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EASTER RISING MEDALS PRESENTED TO IRISH DEFENCE FORCES
A group of serving permanent and reserve members of the Defence Forces were honoured at the event in Dublin Castle... READ MORE›
HOW TRUMP COULD SURPRISE THE WORLD ON ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACEMAKING
As Bill Clinton's Middle East envoy, I saw firsthand how Arab-Israeli peace was his mission... READ MORE›
ISRAELI JETS STRIKE OUTSIDE DAMASCUS, NO CASUALTIES
Syria Israeli jets strike outside Damascus, no casualties... READ MORE›
ISRAELI FORCES KILL 4 ISLAMIC STATE ALLIES IN GOLAN HEIGHTS FIREFIGHT
Observer force crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into Syria... READ MORE›
4 ISIS-LINKED MILITANTS KILLED BY ISRAELI MILITARY
The confrontation appeared to be the first of its kind between Israel and Islamic State-affiliated forces based in Syria... READ MORE›
ISRAELI FORCES KILL 4 ISLAMIC STATE ALLIES IN GOLAN HEIGHTS FIREFIGHT
Observer force crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into Syria... READ MORE›
ISRAELI PM TRYING TO BENEFIT FROM HAIFA FIRES
Palestinian Knesset member Jamal Zahalka accuses Israeli prime minister of seeking political gains from Haifa fires... READ MORE›
AS WILDFIRES RAGE ISRAELI POLICE ARREST 13 SUSPECTED ARSONISTS
Police in Israel have arrested 13 people suspected of arson... READ MORE›
FRANCE PUSHES TO LABEL ISRAELI SETTLEMENT GOODS
Under international law the Golan Heights and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are not part of Israel, the advisory said... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S MEXICAN WALL A BOON FOR ISRAELI SECURITY COMPANY
Magal has served customers in over 80 countries, including airports, the seaport in Mombasa, Kenya, and sporting events and utilities... READ MORE›
TRUMPA??S MEXICAN WALL A BOON FOR ISRAELI SECURITY COMPANY
Magal has served customers in over 80 countries, including airports, the seaport in Mombasa, Kenya, and sporting events and utilities... READ MORE›
TRUMP SEEN CHANGING TUNE ON TORTURE AT GENERAL'S ADVICE, EYES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE ROLE
Trump has raised Palestinian ire by proposing that Jerusalem should be recognized as Israel's capital, an idea contrary to traditional U.S. policy... READ MORE›
ISRAELI FORCES KILL PALESTINIAN PROTESTER NEAR GAZA
Palestinian leaders say the assailants have acted out of desperation over the collapse of peace talks in 2014 and Israeli settlement expansion in occupied territory... READ MORE›
DRONES DON'T MAKE GREAT PRESENTS, ISRAELI MINISTER LEARNS
An Israeli minister gave Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev a drone, and now there is an investigation into whether sensitive technology was transferred to the Russians... READ MORE›
ISRAELI MPS APPROVE DRAFT BILL TO LEGALISE SETTLEMENTS
The move could legalise more than 2,000 Jewish homes built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank... READ MORE›
RIGHT-WING ISRAELI LEADERS PUSH FORWARD ASSERTIVE NEW LEGISLATION TO PRESERVE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS
With Trump victory, Israeli official says the era of the Palestinian state is over... READ MORE›
ISRAELI LEADERS CONGRATULATE TRUMP, THEN TELL HIM TO HURRY UP AND MOVE U.S. EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely -- Israel's top diplomat -- chimed in that she wanted Trump to fulfill his campaign vow to recognize Jerusalem... READ MORE›
ISRAELI CHURCH OFFICIALS SAY SHRINE TO JESUS ROBBED, VANDALIZED
The church is located on Mount Tabor in the Galilee region of northern Israel, where Christians believe Jesus became radiant and spoke with Moses and Elijah... READ MORE›
PALESTINIAN STONE THROWER SHOT DEAD BY ISRAELI TROOPS
Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian teenager who hurled rocks at a patrol, the army said... READ MORE›
THESE ISRAELI WOMEN MARCHED FROM THE LEBANESE BORDER TO JERUSALEM. HERE'S WHY.
