The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander and Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum as part of a political deal that is expected to make Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri prime minister.
A Los Angeles rabbi who lives in Israel and travels often to his US congregation said El Al prefers to bump passengers from minority sectors such as haredim from overbooked flights instead of other passengers.
Gisgraced former seven-time Tour de France winning cyclist Lance Armstrong visited southern Israel this week as part of a tour of the Gaza border organized by the Or Movement, which advocates development of the Negev and Galilee.
No matter how we look at it, General Michel Aoun is bad news. The 128 members of Beirut’s parliament will convene next Monday to elect Lebanon’s next president.
An 18-year-old Israeli died Saturday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
As far as Moscow was concerned, the years leading up to the 1967 Six-Day War were a successful period for the Russian intelligence in Israel.
No one seemed to suspect the mustachioed elderly man walking on the streets of a capital in the Baltics, towards the British Embassy’s gates.
In an unprecedented step, the chief rabbinate has in effect defrocked an ordained rabbi serving in a municipally paid position in a northern city for sexual misconduct.
KGB files reportedly revealed the existence of an extensive Soviet spy ring in Israel, encompassing Knesset members, senior IDF officers, engineers, members of the Israeli intelligence community, and others who worked on classified projects.
An 15-year-old Bedouin youth employed by the Defense Ministry was shot and killed near Mount Sagi in southern Israel on Tuesday afternoon while working on the border fence with Egypt, officials said.