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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.

Tair Rada's parents September 16, 2010 Yaron Kaminsky

Supreme Court orders reconsideration of Israeli girl's 2006 murder

Three justices asked the Nazareth District Court to examine new opinions presented on behalf of the man convicted last September of the grisly murder of a Golan Heights schoolgirl.

By Eli Ashkenazi | Mar 18, 2013 | 01:02 PM | 2

Avigdor Lieberman

Lieberman vows to block settlement freeze efforts in Israel's next government

Former Foreign Minister, whose Yisrael Beiteinu party is considered the big winner of ministerial appointments in Israel's 33rd government; Netanyahu set to swear in new cabinet on Monday evening.

By Jonathan Lis | Mar 18, 2013 | 12:45 PM | 10

Netanyahu and Steinitz during a cabinet meeting.

The winners and the losers of Israel's next coalition

Steinitz and Shalom, who held the most important positions in the past governments were convinced they would win them again. As the shock that they've been left with the scraps sets in, it's Ya’alon, Elkin, Erdan and Sa’ar with Cheshire Cat grins.

By Yossi Verter | Mar 18, 2013 | 11:53 AM

Knesset

Israel's new, less experienced security cabinet seems more hawkish on Iran

Some of the new additions to the security cabinet, including ministers Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett and Gilad Erdan, lack meaningful experience in the defense arena.

By Amos Harel | Mar 18, 2013 | 08:03 AM | 19

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett in the Knesset.

West Bank settlement leaders seizing control of Israel's housing policy

With ministerial appointments complete, it has become clear that the drive to fix the real estate market will be led by those who once at the forefront of the settlement movement.

By Ranit Nahum-Halevy, Moti Bassok, Avi Bar-Eli | Mar 18, 2013 | 06:35 AM | 9

Runners participate in the Tel Aviv Marathon, March 15, 2013.

Tel Aviv set to decide whether to hold marathon Friday

Tel Aviv municipality awaits a firmer weather report to set a date for the event after a runner dies in the half-marathon, which was held despite the extreme heat.

By Ilan Lior | Mar 18, 2013 | 02:25 AM

The Mifgashim program ‏(Encounters‏) at the Givat Haviva

Israel likely to cut funding for popular Jewish-Arab dialogue project

A project that brings Jewish and Arab teens together with the purpose of promoting coexistence is at risk of closing down as funding promised by the Education Ministry has not been forthcoming.

By Eli Ashkenazi | Mar 18, 2013 | 01:40 AM | 8

Sheikh Jarrah

Eight Sheikh Jarrah activists acquitted of disorderly conduct at 2010 protest

Protesters were demonstrating against Jewish takeover of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem.

By Chaim Levinson | Mar 17, 2013 | 10:25 PM

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, left, with Netanyahu in 2011.

Coalition math: Settlers in, ultra-Orthodox Jews out

The Haredim feel they were at war and lost in the negotiations to form a new government. And what of the rest of the Israeli public?

By Rotem Starkman | Mar 17, 2013 | 10:13 PM | 21

Cranes

WATCH: 'Crane Project' satisfies both sides of Israeli bird debate

Farmers and environmentalists come together in the Hula Valley wetland to create an ecosystem to protect migrating cranes and the crops they like to eat.

By Reuters | Mar 17, 2013 | 09:21 PM

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Middle East

Demonstrators shout nationalist slogans during a protest against PKK.

Jailed Kurdish rebel 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 | 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

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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