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Israel to decide soon on easing W. Bank roadblocks (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:26:09 GMT

Israel will decide soon whether to remove some of the hundreds of roadblocks that impede Palestinian travel in the occupied West Bank, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Sunday.


Hezbollah buying land near Israel (UPI)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:25:07 GMT

Hezbollah is buying land in Lebanon from which it could attack Israel just 10 miles away and within rocket range of Israel’s cities, it was reported Sunday.


Hezbollah marks war 'victory' over Israel amid Lebanon crisis (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:38:50 GMT

Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah celebrates this week the anniversary of its "divine victory" in its war with Israel, as the country remains paralysed by deep political and economic crises.


A Museum to Get Lost in, and How Israel Is Fixing It (New York Times)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:52:02 GMT

The Israel Museum embarks on an $80 million expansion and renovation that will transform the way a visitor navigates and experiences it.


Israel not interested to get soldier freed: Captors (People's Daily)
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Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:17:51 GMT

Israel is not serious to get its soldier, held since more than a year in Gaza Strip, freed, a spokesman for the captors said Saturday. Abu Mujahed, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees ( PRC), added that the Israeli governmen ...


Palestinian PM to meet FMs of Israel, Jordan, Japan in W.Bank on Wednesday (People's Daily)
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Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:20:31 GMT

Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Palestinian caretaker government, is to meet with foreign ministers of Israel, Jordan and Japan on Wednesday in the West Bank city of Jericho, a senior official from Fayyad's office said on Sunday. Sa ...


Israel mulls removal of roadblocks in West Bank (The Daily Star Lebannon)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:54:50 GMT

Israel will decide soon whether to remove some of the hundreds of roadblocks that impede Palestinian travel in the occupied West Bank, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Sunday as a date was declared for talks between Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and the Israeli foreign minister.


New Israel Museum design is more welcoming (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:49:41 GMT

The Israel Museum is one of the finest in the Middle East - if you can figure out how to get in and find the art. It was founded in 1965 by Teddy Kollek, the long-serving Jerusalem mayor, to ensure that Israel would have a national museum of world rank, and...


Hezbollah buying land near Israel (Moldova.org)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:36:57 GMT

Hezbollah is buying land in Lebanon from which it could attack Israel just 10 miles away and within rocket range of Israel's cities, it was reported Sunday.Christians and Druze are selling land and moving out, while the Shia are moving in. There is an extraordinary demographic shift taking place, said Edmund Rizk, a former Christian member of Lebanon's Parliament.The large tracts of land include ...


Israel to end its care of paralyzed girl (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:01:57 GMT

An errant Israeli missile killed Mariya Aman's mother and brother, and left the 6-year-old Palestinian girl paralyzed from the neck down.