TEL AVIV – Less than one week before the international community is set to unlock a decade of sanctions imposed on Iran, the country’s Islamic hardliners deliberately generated a crisis with the US for pure domestic consumption with the aim of ensuring the ayatollahs’s continued grip on power.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The IDF is preparing for the possibility that Russian air strikes will push Islamic State, currently 40 km. away from the Israeli border, toward the Golan Heights in the coming months. Additionally, the IDF’s 210 Habashan
The Jerusalem Post reports: Jerusalem responded largely with a yawn to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday that the US eavesdropped on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with current and past officials saying it is an open secret that Washington listens in on high-level
TEL AVIV – Christians in Nazareth, already victims of nearly institutionalized Muslim intimidation, need to contend with yet another extremist threat. Israel’s Shin Bet security agency earlier this month announced the arrest of Israeli Arab youths from Nazareth for declaring
BOONE, IOWA – Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio privately defended the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even as he publicly condemned the practice.
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian political scientist called upon his country to address the forced “displacement, oppression, and collective punishment” of Egyptian Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. In a column for Egyptian daily Al-Shuruq translated by MEMRI , Hamzawy called
A Cairo court has extended the remand of a leading Egyptian importer after he was allegedly involved in a homosexual relationship. The defendant, A.A., is charged with “sodomy,” the court wrote in the injunction. The man is also accused of
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority Security Forces spokesman posted a message on his Facebook page to Palestinian children saying that the only way to defeat Israel is to “water it with blood,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
TEL AVIV – A man has won a court case after refusing a police order on the Temple Mount to drop his hands, a gesture which could be perceived as praying and therefore offensive to Muslims, the Jewish Press reported.
Israeli athletes dropped out of an international windsurfing competition in Malaysia after the organizers refused to let them compete with the Israeli flag and national anthem.
A group of Christians in Iran have been arrested while attending church on Christmas Day in Shiraz. The church was raided by plain-clothes officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security who confiscated personal items and satellite dishes and behaved
BERLIN (AFP) – The copyright of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” expires Friday, with plans by several publishers for annotated reprints sparking fierce debate over how one of the world’s most controversial books should be treated seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis.
Israel’s first college aimed specifically at students with autism, Asperger’s syndrome and complex learning disabilities is set to open in March 2016. According to the NRG news website, the BE Academic College will be a collaboration between Beit Ekstein, an
During a speech marking the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi again made historic remarks speaking to Islamic scholars about the need for religious freedom and acceptance of all religions.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who claimed to be on the cusp of a historic peace deal with the Palestinians just a few years ago, now is set to become the first Israeli leader to go to
Fake U.S. $100 bills featuring an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been found scattered around several locations in the Galilee, Israel Police spokesperson Luba Samri said Monday. The fake currency features al-Baghdadi in place of founding father
Many people come to New York City with big dreams. Many of them return home disappointed, others work for years before seeing results, and very few make it within a year. Meet the exception: Chef Nir Mesika from the northern
Islamic State (ISIS) theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured
The testimonies are fading away, the memorial sites are turning into entertainment centers, and the historical story is seen as just another “Jewish narrative”. If anyone thought that Holocaust denial was a marginal phenomenon among a few anti-Semites and Israel
Israel has returned the bodies of three more Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israeli targets, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported Tuesday. The latest return saw the Palestinian Authority receive the bodies of Bassem Salah, Mazen Aribe, and
TEL AVIV – The Pentagon has reportedly denied Russian media claims that a top Islamic State commander was captured by American troops, while Kurdish security officials told the Al Hayat newspaper the commander was indeed seized over the weekend.
In the midst of its espionage operations against the State of Israel, the Obama administration’s National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on private conversations conducted with members of the U.S. Congress and American-Jewish groups, a late Tuesday report in the Wall Street Journal reveals.
JAFFA, Israel – Twenty-three Saudi women have been indicted for membership of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, Al Arabiya website reported on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally welcomed his Likud party’s first openly gay lawmaker as he was sworn in to the Knesset on Monday. It is rare for the prime minister to welcome new Knesset Members,
For the first time in three-quarters of a century, the French government released 200,000 WWII records revealing French collaboration with Nazi Germany. The records, which were released online on Monday, were taken from the foreign, justice and interior ministries as well
TEL AVIV – The UN Security Council passed a resolution seemingly legitimizing the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and invited Iran to join the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), MEMRI reported. On December 18, 2015, the UNSC unanimously passed Resolution 2254,