Demonstrators, including Israeli and Palestinian activists, protest in support of peace near the West Bank city of Jericho on Oct. 19... READ MORE›
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US FUNDING 'ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM' IN MILITARY DEAL
My brother, Bassem, went out like every other protester, alongside international and Israeli peace activists, to demonstrate... READ MORE›
FAMILY OF MAN KILLED BY ISRAELI ARMY FEELS 'POWERLESS'
Iyad Hamed, a 38-year-old Palestinian with a cognitive impairment, was shot dead in Silwad last month... READ MORE›
FOOTAGE OF ISRAELI POLICE 'KICKING AND BEATING' A CAMERAMAN HAS SPARKED ANGER
A cameraman was reportedly kicked and beaten by Israeli police despite telling them in Hebrew that he was an accredited journalist... READ MORE›
SHIMON PERES, ISRAELI STATESMAN AND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER, DIES AT 93
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres at left, Israeli ambassador to France Ovadia Sofer center and French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris in 1985... READ MORE›
TRUMP PLEDGES TO RECOGNISE JERUSALEM AS ISRAELI CAPITAL
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital if he is elected... READ MORE›
FORMER ISRAELI PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES DIES AT 93
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke... READ MORE›
SHE WAS ASKED TO SWITCH SEATS NOW SHES SUING
Soon, Ms. Rabinowitz said, a flight attendant offered her a better seat, up front, closer to first class... READ MORE›
ISRAELI POLICEWOMAN PROTECTED BY PALESTINIANS AS SETTLERS THROW ROCKS AT AUTHORITIES
A striking photo has surfaced online of two Palestinian men reportedly shielding an Israeli policewoman while being pelted with rocks being thrown by Israeli settlers... READ MORE›
A YEAR AFTER THE WAR GAZA GRIEVES FOR ITS CHILD CASUALTIES
A year after the war, Gaza grieves for its child casualties... READ MORE›
SYRIA CLAIMS SHOOTING DOWN ISRAELI WARPLANE AND DRONE
Israeli military rejects Syrian state media report on two aircraft shot down after attack on army position in Quneitra... READ MORE›
ISRAEL BROKE ITS WORD ON NEW SETTLEMENTS
The United States issued an unusually strong rebuke Wednesday of Israel's plan to build new housing tracts in the West Bank... READ MORE›
EU MOVE TO LABEL ISRAELI SETTLEMENT GOODS STRAINS TIES
Some have even suggested that settlement residents could lose the privilege that allows Israeli citizens to travel to Europe without a visa... READ MORE›
ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILL 6 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA AS WEST BANK UNREST GROWS
As the Palestinians rushed toward the barrier separating Gaza from Israel, he said, the whole area suddenly turned into a real confrontation... READ MORE›
GAZA BEACH KILLINGS: NO JUSTICE IN ISRAELI EXONERATION, SAYS VICTIM'S FATHER
The comments by Mohammed Bakr came as new questions emerged over both the scope and the accuracy of the findings of the Israeli military police inquiry... READ MORE›
ALL-FEMALE FLOTILLA AIMS TO BREAK ISRAELI SIEGE OF GAZA
In 2009, Wright organised the Gaza Freedom March, a group of more than 1,000 people from around the world who planned to enter Gaza through Egypt... READ MORE›
LEAKED CCTV SHOWS DISGUISED ISRAELI FORCES LAUNCH ARMED HOSPITAL RAID BEFORE KILLING PALESTINIAN
Israeli forces wearing fake beards raided a west bank hospital and killed the brother of a palestinian man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack... READ MORE›
BAN KI-MOON CALLS ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AN 'AFFRONT' TO THE WORLD
About 550,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Israeli government and thinktank statistics... READ MORE›
ISRAEL SEEKING POLICE RECRUITS EAGER AND ARAB
A popular Arab-Israeli website refused to run the police force's recruitment commercials... READ MORE›
ISRAELI GUARD SHOOTS DEAD 13-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL
Protests against Israel's ongoing occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip boiled over into violence in recent months... READ MORE›
AT SHIMON PERES'S FUNERAL, WORLD LEADERS GATHER FOR A FINAL FAREWELL
He understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes from making peace with your neighbors, he said, comparing Peres to South African President Nelson Mandela... READ MORE›
CAUGHT BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND ISRAEL PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES SHIFT TACTICS
And now, amid the surge of violence in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and scattered Israeli cities, Palestinian forces appear to have recalibrated their approach... READ MORE›
