Haifa News

Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old resident of the lower Galilee village of Kaukab on suspicion that he raped a 14-year-old girl from Haifa who he met on an online social networking site. On Monday, the Haifa Magistrate's court extended...

The man, a 22-year-old who died of cancer during his army service, made a donation to a sperm bank before he started chemotherapy. According to court papers, he said he made the donation "to be on the safe side," adding...

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...