Israel limited access to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday for fear of violence on the Muslim weekly day of prayer, which leads directly into Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish cale

Hardline Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Wednesday there will be 'harsh and grave consequences' if the Palestinians persist with their plan to seek UN membership as a state.

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Egyptian commandos plucked six Israelis to safety from their Cairo embassy as protesters stormed the building and dumped diplomatic papers from a balcony, an Israeli official said on Saturday.

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Gaza militants agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to stop three days of violence, a Hamas official said on Sunday, after a deadly attack on Israelis near the Egypt-Israel border set off a round of Israeli airstrikes and rocket barrages from Gaza.

Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of trying to "undermine Israel's legitimacy" by demanding an apology for the 2010 deadly flotilla raid.

In a landmark ruling, an Israeli court has allowed a family to extract eggs from the ovaries of their dead daughter, a media report said.

The family of Chen Aida Ayash, a 17-year-old schoolgirl wh

Israel is again ready to welcome Jews from India’s Northeast, known as the Bnei Menashe, after a ministerial committee decided “in principle” to allow them in to undo the “historical injustice” they had suffered. Some 1,700 Bnei Menashe have already immigrated to Israel, but the process was halted in 2007 after questions were raised about their “Jewishness”.

A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported on Friday.

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Stumped for an original name for their newborn daughter, an Israeli couple took inspiration from social networking site Facebook and named her ‘Like,’ Israeli daily Maariv reported on Monday.

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Israeli troops on the Golan wounded at least 10 people as they fired live rounds and tear gas Sunday at protesters who broke though from the Syrian-held side of the plateau, medics and defence sources