Yanki Kanievsky, a grandson of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita met on Tuesday afternoon with the chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, MK Avigdor Lieberman, in an effort to persuade him to compromise and agree to enter into a coalition with the chareidi parties and thereby avoiding new elections.

Security guards stop man declaring he wants to see the prime minister; suspect handed over to police for questioning

Iran’s influential Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday it doesn’t fear a possible war with the United States and claimed that America hasn’t grown in power in recent years – the latest tough talk from Tehran amid escalating regional tensions and a crisis with Washington.

'We all regret that these fantastic Jewish institutions and schools have to be protected,' Ambassador Susanne Wasum-Rainer tells Times of Israel. 'But that's our responsibility'

Warsaw – On a cold day in March 2017, a group of young adults stripped naked at the former Auschwitz death camp and chained themselves together to the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate as one man plunged a knife into a sheep’s body over and over again. The two organizers of the stunt, including the man [...]

London – Theresa May, who announced her resignation on Friday as the prime minister of the United Kingdom, will be remembered as one of her country’s shortest-serving and least popular leaders. Blamed by supporters of Britain’s departure from the European Union for delivering what they consider half measures, she was loathed also by opponents of [...]

Frum passengers on an El Al flight who were diverted to Athens during a New York-Tel Aviv flight for fear that they would not reach Israel before Shabbos, have filed a class action lawsuit against the airline.
According to Channel 12 news, 52 passengers have filed the suit, demanding hundreds of thousands of shekels in compensation from El Al. El Al offered compensation to all 400 passengers on the flight in the form of a free round-trip ticket to any destination in Europe.
Attorney Asher Rotenbaum said the company had behaved irresponsibly and said the claimants wanted compensation for the “great anguish and distress caused,” with passengers forced to spend three days in Athens without a change of clothes and in sub-par conditions.

During his time at Random House, Jewish chairman made it one of the largest book firms while defending political dissent; rejected HRW in 2009 for becoming biased against Israel

Brussels – European rabbis are demanding social networks add a kippah-wearing emoji, saying that “Our daily struggle against antisemitism starts with the small things.” Following the addition of a hijab-wearing emoji, rabbis sent a letter requesting the addition of a kippah-wearing emoji to Unicode, a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling [...]