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Dr. Rowan Williams emphasized “the importance of constructive dialogue and co-existence between all religions,” during visit to Israel.

Netanyahu: In this region the only thing ensuring Israel's survival, security and prosperity is our strength; Ya'alon says Assad's fall could "break the axis of evil with Iran, Hezbollah."

Judy Murray's Great Britain side completed a superb four days in Israel by beating Austria to reach the World Group II play-offs in the Fed Cup.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- An international human rights group has urged Israel to lift what it says are arbitrary restrictions on Palestinian residency in the West Bank and Gaza....

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Israeli policies on Palestinian residency have arbitrarily denied thousands of Palestinians the ability to live in, and travel to and from, the West Bank and Gaza. Israel should immediately stop denying or cancelling the residency of Palestinians and close family members with deep ties to the West Bank and Gaza, and end blanket b...

Kairo (dpa) - Auf eine Gas-Pipeline auf der ägyptischen Sinai-Halbinsel haben Bewaffnete einen Anschlag verübt. Es kam zu einer Explosion mit 40 Meter hohen Flammen, die noch in 20 Kilometern Entfern...

Zeleny and Rutenberg have a smart piece in which Sheldon Adelson telegraphs clearly that, even if he continues helping Newt Gingrich (which remains an open question) he will be firmly committed to Mitt Romney and helping defeat President Obama in a general: The signals from Mr. Adelson, whose politics are shaped in large part by his support for Israel, reflect what the associates said was his...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel Sunday, witnesses and state television reported.

Massive flames shot into the sky over northern Sinai on Saturday after a section of a pipeline that carries gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded, according to a security official in the region.

Judy Murray's Great Britain side complete a superb four days in Israel by reaching the World Group Two play-offs in the Fed Cup.

Behind the surrealistic spectacle of the wildly popular Argentinian show currently wowing Tel Aviv are logistics and planning.

HEBRON - About 1,000 Palestinians, some calling on premier Salam Fayyad to quit, marched in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday in protest at his austerity plans. In the largest protest to date against economic measures announced last month, demonstrators chanted "Salam Fayyad, get out You are an agent of the United States and Israel." Fayyad, a US-educated economist and former ...

Österreichs Fed-Cup-Damen haben am Samstag in Eilat in Israel den Einzug ins Play-off der Tennis-Weltgruppe II verpasst. Die von Jürgen Waber betreute ÖTV-Auswahl musste sich nach dem Sieg in der Gruppe A der Europa-Afrika-Zone im Play-off-Match dem Gruppe-C-Gewinner Großbritannien 0:2 geschlagen geben.

Revolutionary Guards exercises follow threats by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei against US and IsraelIran's Revolutionary Guards are carrying out military exercises amid rising tensions over the country's nuclear programme and rumours of a possible strike by Israel or the US.The manoeuvres in southern Iran involve ground forces and follow threats by the Islamic regime to close the strate...

Iran has pledged to aid any nation that challenges Israel, staking out a hard line to suggestions that military strikes are an increasing possibility.

Iran’s supreme leader threatened on Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a US newspaper said defence secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says that Canada is Israel’s staunchest ally in the world, surpassing even the United States in its support

Minister echoes Israeli government, saying Palestinian Authority and Israel should return to the negotiating table without preconditions

Iran's supreme leader vowed to confront and defeat the "cancerous tumour" of Israel on Friday as international concern grew of a pre-emptive Israeli strike on the Islamic regime's nuclear installations as early as this April.

  She's botched the national anthem, made out with a woman on TV and, like presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, knows a thing or two about liking to fire people. Who better to run for president of the United States than Roseanne Barr? The comedian, who has never been shy about expressing her opinions or political views, has thrown her "domestic goddess" hat in the race, saying she's frustrated by ...

Iran's supreme leader threatened today to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a US newspaper said defence secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it building a nuclear bomb.

TEHRAN — A fiery anti-Israel speech by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered shortly after a successful Iranian satellite launch, added to growing global tensions Friday, as Israel warned that it might mount a preemptive strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities despite U.S. objections. Read full article >>

<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/1bb1_34878844_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>Teheran/Washington/München (dpa) - Im Streit um das iranische Atomprogramm wird der Ton immer schärfer. Der geistliche Führer des Irans, Ajatollah Ali Chamenei, warnte am Freitag die USA und Israel e...

