Jerusalem, Israel News

Stroll the moonlike terrain along the rim of the Ramon Crater in southern Israel and you'll feel like you're walking on the edge of the world.

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference before their meeting in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

Police said five vehicles parked on one of the main streets in the neighborhood of Gilo, in southwestern East Jerusalem, were vandalized in a "price tag" attack early Thursday morning, allegedly by Jewish extremists.

If you decide to check out the new Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, make sure you don't touch anything -- some of the artifacts are 3,000 years old.

A prominent figure in the Chechen diaspora in Turkey was shot at his Ankara office late on Wednesday, a North Caucasus refugee association said, the latest in a series of killings of Chechens and their sympathisers in the country in recent years.

President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolences to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, expressing his shock and sadness over the attack on a soldier in London on Wednesday.

Ibrahim Shomali, a Palestinian priest, offers communion under the olive trees of the Cremisan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

France is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organization, an official said on Thursday, confirming comments by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, right, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in territories.

Embassy calls efforts of German Green Party to label products from West Bank "another try to negatively single out Israel." BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an ... (more)

Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne died after one of the mines went off for an unknown reason in the Golan Heights.

The United Nations' Relief and Works Agency is again facing accusations of supporting anti-Israel sentiment.

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Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, sharply reacted on Tuesday to remarks by PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat, who accused Israel of applying a policy of apartheid in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.

Likud Beytenu removed MK Moshe Feiglin from the Knesset Education Committee Tuesday night, as a result of his rebellion against the coalition because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not allow him to visit the Temple Mount.

Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10. Abu Hashem was ... (more)

Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across their tense cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, prompting an Israeli threat that Syria's leader will "bear the consequences" of further escalation and raising new concerns that the civil war there could explode into a region-wide conflict.

Recently, the EU formally recommended that its 27 member states "prevent" Israeli activity in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and east Jerusalem by means of discriminatory labeling of Israeli products from these areas - in effect, an economic boycott of Jewish communities in those regions.

An IDF soldier was killed while taking part in the clearing of a minefield in the southern Golan Heights.