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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

13:54
Obama: We must push through the 'breaches of faith' on both sides (Haaretz)
13:52
Obama: Settlement activity not appropriate or constructive to advancing peace (Haaretz)
13:51
Obama: Two-state solution still possible, only chance for peace and success (Haaretz)
13:51
Obama: Israel and Palestinians must make this leap together (Haaretz)
13:43
Obama: U.S. committed to the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine (Haaretz)
13:39
Obama: Palestinians deserve a future, a home, a state of their own (Haaretz)
13:37
Abbas: Palestinians ready to implement commitments in order to launch the peace process (Haaretz)
13:36
Abba to Obama: Palestinian people have made a miracle and rose from the Nakba (Haaretz)
13:36
Abbas: Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital is possible (Haaretz)
13:36
Abbas: Peace impossible under violence and occupation (Haaretz)
13:11
Syria hands over captured Lebanese soldier, state TV reports (AP)
12:31
Syrian rebels have reportedly overrun several towns near the Israeli border (Reuters)
12:18
Report: Ramallah protesters hold up shoes, call Obama to leave Palestine (Haaretz)
11:49
Police arrests Acre resident suspected of smuggling heroin from Lebanon (Haaretz)
11:38
Report: Abbas condemns violence against civilians, including rocket fire (Reuters)

More Breaking News

Diplomacy & Defense

Obama's second day in Israel

Gaza rockets slam southern Israel during Obama visit

Sirens sound across southern Israel; one rocket damages the backyard of a home in southern Israeli town of Sderot, second rocket hits open area near town; no casualties were reported; Abbas: We condemn all violence against civilians.

By Amos Harel, Barak Ravid | Mar 21, 2013 | 09:50 AM | 39

Gaza rocket explodes in Sderot.

Facebook comments by the soldier

Israeli soldier on Facebook: There's nothing better than a dead Arab

IDF tells commanders to better monitor their troops after second such case in recent weeks.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 19, 2013 | 12:50 PM | 37

Defense Ministry

Israel's Defense Ministry officially passes from Ehud Barak to Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya'alon - a former IDF chief, strategic affairs minister, and vice premier - replaced Ehud Barak after six years on the job.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 19, 2013 | 12:34 PM

Netanyahu with Jordan’s King Abdullah

Jordanian king: Ties with Netanyahu very strong, may be too late for two-state solution

Jordan's King Abdullah II tells American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg that increased coordination with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has contributed to stability in his kingdom, also says Israel may have to choose between 'apartheid and democracy' if Palestinian state not created.

By Barak Ravid | Mar 19, 2013 | 10:42 AM | 51

U.S. President Barack Obama waves from Air Force One on March 15th, 2013.

Jeffrey Goldberg to Haaretz: 'Obama is the most Jewish U.S. president ever'

Obama could be placed in the spiritual and moral mainstream of American liberal Judaism, says Goldberg - and that’s why his relationship with Netanyahu is so complicated.

By Ari Shavit | Mar 19, 2013 | 01:06 AM | 54

U.S. President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn to the Oval Office of the White House

On Persian new year, Obama tells Iranians: Citizens pay high price for nuclear defiance

In remarks directed towards Iranian citizens, Obama says world is united in goal of preventing an Iranian nuclear bomb.

By The Associated Press | Mar 19, 2013 | 12:09 AM | 4

Mobile homes at the West Bank settlement outpost Ramat Gilad.

U.S. shuns UN debate on Israeli settlers ahead of Obama visit

UN Human Rights Council concludes that Israel's 'creeping annexation' of West Bank violates many rights; U.S. ambassador says Washington is 'extremely troubled' by UN council's 'biased and disproportionate focus on Israel.'

By DPA | Mar 18, 2013 | 06:47 PM | 34

An IDF jeep on patrol.

