Egypt’s Vice President Omar Suleiman was long seen by Israel as the preferred candidate to succeed President Hosni Mubarak, secret U.S. diplomatic cables published Monday suggested. According to an August 2008 cable released by WikiLeaks and published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper on its website, a senior adviser from the Israeli Ministry of Defense told U.S. diplomats in Tel Aviv that the... 

Itzhak Abergil, center, is escorted by Israeli forces at Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv. Israel extradited five top criminals to the United States Wednesday for trial on murder, money laundering and other charges, officials said. Underworld king-pins Meir Abergil and his brother Yitzhak were taken to Ben Gurion International Airport where U.S. federal agents and air marshals escorted them on a direct... 

Guilty: Moshe Katsav, who was president of Israel from 2000 to 2007, has been convicted of rape in a Tel Aviv court ‘Riddled with lies’: Former Israel president Moshe Katsav facing four years behind bars after being found guilty of rape. The former president of Israel has been found guilty of two charges of rape this morning. Moshe Katsav, who was in charge of Israel for seven years from... 

A group of former European leaders have called for tough sanctions against Israel in response to Tel Aviv’s failure to stop settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land. Criticizing the European Union’s existing policy toward Israel, in a letter sent to European governments and EU institutions on Monday, former heads of states, ministers and heads of European organizations said Israel... 

Rabbi Mordechai Nagari, who signed the controversial ruling. Over 40 prominent Israeli rabbis – some of them public servants – yesterday targeted the country’s million-plus Arab minority with a religious edict warning their congregations not to rent property to non-Jews. The letter, which provoked immediate protests from civil rights activists, left-wingers and Arab politicians, is the latest... 

A study of the U.S. State Department cables so far released by the WikiLeaks showed that there are merely 77 documents which mention Israel and only a handful have material pertaining to Tel Aviv. On its website WikiLeaks says it has so far released “almost 20,000” of the “251,287 leaked United States embassy cables.” The release, however, raised questions as it doe not contain... 

Youths trying to extinguish a fire near the Jewish West bank settlement of Har Bracha on Monday July 26, 2010. ‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says. “Point of view” in Wikipedia? But encyclopedias were supposed to be neutral… For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground... 

The United States plans to provide Israel with its most extensive military aid package in history. The US Assistant Secretary of State, Andrew J. Shapiro claims that the increased US military assistance should help Tel Aviv reach tough decisions in peace talks with the Palestinians. He said that there is “hope that the administration’s expanded commitment to Israel’s security... 

Clashes between Israeli soldiers and passengers on board the Mavi Marmara Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed Navy Seals. Fresh details of the controversial... 

Naor Gilon, a high ranking member of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, today announced that he had met with the ambassadors from several European states to demand that they do something to prevent their citizens from sending private aid ships to the Gaza Strip. Gilon warned the ambassadors that Israel considered the aid “provocation” and that they would do whatever was necessary to stop the aid... 

Israeli soldiers in West Bank arresting a Palestinian protester. Thousands of European Jews, including a number of EU parliament members, have signed a petition warning against systematic support for Israeli policies. The petition, which was slated to be delivered to the European Parliament on Sunday, is signed by more than 3,000 European Jews, including renown French philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy... 

WJC President Ronald Lauder World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned United States President Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy,”... 

U.S. President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao, left, on Monday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the American news network CBS on Tuesday that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be “disastrous” and that Israel must understand that “we are determined to ensure its security.” Hours before U.S. President Barack Obama opened a landmark summit of 47 nations... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to abruptly cancel a trip to a nuclear conference in Washington spotlighted a key sore point Friday in international nonproliferation efforts: Israel’s own atomic weapons. The Jewish state wants to help lead the charge against allowing nuclear weapons to end up in undesirable hands, even when nobody doubts that Israel itself possesses... 

According to Israeli press, police arrested six men in northern Israel Tuesday, in a crack-down on illegal human organ trafficking. Police had launched an investigation after receiving a number of complaints from people who had responded to a newspaper ad saying respondents would be paid $100,000 for a kidney. The respondents participated, giving up a kidney in surgery completed out of Israel,...