Israel Politics News

The Syrian government is no longer demanding an Israeli commitment to withdraw from the Golan Heights as a precondition for resuming peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.     "When I met with (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy, he told...

Forty Mks supported the bill, 11 opposed it, and three abstained.   During the debate on the bill in the Knesset MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) went to the stand and waved papers he said contained private details from the Interior...

IsraelNN.com) The building freeze in the Jerusalem area and the commensurate lack of apartments is taking its toll. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat recently called on foreigners to rent their vacation apartments in Jerusalem to students.

IsraelNN.com) The State Prosecutor's Office filed an update with the High Court on the status of its case against Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, in response to a petition by Lieberman that the ongoing case against him be closed.

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...

A gag order was removed Monday from the indictment of three Israeli Arabs on terror-related charges involving the Muslim Brotherhood, documents show. Mahmoud Arnaut, 30, Nasser Hadmi, 40, and Abed Abu al-Mafalfel, 41, were charged three weeks ago with membership...

Until last month, Dubai was acclaimed worldwide as an exotic Manhattan on the sea, with huge skyscrapers towering in desert sands alongside golden beaches crowded with stunning hotels and upscale shopping malls.     Unsurprisingly, news of the financial collapse of the...

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Monday called on thousands of Jerusalem apartment-owners living abroad to help tackle the city's housing crunch, proposing in a letter that their properties be rented to college students or young families when the owners are...

IsraelNN.com) A group of leading rabbis has scheduled a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday, following the attack by Maj-Gen Avi Mizrachi on the Har Bracha Yeshiva and his demand that the IDF cease enlisting its students.