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The State on Sunday responded to a petition filed with the High Court of Justice by the Almagor Terror Victims Association and three bereaved fathers against the impending prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas .

Defense Minister Ehud Barak asked ministry officials to recruit scores of inspectors to ensure a 10-month settlement freeze is upheld.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak extended the country's greetings to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people, in conjunction with the country's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestine People Monday.

Only a few weeks after US-Iran diplomacy began in earnest, it seems to be heading towards a premature ending.

Body of man, 50-years-old, was found early on Monday morning in a taxi near Kibbutz Kfar Hahoresh in the Northern Galilee.

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- The Al Qaida-aligned network has renewed missile fire toward Israel.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is seen in a video released last month by Hamas. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Number is first official estimate of how many Palestinians could be freed in deal for soldier Cpl.

The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock.A It is one thing to have allowed a man on corruption charges as well as facing war crimes indictments into Australia at all; it is another thing that he was listed as a distinguished ...

The recipe for peace between Israel and the Palestinians includes negotiations, honesty, immediate talks on the core issues, and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state a ' this is the vision presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in a special interview with Ynet.

It only took them three years to figure it out, of course. The Gray Lady's ire focuses on the disaster Obama has made of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which is usually a rolling disaster anyway.

Several hundred Israelis protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against a campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews to shutter all businesses in the city on the sabbath.

Some people believe that it can serve as a kind of compromise between the a oeTwo-State Solutiona , now a world-wide consensus, and the a oeOne-State Solutiona that is popular in some radical circles Uri Avnery THESE DAYS mark the 5th anniversary of the murder of Yasser Arafat, and bring back to me our last conversation in his Ramallah compound, a ...

Some 2mn Muslims headed to Muzdalifa yesterday after spending the day at the plain of Arafat to prepare to cast stones at the devil in the next part of the annual Haj pilgrimage.

"I'll continue to encourage the development of tourist sites in the West Bank, such as the Herodion, Qasr el-Yahud near Ma'aleh Adumim and tourist sites in Ariel," Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov said Saturday, just days after cabinet voted to temporarily halt construction in the disputed region.

The 1,144 steps to a happy marriage: a lucky bride-and-groom-to-be couple win a free wedding after coming first in a skyscraper race in Israel .

Hinting at US administration, culture and sports minister from Likud says she 'does not envy' Netanyahu for being dragged through 'series of torments.' PM's Office: Comments do not reflect Netanyahu's position Ilana Curiel 11.26.09, 22:25 / Israel News "I do not envy the prime minister.

The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas.

The birth rate among Israel's Muslim Arab minority has fallen by a quarter since 2000, official figures showed yesterday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is stepping squarely into Middle East politics, hosting the leaders of Iran and the Palestinians while trading barbs with Israel's president.

Israeli woman, teenager sustain light injuries after being stabbed by terrorist near a 'Paz' gas station in West Bank town of Kiryat Arba.

A political leader's decision not to seek re-election usually triggers fervent discussion about potential heirs.

Palestinians has no plans to scrap talks on prisoners swap with Israel and hope for their completion in the nearest future, soon after the celebrations of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, Festival of Sacrifice, one of Hamas leaders said.

In the days leading up to Eid al-Adha, Zaid Khadar would usually be buying new clothes for his children and stocking up on traditional foods to celebrate one of the most important dates on the Muslim calendar.

It seems possible that Israel and Hamas will agree on a prisoner swap in the near future.

Iranian staged a peaceful protest in Mecca without incident on Thursday. Ignoring Saudi warnings against political activity, the Iranians chanted for Muslim unity and against the "enemies" of the faith in their camp at Arafat outside of the holy city.

Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union Party holds a certificate that honors Israeli soldiers who refused to evacuate the Jewish settlement of Homesh in the West Bank.

Top Israeli diplomats have made a rare visit to the Persian Gulf state of Oman this week to discuss Middle East peace efforts, said a senior Omani official Wednesday.

On the eve of the 26/11 attacks anniversary, Israel on Wednesday said its fast-rising bilateral trade and tourism ties with India proved that terrorism does not defeat or deter either country.

At Gaza Zoo, The Wild Things Return by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro November 24, 2009 Almost a year after Israel's offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, the coastal enclave is still struggling to recover.

With no Israeli-Palestinian negotiations underway, no agreed terms of reference for such talks, and Israel's refusal to freeze settlements posing a key challenge, a senior United Nations official Tuesday called for "immediate actions on the ground" to prevent Middle East peace efforts from unravelling.

In this Feb 26 file photo, Israeli soldiers wear gas mask as they take part in a home front command army drill simulating a chemical missile attack at an army base near Tel Aviv.

An apprentice spy for Israel's once vaunted Mossad overseas intelligence service was arrested by rank and file police during an abortive training exercise in the country's metropolis of Tel Aviv.

