JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli official said on Tuesday he was concerned about the commitment of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which dominates parliament and now seeks the presidency, to a 33-year-old peace treaty with Israel.
The remarks by Amos (...)
JERUSALEM: A nuclear-armed Iran could deter Israel from going to war against Tehran's guerrilla allies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday.
The Jewish state sees the makings of a mortal threat in Iran's uranium (...)
JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying "election-year considerations"
lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by US legislators.
While Washington has been talking (...)
GAZA/JERUSALEM: Violence flared up between Israel and Gaza, with the Israeli air force killing three Palestinians and insurgents firing rockets deep across the border.
The latest fighting erupted on Thursday when an air strike on a car killed two (...)
HERZLIYA, Israel: Though sidelined by pan-Arab democracy drives, Al-Qaeda may have found a firmer foothold in the lawless Egyptian Sinai where it poses a threat to Israel, experts say.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's counter-terrorism czar (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel filed criminal charges on Thursday against a man who stoned the Egyptian consulate in Eilat, near the site of an attack by border infiltrators last month that strained relations between the two countries.
David Macmill, 24, was (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's defense minister played down on Sunday the prospect that fighting with the Palestinians will flare up when they apply for full UN membership next month in the absence of peace talks.
Israel has been reinforcing troops and riot (...)
JERUSALEM: Smugglers of arms into the Gaza Strip are operating almost freely after a change of leadership in Egypt, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said.
A report by the domestic spy agency said with Egypt's new leaders preoccupied with (...)
JERUSALEM: Behind Israel's tepid welcome of the popular uprisings convulsing Arab neighbors like Egypt and Syria, a long-running debate is gathering pace: Might the turmoil be enough to spur it to attack Iran?
While Prime Minister Benjamin (...)
TEL AVIV: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that Syria should learn from the example of Egypt, where the army held fire as the people overthrew the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak.
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel has agreed to a second limited deployment of Egyptian troops to secure the demilitarized north Sinai, where suspected sabotage has disrupted gas supply from Egypt, an official said on Wednesday.
The movement of Egyptian soldiers (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli inquiry cleared the government and military on Sunday of wrongdoing in the bloody seizure of a Turkish aid ship that tried to breach the Gaza blockade, saying passengers were to blame for the violence.
The Turkel Commission, (...)
JERUSALEM: The United States instructed its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israeli communications and build financial and "biometric" profiles of Palestinian leaders, a leaked embassy cable shows.
The secret memorandum, (...)