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Barak says Israel never ruled out attacking Iran
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday his country has never promised the United States it would hold off from attacking Iran while nuclear talks were taking place. The comments, in which Barak said that a diplomatic push to (...)

17 - 04 - 2012
Israeli-Egyptian swap highlights brittle ties
JERUSALEM — Israel has said that it agreed to trade Egyptian prisoners for a U.S.-Israeli citizen imprisoned in Cairo on unsubstantiated suspicions of spying to defuse a potential crisis between the two neighboring countries. Israel's agreement (...)

28 - 10 - 2011
Israelis seek EU passports amid existential angst
TEL AVIV, Israel — Despite their country's turbulent history, Israelis enjoy a fairly secure existence: they have military might, a world-class high tech industry powering a strong economy, and America as a solid ally. Yet in recent years, tens (...)

02 - 09 - 2011
US Congressman calls on Egypt to release 'spy'
JERUSALEM: US Congressman Gary Ackerman called on Egyptian authorities Wednesday to release a constituent and former intern whom Egypt accuses of being an Israeli spy. Ilan Grapel was arrested at a Cairo hotel last week and suspected of sedition (...)

23 - 06 - 2011
Israeli navy intercepts Egypt-bound ship with arms
JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy intercepted an Egyptian-bound ship carrying a large delivery of weapons off the country's Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, saying the arms had been sent by Syria to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The military (...)

15 - 03 - 2011
Oscar win highlights plight of Africans in Israel
Students at the Bialik-Rogozin school in a rundown Tel Aviv neighborhood have survived genocide, war and famine. But they were all smiles on Monday after learning that a documentary about their plight had won an Academy Award. "Strangers No More" (...)

02 - 03 - 2011
Minefields circle Jesus' traditional baptism site
QASR EL-YAHUD: Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity's holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands of land mines. Israel says the sites visited (...)

19 - 01 - 2011
Israel focuses its energy on clean technologies
JERUSALEM: After a successful run of high-tech and computer-related innovation, Israel is focusing its ambitions on the next big thing — preparing the world for life without coal and oil. Israel is driving to become a world leader in alternative (...)

04 - 01 - 2011
Israeli forest's road to recovery, plant or wait?
JERUSALEM: For more than a century, planting trees in this mostly desert land has been an act of almost spiritual importance, starting with those who helped create the state of Israel. So, the emotional response to the worst wildfire in the (...)

09 - 12 - 2010
Israeli Jews at odds with liberal brethren in US
JERUSALEM: When Hillary Rubin immigrated from the US to Israel, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and descendant of a famed Zionist visionary felt that she had finally arrived in her true home. But now that religious authorities are (...)

02 - 11 - 2010
Schools, stipends trigger Israeli religious battle
JERUSALEM: During its six decades of existence, Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the (...)

29 - 10 - 2010
Palestinians learn about the Holocaust in Israel
JERUSALEM: Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier. But thanks to an Israeli roommate overseas, the 21-year-old Palestinian (...)

19 - 08 - 2010
Israeli PM: Turkey looked for a fight on ship
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had sought the violent (...)

09 - 08 - 2010
Israeli police question ex-PM on bribe case
JERUSALEM: Israeli fraud investigators questioned a former prime minister on corruption charges Tuesday, his first appearance before police since being driven out of office last year. Police questioned Ehud Olmert about his alleged involvement in (...)

25 - 05 - 2010
Israel concerned over world standing
JERUSALEM: Nearly one out of every two Israelis thinks the country's international standing is poor following Israel's most serious crisis with the United States in decades, according to a poll published Monday on the eve of the Passover (...)

30 - 03 - 2010
Israel police storm holy site to quell protest
JERUSALEM: Israeli police forces stormed the most contentious holy site in Jerusalem on Sunday to disperse masked Palestinian protesters hurling objects at visiting foreign tourists they believed to be Jewish extremists. The incident was over (...)

28 - 02 - 2010
Abbas says peace deal possible in 6 months
JERUSALEM: A comprehensive peace deal can be reached between Israel and the Palestinians within six months if Israel completely freezes its settlement construction, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published (...)

16 - 12 - 2009
Israel mulling easing Gaza embargo, report says
JERUSALEM: Israel's Defense Ministry has recommended a partial lifting of the embargo on Gaza as a goodwill gesture toward the Palestinians to spur along talks to free a long-held captive soldier, an Israeli news site reported Friday. Israel has (...)

03 - 07 - 2009
Israel says no progress on Egyptian-sponsored prisoner swap
Associated Press JERUSALEM: Israeli officials on Monday denied claims that they were close to a deal that would secure the release of a captured soldier held by Palestinian militants, citing excessive demands by the Islamic Hamas. Expectations (...)

02 - 01 - 2007
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