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Coalition Chairman Knesset Member Zeev Elkin harshly criticized Raanana's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz for linking between the Ushrenko family murder and the immigration of non-Jews. "I regret Rabbi Peretz's remarks," said Elkin.

The election was two days away, and pollsters were calling it a deadlock between two candidates clearly representing the nation's left and right wings.

The state should combat obesity among the young by better monitoring of the food served in schools, community centers and youth clubs and banning vending machines in schools that offer sweets and carbonated drinks, according to a bill proposed by Likud MK Danny Danon.

Since taking the helm of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky has made stopping assimilation of Diaspora Jews a focus of his office, sometimes breaking with the line set by his predecessor Zeev Bielski.

A year ago, I wrote a post for Comment is Free expressing my hopes and dreams for an Obama presidency .A Most of my comments revolved around the then upcoming Israeli elections.A The editors asked the same authors to follow up a year later with an appraisal of Obama's first year in office.A What follows are excerpts of my post from a year ago ...

If Israel continues business as usual, it will double its emissions by 2030 from 71 million tons of carbon dioxide to 142, according to an analysis prepared by the international consulting company McKinsey & Company and presented to Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

As Israel struggled to grasp the motive for the brutal murder of six members of the Oshrenko family, including two young children, four MKs from the coalition and the opposition called Monday for the establishment of a death penalty for the murder of children under the age of 13.

Photograph: Dan Balilty-Pool/Getty Images Hillary Clinton , the US secretary of state, sought to deflect the anger and disappointment of pro-western Arab states today after backing Israel 's position that it did not need to freeze settlement activity as a prelude to resuming peace talks with the Palestinians.

Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon confirmed on Saturday that Israel was operating intelligence-gathering networks within Lebanon.

A private member's bill proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev that would have declared Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish people - not just the State of Israel - was withdrawn because of divisions within the Knesset's Likud-led coalition.

The questions they asked were suspiciously provocative. "What would you do if you discovered that one of your family members was going out with an Arab?" the interviewers asked a lawmaker with Israel's ruling, conservative Likud Party.

The cabinet approved on Sunday a proposal to extend the financial aid granted to former members of the South Lebanon Army who currently reside in Israel by one year.

The coalition is expected to back a bill extending maternity leave to six months.

The chronicles of stupidity are as follows: In the first decade after the Six-Day War, Israel decided not to decide.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has pledged that Israel will ensure the Goldstone report is vetoed at the United Nations General Assembly.

After nearly an entire week during which coalition and opposition MKs unified against the Goldstone Commission Report, cracks began to show on Sunday as lawmakers began sparring over how best to react.

Joint Appeal for Peace Ketubah, Ancona, Italy Dan Meridor, Likud's compassionate conservative I watched Dan Meridor tonight on Charlie Rose and it was quite instructive.A Meridor is the smooth, compassionate conservative face of the Israeli right.A A Unlike Bibi or Avigdor or even Ariel, Meridor seems a decent, reasonable person, someone with whom ...

Akunis: 'After we finish with Channel 10, we will deal with the IBA' "There will be no lightning legislation, it is possible the discussions will go on for a few months until the law reaches the [Knesset] plenum," said the chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, Ofir Akunis .

"We are facing very large challenges. The first is renewing peace talks; they should be renewed without any preconditions," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Likud faction meeting on Monday.

Moshe Feiglin, head of the Jewish Leadership faction in the Likud party, has called in a letter to Defense Minister Ehud Barak not to negotiate his release should he ever be kidnapped by Arabs.