Hazafon, Israel News

Friday night slots are highly coveted for up-and-coming entertainers and comedy clubs are packed with people looking for a good laugh.

The rationale behind the road map and Benjamin Netanyahu's "economic peace" is the Israeli demand that a Palestinian state be built before a final-status solution is discussed and implemented, or at least as negotiations are taking place.

Following Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to remove the Har Bracha yeshiva from the arrangement with the IDF, right-wing activists are planning to form groups to visit yeshivas across the country and urge students to cancel the arrangement and put off their enlistment to the military.

The last mile is the hardest: negotiations intensify as Israel and Hamas move towards sealing a prisoner swap deal, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem Exhaustive last minute bargaining between Hamas and Israel over a prospective prisoner exchange deal was continuing unabated under the auspices of German mediator Ernst Urlau.

Article's topics: Hanukka With gooey, oily Hanukka doughnuts lurking everywhere, adults and children who don't want to gain weight during the eight-day festival of lights that begins Friday evening can take measures to minimize the caloric damage.

It should be emphasized that removal of the checkpoints and roadblocks entails a calculated risk.

The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped at dawn Wednesday the son of senior Hamas official in Israeli jails Jamal Abul Haija during an incursion into the town of Beit Qad east of Jenin.

Hamas has decided to postpone signing a Palestinian unity agreement with Fatah until after a prisoner exchange deal to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit is signed, according to Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Israel Radio cited the London-based paper's Tuesday report, adding that Hamas had informed Egypt that due to progress in negotiations, it wants to ...

Many start-up companies have made quiet internal investment rounds in the past few months.

In March 2006, Moti Elmoz, then a colonel, was commander of the IDF's Jordan Valley Brigade and oversaw the successful raid on a Palestinian prison in Jericho, during which the military captured Ahmed Sa'adat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and mastermind of the assassination of former tourism minister Rehavam ...

Hamas' decision to put its response to the Shalit deal on hold has temporarily suspended negotiations and dashed Israeli hopes for an agreement by the end of this week.

TEL AVIV, 26 November 2009 - The Israeli Defense Forces has announced that restrictions on the West Bank's population in the occupied Palestinian territory will be eased during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha between 26 November and 2 December.

A Palestinian security officer guards portraits of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his predecessor, the late Yasser Arafat, during a police graduation ceremony near Jenin on Sunday, Nov.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 1:38 pm Press Release: Public Committee Against Torture Following a Petition Filed by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Following a petition filed by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel to the High court of Justice, the State announced this week that it has begun building a new detention complex ...

Since President Barack Obama assumed leadership of the United States, intensive diplomatic efforts have been made to renew the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Thirty physicians, nurses and graduate nursing students from the West Bank visited Haifa's Rambam Medical Center this week for a day-long seminar on cancer treatment.

Part 3: Tensions rise between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

British writer and photographer Stuart Littlewood talks to Angie Tibbs about his experience of Israel's occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, and comments on how British and American collusion, under the auspices of the Jewish lobby, is helping to sustain the world's most lawless, brutal and unjust occupation regime.

I am formally announcing my candidacy to run for president of Palestine in the next election on the "quid pro quo" peace party.

The Antiquities Authority and the Israel Commission for UNESCO will hold a workshop on "Protecting Heritage Sites from Disaster" in Acre next week.