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The ruling is directed at members of the ultra-orthodox Haredi branch of Judaism

15-year-old Leanne Mohamad described the situation of Palestinians living under Israeli settler colonialism

Neither Israel nor the Palestinians have been invited to the meeting

Carolin Khoury, a Muslim contestant, hopes Friday's contest will 'send a message to the Arab communities'

Direct negotiations with the Palestinians are "the only way to proceed to peace," Netanyahu says

Negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians have been at a standstill since a US-led initiative in April 2014

Netanyahu proposed replacing him as part of a move to expand the coalition government

Leaks to the Israeli media from both sides said a deal was close to being finalised

A similar system has been in development for several years and was revealed to the public on Wednesday

Head of the rightwing Likud has reportedly been engaged in intense negotiations with Labour Party chief Isaac Herzog

'John Kerry cannot come on May 30 so it has been delayed. It will take place in the summer' he says

John Kerry is unavailable the day a Paris meeting to relaunch negotiations over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

Netanyahu says Paris's support of UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem casts doubt on the impartiality of a peace initiative

Best cartoon will be awarded $12,000

His visit, from May 21-24, comes as France seeks to engineer a peace deal based on a two-state solution

They're in favour of Palestinians but terrified that their career will be destroyed, says Pink Floyd star

"Video" is the only gay bar in town, just a few hundred metres from Church of the Holy Sepulchre and al-Aqsa Mosque

An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian assailant who was wounded and lying on the ground in Hebron city

A Palestinian security source in the Hamas-run territory confirmed the Israeli fire but not the mortar attack

Netanyahu says Israel to upgrade ties with NATO by opening a permanent mission to its Brussels HQ

A wave of violence across Israel, the West Bank, and Jerusalem has killed 203 Palestinians and 28 Israelis

Israeli musicians are helping to nurture a burgeoning local scene after being trained by the best jazz performers

Unsourced report gives no dates or locations for incidents nor any indication Israeli planes were hit

It was the latest such demolition carried out by Israel as a deterrent

He says Palestinians and Israelis needed to tamp down rhetoric that fueled violence

The bus appeared to have been empty, police said, with the wounded apparently on another bus situated next to it

It was built by Hamas in order to infiltrate and execute terror attacks, Israeli army says

Lost revenue of $285 million annually equivalent to 2.2 percent of Palestinian Gross Domestic Product

Netanyahu's comments come amid a fragile ceasefire in Syria and indirect negotiations in Switzerland

Police announced he had taken up his post in a statement

In recent months attacks from Islamic State terrorists have put forces on a state of constant high alert

Turkey was once Israel's closest regional ally but ties collapsed in 2010

Katsav has always maintained his innocence despite being convicted in December 2010

The party's military wing says its English and Arabic-language accounts were closed for the third time in two weeks

Fishing boats working out of ports in the southern Gaza Strip will be allowed up to nine nautical miles off the coast

The 19-year-old soldier's identity has been kept secret under a gag order

In a travel advisory on Monday, Israel urged its citizens visiting Turkey to leave "as soon as possible"

IS has been blamed for four bombings that have rocked Turkey in the past eight months

The Israeli army arrested a soldier caught shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground

Israel's intelligence minister accused Belgian leaders of laxity over the threat posed by homegrown radicals

Around 50 Jews have chosen to stay in Yemen, home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world

Sunni Muslim militants claiming links to IS have said they were behind rocket fire in recent months

Washington fears those missiles could be used to carry a nuclear warhead at some point in the future

Israel says the projects are built illegally but aid groups say that obtaining necessary permits is nearly impossible

The White House said the Israeli government had requested a Netanyahu meeting with Obama on either March 18 or 19

OIC resolution urged member states to ban products produced in or by illegal Israeli settlements from their markets

Netanyahu reiterates commitment to a decision allocating an area at the Western Wall for egalitarian Jewish prayer

The Israeli army could not immediatly comment on the reasons behind Abu Sakha's detention

Court appointed psychiatrist concluded that the principal accused lied about his mental state to avoid judgement

Some 200 people, most of them Palestinians, took part in the anniversary demonstration