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A rocket launched from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza hit near the Zikim area.
The Rolling Stones have arrived in Israel.
In recent weeks, the eighth-graders started a team for the online game called “Jew Incinerator.”
Morocco’s national soccer federation stepped in at the last minute last week to protect innocent young Moroccans from the unbridled humiliation and degradation of playing against Israeli children. On May 27, Moroccan authorities announced they would pull two teams, made up of 11-year-olds and 13-year-olds, from the Kawkab Athletic Club Marrakech out of the Mondial […]
A new Israeli treatment for Gaucher disease, approved by the FDA, has received a green light in Canada as well.
Spain's King Juan Carlos, 76, is abdicating in favor of his son, Felipe, after 40 years on the throne.
An early morning round of rockets from Syria hit locations on the Hermon Mountain.
The strikes came in response to the recent rocket launches from Gaza at Israel.
Dozens of Arabs marched through the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday night yelling about how much they hate Jews.
Mehdi Nemmouche, the 29 year old French national who was arrested Sunday in connection with the May 24th killing spree at a Jewish museum in Brussels, is a known Islamic radical who is believed to have spent time in Syria fighting on behalf of Islamist groups in 2013. According to the BBC, Nemmouche hails from the […]
On June 1, 2001, a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up in front of Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium disco. He killed 21 children and injured 132 more.
Israel has prohibited three Gazan leaders from travelling to Ramallah.
Mehdi is believed to have Jihadist ties, and had visited Syria in 2013.
Lapid did not say if we will then be cancelling or reducing taxes in exchange.
The courts has extended the gag order on releasing any information on the Shelly Dadon murder investigation for another month.
The Palestinian Authority's unity partner in Gaza fired a rocket at the Eshkol region.
The PA seems to hope the technical distinction will be enough to trick the American government, or at least provide plausible deniability.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
One shul was destroyed, and the fire department managed to save the Torahs in the second.
MS. PSAKI: Well, there has been no invitation issued to Prime Minister Hamdallah...
Residents on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights were woken up by alert sirens at 5:55 AM on Saturday morning, in response to fighting in Syria along the border with Israel.
The IDF suspects there might be another 3 terrorists on the loose with a bomb.
Hamas-Fatah Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has been invited to Washington D.C., according to Palestinian Authority sources.
Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fame, has won the bid to buy the LA Clippers, for $2 billion dollars.
Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper reported Thursday that Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, who is currently on a landmark visit to Israel, said he would ask Lebanese authorities to allow former members of the South Lebanon Army to return to their homeland. The SLA fought alongside Israel during the latter’s maintenance of the security sone, a 17-kilometer […]
PLO Chairman Abu Mazen appointed a long-time political ally, Rami Hamdallah, to build the Palestinian national unity government with Hamas. Palestinian reports said Fatah and Hamas officials agreed on the list of names that will form the government. According to NRG, the sides still have yet to agree on the future of Riad Almaliki, the […]
Ukraine rebels are holding four European observers hostage, and shot down a gov't helicopter, killing 14.
No unity today for the Fatah and Hamas terror groups trying to form a single government in the Palestinian Authority.
Germany's leader, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes Magazine.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi swept the polls to become Egypt's new president Wednesday. Can he fix a broken nation?
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Colonel Mohammad Eskandari, was identified as the man that was beheaded in Syria last week. He was beheaded by the Al Qaida linked Al-Nusra Front Syrian opposition. Iran and Hezbollah support Assad in the battle for control over Syria, while Al-Qaida and the US support the rebels/opposition/freedom fighters. Iranian soldiers […]
500 bicycle enthusiasts are making currently making their way from Hebron to Jerusalem to celebrate Jerusalem Day. The bike trek, held in honour of terror victim Yitzhak Boanish HY”D, has become an annual feature of the holiday celebration. Malachi Levinger, head of the Hebron-Kiryat Arba city council, said “this is the 11th time that young […]
Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?
Former IDF Chief Rabbi Mordechai Piron has passed away at the age of 93, the second to serve in the position.
Syria oldest synagogue was flattened and destroyed over the weekend.
