The brutal murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor has been called an anti-Semitic hate crime by French authorities, who have arrested two suspects in the killing, The New York Times reported Monday. Two suspects, both described as young men in their 20s, including one who had known Mireille Knoll “for a...

The Foreign Ministers of France and Germany held talks with Israeli leaders Monday to discuss United States President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran. Both German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his French counterpart Yves-Jean Le Drian have...

In a further demonstration that it exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs there, says it mobilized 30,000 of its members for military drills on Sunday and Monday, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The members of  Hamas’s Izaddin al Qassam...

On Monday evening, after three years of painful dialogue and broken promises, British Jews finally had enough. Hundreds of concerned members of the Jewish community and their supporters gathered in Parliament Square in London to protest widespread anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, after the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board...

With less than two months until the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in Lisbon, Israel’s entry to the competition has already captured the attention of music-lovers around the world. “Toy,” sung by Netta Barzilai and co-written by Doron Medalie, is quickly rising to the top of the Eurovision betting...

On Monday, Hamas security forces intervened when students protested a raise in tuition at the Al-Azhar University in the Gaza Strip. At least five Palestinian students were beaten and injured by the Hamas police during the demonstration, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The students were opposing the university administration’s...

Following the passage of five resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning Israel, both the United States and United Kingdom lashed out at the council for its anti-Israel bias, The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. While the UK did not vote against all of the resolutions, it voted against...

Yemen’s Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels fired a barrage of seven ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia late Sunday on the third anniversary of the war in Yemen, with fragments of one missile over Riyadh killing one person and wounding two, The Times of Israel reported. Saudi air defense destroyed three of...

Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni said on Saturday that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was “unfit” to return to political life due to his conviction for corruption and observed that Israel must be led by “untarnished people.” The Times of Israel reported that Livni made the comments in an interview...

Max Simonovsky’s two-and-a-half-year-old son was well trained in routine handwashing. But one day when the water in his Rehovot neighborhood was shut off for repairs, the boy reasoned that if water wasn’t available, he therefore had no need to wash his hands after playing outside. The Israeli dad was fascinated...