Israel kalkuliert seit langem die Folgen, die ein Angriff auf Irans Atomanlagen hätte. Nun meinen viele, die Verbündeten Teherans seien zu geschwächt für eine große Gegenattacke.

Israeli officials fear that Tehran’s nuclear programme is fast becoming immune to military attack, despite the effectiveness of US and EU sanctions on Iran

NPD-Funktionär, Sozialarbeiter, Schwulenaktivist: Der mutmaßliche Terrorhelfer Carsten S. führte ein bewegtes Leben - anfangs unter den Augen des Verfassungsschutzes. Von FOCUS-Redakteur Göran SchattauerMehr zum ThemaAffäre um Christian Wulff - Deutschland ist von einer Staatskrise weit entferntBericht der Vereinten Nationen - UN erklären Hungersnot in Somalia für beendetDie Kanzlerin in China ...

I WAS at a high-powered conference in Israel recently and every second person around the table was fiddling with a tablet of some description.

Rhetorisches Säbelrasseln im Orient: Nach Berichten über israelische Angriffspläne auf iranische Atomanlagen tönen scharfe Worte aus Teheran. Eindringlich warnt Irans geistliches Oberhaupt Chamenei den Westen vor Militärschlägen.

Opinion piece in US newspaper claims US defence secretary believes strong likelihood of attack over atomic programme.

Wolfgang Ischinger schlägt Alternativen zu einem Militärschlag gegen den Iran vor. Zuvor gab es Gerüchte aus den USA, dass Israel bald angreifen wolle.

Säbelrasseln, kalkulierte Drohung oder steht ein Angriff auf iranische Atomanlagen bevor? US-Medien berichten, Israel könne bereits im Frühjahr zuschlagen. Israels Verteidigungsminister: Später könnte zu spät sein.

US officials believe Iran recently gave freedoms to top Al Qaeda operatives who have been under house arrest, including option to leave the country, and may have provided material aid to the terrorist group.Israeli Vice PM Says Iranian Nuclear Sites VulnerableUK Nuclear Official Indicates Progress on Talks With IranPanetta Fears Israel Is Months From Striking Iran

Shechtman says Israel's future as a leader in research and innovation will be bleak without investment.

El secretario de Defensa de EE.UU., Leon Panetta, cree que Israel puede tomar la decisión de atacar Irán la próxima primavera, según informó hoy el columnista del diario The Washington Post, David Ignatiu

Nick Clegg said last night that he was worried the U.S. and Israel may launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran as Tel Aviv claimed Iran was continuing to develop its weapons capabilities.

Despite 2-1 defeat, blue-and-white has everything to play for against Great Britain.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta won't dispute a report that he believes Israel may attack Iran this spring in an attempt to set back the Islamic republic's nuclear program....

The colorful pair were perching on a branch in Tivon, Israel, when a small creature of prey flew past.

A senior official tries to make the point that the Iranian nuclear program is not a threat only to Israel but, as he put it, “a nightmare for the free world.”

Einen atomar bewaffneten Iran will die israelische Regierung auf keinen Fall zulassen. Experten zweifeln, dass das noch zu verhindern ist. mehr...

No one disputes that Iran poses a threat to Israel. What will Netanyahu decide?In the end it will come down to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His senior officials will make their cases, but he alone will have to make one of the most critical decisions inIsrael's history: whether to attackIran's nuclear program. I do not envy him.

THE UNITED Nations secretary general has urged Israel to implement another West Bank settlement freeze in an effort to breathe new life into the deadlocked Middle East peace process.

Chef der KZ in Weissrussland - Leplevski Israel Moses / Леплевский Израиль Моисеевич 1934-1938 fast halbe Weissrussland in weissrusischen KZ umgebracht.

For once, it wasn't all about the Americans, the Europeans, or even Israel for that matter. Syria's U.N. envoy, Bashar Jaafari, saved his bitterest barbs at the United Nations this week for his fellow Arabs, particularly Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, the architect of an increasingly assertive foreign policy that has helped topple a government in Libya and is no...

Le secrétaire général de l'ONU Ban Ki-moon a appelé mercredi Israël à...

