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ISRAEL NEWS

BREAKING NEWS

02:05
Report: Syria ready to launch missiles on Tel Aviv in case Israel strikes again (Haaretz)
01:42
More than a dozen injured as car plows through parade in Virginia (Reuters)
00:31
Two brothers wounded in shooting in Galilee village, police investigates (Haaretz)
22:56
A protester is arrested in the demonstration outside Yitzhak Teshuva's house (Ch. 10)
21:42
Close to 1,000 protesting cost of living in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
20:42
Syria: Gunmen abducted the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad (AP)
19:57
Yacimovich: If we find ourselves on the eve of a peace treaty we will join the government (Ch. 10)
19:02
Tzipi Livni: No peace agreement can be reached with the Palestinians (Army Radio)
19:00
A brawl in Taybe ends in a 5 wounded persons, one with a gunshot wound in his chest (Haaretz)
18:48
Egypt's opposition attacks Brotherhood-backed NGO draft law (Reuters)
18:37
Syria's Assad tells the Argentine daily Clarin: We cannot negotiate with fragmented rebels (Haaretz)
18:21
Police arrest two in a violent demonstration in Jerusalem involving rock throwing (Haaretz)
17:21
Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi (Reuters)
16:58
Egypt blocks Gaza border, Hamas calls continued closure 'unjustified' (Reuters)
16:14
Syria rebels capture several pro-Assad villages in center of country (DPA)

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Israeli election: News & Features

Israel's new Education Minister accused of past ethnic discrimination

Rabbi Shai Piron is accused by two students of having discriminated against ethnic groups at the school where he was principal from 1995 to 2007.

By Lior Dattel | Mar 20, 2013 | 04:40 PM | 3

Education Minister Shai Piron.

Racist incitement by Israeli public figures doubled in 2012, study shows
By Jack Khoury | 13
New coalition agreement is landmark for Israeli education
By Meirav Arlosoroff | 3
Yair Lapid's strange choice
By Sefi Rachlevsky | 2

Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich delivers a speech at the party's headquarters in Kfar Saba

Labor MKs: We will remain in the opposition

Contrary to some expectations, no one at the Labor Party meeting raised any challenges to the leadership of chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich and backed her insistence on not joining a Netanyahu-led coalition.

By Jonathan Lis | Jan 28, 2013 | 07:43 PM | 3

Jisr al-Zarqa - Nimrod Glickman - 09012012

Due to clerical error, Arab town votes for far-right Jewish party

A recount of the polling data in Jisr al-Zarqa, which attracted the attention of the elections committee, revealed a clerical error was responsible for the surprising support of Aryeh Eldad and Michael Ben Ari's party.

By Nir Hasson | Jan 28, 2013 | 05:07 PM | 2

Shas leaders Ariel Atias, left, Aryeh Deri and Eli Yishai in Jerusalem

Shas sending Netanyahu mixed messages about joining coalition

Ultra-Orthodox party leaders warn of an unprecedented split in society if conscription were forced upon yeshiva students, but say they are prepared to 'go to great lengths to achieve cooperation.'

By Yair Ettinger | Jan 28, 2013 | 12:24 AM | 8

Four of six F-22 fighters over European skies

U.S. upgrades strike capabilities against Iran, stations 'stealth' fighters in Gulf

U.S. last Aril deployed six F-22 Raptors, its most advanced fighter currently in operational use and the only operational 'stealth' fighter in use around the world, on airbase in UAE. This temporary deployment has apparently become permanent.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jan 27, 2013 | 07:18 PM | 67

Aryeh Deri

Ultra-Orthodox parties to conduct coalition negotiations as united bloc

United Torah Judaism and Shas announce they will establish a joint religious front worth 18 seats; meanwhile, Shas has already begun talks with Netanyahu adviser about a compromise on the issue of ultra-Orthodox military service.

By Yair Ettinger | Jan 27, 2013 | 11:26 AM

Carmel Shama-Hacohen

Major shake-up of Knesset economic committees expected as a result of election

The chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee in the outgoing Knesset, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, was not even reelected as a Knesset member.

By Zvi Zrahiya | Jan 27, 2013 | 09:06 AM

Yesh Atid press conference

Mayors who ran for Knesset didn’t win over residents

In Israel's 2013 election, the power of mayors to affect the national vote seems to have declined considerably.

By Eli Ashkenazi, Yanir Yagna | Jan 27, 2013 | 02:08 AM

Yair Lapid

A portrait of a politician as a good-looking man

Yair Lapid may believe in his ability to change the county, but those who voted for him believe mainly in his powers of seduction.

By Benny Ziffer | Jan 25, 2013 | 11:31 AM

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef voting in Israel's election on Jan. 22, 2013.

Compromise on drafting yeshiva students to IDF would allow Shas into coalition

Will Shas declare independence from the Ashkenazi rabbis?

By Yair Ettinger | Jan 25, 2013 | 09:51 AM

A poster featuring Bennett and Netanyahu

Netanyahu mulls excluding Habayit Hayehudi from Israel's next government

Likud sources say that the PM may accede to demands by centrist parties to resume Israeli-Palestinian talks; sources say that if Yair Lapid receives post of foreign minister, Defense Ministry will be given to Yisrael Beiteinu's Yair Shamir.

By Jonathan Lis, Ilan Lior, Revital Hovel, Jack Khoury | Jan 25, 2013 | 09:31 AM | 4

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