Israel has approved a withdrawal from the northern side of a divided town along the volatile Lebanese border.

An Israeli air force F-16 crashed in the deserts of Southern Israel while it was on a routine training flight, the military said on Thursday, adding that its two-man crew were missing.

Israel is ready to reach a "compromise agreement" on extending a partial moratorium on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, a senior government official told AFP on Friday.

A series of explosions have been heard in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says on Monday that the police are searching for the source of the explosion.

Israeli warplanes on Sunday launched two pre-dawn raids on two tunnels used by smugglers in the southern Gaza Strip, in response to a new rocket attack by Palestinian militants, the Army said.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday hit Israel’s fifth largest city of Ashkelon, a day after the Arab League gave green signal to resume direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday backed a plan to grant broader powers to the committee investigating a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, an official statement said.

An Israeli Cabinet minister met secretly in Europe with Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday in an attempt to improve relations rapidly deteriorating over the recent bloodshed on a Gaza-bound flotil

Israeli diplomats have started wearing jeans and sandals to work and caused a series of diplomatic faux pas in a protest over salary conditions, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday.

Israel’s Prime Minister and defence chief will be called to testify in an investigation into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, the leader of an Israeli commission of inquiry said in an opening sta