Put close ties to Israel to good use, Palestinian president tells John Baird and Jim Flaherty as ministers meet for talks in Ramallah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory late Tuesday in a primary vote of his rightwing Likud party over his sole rival, the hardline settler Moshe Feiglin.

In collaboration with researchers from the Weizmann Institute in Israel, a team from the Institut de Génétique Humaine (CNRS, France) has, for the first time, revealed the detailed three-dimensional architecture of chromosomes: Giacomo Cavalli and his colleagues have achieved high-resolution mapping of the different contacts that exist within and between chromosomes. They performed this feat us...

Foreign Affairs Minister says even though he’s not Jewish, but he has a rabbi

In the wake of the Arab Uprising, which began a year ago in Tunisia, an Israeli government minister said that for their own safety all of Tunisia's remaining Jews should move to Israel.

Un immense drapeau israélien flottant sur la page d'accueil de plusieurs sites iraniens officiels, sans doute l'un des pires cauchemars du président iranien Ahmadinejad, est devenu réalité l'espace de quelques heures, le 26 janvier dernier. Des hackers israéliens ont notamment ciblé les sites des...

It is one of those peculiarities of the Israeli political system that right now, under a stable government and a strong Prime Minister, there is almost a consensus in the Knesset that a date for early elections will be called soon. Conventional wisdom suggests that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would like to avoid the battle over the 2013 budget, especially since Israel seems to b...

Canadian Foreign Minister praises Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN speech; calls on Palestinians to resist ‘temptations to apply preconditions to talks’

Gino Bartali est sur le point d'être proclamé "Juste parmi les nations" par Israël, pour son rôle pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Par son activité clandestine, il aurait contribué à sauver la vie de centaines de juifs. "Gino le Pieu", ainsi qu'il était surnommé, était aussi "Gino le Juste".

Der Flug von Tel Aviv ins zypriotische Larnaka dauert nur 45 Minuten. Und für viele israelische Paare führt er direkt ins Eheglück. Der Hochzeitstourismus von Israel nach Zypern boomt nämlich immer mehr. Woran das liegt?

Le gouvernement israélien a commencé ce dimanche à examiner un projet de voie ferrée reliant la Méditerranée et la mer Rouge qui offrirait une route alternative au Canal ...lire la suite

Der scheidende Palästinenserpräsident Abbas spricht im Interview über den arabischen Frühling und seine letzte politische Chance, den Konflikt mit Israel zu beenden.

La Banque mondiale a annoncé vendredi une visite de son président Robert Zoellick aux dirigeants palestiniens à Ramallah, pour y discuter de développement. Selon son agenda publié par l'institution de Washington, M. Zoellick doit se rendre entre dimanche et mercredi à Herzliya (Israël), où il doit...

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has again called on Israel to change its policy in relation to Gaza and end its blockade of the territory.

Un bébé a longuement mâchouillé la tête d’un serpent en semi-hibernation, un dangereux passe-temps dont le reptile n’est pas sorti indemne, a-t-on appris vendredi ...lire la suitehistoires liées16:13 Syrie : 35 morts dans les violences, dont 12 membres des services de sécurité16:24 Rio+20 : « faiblesse insigne » de l’avant-projet de déclaration16:16 Le Tour méditerranéen réintégré au calendrier...

Israel ist besorgt: In Ägypten dominiert mit den Muslimbrüdern ein erklärter Feind das neue Parlament. Wackelt damit der Frieden von Camp David? Die neuen Machthaber am Nil drohen Jerusalem bereits.

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore begins a four-day visit to Israel and Palestine today.

Head of the Israel Export Institute says small- and medium-sized businesses will need “arsenal of tools” to assist export.

RESPECT for Israel and minorities is crucial.

Launched last May, the Gisele Bündchen Brazilian Intimates range has proved popular in Latin America, Portugal, Japan, and Israel and now further expansion is expected.

ATLANTA (AP) -- He's an ardent supporter of Israel and a megabillionaire casino mogul whose empire is under federal investigation. And he's the self-proclaimed "richest Jew in the world."...

A network of fast battery-switching stations offers an unusual business model for electric cars.

Weiter andauernder Streit um Siedlungsstopp im Westjordanland

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the exploratory talks with Israel on resuming full peace negotiations have concluded, without any progress.

