Prime Minister Ehud Olmert confirmed that the Lebanese group Hezbollah had handed Israel a letter written by the long-missing Israeli airman Ron Arad as part of a prisoner-exchange deal last week.
Israel obtained a two-decade-old letter written in captivity by its most famous missing soldier as part of a recent exchange with the Hezbollah guerrilla group, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday.
Israel's extreme right has launched a nationwide campaign to have the jailed assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin released on the 12th anniversary of the murder.
by Martin Sieff Washington (UPI) Oct 22, 2007 Flying by helicopter along the entire northern half of Israel's security barrier sealing off most of the West Bank to lock out Palestinian suicide bombers brings home clearly a simple truth almost never mentioned in the U.S. and European media -- the security barrier is a fence, not a wall.
Israel's extreme right has launched a nationwide campaign to release the jailed assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 12th anniversary of the murder.
Israel said on Monday it has received a poignant letter written by an airman who has been missing for more than 20 years, following a rare prisoner swap with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to Israel in recent months, offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran's tiny Jewish community is in grave danger.
In Israel, were you for some reason not able to know the age of people you meet, this should do the trick. Ask about visiting India, and Israelis neatly divide into two categories: those who will say their son or daughter visited (and are thereby headed for middle age) and those who say they themselves are back from an extended visit (and are, therefore, in university or the early years of their ...
Surfing celebrity KELLY SLATER was detained in Israel on Saturday (20Oct07) after fighting with photographers trying to get a shot of him with supermo
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, and author of the new book, "The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and The Myth of Jewish Control."