Israeli scientists are trying to add a Sefer Torah to the moon's holy book collection.
Bedouin villagers attacked a group of Israeli soldiers Sunday as the soldiers tried to issue demolition orders for their illegal encampment near Beer Sheva. The attack was not the first time villagers from the encampment have attacked Israeli officials: Several people were injured last August when Bedouins demanded Israel rescind the demolition orders and cancel […]
A group of some 30 rabbis has called for sovereignty over the Temple Mount ahead of Jerusalem Day.
Rav Amar blessed Eli Yishai, saying, "May all your enemies fall before you, and may you be raised up, and succeed in all your undertakings."
Rabbi Moshe Tzedakah, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef in the Old City of Jerusalem, said Monday that individuals who intentionally went to see Pope Francis during his visit to Israel had become “tamei,” or ritually impure. According to the shteible.net website, the rabbi ruled that anyone who saw the pope’s face must bathe in a […]
An IDF soldier was arrested this week on suspicion he was involved in slashing the tires of an IDF vehicle and spray painting the words “price tag” and “death to the Pope” on an IDF vehicle. The soldier reportedly denied any involvement in the incidents. According to Honenu, a non-profit legal aid organization, the soldier, […]
A Turkish court has issued arrest warrants for four ex-IDF officers over the deaths of 10 Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara.
A leading Australian rabbi has set family violence and sexual abuse as top priorities for the country’s top rabbinic organization. “There’s nothing we shouldn’t be speaking about. Let’s talk about organ donation, let’s talk about child protection, let’s talk about reporting to the police, abortion, end-of-life issues,” Kluwgant told Melbourne’s The Age. Kluwgant assumes the […]
A Gaza terrorist didn't make it home for lunch on Monday due to a 'work accident' in Jabaliya.
An Arab thief learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to steal from a yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Egyptians are headed to the polls today and tomorrow to choose a president for the second time since 2011.
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah celebrated the 14th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from the south Lebanon security zone Sunday with a warning that the terror group's operatives are, "active day and night to improve our deterrence capabilities," and that this progress "worries the Israeli enemy." Since Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew from Lebanon against […]
The following CCTV video of the Brussels Jewish Museum shooting was released by Belgium Police.
The attack happened between Ariel and Tapuach Junction on Road 5.
Three Jews were attacked in Creteil, France as they exited the city's synagogue.
The IDF caught 2 Arab terrorists outside the town of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion on Friday night.
This is the third gas balloon explosion this year.
A couple from Tel Aviv in their 50s, were among those killed at the Brussels Jewish Museum on Saturday.
IDF troops spotted a terror cell planting a bomb at the entrance to the Jalazoen refugee camp.
A routine inspection discovered an M-16 rifle in the Arab driver's car.
Israeli police have arrested 2 Jerusalem residents for posters that called on the Pope to leave Israel and return all the looted artifact that the Romans stole from the Second Temple.
Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.
A small 4.1 magnitude earthquake, shook Israel on Shabbat morning.
The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, in Jerusalem's Old City, will be rebuilt by the Israel government at a cost of NIS 50 million.
What makes Hamas any worse than the "moderate" Palestinian Authority leadership Israel talks to?
The sale of Tnuva to China's Bright Food may have broken the law.
An employee rolls out the red carpet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 22, 2014. Pope Francis will visit Jerusalem on May 26 after visiting Jordan.
Jay Leno was in Israel to host the Genesis Award.
ThePrime Minister's Office said Thursday that preparations have been completed for Pope Francis' visit to Israel. But the release failed to mention the fact that religious Jews in Judea and Samaria, Ranana and elsewhere have been taken into police custody to ensure that peaceful protesters do not disturb the Papal visit. In recent weeks, said […]
A would-be Palestinian Authority terrorist was arraigned on Thursday at the Haifa District Court and changed with multiple counts of attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, attempted robbery, weapons possessions and more. Twenty-five year old Hussein Murad, a resident of northern Samaria, broke into a home in the town of Avtalyon, in northern Israel, intending to kidnap […]
Tenders went out for the construction of two new mikvahs (ritual baths) in the neighborhoods of Ma'aleh Zeitim and Nof Tzion.
