News: Israel

We have started to collect the most important news related to Israel in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Israel: news

Two held over US tourist's murder

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 20:47
related countries: United States

Israeli police arrest two Palestinian men who they say have confessed to killing US woman Kristine Luken late last year.
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Erekat fears for life after leaks

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 13:39

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat accuses al-Jazeera TV of putting his life in danger by leaking secret papers on the peace talks with Israel.
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US concern over Palestinian leaks

Tuesday, January 25th 2011, 0:13
related countries: United States

The US says leaked documents apparently showing Israel rejected Palestinian concessions will make a peace deal "more difficult" but will not affect efforts to achieve it.
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Palestinians attack 'talks leaks'

Monday, January 24th 2011, 22:15

The Palestinian Authority has accused al-Jazeera TV of distortion, after it leaked documents purporting to show offers of major concessions to Israel.
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'Negotiation leaks intended to confuse'

Monday, January 24th 2011, 16:09

President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has dismissed leaked documents apparently showing how Palestinian negotiators were willing to give up large parts of illegally occupied East Jerusalem to Israel.
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Palestinians attack 'talks leaks'

Monday, January 24th 2011, 16:06

Palestinian officials accuse the al-Jazeera media network of distortion after it leaked documents purporting to show major concessions to Israel.
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Turkey rejects Israel raid report

Sunday, January 23rd 2011, 16:09
related countries: Turkey

Turkey condemns an Israeli inquiry that said the Israeli navy acted lawfully during a deadly raid on an aid flotilla trying to reach Gaza last May.
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Gaza flotilla raid 'was legal'

Sunday, January 23rd 2011, 15:24

An Israeli inquiry clears the country's navy of wrongdoing in a deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships trying to reach Gaza last May.
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New McCarthyism?

Wednesday, January 19th 2011, 9:07

Israeli campaign against rights groups sparks political row
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Israel in Srebrenica extradition

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 18:18

Israel launches extradition proceedings against an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia accused of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
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Israeli tanks in deadly Gaza raid

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 16:12
related countries: Gaza Strip

Israeli tanks enter the northern Gaza Strip, sparking fighting that kills one Palestinian and injures two more.
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Barak quits Israel Labour party

Monday, January 17th 2011, 9:57

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak - a key minister of the coalition government - resigns from the Labour party to form his own faction.
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Israel kills Palestinian militant

Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 16:26
related countries: Gaza Strip

A 25-year-old Palestinian militant has been killed in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.
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Farmer shot in Gaza 'buffer zone'

Monday, January 10th 2011, 18:18

A 65-year-old Palestinian farmer has been shot dead by the Israeli army near the border, doctors in Gaza say.
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EU envoys in East Jerusalem call

Monday, January 10th 2011, 15:10
related countries: Belgium
related places: Brussels

EU diplomats in Israel urge Brussels to treat East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, a leaked report shows.
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Hamas: Stop rockets into Israel

Monday, January 10th 2011, 12:47

The Hamas Islamist movement which controls Gaza urges other militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israel as violence escalates along the border.
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East Jerusalem hotel demolished

Sunday, January 9th 2011, 22:42
related countries: United States

Israel angers Palestinians by demolishing part of a hotel in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for settlers' homes, despite criticism from the US.
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Bulldozers make way for new Israeli homes

Sunday, January 9th 2011, 14:11

Israeli bulldozers have demolished a hotel in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for homes for Jewish settlers
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Palestinian killed in West Bank

Saturday, January 8th 2011, 15:07
related countries: West Bank

Troops in the West Bank have shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to attack a checkpoint, the Israeli army says.
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Israel soldier killed near Gaza

Saturday, January 8th 2011, 5:05

An Israeli soldier is killed and four others injured by a mortar shell fired by their colleagues near the Gaza border, the army says.
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'Friendly fire' killed Israeli soldier

Friday, January 7th 2011, 23:49

Israel says a friendly fire incident killed one soldier and wounded four on the Gaza border.
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Warning of new West Bank controls

Friday, January 7th 2011, 15:05
related countries: West Bank

The United Nations says it is increasingly concerned that Israel is about to tighten access restrictions to the occupied West Bank.
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West Bank civilian killed in bed

Friday, January 7th 2011, 10:19

Israeli troops shoot dead a 67-year-old Palestinian man by mistake in an operation to arrest members of the Islamist militant organisation, Hamas.
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Israel kills men near Gaza border

Thursday, January 6th 2011, 13:11

Two Palestinian militants are killed in southern Gaza and two rockets are fired over the border into Israel, amid rising tension in the area.
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Israel backs rights groups probe

Thursday, January 6th 2011, 11:18

Israeli MPs vote to establish a formal inquiry into the foreign funding of human rights groups, in a move critics describe as "McCarthyite".
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Netanyahu heckled at fire service

Wednesday, January 5th 2011, 21:55

Israel's PM and interior minister are heckled at a memorial service for the 42 people who died in the country's worst-ever wildfire.
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Israeli 'spy vulture' held in Saudi Arabia

Wednesday, January 5th 2011, 14:39
related countries: Saudi Arabia

A vulture wearing a GPS device is 'detained' by Saudi Arabian officials on accusations of spying for Israel, say reports.
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Israel arrests UK staff over plot

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 21:08
related countries: United Kingdom

Two local employees of the UK consulate general in Jerusalem are arrested in Israel over an alleged plan to attack a football stadium.
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Asian aid convoy arrives in Gaza

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 17:20

An Asian aid convoy arrives in Gaza with humanitarian aid for the blockaded Palestinian territory, to mark the second anniversary of Israel's 22-day Cast Lead offensive.
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Samaritan struggle

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 10:36
related countries: West Bank

Modern trials of ancient sect in Israel and the West Bank
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Israel defends actions at West Bank rally

Monday, January 3rd 2011, 3:58
related countries: West Bank

The Israeli army defends its action against a demonstration on Friday in the West Bank, during which a Palestinian woman died after inhaling tear gas.
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Palestinian killed at checkpoint

Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 11:38
related countries: West Bank

A Palestinian man is shot dead after trying to attack Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint, Israeli and Palestinian officials say.
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Palestinian dies following rally

Saturday, January 1st 2011, 22:20
related countries: West Bank

A Palestinian woman has died after inhaling gas fired by Israeli troops during a protest against the West Bank barrier at Bilin on Friday, medics say.
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Lost in the Sinai

Friday, December 31st 2010, 7:36

Kidnap and abuse of African migrants making journey to Israel
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The migrants held hostage in the desert

Friday, December 31st 2010, 7:33

As European borders become harder to breach, migrants find themselves crossing from Africa into Israel.
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Israel's Katsav guilty of rape

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 16:16
related places: Tel Aviv

Israel's former president Moshe Katsav has been convicted of rape by a court in Tel Aviv and could go to jail.
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Israel's Katsav guilty of rape

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 12:33
related places: Tel Aviv

Israel's former President Moshe Katsav faces jail after being found guilty of rape and other sexual offences by a court in Tel Aviv.
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Iranian bomb 'three years away'

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 17:03
related countries: Iran

Iran's nuclear programme has been hit by technical problems, and it could be still three years from making a nuclear bomb, a senior Israeli official says.
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Israeli diamond trader expelled

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 13:08

An Israeli trader is expelled from the country's diamond exchange after being accused of "blood diamond" smuggling.
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German call for airport profiling

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 12:03
related countries: Germany

Germany's incoming airports chief calls for Israeli-style passenger profiling in a move rejected by the justice minister.
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Musician on a mission

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 10:07

Israeli Idan Raichel on the power of music in the Middle East
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Israeli ex-footballer Cohen dies

Tuesday, December 28th 2010, 19:38

Former Israeli international footballer Avi Cohen dies from head injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
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'Israeli spy' hanged by Iranians

Tuesday, December 28th 2010, 9:55
related countries: Iran
related places: Tehran

Iran has hanged a man after finding him guilty of spying for the Israeli spy agency Mossad, a Tehran news agency says.
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Turkey 'wants better Israel ties'

Sunday, December 26th 2010, 19:07
related countries: Turkey

Turkey's foreign minister says his country wants to fix ties with Israel, whose troops killed nine people on a Turkish pro-Palestinian aid ship in May.
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Flare-up in Israel-Gaza violence

Sunday, December 26th 2010, 13:02

Two Palestinian militants are killed in southern Gaza and two rockets are fired over the border into Israel, amid a flare-up in violence in the area.
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UN condemns Arab home demolitions

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 20:48

The UN relief agency UNRWA condemns Israel's demolition of Arab homes in East Jerusalem, which has risen 45% compared to last year.
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Body of US hiker to be flown home

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 18:43
related countries: United States
related places: Jerusalem

The body of an American woman stabbed to death outside Jerusalem is being flown back to the US, an Israeli church official says.
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New Gaza war 'a question of time'

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 11:08
related countries: Gaza Strip

A senior Israeli army officer tells the BBC that as long as Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, another war is "only a question of time".
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Israeli strike on Gaza strip

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 11:08
related countries: Gaza Strip

Israel said their strikes were targeting "tunnels" on the Gaza border
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Israeli air strike on Gaza Strip

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 7:44
related countries: Gaza Strip

Israeli jets carry out air strikes in the Gaza Strip, injuring at least two Palestinian militants, amid rising tensions.
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US woman killed outside Jerusalem

Monday, December 20th 2010, 20:50
related countries: United Kingdom

A US woman found stabbed to death near Jerusalem worked for a UK-based Christian organisation that promotes Christianity among Jews.
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Egypt uncovers 'Israeli spy ring'

Monday, December 20th 2010, 17:46
related countries: Egypt

Egypt charges a businessman and two Israelis with recruiting spies for Israel, a day after they revealed an alleged cell that plotted to kidnap tourists.
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Victim plays dead to survive attack

Monday, December 20th 2010, 0:03
related countries: United Kingdom

A British woman who survived a knife attack in Israel, in which another woman died, has told police she pretended to be dead in order to live.
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US tourist killed near Jerusalem

Sunday, December 19th 2010, 11:08
related countries: United States
related places: Jerusalem

The body of a American tourist has been found bound and stabbed near Jerusalem hours after another woman was found alive nearby, according to Israeli police.
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Israeli strike kills five in Gaza

Sunday, December 19th 2010, 2:53
related countries: Gaza Strip

An Israeli air strike kills five people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.
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Lebanon 'Israeli spy device' find

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 21:46
related countries: Lebanon
related places: Beirut

The Lebanese army says it has dismantled two Israeli spy systems planted in the mountains above Beirut following a tip-off from Hezbollah.
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Israel downs atom site 'balloon'

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 17:38
related places: Dimona

Israel says one of its warplanes has shot down what appeared to be an unmanned balloon which had flown over the Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev desert.
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Arabs reject more Mid-East talks

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 11:01
related countries: United States
related places: Arab

Arab foreign ministers reject further Palestinian-Israeli peace talks without a "serious offer" from the US on ending the Middle East conflict.
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Stemming the flow

Wednesday, December 15th 2010, 16:44

African migrants present quandary for Israel
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