Israel News

This bustling center of Palestinian life is just a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, but for Israelis it might as well be on the other side of the world.

Hundreds of Israeli mourners gathered in the Mt. Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on Wednesday for the funeral of Baruch Mizrachi, the police intelligence officer who was killed while driving with his family to a Passover seder on Monday night near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.

Dozens of worshippers were hurt Wednesday morning in fierce clashes with Israeli forces who stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound via the Moroccan and Chain gates.

The suspected aggressor, 38-year-old Lasaad Tounsi, is believed to have caused minor injuries to Morris Bachiri, a Jewish merchant from El Hara El Kabira, on Monday by assaulting him with a sharp object, the French-language news website African Manager reported Tuesday.

A poll commissioned by the haredi weekly Mishpacha newspaper and published in its special Passover edition found that the secular Israeli public has a largely positive attitude towards members of the haredi community as individuals, although opinions towards communal haredi positions were less favorable.

The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday issued a first official condemnation of the murder of senior Israeli Police officer Baruch Mizrahi, who was shot on Monday evening near Hebron.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says Palestinian rioters hurled stones and firecrackers on Wednesday from atop the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.

Israel's leading charitable organizations and tens of thousands of volunteers nationwide rallied together to assist needy families for the holiday.

File - Palestinian men look at mobile phones displayed under the logo of the Al-Wataniya Palestine phone company at a shop in the West Bank city of Jenin after Israel permitted it to operate on October 14, 2009.

As Israel continues its unlawful siege of the Gaza Strip, the health situation for the Palestinians continues to be critical.

Yedioth Ahronoth survey gives Likud just nine seats in next elections, while any party created by ex-minister Moshe Kahlon is seen winning 10 seats.

The prime minister of the Hamas -ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday praised a shooting that killed an Israeli and wounded his wife and son as they drove through the West Bank the previous evening en route to a Passover Seder.

IDF security forces, police, Border Police scanning area near Hebron where one Israeli man was killed, 2 others wounded in shooting attack Monday on Passover eve; no arrests made yet.

The military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it fired mortar shells at Israeli military vehicles that entered Gaza early Monday.

You are invited to a lecture and exhibition by Palestinian photographer and filmmaker Mohammad Al-Azza on Wednesday 16th April, 7pm in the Mont Clare Hotel, 1-4 Lower Merrion Street, Dublin 2. Mohammad Al-Azza is a 24-year-old photographer and award winning filmmaker and the Director of the Media Unit in the Lajee Cultural Center, Aida Refugee ... (more)

Israel's U.N. ambassador on Monday denounced a U.N. agency head for tacitly comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany and has demanded her suspension.

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In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview, Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel talked about his party's warnings to leave the coalition government if Arab terrorists with Israeli citizenship are released.

Israel described as "unacceptable" on Monday remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggesting cautious openness to negotiating a nuclear deal that would keep Iran six to 12 months away from bomb-making capability.

This year, the holiday comes amid uncertainty over the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, with the sides facing an end-of-April deadline to reach a preliminary deal or agree to an extension of negotiations.