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Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

Syria's leader praised President Barack Obama's outreach for dialogue and invited him to visit Damascus in remarks released Friday just days after the United States said it plans to return its ambassador to Syria after a four year absence.

An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defense sources said on Friday, describing the unusual maneuver as a show of strategic reach in the face of Iran.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday responded to remarks made earlier by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Israel's construction in West Bank settlements jeopardized the two-state solution, and said that the world has blown the settlements issue entirely out of proportion.

Click to enlarge Breaking the siege on Gaza requires steadfastness, true, but political ingenuity as well.

OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

Museum drawing of City of David. By Dan Lieberman Jerusalem Three huge granite stones rest comfortably on the top of Midbar Sinai Street, in Givat Havatzim, Jerusalem's northernmost district.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin today called for the swift release of two Irish nationals currently detained in Israel following the June 30 seizure of a boat en route to Gaza with humanitarian aid.

Rome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza's militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago.

From his sixth-floor suite, Jerusalem's mayor Nir Barkat surely has one of the best views from an office anywhere on this planet.

The close relations between Israel and the United States are unbreakable, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, despite the recent emergence of notable tensions between the two allies over Israel's settlement policy.

The blockade of Gaza is causing severe humanitarian hardship and the situation is getting worse every day, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday.

Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back."He said to the man, 'Stop,'" Syeed recalled, "'I'll lose my job.'"Times have changed for the Islamic Society of North America and for Syeed, who leads the group's interfaith outreach.

Israeli archaeologists unveiled one of the largest and best preserved mosaics ever found in the country Wednesday, for only the second time since it was discovered more than a decade ago.

JENIN, Occupied West Bank: Israeli Arabs long banned from the Occupied West Bank have converged on its cities in recent weeks to buy anything from groceries to makeup, taking advantage of lower prices and boosting the Palestinian economy.

It seems that democracy is a matter of geography. By Uri Avnery Hundreds of thousands of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights had asked for the Spanish National Court to investigate war crimes allegations The National Court in Spain has concluded that Judge Fernando Andreu is not competent to investigate an Israeli bombing of Gaza on July 22, 2002.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged the Israeli prime minister to fire his foreign minister - a hard-liner whose party tried to force Israelis to take a loyalty oath, two senior Israeli officials said Tuesday.

A poll taken in the Palestinian territories has shown Hamas support is declining among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him.