Hadarom, Israel News

Because of the Muslim holy day of Id al Adha, the regular Friday joint demonstrations against the separation fence and occupation in the village Ni'ilin and Ma'asara were canceled.

In the midst of serious critical regional and international deliberations, the Israeli leadership and the general public seem consumed by historical, ideological, and religious fights.

"It must be emphasised that the exclusion of East Jerusalem and construction of public buildings from the freeze allows us to support the move,"Misezhnikov said at a cultural event in the city of Holon , south of Tel Aviv.

Scenes like this -- of Palestinian workers in Har Gilo -- are slated to end with the announcement of a West Bank settlement freeze.

For more than five years, I have been conspicuously alone in pointing out the racist, anti-Jewish nature of policies that require the evacuation of Israelis from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and, more lately, the halts on building and repairing homes and businesses owned by Jews in Jerusalem.

The UAE has held Israel accountable over incessant failure of the peace process, warning it about potential repercussions, which ensue from disappointment of Palestinians about unfulfilled repetitive peace promises.

Leaders of the Jewish settlement movement poured concrete for the foundations of a synagogue Wednesday in this West Bank settlement south of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, Nov 30 : Israel would likely release 980 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas more than three years ago, the State Prosecution said.

A promising, independent Palestine is quietly being developed, with Israeli assistance.

By Etgar Lefkovitz Jerusalem - A Jewish settler could face criminal charges after he was filmed repeatedly driving his car over a Palestinian man who had stabbed the Israeli's wife in a West Bank settlement, police said Wednesday.

It is difficult to know whether the Golan Heights will be Israeli or Syrian territory in the future.

A senior Hamas movement's official revealed Tuesday that Israel has agreed to free 400 Palestinian prisoners in the first stage for the release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Gaza.

Israeli officials shut down construction work in this town and dozens of other settlements throughout the West Bank on Monday, the first step in Israel's 10-month settlement freeze. But builders and settlers are pushing back on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's edict. Palestinians aren't happy with his controversial bid to restart stalled Middle East peace talks either.

At a construction site here in Oranit, a settlement that hugs the Green Line border with Israel proper, foreman Moshe Halfon said he sent 11 Palestinian laborers home for the day after building inspectors from the Israeli military's civil administration issued a stop-work order for a new development of 300 houses.

WASHINGTON a ' The UN is currently marking the historic date of November 29 1947, the day in which it approved the partition plan separating Israel into two states a ' Jewish and Arabic.

Hezbollah's chief on Monday announced the group's new "manifesto," which calls on all countries to "liberate Jerusalem" and declares the United States a threat to the world.

The Islamist Hamas -run government ruling Gaza has approved a legal change that will allow for the execution of convicted drug dealers, its attorney general said on Monday.

An inspector surrounded by Israeli border police issues a stop work order to Jewish settlers building homes in the Jewish settlement of Tekoa in the West Bank yesterday, as a settler films a videotape of the event Israeli settler leaders vowed yesterday to resist the government decision to impose a temporary ease on West Bank settlement building ...

The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail - provided the timing is right.

God's 'first love' awaits Jesus' second advent. Collin Hansen posted 11/30/2009 10:08AM A s Christians anticipate the advent of Jesus this holiday season, they focus once more on the birth narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

Articles 05:20 11/30/2009 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem risk having their properties snatched.. By Stu Harrison Israel's ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine's struggle for self-determination. Israel approved plans to build 844 housing units outside the East Jerusalem ...