Israel News

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.

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.