Germany on Monday criticized Israeli plans to expand settlements in the West Bank, in unusually explicit terms a week before the two countries' leaders meet in Berlin.

A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.

The civilian helicopter crashed about 300 yards from the seaside city of Netanya on Tuesday afternoon, killing all four people aboard, including the pilot.

Presdident Barack Obama's meeting today at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought little of substance and was merely an opportunity for the world press to snap photos of the three leaders.

The world must engage, not isolate Iran in the push for Middle East peace and Iranian leaders should negotiate with Western nations for a "just and balanced" solution to concerns over its nuclear program, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday.

As Sarah Palin embarked on a tour for her just published book "Going Rogue," she became the latest prospective Republican presidential candidate to criticize the Obama administration's policy on Israel.

An Israeli minister said on Friday he was to travel to Turkey, in the first such visit since Israel's military offensive in Gaza at the turn of the year strained ties with Turkey.

There are an increasing number of media reports of the imminent release of Gilad Shalit as part of a prisoner-for-terrorists exchange deal.

A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Israeli authorities are being urged to do more to protect Bedouin villagers in the West Bank after a series of attacks by Israeli settlers.

As opinions are being voiced in Jerusalem that the Jordan Valley will remain under Israeli control even after a Palestinian state is formed, Palestinian Prime Minsiter Salam Fayyad said Sunday that Jordan will be the eastern border of the state that will be established.

Lebanese General Jean Kahwaj has ordered his troops on high alert, cautioning soldiers on the border region to prepare for an attack from Israel, according to published reports.

A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls on Sunday took an important step toward sainthood.

Israel will anger all Muslims if it does not resolve Jerusalem's disputed status, Egypt's president warned his Israeli counterpart on Sunday.

Work on a football stadium being built in the West Bank, and financed by the international football federation FIFA, has been stopped.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important revolutionary fighter who supported the cause of the Palestinians.

Iran is to begin large-scale air defence war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from possible attack.

Hamas has come to an agreement with armed groups in the Gaza Strip not to fire rockets at Israel, the group's interior minister, Fathi Hamad, told reports on Saturday.

Palestinian sources said Israel arrested five senior officials from the Palestinian General Intelligence Service in an overnight raid on Friday, Israel Radio reported.

The ancient hymns brought tears to the eyes of Solomon Ayeli, as well as memories of his native Ethiopia which he left two decades ago for Israel - a country he loves but where he often feels rejected.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.

Bethlehem, WEST BANK // A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organisation, risks further damaging the prospects for talks between Israel and the Palestinians, US officials have warned.

BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel's prime minister, came under pressure this week when news leaked of a new plan to build 900 homes in the occupied Jerusalem suburb of Gilo.

Palestinians rush a Hamas security officer into a hospital after he was injured in an Israeli air strike in Rafah at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip Fearing loss of life and money, Palestinians are abandoning tunnels that supply the blockaded Gaza Strip with everything from food to fridges to weapons.

Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal was Wednesday asked by the Israeli government to help in tracing its nationals who have gone missing in the hill state, an official statement said.

Adaya Mor said celebrating Thanksgiving with other Israeli soldiers who had left behind their families in America provided a needed boost.

Three years ago I was invited, along with 30 other guests - mainly politicians and journalists - to a private dinner party given by one of Britain's richest Jews at a Jerusalem hotel.

George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem.

Peace talks with Israel have failed and the Palestinians must launch popular and diplomatic campaigns to achieve statehood, Marwan Barghouti said in an interview from his prison cell.

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The United Nations detained an outspoken critic and booted her from its New York headquarters in what the woman, a human rights watchdog, is calling an effort to silence her opposition to the world body.

Jerusalem's real estate enterprise continues to make headlines- A day after the controversial government decision to approve the construction of 900 housing units in the neighborhood of Gilo, some 100 residents of the east Jerusalem Nof Zion neighborhood gathered Wednesday for a cornerstone ceremony in honor of the neighborhood's second stage, ...

Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do _ he got his first haircut.

Jerusalem police arrested a woman praying at the Western Wall for wearing a tallit.

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

The hypocrisy of the western leaders became shamefully apparent during their celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.

Humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has increased by close to 900 percent in 2009 compared to the previous year, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, Col.

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Mahmoud Abbas' term as Palestinian president will be extended by the supreme body of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it meets in December, senior PLO officials said on Tuesday.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle Tuesday signed a bilateral trade agreement between Israel and Wisconsin on research and development with a strong focus on water technology.

An architectural image of Rawabi, the first planned Palestinian town, which developers hope to start building soon.

Israeli photos depicting shipping documents pointing to an alleged Iranian arms delivery to Hezbollah are forgeries, Iranian media claims.

