Haifa News

A 27-year-old man had for six months brutally exploited a mentally impaired couple in Haifa, police revealed on Monday According to suspicions, Alon Bar Shishat subjected the man, 36, and his wife, 27, to severe emotional and physical abuse, robbing...

A 2-year-old girl died on Thursday only three days after receiving the swine flu vaccine in the Rambam hospital in Haifa, despite Health Ministry regulations stating that the vaccine should not be given to children below the age of three...

Can computerized handwriting analysis detect whether politicians are liars? How about investment experts to protect consumers from fraud and Ponzi schemes? Now computers can analyze handwriting differences that the human eye cannot detect and tell researchers who's lying and who's...

A group of bereaved mothers, including Mickey Goldwasser, Rona Ramon and Esther Wachsman, sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asking to meet him urgently to advance the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. Writing that they are...

The two also spoke of the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and Shalom said that the freezing of settlement construction had never been a precondition for negotiations. (Attila Somfalvi)  

Israeli kids exposed to more pollution than European kids Children living in Israel are exposed to more air pollution than their European counterparts due to low standards and too little supervision and enforcement of environmental laws, a study by the...

Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile...