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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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London 2012

Israel's real medal hopes for London 2012: the Paralympics delegation

Meet the 25 athletes representing Israel in the London Paralympics, which run from Aug. 29 through Sept. 9.
By Haaretz
Paralympics / London 2012 / Hawking, Pistorius open festivities at biggest competition in Games history

Wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking and South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius were among the luminaries on hand for the opening.
By Reuters
Olympic roundup / An honorable performance for Team Israel at London 2012

Notwithstanding the failures, Israel can be proud of its showing in London; WATCH: Games close with a bang.
By Arie Livnat
In London 2012, Israel stumbled, but the Olympics soared

The defeat of some of Israel's top athletes, like windsurfer Lee Korzits, judoka Arik Ze'evi and gymnast Alex Shatilov is a symptom of the state of Israeli sports.
By Uzi Dann

Israelis in the Olympics

London Olympics

Delegation head hopes to leverage success in London

Israel finishes the 2012 Paralympics 45th in the medals table out of 75 countries, with eight medals − two more than in Beijing.

By Rami Hipsh | Sep 10, 2012 | 02:10 PM

Noam Gershony after receiving the gold.

Israeli tennis player Noam Gershony wins gold in 2012 Paralympics

The wheelchair tennis star beats David Wagner of the United States to win Israel's first Olympic gold since 2004.

By Haaretz | Sep 8, 2012 | 06:31 PM

Ankie Spitzer, widow of Munich victim Andre Spitzer, delivering a speech

Olympics / Munich 11 / Recriminations and remembrance at memorial for massacre victims

German Jewish leader: 'No one will ever understand the frozen hearts of the IOC'.

By DPA | Sep 6, 2012 | 04:54 AM

Koby Lion

Paralympics / London 2012 / Israel makes it a medals threesome

Shooter Shaziri, cyclist Lion net first silvers to go with tennis doubles bronze.

By Avraham Tshuva | Sep 6, 2012 | 04:54 AM

Wheelchair tennis player Noam Gershony in January 2012.

Paralympics / London 2012 / Israel guaranteed at least a bronze medal in wheelchair tennis

Two of the three Israelis in action on Tuesday progressed to the semi-finals.

By Haaretz Sports Staff | Sep 5, 2012 | 06:35 AM

Israel's wheelchair tennis players - Leah Schneider

Israel's wheelchair tennis players have a perfect day

Israel's wheelchair tennis players swept through their matches at the London Games on Sunday.

By Avraham Tshuvah | Sep 3, 2012 | 04:53 AM

Israel’s Moran Samuel, bottom, finishing third in the AS Women Single Sculls Heat 2 at the London 20

Israeli swimmer picks up second bronze medal in 2012 Paralympics

High drama for Israel in the swimming pool at the London 2012 Paralympics,

By Haaretz Sports Staff | Sep 2, 2012 | 04:40 AM

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Olympics News

Members of the Iranian Olympic squad arrive at Heathrow airport in London on July 23, 2012.

Iranians to compete with Israeli athletes in London Olympics

Iranian athletes withdrew from events against Israelis at the 2004 Athens Games and 2008 Beijing Games.

By The Associated Press | Jul 24, 2012 | 12:35 AM

Seimone Augustus, right, of Team USA shooting over Turkey’s Bahar Caglar

Olympics / Basketball ‏(W‏) / Host Turkey gives U.S. its first real test in exhibition

Where the first three exhibitions were pretty much over in the first quarter, Turkey hung tough for 30 minutes before the U.S. slowly started to pull away.

By The Associated Press | Jul 23, 2012 | 06:38 AM

Memorializing the Munich 11.

Jewish group slams Olympics for refusing Munich massacre minute of silence

Ron Lauder says hopes the IOC isn't bowing to pressure from 'certain regimes,' saying the panel was 'out of touch.'

By DPA, AP | Jul 23, 2012 | 06:38 AM | 32

Munich massacre - AP - 1972

Germany was warned one month before Munich massacre, claims Der Spiegel

The Germany weekly has published secret documents revealing the failure and cover up by the German authorities during the 1972 Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.

By Ofer Aderet | Jul 22, 2012 | 06:29 PM

British police officers patrol outside the London 2012 Olympic Park in Stratford.

Israel has more to fear from lone actors than Iran at the Olympics

The Sunday Times' report 'Israel Fears Iran Attack at Games' is not based on any new information, and the connection between Iranian terror and London 2012 is tenuous at best.

By Anshel Pfeffer | Jul 22, 2012 | 02:19 PM | 2

British police officers outside the London 2012 Olympic

Report: Israel fears Iranian terror attack at London 2012 Olympics

According to the Sunday Times, U.K. launches largest security operation in peacetime Britain.

By Haaretz | Jul 22, 2012 | 08:31 AM | 52

Israelis with a black-crepe covered Israeli flag sit in the Munich Olympic Stadium on Sept 6, 1972

IOC rejects marking anniversary of Munich massacre in London 2012 opening ceremony

Family members of the athletes have tried for four decades to persuade the IOC to organize an official commemoration.

By Reuters | Jul 22, 2012 | 06:23 AM | 20

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	United States	46	29	29
	China	38	27	22
	Great Britain	29	17	19

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Haaretz Select

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during an official welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion

Obama, in key speech, to target Israelis who could make or break a future peace

If there is any reason to believe that Obama charm or electrify his student audience into seeing advantages to renewed peace moves, it will be the fact that many of them have had it up to here with the ideologies that have kept this country polarized for the whole of its brief history.

By Bradley Burston | A Special Place in Hell | 9

Someone Else's Simcha / Amit and Nili's wedding - Don't stop believing

By Ron Ben-Tovim | Someone Else's Simcha

In a flurry of telegrams, Israeli diplomats respond to 'The Gatekeepers'

By Barak Ravid | Diplomacy & Defense | 17

David's Harp / Yair Lapid: New politics, or just born yesterday?

By David Rosenberg | David's Harp

Yityish Aynaw, the first woman of Ethiopian origin to be crowned 'Miss Israel'.

Black trailblazers Obama and beauty queen Aynaw to talk about ... Pollard?

Have Israeli leaders co-opted the country's beauty queen to raise the issue of Jonathan Pollard with President Obama because she is Ethiopian? Do they think Obama will reconsider Pollard just because another black person asks him to?

By Sarah Hankins | Opinion | 4

Obama reassures Israel, while taking a step back from the Middle East

By Aluf Benn | Obama visits Israel | 9

Israel's yummy girl just wants to have some fun

By Amy Klein | Arts & Leisure

The superstar accountant: Yaron Zelekha's crusade to save Israel from itself

By Asher Schechter | Features

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