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May 8 2013 Israel Halts New Construction In West Bank

JERUSALEM - Israel’s Army Radio says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stopped approving new construction in West Bank settlements in what may be a bid to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.
 There was no confirmation of the settlement freeze from the office of Netanyahu, who was in Shanghai on Tuesday as part of an official […]

 
 

May 5 2013 Israeli Warplanes Strike Syria

JERUSALEM - Israel has attacked targets in Syria for the second time in three days. 
 Loud explosions rocked Damascus as Israeli warplanes struck targets deep inside Syria.  The Syrian news agency says Israeli missiles blasted a military research center near the capital.
 Foreign intelligence sources say Israel hit sophisticated Iranian-made missiles believed to be headed to the […]

 
 

Apr 3 2013 Israel Launches Air Strike In Gaza Following Rocket Attack

GAZA - Israel launched an air strike on the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel’s military said.
 ”Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” a statement from the Hamas Interior Ministry said. […]

 
 

Mar 19 2013 Obama To Hold Talks In Israel

JERUSALEM - U.S. President Barack Obama departs Washington Tuesday for Israel, the first stop of a four-day Mideast trip also taking him to the West Bank and Jordan. Obama will hold talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and will discuss Syria and Iran.
 President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will greet President Obama on […]

 
 

Mar 16 2013 Israel Forms New Government Coalition

JERUSALEM - Key parties in Israel have reached an agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on forming a governing coalition.
 The deal signed on Friday has Netanyahu’s Likud party alliance partnering with the secular Yesh Atid party, the far-right Jewish Home Party and a small, centrist party headed by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
 Disagreements over the […]

 
 

Feb 6 2013 Obama Announces Visit To Israel

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will soon make his first visit to Israel as U.S. leader. He also will go to the West Bank and Jordan for wide-ranging talks that include the situation in Syria and tensions with Iran.
 White House press secretary Jay Carney confirmed the planned trip during Tuesday’s White House news briefing after […]

 
 

Feb 3 2013 Israel Conducts Airstrikes In Syria

WASHINGTON - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has made his country’s first public comments about an airstrike in Syria, without directly confirming Israel was responsible for the operation.
 
 U.S. and regional security sources have said Israeli aircraft hit a Syrian convoy Wednesday heading toward Lebanon and transporting anti-aircraft weapons, likely intended for the Lebanese militant group […]

 
 

Jan 6 2013 Israel To Build Fence In Golan Heights

JERUSALEM - Israel intends to reinforce its frontier with neighboring Syria amid growing concerns about the fallout from the Syrian civil war.
 Israel plans to erect a new five-meter-high fence on the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967, and fortify it with trenches, barbed wire and a road for army patrols.
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told […]

 
 

Dec 14 2012 Avigdor Lieberman Charged With Fraud

JERUSALEM - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned on Friday after being charged with fraud and breach of trust, in a move that could have repercussions on next month’s election.
 
 ”I have decided to resign my post as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and … also to remove my [parliamentary] immunity forthwith so I can […]

 
 

Dec 2 2012 Israel To Expand West Bank Settlements

JERUSALEM - Israel has revealed plans to build 3,000 new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, following the Palestinian Authority’s successful United Nations recognition bid.
 
Israeli officials, speaking to the media on condition of anonymity, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had authorized the building plans, as well as preliminary […]

 
 

Dec 2 2012 Israel To Withhold Tax Funds For Palestinians

JERUSALEM - Israel says it will withhold more than $100 million in taxes and tariff funds it collects on behalf of Palestinians to punish them for their successful bid to win United Nations statehood.
 
Sunday’s move came as cheering crowds welcomed Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas back to the West Bank city of Ramallah following his diplomatic […]

 
 

Nov 21 2012 Diplomatic Efforts Increase Between Israel, Gaza

JERUSALEM - Attacks rocked both sides of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip Wednesday, despite intensified diplomatic efforts to halt the violence between Israel and Hamas militants that has killed more than 130 Palestinians and five Israelis.
 