'GLOCKER MOM,' OTHER ISRAELI SETTLERS CARRY GUNS AMID PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE
Yagil Henken, a military historian at the Israeli Defense Forces college whose brother was killed in a West Bank shooting on Oct... READ MORE›
IN ISRAELI CITY OF HAIFA A LIBERAL PALESTINIAN CULTURE BLOSSOMS
For some, the blossoming Palestinian scene in Haifa is reminiscent of the city during British rule, when a lively Arab cultural life flourished... READ MORE›
ISRAELI NUCLEAR BODY ENDORSES IRAN DEAL, REPORT SAYS
The panel's position runs directly counter to that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cabinet ministers and most of the political opposition Haaretz noted... READ MORE›
FORMER ISRAELI SOLDIER DESCRIBES HOW IDF TROOPS DO NOT VIEW PALESTINIANS AS 'HUMAN BEINGS'
Mr Bigelman, a member of Israeli army veterans group Breaking The Silence, also claimed that during his combat experience he too performed several similar-such arrests... READ MORE›
ISRAELI SOLDIER IS FILMED SHOOTING DEAD WOUNDED PALESTINIAN ATTACKER
It shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in which an Israeli soldier was wounded by two Palestinian men... READ MORE›
VIDEO SHOWS ISRAELI SOLDIER SHOOT DEAD INJURED PALESTINIAN YOUTH LYING ON GROUND AFTER STABBING ATTACK
Video shows Israeli soldier shoot dead injured Palestinian youth lying on ground after stabbing attack... READ MORE›
MEET THE ISRAELI LAWMAKER WHO WANTS TO TURN JERUSALEM'S ISLAMIC HOLY SITE INTO A JEWISH TEMPLE
Israeli lawmaker Yehuda Glick is an activist that advocates Jewish rights to pray on the Temple Mount, which today is an Islamic holy site... READ MORE›
FORMER ISRAELI PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES IN HOSPITAL AFTER SUFFERING STROKE
Shimon Peres, Israeli's former president and a key figure in the country's history, is in a medically induced coma after suffering a massive stroke on Tuesday... READ MORE›
ISRAELI NAVY INTERCEPTS SHIP SAILING TO GAZA STRIP
Gaza's 1.8 million people are subject to tight restrictions on their movement, whether through Egypt or Israel... READ MORE›
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ISRAEL SAYS HAMAS HACKED FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS, CELLPHONES OF ARMY RECRUITS
The officer said the army discovered the hack after several soldiers reported strangers attempting to befriend them on Facebook and lure them into intimate conversations... READ MORE›
ISRAELI TROOPS KILL KNIFE-WIELDING PALESTINIAN IN WEST BANK RAID
Israeli troops kill knife-wielding Palestinian in West Bank raid military... READ MORE›
GAZA DOCTORS LAUNCH AN APPEAL TO SAVE CHILDREN'S LIVES
Meanwhile, the joint Israeli-Egyptian blockade has made Gaza's electricity crisis worse, by making it nearly impossible to import adequate amounts of fuel into the territory... READ MORE›
ISRAELI AIR STRIKES POUND GAZA AFTER ROCKET ATTACK
Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner said Israeli forces retaliated to the rocket attack by hitting targets of the Hamas movement, which governs the besieged Gaza Strip... READ MORE›
ISRAEL BLOCKS OLYMPICS-BOUND PALESTINIAN FROM TRAVEL
Top Palestinian official says Israeli authorities prevent Olympic team chief from leaving the besieged Gaza Strip... READ MORE›
COLOMBIA AND FARC REBELS REACH CEASEFIRE AFTER 50 YEARS AND 220,000 DEAD
Bogota Colombia's government and leftist FARC rebels have reached agreement on a definitive ceasefire that would end hostilities in the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere... READ MORE›
PALESTINIAN MUSEUM PREPARES TO OPEN MINUS EXHIBITS
We didn't feel that what was delivered was up to scratch, Mr. Qattan said... READ MORE›
ISRAEL STRIKES SYRIAN ARMY POSTS IN RESPONSE TO STRAY ROCKETS IN GOLAN HEIGHTS AS VIOLENCE SOARS NATIONWIDE
Israeli officials said the Syrian mortars exploded in unpopulated areas of the northern Golan Heights and did not lead to any damage or casualties... READ MORE›
PALESTINIAN OLYMPIAN FINDS DISTANCE TO BETHLEHEM GOES BEYOND ATHLETIC PROWESS
Last year was the first time that Masri had been allowed to leave Gaza to compete in the race... READ MORE›
MAJD OWEIDA: THE JAILED ROBOT DESIGNER FROM GAZA
But as soon as he entered the Israeli zone of the Erez crossing terminal, Majd's trip took an unexpected turn... READ MORE›
SHE'S A YOUNG RUNNER IN GAZA, AND SHE REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE RACE
Inas Nofal is Gaza's only professional female runner but she keeps on moving despite the odds... READ MORE›
HAMAS TUNNELLING AGAIN IN GAZA AS ISRAELIS FEAR ATTACK FROM BELOW
Or it could be Hamas operatives digging under the earth from Gaza to Israel... READ MORE›