President Bush leaves for the Middle East on Tuesday to celebrate the United States' ties with its top allies in the region -- Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.
A clash between Arab protesters and police, and a paratrooper's crash-landing during a ceremonial jump marred Israel's 60th independence day festivities Thursday.
To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded
A Jewish astronaut greets Israel from space. Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded.
The Mideast Quartet -- four international entities seeking peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- expressed deep concern Friday over Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Palestinian militants' rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
An Israeli tank shell hit a Gaza home Monday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast, officials and relatives said.
The Palestinian group Hamas is proposing a six-month cease-fire with Israel, saying it will stop firing rockets out of Gaza if the Jewish state simultaneously lifts its blockade of the coastal strip
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.
An 84-year-old retired military engineer from New Jersey was arrested early Tuesday and charged with sending highly classified military information to Israel through an operative who also served as handler for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
President Bush leaves for the Middle East on Tuesday to celebrate the United States' ties with its top allies in the region -- Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan.
A clash between Arab protesters and police, and a paratrooper's crash-landing during a ceremonial jump marred Israel's 60th independence day festivities Thursday.
To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded
A Jewish astronaut greets Israel from space. Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded.
The Mideast Quartet -- four international entities seeking peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- expressed deep concern Friday over Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Palestinian militants' rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
An Israeli tank shell hit a Gaza home Monday, killing a Palestinian woman and four of her children as they prepared to sit down for breakfast, officials and relatives said.
The Palestinian group Hamas is proposing a six-month cease-fire with Israel, saying it will stop firing rockets out of Gaza if the Jewish state simultaneously lifts its blockade of the coastal strip
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.
An 84-year-old retired military engineer from New Jersey was arrested early Tuesday and charged with sending highly classified military information to Israel through an operative who also served as handler for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
After talks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Hamas' exiled leader Khalid Meshaal said Monday the militant group has no plans to recognize Israel.
Israel carried out a series of airstrikes against armed Palestinians in northern Gaza late Saturday and early Sunday, according to an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman. Hamas sources said five of its fighters were killed in the raids.
Israel closed off the West Bank and Gaza for the Jewish Passover holiday on Friday, a day after Gaza militants attacked a vital crossing, raising the possibility of a large-scale Israeli offensive within weeks
Israeli troops Thursday killed a Palestinian militant trying to cross into Israel from Gaza and wounded another, according to Palestinian security sources.
Israeli airstrikes and ground battles with Palestinian militants on Wednesday left 21 dead, most of them Palestinians, according to Palestinian security sources.
Emergency sirens sounded across Israel on Tuesday as the country began a five-day drill to prepare for possible attacks.
A day before Israel implements a "routine" emergency drill, an Israeli official Monday said the entire country is at risk of Hezbollah rocket attacks and blamed Iran for "provoking us" by backing the terrorist group.
Israel's plan to test its nationwide emergency response this week "is only a drill" and has nothing to do with "exaggerated" reports of heightened tensions with Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
Germany's Angela Merkel will make history Tuesday when she becomes the first German chancellor to address Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
Despite this week's exchanges of fire, both sides have more to gain than to lose from an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Israel on Monday for planning to build housing units in a West Bank settlement, saying the decision conflicts with "Israel's obligation under the road map" for Middle East peace.
A Palestinian official said Sunday that Israel's plan to expand settlements in the West Bank was "like putting a stick in the wheels of the peace process."
The U.N. Security Council failed to reach a consensus when it met to consider condemning an attack that killed eight people at a prominent Jewish seminary as an act of terrorism.
The assassination of a top commander has prompted fears that a second round in the 2006 war could be drawing nearer
The head of Hezbollah threatened "open war" against Israel as mourners gathered in Beirut Thursday for the funeral of a senior commander in the Islamic militant group organization killed this week.
The first suicide attack on Israel in a year may be linked to the opening of the border fence between Gaza and Egypt
A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding seven other people
Israeli cross-border gunfire killed one Lebanese civilian and critically wounded another Sunday in a village that straddles the country's southern border with Israel, a spokesman for the Lebanese army told CNN.
In a first-of-its-kind program, the government hopes to put charging stations all over the country and get gas guzzlers off the roads starting in 2011
Two Katyusha rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Monday night, an Israeli police spokesman said.
The well-publicized landing of 40 Iranian Jews in Israel on Tuesday spurred glee among some Israelis and the immigrants themselves and drew public scorn from a surprising quarter in Iran -- two officials from its centuries-old Jewish community.
