Eli Ashkenazi

Seventy years after Jewish writer Jonas Kreppel was murdered at Buchenwald, his memory has brought together his descendants in Israel and a German Christian family of the same name.

Police close Jordan River Park in wake of accident in which 14-year-old boy was killed.

Grandchildren of kibbutz founders return to the countryside for a week.

Police to investigate campsite operators for negligence after tree branch crashes into tent of sleeping family, killing 14-year-old.

Filmed interview with actor who attended legendary kibbutz school is one of 115 that have been rescued from obscurity.

Earlier on Saturday, a motorcyclist was killed in a car accident on Highway 65 between the Megiddo Junction and Afula in northern Israel.

Firefighting crews battling blazes in the Galilee, Golan Heights and hills outside Jerusalem.

'If I knew it would be this hot I would have gone to Eilat,' says one vacationer.

On Sunday, Magen David Adom received 37 percent more calls for fainting and other heat-related ailments than an average summer day.

The perceived heat, as measured by the heat stress index, was especially high in the Galilee and on the Golan Heights, and the numbers support the perceptions.

The activities centered on the experiences of the fighters of the Palmach, who struggled against the British to found the State of Israel.

7-year-old boy drowns to death in Lake Kinneret; 62-year-old French man drowns to death while swimming at unguarded beach in Ashdod.

Rescue crews located the bodies of six Israeli airmen and one Romanian officer at the site of Monday's crash of an Israeli military helicopter in central Romania.

Suspect's father Micha sensed something was wrong and called police and rescue services - breaking into his son's apartment with authorities.

Yahiya Adwan Farhan, 35, who was described by his judges as 'a human monster,' was sentenced on Wednesday to three consecutive life terms plus 12 years - or 102 years.

Yahiya Adwan Farhan was convicted of murdering of Dana Bennett, Aharon Simchov and Czech citizen Sylvia Molrova; Bennett's mother: Verdict is no consolation but it's a relief.

As proposed in budget, Finance Ministry planning to increases the pump price of gasoline by 20 agorot per liter in 2011, and again in 2012.

The investigation into this case last month led police to arrest suspects in murder of Nazareth taxi driver Yafim Weinstein.

Three alleged members of terror cell charged with 2009 murder of taxi driver Yefim Weinstein

Yefim Weinstein, a 54-year-old taxi driver from Upper Nazareth, was found dead in November 2009; suspects say police coerced them into confessing.

The kibbutz movement, 100 years old this year, hopes to persuade some of its 350,000 past volunteers to renew their connection with Israel this fall.