Around 150 people gather around Ramallah office during Abbas-Obama meeting.
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WATCH: Shir Ariely and Talia Schein cover Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song "Call Me Maybe," earning tickets to Obama's much-hyped speech Thursday.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels have captured Khan Arnabeh, which sits on the Israeli-Syrian disengagement line and straddles a main road leading into Israeli-held territory.
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On the second day of his visit to the Middle East, President Barack Obama traveled to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, after a morning viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum; later in the day, the U.S. president will address students at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
by Haaretz 25 comments
Have Israeli leaders co-opted the country's beauty queen to raise the issue of Jonathan Pollard with President Obama because she is Ethiopian? Do they think Obama will reconsider Pollard just because another black person asks him to?
by Sarah Hankins 1 comments
Sources say his friendship with the mayor of Bat Yam, who is accused of similar offenses, may constitute a conflict of interests.
by Revital Hovel 0 comments
Not everyone in Israel were pleased to hear about U.S. President Barack Obama's visit in Israel.
by Roy (Chicky) Arad 0 comments
Abbas expected to assert: 'No one can gain more than the Palestinians from a resumption of negotiations and no one can lose more in their absence.'
by Barak Ravid 2 comments
Eyal Keren could have shined in European leagues had the government invested more in developing young players.
by Tom Preiss 0 comments
The American-Israeli alliance is eternal, stated Barack Obama upon his arrival - using the eternal Hebrew word, lanetzah.
by Shoshana Kordova 0 comments
Anti-psychotic drug under development proved no better than the standard schizophrenia medication.
by Yoram Gabison 0 comments
Sirens sound across southern Israel; one rocket damages the backyard of a home in southern Israeli town of Sderot, second rocket hits open area near town; no casualties were reported; Abbas: We condemn all violence against civilians.
by Amos Harel and Barak Ravid 39 comments
Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe who is credited with initiating Chabad's focus on outreach, traveled to Vienna to consult with Sigmund Freud. On this day in 1920, Schneersohn died.
by David B. Green 0 comments
Revivim, with its groves of olive trees, is the epitome of David Ben-Gurion's call to make the desert bloom. Even Golda Meir made it her home.
by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh 0 comments
Pre-Passover retail sales so far are among the lowest recorded in recent years, according to figures released by Gama Management and Clearing.
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