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Israel announces new gun-control rules after Be'er Sheva bank shooting

Rules aimed at tightening licensing, preventing workplace guns from getting into homes.

By Gili Cohen, Yaniv Kubovich | May 22, 2013 | 03:25 AM | 2

Four dead in Be'er Sheva bank shooting; assailant releases hostage and kills himself
By Yanir Yagna and Sivan Aizescu | 45

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U.S. Senate panel backs arming Syrian rebels fighting Assad

A U.S. Senate panel voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to send weapons to rebels fighting Syria's government, but it was not clear...

By Reuters | 02:23 AM | 3

Former President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

Documents reveal second Israeli president's lost battle to cap his salary

In July 1962, the Knesset Finance Committee held a special session to discuss something that's hard to fathom today: how to raise...

By Ofer Aderet | 01:05 AM | 3

Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes

Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other...

By The Associated Press | 04:51 AM | 3

Israeli officials: More EU states backing move to list Hezbollah as terror group

Aid Hezbollah is giving to Assad spurring EU support for the move; U.K. has formally requested EU blacklist the group; Berlin sources to Haaretz: Germany supports move if request is based on sufficient evidence.

By Barak Ravid | May 21, 2013 | 11:00 PM | 14

Australian MPs pick up torch in fight against global anti-Semitism

All 105 federal Liberal MPs and senators join the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism.

By Dan Goldberg | May 22, 2013 | 01:45 AM

Israeli wireless-power Powermat startup buys Finnish rival

Powermat Technologies will acquire its Finnish rival for a sum believed to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

By Inbal Orpaz | May 21, 2013 | 05:25 PM

Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem wedding of Hasidic dynasty

The Belz Hasidic sect is one of the largest in the world. The groom is the admor's grandson, Shalom Roke'ach, who turned 18 a few weeks ago. The bride is Hannah Batya Penet, of a rank-and-file Belz family.

By Yair Ettinger | May 21, 2013 | 11:20 PM

Diplomacy & Defense

Soldiers searching for remains of fellow soldier in minefield .

Israeli soldier killed during land mine clearing near Syrian border

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed Tuesday afternoon during a training course while removing a land mine in the Golan...

By Gili Cohen | 09:58 PM | 9

Gil Eliahu Defense Minister Ya’alon visiting an IDF outpost in the Golan earlier this year.

Israel's defense minister defends al-Dura panel, calls second intifada incident 'a blood libel'

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon has defended a special committee's conclusion that 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Dura was...

By Chaim Levinson | 09:13 PM | 6

An IDF soldier in front of a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Palestinian hurt by live IDF fire at West Bank demonstration

A Palestinian was hurt by live IDF fire during a West Bank demonstration on Tuesday. During the demonstration on Tuesday...

By Gili Cohen | 07:45 PM | 6

Middle East

UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi (C) before a meeting on January 11, 2013 at the UN.

Syrian government, rebels planning to attend peace conference, says UN envoy

The Syrian opposition and the government were preparing to take part in a peace conference in Geneva, UN and Arab League envoy to...

By Jack Khoury | 09:48 PM

Report: Iran bars ex-President Rafsanjani from participating in election

Iran's official news agency Fars said on Tuesday that it had heard that the Guardian Council, which is vetting candidates for...

By Reuters | 07:13 PM | 2

Lebanese Sunni gunmen ride on motorcycles during the funeral of one of their colleagues

Three killed during Syria-related clashes in Lebanese city

Three people were killed in further sectarian fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Tuesday, security sources...

By Reuters | 06:59 PM

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Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against...

By Reuters | 09:04 PM

Producer Mel Brooks poses for a portrait in his office at The Culver Studios in California.

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By JTA | 07:45 PM

Glenn Beck at the Zionist Organization of America fundraiser last year.

Zionist Organization of America regains tax-exempt status

The Zionist Organization of America has regained its tax exemption more than a year after its failure to file financial...

By The Forward | 10:34 AM | 4

State Department notes anti-Semitism spike, Israel’s limits on religious pluralism

The U.S. religious freedoms report highlights continued 'flourishing' of the Passover blood libel as well as Holocaust denial.

By JTA | May 21, 2013 | 04:38 PM | 2

U.K. program targets 'Jewish' cancer gene with DNA analysis

New British research program tries out new model which would give cancer patients the kind of genetic analysis that led Angelina Jolie to decide to undergo a preventive double mastectomy.

By Reuters | May 20, 2013 | 06:39 PM

The Moroccan Jewish pig farmer preaching peace in Israel

Bruno Frydman's family endured the Inquisition and the Holocaust; his unique background shapes his approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By Danna Harman | May 19, 2013 | 12:20 PM | 2

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Natalia Zorbov, "Esther in the garden (Jaffa)", 2013.
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Elham Rokni, from the series "Sisters Khalili," 2013.
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‏Jennifer Abessira, July, Photography, 30/40, 2012.
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Gustavo Sagorsky, Souvenir, Photography, 35x46, 2012.
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Happy Backgammon by the Halili Sisters
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