Uri Elitzur, the Editor of Makor Rishon and Sololov journalism prize winner, passed away on Thursday at age 68.
A missing 19 year old Jewish girl from Samaria has been found safe and sound.
The Vatican has confirmed it has no plans to attempt a sovereignty grab at King David’s tomb, for now.
Liberman said, to regain political support from the African states, Israel must invest resources and effort in that region.
The Israeli embassy in Belgrade airlifted essential medicine and equipment to regions that were cut off due to heavy rainfall.
"Bring you own popcorn," says Minister Naftali Bennett on his Facebook page after the Knesset bill passed the popcorn bill.
Israeli authorities obsessed with conflating graffiti with terrorist attacks have distributed restraining orders to an unknown number of right-wing activists they suspect might disrupt the Pope's visit to Israel.
Silvan Shalom has droped out of the race for President of Israel, according to a Jerusalem Post report. Shalom decided that he did not have the support of PM Netanyahu, and without it, he'd have no chance. Likud support is now expected to be focused on Ruby Rivlin, who also doesn't have the Prime Minister's […]
Israel has surpassed the U.S. and Europe in recycling plastic bottles, according to a statement by EDI, a Jerusalem marketing and communications firm. The report cited a new report by the ELA Recycling Corporation, a private organization that works to promote bottle recycling in Israel. The report said that 54% of Israel's plastic bottles were recycled in 2012, […]
Ashkelon launched a new separate gender beach this week, but only on land.
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
Hundreds of students, relatives and family friends accompanied Rabbi Moshe Horowitz, rosh yeshiva of Jerusalem's Beit Midrash LeTorah yeshiva, on his final journey to the capital's Har Menuchot cemetery Monday night. The rav was eulogized by his son, grandson and one long-time student, Eli Dordek.
IDF soldiers fought their way through gunfire and Molotov cocktails to arrest suspected terrorists in Samaria.
Two illegal workers from the Palestinian Authority died in a moshav fire near Latrun.
The Knesset has passed an amending eliminating the term “single parent family” from the lexicon of the legal system.
U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.
US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from his injuries. US military officials said the shooting was not combat related, but there are no other details known about the incident, other than officials say the shooter was not Jordanian, […]
Senior IDF officers visited the Western Wall today to prepare for next week’s Jerusalem Day celebrations in the capital. Members of the IDF Joint Chiefs of General Staff held prayer services led by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites, including special prayers for the State of Israel and the […]
Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum, will present a replica of a Holocaust-era drawing to Pope Francis when he visits the site next Monday. Like Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Francis will visit the Hall of Remembrance, where he will deliver an address and greet six Holocaust survivors. The Pope will be invited to kindle the eternal […]
The video shows a passenger train traveling between Ashkelon and Sderot being filmed from within Gaza - how long until a missile targets it instead.
More than 265,000 Egyptian expats voted in the Egyptian presidential elections.
Police report that tens of thousands of people visited the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron this year. It's become a popular tradition in Israel to visit Meron on Lag B'Omer. There were fewer complaints of traffic jams, as police didn't allow private transportation to the site.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and IBM have launched a Center of Excellence in the field of protection of infrastructure and assets. The Center will be housed at the university’s campus in Beer-Sheva. The center will focus on research and development of solutions for the private and public enterprise markets, with a focus on the […]
Text of Netanyahu's weekly cabinet address.
Is this a new Lag B'Omer tradition in the making?
Will Obama really give Israel "time out"?
On her US immigration form, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh forgot to mention she killed 2 people in a terror attack.
It seems that just about everyone wants Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to leave the coalition.
Yossi Beilin, John Kerry, Tzipi Livni and Mahmoud Abbas all in London together at the same time. Should we be worried?
Talks between Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany in Vienna ended on Friday with no progress.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Martin Indyk spent a half hour bashing Israel over drinks, and then met Ehud Barak.
On Thursday, while in London, Livni met with Abbas in a private meeting.
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