Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told leaders of the religious Shas party that key secular parties refuse to sit with them or with other religious parties such as United Torah Judaism, creating near-certain odds that Netanyahu is likely form his next governing coalition in the absence of religious parties for...

Tens of millions of locusts hit Egypt this weekend, just before the Passover holiday that recalls the 10 Plagues of Egypt (among them the voracious grasshoppers). In a sharp deviation from the Passover tale, however, the insects also migrated north into Israel and Jordan, darkening skies and raising fears of...

After signaling planned goodwill gestures intended to prod the Palestinian Authority to return to the negotiating table during his speech Monday to the AIPAC 2013 Policy Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly lining up just such a package : The gestures will include the transfer of authority over two access roads — one...

Al Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria are scouting and filming IDF patrols along Israel’s border with Syria, according to a boastful video uploaded by the jihadists: Members of the al-Furqan group — affiliated with the global al-Qaeda organization which has acted in Yemen and Iraq — were filmed close to Israel’s...

Welcoming his first foreign counterpart since taking over as Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel met Tuesday with outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The meeting revolved around concerns that U.S. budgetary woes would impact the bilateral relationship and undercut U.S. security investments in Israel, a possibility that the Pentagon chief...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor is stressing the need to enhance security along the Israeli-Syrian border, after three mortars launched from Syria landed deep inside Israeli territory this weekend. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council calling for action, Prosor stressed that Israel would be forced to take...