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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

Jailed Kurdish rebel 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.

Security personnel at the scene of Monday's shooting in the northern West Bank. March 18th, 2013

Israeli lightly injured in West Bank shooting

Man shot from passing car at bus stop southwest of Nablus; police searching for shooter.

By Chaim Levinson | Mar 19, 2013 | 05:45 AM | 4

Syrian National Coalition meet in Istanbul, Turkey. Monday, March 2013.

Syrian opposition choose former businessman Hitto as provisional prime minister

Syrian National Coalition members, meeting in Istanbul, charge Ghassan Hitto with task of forming government.

By Reuters | Mar 19, 2013 | 02:59 AM

Abdullah Ocalan rally

Kurdish rebel leader raises hopes of cease-fire in 28-year-old conflict with Turkey

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan says he will make 'historic' appeal, and that wants to solve 'problem rapidly and without losing time or another life.'

By Reuters | Mar 18, 2013 | 10:12 PM

Lebanese soldiers inspect vehicles at a checkpoint in Reyaq village in the eastern Bekaa Valley

Syrian jets strike Lebanon border, no reported casualties

Strike by forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad comes days after warning would strike at rebels taking refuge across the border; U.S. describes fire as 'significant escalation'.

By Reuters | Mar 18, 2013 | 08:13 PM | 3

Syria opposition

Syria opposition pushes to form interim government

Syria's main opposition coalition begins conference on Monday with a vote for Prime minister expected on Tuesday; members of coalition dismiss possibility of negotiations with Syrian government regime.

By The Associated Press | Mar 18, 2013 | 01:15 PM

Golan Heights - AP

Syrian rebels seize military intelligence compound near Golan Heights

The compound near the Yarmouk River in the town of Shagara, 8 km from a ceasefire line with Israel, fell after a five-day siege, rebel sources said.

By Reuters | Mar 17, 2013 | 06:11 PM | 2

Brigadier General Mohammed Khalouf

VIDEO: Syrian brigadier general, 20 soldiers defect to rebels

General cites 'impossibility of accepting regime ideas' as reason for defection from Syrian army; says escape was aided by rebels

By Reuters | Mar 17, 2013 | 11:07 AM | 2

A Palestinian smuggler stands next to bags of scrap metal to be exported to Egypt through a tunnel

Egypt: Seven Palestinians deported to Gaza Strip for security reasons

Palestinians arrested in same week that state-owned magazine publishes report accusing Hamas of being behind killing of Egyptian soldiers in Sinai Peninsula.

By Jack Khoury, The Associated Press | Mar 16, 2013 | 10:07 PM | 3

Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign minister

EU's Ashton urges caution on lifting arms ban on Syria rebels

Foreign policy chief says EU needs to think 'very carefully' about French and British arguments that lifting the embargo would encourage Syrian President Assad to negotiate.

By Reuters | Mar 16, 2013 | 05:12 PM | 5

Muslims in Mecca ahead of hajj - Reuters - Oct. 24, 2012

15 Palestinians killed in Jordan bus crash

Dozens more passengers injured, five critically, in a collision with a truck. The bus was carrying pilgrims from the West Bank on their way back from a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

By Jack Khoury, Gili Cohen | Mar 16, 2013 | 01:02 PM | 4

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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 | 40

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

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 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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