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Palestinian prisoners used forbidden mobile phones to plot terror attacks

Trial shows security prisoners got cell phones due to illicit connection with Israeli cell phone company; phones came from Pelephone, Cellcom, but no evidence firms knew who clients were.

By Chaim Levinson | May 20, 2013 | 09:01 AM

Palestinian prisoners used forbidden mobile phones to plot terror attacks 09:08 AM
Before confronting Syria, Israel should consider saving its energy for Iran 02:47 AM

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Bennett pushing vast reforms to pry Israel’s rabbinate from Haredi grip

Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett Sunday presented his reform to the marriage registration process by expanding...

By Yair Ettinger | 04:00 AM | 2

By the People founder Oren Glanz, left, employees Osnat Heretz, Avital Yanovsky, Doron Hyman

Israeli company gives silicon wadi’s senior citizens a second chance

When Mercado Software faced liquidation and was sold to a U.S. company at the end of 2008, one of the dozens of employees left...

By Haim Bior | 05:00 AM

Israeli report on Mohammed al-Dura affair may cause more harm than good

The report on the investigation of the Mohammed al-Dura affair is probably one of the least relevant documents written by the...

By Barak Ravid | 02:28 AM | 2

Before confronting Syria, Israel should consider saving its energy for Iran

Israel will have to tread very carefully if it wants to avoid confrontation with Syria and Hezbollah, particularly as as global forces begin to intervene, and as Iran elections approach.

By Amos Harel | May 19, 2013 | 11:28 PM | 7

Interior minister approves doubling property taxes on vacant Israeli apartments

The tax hike, effective January 2014, will apply to flats that are empty nine months a year.

By Nimrod Bousso | May 20, 2013 | 05:16 AM

Amy Shahar (left), Yifat Gurion and Salome Fakiel.

Despite doubters, Tel Aviv art fair adds function to form

The Fresh Paint art festival is ignoring the protests of art purists and officially featuring design for the first time in its succesful five-year history.

By Yuval Saar | May 20, 2013 | 04:00 AM

Family of three brothers who drowned at Ashkelon beach sue municipality, Israel’s interior ministry

Family claims municipality invited public to attend event at beach on day of drownings, but did not put any lifeguards on duty or take sufficient measures to ensure that visitors did not enter the water.

By Yanir Yagna | May 20, 2013 | 01:54 AM

Diplomacy & Defense

Israeli panel: Palestinian boy 'killed' by IDF at start of intifada did not actually die

Thirteen years after an exchange of fire in Gaza appeared to have resulted in the death of a Palestinian boy at the start of the...

By Barak Ravid | 08:40 PM | 24

Peres sends condolences to Turkey following May 11 terror attack

President Shimon Peres sent a personal message on Friday to his Turkish counterpart, President Abdullah Gul, expressing his...

By Barak Ravid | 06:00 PM

The Eitan drone at an air base - Olivier Fitoussi

Israel is world's largest exporter of drones, study finds

Israel is the world's largest exporter of unmanned aircraft, in terms of the number of systems sold, a study has found.Over the...

By Gili Cohen | 04:32 PM | 11

Middle East

Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah try to retake rebel town near Lebanon border

Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more...

By Reuters | 09:05 PM

Egyptian police blocking Rafah crossing into Gaza, May 18, 2013.

Egyptian police block Israel border crossing in fury at kidnapping

Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a...

By Reuters | 02:57 PM | 2

Memebers ofIran's Revolutionary Guard and a clergyman walk on U.S. and Israel flags, iran

Iran hangs two spies allegedly working for Israel and U.S., local media reports

Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency...

By Reuters | 11:23 AM | 2

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Hungary for Jewish identity

BUDAPEST Each person in turn describes his or hers as "the classic Hungarian Jewish story."Their grandparents lived through the...

By Judy Maltz | 09:37 PM

The Jewish birthday blessing that teaches us to count

I recently celebrated a birthday. It wasn’t a milestone birthday just a day marking another year. Over the course of the day, a...

By Rabbi Micah Peltz / Jewish World blogger | 12:01 PM

A screen grab from a YouTube video of Attila Petrovszki.

'Death to Jews’ tattoo costs Hungarian martial artist Prague gig

A Hungarian martial arts fighter was disinvited from a tournament in Prague because of his Nazi tattoos, including one reading...

By JTA | 08:30 PM | 3

France detains suspect in Toulouse killings investigation

Man detained on suspicion he aided Mohamed Merah, who killed four Jews and three soldiers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March 2012.

By Reuters | May 18, 2013 | 10:40 PM

Angelina Jolie's 'Jewish genetic mutation'

A study of 5,405 U.S. women with the common Ashkenazi Jewish mutation that increases carriers' risk of breast cancer, who were treated at the Mayo Clinic during the 1990s, found 45 percent chose prophylactic mastectomy, like Angelina Jolie.

By Dan Even | May 16, 2013 | 03:50 PM | 10

A new form of authority / Parashat Nasso

With these words, God praises the Jewish people for its beauty, which is revealed when it displays its desire to voluntarily offer a gift for the Tabernacle.

By Yakov Meir | May 17, 2013 | 12:58 PM

Jordan River to drink up Kinneret water

The southern Jordan River.
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Yaron Kaminsky
The southern Jordan River.
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Yaron Kaminsky
The southern Jordan River.
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Yaron Kaminsky
The southern Jordan River.
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Gil Eliahu
The southern Jordan River.
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Yaron Kaminsky
The southern Jordan River.
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Yaron Kaminsky