Religiöse Fanatiker in Israel haben eine Frau auf der Straße angegriffen: Sie bewarfen sie mit Steinen, schlugen die Scheiben ihres Autos ein und schütteten Bleichmittel ins Innere. Erst die Polizei konnte die Frau retten.Mehr zum ThemaPräsidentschaftswahlen in Frankreich - Sarkozy will bei Schlappe „Leben komplett ändern“Blutbad im irakischen Haditha - Kein US-Soldat muss nach Massaker in Haft...

La separación competirá contra cintas de Israel, Polonia y Bélgica en la categoría de mejor película extranjera

A taut domestic drama from Iran is competing against a Belgian thriller, a true Polish war story and dramas from Canada and Israel in the race for the best foreign-language Oscar.

A senior United Nations political official today urged Israel and the Palestinians to redouble efforts to resolve all their permanent status issues, end the conflict and establish an independent and democratic Palestinian state that will exist peacefully alongside Israel.

El mediocampista cementero, Israel Castro, habló del buen momento que pasa la selección mayor de México

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scientists in Israel have developed a way of using satellite images to help farmers detect small-scale changes in climate and improve their harvests, a method that could bolster food supplies for an increasingly hungry world population.

The lawyer defending Hosni Mubarak has told the court that there is not a shred of evidence linking Mubarak to a controversial gas deal with Israel.

The U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met with Israeli leaders through the day on Friday as the allies sought to tighten coordination to block Iran's nuclear program, amid concerns about rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.

JERUSALEM - US military chief General Martin Dempsey on Friday urged Israel to keep the channels of communication open amid concerns the Jewish state could launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Speaking after talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on what was his first visit to Israel since taking office last October, Dempsey said both sides would benefit from ...

Israël tente-t-il de saper les efforts de réconciliation du Hamas et du Fatah palestiniens ? Ces derniers le pensent en tout cas, après l'arrestation…

Gen. Martin E. Dempsey is expected to focus on Iran’s nuclear program, as well as the challenges posed by the past year’s regional upheavals and the American military exit from Iraq.

Lo malo de los juegos de guerra es que a cualquiera se le puede escapar un tiro y entonces se lía la de San Quintín. Resulta, pues, muy alarmante que Estados Unidos e Israel, en un rincón del cuadrilátero, e Irán, en el otro, libren ya una feroz guerra secreta (espionaje, atentados y asesinatos) a cuenta del programa nuclear del régimen de los ayatolás, galleen en el embudo de Ormuz y vayan sub...

The speaker of the Palestinian assembly, who is a member of the Hamas militant group, has been arrested at an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank.

El presidente del Parlamento palestino, Aziz Dueik, miembro del movimiento islamista Hamás, fue detenido hoy por soldados israelíes en un control militar en Cisjordania, informó la agencia oficial palestina Wafa

Sabine Lisicki hat bei den Australian Open in Melbourne nach einer starken Vorstellung gegen Shahar Peer aus Israel Runde drei erreicht. Ebenfalls weiter ist Angelique Kerber.

Le groupe industriel Siemens en estime le coût total entre 1400 et 1700 milliards d'euros d'ici à 2030.Articles en rapportLa Grèce, pressée de sabrer les salaires du privéAprès la France, S & P dégrade le secteur publicCyber-guerre : Israël passe à la contre-attaqueL'Allemagne, même affectée par la crise, reste inoxydableLe FMI cherche 500 milliards de dollars pour la zone euro

Audiovisuel : Elle est si peu créative, qu'elle n'apparaît quasiment pas sur les radars chargés de radioscoper les grandes tendances télévisuelles dans le monde. Contrairement à des pays comme le Royaume Uni, les Pays Bas, Israël, l'Espagne, sans parler des...

EU diplomats in Jerusalem call for laws to ensure financial transactions by member states do not support Jewish settlements.

New submitter 9re9 writes "The NY Times describes what may be the beginning of an actual cyberwar between a pro-Palestinian group and Israeli companies, specifically El Al and the Tel Aviv stock exchange. From the article: 'A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning to Israel's Ynet news o...

