Jerusalem, Israel News

From the looks of things, the ball on Iran has been dropped, or the ball is in the Barack Obama court and Kerry is on the bench.

Dozens of family members on Friday attended the funeral of the two young sisters murdered in the southern Bedouin village of al-Furah this week.

Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

In interview with Jerusalem Post Group Hebrew magazine Olmert says he blames Livni and Barak for breakdown of negotiations with Palestinians; magazine obtains map sketched by Abbas with offered Israeli territorial concessions.

Footage of the incident captured by TV network France 2 showed Palestinian Jamal al-Durrah attempting to shield his 12-year-old son Muhammad from crossfire in Gaza City in September 2000.

"It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in Binyamina, said on Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry is backing Hungary's quest to assume the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2015, Hungarian prime ministerial chief adviser Zsigmond Perenyi told .

Two sides agree that scientific and research projects will be increased despite calls in Britain for academic boycott of Israel.

State indicts Ze'ev and Olga Gorelik for allegedly murdering Iris Gorelik Visilib and melting her body with chemicals to cover up the crime.

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.