On the afternoon of November 3, 2009, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor ofA House Resolution 867 , an AIPAC-backed bill that urges both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to "oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has offered to host a Middle East peace conference in Paris in talks with Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian leaders last week, an Israeli daily reported on Sunday.

A West Bank physics student was arrested late Saturday night for allegedly defrauding Bank Leumi customers and other using an online phishing scam.

An Israeli judge has granted protection from the justice system to an Arab teenager who threw stones at a police car during a protest last month.

This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched at Sderot.

Former President Bill Clinton visited the Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday.

JERUSALEM: Intel said it has no plans to close a factory in Jerusalem on Saturdays, despite violent protests by ultra-Orthodox Jews who accuse the chip maker of desecrating the Jewish Sabbath.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government is ready to renew peace talks with Syria without preconditions and preferably at a direct manner.

Letter-writer Steve Gilliland wrote a very impassioned summary of his personal feelings about the Israeli safety wall [" Palestinian Wall must fall, " Local, Nov.

Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Israel 's Army Radio station on Sunday that the Palestinians plan on asking the U.N. Security Council to recognize their independence.

Residents of the Israeli town of Shfaram cut ingredients yesterday as they seek to make the world's largest tabbouleh salad, hoping to bring reconciliation after violent Christian-Druze clashes Residents of the Israeli town of Shfaram were seeking yesterday to make the world's largest tabbouleh salad, hoping to bring reconciliation after violent ...

In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.

JERUSALEM: More than half of Israelis would support peace talks with the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas if it recognised Israel, a poll published yesterday said.

More than a thousand devout Jews noisly protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on the Jewish day of rest.

Palestinian residents of Hebron displayed on Friday what they claimed was the world's largest dress, which the West Bank city's governor dedicated to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday the time was ripe for the Philippines to finally seal a peace deal with the country's largest Muslim separatist group and end a 30-year insurgency.

Wafa Sarhan was devastated that her two sons would never hear her voice again after an Israeli strike on Gaza robbed them of their hearing.

"Come, President, and light the light of peace in the Middle East," Peres told Lula during a joint press conference here Wednesday after a closed-door meeting.

Iran's closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side.

This is one big surprise. Moments of serendipity are some of the best quotes of science: "Hmmm, that's odd". As an amateur radio operator myself, I find this study fascinating.

Nov 11 - Palestinians observe the 5th anniversary of former President Yasser Arafat's death, and call for Israel to halt settlement activity.

Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began.

A female Palestinian student who says she was handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army in the middle of the night late last month asked Israel's supreme court Thursday to let her return to her studies in the West Bank.

A Jewish-American extremist has been charged with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others with explosive devices and poison.

Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.

Hezbollah's leader on Wednesday accused President Barack Obama of absolute bias in favor of Israel and disregard for the dignity of Arabs and Muslims.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians were rallying Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of their iconic leader Yasser Arafat.

Lt. Gov. John Cherry is heading to the Mideast to lure businesses with Michigan's abundant water.

Fatah officials in the West Bank have accused Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad of quietly staging a "bloodless coup" against PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Israel's president called Tuesday on Brazil, where Iran's president will be welcomed in less than two weeks, to raise its voice against the "terror" he accused Tehran of supporting.

The French government has expressed fears that Israel no longer appears to want to pursue peace negotiations in the Middle East.

Israeli soldiers unload hundreds of tons of arms, seized at dawn on a ship bound for Syria and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast, at the port of Ashdod on November 4, 2009 in Israel.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:28 am Press Release: United Nations New York, Nov 10 2009 12:10PM Terming Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he will not run for re-election "a loud and clear wake-up call," a senior United Nations official today called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian ...

Israel's army chief says Hezbollah guerrillas now possess tens of thousands of rockets, some capable of reaching the country's major cities.

Thousands of Gaza Palestinians left homeless by an Israeli invasion face a cold and rainy winter unless Israel allows building supplies in, a senior U.N. official said Monday.

Dueling visits to Brazil by the presidents of Israel and Iran are showing the South American powerhouse's growing role in Mideast diplomacy.

Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor is in Israel for talks with senior Israeli officials amid Israeli efforts to bolster military ties and export military hardware, local daily The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.

The possible collapse of the Palestinian Authority , Israel's negotiating partner, loomed Monday, as several aides to its president, Mahmoud Abbas , said that he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.

Fort Hood families speak out As investigators try to determine the motive behind the massacre, victims' families are speaking out.

BERLIN: The head of a UN investigation that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, Richard Goldstone, has said he is disappointed there has been such a 'lukewarm' reaction to his findings in the United States.

JERUSALEM: A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan yesterday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday denied that Omar Hassan al-Bashir was responsible for genocide in Darfur and said he would be more comfortable talking to the indicted Sudanese president than to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the state-run news agency Anatolian reported.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank: Supporters of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas turned out in the West Bank on Sunday to urge him to run again for the presidency following his announcement that he did not want a second term in the job.

