TEL AVIV (dpa) – An Israeli soldier shot dead a Palestinian on Thursday and wounded another, during an alleged stabbing attack in a village south of the West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli military said.
The soldier was injured in the neck by (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israeli police stormed a holy site in Jerusalem after Palestinian youths began throwing stones after Friday prayers, police and witnesses said.
Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said more than 100 Palestinians began throwing (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel has complained to the United States over criticism by US officials of a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.
Israeli officials told US National Security Advisor Tom (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – An Israeli couple have been in divorce proceedings for the past 39 years, while a lingering argument over the distribution of their joint property has prevented them from finally signing the papers, Israeli media reported (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 66 days to protest his incarceration without trial has decided to end his fast after Israel agreed he will be released, the Israeli State Prosecutor's Office said (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – An Israeli military court rejected Monday an appeal from a Palestinian who has been on hunger strike to protest his detention in Israel without trial, a Palestinian prisoner support group said.
The court ruled that Khader Adnan (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel on Monday blamed Iran for two attacks that targeted its diplomatic missions in India and Georgia.
“In recent months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries, including (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel entered its third day of a countrywide national strike Friday, after trade unions and the Finance Ministry failed to reach an agreement to end the disruptions.
The open-ended strike was called by the Histadrut Trade Union (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Documents yellowed with age, a scuffed black briefcase with a hole in it, enabling the camera displayed next to it to take photographs, bogus passports.
On their own, these are perhaps nothing more than testimony of how simple, (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon kicked off a series of meetings Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, holding talks in Jerusalem with President Shimon Peres.
Ban is visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories in (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – An encounter between a snake and a baby in an Israeli city ended unexpectedly when the boy killed the reptile – by biting off its head.
The 1-year-old, named Imad Gadir from Shfaram in northern Israel, found the (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Unknown hackers immobilized the websites of two Israeli hospitals Wednesday, after targeting them with denial of service attacks, the latest salvo in the cyber war between pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians.
Neither website – of (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israel wants to ban the use of Holocaust imagery and Nazi epithets from public discourse, according to a bill facing parliament on Wednesday.
The proposed legislation has already been approved by a ministerial committee, and is (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli police were following several leads in the fatal stabbing of a senior figure in Jaffa's Christian community, and have detained three persons for questioning, the Israel Ynet news site reported Saturday morning.
A police (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli aircraft attacked a Palestinian militant cell in the northern Gaza Strip Friday morning, as the group was preparing to launch rockets at southern Israel, a military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said.
Unconfirmed reports from (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – A cleaner at an Israeli health clinic saved the life of a worker by diagnosing the onset of a heart attack – using knowledge she had gleaned from observing and listening to doctors and nurses talk while she went about her daily (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – The eight-year old Israeli girl at the center of a storm after Jewish religious extremists spat on her as she went to school, returned to studies Thursday, for the first time since her plight made headlines.
Na'ama Margolis (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – All Na'ama Margolis wanted to do was get to school. But the blond, bespectacled eight-year-old faced a gauntlet of abuse from religious extremists who felt her clothing did not meet their standards of modesty.
Since her case was (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israeli legislators met Monday to discuss whether they consider the World War I death of numerous Armenians by Turkish troops to be genocide, despite concerns that the debate would lead to a worsening of already dire ties with (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – European countries should impose sanctions on Iran in order to stop it from becoming a nuclear power, rather than just talk about them to appease Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday.
“There is no need (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – This is the 11th Christmas that Maria Constancia Lopez, a migrant worker from the Philippines, is celebrating in Israel.
Christmas in the Holy Land, of course, focuses on the city of Bethlehem, where Jesus is believed to have (...)