Israel News

The work day begins in the early hours of the morning, when workers are hurrying to the checkpoints, today called passages, in order to grab a good spot. In the wake of complaints received by Kav Laoved via Mahsom Watch,...

Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support on Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks, as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world. Speaking at a forum in the coastal...

Police suspect that a 16-year-old youth who allegedly stabbed an Arab man in Jerusalem Thursday is a serial attacker of Arabs. At court on Friday, police representatives requested the extension of the boy's remand, saying they suspected him of additional...

Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi said on Friday that the Israeli municipality of the annexed city is preparing to build 15,000 new housing units, mainly in areas beyond the Green Line in the occupied West Bank. The news comes on...

Internet use among Palestinians is suffering from the West Bank-Gaza split and from Israeli pressure, according to a new report published this week. The Global Information Society Watch report, which is published annually, deals this time with issues surrounding access...

A further blow to Lev Leviev: the High Court of Justice has accepted the petition against privatization of prisons, and has ruled that the law amending the prisons ordinance is null and void, because of its disproportionate infringement of the...

Jerusalem District Attorney Eli Abarbanel announced on Thursday that the state was closing the case against attorney Uri Messer, who was investigated by police in connection with two affairs for which his close friend, former prime minister Ehud Olmert, is...

In the continuing battle to prevent the deportation of 1,200 foreign workers' children, a few dozen protesters gathered outside Interior Minister Eli Yishai's office in the capital on Wednesday. Over the past month, 3,200 people have signed an online petition...

The pro-Israel lobby and antisemitism C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny? Lobby correspondent: Peter Oborne, presenter of Channel 4's Dispatches documentary Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, in Westminster,...