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The United States believes there is no need for the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a peace agreement, State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Saturday.

Israeli occupation forces on Saturday fired stun grenades and tear gas at dozens of protesters marking International Women's Day near a West Bank checkpoint, injuring at least 11 women, local media reported.

The KLOS C sailed into the southern Eilat port Saturday, accompanied by Israeli naval vessels and forces that seized it days earlier in the Red Sea.

Winter has dragged on in much of the country, but here's a sign spring is close at hand: Daylight saving time arrives this weekend.

Egypt's decision last week to ban the Hamas movement could lead to a new attack on Gaza by Israel's military, a Hamas official said Friday.

Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material, he was told to part with one or the other, due to unspecified security concerns.

The U.S. Navy had secret orders this week to be "prepared to act" to stop a cargo ship carrying Iranian arms destined for Gaza, CNN has learned.

Inside Israel's Bedouin communities, the practice of killing women who stain the family's "honor" is experiencing a dark revival.

The result of Thursday's referendum at the NUI Galway Students Union make it the first student body in Ireland to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, campaign against Israel, according to the local news site Galwaybayfm.ie.

A new course is being plotted for a lengthy natural gas line here after archaeologists unearthed a 2,300-year old village.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said American Jewish organizations are selling out on Israel in favor of the Obama administration.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Aqaba, Jordan, on Friday in an unscheduled visit to discuss Middle East peace with Jordan's King Abdullah, Reuters reported.

Even as the Palestinian Authority remains in the ongoing peace talks with Israel, the entity has continued to glorify terrorist murderers.

Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians overnight Wednesday, locals and Israel's army said.

Israeli police officers assaulted a Palestinian man from Jerusalem on Thursday morning after he tried to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, witnesses said.

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview broadcast on al-Manar television on Thursday, May 30, 2013.

After years of futility in his first six NHL seasons with the New York Islanders and Florida Panthers, the star goaltender found a home - and the playoffs - in Vancouver.

More than 40 women on their way to Gaza as part of a delegation for World Women's Day are staging a sit-in inside the Cairo International Airport after being refused entry into the country since Tuesday, airport officials in Egypt and activists said Thursday.

It concludes Thursday with a stop somewhat closer to home. Before leaving the state, Netanyahu is scheduled to visit the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

THE ASSAULT on Israel's legitimacy comes from many directions and on a variety of fronts, especially in the form of economic and academic boycotts.