Hamerkaz, Israel News

Ames says there was "something beautiful and mythical" in Israel, even though it is "also a place fraught with trouble." Writer Jonathan Ames, creator of the HBO television series Bored to Death , is known for his fearless and exhibitionistic persona.

An official source in Jerusalem says that despite Kerry's urging for Israel to voluntarily halt settlement activity the PM will not announce a building freeze in the West Bank.

Perhaps the Mona Lisa is smiling about the fact that for the first time, an Israeli exhibition is on view at the Louvre in Paris.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday.

The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.

An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks past a palm silhouetted on the Old City's wall in Jerusalem on May 12.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an institution in transition. The addition of the Herta and Paul Amir Building, opened to the public in 2011, effectively doubled the museum's exhibition space.

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace process, which has stalled for almost three years.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

TEL AVIV, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is harshly criticizing Iran's guardian council for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates and, in his view, standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

It should come as no surprise that random terrorist attacks have been, and will remain for the foreseeable future, MI5's greatest security threat.

An aging population, deep pockets of poverty, environmental hazards - some of Asia's most pressing worries - present a wealth of business opportunities for innovative Israeli companies.

"It's like a big caterpillar, a lot of legs and a lot of kids," Orit Yoav, one of the parents leading the project at Amirim elementary school in Binyamina, said on Thursday.

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced late Wednesday that France is now proposing that Hezbollah be added to the European Union list of terrorist organizations.

Since there is no single body in charge of long-term strategic planning, the Prime Minister's Office should create one.

"Late at night, you turn on the radio and you hear a song by Ehud, you go to the kindergarten to pick up your grandchildren and discover that the kids are growing up on Ehud's songs, and you hear his songs on Remembrance Day and it hurts.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, May 23, 2013.

When I was leaving Israel last week, after a seven-day trip with a small group of family and friends, newspaper headlines in the airport lounge spoke of possible military conflict with Syria.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a visit to Israel, hit out at Europe on Wednesday for failing to act in the wake of the ongoing civil war in Syria.