Youngsters in the Argentinean capital protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s planned visit, set for next week.

A 35-year-old Beersheba resident with a strong late-night craving for bamba recently picked the lock and broke the door of a store across from his home in order to get some of the peanut-flavored snack. He ravaged the store until he found a bag of...

The Jewish Agency’s Partnership 2000 coordinators met with representatives of Israeli environmental organizations on Wednesday, with hopes to turn environmental action into a platform that unites Jews around the world. The conference was held at...

BEIRUT (AP) – Hizbullah says that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has been reelected as the group’s leader for a sixth term. A Hizbullah statement on Thursday did not say when top officials voted to reelect Nasrallah as the group’s secretary-general. The...

IAF planes struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the IDF said. Palestinian security officials reported no casualties. The army said in a...

An Arab man in his 40s was in moderate condition on Thursday afternoon after he was stabbed in the stomach by a 16-year-old Jewish youth in the capital’s Ramat Eshkol neighborhood, Jerusalem Police said. The wounded man was evacuated to the city’s...

In the shadow of the Goldstone Report and concerns about how Israel is perceived overseas, the Knesset and members of an EU delegation laid the groundwork Wednesday for a partnership to improve ties between Israel and Europe. Three representatives of...

While the unrest that plagued the capital in October seems to have all but died out, residents of Ma’aleh Zeitim, a large bloc of apartments next to the Mount of Olives Cemetery in east Jerusalem, say that in their neighborhood, Jewishowned vehicles...

THE HAGUE (AP) – The US is committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, the American war crimes ambassador said Thursday in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the International Criminal Court. Stephen Rapp’s brief remarks...

WASHINGTON (AP) – After months of haggling, the US Senate finally has a health care reform bill ready for action, but there still is no guarantee the Democrat-drafted proposal – President Barack Obama’s top domestic agenda item – will be debated in the...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday that trying self-professed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in a federal civilian court in New York is unwise and unnecessary. “There’s no reason to put New York through...

In the continuing battle to prevent the deportation of 1,200 foreign workers’ children, a few dozen protesters gathered outside Interior Minister Eli Yishai’s office in the capital on Wednesday. Over the past month, 3,200 people have signed an online...

The Jerusalem District Planning Committee may have been in a hurry to approve a plan for the construction of 900 more apartments in Gilo, but neither it nor Interior Minister Eli Yishai seems to be in a rush to advance the Jerusalem Outline Plan, the...

NEW YORK – Against the backdrop of Israel’s sometimes-fragile image, an organization seeking to promote dialogue about Israel and the Middle East has brought former MK Effie Eitam to US college campuses to advocate for Israel. But Eitam, who is known...

Hamze Hamze, a 48-year-old taxi driver from the Druse village of Beit Jann, was found dead in his cab early Thursday morning in the western Galilee city of Ma’alot. Police began searching for Hamze after a passenger he was supposed to pick up reported...

Former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin disagrees with the Obama administration’s demand that Israel halt settlement construction, although her reason for that opinion is puzzling to some (or at the least demonstrates she’s not familiar with...

Mendel Kaplan, a leader of the South African Jewish community and a prominent philanthropist, died in Cape Town on Thursday evening at the age of 73 after suffering a massive stroke two days earlier. Kaplan was a major figure in the world of Jewish...

The public search committee established to recommend candidates for the post of attorney-general failed on Thursday to make any nominations and informed the prime minister and justice minister that it was returning its mandate and ceasing to...

Following Iran’s rejection of the latest international effort to prevent it from building nuclear weapons, Israel is urging the international community to impose sanctions aimed at denying Teheran any nuclear fuel cycle capabilities, The Jerusalem Post...

Jerusalem District Attorney Eli Abarbanel announced on Thursday that the state was closing the case against attorney Uri Messer, who was investigated by police in connection with two affairs for which his close friend, former prime minister Ehud...