Hazafon, Israel News

When a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the West Bank city of Jenin by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing, it could have been just one more blip on the news: one more war, one more child, one more human tragedy that ripped the heart out of a family and a community, but rippled no further into the world's ...

Prior to the elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his program for "economic peace," which he said would improved the quality of life for Palestinians in the West Bank.

A literary happening of the first order is what the French press is calling Claude Lanzmann's autobiography, "Le Lievre de Patagonie" , published two months ago by Gallimard.

Police on Sunday arrested an Israel Defense Forces soldier who allegedly stabbed another soldier during an altercation while the two were returning to their army base in the north.

An art project that would transform a tall chimney into a minaret drew controversy in western Poland as critics said it mocked Catholics, a Polish daily reported Friday.

The European left must make a serious critical assessment of this ' we know better ' attitude and the ways it tends to deal with popular forces in the south as ideologically and politically inferior.' -- Hisham Bustani 'The subsequent emergence of Islamism holds a false promise.

JENIN, Occupied West Bank: Israeli Arabs long banned from the Occupied West Bank have converged on its cities in recent weeks to buy anything from groceries to makeup, taking advantage of lower prices and boosting the Palestinian economy.

The soldiers are the grandchildren of the Nazis' victims, the Nazis' survivors. They have come here to consume food quickly and consume life quickly.

Israel agreed on Wednesday to expanded activity by Palestinian Authority security forces in four West Bank towns, for a trial period of one week followed by an assessment.

Taghrid al-Tibi leaves a Palestinian military court in the West Bank city of Jenin.

Recent weeks have seen a dramatic change in Israel's roadblock policy in the West Bank.

Israeli court rules to demolish Palestinian home/peace center for the 4th time - International Middle East Media Center >> Posted By Natureboy 22 hours, 32 minutes ago in News Since 1967, the Israeli authorities have demolished more than 24,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories, some as " collateral damage"; in military operations , ...

The skies lit up over Jenin last month, and it wasn't tracer bullets or flash bombs but celebratory fireworks, set off to mark the occasion of the opening of Hirbawi Home Center, a new luxury establishment on the city's outskirts.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday outlined his vision for the first stage of peace talks with the Palestinians, saying that the parties must begin negotiations with points "where there are no disputes." "There is more than one issue of dispute with the Palestinians, so I would like to start from the point where there are no disputes," ...

When Abraham Mapu published the first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Zion , in 1853, he laid the foundations of modern Hebrew literature.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivers a key policy speech at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv on Sunday, June 14, 2009.

WADI QADOUM, East Jerusalem, Jun 13 - "What are you doing here?" The motorist in the battered white Volvo stops to ask us alongside an overflowing rubbish cart.

Palestinian Authority police officers escort an unnamed Palestinian woman accused of spying for Israel out of a military court in Jenin on Sunday, June 7, 2009.

Palestinian Authority security forces arrested 36 Hamas supporters, many of them professors and students, the Islamic terror group said Thursday, signaling a widening crackdown by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

I came to the grave of the Moroccan holy man Rabbi David And Moshe entirely consumed by doubts: Not only is the whole business of prostrating oneself on holy men's graves foreign to me , but also it turned out that in the apartment in the workers' housing project in the Canaan neighborhood, a modest neighborhood at the edge of Safed that for 36 ...