One day in May 1967, prime minister Levi Eshkol, at the time still the defense minister as well, visited the forward headquarters of Armored Corps commander Yisrael Tal. Under the camouflage nets,...

The gang that kidnapped an Israeli employee of a construction company in Nigeria has made contact and is demanding ransom, a Nigerian security source told Haaretz Thursday night. The source...

Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik will use a new ethics code to crack down on ethical offenses and empower the Ethics Committee to impose serious fines on guilty MKs.At present MKs can be barred from...

The ballistic missile threat to IDF bases in the Central region and South is not as grave as once thought and the bases would not need to be evacuated in the event of a war in the North, according to...

It would appear that Israel is caught between the jaws of two families: the family of organized crime and the family of immense affluence. These two families seem to be sovereign in this country. One...

Central buildings in Prague's Jewish quarter. Photo: Courtesy Yet, as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Mine started unraveling on Tisha Be'av. For years, we've been...

Hapoel Tel Aviv advanced to the first round of UEFA Cup play last night after drubbing Serbia's Vojvodina 3-0 in the second round of qualifying play. Meanwhile, Maccabi Netanya and Ironi Kiryat...

Georgia's war was brief and took place in a remote region, but is already considered a historic turning point in superpower relations. Russia said nyet to the West and stood its ground. The...

But Justice Levy was not convinced that the move would be good for Israel: "After all, we know that constant pressure leads to the release of prisoners. What happened this time?" All this was not...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange dropped yesterday, with the TA-25 index of blue chips falling 1.6% to close at 1,012 points. The broader TA-100 lost 1.3% to end the day at 922 points. August options on...

Renewable energy in Israel is receiving a major boost: The Israel Lands Administration (ILA) will grant a partial, or even full exemption from leasing fees for land used for generating 'green'...

The captain was Dutch, the small crew was Filipino and the cook was Irish. The food was terrible - there were cockroaches in the cornflakes, and the cook had no idea how to make French fries....

Hamas recently jacked up the number of Palestinian prisoners it wants Israel to release in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, from 1,000 to 1,500, a senior government source said. At a...

Venture capital fund Hasso Plattner Ventures is investing $4 million in Israeli startup InnovaShare, along with the fund Israeli Cedar. This is the German fund's first Israeli investment, even though...

Armed members of the group known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) in the creeks of the Niger Delta. An Israeli religious media outlet on Thursday said it has retracted...

If the notorious murder of two-year-old Hodaya Kedem from Jerusalem by her father, Eli Pimstein, in December 2002, was profoundly shocking, the apparent slaying of little Rose from Netanya is...

Pictures of the week Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak for Iran. And leading the Israeli delegation? It's a mystery. The timing of next month's Kadima primary - a week before the annual...

Even Abie Nathan's detractors spoke warmly of him on Thursday, a day after the maverick peace activist passed away in Tel Aviv at 81 years of age. The man who founded the "Voice of Peace" pirate...

US prosecutors want to "debrief" Morris Talansky "without undue delay" in connection with the investigation he is undergoing in the United States, Talansky's Israeli lawyers Jacques Chen and Yehoshua...

Clari Karni, 80, of Kibbutz Hama'apil, put a down payment on an expensive new pair of glasses a few days ago. She decided on the hefty purchase - some NIS 2,000 - as well as other medical...

Democrats prepared a grand spectacle on Thursday to celebrate the historic presidential nomination of Barack Obama, who will take the party reins with a speech that spells out his vision for change...

Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish on Thursday lambasted the media for causing levels of public trust in the judiciary to plummet."The establishment itself has never worked with such force against...

to see what may be the seeds of the redemption of Gush Katif. Two girls who were expelled from Gush Katif in the 2005 Disengagement decided that they had enough of the neglect they and the other...

The armed Nigerian group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), said Thursday it knew where a kidnapped Israeli businessman was being held. The militants stated they also knew...

RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images There have been Jews in India for centuries, and Indians in Israel for decades. But it wasn't until 1992 that the two countries established diplomatic relations. Now,...

Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch is considering establishing a new appeals court that would take over much of the work currently handled by the Supreme Court. "We are in a very preliminary...

Hillary Clinton reacts after her call for the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama by acclamation was seconded at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Photo:...

(IsraelNN.com) The new Gush Katif Museum welcomed two well-known and influential visitors on Wednesday. Knesset Member Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) and Chief Rabbi of Ramat Gan Rabbi Yaakov...

Seeking to unify his secular voter base, Jerusalem opposition leader Nir Barkat has reconciled with former Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy, a onetime potential opponent in this November's mayoral...

Barbara Brown talks about her new pay-for-hire, dedicated aliyah service and Abby Mendelson (Writer/Editor) tells us why we may have overstayed our welcome in the...

The IDF said Thursday that it will take disciplinary action against 15 soldiers from the Golani Brigade who staged a mini-rebellion late Wednesday night and stormed out of their base in the West...

(IsraelNN.com) A Nigerian group threatened to break off negotiations for the release of kidnapped Israeli businessman on Thursday night, using the excuse that Israel National News had referred to its...

BOGOTA, Colombia - Western anti-terrorism officials are increasingly concerned that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim militia that Washington has labeled a terrorist group, is using...

Former Beatle Paul McCartney, seen here in February, is to stage his first ever concert in Israel next month, four decades after the Beatles were barred from playing there, he said on his website....

An Israeli woman passes a poster of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Tel Aviv, 2007. The father of Shalit who was captured by Gaza militants in 2006 accused the government of failing to do...

Israel's Police's Galilee Precinct and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) have arrested two Shfaram residents on suspicion that they intended to carry out suicide bombings and shooting attacks...

(IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority Arab youth was wounded Thursday afternoon during a violent demonstration against the Judea-Samaria separation barrier under construction at the Arab village of...

DOWNLOAD What is the mysterious power of the Blog? Hear audio from Nefesh B'Nefesh's first-ever Jewish Blogger convention including famous Israeli bloggers and Yishai as a panel moderator. Then go to...

Palestine The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) Thursday condemned Israel's closure of the al-Aqsa Foundation and seizure of thousands of historic documents which preserve the heritage of the Islamic...

Two boatloads of international protesters who defied Israel's blockade of Gaza set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven Gaza Palestinians who had been confined to the territory. The navy made...

Galilee region police have recently arrested two Israeli Arab youths they believe belonged to a cell of Islamic Jihad operatives that planned to kill Israeli pilots, scientists and university...

) in the second quarter. The bank recorded net profit of NIS 97 million in the quarter, compared with NIS 173 million in the corresponding quarter of...

Israel's unemployment is at a record low - find out what jobs are hot right now. Yishai renominates the Chicken as Israel's national bird, with Ben Stein trying to determine which came first - the...

South Lebanon - A Lebanese airman was killed Thursday when the military helicopter he was flying over Sojod hills in south Lebanon came under gunfire attack from Hezbollah...

) has signed an agreement to buy London's Café Royal for ₤ 90 million (approximately NIS 593.1 million) from the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate manages more than ₤7 billion of...

Justice Shulamit Wasserkrug ruled that Derekh Eretz had taken advantage of wording in the Toll Road Law to refuse to supply free itemizations, and that this was against Income Tax regulations and...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- The pullback in Israeli stocks carried into a third session Thursday as Bank Hapoalim reported second-quarter earnings that came in below analysts' expectations, and as...

(IsraelNN.com) The Kadima party primaries are only three weeks away, and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has opened a wide lead in the polls over her rival, Transportation Minister Sha'ul Mofaz. Polls...

) has increased his stake in the company to 13.2% from 10.1%, exploiting the recent falls in the company's share. Silicom is part of the RAD Group owned by the brothers Zohar and Yehuda Zisapel....

An independent valuation prepared in June by KPMG in Australia for Dapei Zahav (Yellow Pages) parent company Babcock and Brown Capital (ASX: BNB) gave Dapei Zahav a value of only A$ 44-57 million...