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Israelis do not feel secure mostly due to a spate of recently publicized crimes, according to Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino.

Nearly all the considerable attention generated by Peter Beinart's "The Crisis of Zionism" has focused on its final 8 1/2 pages.

Palestinian officials say Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is replacing almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet.

The top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner says he wants the shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat to appear before a Palestinian court on embezzlement charges.

The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel.

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh speaks to journalists as he arrives for talks with the IAEA, at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, May 15, 2012.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas used a 'Nakba Day' speech on Tuesday to accuse Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem.

"Battleship" director Peter Berg had more on his mind than fictional warfare while promoting his film in an interview with an Israeli reporter earlier this month.

An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director said Tuesday.

A masked Palestinian stands next burning tires during clashes with Israeli forces, not pictured, outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramalla.

Developed in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces , the 9 mm UZI PRO SMG is the newest member of the legendary UZI family - one of the most popular weapon families in the world, with millions of units sold around the globe.

Israeli forces detained three protesters rallying for Nakba Day near West Bank village Nilin on Tuesday, protest organizers said.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference announcing the new coalition government in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 8. In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the ... (more)

That a majority of American Jews have never been to Israel, and that those who have are, for the most part, infrequent visitors, is an old and sad story.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed to halt a weekslong hunger strike on Monday in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity.

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren speaks during Equality Forum's annual dinner at the National American Museum of Jewish History on May 5. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren stressed during a speech at Equality Forum's annual dinner in Philadelphia on May 5 that the Jewish State remains at the forefront of the ... (more)

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said his group was capable of striking any target in Israel, saying "the days when we fled and they did not are over." "Today we are not only able to hit Tel Aviv as a city but, God willing, we are able to hit specific targets in Tel Aviv and anywhere in occupied Palestine," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised ... (more)

Progress has been made in talks between Egypt and Israel over agreements made as part of a prisoner swap deal last October between Hamas and Israel, Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday.

Hundreds of activists rallied in Tel Aviv's central Rabin Square on Saturday in an attempt to reinvigorate last year's social justice movement, of which the largest protest attracted nearly half a million people.

Among the worst of Israeli journalism there's a sort of gung-ho, testosterone-infused reporting style about military and security stories that makes my blood curdle.A It's super-credulous about virtually anything and everything offered by security sources.A Examples of this sort of journalism can be found in the reporting of Eli Lake, Ami ... (more)