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Dr. Amin Jaafari is a revered surgeon in his Tel Aviv hospital, honored by his peers and seemingly embraced by his community.

Some people are Holocaust deniers, others are Palestine deniers. Almost the entire Israeli cabinet fall into the latter category.

A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of Israel," , a New York state paper, reported on Wednesday.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel will not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment.

GAZA: Hamas said on Wednesday its relations with financial backer Iran have suffered as a result of the Islamist group's support of rebels battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a long-time Iranian ally.

An adviser to the Palestinian president says Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement wants him to stick to long-standing demands for resuming talks with Israel.

Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to him in recent talks.

Israeli President Shimon Peres chats with former US President Bill Clinton during Peres' 90th birthday gala in Jerusalem, Tuesday June 18 2013.

Iran's President-elect Hassan Rohani said he would strive for transparency in his country's nuclear program but would not stop enriching uranium.

The Tamar gas platform, looming almost as tall as the Eiffel tower offshore Israel, is leading the country to energy independence and helping billionaire Isaac Tshuva repay the gusher of debt he took on to develop it.

An Erdogan aide says he is holding talks with Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal as well as the Gaza Strip's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh.

As birthday parties go, it has a stellar guest list: Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro, to name a few - and global diva Barbra Streisand to deliver her own version of Happy Birthday Mr President more than 50 years after Marilyn Monroe's ode to JFK.

Vandals daubed "Arabs out" graffiti and punctured tires in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday, targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence.

An expert for George Zimmerman discounts the methods of prosecution experts who claim screams captured on a 911 call belong to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and not the former neighborhood watch volunteer.

Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict.

"Israel has officially declared the death of the two-state solution," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday in response to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett's claim that the two-state solution had reached a "dead end."

The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday urged Lebanon's Hezbollah militia to withdraw its fighters from Syria and accused it of stoking sectarian tensions, levelling unprecedented public criticism against a former ally.

Entertainment star Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country - Jewish religious practices that separate men and women.

Repairing Iran's economy and engaging in more dialogue -- both at home and abroad -- will be the top priorities of Iran's presidential administration, centrist President-elect Hassan Rouhani said in his first news conference Monday.

America's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for a world of glamour in her new role - and she can't wait.