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Bethlehem, WEST BANK // A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organisation, risks further damaging the prospects for talks between Israel and the Palestinians, US officials have warned.

BINYAMIN NETANYAHU, Israel's prime minister, came under pressure this week when news leaked of a new plan to build 900 homes in the occupied Jerusalem suburb of Gilo.

Palestinians rush a Hamas security officer into a hospital after he was injured in an Israeli air strike in Rafah at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip Fearing loss of life and money, Palestinians are abandoning tunnels that supply the blockaded Gaza Strip with everything from food to fridges to weapons.

Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal was Wednesday asked by the Israeli government to help in tracing its nationals who have gone missing in the hill state, an official statement said.

Adaya Mor said celebrating Thanksgiving with other Israeli soldiers who had left behind their families in America provided a needed boost.

Three years ago I was invited, along with 30 other guests - mainly politicians and journalists - to a private dinner party given by one of Britain's richest Jews at a Jerusalem hotel.

George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity is a strength." As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem.

Peace talks with Israel have failed and the Palestinians must launch popular and diplomatic campaigns to achieve statehood, Marwan Barghouti said in an interview from his prison cell.

Campbell Clark Ottawa - Published on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

The United Nations detained an outspoken critic and booted her from its New York headquarters in what the woman, a human rights watchdog, is calling an effort to silence her opposition to the world body.

Jerusalem's real estate enterprise continues to make headlines- A day after the controversial government decision to approve the construction of 900 housing units in the neighborhood of Gilo, some 100 residents of the east Jerusalem Nof Zion neighborhood gathered Wednesday for a cornerstone ceremony in honor of the neighborhood's second stage, ...

Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do _ he got his first haircut.

Jerusalem police arrested a woman praying at the Western Wall for wearing a tallit.

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

The hypocrisy of the western leaders became shamefully apparent during their celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.

Humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has increased by close to 900 percent in 2009 compared to the previous year, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, Col.

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Mahmoud Abbas' term as Palestinian president will be extended by the supreme body of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it meets in December, senior PLO officials said on Tuesday.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle Tuesday signed a bilateral trade agreement between Israel and Wisconsin on research and development with a strong focus on water technology.

An architectural image of Rawabi, the first planned Palestinian town, which developers hope to start building soon.

Israeli photos depicting shipping documents pointing to an alleged Iranian arms delivery to Hezbollah are forgeries, Iranian media claims.