Inside Israel, a bomb blast on a bus in Tel Aviv injured at least 10 people. Authorities […]

 
 

Nov 19 2012 Israel Continues Offensive Against Gaza

JERUSALEM - As diplomacy intensifies to stop the cross-border attacks between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers say more than 19 people were killed by Israeli air strikes Monday, bringing the death toll to at least 96 Palestinians and three Israelis.
 
The attacks continued as diplomatic efforts in Cairo are reportedly making headway at […]

 
 

Nov 15 2012 Palestinians Fire Rockets Into Israel From Gaza

JERUSALEM - Israeli media say rockets fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip have killed three people, a day after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed the top military commander of Hamas.
 
Palestinians bombarded southern Israel as Israelis pounded Gaza with fresh strikes Thursday.  Terrified residents stayed indoors in anticipation of heavy fighting in the […]

 
 

Nov 15 2012 Israeli Airstrike Kills Top Hamas Commander

JERUSALEM - An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed the top military commander of Hamas with Israel warning other Hamas members not to “show their faces above ground” in the next few days.
 
An Israeli missile killed Ahmed al-Jaabari Wednesday as he drove in a car in Gaza City, shattering a tacit cease-fire that lasted less […]

 
 

Nov 12 2012 Israel Fires Missles Into Syria

JERUSALEM - Israel fired a missile into Syria in what the military described as a “warning shot,” after a stray mortar shell fired from Syria landed near an Israeli military post in the Golan Heights. It was the first time Israel fired into Syria since the civil war erupted there more than a year and […]

 
 

Sep 12 2012 Israel Threatens To Attack Iran Over Nuclear Program

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up threats to attack Iran over its nuclear program, which he says is being used to develop nuclear weapons.  He says if the international community is not willing to act against Iran, it should not demand that Israel hold its fire.
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday indicated […]

 
 

Jul 27 2012 Obama Fails To Visit Israel During His Presidency

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will sign legislation Friday that expands military ties between the United States and Israel.
The bill signing ceremony at the White House comes just a day before Obama’s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney visits Israel, Saturday.   Romney has criticized the president over his treatment of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  […]

 
 

Jul 20 2012 Israel Blames Iran, Hezbollah For Bulgaria Bombing

JERUSALEM - Israel is mourning after a suicide bomber in Bulgaria killed five Israelis in an attack on a tourist bus Wednesday. Israel’s leader is talking tough.
Israeli air force planes flew the dead, wounded and survivors of the Bulgaria bus bombing back home. Other flights took Israeli security and intelligence officials to Bulgaria to assist in […]

 
 

Jul 17 2012 Hillary Meets With Israeli Leaders

JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having talks with Israeli leaders on the conflict in Syria, the political transition in Egypt, and the perceived threat from Iran’s nuclear program.
Secretary Clinton says she has come to Israel “at a moment of great change and transformation in the region.”
 
“It is a time of uncertainty […]

 
 

Jul 1 2012 Yitzhak Shamir Dead At 96

JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who staunchly opposed giving up land to the Palestinians, has died.  He was 96.
Shamir served as prime minister from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. 
 
He was known for resisting international pressure to make concessions, yet initiated a peace process in Spain that led to […]

 
 

Jun 23 2012 Israel Launches Air Strikes On Gaza

JERUSALEM - Violence has erupted on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. At least one Palestinian has been killed and 20 others are wounded. One Israeli was also injured.
Ambulances ferried wounded Palestinians to hospitals in Gaza as Israel launched air strikes. On the other […]

 
 

Jun 18 2012 Israel Deports African Migrants

JERUSALEM - Israel is deporting a first planeload of African migrants back to their home country.
Israel says the deportation of 120 Africans to South Sudan is the first step toward expelling thousands more. More than 4,000 migrants who came from African countries that have friendly ties with Israel will be sent home on weekly flights.
 
Describing […]

 
 

Jun 11 2012 Israel Condemns Violence In Syria

JERUSALEM - Israel has broken its silence on the conflict in neighboring Syria and is condemning the violence there.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an “axis of evil” is behind the atrocities in Syria.
 
Netanyahu told the Cabinet that Iran and the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon are assisting the Syrian government in the massacre of […]

 
 

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