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has headed Washington to address Jews and hoping to meet President Barack Obama amid a delicate time in US efforts to restart Middle East peace talks.

Beirut: Hezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said that he will transmit the Goldstone report to the UN Security Council at the request of the General Assembly.

The Goa Police said Saturday that it was 'natural' for officers from Israel's Mumbai consulate to inspect the North Goa coast as it was frequented by Israeli tourists.

Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses a mass rally marking the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on Saturday Nov.

Guards ejected an accredited Canadian commentator from the United Nations after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor.

France's foreign minister says Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' decision not to run for re-election is a "threat to peace" in the Middle East.

Prosecutors have dismissed a complaint filed by a group of Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli leaders of war crimes over its deadly incursion into Gaza last year.

A cousin of the man suspected of shooting fellow soldiers at a Texas military base says he had little contact with his Palestinian relatives in the West Bank but had told family there that he suffered discrimination in the U.S. Army because he is a Muslim.

Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants' chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.

On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive, nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from a small Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out of high school, against his parents' wishes.

Nov. 4 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the seizure of an alleged arms shipment to Hezbollah proves Israel's enemies are guilty of war crimes.

The U.N. General Assembly is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza.

The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence, Friday, Sept.

Described by Gerald Jacobs in the London Telegraph as "an important document, which should be read by everyone worried about the Middle East," Rachel Shabi's "You Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands" is an impassioned argument against the neglect of the country's Middle Eastern identity, evidenced by the ...

Intense diplomatic efforts aimed at resurrecting peace talks notwithstanding, the issue currently transfixing Israelis is how to come to grips with a series of high-profile, deeply violent crimes committed by immigrants.

In the past week, the arrests of two emigres accused of multiple murders have pressed Israelis to rethink national priorities and relatively lax immigration laws.

In both cases, the alleged perpetrators had previous records in their countries of origin - Russia and the United States - one of them the subject of an open extradition request that Israel never fulfilled.

The Israeli military display hundreds of tonnes of arms seized at dawn on a ship bound for Syria and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast, at the port of Ashdod on Nov.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.

Israel's navy has seized a cargo ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of weapons which it says was destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Around 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the three-week war, which saw rocket strikes on a UN school.

Six months after acquiring malware detection company Avinti, security vendor M86 Security has gone shopping again, this time acquiring Finjan, which sells Web gateway appliances and software.

Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired an Iranian rocket able to reach Israel's largest urban center, the country's military intelligence chief said Tuesday.

A Palestinian woman gestures as she sits in front of the disputed house in east Jerusalem.

Nov 3 - Israeli companies are making water thrift easier, with a drone that reads water meters and a turbine that generates electricity from inside pipes.

ABC Radio has reported that a group in Israel is fighting for money which was put into Jewish banks before the Holocaust.

AFP, Damascus US President Barack Obama's administration has replaced the orders of his predecessor's era with "dialogue" but there is still room for an improvement in relations, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said.

In a post on her blog, the Rosemary's Baby star reveals there are over 800 tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt - and one collapsed on Sunday as aid workers were bringing in supplies.

An American-born Israeli settler described by authorities as "unstable" has confessed to a multitude of bombings and hate crimes, including some he did not commit.

Israel has released six Hamas Cabinet ministers jailed after Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier in Gaza in 2006.

The Health Ministry's much-heralded press conference to announce the launch of the campaign to vaccinate the public against the H1N1 virus has been delayed for over a week because busy Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - who pressed for the purchase of enough vaccine for everyone in the country even though many are expected to refuse the shot - ...

Al-Shabab militia patrol a market in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Al-Shabab accuses Israel of "starting to destroy" the Al Aqsa mosque "We are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers," Al-Shabab commander says It is not clear whether Al-Shabab has the capacity to carry out its threats against Israel Somalia has been mired ...

A bipartisan delegation of Minnesota legislators is headed to Israel and the West Bank this week on a pay-their-own-way, fact-finding trip.

SEVERAL dozen Israelis have protested against the arrival in the country of a controversial Swedish journalist who accused Israel of stealing organs from dead Palestinians.

Israeli authorities have arrested a Jewish-American extremist suspected of carrying out a series of high-profile hate crimes against Arabs, peace activists and a breakaway Jewish sect.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he would attempt to resolve the issue of the soon-to-be deported foreign workers' children with "an inclusive plan that will solve the problem of foreign workers in Israel". Netanyahu was replying to Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat, who asserted during a meeting of Likud ministers before ...

The government should force illegal aliens out of the country, as an influx of foreigners will bring drugs and disease into Israel, Interior Minister Eli Yishai told Channel 2 Saturday evening.