This angers Israel's government antiquities authority, which holds most of the scrolls, claims that every last scrap should be recognized as Israeli cultural property, and threatens to seize any more pieces that hit the market.

In a televised speech, Nasrallah says Israel is 'fears rockets' and cautions that militant factions taking over Syria 'pose a threat to Lebanon.'

Rebels report unprecedented shelling Qusair, a Syrian town close to the Lebanese border that has become a strategic battleground between the warring sides.

Days after Yair Lapid told The New York Times he opposes a freeze on settlement construction, Social Affairs Minister Meir Cohen says some settlements should be evacuated unilaterally.

You may know Jerusalem, but do you know about its Georgian past? A tour through some of the city's lesser-known historical sites.

The annual BBC World Service poll finds Germany most popular; only countries less popular than Israel are North Korea, Pakistan and Iran.

Attack was meant to be a retaliation for what foreign news sources reported were Israeli airstrikes in Syria, former security adviser Isaac Ben-Israel said.

FBI retracts statement that Ibragim Todashev, shot to death during interview at his Florida home over role in 2011 murder with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, attacked agent with knife.

Series of potentially destructive computer attacks that have been targeting American oil, gas and electricity companies are Iran's way of retaliating against sanctions and the U.S.-Israeli cyber efforts to sabotage the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant, The New York Times reports.

That strange sound coming from the Knesset this week could be traced to the back-scratching going on in its deepest recesses, as various factions sought to seal deals ahead of the upcoming election of the chief rabbi.