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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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Middle East

Jailed Kurdish leader Ocalan calls for cease-fire with Turkey

In a message to pro-Kurdish legislators, Abdullah Ocalan calls for thousands of his PKK fighters to withdraw from Turkish territory: We have reached the point where the guns must be silenced and where ideas must speak.

By The Associated Press | Mar 21, 2013 | 02:20 PM

Demonstrators shout nationalist slogans during a protest against PKK.

Kurdish rebel leader raises hopes of cease-fire in 28-year-old conflict with Turkey
By Reuters | 1
Turkey's close encounters of the Kurd kind
By Zvi Bar'el | 1

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

Date of Egypt's parliamentary elections under reveiw

Administrative Court of Egypt refers amended electoral law to Supreme Constitutional Court for review on Wednesday; elections due to start in April likely to be postponed.

By Reuters | Mar 6, 2013 | 05:06 PM

Arab League meeting in Cairo

Arab League mulls awarding vacant seat in bloc to Syrian opposition

Ministers meeting in Cairo divided on whether to let the opponents of President Bashar Assad take over Syria's seat, previously held by the Damascus government.

By Reuters | Mar 6, 2013 | 04:33 PM

Ahmadinejad Chavez Tehran 19.10.10 Reuters

Iran declares day of mourning for anti-U.S. ally Chavez

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had forged a public friendship over loathing of "colonialism and imperialism; Syria also mourns Chavez's 'honorable stand on the conspiracy against Syria'.

By Reuters | Mar 6, 2013 | 03:37 PM | 3

A Syrian family who fled their home from Aleppo register, at UNHCR center in Lebanon

UN agency: One million refugees have fled Syria, half of them children

UNHCR reports number of refugees mounting every week; Lebanon is the smallest of the country's neighbors but has received the most refugees.

By Reuters | Mar 6, 2013 | 01:59 PM | 2

Parchin - AP - 13.5.2012

U.S. warns Iran of further 'isolation' in nuclear standoff, condemns its 'defiance'

U.S. envoy accuses Iran of 'provocative actions', in address to UN nuclear agency board of governors; EU also tells board Iran's nuclear activity is 'unacceptable', but diplomats say Sweden had tried to weaken the tone of the European statement.

By Reuters | Mar 6, 2013 | 01:23 PM | 3

General James Mattis

Top U.S. Mideast commander: Iran sanctions not working

General James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iran has a history of denial and deceit and is enriching uranium beyond any plausible peaceful purpose

By DPA | Mar 6, 2013 | 04:54 AM | 25

protester, opposing Egyptian President Morsi, shouts slogans at riot police in Port Said

At least 50 hurt in Egypt protests; Morsi mulls army takeover of Port Said

After days of deadly clashes, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi considers giving the military full control of Suez Canal city; violence was sparked after death sentences were dealt over deadly 2012 soccer riot.

By The Associated Press | Mar 5, 2013 | 06:22 PM

Weapons seized by the IDF - IDF Spokesman

Egyptian forces seize hidden arms stockpile in Sinai

Stash included anti-tank explosives, which were detonated; discovery marks second time in a week that Egyptian authorities have uncovered illicit weapons in the area.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 5, 2013 | 05:03 PM

An airplane.

U.S. sentences two over plot to ship aircraft parts to Iran

Iranian national is sentenced to 23 months in federal prison; American with Iranian passport receives 46-month sentence for planning to ship helicopters, aircraft parts to Iran's state-run airline in violation of U.S. trade embargo.

By The Associated Press | Mar 5, 2013 | 01:48 PM

Assad Statue

Syrian rebels capture governor of Raqqa province

Activists say governor Hassan Jalili was captured by rebel forces overnight after clashes outside his mansion; he is the highest ranking official to fall into rebel hands; crowds toppled a statue of Assad's father in the city of Raqqa on Monday.

By Reuters, The Associated Press | Mar 5, 2013 | 12:25 PM

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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 | 44

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 | 4

US President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on March 20, 2013

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

Light bulb

Israel's electric grid may not have the power to meet consumer demands

By Itai Trilnick | 08:04 AM | 3

Operating room in Ichilov Hospital

Israeli woman dies during routine hernia operation, Health Ministry investigating

By Dan Even | 06:23 AM

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

President Barack Obama holds up a pen as he speaks about the economy and the deficit, November 9, 20

Obama wins in Florida, besting Romney in final vote count

By The Associated Press | 09:02 PM | 4

Americans young and old gathering for a post-election party at Jerusalem’s Coffee Bean Wednesday.

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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