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Israel's comatose Sharon shows brain activity
Seven years after a massive stroke removed him from office and left him in a vegetative state, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is able to ...
Israel's comatose Sharon showing brain activity
A team of Israeli and U.S. scientists say new tests on comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon show significant brain activity.
New Israeli political star sets lofty expectations
Political newcomer Yair Lapid electrified Israel with his surprising success in this week's election and an Obama-like message of hope and change, and ...
Former Israel leader Sharon has special brain scan
Israeli hospital officials say a comatose former prime minister has undergone a special brain imaging scan. Inbar Gutter, spokeswoman for Soroka ...
Israel: Netanyahu's style marked by caution
Israel's hardline prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has emerged as the country's top politician with a cautious approach to peace making, saying ...
Hagel nomination unnerves some in Israel
President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next U.S. secretary of defense is causing jitters in Israel, where some circles view the ...
Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...
Ehud Barak says he's quitting Israeli politics
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly quit politics Monday, potentially robbing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a key ally who enabled his ...
Backing tough talk, Israeli premier wages 1st war
Throughout his long political career, Israel's prime minister has earned a reputation as a tough talker. An ardent hawk who wrote a book about how to ...
Israel's Barak hopes to extend political career
He's been Israel's prime minister, military chief, the country's most decorated soldier and, for the past five years, its defense minister and ...
Analysis: Israel's Netanyahu faces wild cards
The Israeli government has called a general election for Jan. 22, and polls suggest Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist-religious coalition is likely to win ...
French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank
The widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in hopes of ...
French probe deepens confusion over Arafat death
A French murder probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat prompted an Israeli denial of responsibility on Wednesday and renewed doubts ...