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Netanyahu to Kerry: Israel wants to renew talks with Palestinians, above all

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to the region for his fourth trip since undertaking campaign to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian talks.

By Haaretz | May 23, 2013 | 12:16 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu

Kerry calls Israeli envoy to protest legalization of West Bank outposts
By Barak Ravid | 39

Netanyahu to Kerry: Israel wants to renew talks with Palestinians, above all 12:18 PM
Israel maintaining intense intelligence activity in Syria and working with local villagers, report says 12:04 PM
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British soldier hacked to death in suspected London terror attack 03:46 AM

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Plans to revoke the exemption on reporting assets abroad granted to new immigrants has the Absorption Ministry and immigration...

By Hila Weissberg | 10:29 AM

'Israel working with Syrian villagers, maintaining intense intel activity'

Israeli forces are "maintaining intense intelligence activity" in Syria and have "quietly" begun working with villagers there...

By Haaretz | 10:00 AM | 7

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British soldier hacked to death on London street in suspected terror attack

A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the...

By Reuters | 09:19 AM | 17

Knesset passes bill increasing number of women that elect Israel's chief rabbi

Expansion of electing body's size also likely to increase secular representation; vote highlights internal revolt within Habayit Hayehudi, as party leader Naftali Bennett struggles with ideological division.

By Yair Ettinger | May 23, 2013 | 11:22 AM

Be'er Sheva bank shooter dismissed from IDF post for attacking Palestinians

Friends, neighbors describe Itamar Alon as strange, surprised such a person had been an IDF officer.

By Amos Harel, Yanir Yagna | May 23, 2013 | 08:20 AM

Tourist tip #242 / Labneh

You can even make this this rich, tangy Middle Eastern cheese in your hotel room.

By Debra Kamin | May 23, 2013 | 10:03 AM

The Israeli soccer game that changed everything

The 5-0 win over Beitar Jerusalem was the moment Maccabi Tel Aviv grasped that a 17-year wait was over and a new era had begun

By Tamir Cohen | May 23, 2013 | 12:03 PM

Diplomacy & Defense

A pro-Palestinian demonstration in London.

British guilty of disguised anti-Semitism, Israeli minister tells The Telegraph

Israel's Strategic Affairs minister Yuval Steinitz has expressed concern over recent British hostility towards Israel in media...

By Haaretz | 11:47 AM

Senators Robert Menendez (R) and Lindsey Graham speak to reporters just after the Senate voted 99-0

U.S. House committee approves measure to back Israel in case of nuclear Iran attack

A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved legislation on Wednesday seeking to impose tighter sanctions on Iran - and...

By Reuters | 02:28 AM | 15

IAEA: Iran expanding sensitive nuclear capacity, but remains below Israeli 'red line'

Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds of more centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a UN nuclear...

By Reuters, The Associated Press | 06:58 PM | 21

Middle East

France backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list

France is ready to support a British initiative to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist...

By Reuters | 12:04 PM

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking in Amman

Kerry: Assad's achievements in recent days only temporary

Western governments are ready to increase support to opponents of President Bashar Assad if he rejects a political solution to...

By Reuters | 10:50 PM | 12

U.S. willing to keep Assad in the picture to avoid threat of all-out Mideast war

The rationale for avoiding foreign military intervention in Syria, which is based on the fear of an outbreak of regional war,...

By Zvi Bar'el | 05:05 PM | 15

Jewish World

Ibragim Todashev pictured in a mug shot taken on May 4th, 2013.

Boston bomber's friend, slain in Florida, eyed in Jewish murders

A Chechen friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed after becoming enraged over questioning about his possible role in the murder of...

By The Forward | 03:26 AM | 2

U.S. Jews need to decide if they are tourists in Israel, or extended family

Israelis, understandably, are being consumed by the budget negotiations that are currently taking place. The global economic...

By Joel Braunold / Jewish World blogger | 11:14 AM

Low-cost airline Ryanair mulls Israel-Auschwitz route

The low-cost airline Ryanair announced it was considering flying a route from Tel Aviv to Krakow, the southern Polish city...

By JTA | 04:00 PM | 6

Germany's Merkel awarded prize for denouncing anti-Semitism

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) congratulates the chancellor for her support of German Jewish community.

By DPA | May 22, 2013 | 09:18 PM

The 'Jew in a box' on Masada

In a variation on the controversial exhibit at Berlin's Jewish Museum, the soferim at Israel's ancient fortress site engage visitors with a vibrant tradition passed on through an ancient craft - the writing of our Torah.

By Rabbi Yehoshua Looks / Jewish World blogger | May 22, 2013 | 12:34 PM

Los Angeles elects Eric Garcetti as its first Jewish mayor

The 42-year-old veteran city councilman's mother is Jewish and he was raised as a Jew. On his father’s side, he is of mixed Italian and Mexican heritage.

By JTA | May 22, 2013 | 03:41 PM

Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem wedding of Hasidic dynasty

Hannah Batya Penet, of a rank-and-file Belz family, weds Shalom Roke'ach, grandson of...
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Gil Cohen-Magen
Some 25,000 attended wedding of Belz Hasidic sect leader's grandson.
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Gil Cohen-Magen
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the weddin...
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Gil Cohen Magen
Hannah Batya Penet, of a rank-and-file Belz family, weds Shalom Roke'ach, grandson of...
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Gil Cohen-Magen
Spectators at Belz Hasidic dynasty wedding.
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Gil Cohen-Magen
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the weddin...
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Gil Cohen Magen
Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the weddin...
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Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the weddin...
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Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty watch the weddin...
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