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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.

Avigdor Lieberman

Israel's AG still avoiding taking stance on reserving Foreign Ministry for Lieberman

Movement for Quality Government sends letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on saving post for Lieberman until corruption trial is over, joining queries by MK Merav Michaeli and Ometz, a good-government NGO.

By Ofra Edelman | Mar 13, 2013 | 03:09 AM | 3

Hassan Ausruf

Four Israeli teens charged with attacking Arab worker on Tel Aviv promenade

Police say one of the teens hit the Arab man from Jaffa, broke a bottle on his head, and punched him in the face repeatedly while he was on the ground.

By Eli Ashkenazi, Yaniv Kubovich, Revital Hovel | Mar 13, 2013 | 02:44 AM | 3

Judge's gavel

IDF to pay NIS 60,000 in compensation to Palestinian wrongly accused of rape

16-year-old shepherd from southern Hebron hills was accused of raping West Bank woman and spent 171 days in prison despite the fact that DNA found at the site did not match his own.

By Chaim Levinson | Mar 12, 2013 | 10:26 PM | 7

Yossi Maimon

Israeli judge accused of unsuitable conduct with African refugees gets to keep his Civil Service job

Yossi Maimon is now employed as a senior adviser to the director general of the Authority for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, despite claims of misusing his office.

By Revital Hovel | Mar 12, 2013 | 07:07 PM

African migrants being held in Israel's Saharonim detention facility 4.6.12

Israel's High Court orders state to justify law against 'infiltrators'

Supreme Court president issues conditional order that requires the state to explain why the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration shouldn't be repealed; legislation allows the state to incarcerate migrants – without differentiating between asylum seekers, refugees and illegal immigrants – for three years or longer.

By Talila Nesher | Mar 12, 2013 | 03:59 PM

Netanyahu, Lapid

Yesh Atid official: If necessary, we will opt for new elections

Coalition negotiations to restart Tuesday afternoon; Likud officials assess that despite the small government of 20, most of the incumbent ministers will keep their seats.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:30 PM

The Ashdod Port.

At Ashdod Port, job opening stays in the family

In yet another example of nepotism at the notorious southern port, a tender was issued for the coveted position of port pilot, but despite taking applications, the job was already reserved for a pilot's son.

By Avi Bar-Eli | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:07 PM

Children at the Arab-Jewish bilingual school at Misgav, 2009 - Yaron Kamisnky

Co-existence or a crime? Jewish-Arab education earns parents a court date

Parents at Ein Bustan, a Waldorf school in the lower Galilee where first and second grade classes don't yet have Education Ministry approval, are summoned to court for breaking the Compulsory Education Law, which requires students to be enrolled in an accredited school.

By Or Kashti | Mar 12, 2013 | 01:11 PM | 4

Hoffman, Shaffir, Zandberg

Female Israeli MKs join Women of the Wall; no arrests for first time in months

MKs Stav Shaffir, Tamar Zandberg, and Michal Rozin join Anat Hoffman in donning prayer shawls at Jerusalem's Western Wall.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 12, 2013 | 11:42 AM | 3

Rifaat Safadi, the head of Hadasah Hospital's Liver Unit.

Israeli researchers discover gene that causes liver disease

The expression of the gene in an immune-system cell prevents the combating of liver scarring, heightening the risk of cirrhosis in drinkers and others.

By Dan Even | Mar 12, 2013 | 07:39 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

Palestinians demonstrate against the upcoming visit of U.S. President Barack Obama

Palestinians protest Obama visit: We want RPGs, not CIA collaboration

By Reuters | 02:02 PM

Golan Heights - AP

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

By Reuters | 12:44 PM

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

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

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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