Israel's military advocate general said the use of cluster bombs by the country's armed forces during last year's war with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon was done so in accordance with international law and, as a result, he will not file charges against any military officers who ordered their use.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has said he would be willing to negotiate a cease-fire with Israel -- but Israel is reacting coolly.
Israel carried out an airstrike Monday in northern Gaza on a militant cell that fired two mortar bombs toward Israel, an army spokeswoman said.
The chief Palestinian peace negotiator threatened on Tuesday that there would be no talks with Israel unless a deadline is set for establishing a Palestinian state
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved a measure Thursday to begin cutting off electricity to Gaza, which Israel recently declared a "hostile territory," according to a spokeswoman for Barak.
Israel is considering cutting off electricity to parts of Gaza if rocket attacks by Palestinian militants into southern Israel continue, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Wednesday.
Islamic Jihad said it fired a longer-distance, shrapnel-packed missile into an Israeli military base early Tuesday -- wounding dozens of soldiers -- as part of its mission to hit targets deeper into Israel, a spokesman for the militant group told CNN.
Vassilis Spanoulis hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lead Greece over Croatia 81-78 Sunday at the European basketball championship.
Israel will grant citizenship to some of the estimated 300 refugees from Sudan's violence-ridden Darfur region who have already arrived here, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said Wednesday.
Sondra Oster Baras is an Orthodox Jew doing an unorthodox job.
Israel has agreed to remove 178 Palestinian militants from its watch list after the armed fugitives signed a pledge renouncing attacks against Israel and accepted the principles of the group's new West Bank-based interim government.
Israel and the Islamist militants are quietly negotiating the release of anIsraeli soldier held in Gaza
A spread in the upcoming July issue of Maxim features a roster of Israeli models, all ex-soldiers, photographed wearing very little in the cause of their country
At least two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed near the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday, police and Israel Defense Forces said.
As it ponders how to stop Hamas militants from launching rockets into Israel, the Jewish state is keeping all of its options open -- including assassination attempts on Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, a top Israeli defense official said Tuesday.
Israel rejected the newly anointed Palestinian unity government Sunday after the Palestinian prime minister said the deal didn't rule out "popular resistance against occupation."
Palestinian parliament members voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition government Saturday, the first forged between the rival Islamic Hamas and secular Fatah factions.
The current juncture in Middle East diplomacy presents a golden but final opportunity to resolve the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to Jordan's King Abdullah.
Israel's use of U.S.-made cluster bombs in last year's war in Lebanon may have violated agreements with the United States governing their use, the State Department said Monday.
Israel transferred $100 million in tax collections to the Palestinian Authority Friday, ending a 10-month freeze on the assets, a representative at the prime minister's office said.
Israel said it would use "pinpoint action" in response to Qassam rockets launched into Israel from Gaza, but it would "continue to uphold the cease-fire and work with the Palestinian Authority to take immediate steps to stop the Qassam firing."
The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Saturday that would have condemned Israel for its military operations in Gaza.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Europe that it may pay a heavy price for its support of Israel.
United Nations peacekeepers Sunday denied Israel's assertion that it had completely withdrawn all of its soldiers from southern Lebanon.
A U.N. official has called it an "outrage" that Israel dropped cluster bombs in southern Lebanon.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has joined Israel's prime minister in calling for the unconditional release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in July -- which sparked the 34-day war between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is "deeply concerned" about Israel's commando raid Saturday in eastern Lebanon, which he said violated the cease-fire resolution concerning Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesman said in a written statement.
Boulder, Colorado, D.A. Mary Lacy cautioned the media this week to avoid jumping to conclusions on whether John Karr killed JonBenet Ramsey.
U.S. stocks rallied at Monday's open, with technology stocks leading the way, as investors cheered lower oil prices and the cease fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
Israel and Hezbollah looked to inflict maximum damage as the clock ticked toward a scheduled cease-fire Monday morning, each side pounding targets with heavy missile barrages.
As the U.N. Security Council was preparing to vote Friday on a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.S. and Israel voiced their support for the proposal.
The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a six-page proposal aimed at ending the monthlong conflict between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon.
Israel lobbed artillery rounds into southern Lebanon late Wednesday as troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved across the border.
As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah drags on, venture capitalists invested in Israel say they're going about their business as usual - at least for now.
