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Relatives say Dr. Eyad Sarraj, a Gaza psychiatrist and prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner, has died after a long battle with leukemia.

Israeli authorities handed warrants to ten Palestinian families from the village of Bartaa al-Sharqiyya west of Jenin demanding that they evacuate their houses on Tuesday.

After three days of walking in the cold and snow, many of them on hunger strike, 150 African asylum seekers were forced onto buses and taken back to the new Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention center in protest against a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely.

An American family that is suing the Bank of China in a U.S. terrorism case accused Israel on Tuesday of caving in to Chinese pressure by blocking a key witness from testifying.

For decades, the religious Jews who bucked a rabbinic ban and visited a contested holy site in Jerusalem where the ancient Jewish temple once stood were seen by many as a fanatic fringe.

African illegal immigrants take part in a protest march on the highway near Lahav junction in southern Israel on their way to Jerusalem on December 16, 2013 after they fled a detention centre in the south where they were being held.

Prosecutors say a senior Navy criminal investigator downloaded more than 100 confidential files for an Asian defense contractor at the center of a multimillion-dollar fraud investigation.

A rare meeting took place on Sunday between a member of the Saudi royal family and Israeli officials, reports NRG/Maariv .

The UN Security Council on Monday issued a statement condemning the killing of an Israeli soldier near the Lebanese border and urging both countries to exercise restraint.

The American Studies Association on Monday endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities, the largest group of U.S. scholars to do so.

Harvard University says four buildings on its campus outside Boston are being evacuated due to unconfirmed reports of explosives.

European Union foreign ministers on Monday pledged "unprecedented" amounts of political, financial and security support for Israel and the Palestinians if they come to a peace agreement.

The Gaza Strip received its first shipment of industrial fuel in 45 days on Sunday, bringing much-needed relief to the coastal territory after a winter storm dumped rare snow across the region.

More than 100 Israeli leaders gathered with Jewish-American counterparts in Jerusalem last month with a daunting mission: to save Jewish life in North America.

In this Aug. 14, 2012 file photo, Jewish immigrants from U.S. wave an Israeli flag as they arrive at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Despite heavy lobbying from Israel to kill the nuclear deal with Iran by imposing stronger sanctions, the U.S. Congress appears determined to let the treaty play out.

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An Israeli government committee gave initial approval on Sunday to a proposed law that would impose a 45 percent tax on overseas donations made to non-profit groups critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

The former Pink Floyd frontman had said that the Israeli rabbinate were "bizarre" and accused them of believing that Palestinians and other Arabs in the Middle East were "sub-human", the Guardian reported.

Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian teenager in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, injuring him moderately.