Middle East

Twelve ultra-Orthodox protesters were arrested Monday at two separate anti-draft demonstrations in the capital and outside Tel Aviv. In Bnei Brak, four protesters were arrested, while eight were arrested in Jerusalem where the deminstrators blocked major roads adjacent to the city’s Central Bus Station. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never […]

Relatives of a Jewish resident of Samaria who was found murdered by Arab terrorists in Kfar Qasim earlier this month were visited by some unlikely guests Monday, as the family observed the traditional mourning period (shiva). On October 4th, just hours before the start of the Sukkot festival, Reuven Shmerling was found dead at a

The Jerusalem Magistrate Court has ruled that the site “Jewish Labor List,” whose goal is to encourage the employment of Jewish laborers, is discriminatory according to the law. In the suit, filed against the manager of the site by the Reform Center for Religion and State and the Mossawa Center and joined by the Equal

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Israel’s Labour Party seems to be shedding its political Socialist roots. Its newly elected leader Avi Gabbay is a refugee from the right-wing Kulanu Party, founded and headed by Moshe Kahlon, who used to be a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud.  At least three recent news items indicate

Israeli Air Force jets attacked an anti-aircraft battery well inside Syria on Monday morning, after the surface-to-air system launched a missile at a different plane over the skies of Lebanon, the army said. A military spokesperson said that “a number” of Israeli planes were flying over Lebanon as part of a “routine reconnaissance mission” on

CAIRO – It’s been a decade since the Palestinian terrorist group turned political party Hamas took over the Gaza Strip. In that time, neither the Hamas nor the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, whose president, Mahmoud Abbas, and secular Fatah ruling party officially lead the Palestinian strongholds in both Gaza and the West Bank, has made strides

Ben Gurion Airport saw hours-long delays overnight in departures and baggage claims due to an unannounced labor strike by nine seasonal workers slated to be let go as the busy summer and holiday season comes to an end. Departures were delayed when the night shift crew charged with loading luggage on and off of planes,

Israeli pop star Kobi Peretz began his 18-month sentence Sunday for tax evasion after he was convicted last March of concealing NIS 5.2 million [$1.5 million] in income as well as evading 830,000 NIS [$230,500] in taxes. According to Behadrei Haredim, Peretz is housed in the special wing of Ramle’s Ma’asiyahu prison that is reserved

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman theater buried at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as well as new underground sections of the wall itself. The scientists were digging in the tunnels underneath the Western Wall that run below Jerusalem’s Old City area. Those tunnels cover the full original length of the wall, even though today

Jerusalem’s Magistrates Court on Friday afternoon rejected Israel Police’s request to extend the arrest of a Shiloh resident by four days, ordering the suspect released to house arrest until Sunday. The Jewish resident was arrested in his Samaria home early on Friday morning when the police conducted a raid on his town. The suspect is