Before the 2016 presidential election, some evangelical Christians began comparing Donald Trump to King Cyrus, the Biblical king who's credited with allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem from exile in the Babylonian Empire. Now some Jews, including PM Netanyahu, are doing it, too.
A car-ramming terror attack in northern Samaria (West Bank) killed two Israeli soldiers and seriously injured two others.
The man who fashions himself as the new sultan of a revived Ottoman Empire has big dreams, and one of them could well be to build an Islamic army against the state of Israel.
New discoveries at Magdala suggest Mary Magdalene might not have been a "woman of the night" but rather an influential and wealthy woman. For example, in the first century, well known people were often called by the name of their hometown. That appears to be the case of Mary Magdalene. Some scholars also believe Mary Magdalene could have been a rich widow since she supported the ministry of Jesus. In Luke 8:3 it names her first among the women who cared for Jesus out of their own means.
After the Holocaust, Jews learned three lessons that permeate Israel's Intelligence services. Now, when an enemy declares his intention to "destroy Israel," there's no other choice but to rise up.
The toll in Syria's civil war is staggering, with nearly half a million dead and millions more living as refugees within Syria and in neighboring countries.
The deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip brought Israeli and Arab diplomats together Tuesday at the White House.
Following Tuesday's attempted assassination of PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, rival Palestinian factions blamed each other for the bomb attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reached an agreement Tuesday evening, ending speculation by Israeli media that the coalition crisis would likely lead to early elections.
An article in a Turkish daily with ties to the country's leader called for the formation of an "Army of Islam" to attack and destroy the State of Israel.