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Israel is prepared to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel's air force chief said on Wednesday.

Lord our God, we stood before You just a week ago to receive the Ten Statements of Your Torah.

Israel has restored the fishing zone off the coast of Gaza to six nautical miles, after reducing it to three in March after terrorists fired rockets into the Jewish state, the army said on Tuesday.

Egyptian army and police forces stepped up roadblocks in north Sinai in a hunt for militant Islamists who kidnapped seven security officers last week, a security source said on Tuesday.

Our articles examine the physical and emotional implications, the modifications of laws regulating this practice, and the cultural changes and developments that are raising awareness in leaps and bounds.

Israel's coalition government presented a divided front on Palestinian statehood on Tuesday as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared a new mission to revive long-defunct peace talks.

Shin Bet nabs two Hamas, Islamic Jihad cells plotting to kill Israeli, demand release of prisoners in exchange for body.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said gunfire from Syria had hit an Israeli patrol, damaging a vehicle and prompting its troops to fire back.

When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats what she told a TV reporter minutes after her conviction: She would rather be executed than... When Jodi Arias addresses the jury in her murder trial one more time, the big question will be whether she pleads for mercy or repeats ... (more)

The US State Department said on Monday that the Israeli government's respect for freedom of religion has remained consistent through 2012, but that it has engaged in "detailed discussions" with Israeli officials over rights concerns that have persisted for multiple years.

Now a new disclosure about his soaring spending on housekeeping, furniture, clothing and other expenses is increasing pressure on him in a country whose leaders once were known for washing their own dishes and taking out the garbage.

Fundamentally Freund: One Israeli I know who defines himself as secular told me that he had to work long and hard to convince his fiance to get married by a rabbi here in Israel.

The revelations in the al-Dura case will discourage the foreign press from forging stories about Israel in the future, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor.

Qatar's emir, who has thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing.

Palestinians chant slogans during a demonstration to mark the Nakba or the "Day of Catastrophe", at Al-Aqsa mosque following Friday prayers outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City.

Shaiel and Charlie Yitzhak both work hard - he as an English teacher, she as a physical therapist working with wounded Israeli soldiers.

Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to the Middle East this week to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.

Robbers enter bank on Jabotinsky Street in the southern city and fires shots; at least four more injured, including robber that shot himself after barricading himself inside the bank with hostage.