Ashdod, Israel News

It is the duty of a government to serve the people who installed it in office and break up corrosive monopolies.

The IDF's female controllers sat in the large, darkened Arena Command Post at Ashdod Naval Base, their eyes glued to their screens.

Israel is betting its economic future on high-tech exports but faces a low-tech bottleneck in state-owned seaports subject to work stoppages and slowdowns because of the enormous strength of their unions.

The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday, according to AFP .

Renowned jazz vocalist and recording artist Antoinette Montague will perform at The NY Baha'i Center in Manhattan tonight, May 14, at 8 PM and 9:30 PM.

The social protest may be making a comeback. 10,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the austerity measures in the 2013-14 budget.

Finance Minister has come under heavy criticism for the budget, which includes a rise in VAT, cuts to welfare benefits and civil servants' salaries, and an increase in income tax.

The state comptroller's 70 powerful pages on the Health Ministry do not uncover problems that had never before been raised by numerous public committees and experts' and journalists' reports.

CBS figures released ahead of Jerusalem Day find city created 50,000 jobs over 4 years; 91% say comfortable living in capital.

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke and fire fill the the skyline over Damascus, Syria, early Sunday, May 5, 2013 after an Israeli airstrike.

In this photo made Thursday, April 11, 2013, Soviet Jewish World War Two veteran Boris Ginsburg poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, the Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept an incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Israel.

Unnamed U.S. officials say Israel launched an airstrike into Syria. This file photo, from November 2012, shows an Israeli jet flying near the city of Ashdod, Israel.

Member of Knesset Yoni Chetboun toured the city of Ashdod, Thursday, and met with residents and party activists.

Pitango has been doing its thing for quite a while. In fact, our leading tango music quartet has been performing here and all over the world for a full decade.

More than 450 people were injured or taken ill during the more-than-two-day Lag Ba'omer celebrations atop Mount Meron in the Galilee, MDA said on Monday.

British export 'The X Factor' is due to premier locally later this year, but as one pre-audition in Ashdod shows, finding star power at home won't be easy as ABC It was late on a sunny afternoon in the coastal, working-class city of Ashdod, and most people were heading home, some stopping to pick up last-minute groceries for dinner.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday he will travel to China next Sunday, in the first prime ministerial trip there since Ehud Olmert visited in 2007.

The Southern District Attorney's Office filed an indictment with the Beersheba District Court on Sunday against Carlos Santana for stealing Holocaust reparation money from a Holocaust survivor on Holocaust Memorial Day.

Emergency services put on high alert ahead of Lag B'Omer; two suffer burns from fire in Ben Shemen forest.