International

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Yaron Blum as the new coordinator for issues concerning missing and captive Israelis. Blum was appointed to replace Lior Lotan, who stepped down in August after three years in which he voluntarily held the position. Arutz Sheva spoke to Rami Igra, former head of the Prisoners and

By Tamar Pileggi Reports that the rockets fired over the Syrian border over the weekend may have been deliberate and not spillover fire from the civil war largely dominate Israel’s print media on Sunday. IDF officials tell the Yedioth Ahronoth daily that the five rockets launched at Israel early Saturday morning were “not what spillover

Palestinian movement Hamas said on Sunday that a visit by its delegation to Iran was a “rejection” of the Israeli conditions on reconciliation with rival faction Fatah. The two largest Palestinian groups have agreed a deal that is supposed to see Islamists Hamas hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the Fatah-dominated West Bank-based

Israeli police have arrested 15 suspected Jewish extremists following an undercover investigation into a group accused of tracking down and threatening Arab men dating Jewish women, authorities said Sunday. Israeli radio said that among those taken in for questioning was Benzi Gopstein, a prominent leader of the extreme-right group Lehava, but police would not confirm

The local planning and building committee in Jerusalem is set to approve construction of 176 housing units in the Nof Zion neighborhood, Channel 2 reported. Nof Zion is a Jewish neighborhood adjacent to the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. Nof Zion currently has 91 apartments in 7 buildings. The approval of 176 additional housing