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Gaza/Tel Aviv - A team of four French doctors visited the Gaza Strip last week to examine an Israeli soldier held there for three-and-a-half years, ahead of a possible prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. There was, however, no official confir...
JERUSALEM -- The European Union's foreign ministers on Tuesday softened their call for a division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that the city should be shared but that the two sides should negotiate the details.
The Israeli government has denied that it refused Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin permission to visit Gaza as he stated in the Irish media last week.
The Israeli military is considering a withdrawal from a village on the Lebanese border before the end of January, the Israeli prime minister said.
Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union sought to avoid a confrontation with Israel by toning down a declaration that called for the recognition of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Israel's justice minister called for Jewish law to become binding in Israel, causing a stir Tuesday that cut to the heart of the country's simmering secular-religious divide.
Israel says it's treating five suspected swine flu cases from Gaza in hopes of containing an outbreak of the virus in the blockaded Palestinian territory.
The brother of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has knocked an Israeli sports reporter unconscious.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a halt to building in West Bank settlements will last for no longer than the scheduled 10 months as police arrested two Jewish settlers protesting the freeze.
Israeli scientists say they've created a nanomaterial that may revolutionize solar panels, batteries and even be used as the basis for self-cleaning windows.
