TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israeli prime minister is being investigated, and the media is atwitter. The probe is preliminary and no details have been released. But reports say Binyamin

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday hailed Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt and expressed his appreciation for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s efforts to renew the peace process between Israel

Former Wall Street banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was inaugurated as Peru’s new president Thursday, vowing to kick-start the economy and unite a country torn by a photo-finish election. The 77-year-old

Following a series of threats by a haredi organization to file a law suit with Israel’s Supreme Court, the Transportation Ministry has given initial approval for a plan to extend

MK Michael Oren and former MK Dov Lipman have announced a new Knesset-based initiative to address some of the challenges that face English speaking immigrants to Israel. These issues include

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham blasted President Obama this week, condemning his refusal to increase American aid to Israel, as well as his efforts to bar Israel from spending

In a rare case, a mother of eight in her 40s, 35 weeks pregnant, started feeling unwell while in her Petah Tikva home yesterday (Wednesday). When the pain became severe,

Lower Galilee Regional Council head Motti Dotan stirred up controversy on Thursday after he defended the practice of barring access to local swimming pools to non-residents, which some claim is

IDF and U.S. special forces conducted a joint exercise in the Negev: “Kaya Green” which simulated a coastal raid in enemy territory.

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu participated on Thursday afternoon in a ceremony celebrating the completion of a defense project for housing in the communities of the Gaza belt. While there, he

Syrian regime ally Russia on Thursday announced a “large-scale” aid operation to allow civilians and fighters to flee besieged Aleppo, as the president offered an amnesty to rebels who surrender.

Attorney Yisrael Caspi, Head of the Temple Antiquities Preservation Committee, was interviewed by Arutz Sheva about the attack against two archaeologists yesterday on the Temple Mount by members of the

Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who will star in the upcoming “Wonder Woman” feature film, is being attacked on Twitter for being a “Zionist.” Gadot, who was Miss Israel 2004, went

Israeli authorities who have faced a wave of lone-wolf attacks by Palestinian Arabs say they have made progress in identifying potential assailants in advance, a challenge now also confronting Western

The Federal Trade Commision (FTC), has approved Israeli-based pharmaceutical company Teva’s acquisition of Allergan’s generic drug production business, after a yearlong bid to win the approval of the regulatory body,

Leah Goldin, the bereaved mother of Hadar Goldin, an IDF soldier whose body has been held by Hamas since 2014, slammed Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern over his proposal to

The issue of the Liba core curriculum requirement for haredi schools returned to the public agenda recently, with the repeal of the Core Curriculum law currently under way. Under the

Tens of thousands of boxes of breakfast cereal have been destroyed, following the discovery that a facility used to produce and package the cereal had been contaminated. According to a

It happened again this week: The Israel Air Force attacked a Syrian target in Kuneitra in response to mortar fire that “leaked out” from the Syrian civil war to Israel’s

Good news for Omer Lahat, a young man with cerebral palsy, and his peers. This week the Knesset is advancing a “affirmative action for disabled in the workplace bill”, which

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee convened Thursday morning in response to claims of maltreatment by the Defense Ministry of a severely wounded IDF veteran. Yehuda Yitzhak HaYisraeli suffered

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid emphatically denied on Thursday claims his efforts to require core curriculum courses in haredi schools were rooted in a sense of malice towards the haredi

The international coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group has opened a formal investigation to determine whether its air strikes last week near the Syrian city of Manbij claimed civilian

Jews in Scotland are feeling greater unease living in their country over the past few years, according to a report by the main Jewish umbrella group there. In the report

Conservative political pundit Ann Coulter is under fire for tweeting, after Hillary Clinton was nominated as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, “Where are the Bernie supporters tonight? Did Hillary have

The team returned from taking us further into deep space, as we touch ground, not anywhere, but on the holiest spot on earth. the most famous place to make Aliyah

Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, is part of a group of senators calling on Congress to add $320 million for Israeli missile defense to the Senate version of a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid sparred on Wednesday over the issue of the Cabinet’s awareness of Hamas’s terror tunnels before Operation Protective Edge in

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may yet visit Israel before the election, he indicated on Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Florida and quoted by JTA, Trump responded to

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday threw his support behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, as he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. In his remarks, Obama said