The Arutz Sheva news and radio staff will be wide awake all night Tuesday to provide up-to-the-minute reporting and analysis as the ballots are counted for Israel’s national elections. Arutz Sheva’s homepage – IsraelNationalNews.com – will provide updated results showing the distribution of Knesset seats and the percentage of votes counted. The graph on the […]

(IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Police have announced that the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, is now closed to Jews. The decision followed threats of Muslim violence leveled by Islamist Mufti of Jerusalem and other Arab leaders, who promised they would not allow rabbis to ascend the mount as planned Monday. The Movement for the Establishment of the […]

Researchers in Israel are working on a new treatment they hope will slow down the progressive deterioration suffered by patients with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. The new treatment uses the body’s own cells as a vaccine against autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), according to Professor Irun R. Cohen of the Weizmann […]

Two Kassam rockets fired from formerly Jewish areas of Gaza struck Ashkelon Saturday night. IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says Israel must remain “civilized” in its response to the rockets. One of the rockets hit a building in the southern Ashkelon industrial area, damaging the building, but failing to injure anybody. “The phenomenon of […]

By Hillel Fendel – Arutz7 News – March 23, 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Jonathan Pollard to access documents that could help his bid to seek clemency. [J4JP: The Supreme did not reject the merits of the petition; it simply declined to deal with the petition at all.] The […]

By Ryan Jones JNW March 19th, 2006 Dressed up in new academic attire, the centuries-old libel that the Jewish people have somehow taken control of the affairs of the most powerful nations on earth – in this case the United States of America – is again making headlines. America’s roughly six million Jews make up […]

Over the past few years there has been extensive coverage of an upsurge in Jewish religious observance. Increasingly sophisticated efforts at kiruv have resulted in large numbers of ba’alei teshuva – returnees – rediscovering the beauty and depth of an observant lifestyle. An important concomitant of this revitalization of Orthodoxy is that we now have […]

Michael Freund and the Shavei Israel organization were presented with the Jerusalem Prize at the closing ceremony of the Jerusalem Conference. The Maaleh School of Cinema was also awarded. “The Jerusalem Prize is being granted to Shavei Israel For lending a hand to Jews and their descendents all over the world, educating them and assisting […]

As the world looks to nature to find cures for some of the world’s most debilitating diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and strokes, an Israeli company – Shulov Institute for Sciences Ltd (SIS) – has unlocked the chemicals found in deadly viper venom to help treat arthritis. About 2.1 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid […]

Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss is preparing a report on the matter, though Olmert has already issued a denial. A complaint was filed against Olmert in September 2004 by the Industry and Trade Ministry’s employees union. The union claimed that Olmert and the Ministry’s Director-General made illegal appointments, and took advantage of personal connections. Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss […]