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Israeli demolitions in West Bank leave 36 people homeless

Israeli forces demolished dozens of structures including a school in the northern West Bank this week, leaving 10 families homeless, the UN said on Friday.

05 Mar 2016 6:44 AM

Israel PM seeks power to expel kin of attackers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the attorney general to examine the possibility of expelling relatives of Palestinian attackers who help in assaults to the Gaza Strip, his office s

03 Mar 2016 2:29 AM

Fabric collection dating back to King David’s era discovered

This is the first discovery of textiles dating from the era of David and Solomon, and sheds new light on the historical fashions of the Holy Land.

26 Feb 2016 6:21 AM

Israeli soldiers to carry guns home after duty

Israeli soldiers have been ordered to take their guns with them when off duty to allow them to intervene in the event of Palestinian attack, the military said Tuesday.

24 Feb 2016 12:00 AM

Last survivor of Nazi death camp dies

The last survivor of a prisoners’ revolt at the Treblinka Nazi death camp has died aged 93, the Yad Vashem Holocaust institute said on Sunday.

22 Feb 2016 5:49 AM

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Israel shoots dead five Palestinians; clashes in West Bank

Five Palestinians have been killed attempting to attack Israelis in a string of attacks across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

16 Feb 2016 5:55 AM

Waqf rejects new Jerusalem Jewish pray site

The Islamic authority that oversees a sensitive Jerusalem holy site says it opposes a new prayer area for non-Orthodox Jews at the adjacent Western Wall.

08 Feb 2016 6:00 AM

General strike against pension reform sweeps Greece

Hospitals will operate on an emergency footing, petrol stations will remain closed and taxis have been pulled off the streets.

04 Feb 2016 3:53 PM

Prehistoric humans ate roasted tortoise

Palaeolithic humans enjoyed eating roasted tortoises, according to a new study that uncovered evidence of turtle specimens at a 400,000-year-old site in Israel.

03 Feb 2016 12:56 AM

Israel demolishes EU-funded Palestinian buildings in southern West Bank village

Israeli forces demolished 24 Palestinian buildings in a disputed military zone in the West Bank on Tuesday, including 10 funded by the European Union, leaving families homeless, authorities and reside

02 Feb 2016 11:37 PM

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Ramallah closed off after killing

Israel on Monday blocked entry for non-residents to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is based, after a shooting attack the previous day that wounded three soldiers, the

02 Feb 2016 6:22 AM

‘US, UK hacked Israeli drones for data’

Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot cites Snowden documents, says spy operation ‘Anarchist’ began in 1998

30 Jan 2016 5:43 AM

Anonymous messaging app alarms politicians

A new app that allows users to send anonymous text messages is causing alarm among parents, politicians and some teenagers, who say it is being used as a weapon for cyber-bullying.

30 Jan 2016 12:24 AM

Israel arrests Palestine legislator

Israel arrested a Palestinian parliamentarian from the Islamist group Hamas, the Army said on Thursday, raising the number of detained Palestinian legislators to seven.

29 Jan 2016 5:22 AM

Israel feels heat of United States, European Union, United Nations criticism

The United States, European Union and the United Nations have issued unusually stern criticism of Israel, provoking a sharp response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and raising Palestinians’ ho

28 Jan 2016 3:31 AM

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Adolf Eichmann plea out on Holocaust day

Israel made public on Wednesday a decades-old handwritten plea from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for clemency for his role in the Holocaust, dated just two days before he was executed.

28 Jan 2016 3:28 AM

Road project puts Israel, EU on collision course

EU is financing the paving of the dirt road by Palestinians as part of a broader effort to help them develop the local economy.

27 Jan 2016 3:14 PM

Survivor sheds light on divisive WWII Jewish councils

Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiancée that she never sent but hoped to share with him after the war.

27 Jan 2016 6:32 AM

ISIS enjoyed Turkish money for oil: Israel MP

Israel’s defence minister Moshe Yaalon said on Tuesday that Islamic State militants had been funded with “Turkish money”, an assertion that could hinder attempts to mend fences between the two countri

27 Jan 2016 6:31 AM

Bibi seeks to send settlers back to West Bank houses

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would allow Jewish settlers evicted by the Israeli army from two houses in the West Bank city of Hebron to return once proper permits were in place.

25 Jan 2016 5:49 AM

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