The Interior Ministry has stopped granting work permits to foreign nationals working in most international nongovernmental organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, Haaretz has learned.

Police arrested two teenagers in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in the early hours of Wednesday morning, bringing to eight those so far detained over December's arson attack on a nearby mosque.

The Haitian earthquake has been a major fund-raising boon at the Krieger Schechter Day School in suburban Baltimore.

Ernst Cramer, a Jewish journalist who fled Nazi Germany to become an American soldier in World War II, has died.

A survivor testifying at the war crimes trial of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk said he did not recall seeing Demjanjuk at the camp.

Former Palestinian Authority security commander Muhammad Dahlan has rejected an offer from Hamas to enter the Gaza Strip to attend the funeral of his mother, who died over the weekend.

OC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan left Monday night to head a second IDF delegation to assist the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti, and will deliver staff reinforcements and additional medicine and equipment to the field hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Some 150 Ethiopians claiming Jewish links began arriving in Israel this week, the first groups to immigrate in more than a year.

Award-winning architect Frank Gehry has withdrawn from the project to build a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem.

Last week's failed attempt on the lives of Israeli diplomats in Jordan was apparently carried out on instructions from Teheran, sources close to Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) revealed on Monday.