Rockland County, NY – A 60 year-old Israeli national who has been living in the Monsey, NY illegally under a presumed name has been sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty in January to sexually assaulting a young girl for four years...
Israel – President Shimon Peres faced sharp criticism on Wednesday for the star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party. Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it wa...
The Israel Police is pessimistic about the chances of putting a stop to the hate crimes carried out by extreme right-wing activist with nationalistic motives over the next few months, despite plans to bolster law enforcement in that realm. “It doesn&...
Israel's Health Ministry to HMOs: Stop gender segregation at ultra-Orthodox clinics. After discovering examples of separate entrances, waiting rooms and visiting hours for men and women, the ministry demanded an end to such segregation. By Ronny ....
JERUSALEM — Israel has decided to export 40 percent of the natural gas it expects to produce from offshore wells, keeping a larger amount for local use than expected. The figure, announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, is lower ...
The Palestinian president and his Fatah movement on Wednesday signaled a tough line on talks with Israel, casting new doubt on U.S. efforts to revive long-stalled negotiations. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the region next week ......
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu settled the long controversy over the disposition of the Israeli Mediterranean gas bonanza with a decision to put before the government a plan to retain 60 percent for domestic use and export the rest. He announced thi...
Moshe Ya'alon is negotiating with settlers to legalize the Havat Gilad outpost in exchange for their voluntary withdrawal from four structures in the West Bank's Area B.
On June 18, the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC), a jihadist media unit tied to the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), released a video of purported Salafi jihadists in Syria slamming Hamas' recent actions against Salafi jih...
Albany, NY – Federal authorities accused two upstate New York men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. The indictment charged 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galw...
How U.S. envoys (and others) are making their own peace missions fail. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the final stages of his effort to resume direct negotiations between the two sides. So far, no breakthrough has been reported. In Israel, coalition members are distancing themselves, one by one, from the two-state solution, [...]
The Israeli Defense Ministry is calling it a “bridge loan,” but in reality it is tantamount to when a child wants a couple of weeks advance on their allowance to buy something. The Defense Ministry is seeking to buy $5 billion worth of weapons ......
Barbra Streisand is touring Israel right now and has broached a very delicate subject on her first major stop: the treatment of women by Orthadox Jews. The iconic singer was there to receive an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Hebrew ...WebProNews
Israel's Health Ministry ordered HMOs to immediately halt gender-segregated medical services for haredim after a report by Israel's Attorney General documented the questionable practices – which may have been previously concealed from ...Fai...
A last-minute amendment to the nation's yearly defense spending bill will ensure that Israel receives the advanced military hardware needed to launch a decisive strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites.Washington Free Beacon
New York – Alice Walker, the American writer who has long made clear her antipathy toward the state of Israel, “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level” in her latest book of meditations on life and her personal activi...
The last thing that I wanted at the pinnacle of pimple-faced puberty (circa 1974) was to stand in front of all of my friends and family and chant in Hebrew.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres’ 90th birthday was the central show aired on all three Israeli TV channels Tuesday night. A look into who paid for the extravagant bash? It was an 11-million shekel production dubbed by many as a “North Korea-style event” for the man who brought ‘The Bomb’ to Israel, tried to offer it [...]
