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Palestinian rally for hunger striker turns violent
Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers on Friday at several demonstrations in the West Bank held to support a prisoner observing an intermittent ...
List of World Press Photo winners
A list of winners of the 2012 World Press Photo contest: PHOTO OF THE YEAR, 2012: Paul Hansen, Sweden, Dagens Nyheter, Gaza Burial, Gaza City, ...
Israeli spy saga raises press freedom questions
Foreign reports about the mysterious death of an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent in an Israeli prison two years ago have sparked a rare backlash ...
Diplomat confirms Iran nuclear upgrade
Adding weight to its announcement of a nuclear upgrade, Tehran has shown high-level U.N. officials high-tech equipment positioned at its main uranium ...
Iran mourns slain senior military commander
Prominent Iranian politicians and clerics led mourners at a funeral Thursday for a senior commander of the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards who ...
Vandals desecrate Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem
Israeli police say vandals have sprayed a dozen Muslim graves in a Jerusalem cemetery with graffiti in a politically motivated act. Spokesman Micky ...
Israeli-Australian Prisoner X's death strains ties
He was known as Prisoner X, his crimes unknown. For months he languished in an Israeli prison until he was he was found dead in his cell in an ...
Rights group: Israel violated laws of war in Gaza
A U.S.-based rights group said Israel violated laws of war in a series of airstrikes it conducted during an eight-day military operation last November ...
Orthodox rabbi seeks Israeli religious revolution
When Rabbi David Stav launched his official campaign last month to wrest control of Israel's top religious institution from its longtime hardline ...
Historians, scientists, artist win Israeli prize
American intellectual Leon Wieseltier, French philosopher Michel Serres and British historian Sir Geoffrey Lloyd are among the winners of this year's ...
Netanyahu ally: Diplomacy won't work with Iran
A powerful partner of Israel's prime minister says sanctions and negotiations will not stop Iran from pursuing its disputed nuclear program.
Bulgaria tells Europol names of 2 bombing suspects
Bulgaria has given Europol the names of two of the people suspected in a bus bombing that killed five Israeli tourists last year, with hopes that the ...
Catholics surprised at pope's decision to retire
Shock, sadness and declarations of faith met Pope Benedict XVI's announcement Monday that he would retire Feb. 28. It also sparked reflection about ...
Pope Benedict XVI considered a friend in Israel
When Joseph Ratzinger became pope in 2005, many in Israel wondered whether the German-born Cardinal with the Nazi past would prove a worthy successor ...
Israel's Delek gains rights to Cyprus gas field
U.S. firm Noble Energy has ceded 30 percent of its rights to a gas field off Cyprus' south coast to Israel's Delek and its subsidiary Avner Oil ...
Israel advances plan to build in Jewish settlement
An Israeli official says the government has given final approval for construction of 90 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move that could cause ...
Israeli troops detain AP photographer
Israeli troops detained an Associated Press photographer during West Bank unrest over the weekend, handcuffing him and forcing him to sit on the ...
Rabbi David Hartman dies at 81
Rabbi David Hartman, one of the world's leading Jewish philosophers who promoted both Jewish pluralism and interfaith dialogue, has died. He was 81.
Writer Antonio Molina awarded Jerusalem Prize
Acclaimed Spanish writer Antonio Munoz Molina said Sunday he would accept a prestigious Israeli literary award despite calls from pro-Palestinian ...
Bulgaria to brief EU ministers on bus bombing
Bulgaria will brief other EU nations on the results of the probe that linked the Shiite group Hezbollah to last year's bus bombing that killed five ...
Israel: Obama visit on Iran, Syria, Palestinians
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the upcoming visit of U.S. President Barack Obama will focus on Iran's nuclear program, the violence ...
Israeli forces break up Palestinian encampment
Israeli troops on Saturday drove some 100 Palestinian activists out of an illegal tent camp they had set up near the city of Hebron in the southern ...