IDF soldier convicted of negligent homicide for killing of Palestinian man

The 21-year-old laborer who was shot was not considered a security threat but was trying to get to his job after entering Israel through a gap in the separation fence.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 18, 2013 | 04:12 PM | 13

Pro-Palestinian protest Boston Univ. march 2011 Natasha Mozgovaya

ABC poll: Most Americans want U.S. to stay out of Israeli-Palestinian talks

ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday also finds that 55 percent of Americans sympathize with Israel, compared to 9 percent that side with Palestinians.

By Haaretz | Mar 18, 2013 | 01:34 PM | 54

Avigdor Lieberman

Lieberman vows to block settlement freeze efforts in Israel's next government

Former Foreign Minister, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is considered the big winner of ministerial appointments in Israel's 33rd government; Netanyahu set to swear in new cabinet on Monday evening.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 18, 2013 | 12:45 PM | 10

Foreign police, presumably those who escorted Dan Cohen to Israel, are seen at the arrival terminal

Legal wheels grind on Shabbat so cops can nab fugitive judge upon his wee-hours arrival

An arrest warrant was issued on Saturday so it would be in force when former judge Dan Cohen arrived in Europe, where he stopped in route to Israel.

By Shlomo Papirblat, Revital Hovel | Mar 18, 2013 | 08:42 AM

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Middle East

Golan Heights - AP

Syria rebels overrun towns near border with Israel, monitoring group says

By Reuters | 12:44 PM

Medics and other masked people attend to a man at a hospital in Khan al-Assal, Aleppo, Syria.

U.S. ambassador to Syria: No evidence to back reports chemical weapons used

By Eli Ashkenazi, Reuters, The Associated Press | 05:42 PM | 9

IDF soldiers walk in front of wind turbines near Alonei Habashan close to the Israeli-Syrian border.

IDF treats four wounded Syrians found near border with Israel

By Jack Khoury, Eli Ashkenazi | 12:02 PM | 9

National

Ramat Gan mayor Zvi Bar.

Justice Danziger recuses himself in Ramat Gan mayor bribery case

By Revital Hovel | 11:26 AM

Operating room in Ichilov Hospital

Israeli woman dies during routine hernia operation, Health Ministry investigating

By Dan Even | 06:23 AM

A trash separation site ahead of recycling.

Israel pushes settlers and Palestinians to cooperate on recycling

By Zafrir Rinat | 02:30 AM | 3

The Iran Debate

Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran

Poll: 64% of Americans would support U.S. strike to prevent Iran's nuclear program

By Chemi Shalev | 06:28 PM | 21

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi in Tehran, Iran.

Iran will promise UN not to seek nuclear bomb, semi-official agency reports

By The Associated Press | 05:53 PM | 21

Obama

Obama to U.S. Jews: Still room for Iran diplomacy, no point in 'chest beating'

By Chemi Shalev, Barak Ravid | 11:37 PM | 44

U.S. Elections 2012

Inauguration

Americans in Israel toast to four more years of Obama

By Andrew Esensten | 06:04 PM

President Barack Obama holds up a pen as he speaks about the economy and the deficit, November 9, 20

Obama wins in Florida, besting Romney in final vote count

By The Associated Press | 09:02 PM | 4

Americans young and old gathering for a post-election party at Jerusalem’s Coffee Bean Wednesday.

Far from home, Obama supporters living in Israel rejoice

By Mordechai I. Twersky | 03:48 AM | 5

World

Omar al-Bashir speaking in Sudan

Sudan's president says he will quit in 2015, after over 20 years in power

By The Associated Press | 04:20 AM

Pope Francis urges 'a poor church and a church for the poor'

By The Associated Press | 02:15 AM | 2

Holocaust survivor searches for long-lost twin on Facebook

By Ofer Aderet | 02:40 AM

Features

eternity

Word of the Day / Lanetzah

By Shoshana Kordova | 10:23 AM

Rabbis Orthodox Jews

This day in Jewish history / The rebbe who met with Freud

By David B. Green | 09:35 AM

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, center.

David's Harp / Yair Lapid: New politics, or just born yesterday?

By David Rosenberg | 08:54 PM

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