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An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man prays during a demonstration to support Ultra-Orthodox Jews who were detained for refusing to report to a military recruitment center in front of the Israeli military prison 6 near Haifa, Israel, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013.

Israeli President Shimon Peres announced his support for same-sex marriage during a trip to Mexico, the Israeli newspaper Ynet News reports.

A new study says that violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder cautions than cable shows that are equal in gore.

US Ambassador to Israel contradicts PM's remarks that a nuclear Iran would harm any future agreement with the Palestinians; "There is no connection between these two issues," Shapiro says in interview with Army Radio.

Groups say World Bank's plan to build pipeline from Red Sea will destroy the Dead Sea, as water levels decline at rapid rate.

A visit to Israel by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Sunday was marred by a dispute over a new security scanner on the Gaza border, an Israeli official said.

An American singer with no Arab heritage nearly took the top prize in the "Arabs Got Talent" television show this weekend, breaking into the top three alongside a Palestinian artist and a Syrian dance troupe.

Palestinians mourned Nelson Mandela as their most loyal champion, lighting candles in special prayer services Sunday and holding his picture like a shield in confrontations with Israeli troops.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main coalition partner publicly prodded him on Sunday to show "historic courage" and reach a peace deal with the Palestinians even at the risk of his government's collapse.

The 17 year-old son of Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox Priest who supports the State of Israel as well as IDF recruitment of non-Jewish Israelis, was violently attacked in Nazareth Friday night.

The last walk that Ronald Westbrook took started around 1 a.m. He slipped unnoticed from his North Georgia home with his two dogs.

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy died of a gunshot wound in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, hospital officials said, and his father and two friends blamed Israeli troops guarding a nearby settlement for the shooting.

Palestinian doctors attempt to save the life of a Palestinian boy Wajeeh Ramahi, 15, at a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.

President Obama defended nuclear diplomacy with Iran on Saturday, saying it is the best chance to deprive Tehran of the means to make nuclear weapons.

The study, released on Thursday, was conducted by the consulting firm Stax and supported by Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston.

Israeli soldiers from the paratroopers brigade take part in a drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria September 9, 2013.

Israeli forces fired tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades at Palestinian worshipers on Friday during clashes in the al-Aqsa compound.

1967 - Israel submits to the United Nations a five-year plan to solve the Arab refugee problem conditioned on a general peace settlement between Israel and the Arab states.

As I introduced myself, feeling the strength in his large hand, he smiled and said, "Shalom!" I was dumbstruck by the powerful presence of Nelson Mandela, the legendary leader of the country in which I had grown up, the man credited with ending the brutal apartheid regime.

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