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Germany officially supports listing Hezbollah's military wing as terror group

Change in position comes after the German government long disapproved of the terror label; Israeli Foreign Ministry officials say Germany is expected to help the U.K., the Netherlands and other EU members promote the issue.

By Barak Ravid | May 22, 2013 | 02:46 PM | 2

Hezbollah members holding Hezbollah and Lebanese flags during a rally in Lebanon

Israeli officials: More EU states backing move to list Hezbollah as terror group over role in Syria
By Barak Ravid | 19

Germany officially backs EU terror label for Hezbollah's military wing 03:58 PM
Police officer fired into bathroom stall where Be'er Sheva bank hostage was being held, Knesset learns 02:31 PM
Supreme Court orders Israel's AG to explain law allowing confiscation of Palestinian land in Jerusalem 01:47 PM
Israel announces new gun-control rules after Be'er Sheva bank shooting 09:13 AM

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Iran has installed 700 centrifuges this year, diplomats say

Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite...

By The Associated Press | 01:39 PM

On Jewish food and the American dream

Michael Levine was walking down Rivington Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side some four years ago, when curiosity made him peek...

By Vered Guttman | 01:34 PM

Police officer fired into stall where Be'er Sheva bank hostage was being held

At the peak of the attack in the Bank Hapoalim branch in Be’er Sheva that left four people dead on Monday, an Israel Police...

By Yanir Yagna | 02:01 PM

Israel Police suspect Bedouin man in connection with two daughters' murders

The girls, 3 and 5, were found strangled to death; mother complained to the police the night before the murder, saying that the father, who remains at large, threatened to hurt the girls.

By Yanir Yagna, Jack Khoury | May 22, 2013 | 12:45 PM

Eric Garcetti celebrates being elected as LA mayor.

Los Angeles elects Eric Garcetti as its first Jewish mayor

The 42-year-old veteran city councilman's mother is Jewish mother and 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

Palestinian family who lives in a tent, South Hebron Hills, West Bank.

Tourist tip: Visiting the southern West Bank

Few dare to visit the beautiful and expansive South Hebron Hills, but a trip there sheds valuable light on the dynamics of Israeli occupation.

By Mairav Zonszein | May 22, 2013 | 06:14 AM

Resignation of Israel's treasury budget chief may portend wave of exits

Officials at the Finance Ministry attribute resignation to freshman minister Yair Lapid.

By Moti Bassok | May 22, 2013 | 02:11 AM

Diplomacy & Defense

A pro-Hezbollah rally in southern Lebanon.

Israeli officials: More EU states backing move to list Hezbollah as terror group over role in Syria

Hezbollah's increased involvement in the civil war in Syria and the aid it is giving to President Bashar Assad’s regime is...

By Barak Ravid | 11:00 PM | 19

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 | 14

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 | 16

Middle East

Syrian fighters praying near the town of Yayladagi, at the Turkish-Syrian border.

Turkey shuts Syria border crossing after bombings that killed 51

Turkey has shut its side of the last border crossing with Syria still controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's government,...

By Reuters | 03:15 PM

Egyptian soldiers are deployed in the area of the Rafah Crossing.

Islamist militants release seven members of Egyptian security forces kidnapped in Sinai

Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula last week were released on...

By Reuters | 09:32 AM

A Free Syrian Army fighter holding his weapon in Raqqa

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 | 7

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Sofer, Rabbi Ariel Luis, writing a line of Torah for Rabbi Yehoshua Looks.

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

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By Dan Goldberg | 01:45 AM | 5

Jewish Chabad center gives assistance to Oklahoma tornado victims

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter of condolence to President Obama on Tuesday morning in the wake of the tornado.

By JTA | May 21, 2013 | 05:18 PM

Mel Brooks’ top 10 'Jewy Jewish' scenes

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By JTA | May 20, 2013 | 07:45 PM

Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Spiegel was one of about 750 Jewish fighters who on April 19, 1943, launched an uprising that took the Germans off guard.

By Reuters | May 21, 2013 | 09:04 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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