http://www.mail.com/int/locations/1554-israel.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/1554-israel.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101940-young-objector-challenges-israeli-army.html JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, focusing attention on the longstanding conflict between the country's universal military service and divided political beliefs. The refusal by 20-year-old Natan Blanc to serve has put the mili... Wed, 22 May 2013 06:50:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101940-young-objector-challenges-israeli-army.html 2013-05-22T06:50:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101898-egypt-7-security-men-kidnapped-sinai-freed.html CAIRO (AP) — Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation in the volatile region, the country's military spokesman said. The release followed a security buildup and a massive show of force by the Egyptian military in northern Sin... Wed, 22 May 2013 06:44:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101898-egypt-7-security-men-kidnapped-sinai-freed.html 2013-05-22T06:44:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099924-egypt-troops-sinai-sweep-mistakenly-hit-funeral.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants. The incident illustrated the hazards of the military operations prompted by the kidnapping last week. A heavy handed att... Tue, 21 May 2013 22:11:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099924-egypt-troops-sinai-sweep-mistakenly-hit-funeral.html 2013-05-21T22:11:23Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099732-israeli-peace-negotiator-stalemate-bad-israel.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's chief peace negotiator said Tuesday that the current stalemate with the Palestinians is harmful for Israel, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant talks. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost... Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099732-israeli-peace-negotiator-stalemate-bad-israel.html 2013-05-21T17:42:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099486-israel-warns-syria-attacks-golan.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across their tense cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, prompting an Israeli threat that Syria's leader will "bear the consequences" of further escalation and raising new concerns that the civil war there could explode into a region-wide conflict. The incident marked the first time the ... Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099486-israel-warns-syria-attacks-golan.html 2013-05-21T17:32:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097268-hezbollah-pulled-deeply-syria-civil-war.html BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria's civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said Monday. The intense battle drove rebels from large parts of the town of Qusair, part of a withering government offensive aimed at securing a strategic... Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097268-hezbollah-pulled-deeply-syria-civil-war.html 2013-05-20T19:46:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2098594-israel-palestinians-arguing-epic-image.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A new Israeli report into the death of a Palestinian boy during a fierce gunbattle in the Gaza Strip more than a dozen years ago has reignited an emotional debate over who killed him — and how the incident has shaped perspectives of the Mideast conflict. Israel says a French TV report in 2000 that claimed Israeli forces killed the boy is ... Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2098594-israel-palestinians-arguing-epic-image.html 2013-05-20T19:03:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097448-kerry-to-mideast-to-advance-struggling-syria-plan.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Monday to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia. Kerry will first have discussions with the sultan of Oman. He then goes to Jordan to ... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:26:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097448-kerry-to-mideast-to-advance-struggling-syria-plan.html 2013-05-20T17:26:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097646-israel-gunman-shoots-4-dead-bank-kills.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the shootings happened inside the bank, which was cordoned off with a large number of police. Israeli TV footage showed several amb... Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097646-israel-gunman-shoots-4-dead-bank-kills.html 2013-05-20T13:42:24Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097484-vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship. Israeli TV footage showed black writing on the hallway and door of the Jerusalem home. Police spokesman Micky Ros... Mon, 20 May 2013 12:42:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097484-vandals-target-israeli-womens-prayer-group.html 2013-05-20T12:42:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097536-gunfire-syria-hits-israeli-controlled-golan.html JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria has hit the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overnight. The military said on Monday that the gunfire did not cause any damage or injuries. The military says it believes the fire was accidental. Israel has found itself in a difficult position as clashes from Syria's civil war rage near its front... Mon, 20 May 2013 10:26:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2097536-gunfire-syria-hits-israeli-controlled-golan.html 2013-05-20T10:26:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096296-video-kidnapped-egyptian-security-officers.html CAIRO (AP) — Seven men purported to be the members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped by suspected militants last week appeared in a video posted online Sunday and urged the government to secure their release by meeting their captors' demands. The video, posted on YouTube, is the first sign of the six policemen and one border guard since they were abduc... Sun, 19 May 2013 20:39:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096296-video-kidnapped-egyptian-security-officers.html 2013-05-19T20:39:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095906-syrian-troops-push-strategic-rebel-held-town.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean coast. With the regime scoring gains on the battlefield, the U.S. and Russia could f... Sun, 19 May 2013 19:08:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095906-syrian-troops-push-strategic-rebel-held-town.html 2013-05-19T19:08:21Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096504-israeli-seeks-interim-deal-with-palestinians.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim arrangement. Finance Minister Yair Lapid's assessment, delivered in a published interview Sunday just days before the arrival of U.S... Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096504-israeli-seeks-interim-deal-with-palestinians.html 2013-05-19T18:32:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2096252-israel-disputes-french-tv-claim-boys-death.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel. France 2 network's images from Sept. 30, 2000, days after a Palestinian uprising erupted, allegedly showe... Sun, 19 May 2013 18:28:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2096252-israel-disputes-french-tv-claim-boys-death.html 2013-05-19T18:28:28Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John Brennan met Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. He did not disclose other details. The official spoke Friday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the visit with... Fri, 17 May 2013 09:15:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092712-cia-chief-unannounced-israel-visit.html 2013-05-17T09:15:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092524-coptic-cleric-will-sue-israeli-police.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. Video supplied to The Associated Press shows Israeli police shoving Arsanious el-Orshalimi and putting him in a headlock. The incident took place during Orthodox Christian Holy Saturday in Jerusalem's Old City earlier this month. The event ... Fri, 17 May 2013 06:48:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092524-coptic-cleric-will-sue-israeli-police.html 2013-05-17T06:48:38Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers were held by the Syrian men for about five hours and released unharmed Wednesday morning. It was the ... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:37:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html 2013-05-17T00:37:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2089694-7-egyptian-security-personnel-abducted-sinai.html CAIRO (AP) — Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said. It was the first such kidnapping of security forces in the lawless peninsula. The officials said masked gunmen ambushed two taxis at gunpoint outside the city of el-Arish, the capital of North Si... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:11:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2089694-7-egyptian-security-personnel-abducted-sinai.html 2013-05-16T20:11:26Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2089918-watchdog-israel-trying-to-legalize-settlements.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli watchdog group on Thursday accused the government of taking steps to legalize four unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank, days before the U.S. secretary of state is set to arrive on a new peace mission. The government announced its move this week in a filing to the Supreme Court, threatening to cast a shadow over Se... Thu, 16 May 2013 19:27:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2089918-watchdog-israel-trying-to-legalize-settlements.html 2013-05-16T19:27:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090318-turkish-pm-talking-syria-with-obama-white-house.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking for stepped-up action on Syria as he meets with President Barack Obama at the White House. But the U.S. and Turkey remain far apart on how to handle Syria's bloody civil war. Erdogan is visiting Washington just days after two car bombs in Turkey killed dozens in the deadliest terrori... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:22:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090318-turkish-pm-talking-syria-with-obama-white-house.html 2013-05-16T14:22:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086806-palestinians-mark-their-1948-displacement.html RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, marching in the streets and in some parts of the West Bank clashing with Israeli security forces. Every May 15, Palestinians hold rallies to commemorate the "nakba," or "catastrophe" — the term the... Wed, 15 May 2013 16:31:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086806-palestinians-mark-their-1948-displacement.html 2013-05-15T16:31:37Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086652-israel-mortar-shells-syria-hit-mt-hermon.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military says stray mortar shells from the fighting in Syria have struck a popular tourist site, Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights. The military says the shells struck early on Wednesday, apparently landing on an empty ski slope. Mortar shells have landed in the Golan before but this was the first time they hit Mt. Hermon, a site p... Wed, 15 May 2013 07:32:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086652-israel-mortar-shells-syria-hit-mt-hermon.html 2013-05-15T07:32:49Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086496-critics-assail-israeli-silence-arab-peace-plan.html JERUSALEM (AP) — On the surface, the Arab League's improved peace initiative offers Israel everything it ever dreamed of — normal relations with an entire region that has long objected to the very existence of the Jewish state, and even the chance to keep some war-won land. But two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry persuaded Arab leaders to r... Wed, 15 May 2013 06:17:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2086496-critics-assail-israeli-silence-arab-peace-plan.html 2013-05-15T06:17:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the permanent war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands — says she has received a complaint about Israel's 2010 raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza, and she will open a preliminary investigation. The complaint comes from the tiny African state of Comoros, a member of the... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085090-war-crimes-prosecutor-receives-israel-complaint.html 2013-05-14T21:04:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084096-israeli-leader-under-fire-costly-lifestyle.html JERUSALEM (AP) — For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been saddled with an image of a cigar-smoking, cognac-drinking socialite. Now a new disclosure about his soaring spending on housekeeping, furniture, clothing and other expenses is increasing pressure on him in a country whose leaders once were known for washing their own dishes and taking out the garb... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:59:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2084096-israeli-leader-under-fire-costly-lifestyle.html 2013-05-14T18:59:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2084810-report-czech-anti-semitism-remains-fairly-low.html PRAGUE (AP) — A new study by Prague's Jewish community says that anti-Semitism in the Czech Republic remains at a relatively low level, despite an increase of attacks on the Internet. The annual report on anti-Semitism released on Tuesday called it "worrying" that the number of Internet attacks, including texts, photos and videos, jumped from 26 in 2011 t... Tue, 14 May 2013 16:31:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2084810-report-czech-anti-semitism-remains-fairly-low.html 2013-05-14T16:31:04Z