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Two minutes after the interview had begun, Alan Hevesi opened a little drawer in his large wooden desk, hefted his feet onto it, and leaned back in his chair.

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attends the weekly cabinet meeting on February 15, 2009 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Head of the Har Bracha yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, responded with anger Monday to defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to cancel his school's accord with the IDF due to his support of insubordination in the army.

You don't have to spend long in northern Israel to detect the public support for Ehud Olmert's decision to go to war.

Posted by P. David Hornik on Dec 9th, 2009 and filed under FrontPage . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry It's happening yet again.

The Palestinians are now insisting on Israeli concessions which they had essentially given up during the government of former prime minister Ehud Olmert, Channel 10 reported Tuesday evening.

The European Union on Tuesday urged Israel to share Jerusalem with the Palestinians as part of a Middle East peace agreement and make the holy city the capital of two states.

The vocal demonstrations against an Israeli delegation to Australia led by Vice Premier Silvan Shalom were not at all reflective of the overwhelmingly positive reception the group has received in the country, Shalom told The Jerusalem Post from Australia on Monday.

Who would have thought that the son of Benzion Netanyahu would utter the words "two states for two peoples"? Who would have believed that Benjamin Netanyahu would get the settler minister Avigdor Lieberman to agree to a settlement freeze? Ever since Netanyahu replaced Ehud Olmert as prime minister, there has been a significant decrease in the ...

For decades, under Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, the Likud was the ideological and practical partner of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank.

The Swedes have also called for reopening Palestinian governmental institutions in the Israeli-controlled eastern section of the city, according to a draft of the proposal that was leaked to Israeli daily Ha'aretz. The newspaper said the Swedish suggestion implies the EU would recognize a Palestinian state if the Palestinians decided unilaterally ...

Labor chairman Ehud Barak claimed credit for last week's security cabinet decision to freeze West Bank construction in a speech to Labor's executive committee at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Sunday, and called for his party's rebel MKs to see the error in their ways.

Chairman of the National Union, Yaakov Katz, petitioned the High Court of Justice Sunday with the demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reveal the recommendations he received from a special committee on redemption of prisoners.

Articles 01:52 11/29/2009 There is a danger that Australia could become a safe haven for Israeli war criminals.

National Union MKs on Monday warned against releasing terrorists in order to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.

A'Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert trusted Turkey, but Netanyahu doesn't trust us.

The Corruption Perceptions Index published last week by Transparency International ranks Israel in a not very good position, with a score of 6.1, similar to its grade in previous years.

Former Israel politician and author Natan Sharansky called for a strong Jewish identity and universal human rights at a speech at Ida Noyes Monday.

Benjamin Netanyahu at the Mount of Olive overlooking the The Dome of the Rock in the Old city of Jerusalem in February 2009.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into allegations of bribery.