Amnesty International has expressed alarm at reports that the authorities in Saudi Arabia are planning to execute dozens of people in a single day. The newspaper Okaz said 55 people were awaiting execution for “terrorist crimes”, while a now-deleted report
Majdal Shams (AFP) – Shortly before sunset, Nidal Salah stared across the fence towards his new life in Syria with the Islamic State movement — paraglider at the ready.
TEL AVIV – An article published on CNN’s website featured a map that erased Israel and replaced it with “Palestina,” a Spanish or Portuguese translation of ”Palestine,” the HonestReporting media watchdog revealed.
JERUSALEM – Leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement at the University of Denver’s branch of Students for Justice in Palestine built their website using Wix, an Israeli company that provides a free platform for web development.
The Israeli military believes the current wave of lethal violence with Palestinians, which has claimed over 100 lives on both sides in the last two months, will continue in the coming months amid the risk of a further serious escalation.
Tensions between Russia and Turkey continue to mount as Moscow announced this week that it would stop importing vegetables from Ankara, listing Israel as a possible alternative. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently ended security cooperation with Ankara and asked Russian
A Romania-born woman who immigrated to Israel won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty Pageant in Haifa. Rita Berkowitz, 83, was chosen among the 16 European natives who participated in the contest on Tuesday. She came to Israel in 1951.
The Shin Bet security service on Wednesday published the transcript of an interrogation of two cousins aged 11 and 14 from East Jerusalem who went on a stabbing rampage two weeks ago and wounded a light rail security guard. The
The IDF has recommended the government take a series of steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and its security forces, which the defense establishment perceives as a moderating influence, as a way to help prevent further deterioration of the security
Germany received key intelligence regarding an imminent terror attack against a packed soccer stadium from Israeli intel services less than two weeks ago, German magazine Stern reported Wednesday. Israeli intelligence provided the crucial information that lead German authorities to cancel
Samal Ziyad (not his real name), an Arab-Muslim who serves in the IDF’s Bedouin Trackers Unit, could easily compete for the title of the most Zionist soldier serving in the West Bank today.
TEL AVIV – In the wake of the Russian plane crash and the Paris attacks, Al-Ahram, Egypt’s largest official news organization, attacked the U.K. for “turning into an enemy” and “orchestrating conspiracies” against Egypt.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told Bolivian President Evo Morales that Iran supports whoever confronts bullying powers like the U.S., an Iranian newspaper reported on Tuesday. President Morales praised Iran for inspiring and supporting Bolivia’s resistance to Western domination. In a
A sniper shot at a parked car near the Cave of the Patriarchs located in the Hebron area of the West Bank on Wednesday. No injuries were reported in the incident. Security forces have opened an investigation into the incident and
An Israeli was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack at the Fawwar junction near Hebron shortly before noon on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM — The body of an Israeli transgender woman who committed suicide will be cremated despite her ultra-Orthodox family’s wishes, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled in documents obtained today. Before she killed herself earlier this month, May Peleg wrote in her
An Arab-Israeli from northern Israel was arrested Tuesday after sending an SMS to his father informing him he was going to carry out a terrorist attack – prompting his father to turn to police.
As the UN on Monday marked the annual Palestinian Solidarity day by passing a series of 20 anti-Israel resolutions, Israel’s envoy to the global body sought to highlight the country’s struggles with Islamic terrorism on one of the worst days of violence in the course of the recent upsurge in terror.
(AFP) — U.S. Secretary of State Kerry expressed sympathy Tuesday for the Palestinians’ “very dire” situation, but also spoke of his concern “about the violence,” while stressing the ongoing US commitment to a Palestinian state.
It took a knock on the door in the dead of night and a hair-raising journey through territory held by al-Qaeda militants to end 3,000 years of Jewish history in northern Syria.
Brussels (AFP) – NATO allies will hold an “extraordinary” meeting Tuesday at Ankara’s request to discuss Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border, an alliance official said.
Ankara (AFP) – NATO member Turkey on Tuesday shot down a Russian war plane on the Syrian border, an act President Vladimir Putin said would have “serious consequences” for ties between two key protagonists in the Syria war.
JERUSALEM – Israeli scientists have developed a self-healing sensor that mimics the behavior of human skin, allowing the “skin” to heal itself in under a day, Israeli21c reported.
TEL AVIV – The current wave of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens is the third intifada, declared Nabil Shaath, acting Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, in an interview with i24news.
A group of Israeli scientists conducted the world’s largest nutrition study of its kind, finding once and for all that there is no such thing as a universal diet, since the same food can trigger wildly different responses from one person to the next.
