Two Israeli jets have scrambled to stop an unidentified Ethiopian civilian plane which faced technical problem in its communication system. Visit this link to read more: Israeli fighter jets stop Ethiopian plane

No sane person can look at the tragedy unfolding in the Gaza Strip and not mourn the passing of Palestinian unity. At a time when a coherent message demanding statehood might help create public pressure for Western countries to finally stop allowing Israel to break international law, the Palestinian people have been reduced to the point. Visit this link to read more: Without unity, Palestinians have no way to fend off Israeli war crimes

JERUSALEM: Israel closed its commercial border crossings with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Palestinian militants fired a rocket towards t Visit this link to read more: Israel closes Gaza crossings after rocket fire

Israel is closing border crossings with the Gaza Strip that it had temporarily opened to allow in food and fuel. Visit this link to read more: Gaza crossing resealed by Israel

Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip again, just one day after some humanitarian aid and other basic goods were delivered to the region. Visit this link to read more: Israel tightens Gaza siege again

President George W. Bush hosted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday for farewell talks where the lame-duck leaders will take stock of their administrations, marked by a failure to clinch a Mideast peace deal. The meeting, branded by Israeli officials as "a chance to bid farewell from a close friend of Israel." Visit this link to read more: Olmert at White House to bid farewell to 'close friend of Israel'

A United Nations spokesman slammed the amount of international food aid Israel allowed into the Gaza Strip on Monday, amid mounting international concern over a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the besieged, aid-dependent Palestinian territory. "It is most emphatically not enough," said UN Relief. Visit this link to read more: UN deplores trickle of aid allowed into Gaza

An ally of Israel's prime minister called on Monday for the Jewish state to formally accept a six-year-old Arab peace plan for the region, declaring bilateral talks with the Palestinians at a "dead end." While proposed in its current form in 2002, the major tenants of the deal date back to the late 1970s. To date, Israel, backed by the US, has rejected the offers. Visit this link to read more: Olmert ally calls for acceptance of Arab peace plan

Iran announced on Monday it had broken up a spy network linked to arch-enemy Israel's intelligence service Mossad, accusing it of gathering information on Iranian nuclear and military programs. News of the arrests came amid heightened tensions between the two states over Tehran's atomic drive and just two days after Iran said. Visit this link to read more: Iran uncovers 'another Mossad spy network'

WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that the Middle East peace process which has so far failed to Visit this link to read more: Bush, Olmert bid farewell but say Mideast talks will continue

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset on Monday that Lebanon's Hizbullah resistance group is three times stronger now than it was during the summer 2006 war."The firepower of Hizbullah has grown threefold since the second Lebanon war," he said."It has missiles that can reach the towns of Ashkelon, Beersheba. Visit this link to read more: Barak: Hizbullah now three times stronger than in 2006 war

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday praised Lebanese resistance against Israel, in a meeting with Lebanon's President Michel Sleiman, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. Ahmadinejad added that the 34-day summer 2006 war with Israel led to "many achievements for the Lebanese people and the region." Visit this link to read more: Ahmadinejad opens Sleiman visit with praise for Lebanon's resistance feats

JERUSALEM: Some supplies will be allowed into Gaza on Monday, Israel said amid mounting international concern over a worsening of the humanitarian sit Visit this link to read more: Israel to allow some humanitarian aid into Gaza

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving. Visit this link to read more: Some in Arab world suspicious of Clinton

Commander of the Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps (IRGC), Major- General Mohammad-Ali Ja'fari, said in Tehran on Monday that the IRGC Security and Intelligence Organization has busted an Israeli espionage network and arrested its elements. Visit this link to read more: Iran Busts Zionist Espionage Network

Israel allowed the transfer of humanitarian aid following a reduction in rocket attacks by Hamas on its southern communities over the past few days. Visit this link to read more: Israel eases restrictions on Gaza

Israel acknowledges that Hezbollah has grown three times stronger than when it first crushed the Israeli army in the second war on Lebanon. Visit this link to read more: 'Dimona, easy target for Hezbollah'

Israel temporarily reopens border crossings with the Gaza Strip to allow in essential supplies of food and fuel. Visit this link to read more: Blockaded Gaza gets some supplies

Under mounting international pressure over the blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israel has decided to allow in fuel, food and medical supplies. Visit this link to read more: Israel to ease Gaza siege under pressure

TEHRAN: Iran''s Revolutionary Guards have arrested a spy network linked to Israeli intelligence who tried to gather information on Iranian nuclear and Visit this link to read more: Israel-linked spy network arrested: Iran

Iranian forces have reportedly arrested members of an Israeli spy cell that had been conducting data collection operations in the country. Visit this link to read more: Iran brings down Israeli spy network

An aide to Moshe Ya'alon says calls by the Israeli figure for the assassination of Iran's president have been taken 'out of context'. Visit this link to read more: Israeli retracts calls to kill Ahmadinejad

Many observers are currently occupied with the questions of whether and how a new Obama administration will address Arab-Israeli diplomacy. Eight years ago, the incoming Bush administration rejected the policies of the Clinton White House to broker Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian peace agreements as a failure and waste of American presidential capital. Visit this link to read more: Regional security, a key to regional peace

The exiled political chief of the Palestinian Hamas movement on Sunday slammed Arab and Islamic states for keeping silent over Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. "What is happening in the Gaza Strip is a tragedy. Shame on those who stay silent on the criminal blockade that has been imposed on Gaza. Visit this link to read more: Meshaal chastises Arabs for silence on Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed frustration at US-backed Middle East peace talks on Sunday on the eve of a White House meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President George W. Bush, saying that not one issue has been resolved. He also pledged to call snap presidential. Visit this link to read more: Abbas admits no progress in peace talks with Israel

More than sixty years after it came into existence, Israel has appointed its first Arab female professor for her researches in gender issues, mental health and sexual violence. Visit this link to read more: Israel appoints first Arab female prof

A Scottish man being held by the Israeli authorities after being arrested during a peace protest on a Palestinian trawler off Gaza has gone on hunger strike. Visit this link to read more: Scottish peace activist Andrew Muncie on hunger strike in Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Washington on Sunday ahead of a farewell meeting with President George W. Bush, with Iran's nuclear drive set to overshadow stagnant Middle East peace talks. The Monday meeting is likely to be their last face-to-face exchange before Bush, who had once hoped to seal a Palestinian-Israeli deal in 2008. Visit this link to read more: Olmert in Washington for 'farewell' talks with Bush

Jordan's King Abdullah II is urging European states and other powers to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip. Visit this link to read more: Jordan urges Gaza blockade lift

Iran has hanged an Iranian telecoms salesman convicted of spying for arch-enemy Israel, a senior official said on Saturday, warning that a "more serious intelligence war" had begun with the Jewish state. "Ali Ashtari, who spied for the Zionist regime intelligence service [Mossad], was hanged on Monday November 17," the state news agency IRNA said. Visit this link to read more: Iran hangs Mossad spy, promises more vigorous intelligence war