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 Israeli Meteorological Service (IMS) said 2015 was Israel’s third-hottest year on record. August and September were among the steamiest months ever recorded, the Walla news site reported. Still, 2015’s temperatures were significantly below those recorded during 2010 — the greatest
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, was questioned under advisement for five hours on Thursday on suspicions of using public funds to pay for private expenses. Mrs. Netanyahu cooperated with the investigators and denied the suspicions against her. She arrived
Israel said goodbye to 2015 and ushered in 2016 with 8,462,000 citizens, data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released on Thursday show. Between the Jewish new year in mid-September and the Gregorian new year, some 68,000 new Israelis
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (pictured) rejected German diplomats’ warnings against retaliating for the alleged Israeli assassination of a senior Hezbollah operative near Damascus, Lebanese newspaper Aliwaa reported on Wednesday. According to the report, German diplomats, likely relaying a message directly from Israel, told the Hezbollah leader Israel’s
Russian President Vladimir Putin is Israelis’ person of the year, according to a Panels Research poll taken for The Jerusalem Post and its Hebrew sister publication Ma’ariv Sof Hashavua. The poll of 527 respondents representing a statistical sample of the Jewish
JAFFA, Israel – The former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, a controversial figure in the country, seems to have angered his conservative detractors even more than usual.
TEL AVIV – December saw the opening of a new PA and Fatah-sponsored sports competition named after a Palestinian terrorist who carried out stabbing attacks against Israelis. 14 teams participated in the “Martyr Muhammad Al-Halabi table tennis tournament” in honor of
TEL AVIV – A video of a child being bitten by a dog was posted on Facebook as an example of “Israeli terrorism” even though the footage was filmed in Algeria. See the video here. The video was published with a
TEL AVIV – Hamas police in Gaza have banned New Year’s parties in restaurants and hotels throughout the Strip.
Two Israeli Arabs were indicted on Thursday for attempting to commit a terror attack at the Be Center hotel in the southern resort city of Eilat. The attack was thwarted thanks to the vigilance of hotel employees, who reported the
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, declined to comment when Breitbart News asked whether he approved of President Obama’s National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on Congress.
TEL AVIV – With little fanfare and almost no one in the news media paying careful attention, this year marked a tectonic shift in the dynamics of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Indeed, 2015 will become known as the year the highly-controlled Palestinian street largely moved beyond the geopolitics of territory and marched to the tune of religious extremism.
A store on Etsy called “Peace Parcels” is selling earrings made from marbles thrown at IDF soldiers by Palestinians. The store also hawks Christmas tree ornaments from expended tear gas canisters (pictured). The seller, who calls himself William Stephenson but whose
TEL AVIV – A Florida woman has been arrested after confessing that she stabbed her toddler to death, stuffed the body in a suitcase, and threw it in a pond in order to “save” him from a Biblical flood. 27-year-old
TEL AVIV – An ancient farmhouse dating back 2,700 years has been unearthed in Israel on the same site as a Byzantine monastery, the Daily Mail reported. The monastery is considerably younger than the farmstead, which is thought to have
Salafi militants in Gaza have released a video under the banner “prepare us,” in which they call on Islamic State sympathizers and other jihadists to help them “get ready for war in the Holy Land.” The video is the latest
TEL AVIV – A BBC Radio phone-in show gave an anti-Semitic Londoner 13 minutes of airtime to air his views on the topic of Jewish world domination. You can hear the exchange below: The caller claimed that the world is “dominated
Ayoob Kara, a deputy Israeli cabinet minister, used to double as an unofficial intermediary with the few of his fellow Arab citizens who have left to join Islamic State insurgents in Syria or Iraq. Negotiating discreetly through relatives and go-betweens,
Hamas on Wednesday released new photos and details concerning the abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. According to the information released by the armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, all five members of Hamas who were holding Schalit in the Gaza
JAFFA, Israel – A Saudi man was arrested in a shopping mall in the city of Taeef while dressed in a niqab, a traditional women’s garb. The man, who is in his twenties, aroused the suspicion of a passer-by. He
The Israeli government on Wednesday approved a plan worth several billion dollars to improve the economic situation of the Arab minority, officials said. Details on how the money will be spent were not immediately available. But a statement from Prime
An academic and a French MP have announced plans to publish online Friday the famous diary of Anne Frank, with the organisation holding publication rights threatening legal action. University of Nantes lecturer Olivier Ertzscheid told AFP Wednesday that the planned
A few weeks ago a huge explosion rocked the town of el-Hmidaiah, near the Quneitra crossing and 400 meters from the border fence with Israel. IDF troops were dispatched for fear that a mortar shell had fallen in the Ein
Jerusalem (AFP) – An Israeli minister and close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought Wednesday to play down revelations the United States monitored the premier’s private communications. “I didn’t fall off my chair from The Wall Street Journal report,”
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration Wednesday over reports that the National Security Administration spied on Israel.
