Arad, Israel News

A top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no Palestinian leadership and he doubts there will be true peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel and the US are moving toward a compromise solution on the settlement issue that might allow both sides to claim "victory," The Jerusalem Post has learned.

JERUSALEM - Comments by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities were directed at Iran and meant to "distinguish" the U.S. from Israel, the Israeli premier's national security adviser said Wednesday.

Associate editor Ron Dzwonkowski, in his June 28 column seems to contend that our political and economic difficulties can be remedied by adopting a new state constitution.

I will not deny that I after meeting Tzipi Livni for the first time, I came away thoroughly impressed.

Despite efforts by former prime minister Ehud Olmert to prevent Morris Talansky from resuming the pretrial testimony he began last year, the US businessman, who has admitted giving Olmert large sums of money, is to return to the witness stand Sunday in Jerusalem District Court.

"I'm not getting down on my hands and knees in order to reach the Supreme Court," Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori told his close associates on Sunday.

The Lebanese army is warning people not to respond to recorded phone messages asking for information about missing Israeli soldiers.

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Armed Forces told the Lebanese public Saturday they should not respond to any telephone calls from Israel made in recent days.

Israel is holding talks with Egypt on a new cease-fire agreement in Gaza - the negotiations revolve around an Egyptian proposal within a broader effort to reconcile the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas.

Is a breakthrough in the Shalit deal impending? The London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted European and Egyptian sources Saturday, as saying "real progress" has been made in the prisoner exchange talks between Israel and Hamas , which could expedite the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit .

Pleading with students to "show understanding for the dreams and aspiration of the Jewish people" is hardly characteristic of lectures by Professor Uriel Reichman, a top jurist and president of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

A family handout photograph shows abducted Israeli soldier Cpl.Gilad Shalit when he was a senior in high school in 2005.

Images of violent clashes between protesters and the authorities in Iran are continuing to flood the Israeli media, but both the defense and academic communities here are suffering from an acute shortage of Persian-speaking experts on Iran who can interpret the scenes of unrest and provide in-depth analyses of internal political affairs.

Nepal draws trekkers from around the world, desperate to get a taste of the exhilaration that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay must have experienced when they reached the summit of the 8,847-metre-high Mt.

Tel Arad, Southern Hebron Mountains The Yatir winery is outstanding in many regards among Israeli wineries.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet Sunday that he will deliver a major foreign policy speech next week.

There were divided opinions in the Israeli media about U.S. President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo on Thursday.

Haaretz's Barak Ravid had more details yesterday of the meeting an official Israeli delegation held in London last Tuesday with Obama's special Mideast peace envoy Sen.

"It seems that the silence the Shalit family has bound itself by since the government was elected has legitimized the lack of action," the Headquarters for the Release of Gilad Shalit said on Saturday evening.