Barak Ravid

Settlers were given until 3 P.M. on Tuesday to leave the house; government debating proper response to the structure's capture; Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz: Settlers should be allowed to stay.

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is trying to convince Israel to set a meeting between a top PA delegation and PM Netanyahu, where Palestinian demands for continued talks will be presented.

Comments by Likud's Yisrael Katz come amid apparent disagreement between defense establishment, Netanyahu's office as to the proper response to the structure's capture; Netanyahu to discuss issue in panel with Barak.

Senior defense official presents Israeli cabinet with assessment of number of people dead should Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas launch missiles at Israel; number is far lower than the one mentioned previously by Defense Minister Barak.

PM asked Barak to allow Jewish settlers who took over a house in Palestinian part of Hebron to exhaust their legal options; IDF previously gave settlers 24 hours to evacuate.

After a long silence following her infamous ‘Jews should go back to Germany’ comment, Helen Thomas receives a medal from PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington.

U.S. Sixth Fleet also participating in the exercise, which includes simulation of attack on offshore natural gas platforms.

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr phoned Lieberman to lay out Australia's opposition to an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, and to say that sanctions need more time.

Danny Ayalon sent to Washington to seek U.S. help in thwarting UN Human Rights Council probe of settlements, Haaretz has learned.

On April 1, collective protection for South Sudan nationals is set to expire; Jerusalem District Court also issues an injunction forbidding any deportation of South Sudanese nationals before April 15.

PM's visit will mark 20 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and China, and alongside economic issues, sides are expected to discuss Iran's nuclear program.

While his political rivals are battling one another, the PM headed to the Egyptian border, where he toured the border fence with joy, calmness and a bit of arrogance.

Austrian and Belgian ambassadors to Israel were summoned to the Foreign Ministry and reprimanded.

Senior official says Putin wants to visit Israel after he is inaugurated on May 7; Israel is expected to begin preparing for his visit, the date of which has yet to be formally announced.

Foreign Ministry sources relay that Israel's Ambassador to South Sudan has met with the republic's vice president to coordinate the return.

Meetings with Austrian, Belgian ambassadors come hours after Foreign Ministry severs ties all contact with the UN human rights council over establishment of an investigative committee on West Bank settlements.

Israel's Foreign Ministry orders envoy to Geneva to ignore all phone calls from rights council commissioner; 'The council sparked this process', says a senior Israeli official.

Israel's agreement with Germany to buy a top-of-the-line submarine proves that Chancellor Merkel is a true friend of Israel's, says ex-ambassador.

On Nakba Day last year hundreds of people breached Israel's border with Syria, although a repeat of that scenario is considered unlikely due to unrest in country.

Top ministers Lieberman, Ya'alon and Steinitz reportedly support freezing the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority.

Ad, promoting book on northern Israel, evokes no less than 350 complaints to the ASA, which oversees and regulates the advertising industry in the U.K.

Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality.

Britain's Advertising Standards Authority cancels ad by Israel’s tourism ministry in London after it promoted a book on northern Israel without properly demarcating the Golan Heights as a disputed area.

WATCH: French TV releases video of Toulouse shooting suspect; Some 300 police officers surround suspect Mohamed Merah's building; French Interior Minister says Merah to turn himself in at night 'to be more discreet'.