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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.

#op-Israel.

Hackers plan cyber attack against Israeli targets in April

The 'Anonymous' hacker collective is reportedly planning to launch a coordinated attack against Israeli targets on April 7th.

By Oded Yaron | Mar 14, 2013 | 08:02 AM | 6

Qalandiyah checkpoint

New Israeli organization aims to be first right-wing Palestinian rights watchdog

Ex-PMO staffer Yoaz Hendel founds BlueWhite Human Rights, aims to monitor rights violation at West Bank checkpoints, collate testimonies of apparent IDF war crimes, provide medical assistance to Palestinians and African asylum-seekers.

By Barak Ravid | Mar 14, 2013 | 05:08 AM | 13

Ehud Barak and Avigdor Lieberman at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Comittee

Barak waves goodbye after long and stormy term as defense minister

The gap between the defense establishment's admiration and his public image informed the unusually long tenure of Ehud Barak as minister of defense.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 14, 2013 | 02:28 AM

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a meeting of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors in Jerusalem

The settlers will rise in power in Israel's new government

Netanyahu's new government, which will pour its resources into settlement expansion, is likely to force Israel into growing international isolation.

By Barak Ravid | Mar 14, 2013 | 01:11 AM | 35

An Israeli soldier takes aim during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron

Israeli army says its troops killed Palestinian after their vehicle was attacked

Picture taken by soldier shows that the Jeep Defender was badly pelted by stones; Palestinians say troops fired dozens of bullets.

By Chaim Levinson | Mar 13, 2013 | 09:57 PM | 9

Mahmoud Abbas

Palestinian Authority officials lower expectations of Obama visit

Palestinians say U.S. administration reps told them president was coming just 'to listen'; Abbas visits Putin Thursday, not coincidentally.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 13, 2013 | 09:00 PM | 34

Vatican

Obama may have to cut Israel trip short due to pope installation

There is no law requiring a head of state to appear at the papal installation, but the insult perceived if an American is elected pope could cause a diplomatic incident; Obama may be forced to offend either millions of Jews or a billion Catholics.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Mar 13, 2013 | 03:10 PM | 111

On the border between Egypt, Israel and the Gaza Strip.

WATCH: Israel planting trees along Gaza border to defend against rockets

The IDF first used trees as a line of defense as the state was being established, but say they can be just as effective today.

By Reuters | Mar 13, 2013 | 10:30 AM | 12

An Israeli soldier takes aim during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron

Palestinian youth killed by IDF fire in clashes near Hebron

This is the eighth Palestinian to die from IDF fire in the West Bank over the last four months; violence increased there by 70 percent during the month of February.

By Chaim Levinson, Gili Cohen | Mar 12, 2013 | 11:27 PM | 57

efrat

Palestinians to High Court: Israel's West Bank land claim will cut Bethlehem off from south

Israel's High Court of Justice is to rule on the state's right to declare ownership of 1,000 acres of undeveloped land located in West Bank settlement of Efrat, which Palestinians say belong to them.

By Amira Hass | Mar 12, 2013 | 10:29 PM | 37

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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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