The U.N. Security Council met for several hours Saturday with no word on the fate of a draft resolution to halt the 25-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The week brings some very dour news for the Hezbollah killers and their Iranian masters. No, it is not that the Lebanese government has ordered them to take their rocket launchers off the school grounds and out of the hospital parking lots. No, they remain free to use Lebanese as human shields while "world opinion" dizzily blames Israel for the civilian casualties.
Israel's airstrike in Qana earlier this week killed 28 people, and 13 are still missing, according to an investigation by the England-based group Human Rights Watch.
Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military also engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon.
With hopes dimming for a quick end to fighting in Lebanon, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres presented five conditions Monday that he said must be met before Israel can achieve peace with Hezbollah.
With a poster of the burning World Trade Center behind him, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant appeared on tape Thursday calling on Muslims to join the fight against Israel and "rise up seeking martyrdom and attack the crusaders and Zionists."
The Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters exchanged heavy fire around three border towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday as rockets rained on northern Israel, much of which appears to be nearly deserted.
Three high-ranking Senate Democrats on Tuesday called on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to explain his recent comments condemning Israel's "aggression" against Lebanon.
Israel is a different place than it was six months ago.
Hezbollah rockets destroyed homes and lives in northern Israel on Tuesday, and Israeli forces bombarded Lebanese villages as violence between the two groups entered a third week.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Sunday that he urged President Bush to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
With a few bland words -- "This Sunday I will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories, where I will meet with Prime Minister Olmert and his leadership and with President Abbas and his team" -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week linked her office not just to one summer's crisis but to the careers and reputations of those who preceded her in high office.
Israeli warplanes and ground troops struck targets in Lebanon and Hezbollah forces lobbed rockets into Israel on Sunday as Saudi Arabia joined the call for an immediate cease-fire and Israel expressed support for an international peacekeeping force.
As many as 50,000 refugees from Lebanon poured through one border crossing into Syria alone Thursday, officials said, as the desperate and displaced fled to escape Israel's bombing campaign.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the United States should stay out of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, according to a CNN poll conducted and released Wednesday by Opinion Research Corp.
As nations scrambled to ferry their citizens out of Lebanon, one group of people has been all but forgotten -- the Lebanese.
We Americans like to think we're a pretty smart people, even when evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. And nowhere is that evidence more overwhelming than in the Middle East. History in the Middle East is everything, and we Americans seem to learn nothing from it.
Israel began moving forward Tuesday on a diplomatic effort to end the conflict in the Middle East, Israel's foreign minister said.
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the Middle East crisis are unlikely to prove successful until Israel feels it has crippled Hezbollah or President George W. Bush pressures Israel to halt the offensive, Arab diplomats said Monday.
Oil prices fell from record highs Monday, closing almost $2 lower, as violence between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah did not expand as feared to neighboring oil-producing states.
Loud explosions echoed across the southern suburbs of Beirut early Tuesday, indicating another Israeli airstrike a short time after a volley of Hezbollah rockets rained across northern Israel.
(Time.com) Around the world, people could be excused for feeling that they are witnessing something numbingly familiar in the Middle East, like a recurring nightmare that many would rather keep stored in the recesses of memory.
Israeli aircraft blasted the Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry offices in Gaza early Monday for the second time in less than a week, Palestinian sources and the Israeli military said.
The Israeli military and Hezbollah traded deadly attacks for a fifth straight day on Sunday, with the Lebanon-based militants striking Haifa and other towns deeper inside Israel.
The Middle East peace process is "dead," Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.
Oil prices hit another record early Friday, surpassing $78 a barrel, as escalating violence in the Middle East raised fears about severe supply disruptions.
Israeli fighter jets bombed Beirut International Airport Thursday, expanding Israel's military campaign against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas holding two Israeli soldiers captive.
An Israeli airstrike hit the building housing the Palestinian government's Interior Ministry early Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian sources told CNN.
Palestinian militants distributed a statement Monday saying they will provide information about a kidnapped Israeli soldier if Israel agrees to release all female prisoners and all children under 18 being held in Israeli jails.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas on Saturday to renew its cease-fire with Israel, saying it would remove any "pretext" for the Israeli military to continue bombing Palestinian targets, a spokesman for Abbas said.
Three children were killed Tuesday in an Israeli missile strike on a car in northern Gaza, Palestinian hospital sources said.
Israel's security needs have forced the country to fast track its high-tech solutions, meaning one of its key industries is in the area of defense developments.
While doing business in Israel comes with some risk, the country has some of the world's most advanced security systems in place.
Negotiating in Israel or with Israelis can be an intense and frustrating process for visitors to the country.
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