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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.

Suzan Hansen and Robin Buck will star in the Long Beach Opera's "The Death of Klinghoffer."

HEBRON HILLS, West Bank a?? Preparing his jeep for the short drive into the West Bank city of Hebron, where tensions between Palestinians and Israeli settlers often flare, Nabeel Sabbagh looked like every other Israeli Border Policeman serving at this hilltop base.

Israel expressed regret Tuesday over the killing of a Palestinian judge from Jordan, who was shot by Israeli soldiers at a border crossing, and promised Amman that it would carry out a joint investigation into his death.

Israel expressed its regret on Tuesday over the killing of a Jordanian judge, who was shot by Israeli soldiers at a border crossing, and promised Jordan to carry out a joint investigation into his death, Reuters reported.

Israel approved a change to electoral law on Tuesday that raises the percentage of votes needed for seats in parliament, an amendment that critics said targets Arab and ultra-Orthodox Jewish minorities.

Hamas military wing members take part in a ceremony to inaugurate a monument marking the anniversary of the death of a senior Hamas official Ibrahim Maqadama, killed in an Israeli air strike in 2003, in Gaza City , Monday, March 10, 2014.

Israel has voiced fears armed groups in Lebanon and Gaza would deploy exploding drones, in addition to their main rocket arsenals, against Tel Aviv in a future war, the chief of Israeli air defence said.

The Revolutionary Council of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party on Monday unanimously endorsed his rejection of demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, officials at the meeting told AFP .

Prime Minister David Cameron plans to make his first visit as British leader to Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.

David Cameron will hold talks with key players in the Middle East peace process when he visits Israel and the Palestinian territories this week.

A pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration near the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts spiraled out of control, pitting police against thousands of drunken and unruly revelers at the annual "Blarney... The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St.

Israeli guards shot and killed a Palestinian on Monday as he tried to grab a rifle from an Israeli soldier at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, the military said.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian on Monday at a crossing point between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said.

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Israel's military said Sunday that a cargo ship it intercepted in the Red Sea last week was carrying 40 rockets with a range of up to 160 kilometres.

BEIT SHEMESH: When this Israeli town goes to the polls on Tuesday, the vote may decide more than a bitter mayoral race.

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews is staging a mass prayer in New York City to protest Israel's proposal to draft strictly religious citizens into its army.

Activists say a group of some 50 Israeli youths have sent Israel's prime minister a petition refusing to enlist for compulsory military service to protest Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, the largest such group of objectors since 2001.

Fatah activists say troops from the rival Palestinian movement Hamas broke up a Fatah gathering in the Gaza Strip, beating participants.