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A French writer has been gathering anecdotes from random residents of Mediterranean coastal cities as part of Marseille's 2013 City of Culture commemoration.

The best-selling authors and leading London chefs have brought Jerusalem's cuisine to the world, but are left with a bitter aftertaste about Israel.

It's not true that Seinfeld was a show about nothing, says Haaretz's Alon Idan.

Made of brick taken from a house located in the old Jewish quarter, the mezuzah to be engraved with the Hebrew letter 'shin;' additional bricks to be used for mezuzahs sold at gift shop.

With a wealth of historical places revered by Christians in the Galilee, Israel is sitting on a potential tourist gold mine. However, a visit to the area reveals four painfully underdeveloped sites.

International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi meets with Russian and U.S. envoys in Geneva to discuss political solution to civil war; Assad regime calls mediator 'flagrantly biased.'

French appeals court grants release to George Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for his role in the 1982 murders of the U.S. military attaché in Paris and Israeli diplomat, and the attempted murder of the U.S. Consul General in Strasbourg in 1984.