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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

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

President Reuven and his wife, Nechama, were the guests of honor of US President Barack Obama for the White House Hanukka candle lighting ceremony on Wednesday evening. At the opening of the ceremony, Obama mentioned that in a meeting prior

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recently adopted dog Kaiya has sunk her teeth into her new position, biting two visitors at an event on Wednesday, including the husband of the deputy foreign minister. At a candle-lighting ceremony to

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Donald Trump when the presidential candidate visits Israel at the end of the month, according to multiple reports.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Two Israelis were stabbed in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, with one of them seriously wounded, and the Palestinian attacker was shot dead, the Israeli police and army said. An initial statement from the military said

JERUSALEM – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have released  a Hanukkah song video with lyrics that give even reigning Hanukkah king Adam Sandler a run for his gelt. The song attributes different Hanukkah elements for each day of the eight day

The father of the gunman behind the San Bernardino, California massacre was medicated and does not recall telling an Italian newspaper that his son, Syed Rizwan Farook, backed the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and was obsessed with Israel, according to a family lawyer.

An Israeli-tested drug that tackles cancer through sophisticated manipulations of the body’s natural immune system was key in helping rid former US president Jimmy Carter of life-threatening tumors that developed after he was diagnosed with melanoma earlier this year.

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – For four years, llana Lerner Kalmanovich rode a hot and crowded bus three hours each day to reach the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she was pursuing degrees in physical education and nutrition.

TEL AVIV – In a debate about Israel’s future, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and the so-called peace process, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach locked horns with American Jewish author Peter Beinart in Tel Aviv on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah.

An Israeli man was critically wounded in a stabbing attack Monday afternoon, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron. Israel Police said the terrorist was shot dead by security forces at the scene.

The Israeli government told The Jerusalem Post its military would only attack Iranian jets in Syria if they threatened Israel.

TEL AVIV – In interviews with Breitbart Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad each rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that Israel will become a binational state if the so-called two-state solution is not implemented.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister insists his country is not heading toward becoming a binational state, rejecting a warning to that effect by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. At his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu says “Israel

San Bernardino jihadi Syed Rizwan Farook’s father, who is also named Syed Farook, gave an interesting interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, in which a few interesting bits of family history popped out.

Two victims were lightly wounded Sunday evening in a stabbing in Jerusalem and a Palestinian attacker was killed by an IDF soldier at the scene.

Contents: NY Times Page One calls for laws to confiscate some gun owners’ guns; Israel bombs targets in Syria since Russia’s military buildup; Israel receives tacit approval from Russia for Syrian airstrikes

TEL AVIV – A window into the extremist mindset of San Bernardino jihadist Syed Rizwan Farook was provided by his father Syed Farook, who described his son as “obsessed with Israel.”

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at the Saban Forum in Washington D.C. Saturday, warned that current trends in the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts are leading to a one-state reality. Kerry also said that if the situation

From the International Business Times: A lead tool discovered in Israel what archaeologists say depicts the earliest evidence of use of the metal by humans. The tool was found in a cave in north of Negev desert, in southern Israel.

The Times of Israel Reported: While America puzzles over the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, many American Jews are puzzling over an additional element: the religious identity of victim Nicholas Thalasinos. Pictured on his Facebook page wearing a scarf-style

The latest atrocity from the Islamic State is a video showing children – boys who look about ten years old, referred to by ISIS as the “Cubs of the Caliphate” – executing prisoners in Syria. Five of the murders are carried out with pistols, but the sixth is a knife beheading.

JERUSALEM – There’s an entire country that would probably differ with the White House’s off-key assertion that gun control will help deter terrorists.

A piece in the Wall Street Journal co-authored by two professors of law claims U.S. academic institutions’ boycotts of Israel are not legal. Steven Davidoff Solomon and Eugene Kontorovich, professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University respectively,

Several mainstream media reporters criticized GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson for the way he pronounced “Hamas” during his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday in Washington, D.C.

The Republican Jewish Coalition hosted the GOP presidential contenders Thursday at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Building in Washington, D.C., where each candidate had about 20 minutes or so to discuss their foreign policy vision for America.

One of the 14 victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, wrote in a Facebook post the day before the attack that he had received threats for days, including one that stated, “You will die and never see Israel.”

Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee says that if he is elected president he will serve as the commander-in-chief rather than the meteorologist-in-chief. He’s also mocking global warming alarmists who, he says, think “the greatest threat to society is a sunburn.”

Israel could easily destroy Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, but emphatically does not want to, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In remarks to Likud colleagues, Netanyahu said Israel could rid the Temple Mount of the mosque with little effort, but that

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tells the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) that “Our president has placed his own legacy” in the way of a strong America-Israel relationship. Barack Obama’s foreign policy lacks “moral clarity,” Rubio said. Moral clarity means “our allies trust us and our adversaries respect us,” he added. Now, “our allies feel betrayed and our enemies feel emboldened.”

Deputy head of the illegal Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, said in a Friday sermon that the West is behind religious wars in the world. According to the video of the sermon posted by MEMRI (the Middle East Media

Speaking at the U.S. Congress Wednesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon urged the US to stay wary of Iranian actions in Syria and across the region. “We are very worried about Iran’s presence in Syria,” Ya’alon said. “Iran’s Quds Force is

TEL AVIV – According to Israeli police, a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two Israelis to death and wounded a third in a Jewish prayer room in Tel Aviv, expressed regret for the attack and cried during a reenactment of the

As the the debate in Israel over a controversial deal to extract gas out of off-shore fields rages on, an Egyptian company has expressed intense interest in purchasing the coveted resource from Israel as soon as possible. An official at

An angered Israel continues to mull its response to the European Union’s controversial decision to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu suspended contact with the EU in regard to the Israel-Palestinian conflict over