A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv made a stop in Athens following the discovery of a suspicious bottle which did not belong to any of the passengers. The captain decided to land in Athens and hand the bottle for investigation. The plane then took off again and landed safely at Ben-Gurion Airport. (Source: Ynet)

Dozens of students are protesting throughout the country against a bill allotting millions in state funds to yeshiva students, which they say is a discriminating measure. Students at Bar Ilan University are threatening to close major roads around the university. Meanwhile, students in Jerusalem are threatening to block access roads to Maale Adumim. Ben Gurion University [...]

The shekel was weaker against the dollar Tuesday, after the Bank of Israel left the interest rate unchanged at 2%. Keeping the rate unchanged this month was generally expected by economists. Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer also announced moves to make floating-rate mortgages more expensive, in a bid to restrain housing prices. The [...]

The Labor Party on Monday vowed to lead the fight against a new bill which proposes to reinstate stipends for students studying Torah full time. “The party is united in the opinion that both the state and the yeshiva students themselves would be better off if they joined the work force. The proposed solution that would [...]

Israel is not willing or able to make peace with the Palestinians, Syrian President Bashar Assad said to former US President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday. The comments were reported by DP News, a Syrian news agency. The two were at a meeting of the Group of Elders delegation in Damascus.  The group, brought together by Nelson [...]

Hamas politburo member Mahmoud al-Zahar said the Islamist group was willing to complete a prisoner exchange deal with Israel. He told the SAFA news agency that Hamas would not budge from its previous demands regarding the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Have you checked out YWN Radio yet? Click HERE to listen! (Source: Ynet)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netany said Monday that “We expect anyone wishing to become an Israeli citizen to recognize Israel as the Jewish nation state and a democratic state. There is a broad consensus within the Israeli public as to the Jewish and democratic nature of the country, and this is not by happenstance. “The State of [...]

Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Friday instructed the Population Authority to expel Eric Bellucci, the 30-year-old US resident who was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport after he attempted to leave Israel following allegations that he stabbed his parents to death, rather than waiting US extradition order. Yishai has the authority to issue an expulsion order to [...]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, responding to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech in southern Lebanon, said, “We heard the blasphemous curses from the Lebanese border today.” Netanyahu continued, “The best answer to these swears was given here 62 years ago. The state and all that was built and created since then,” he said in a statement [...]

The Palestinian president said on Thursday he expected the US to convince Israel to halt settlement building so direct peace talks can resume. President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel was “still putting obstacles” in the path of peace talks, singling out its construction of Jewish settlements. But expressing a hope that this would change, he said: “Let’s [...]