Israel News

Country still faces large gender gaps in education, shows report.   Israelis are among the highest educated in the developed world, but the country still… Read More ›

US secretary of state slammed in Ramallah for condemning ‘terrorism’; Netanyahu: Palestinians must recognize our right to build in settlement blocs.   Israel will not… Read More ›

At site of fatal Sunday attack, PM says new measures include revocation of work permits for terrorists’ relatives, tighter security checks   The Israel Defense… Read More ›

Arab workers to be banned from Etzion settlement bloc; extended family of terrorists to be barred from Israel; mass Hamas arrests expected   Amid an… Read More ›

US secretary of state lays out goals for Israel visit to ‘calm things down a bit,’ but warns that neither Israelis or Palestinians want to… Read More ›

18-year-old soldier Ziv Mizrahi, killed in stabbing attack, becomes second victim of terror in family after Alon Mizrahi was killed in 2003 suicide bombing. Private… Read More ›

Israeli strikes target Hamas affiliated positions in the central Gaza Strip in retaliation for morning rocket fire on Eshkol Regional Council.   Local reports in… Read More ›

Bayit Yehudi chief said that he had managed to get Netanyahu to back down from previous public statements indicating that he would consider “unilateral measures.”… Read More ›

Terror, wherever it occurs, highlights imperative for Middle East peace, Jacob Zuma tells local Jews; Israel’s ambassador calls remark ‘unfair’ and a misunderstanding of Islamic… Read More ›

Image posted to Twitter depicts ‘child killer’ Gershon Mesika with a target and blood splatter over his face   Hours after a former local politician… Read More ›

In Boston, more than 1,500 mourners attend funeral of 18-year-old yeshiva student murdered by Palestinian terrorist on Thursday   SHARON, Massachusetts — Amid sobs of… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox sensitivities win another culture battle in Jerusalem as Cinema City branch owners reject petition to keep theater open on Shabbat. Jerusalem’s religious-cultural wars took… Read More ›

Hadar Buchris, a 21-year-old from Safed who was murdered in a terror attack at Gush Etzion junction, memorialized by students from midrasha she attended in… Read More ›

Overwhelming number of Israeli Arabs – 82% – agree that Islamic State is an extremist terrorist organization and that they, as Arabs, feel ashamed of… Read More ›

While no official figures have been published delineating the drop in crime, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says thousands of officers on the ground.   One… Read More ›

Ezra Schwartz, killed in a terror attack on Thursday, flown to Boston for his funeral; ‘He had a wonderful life,’ father says   Several hundred… Read More ›