The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy...

Israeli military prosecutors indicted two Israeli soldiers Thursday for allegedly ordering a Palestinian child to open bags suspected of containing explosives, during Israel's Gaza Strip offensive last year, a military statement...

Netanyahu Expresses 'Regret' About Timing of Housing Plan The Israeli military says it has charged two of its soldiers with misconduct after they forced a Palestinian boy to check for unexploded...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his alarm at Israeli plans to expand its settlements in East Jerusalem, stressing that he shares the deep frustrations of Palestinian leaders and of the...

The Palestinian Authority will not begin indirect talks with Israel unless construction in the settlements, including in East Jerusalem, is completely frozen, PA President Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab...

Biden appears to be trying to calm a diplomatic row that erupted during his visit over Israeli settlement plans for disputed east Jerusalem. The vice president told the audience at Tel Aviv...

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public apology to the visiting US vice president yesterday, hoping to defuse a row over settlements that prompted a Palestinian boycott of...

GAZA STRIP: The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Islamic Hamas movement, on Sunday marked 1,000 days of the tight Israeli blockade imposed on the narrow impoverished enclave, where...

Paris: Western nations yesterday slammed Israeli plans to build new settlement homes in east Jerusalem, calling them illegal and ill-timed amid efforts to revive stalled peace...

by Dave Bender, Geng Xuepeng, Deng Yushan U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Israel's decision on construction of 1,600 Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem of "undermining...

Israel has been expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land for decade, and it is now emerging just how far-reaching this policy is. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the...

Friday, March 12, 2010 TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public apology to the visiting US vice president on Thursday in a bid to defuse a row over settlements which...

Tel Aviv, March 12 : Israeli military prosecutors indicted two Israeli soldiers Thursday for allegedly ordering a Palestinian child to open bags suspected of containing explosives, during Israel's...

"Our relationship with the Americans is above all else. It is an alliance that has survived complicated periods, and I had no intention of harming those ties, or to challenge the American...

The apology offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai recalls the joke about the servant who pinched the king's bottom. En route to the gallows, the servant...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that despite the crisis with the United States over the plan for new housing in East Jerusalem and the protests by the Palestinian Authority and Arab world,...

Gaza - Israeli warplanes early Friday struck two targets in southern Gaza Strip causing severe damage but no reported injuries, Islamic Hamas movement security sources and witnesses said. The sources...

The east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ramat is seen from a distance on Wednesday. Canada voiced muted criticism Thursday over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in...

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military said Thursday it indicted two soldiers who forced a Palestinian boy to open bags suspected of being booby-trapped with explosives during last year's military...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza is not helping its security or weakening Hamas' hold on the...

The airstrikes hit two targets in the southern Gaza Strip - a metal workshop and a smuggling tunnel - wounding several people, witnesses and the army said.The army said the strikes were in response...

Israel's plans to build homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem are "unacceptable," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a phone conversation with the Arab League secretary general. ...

Weekly Commentary: The Illusion of Divided Jerusalem Solutions Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 12 March 2010 How did the philosopher get out of the pit? He assumed a ladder and climbed out. And that's...

More than three years after the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a complete halt to fighting between Israel and the Lebanese group Hizbollah, the situation in the region remains...

The Defense Ministry plans to launch “Stage 3” of its cabinet-sanctioned crackdown on new construction in West Bank settlements next week, including a major police roundup of those who violate...

Soon after US Vice President Joe Biden left for Jordan on Thursday, senior Israeli officials said they anticipate the proximity talks with the Palestinians will begin soon, because Biden made clear...

The timing of the Defense Ministry’s decision to begin Stage 3 of the freeze on settlement construction next week is part of the “Biden effect,” or in simpler terms, an effort by Prime Minister...

US Vice President Joe Biden, who has a history of embarrassing verbal gaffes, made another one on Thursday when he inadvertently and indirectly referred to west Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust...

Senior diplomatic officials warmly welcomed US Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at Tel Aviv University on Thursday, saying the friendly, supportive discourse at the end of his turbulent three-day...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cannot punish Interior Minister Eli Yishai for marring the visit of US Vice President Joe Biden because of the Shas leader’s vast political power, a source close...

Workers’ rights organization Kav LaOved released testimonies on Thursday from three female foreign workers who claim to have been sexually abused by family members of their employers. None of the...

Efrat Local Council head Oded Revivi woke up at 4:45 a.m. on Thursday, when his cellphone, beeper and home phone all rang at once.When he picked up the phone, a security guard told him that a massive...

DUBAI: The Palestinians have refused to hold indirect talks with the Israelis, unless Tel Aviv annuls its decision to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem. “We want to hear from [United...

Compact cameras are still considered the most popular for a simple reason: their simplicity. Compact cameras can automatically adapt their settings to present conditions, offer a variety of...

Fortunes at Makhteshim Agan, the world's seventh largest producer of crop protection anti-pest chemicals, continued to plunge in the fourth quarter of 2009. As expected, the company finished the...

In his speech at Tel Aviv University yesterday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden outlined the American approach to the Middle East in its broadest sense, from the Israeli-Arab conflict to the Persian...

Aura Investments is continuing to slash its debt. The firm, which is controlled by Boaz Misholi and Joseph Saliah, has signed a deal with GTC, part of the Kardan group, for the sale of part of its...

If we add up all these sick episodes and the 31,000 killed in traffic accidents since the establishment of the state, we can say that the situation in the film "A Clockwork Orange" pales in...

The president spends a lot of his time touring the country and listening to people's problems. But what would Shimon Peres tell a man who woke up one morning with a stomachache and it turns out he...

It looks like a new Israeli record. The Swedish clothing chain H&M held its Israeli debut yesterday, pulling in an estimated 15,000 customers - most of them teenage girls - and an estimated NIS 3...

GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft hit two targets in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding several people, the army and witnesses said. In the first strike, they blew up a metal workshop in the town...

A Palestinian man examines a building damaged following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, unrelated to the charges laid over the 2009 incident. Photo /...

END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Once again, Israelis are caught on camera in suspicious circumstances. A woman in...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military said Thursday it indicted two soldiers who forced a Palestinian boy to open bags suspected of being booby-trapped with explosives during last year's military...

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, speaks at Tel Aviv Univeristy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 11, 2010. Biden attempted to soothe tensions with Israel on Thursday in an effusive speech...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says two soldiers have been indicted on criminal charges for their actions during last year's military offensive in Gaza. The soldiers will be tried in...

Although the diplomatic tempest over construction plans in Jerusalem neighborhoods located over the Green Line appeared to be waning on Thursday, the exact numbers and details of those plans remained...