Israel's government will more than double its investment in the popular Birthright Israel program.

Israeli officials at a crossing into Gaza took bribes in order to let goods into the coastal strip, a cable made public by WikiLeaks said.

On her two-day trip to the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged Palestinian and Israeli officials to ''find a satisfactory way to engage without delay in substantive negotiations on all final status issues.''

Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Assyrian and Ethiopian Christians gathered in Bethlehem on Thursday to welcome their Jerusalem patriarchs, celebrating the birth of Christ on the Eastern Calendar.

Following state ceremony honoring the 44 victims, both Prime Minister and Interior Minister say their hearts are with the bereaved families.

Sixteen college professors from across the United States attend this week a special seminar at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem to study about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.

Islamic Jihad leader says halt is temporary and that 'armed resistance will keep active in other means.'

There is no evidence that a Palestinian woman reportedly killed at a West Bank security fence protest died from tear gas poisoning, Israel's military said.

Israeli prominent journalist Dov Yudkovsky, a Holocaust survivor who became editor of Israel’s Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper newspaper, died last week after a long illness. He was 89.

Committee also recommends levying progressive tax rate on profits of 20-50%, canceling the depletion allowance; ''state's take from oil and gas reserves revenue below level of comparable countries,'' Sheshinski says.