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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

Middle East

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

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels have captured Khan Arnabeh, which sits on the Israeli-Syrian disengagement line and straddles a main road leading into Israeli-held territory.

By Reuters | Mar 21, 2013 | 12:44 PM

Golan Heights - AP

U.S. ambassador to Syria: No evidence to back reports chemical weapons used
By Eli Ashkenazi, Reuters and The Associated Press | 9
Time to put an Alawite state on the map
By Ely Karmon | 6
Obama reassures Israel, while taking a step back from the Middle East
By Aluf Benn | 8

Qaradari giving an anti-Assad speech in Cairo in 2012.

Controversial Sunni theologian to visit Gaza

Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has supported suicide attacks and discouraged Muslims from visiting Israel, has pledged to make the trip in May.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 15, 2013 | 01:32 AM | 2

Mahmoud Zahar

Hamas denies role in August terror attack on Egyptian base

Hamas co-founder accuses opposition faction of trying to undermine the relationship between Gaza and Cairo.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 14, 2013 | 06:18 PM | 2

Kerry talking about Syria at a press conference on Feb. 28.

Syrian opposition and its supporters see U.S. support waning

Those who would like to see Assad overthrown, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, worry the U.S. is increasingly supporting negotiations over political revolution in Syria.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 14, 2013 | 05:40 PM

Residents try to extinguish a fire following shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al

Iran increases military support to Syria's Assad, diplomats say

Western envoys say Tehran has significantly stepped up arms transfer to the Assad regime; French FM Laurent Fabius says France, U.K. to call for EU meeting on lifting embargo on supplying arms to Syrian rebels.

By Reuters | Mar 14, 2013 | 11:00 AM | 9

Israel-Egypt border - Daniel Bar-On - 22032012

Egypt ‘prevents screening of film about country’s Jews’

State Security requested to view film about Egyptian Jews before it could be cleared to be shown in cinemas; permit has not been issued.

By Reuters | Mar 14, 2013 | 03:25 AM | 4

Producing oil in Iran.

U.S. grants exceptions to 11 nations on Iran sanctions

Ten European countries and Japan were given an exception in exchange for a pledge to cut purchases of the OPEC nation's crude oil.

By Reuters | Mar 13, 2013 | 09:05 PM | 5

Catherine Ashton

Damascus rocket attack kills EU policy officer

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton confirms Ahmad Shihadeh was killed while giving humanitarian help to people in the suburb of Deraya, where he lived.

By Reuters | Mar 13, 2013 | 01:09 PM | 5

Iran's Ahmadinejad comforts mother of Venezuela's late President Chavez during the funeral

Iran clerics take Ahmadinejad to task for hugging Chavez's mother at funeral

Senior Iranian clerics say president violated strict Islamic code and failed to 'protect the dignity of his nation' by consoling mother of deceased Venezuelan leader with an embrace.

By The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2013 | 10:02 PM | 24

Iranian lawmakers in parliament

Report: Iran blocks VPN access to Gmail, Yahoo

Since 2009 protests, Iran has tightened restrictions on VPN use and occasionally blocked them; latest move means users in some part of the country can no longer access services such as Gmail and Yahoo.

By The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:07 PM

Ramallah market - Daniel Bar-On

World Bank report: Palestinian economy has been in steady decline since 1994

Israeli-imposed economic restrictions and prolonged system of closures directly caused the long-term decline, the report says; however numbers seem positive in context of the global crisis.

By Amira Hass | Mar 12, 2013 | 11:46 AM | 12

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Diplomacy & Defense

Gaza rocket explodes in Sderot.

Gaza rockets slam southern Israel during Obama visit

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

U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their joint news conference

Full transcript of Obama-Netanyahu joint press conference

By Haaretz | 11:00 PM | 3

U.S. President Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a news conference in Jerusalem, March 2

LIVE BLOG: Barack Obama visits Israel: Day one

By Haaretz | 09:41 PM | 150

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

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

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

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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