Israel’s refugee roundups

April 4 (UPI) -- A woman from northern Israel has become the first Muslim to serve in an elite airborne search and rescue unit. The woman, a medic, was originally assigned to Unit 669 of the Israeli Air Force because of a clerical error, YnetNews......

-- In a sunlit, tan-stone building on the dividing line of this divided city, Arabs and Jews come to live out the last period of their lives...It's not that the hospital has suddenly made best friends out of wary Arabs and Jews. But in the last......

The demolition Wednesday was one of more than 300 in Arab neighborhoods of the city since 2004...However, critics say such permits are virtually impossible to obtain and that the demolitions are part of a decades-old policy to limit Palestinian......

Treasury official Sidney Zabludoff has released a new study titled The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality , which has just been published in the Jewish Political Studies Review by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The study......

He was wanted by Israel since 2001 but managed to survive several attempted arrests and eliminations by the IDF...Written and oral arrangements prior to April, 2007 must be reconfirmed. If you are republishing A7 material, please contact us......

News In testimony to the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) on Wednesday, Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, a well-known Israeli legal expert, warned that if Israeli Arabs are allowed to participate in a referendum on the future of Jerusalem, it could spark....

Israel's prime minister angered opponents on Wednesday by answering their criticisms with a speech in parliament that lasted less than two minutes before he walked off the podium in apparent disgust. Ehud Olmert, a 35-year veteran of parliamentary......

Curse him Extreme right-wing activists issue 'operation order' for events of encountering senior Arab officials in Jerusalem Efrat Weiss Extreme right-wing activists have vowed to stop playing by the rules in their battle against the Arab Knesset......

April 1 (UPI) -- Mortars fired Tuesday from Gaza injured two residents in southern Israel as Palestinians said the Israeli military killed two alleged Hamas operatives. Palestinian residents in Gaza said the Israeli military, apparently responding......

Agencies Published: April 01, 2008, 12:06 Occupied Jerusalem: An Israeli soldier has been formally indicted by a military court for spying for Hezbollah. Sergeant Louai Balut, an Israeli-Arab military tracker, is accused of passing information on......