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IDF chief issues stern warning to Assad over rapidly heating border

Damascus will ‘bear consequences’ of further gunfire, says Gantz, after cross-border shooting … Read More >>

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Israel’s UN envoy: Palestinian ‘hatred’ threatens talks

Ron Prosor slams PA negotiator Erekat for saying West Bank worse than South African apartheid … Read More >>

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Jordan refuses entry to 1,000 stranded Syrian refugees

In first such clampdown by Amman since onset of crisis, refugees wait for border to open … Read More >>

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Soldier killed in Golan minefield accident

Combat Engineering Corps soldier was near device when it blew up; army investigating … Read More >>

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Hamas textbooks to teach about ‘liberation plans’

Text part of new curriculum to be introduced in the Gaza Strip schools next academic year … Read More >>

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Palestinian human rights group: 11 Palestinians have died under PA, Hamas detention

Commission for Human Rights finds sharp rise in complaints of rights abuses by PA, Hamas … Read More >>

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Palestinian fairytales

It is said the camera never lies. Whoever coined that term could not have been more misinformed … Read More >>

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Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed

Captors release six policemen, border guard after Egyptian army’s mass sweep of border area … Read More >>

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Testimonies from a war zone: Syrian Christians share their stories

Christians face a disaster that is leading many to ask whether the Church will survive in Syria … Read More >>

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Mosque loudspeakers in Pakistan villages call for attacks on Christians

Tensions high where politician who lost election strives to incite violence … Read More >>

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Disgruntled customer kills four in Beersheba bank rampage

Former Border Police officer, apparently denied credit line, kills self after standoff with police … Read More >>

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Iraqi Christians suffer as violence kills 140

Four consecutive days of violence raises fears that sectarian conflicts could lead to civil war … Read More >>

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Religious extremists attack two ultra-Orthodox soldiers in Mea She’arim

Police: Beating was response to haredi protest against military service … Read More >>

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Vandals target home of Women of the Wall activist

Peggy Cidor: It takes more than this to scare me; Jerusalem mayor condemns attack … Read More >>

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Lapid clarifies stance after ‘New York Times’ interview

Yesh Atid upset after Lapid says settlements won't be dismantled nor Jerusalem divided … Read More >>

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Houses, fences, and fruit trees: A decade of watching settlements grow

How Israel’s settlements are altering the physical, political, and human landscape … Read More >>

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Israel world’s largest exporter of drones

UAV sales of $4.6 billion over last eight years were nearly 10 percent of defense exports … Read More >>

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters before a ceremony for the "UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences" in Paris

Israel nixes UNESCO Jerusalem delegation at last minute

Foreign Ministry: Palestinians violated agreement for a purely professional, not a political visit … Read More >>

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the U.N. headquarters in New York

Jordan’s king trying to play on Israel’s fears

Abdullah should wake up and realize that beating the Israeli piñata will not save his ailing throne … Read More >>

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Kerry: Blasphemy, apostasy, anti-Semitism troubling trends in new Religious Freedom Report

2012 International Religious Freedom report reveals status of religious freedom in world … Read More >>

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Syrian rebels: Dozens hurt in Damascus chemical weapons attack

Assad forces fire chemically laced mortars; FSA says it killed 4 Iranians, 7 Hezbollah men … Read More >>

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Russia sends at least 12 warships to Syria

Deployment presumably a warning to Israel and West against intervention opposing Assad … Read More >>

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State to return Homesh land to Palestinian owners

Justice Ministry responds to High Court decision on 2010 petition by Palestinian owners … Read More >>

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Hezbollah commander killed in assault on Syria border town

Fadi al-Jazzar was former prisoner released by Israel in 2004 swap for soldiers’ bodies … Read More >>

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Second Intifada icon Muhammad al-Dura didn’t die in 2000 shooting, Israel finds

Government panel rejects accusation that IDF killed the Gaza boy and that he died at all … Read More >>

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Holocaust Claims Conference looks to quell storm over cover-up allegations

Restitution organization to take action after reports that it knew of huge fraud as early as 2001 … Read More >>

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Church of Scotland amends disputed Israel paper

Revisions of controversial text follows uproar over its rejection of Jewish right to Israel … Read More >>

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Egyptian Christians face growing threat of blasphemy charges

Copts, Nile Valley Christians increasingly targeted since criminalization of  religious slander … Read More >>

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Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites

Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christians have kept their faith … Read More >>

Temple find

Despite secrecy, interest builds around mysterious First Temple find outside Bethlehem

2,800-year-old pillar discovered under Palestinian orchard points to a major biblical construction … Read More >>