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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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National

Justice Danziger recuses himself in Ramat Gan mayor bribery case

Sources say his friendship with the mayor of Bat Yam, who is accused of similar offenses, may constitute a conflict of interests.

By Revital Hovel | Mar 21, 2013 | 11:26 AM

Ramat Gan mayor Zvi Bar.

Naftali Bennett

In last-minute hitch, Habayit Hayehudi refuses to sign coalition agreement

Israel's new government expected to be sworn in Monday; universal IDF draft a top priority; Ze'ev Elkin in line to become deputy foreign minister.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 14, 2013 | 03:56 PM | 16

Shas' Eli Yishai, left, and Aryeh Deri in February.

Ultra-Orthodox prepare for new role in Israeli government: the underdogs

With its mediocre showing in the election and the poor health of Rabbi Ovadia, Shas is clearly coming to the end of an era.

By Yair Ettinger | Mar 14, 2013 | 03:15 PM | 8

IDF tent

Settlers steal IDF tent erected to prevent Palestinian encampment

The canvas has been returned but remaining pieces have not; sources at the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar say incident merely a juvenile prank.

By Chaim Levinson | Mar 14, 2013 | 11:16 AM | 4

An ancient olive tree.

Nature society surveys Jerusalem’s ancient roots

Survey lists thousands of historic trees found in capital; many may face danger in the future, particularly from construction.

By Zafrir Rinat | Mar 14, 2013 | 10:39 AM

Several thousand storks landed in a landfill area in Israel

Flock of storks in the skies of the Negev

By Eliyahu Hershkovitz | Mar 14, 2013 | 10:26 AM

Netanyahu, Lapid

Israel's new coalition: a winner's alliance, a loser's grudge

The new government isn't the one Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted, and the Finance Ministry isn't the one Yair Lapid dreamed of. Both are starting out with quite a bit of mutual resentment.

By Yossi Verter | Mar 14, 2013 | 08:50 AM | 3

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset.

Too early for the bubbly: Lapid and Bennett still face stern tests

Netanyahu's senior coalition partners may initially feel drunk with victory from their visible achievements, but they will soon find out that while the political situation made it easy to squeeze Netanyahu, difficult struggles like cuts to the budget and social services still lie ahead.

By Sami Peretz | Mar 14, 2013 | 08:17 AM

Netanyahu, Lapid, Peres

Likud surrenders Education Ministry to Yesh Atid, but keeps Interior Ministry

Israel's new government will be sworn in on Monday.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 14, 2013 | 05:46 AM | 2

Israel found lagging in productivity, but industrial sector is competitive.

Bank of Israel study: Israel’s worker productivity low by OECD standards

Israeli labor productivity in lower third of developed countries; productivity in the industrial sector, including the high-tech sector, lags behind that of the United States.

By Meirav Arlosoroff, Hila Weissberg | Mar 14, 2013 | 05:30 AM

Dr. Chen Kugel

Chief pathologist tapped to replace disgraced Hiss

Dr. Chen Kugel, who was instrumental in bringing about an investigative committee into Yehuda Hiss’ work 13 years ago, will take post at Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine.

By Dan Even | Mar 14, 2013 | 03:08 AM

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Middle East

Demonstrators shout nationalist slogans during a protest against PKK.

Jailed Kurdish 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

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

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

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

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

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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