JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister intervened to halt renovation work on a pedestrian walkway adjacent to the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem to avoid inflaming public opinion in the Arab world, an Israeli official said Monday.
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JAFFA, Israel — The schedules for Mass at the two Roman Catholic churches in Jaffa, on Israel's Mediterranean coast, reveal a change that has dramatically, if quietly, altered the face of Christianity in the Holy Land.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The anticipated publication Friday of a U.N. report on violence aboard a Gaza-bound protest flotilla last year has led to a further souring of the key Mideast relationship between Israel and Turkey, after Turkey expelled the Israeli (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister responded Tuesday to a growing wave of protests over housing prices with a string of reforms aimed at defusing a crisis that has brought about a sharp drop in his approval ratings.
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NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Archaeologists unearthing a biblical ruin inside a Palestinian city in the West Bank are writing the latest chapter in a 100-year-old excavation that has been interrupted by two world wars and numerous rounds of Mideast (...)
QASR EL-YAHUD, West Bank (AP) — Israel opened the traditional baptism site of Jesus to daily visits Tuesday, a move that required the cooperation of Israel's military and the removal of nearby mines in the West Bank along the border with (...)
JERUSALEM (AP) — European basketball's governing body will not make allowances for an Israeli player's religious observance in the upcoming European women's championship, a spokesman said Friday.
University of Toledo and Israeli national team (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel will hold up an $89 million cash transfer to the Palestinians planned for this week, the Israeli finance minister said Sunday, in Israel's first tangible step against a new unity arrangement between Palestinian factions.
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JERUSALEM: Egypt's announcement that it will open a key border crossing with the Palestinian Gaza Strip within days sparked concern in Israel on Friday and revealed how the upheaval in the Arab world is shifting the Mideast conflict.
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JERUSALEM: Egypt's announcement that it will open a key border crossing with the Palestinian Gaza Strip within days sparked concern in Israel on Friday and revealed how the upheaval in the Arab world is shifting the Mideast conflict.
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JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister said Sunday that his government is “anxiously monitoring” the political unrest in Egypt, his first comment on the crisis threatening a regime that has been one of Israel's key allies for more than 30 (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli inquiry commission defended the actions of the country's troops during last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla sailing from Turkey, finding in a report released Sunday that Israel had not violated international (...)
JERUSALEM: With Mideast peace talks at an impasse, two senior members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party are shopping around a new idea: In the absence of peace, Israel should pull large numbers of Jewish settlers out of the West (...)
JERUSALEM: The publication of names and photographs of 200 Israeli soldiers on a website that called them "war criminals" drew condemnation Friday from Israel's military.
Alongside the photographs, the site also published the home addresses and (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved home to his ranch Friday, nearly five years after being incapacitated by a series of strokes while still in office.
Medical teams took the former leader, who has been in (...)
JERUSALEM: Ehud Netzer, an Israeli archaeologist best known for excavating King Herod's winter palace and discovering the monarch's tomb there, has died after falling at the site this week. He was 76.
Netzer led numerous high-profile digs over (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas insurgents in an early-morning raid on a house in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a Hamas official said.
A Hamas radio station in the Gaza Strip reported immediately after the operation (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli troops killed a Hamas insurgent Friday during an arrest raid in the West Bank, where violence has increased since the start of new Mideast peace talks this month.
The Islamic group, which killed four Israeli settlers in a Sept. (...)
JERUSALEM: A political battle over a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that began with charges of insensitivity leveled at plans for a museum of religious tolerance at the site has spread into a more curious fight about whether hundreds of nearby (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli arrested and imprisoned in Libya last March while photographing Jewish sites will return to Israel on Monday after being freed in a complicated deal engineered by Israel's foreign minister, officials said.
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JERUSALEM: Gaza insurgents fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Friday, the military said, a rare strike in a period of relative quiet.
The Israeli military said the rocket caused damage but no injuries. None of the Palestinian (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli government decision to shelve a controversial bill on Jewish conversions drew praise Friday from liberal Jewish groups in Israel and the US who opposed the legislation and waged a vocal campaign to get it thrown (...)
JERUSALEM: Clashes erupted Friday between Muslim worshippers and Israeli riot police at a sacred and disputed hilltop compound following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel's government has launched a campaign aiming to boost the country's image abroad even as it finds itself in the middle of an international uproar over the suspected role of Israeli spies in the assassination of a Hamas (...)
CAIRO: The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The government is renovating it, but is doing so at a moment when anti-Israel feeling is running (...)