Tel Aviv (dpa) – Hundreds of anti-war campaigners marched through central Tel Aviv late Saturday to protest against a possible strike against Iran by Israel.
Up to 1,000 people attended the demonstration, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – The Israeli government said Sunday it will not cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission to probe the implications of Israeli settlements on Palestinian human rights and will prevent its members from entering its (...)
Washington (dpa) – US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta welcomed his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak to the Pentagon Wednesday for talks expected to focus on the nuclear standoff with Iran.
The Pentagon provided few details of the meeting other than (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push US President Barack Obama to adopt tougher language against Iran during his visit to Washington next week, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday.
Netanyahu will press Obama on (...)
JERUSALEM (dpa): The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran's nuclear programme is “further proof” that Israeli intelligence on the issue is accurate, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
The IAEA report (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel on Wednesday approved the construction of 695 new housing units in and near the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, in the heart of the West Bank, north-east of Ramallah, a settlement watchdog group said.
Some 121 of them already (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – The Israeli military plans to deploy an Iron Dome missile interception battery in central Israel this week, a spokeswoman said Monday.
The deployment was part of an “annual training plan,” the spokeswoman added, in which the (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Iran was exaggerating progress made in its nuclear program to make the world believe it was too late to stop it, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday.
“Yesterday's show was really just a show, both for the Iranians (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Iran has been helping Syria to cope with the international sanctions imposed for its crackdown on protesters and rebels, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday, citing documents they say were obtained by the hacker group (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – A Palestinian who has been on hunger strike in Israel to protest his detention without trial has entered a critical stage after 54 days without food, a human rights group warned Thursday.
Khader Adnan, a senior leader of the (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel's federation of trade unions declared a general strike Wednesday, demanding better conditions for contract workers with poor job security.
Government offices, city councils, trains, banks, post offices and the Tel Aviv (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Palestinian militants launched rockets and Israel fired “warning shots” at targets in northern Gaza, ahead of a visit to the coastal enclave by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday.
Ban was scheduled to arrive in Gaza in (...)
Gaza City (dpa) – Palestinian protesters threw shoes and chairs at the convoy of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses at the scene told dpa.
Several dozen family members of Palestinian (...)
Ramallah (dpa) – Palestinian leaders blamed Israel overnight for what they called the failure of preliminary talks in Amman which international mediators had hoped would lead to peace negotiations.
“In light of the results of the Amman meetings, (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday condemned what he called Palestinian incitement to kill Israelis, including the “glorification” of the killers of a settler family.
An aunt of one of the two killers said, on a (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – No breakthrough was reached at the final round of Israeli-Palestinian “exploratory” talks in Jordan overnight, a Palestinian official said Thursday, as a three-month deadline expired.
The talks about resuming full negotiations (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli and Palestinian envoys had a confrontation about the makeup of their delegations during their last meeting in Jordan, an official said Wednesday.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat refused to enter the room where (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Serious violations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories were ongoing in 2011, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Sunday.
It listed Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, ongoing settlement expansion in the (...)
Gaza City (dpa) – Two Palestinians were killed and three seriously injured on Wednesday when Israel raided an area north-east of Gaza City, said Gaza emergency services chief Adham Abu Salmeyeh.
The five men were riding a donkey cart near the (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's lawyers began a crucial hearing at the country's Justice Ministry Tuesday, trying to persuade its chief legal advisor not to indict their client.
Attorney General Yehud Weinstein (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel and Washington have postponed a massive joint defense exercise, which had been expected in the coming weeks, Israel Radio reported Sunday.
The reason was its high cost, the report said. An Israeli Defense Ministry (...)
Ramallah (dpa) – Israeli and Palestinian envoys met for the third time in Amman overnight Sunday since Jordan began mediating a series of direct talks earlier this month.
The sides agreed to meet again on January 25, the official Palestinian Wafa (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – Israel's supreme court drew criticism Thursday, after it upheld a controversial law that makes it all but impossible for Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to join spouses in Israel.
Human rights groups five years (...)
Tel Aviv (dpa) – An Israeli calling himself Omer Cohen has posted online what he says are the credit card details of scores of Saudi nationals.
The act was revenge for the hacking last week of thousands of Israeli credit card numbers by a (...)
Jerusalem (dpa) – A right-wing Israeli lawmaker was suspended Tuesday from parliamentary activity for one month, a day after she threw a cup of water in the face of an Arab-Israeli political rival.
Anastasia Michaeli, of the ultra-nationalist (...)