Startup incubator DreamIt Ventures is announcing the first Israel-U.S. accelerator, which will help up to five Israeli startups expand into the U.S. market through DreamIt's NYC 2012 program. The new program, called DreamIt Israel, will take place over four months, with the first month in Israel followed by three months in New York. The startups will also participate in two Demo Day events - on...

Israel accuses UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of "gratuitous bashing" after he said it was doing "immense damage" to the peace process through settlement building.

‘For the past two weeks cyber war has raged against Israel,’ El Al said in a statement

ASSASSINS fixed a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian nuclear scientist. He is the third to be murdered in two weeks.

U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict.

Le danseur prodige présente La Curva, en tournée en France.

Un vent de panique s'est abattu sur Israël. Il y a une dizaine de jours, un...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama for his stance on Israel on Thursday, telling a Florida crowd that if elected he would "stand with our friends."

No matter how he fares in South Carolina or Florida or wherever, Ron Paul is going to take his presidential campaign all the way to the Republican convention this summer. He won't be close to the 1,144 needed to claim the nomination, but he does figure to arrive in Tampa with a bloc of several hundred delegates.This likelihood is making some who don't share his views apprehensive, a sentiment t...

Washington: India along with China, North Korea and Israel has low levels of transparency on nuclear materials and security, an independent report has said.

Die Führung in Teheran unterstellt den USA und Israel, an dem Bombenanschlag auf den iranischen Atomwissenschaftler beteiligt zu sein - wie schon 2010. US-Außenministerin Clinton weist die Vorwürfe zurück.

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel found that women who had high levels, oxytocin, a chemical produced in the brain, were more affectionate towards their children.

Un journaliste français, Gilles Jacquier, a été tué mercredi alors qu'il se trouvait en reportage pour France 2 à Homs, dans le centre de la Syrie, selon un photographe de l'AFP qui se trouvait sur place avec lui. Gilles Jacquier avait débuté à France 3 Lille en 1991.histoires liéesLE VISAGE - Le mal-logement : nouvelle croisade du « King » ÉricL´IMAGE DU - Israël : manifestation contre le raci...

Blog post by Dimanche RougeDimanche Rouge #12 @ Petit Bain!Dimanche Rouge #12 @ Petit Bain, 15 JANVIER 2012, 17H-23HExperimental Performances Multimédia, danse, vidéo, son, performance art, spoken word, installationsENTREE GRATUITEPour cette 12è édition, Dimanche Rouge vous invite à découvrir une soirée de performances expérimentales et une after-party DJ le dimanche 15 janvier, de 16 heures à ...

Foreign minister SM Krishna made the remark while addressing reporters along with his Israel counterpart Avigdor Lieberman.

TEL AVIV, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals (ICL) President and Chief Executive Akiva Mozes will step down after 13 years in the job, the fertiliser and specialty chemicals maker said on Sunday.

Solaröfen, Häuser aus Lehm und Toiletten ohne Wasser: Der israelische Kibbuz Lotan entwickelt kreative Zukunftskonzepte - und gibt das ökologische Wissen an internationale Gäste weiter.

The Israel Anti-Drug Authority thought that the new Facebook profile timeline would be a perfect way to convince people not to take drugs, using it to show a life with and without drugs. It's clever and cute. More »

Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at t...

La página noticiosa israelí Ynet dijo que los intrusos calificaron su obra como un regalo de Año Nuevo al mundo y que esperan dañar los bolsillos del mundo sionista

Der nächste Angriff auf das Ersparte der Verbraucher: Offenbar haben Computertüftler einen Weg gefunden, die Kreditkarten von 15.000 Israelis zu knacken. Mittlerweile sind die betroffenen Karten blockiert worden.

Avinoam Danin is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He curates Flora of Israel Online. His latest book is Botany of the Shroud: The Story of Floral Images on the Shroud of Turin. Avi Solomon: What first sparked your lifelong fascination with botany? Avinoam Danin: [...]

The economic and political disarray of Pakistan is complete. Yet, the army, the only stable power centre in Pakistan, refuses to read the writing on the wall and continues to patronize terror outfits which have openly vowed to destroy India, Israel and the US. For an army which is bankrolled by the US, to turn back on its patron and provide a safe house to its most-wanted terrorist for over six...

