A Fence Divides Secular, Religious Kids in Jerusalem School

Mar 9th 2011 – 8:36 AM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- Every day, Esti Kirmaier drops her daughter Noga off at the Pashosh nursery school in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood. Noga is almost 2, and she likes to play in the sandbox and with the...

Gadhafi Expert Warns Libyan Leader Will Fight 'Until the End'

Mar 1st 2011 – 12:48 PM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- The violence in Libya is worse than reported and Moammar Gadhafi will battle the opposition to the bitter end, says a native Libyan and Jewish activist who has met the dictator several...

31 Chilean Miners Give Thanks in the Holy Land

Feb 23rd 2011 – 1:14 PM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- Richard Villaroel, 26, spent most of his time underground praying that he would see his wife, who was pregnant with their first child, again. Six days after he was rescued, his son, also...

Israel Nervously Watches Its Neighborhood

Feb 15th 2011 – 9:54 AM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- Israelis are growing increasingly nervous as demonstrations persist against their neighboring ruling regimes. Israelis are worrying that a new government in Egypt could abrogate the two...

Palestinian Cabinet Dissolved as Abbas Demonstrates Political Reform

Feb 14th 2011 – 1:34 PM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- The Palestinian prime minister today dissolved his Cabinet in what some said was an attempt to increase popular support and avoid pro-democracy demonstrations like those sweeping...

Lack of Materials Bogs Down Gaza Reconstruction

Feb 12th 2011 – 8:05 AM |AOL News

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BUREJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza -- Fatma Wishah, 65, is just trying to make ends meet. One of her sons, Mahmoud, owns a small hardware store in this densely packed refugee camp. His main business is selling...

Barbra Streisand's Cousin Blocked From Moving to Israel

Feb 3rd 2011 – 3:19 PM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- Israel has decided against allowing the cousin of Barbra Streisand to immigrate to the country even though as a Jew he is automatically entitled to citizenship here under the Law of...

Out of Egypt: Escaped Would-Be Bomber Is Home in Gaza

Feb 3rd 2011 – 1:16 PM |AOL News

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BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza -- Hassan Wishah thought he wouldn't see his family in this refugee camp for at least six more years. He was imprisoned in Egypt three years ago after he was caught in the...

Israelis Nervous About Upheaval in Egypt

Jan 29th 2011 – 4:30 PM |AOL News

JERUSALEM -- Dozens of Israelis fled the chaos in Egypt today on a special flight organized by Israel's Foreign Ministry. Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said the families of Israeli diplomats...

Palestinians Angry About Leaks Attack Al-Jazeera HQ

Jan 24th 2011 – 1:04 PM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM -- Palestinians supporting President Mahmoud Abbas smashed windows and sprayed graffiti outside the West Bank headquarters of Al-Jazeera today, angry that it published documents that...

Israeli Probe Finds Turkish Ship Takeover Was Legal

Jan 23rd 2011 – 11:59 AM |AOL News

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JERUSALEM – An Israeli probe into its country's raid on an aid ship bound for Gaza last May has found that Israeli soldiers acted in self-defense. Nine Turkish citizens, one of them a dual...

Israel Arrests Serb Accused of Killing Muslims in 1995 Massacre

Jan 18th 2011 – 2:16 PM |AOL News

JERUSALEM -- Israel today arrested a Bosnian Serb immigrant from the former Yugoslavia whom Bosnia wants to try for alleged involvement in the Srebrenica massacre 15 years ago. The Justice Ministry...

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