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Israeli President Eases Parole Conditions For Ex-PM Olmert

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has eased parole restrictions on ex-prime minister Ehud Olmert, released from prison on...

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Court Convicts Israeli Man For Arson At ‘miracle’ Church

A court has convicted an Israeli man for an arson attack at the church where Christians believe Jesus performed the...

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Israeli Minister Grilled On Graft Suspicions

Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and his wife were being questioned by fraud squad detectives Monday as part of a...

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Israel Approves Controversial Jerusalem Cable Car Project

Israel's government on Sunday approved plans to install a cable car to Jerusalem's Old City, a project likely to anger...

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Gitai Film Warns of Israel’s ‘suicide’ At Cannes

A new documentary warns of Israel's slow "suicide" if it pushes ahead and annexes large swathes of the West Bank. "West...

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Trump’s Saudi Embrace, Iran Disdain Upend Obama’s Vision

US President Donald Trump's emphatic embrace of Sunni Arab regimes and his vilification of Iran mark a stark departure...

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Israel In Rare Overture To Palestinians ‘at Trump Request’

Israeli ministers have approved measures aimed at improving the Palestinian economy and facilitating crossings, rare...

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Israel Declassifies Six-Day War Archives

Israel on Thursday released thousands of previously classified official documents charting political decisions during...

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Controversial New US Ambassador Arrives In Israel

Controversial new US ambassador to Israel David Friedman arrived in the country on Monday to take up his post, days...

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Israel Dismisses US Concern Over Embassy Move To Jerusalem

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday challenged US concerns over moving the American embassy to...

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Palestinian Charged Over Murder of British Student

Israeli authorities on Thursday charged a Palestinian with murder over the fatal stabbing of a young British woman on a...

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Israel Moves To Downgrade Status of Arabic Language

Israeli ministers approved a controversial bill on Sunday that would define the country as the "national home of the...

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Israel Says It Uncovered Planned Mass Cyber Attacks

Israeli authorities said on Wednesday that they had detected planned cyber attacks against 120 public and private...

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Britney Spears Forces Israel’s Labour To Delay Primaries

Israel's opposition Labour party has postponed its July primaries by one day to avoid clashing with a Tel Aviv concert...

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Israel Approves Controversial Law On House Demolitions

Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of a controversial law against illegal constructions that detractors...

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Hamas Mulls Revenge After Commander Killed

After openly accusing Israel of assassinating a key military commander near his Gaza home, experts agree that...

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Jews, Israelis Fear Fallout From Bomb Hoax Arrest

Israel's arrest of a Jewish teenager accused of masterminding dozens of anti-Semitic threats could encourage racism and...

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Israel Carries Out Air Strikes Inside Syria

Fighter jets bomb multiple targets, prompting Syrian retaliation with ground-to-air missiles, Israeli army says. The...

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Trump Envoy Meets Netanyahu In Jerusalem

US President Donald Trump's special envoy Jason Greenblatt met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in...