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Netanyahu: Syria dropping Golan condition for talks
By Jonathan Lis and Barak Ravid
Sarkozy told Netanyahu Syria is ready to waive preconditions, but would not engage in direct negotiations.
Tags: Syria , Israel News , Israel Syria Peace
Ministry, teachers planning major education shake-up
By Or Kashti
Catch-22 in welfare funding for towns: Only the rich ones get it
By Dana Weiler-Polak
Bill would block foreigners from owning Israeli newspaper
By Mazal Mualem
European Union foreign ministers to discuss Swedish proposal on Jerusalem
By Barak Ravid
Settlers vow more protests as latest efforts to block freeze fall short
By Chaim Levinson, Jonathan Lis and Anshel Pfeffer
Soldier dies during training dive; Navy chief orders probe
By Anshel Pfeffer
Settler rabbis to tell Barak: Don't oust extremist yeshivas
By Anshel Pfeffer and Yair Ettinger
Meeting called to discuss protests against settlement evacuation by yeshiva students in the army.
Tags: Israel News , Kfir Brigade
More Israelis watched 'Big Brother' than film on the Shalits
By Gili Izikovich
'Big Brother' reality show scores more than double the ratings than a documentary on the Shalit family.
Tags: Big Brother , Gilad Shalit , Israel news
Russia in talks to buy Israeli-made spy drones
Reuters
Climate conference / Israel anxious not to harm industrial growth
By Zafrir Rinat
Israel trying to join efforts by countries seeking to be allowed to increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Copenhagen Climate Conference , Israel News
South Tel Avivians cry foul over lack of country club
By Noah Kosharek
MKs pass controversial bill to set up biometric database
By Jonathan Lis
Bill may require Israelis to have chip installed in ID cards and passports with fingerprints, facial scans.
Tags: Israel News , Israel Biometric Database
Work to start on new sewage pipe
By Zafrir Rinat
Strike means no data on Kinneret level
By Eli Ashkenazi and Zafrir Rinat
Mizrahi women at higher risk for cervical cancer
By Dan Even
Peruvian court delays extradition of former judge suspected of corruption
By Tomer Zarchin and Irit Lechter
Stenographers' strike leads to Palestinian suspect's release
By Liel Kyzer
Palestinian 'terrorist' takes aim at Bruno
Haaretz Staff
Meet Chelsea Clinton's colorful Jewish future in-laws
By Nathan Guttman, The Forward
Her future relatives include convicted ex-Congressmen and an anti-Zionist professor.
Tags: Chelsea Clinton , Israel News
Akiva Eldar / Israel may have frozen settlements, but does it want peace?
Akiva Eldar
For Netanyahu, the settlement crisis was the perfect tactic for diverting attention away from peace talks.
Tags: Israel Settlement Freeze , Israel News
The battle for Jerusalem
By Nir Hasson
News in Brief