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Natan Gabbay takes a gulp of clear liquor and warms up on his shofar, the ram's horn trumpet that is sacred in Judaism.

With pessimism growing by the day over the future of Middle East peace talks, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Monday to try to break the stalemate.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has criticized Israel's insistence that the Palestinians publicly declare Israel to be a Jewish state, Al Arabiya reported.

The prevention of 14 Israeli tourists from disembarking from their Norwegian cruise ship in Tunisia was because they didn't have visas and had nothing to do with politics, Tunisia's new tourism minister said Friday.

Jordanian policemen guard the parliament near an Israeli flag painted on the street by the protesters in front of the parliament in Amman March 11, 2014.

For Terri Davis, who lives in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, the dozens of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip overnight signaled the return of a routine that had been almost forgotten in the past year and a half.

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Ahmed Zeitouniya, 32, an employee of the Culture Ministry, helps his wife Minatullah, 29, prepare food in the kitchen of their house in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip.

Avi Issacharoff, The Times of Israel's Middle East analyst, fills the same role for Walla, the leading portal in Israel.

RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat.

JERUSALEM a?? People in southern Israel who were hiding out in bomb shelters to get away from the heaviest Palestinian rocket fire since 2012 said Thursday they hope that the barrage does not signal anew war.

David Cameron is meeting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today on the second day of a trip to the Middle East designed to bolster efforts to rekindle the stalled peace process.

Rescue workers are using back hoes and a bulldozer to search for any victims still buried after an explosion demolished two Manhattan buildings.

Ed Miliband has drawn battle lines with the Tories over Europe by effectively ruling out a referendum on British membership - unless Brussels makes a grab for fresh powers.

A Ukrainian Jewish leader opposed to the Russian takeover of Crimea failed to drum up support this week from Israel, which is sitting out the crisis pitting its U.S. ally against Moscow.

Israeli lawmakers have voted to end the practice of exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi, from national service, a move that opens them up to military conscription for the first time in the country's 65-year history.

Militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 20 rockets Wednesday into southern Israel, sending civilians rushing into bomb shelters but causing no casualties in the largest barrage in months.

David Cameron has arrived in Israel on his first visit as Prime Minister, vowing to add his weight to a US-led effort to rekindle the Middle East peace process.

San Francisco firefighters prevented a five-alarm fire from spreading from a condominium construction site to nearby buildings on Tuesday.

Voters in a deeply divided Israeli city have returned an ultra-Orthodox mayor to his post after he narrowly defeated a secular challenger in a repeat vote held following fraud allegations.

Authorities say a federal switcheroo is to blame for last week's 5-mile-long traffic jam during a Malibu visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.