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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)

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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.

Soldiers point towards demonstrators in Burin

Court extends remand of IDF soldier suspected in death of Palestinian laborer

Soldier was involved in border incident that resulted in the gunfire death of Uday Darwish, 21, who sought to breach Israeli border on the way to his job in Rahat.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 12, 2013 | 06:34 PM | 2

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

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

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency quotes Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi as saying that Tehran plans to submit a written promise to that effect, but does not say when; In 2005Ayatollah Khamenei issued a religious edict 'banning production, storage and use of nuclear weapons'.

By The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2013 | 05:53 PM | 21

President Shimon Peres holds joint news conference with European Commission President

Peres: Iran is the greatest danger to world peace

The president, in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, calls to label Hezbollah a terror organization.

By The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:44 PM | 9

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev and President Shimon Peres

Full text of Peres speech to European Parliament

President Shimon Peres' at the seat of the parliament in Strasbourg.

| Mar 12, 2013 | 01:34 PM | 3

Gorbachev and Clinton - Reuters

Clinton, Gorbachev to attend conference honoring Israeli President Shimon Peres

World leaders will come to Israel to mark Peres' 90th birthday; despite various reports, Barbara Streisand had not yet confirmed her attendance to the June 18-20 event.

By Judy Maltz | Mar 12, 2013 | 01:04 PM

A Cobra helicopter.

Two IAF pilots killed in helicopter crash in southern Israel

The Cobra helicopter was on a routine training flight; the cause of the crash is still unknown.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 12, 2013 | 07:09 AM | 2

Turkish Airlines

Turkish business executives seek two passports for travel to Israel, Iran

Businesspeople are complaining that Iran and Israel turn away travelers with stamps in their passports from certain countries.

By Zohar Blumenkrantz, TheMarker | Mar 12, 2013 | 04:40 AM | 2

President Barack Obama

Obama meets Arab-Americans ahead of trip to Israel

Arab-American groups encourage him to deliver a message of hope to the Palestinian people even if he is unable to immediately deliver a peace plan with Israel.

By The Associated Press | Mar 11, 2013 | 11:40 PM | 45

Barak - Defense Ministry

Barak leaves Defense Ministry: 'Israel is facing extremely complex challenges'

Ehud Barak begins taking leave of ministry, after almost six years in office; he headed the ministry during the strike on the nuclear facility in Syria, which, according to foreign reports, was carried out by Israel, and during the two assaults on the Gaza Strip.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 11, 2013 | 09:26 PM | 9

BBC employee in Gaza, carries body of his 11-month-old son, killed during 2012 Gaza war

UN: Palestinian rocket, not Israeli strike, killed baby during Gaza war

Previous reports indicated that the baby of a BBC reporter in Gaza was killed in an Israeli airstrike; UN office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says in new report that incident likely caused by errant Palestinian rocket.

By The Associated Press | Mar 11, 2013 | 04:44 PM | 32

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Middle East

Demonstrators shout nationalist slogans during a protest against PKK.

Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Ocalan calls for cease-fire with Turkey

By The Associated Press | 02:20 PM

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

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

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

Iran's Ahmadinejad to attend Chavez funeral

By The Associated Press | 04:58 PM

U.S. Elections 2012

Inauguration

Americans in Israel toast to four more years of Obama

By Andrew Esensten | 06:04 PM

Obama wins in Florida, besting Romney in final vote count

By The Associated Press | 09:02 PM | 4

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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