A siren sounded throughout the Gaza Strip to memorialize the Palestinian victims of Israel's Operation Cast Lead.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on Kadima chair Tzipi Livni to join his government, like former prime minister Menahem Begin did before the Six Day War.

Hamas will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit,
a senior official from the terror group said Thursday.

An unlimited number of West Bank Palestinians will be allowed to enter Israel for holiday and family gatherings.

The captain of the Jewish refugee ship Exodus has died.

President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that the arrest warrant issued against opposition leader Tzipi Livni in Britain was one of the country's biggest political mistakes in recent years.

Senior Hamas officials said Friday that a prisoner swap deal for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit was unlikely to be completed in the near future.

The Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad in a meeting with Jewish Council for Public Affairs leaders said he opposed a Palestinian unilateral declaration of statehood.

The trial of Ya'acov Teitel was set to open Wednesday in the Jerusalem District Court, a month after the alleged Jewish terrorist was charged with two counts of premeditated murder and three counts of attempted murder and involved 14 separate incidents between 1997 and 2008.