Here are my best reads in English during 2011. I only read 38 books this year (blame the Internet), which is why the really good ones are fewer than usual.Bonk. The curious coupling of sex and science. Mary Roach 2008. A charming look at the history of sex research.The Culture of Fear. Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things. Barry Glassner 1999. If you don't already hate...

Nommé comme nouveau sélectionneur d'Israël à la place de Luis Fernandez, Eli Gutman s'est montré très heureux de ce nouveau poste.

Wow. You've got to check out this video of some girl STRONG REACTION to getting a Ron Paul book for Christmas! No, she isn't crying out of happiness — but rather when she opens the book and finds that Ron Paul refers to Israel as an apartheid state, she just loses it and starts crying! Say what you [...]

Utl.: Ausgabe vom 28. Dezember 2011 = Wien (OTS) - Israel erlebt dieser Tage eine interessante Machtprobe, deren Ausgang für das künftige Gesicht des Staates entscheidend sein könnte. Immer öfter - und vor allem: immer offener - versuchen ultra-orthodoxe Juden teils mit Gewalt eine ...

Viele Juden aus Israel wandern in die USA aus, weil die Ultrareligiösen immer größeren Einfluss gewinnen. Israel versucht mit Werbekampagnen gegenzusteuern.

The Israeli parliament on Monday held its first public debate on whether to commemorate the Turkish genocide of Armenians a century ago, a politically fraught topic.

Die israelische Finanzzeitung Calcalist berichtet, dass Apple das Unternehmen Anobit aus Israel erworben hat. Es beschäftigt sich mit Flash-Speicher. Der Preis soll bei 400 bis 500 Millionen US-Dollar liegen. mehr...

Flash memory has some troubles that an Israeli company call Anobit appears to know how to solve. Apple is the world's biggest consumer of flash memory, so naturally it appears to have consumed Anobit.

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel’s premier and president pledged their support for the fledgling state of South Sudan on Tuesday in talks with visiting President Salva Kiir, official statements said.Kiir met Israeli President Shimon Peres during the morning, then held a working lunch with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a flying visit of less than 24-hours, his first to the Jewish state.“I am very...

As Christmas pilgrims converge once more on the birthplace of Jesus, tensions are rising in the town as Israel prepares to extend its separation wall. Adrian Blomfield reports

But Brazil, where unlocked phones start at $1,400 U.S., not so much Apple (AAPL) delivered the iPhone 4S to two dozen more countries Friday, bringing it -- by our count -- to within two or three of its promise to hit more than 70 countries by the end of the year. [UPDATE: Apple PR says they are already at more than 70; waiting for their list.] Friday's launches were in Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, ...

In der Vorbereitungsphase auf die Europameisterschaft im kommenden Jahr bestreitet die DFB-Elf Ende Mai ein Testspiel gegen die Schweiz und empfängt sechs Tage später Israel.

Die deutsche Nationalmannschaft hat sich festgelegt: Die letzten beiden Länderspiele vor der Europameisterschaft 2012 (8. Juni bis 1. Juli 2012) steigen gegen die Schweiz und Israel. Das teilte der DFB am Freitag mit.

The Washington Wizards emerged from a shortened training camp almost fully healthy with the exception of Trevor Booker, who is nursing a thigh contusion. The second-year forward suffered the injury while playing in Israel during the NBA lockout, and he came back in late October after his stint with Bnei Hasharon so that his physician could examine him. Read full article >>

"Nuance, subtly and balance are not characteristic of the domestic Israeli media conversation."

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Apple will open a research and development center in Israel that will focus on semiconductors, the Globes business daily reported on Thursday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Apple will open a research and development center in Israel that will focus on semiconductors, the Globes business daily reported on Thursday.

Ohne Trainer Huub Stevens, der wegen der Erkrankung seiner Mutter nicht mit nach Israel reiste, tritt Schalke nun bei Maccabi Haifa an. Auch auf dem Platz ändert sich einiges, nur Höwedes und Uchida spielten bei Hertha. Und der Bundesligist führt durch ein Eigentor der Israelis. Zuvor kamen RB Salzburg und Lazio Rom weiter, PSG dagegen ist raus. Am Donnerstag empfängt Hannover Poltawa.

