as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005.

Leaders of the right-wing, including those in Judea and Samaria, have decided to cancel a demonstration scheduled Tuesday night to protest the wave of...

Reading the headlines various Middle East editors have slapped on a recent AFP/Reuters story, one would believe a top-ranking IDF officer switched sides, God forbid.

Foreign laborers are easy prey for banks and money changers.