World-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman has been named the winner of the 2016 Genesis Prize Laureate. Dubbed ‘The Jewish Nobel Prize” the $US1million annual award given to individuals who have achieved extraordinary professional success, have made a significant contribution to humanity,
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he “absolutely did not” ask Donald Trump to cancel a visit to Israel that had been scheduled for later this month. Netanyahu also said he believes Trump’s friendship toward the
The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered the installation of concrete safety barriers at hundreds of Jerusalem’s bus stops to protect civilians from terror attacks. The move came hours after a car-ramming terror attack that
Haaretz reports: Some two-thirds of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip support the use of knives in the current confrontations with Israelis, back the resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and advocate abandoning the Oslo accords with
JERUSALEM (AFP) – An Israeli parliamentary committee refused to give its blessing Monday to a natural gas deal aimed at tapping a huge field in the Mediterranean despite a strong push by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The 7-6 vote against the
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criticism of his widely condemned calls to ban Muslim entry to the US was “modest,” but still “inappropriate.” In an interview to CNN aired Sunday, the GOP front-runner brushed
An IDF Reserve officer was detained for questioning several weeks ago in Britain on charges of “war crimes” before diplomatic efforts secured his released, according to Yediot Acharonot.
TEL AVIV – Thousands of “rock-throwing” dolls were confiscated by the Israeli Customs Authority for inciting children to violence, yet the Palestinian media claimed the toys were confiscated as part of Israel’s “war against children’s dolls.” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)
The Times of Israel reports: Armies of the world would be rendered far less effective if they were forced to operate under the same restrictions as the IDF during last summer’s Gaza campaign, a group of former military and defense
Ynetnews reports: An IDF officer in reserves who fought in Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014 was detained upon landing in the UK a few weeks ago due to a complaint made against him that he was involved
TEL AVIV – Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been hard at work attempting to manufacture rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv. It has also shared its rocket-making capabilities with other terrorist organizations in the coastal enclave, according to security sources here familiar with the matter.
TEL AVIV – Dramatic security footage was released on Saturday showing a Palestinian terrorist violently stabbing an Israel Defense Force soldier and a civilian in Hebron in the West Bank on Wednesday. In the video, the soldier is seen asking the
The New York Post reports: Israel’s first canine is in the dog house after biting two guests at the Prime Minister’s Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony. Benjamin Netanyahu posted a family portrait — including his wife, two sons and dog Kaiya —on
A university in Perth, Western Australia has been called to account after an article published by one of its lecturers was condemned as racist and profoundly anti-semitic. Posted to The London School of Economics and Political Science website on December 3,
A fine thread running through many of our columns is that the legitimacy of Islam’s religious claims to Jerusalem is in inverse proportion to the volume and frequency with which they are made. Now comes along a renowned Muslim Egyptian scholar,
TEL AVIV – Israeli security forces here arrested the alleged perpetrator of a vehicular ramming attack injuring four Israeli soldiers in the West Bank yesterday. Significantly, the alleged terrorist attacker confessed to being motivated to carry out his jihad in part
A Palestinian motorist attempted to ram his vehicle into IDF soldiers conducting security checks at the Hilhul Junction near Hebron on Friday. The assailant was shot and killed at the scene. No Israelis were wounded in the attempted attack. Shortly
An Akron, Ohio, Muslim man, who has “repeatedly professed” his support for the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS), was charged with multiple criminal offenses for urging his “brothers residing in America” to behead 100 U.S. service members whose names and addresses he posted on social media, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Sources told The Times of Israel that a Muslim former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier has joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.
TEL AVIV – Member of Knesset Miki Zohar presented a bill on Thursday to prevent automatic access to pornographic sites on the Internet.
Four people were wounded Thursday in a vehicular terror attack near Kfar Luban, on the main road leading to the Israeli settlement of Beit Arieh in the West Bank, according to the IDF. A black Isuzu vehicle escaped from the
TEL AVIV – A new video making the rounds on Facebook features a little Palestinian girl holding a large knife and demonstrating how to stab Israelis, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The video, which originally appeared on the Facebook page
JERUSALEM – Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is postponing his upcoming trip to Israel that had been scheduled for later this month. Trump said he was postponing the visit and a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until “after
Israel’s annual poverty report released Wednesday by the National Insurance Institute shows that 776,500 Israeli children were living in poverty in 2014, an across the board increase from 2013. The number of Israeli families below the poverty line rose from 18.6 percent
A new government report reveals that a third of suicides committed between 2000-2013 were committed by new immigrants, Ynet reported. The report, published by the Knesset Research and Information Center, showed that of the 4,806 people who committed suicide from