RBC Capital’s Mike Abramsky this morning reflects on speculation reported by TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters, who cited the Israeli publication Calcalist, that Apple (AAPL) is in talks to buy component maker Anobit of Herzliya Pituach, Israel, for upwards of half a billion dollars. Abramsky writes that this reminds him of Apple’s April, 2008 acquisition of PA Semiconductor, [...]

Offiziell sollen die 40 neuen Wohnungen provisorische Bauten ersetzen, heißt es in Jerusalem. Dabei geht es um den Osten der Stadt sowie zwei weitere Siedlungen.

Israel, despite socialist roots, now has a huge income gap. Displays of riches, such as a $2-million wedding and a 'Real Housewives'-style show, draw awe and contempt.Israel, despite socialist roots, now has a huge income gap. Displays of riches, such as a $2-million wedding and a 'Real Housewives'-style show, draw awe and contempt.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates rattled sabers against Iran and skewered President Barack Obama for being soft in his support for Israel on Wednesday as they vied for the backing of Jewish Republicans.

PALMACHIM AIR BASE, Israel (Reuters) - Service in the drone squadrons of Israel, the world's oldest military operator of pilotless aircraft, sometimes begins on the fields of teenaged model plane...

Chery Quantum Auto Co, a joint venture between Chery Automobile and investment firm Israel Corp, on Nov 28 unveiled the design of its first car, which it hopes will allow it to reverse a trend and export made-in-China cars to Western Europe.

Der lange schwelende Konflikt zwischen Großbritannien und dem Iran hat einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht: Die britische Botschaft in Teheran brennt. In der Reihe der Lieblingsfeinde Teherans stehen die Briten neben den USA und Israel ganz vorne.

Chery Quantum, la co-entreprise entre le constructeur automobile chinois Chery et la multinationale israélienne Israël Corp, a dévoilé le design du…

CAIRO (AP) -- Attackers set off explosives early Monday along a gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan, forcing a shutdown and halting exports, the state news agency MENA reported....

Dominique Strauss-Kahn et son épouse Anne Sinclair ont formellement démenti, mercredi dans un communiqué de leur avocat, vouloir s’installer en Israël, contrairement à c...lire la suite

While most NBA players wait and wonder whether there will be a season, Jordan Farmar of the New Jersey Nets ha s emerged as a star in Israel.

A species of frog that was thought to have been made extinct during the notorious drainage of the Hula marshlands in Israel, has appeared again after more than 50 years of hiding.

HADERA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel's IDE Technologies has unveiled a transportable desalination system that uses traditional reverse osmosis technology but without the need for chemicals, allowing...

Google is in the news this weekend. According to comScore, Google’s US market share rose to 65.6 % in October, from 65.3% from September. Yahoo fell to 15.2% which I think is a new low. Microsoft’s Bing, rose to 14.8%. Google also sent out invites to the media for an event this week to officially [...]

Nebenan, bei zoon politikon, diskutiert Ali Arbia die Möglichkeiten und Wahrscheinlichkeiten eines israelischen Militärschlags gegen das iranische Nuklearprogramm, das einem neuen Bericht der Internationalen Atomenergie-Organisation IAEA nun doch nicht so friedlich ist, wie der Iran hartnäckig behauptet und wie die USA seit 2003 auch glauben wollten. Dem will ich noch eine weitere Variante hinz...

Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (SP) in heikler kulturpolitischer Mission: Ein Lehrstuhl soll die Beziehung Wiens zu Israel verbessern, er will aber auch vermehrt auf palästinensische Künstler zugehen.

According to figures released by PIBA, about 950 migrants known to have illegally made their way into Israel since beginning of November.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three Jewish former major leaguers have joined Israel's bid for the 2013 World Baseball Classic, a move that could transform the baseball backwater into a legitimate contender....

The crash came two days after a warning, posted on Youtube in the name of the hacker group, said Anonymous would retaliate after Israel stopped two vessels carrying activists and journalists to Gaza.

Israel has said no one was injured in its takeover of the Canadian ship Tahrir

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has begun deportation procedures for a group of pro-Palestinian activists who tried to breach its naval blockade of the Gaza Strip....

The suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinian people shows that it has forgotten the Jewish scriptures, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

There may be a seed of truth in the many health claims for pomegranate juice, researchers from Israel say, at least for kidney patients on dialysis.