Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French peace initiative as he met his French counterpart on Monday, offering instead to hold direct talks with Palestinian President M
24 May 2016 4:06 AM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to form the most right-wing government in Israeli history on Thursday, with Avigdor Lieberman, a hardliner loathed by Palestinians, expected to join as def
20 May 2016 3:45 AM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to agreeing a unity government with the main Opposition leader, Israeli media said on Wednesday, in a move that could help revive peace talks with the Palest
19 May 2016 4:47 AM
A Jerusalem court convicted a 14-year-old Palestinian on Tuesday of the attempted murder of two Israelis in a knife attack last October that was one of the most high-profile of a recent wave of violen
11 May 2016 6:57 AM
American author Michael Chabon’s Jewish identity has long been central to his work.
04 May 2016 6:45 AM
Jewish women pray during Passover in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City. (Photo: AP)
25 Apr 2016 4:23 AM
Israel has announced the closure of all points of entry bet-ween the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Israeli territory on Friday and Saturday for the Jew-ish holiday of Passover.
23 Apr 2016 6:51 AM
Using “location aware” smartphone apps and voluntarily sharing personal information online leads to diminished privacy of the users, a new study has warned.
20 Apr 2016 12:58 AM
Many of the earliest texts of the Bible may have been written by at least 600 BC in the ancient Kingdom of Judah, according to the latest study that throws new light on the dating of old testament tex
13 Apr 2016 4:04 AM
Israel has rejected as “delusional” a claim that superstar Elton John was asked to declare loyalty to the Jewish state before an upcoming concert.
30 Mar 2016 2:56 AM
Tomb of Christ, where according to Christian belief the body of Jesus was laid to rest, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Jerusalem’s Old City. (Photo: AFP)
24 Mar 2016 6:09 AM
Israel has spirited 19 Jews out of war-torn Yemen in a “covert operation” to rescue some of the last remnants of one of the world’s most ancient Jewish communities, officials said on Monday.
22 Mar 2016 12:50 AM
Some 700 Indian Jews will be able to immigrate to Israel in 2016, a three-fold increase over 2015, after the Israeli government decided to double the budget marked for their immigration to the Jewish
15 Mar 2016 7:08 AM
An Israeli chief rabbi said that knife-wielding attackers should be killed, after a call by the head of the armed forces to not use excessive firepower in combating a wave of Palestinian violence.
14 Mar 2016 4:13 AM
An Israeli chief rabbi said that knife-wielding attackers should be killed, after a call by the head of the armed forces to not use excessive firepower in combating a wave of Palestinian violence.
14 Mar 2016 4:10 AM
UN missile restrictions and an arms embargo on Iran are not technically part of the nuclear agreement.
13 Mar 2016 11:27 AM
Yisrael Kristal survived two World Wars and the Holocaust but does not consider himself particularly remarkable, despite being named the world’s oldest living man on Friday at age 112.
12 Mar 2016 3:31 PM
US vice-president Joe Biden on Wednesday implicitly criticised Palestinian leaders for not condemning attacks against Israelis, as an upsurge in violence marred his visit.
10 Mar 2016 3:06 AM
Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, according to a survey on the political views of Jewish religious and secular communities.
09 Mar 2016 1:51 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cancellation of a proposed meeting with US President Barack Obama put more strain on their troubled ties on Tuesday just before a visit to Israel by vice-pr
09 Mar 2016 1:49 AM