A European parliament delegation met Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya in Gaza on Tuesday despite an EU diplomatic boycott of his Hamas movement, sparking a protest from Israel.
A devastating report lambastes Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for outright incompetence in last summer's war and offers a damning judgment of Israel itself.
Early in the evening of July 12, eight hours after Hezbollah militants seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid from Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called his top military and political leaders together to debate how Israel should respond.
JERUSALEM — For years, Israel's military leadership dismissed the need to prepare for conventional war, a government commission said.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad said today that the Israel is manifestation of state terrorism, genocide and crimes.
Israeli Coalition Chairman of Kadima party Avigdor Yitzhaki is planning to call on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign during a meeting of the party faction on Thursday, Israel Radio reported on Tuesday.
French presidential candidate Segolene Royal, left, and Nicolas Sarkozy. Israel's Independence Day celebration offered a golden opportunity for advisers to French presidential candidates to emphasize their sympathy toward Israel, and no one was going to miss out.
Seats in Israel’s legislative assembly, the Knesset , are assigned through a system of nationwide proportional representation: Rather than electing individual candidates, voters cast ballots for an entire party.
The Nation -- The Winograd Commission, established by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert to investigate Israel's notably unsuccessful performance in last summer's war against Lebanon, today issued a first "Partial Report" in Jerusalem. The report covered only the period leading up to the war and the first six days of what turned out to be a 33-day war. It attributed "primary responsibility" for what it ...
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation and the first cracks in his coalition Tuesday following a government commission's harsh criticism of his handling of Israel's war last summer in Lebanon.