Israel cuts contact with U.N. rights body over probe

Published on March 26, 2012

Israel said on Monday it has severed contact with the U.N. Human Rights Council after its launch last week of an international investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Jordanians protest at Israeli embassy in Amman

Published on September 15, 2011

Several hundred Jordanian protesters on Thursday called on their government to close the Israeli embassy in Amman and scrap an unpopular peace treaty with the Jewish state.

Israel social protesters arrested in first violence

Published on September 7, 2011

Israeli police arrested some 40 demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, police said, after the first violence seen during weeks of social protests that have called for lower living and housing costs.

Turkey expels Israeli diplomats after U.N. report

Published on September 2, 2011

Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and suspended military accords Friday, a day after publication of a U.N. report saying that Israel had used unreasonable force in a raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks.

Gadhafi son Khamis, spy chief believed dead, rebels say

Published on August 29, 2011

Libyan rebels are almost certain that Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi have been killed during fighting with their units, the top rebel military spokesman said on Monday.

Hamas denies responsibility for Israel attack

Published on August 18, 2011

A senior Israeli official said the gunmen, unable to cross into Israel through the heavily patrolled border with the Gaza Strip, had gone into the Sinai and then infiltrated from there into southern Israel.

Message of Hope

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 21, 2000

Prospects are favorable that some of the prison senten-ces imposed on 10 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel will be reduced and that others will be set free, according to the Jewish community's official representative in the Iranian parliament.