Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has named businessman Yair Shamir, 67, as his number two in Yisrael Beiteinu party. The appointment of Shamir, who is the son of former Prime Minister and Likud member Yitzhak Shamir, is likely to ruffle the feathers of ...

Pundits say a politician can't run for office successfully while running away from his religious beliefs. The former prime minister offers a surprising counterexample. "When will we talk about Mormonism?" asks Politico's Dylan Byers. Judging by the Romney ...

Gen. Yair Naveh. Naveh said that the IDF will need to make the next war as short as possible because of the vulnerability of the home front, according to Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh.. "In order to do this we need a first strike that reaches ...

Yair Lapid will probably not be a member of the government before the elections scheduled for November 2013, but the novice politician, who has expressed such distain for the ministers in the current government, has already taken up some of the practices ...

An Israeli was found shot to death in Kochav Yair on Sunday morning. Magen David Adom workers tried to revive him, but were unable to, and his remains were transferred over to Zaka. Police have opened an investigation and are pursuing every ...

Sir, In “Cultural kink that says charity begins with a tax break” (May 12), Gillian Tett twice commits the same technical mistake. She states that donors can “hand the receipt to their accountant – and offset it against their 2012 tax bill ...

Bank Hapoalim (POLI) Ltd. Chairman Yair Seroussi discusses the challenges this year amid a global economic slowdown. He also commented on the possibilities for growth and the impact of the government initiative to get conglomerates to sell off ...

Gen. Yair Naveh said on Tuesday. "The missile, rocket and chemical capabilities are remarkably still under control by the current regime," Naveh said at the 2012 Conference on Air and Land Jointness in Zichron Ya'acov. He revealed that Syria has ...

PM, Mofaz mourn loss of Ezra; scheduled to be laid to rest in Kochav Yair; Akram Hasoon expected to take place in Knesset. Throughout his 30-year career in the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and 16 years in politics, Gideon Ezra could always be seen with a cigarette.

Yair Lapid, a former television journalist and emerging opposition leader, connected the attacks on the African community to the race riots against Jews in Europe in earlier ages in a statement posted on Facebook. According to a translation of ...