Missing yeshiva students

A non-denominational yeshiva opens in Scotland, inspired by models in US and Israel

The founders of Azara, which is based for the summer in Edinburgh, hope to offer a pluralist space for intensive study of Talmud and other holy books.

 A young ultra orthodox Jewish man seen reading a newspaper in between studies at the Yeshiva Ateret Israel, in Jerusalem, September 2, 2013
Yeshiva students pray in a synagogue in the Sydney suburb of Bondi

High Court demands state explain why full time yeshiva students get child-care subsidies

Crime scene [illustrative]

Shin Bet: Jaffa man arrested after throwing stun grenade at yeshiva

Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel (L-R).

‘Our boys’


Ya’alon: We won’t cease or rest until we find the abducted teens

"Everything linked to Hamas is being targeted," says source; soldiers enter Balata and Awarta areas of Nablus; IDF says in protracted campaign to weaken Hamas.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon

IDF commander: 'Hamas is feeling the hits and getting the message'

Head of the Central Command says the IDF is focused on finding the kidnapped boys and weakening Hamas; says Hamas will come out of this operation weaker than before.

Head of the central command Nitzan Alon

Despite kidnappings and West Bank closures, teens return to hitchhiking at abduction spot

An onlooker would hardly know that a wide-scale search for the kidnapped teens is underway, based on the fairly normal pace of life in the Hebron area.

IDF soldier in Hebron, June 15, 2014.

Watch: West Bank Hamas leadership in Israeli custody

Security forces arrest nearly all of Hamas' West Bank leaders in a third night of large-scale arrests.

Israel arrests speaker of Palestinian parliament