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BREAKING NEWS

15:25
Khamenei: Iran will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa if attacked (Reuters)
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)

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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.

African migrants behind barbed wire.

UN refugee agency petitions High Court to overturn ‘infiltration’ law

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees concerned law will 'wrongly stigmatize and penalize' those seeking protection as refugees; parts of law violate 'international human rights'

By Talila Nesher | Mar 12, 2013 | 06:20 AM

Roni Gamzu

Health Ministry seeks further limits on harmful pesticides

New findings show that widely used organic phosphorus is even more dangerous than originally thought.

By Dan Even | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:59 AM

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar.

Israeli religious schools to separate boys and girls from fourth grade

This is the first time that a system-wide policy has been developed for elementary grades since the state religious school system was set up in 1953.

By Talila Nesher | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:28 AM | 2

Pizza

New trends in motivating students: Buy them pizza, take them bowling

System-wide mania over the standardized achievement test, which starts for 5th- and 8th-graders Tuesday.

By Or Kashti | Mar 12, 2013 | 02:01 AM

Lapid

Israel's next cabinet: low-fat, but rife with inner problems

Dr. Yair Lapid didn’t put it on a diet, he performed gastric bypass surgery by pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dramatically lower the number of ministers.

By Yossi Verter | Mar 12, 2013 | 12:39 AM | 4

Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Naftali Bennett

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu's coalition talks enter final stage

Party leaders, including Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, are expected to work out the final details of coalition deal after late-night meeting fails to yield consensus on on all issues of contention; For first time since 1951, there will be no ministers without portfolios.

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz | Mar 11, 2013 | 09:50 PM | 2

Tzipi Hotovely Shiran Granot

Equality in government? Only 4-5 women ministers in Netanyahu coalition despite rise in female MKs

New gov't also to have very few non-Ashkenazi ministers; MK Tzipi Hotovely fumes at choice of veteran Limor Livnat as a minister over younger woman.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 11, 2013 | 02:51 PM

Trails of smoke are seen after the launch of rockets from the northern Gaza strip toward Israel.

Israeli Arabs more afraid than Jews of enemy attack, poll finds

The annual 'National Resilience' survey has been conducted since 2000. Most recently it was conducted in November during Operation Pillar of Defense, polling 2,000 respondents, including 400 Arabs.

By Gili Cohen | Mar 11, 2013 | 02:26 PM | 8

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, left, with Netanyahu in 2011.

Ultra-Orthodox to feel the blow as unprecedented power in Israeli government ends

There were more Haredi MKS in the government that ended Sunday than any since Israel was founded in 1948; the change will be significant in education funding, and their loss of the health and interior ministries.

By Yair Ettinger | Mar 11, 2013 | 01:26 PM | 12

Police cordon off a crime scene

Egyptian citizen married to Israeli woman murdered in Nazareth

Police say the victim, a Coptic Christian married to an Israeli woman, was shot by an unknown assailant.

By Jack Khoury | Mar 11, 2013 | 12:17 PM

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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 | 4

Golan Heights - AP

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

By Reuters | 12:44 PM

Diplomacy & Defense

Obama, Abbas reviewing honor guard.

Obama: Israeli settlements hinder chance of deal with Palestinians

By Reuters | 03:28 PM | 2

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

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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