The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday decided to expand economic sanctions against Iran, aligning its policies with the United States and Europe on trade with the Islamic republic.
The Israeli Cabinet has approved an amendment to a citizenship law that requires new citizens to declare their loyalty to a "Jewish and democratic state," the prime minister's office said Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell met Friday to advance direct talks next month with the Palestinians, the prime minister's office said.
Moving toward direct peace talks with Palestinians will be a focus of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to the United States this week, the prime minister told Israeli Cabinet officials Sunday.
A "huge disaster" was averted when a car bomb, set to go off outside a shopping mall, was disabled before it exploded, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
A potential prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas collapsed Tuesday when the Israeli Cabinet rejected the latest Hamas demands.
Israel released 227 Palestinian prisoners Monday in a long-debated good-will gesture to the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
Israel's internal security agency is "very concerned" that extremists in that country might assassinate an Israeli leader to disrupt the peace process with the Palestinians, Shin Bet's director said Sunday, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Israel agreed Sunday to release 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian Authority president, an Israeli government spokesman said.
Israel is getting ready to carry out a long-awaited prisoner swap with Hezbollah after the Israeli Cabinet gave final approval for the exchange on Tuesday.
Five Hezbollah prisoners are now at the Israeli-Lebanese border awaiting release by Israel.
A prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah is set for Wednesday, but first the Israeli Cabinet will review the deal one last time on Tuesday, the government said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will ask his Cabinet on Sunday to approve a deal with Hezbollah that would involve exchanging prisoners for two captured Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said, in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic militant group Hamas.
The Israeli Cabinet on Friday unanimously approved the nomination of newly elected Labor Party leader Ehud Barak as Israel's defense minister.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has taken a turn for the worse in recent days, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.
Three months after he suffered a massive stroke, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been declared permanently incapacitated by the Israeli Cabinet, formally ending his premiership.
Israeli soldiers shelled a Palestinian security position in northern Gaza Sunday morning, killing a police officer and wounding seven people, Palestinian security forces said.
Israel's Cabinet on Sunday unanimously approved a proposal allowing Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem to vote in next week's Palestinian legislative elections.
Israeli warplanes launched an attack on a Palestinian militant group's training camp near Beirut early Wednesday after rockets fired from Lebanon hit an Israeli town, the Israeli military said.
Anticipating the withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlers from Gaza beginning August 15, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the pullout to be orderly in a speech to the Palestinian Legislative Council Tuesday.
Natan Sharansky, a member of the Israeli Cabinet known for his criticism of the Israeli government's dealings with the Palestinians, submitted his resignation Monday, his adviser confirmed to CNN.
Preparations were under way in Ramallah on Wednesday for the burial of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is gravely ill in a Paris hospital.
Israel's Cabinet voted 14-7 to approve in principle a withdrawal from Gaza and four isolated settlements in the West Bank, Israeli Cabinet ministers said Sunday.
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