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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.

Former Israeli judge Dan Cohen

Prosecutors press extradited judge for names of allegedly bribed Electric Corp. officials

Secrets kept by former Israeli judge Dan Cohen, who was recently extradited to Israel from Peru, could implicate several Israelis in crimes that could send them to jail for years.

By Gidi Weitz | Mar 18, 2013 | 04:41 AM

IDF soldiers on the Syria-Israel border.

Report: Israel to ask Obama to stop the flow of arms from Syria to Hezbollah

According to a report in the Guardian Israel plans to ask the U.S. to thwart future weapons transfers by use of lethal force even at the price of igniting a conflict.

By Haaretz | Mar 18, 2013 | 02:56 AM | 19

A protester holding a poster of a Palestinian prisoner who is on hunger strike in Israeli prison.

Palestinian prisoner agrees to end hunger strike, will move to Gaza

Ayman Sharawneh, one of hundreds freed in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, was arrested again in January 2012, agreed to confinement in Gaza for ten years, lawyer says.

By Amira Hass, Gili Cohen | Mar 18, 2013 | 02:07 AM | 5

Bar

IDF complains over Bar Refaeli's involvement in Israeli hasbara campaign

IDF spokesman sends an official letter to the Foreign Ministry arguing that by using Refaeli, who didn't complete her military service, the Foreign Ministry was sending the wrong message.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 18, 2013 | 01:15 AM | 8

An Orthodox soldier praying at Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's grave on Mount Meron.

Breakthrough on Haredi draft possible in new Israeli government plan

For the first time, a comprehensive agreement on integrating Israel's ultra-Orthodox into the IDF and the workplace is within reach. But there are still many obstacles to overcome.

By Amos Harel | Mar 17, 2013 | 01:20 PM | 7

Israel U. S ties- AP- March 26, 1979

'This American chutzpah makes my blood boil,' Menachem Begin said during Jimmy Carter's 1979 visit to Israel for Egypt peace talks

Drama surrounding U.S. president's visit endangered signing of peace accord with Egypt; State Archive publishes protocols ahead of Barack Obama's visit to Israel.

By Ofer Aderet | Mar 17, 2013 | 10:02 AM | 29

Israeli former judge Dan Cohen attends his second extradition hearing at the San Jorge prison

Israeli ex-judge arrives in Israel after secret Peruvian decision paved way for arrest

Dan Cohen arrives in Israel after being arrested by undercover agents on a busy street in Peru Friday and extradited that night.

By Shlomo Papirblat | Mar 17, 2013 | 08:27 AM

President Barack Obama

Source: Obama says he's not bringing peace plan because Israeli gov't uninterested

Official at high-level U.S. government meetings says Obama frustrated with fruitlessness of the peace process, claiming it would be pointless to pressure the Israeli government at this time.

By Barak Ravid | Mar 17, 2013 | 02:06 AM | 52

Israeli former judge Dan Cohen, center, is escorted by police

Peru extradites Israeli ex-judge wanted for bribery

Dan Cohen, a former judge and wanted fugitive, is on his way to Israel seven and a half years after he fled amid suspicions of accepting millions of dollars in bribes.

By Gidi Weitz | Mar 16, 2013 | 06:51 PM | 2

Bulgaria bus attack

Bulgaria will not take lead in blacklisting Hezbollah, says PM

Move by new interim PM likely to be seen as concession to Bulgarian opposition, who argues country could open itself up to more attacks if it takes the lead in blacklisting Hezbollah.

By Reuters | Mar 16, 2013 | 05:24 PM | 10

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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

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

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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