Eli Ashkenazi

Mortar shell fired from Syria strikes Tel Fares, patrol in Tel Hazeka comes under gunfire; Defense Minister Ya'alon said prior to attack on first visit to Syria border that Israel would respond to any security incident; also Tuesday, two Gaza rocket landed in western Negev.

On Monday, a 39-year-old Ashdod man was detained on suspicion of stabbing father to death.

Organized crime, interested in subverting the rule of law, are behind the attempt on his life, says Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri.

The IDF brought two of the wounded into Israel for further treatment, after which they will be returned home.

Mayor Shimon Lankri was shot in the chest Friday night by an unknown masked assailant when he stopped at a traffic light while driving his car at around 1.30 A.M.

IDF fire comes in response to two rounds of gunfire shot from Syria into Israel in last 24 hours; Defense Ministry: Israel will respond immediately to any breach of sovereignty.

Several dozen fighters, from both sides, have reportedly been killed in past week as rebels and regime struggle for control over the Syrian Golan.

Unknown assailant shoots Acre's mayor while in his car in the Western Galilee; police are investigating.

Syrian government asks UN to look into alleged chemical weapon attack; Jordan's King Abdullah II says Assad's days are numbered.

Two were transferred to Haifa hospital for treatment; seven Syrians wounded in the insurgency against President Bashar Assad were also admitted into Israel for treatment in February.

Three justices asked the Nazareth District Court to examine new opinions presented on behalf of the man convicted last September of the grisly murder of a Golan Heights schoolgirl.

A project that brings Jewish and Arab teens together with the purpose of promoting coexistence is at risk of closing down as funding promised by the Education Ministry has not been forthcoming.

No water will be pumped from Lake Kinneret over the week-long holiday in deference to the dietary concerns of Israel's Haredi Jews.

Police say one of the teens hit the Arab man from Jaffa, broke a bottle on his head, and punched him in the face repeatedly while he was on the ground.

Younger suspect also indicted on charges that he and the older defendant committed sexual offenses against the girl over an extended period of time.

Teens arrested and subsequently released after promising to explain to local students why such behavior is wrong; two other teens turn themselves over to Jerusalem police over attack on Arab woman and her Jewish friend.

Ahmed Bani Jaber pleads guilty to aggravated rape and sodomy, but the teenage girl's allegations of nationalist motives are dropped.

Police suspect that two of the youths arrested for a Purim attack on a sanitation worker from Jaffa are also behind the attack on an Arab man vacationing with his wife at the Sea of Galilee.

The motives for the triple murder remain unclear, police said, and several lines of inquiry are being pursued.

Charges brought against Nadar Matias, who was 18 when he was badly injured in a traffic accident, were dismissed only nine days after a similar case was also dropped.

After one-year break due to the Syrian civil war, Druze growers prepare for their biggest-ever export haul from the Golan.

At least three shells found in an open area just west of the Syria-Israel border; no damage or casualties reported; IDF files complaint with UN observer force on border over incident.

In September 2010 Zadorov was found guilty of murdering teenager Tair Rada at her Golan Heights school four years previously.

Two Golan Heights residents saw shots fired toward Israel from Syria and heard a hissing sound accompanying the shots; no explosion reported.

State wants to make an example out of the Safed resident who was left partially disabled by crash.Although no one else was injured in the accident and no other damage was caused, four months ago the police prosecutor brought charges against the driver in order to serve as a warning for others.