PM meets with Egyptian president in Sharm el-Sheikh; Mubarak says Israel needs to revise its position on peace talks, settlements to reach deal with Palestinians.

Israeli officials at a crossing into Gaza took bribes in order to let goods into the coastal strip, a cable made public by WikiLeaks said.

On her two-day trip to the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged Palestinian and Israeli officials to ''find a satisfactory way to engage without delay in substantive negotiations on all final status issues.''

Some two dozen Israeli Chabad rabbis are gearing their outreach work to Israelis in the United States.

Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Assyrian and Ethiopian Christians gathered in Bethlehem on Thursday to welcome their Jerusalem patriarchs, celebrating the birth of Christ on the Eastern Calendar.

The American Jewish Committee called on Israel's Knesset to reconsider its decision to form a parliamentary committee to investigate Israeli groups critical of the country's military.

Over 220 bodies discovered in hospital cemetery suspected to have been buried between 1942 and 1945 as victims of a Nazi-era purge of 'unworthy' patients.

The first African-American female rabbi will leave her congregation this summer.

Over 915,000 visitors viewed exhibit in 2010, with 28% from Berlin, just under 40% from the rest of Germany and some 32% from abroad.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday confirmed plans to visit Jordan and the Palestinian territories this month despite the postponement of his visit to Israel due to a strike action by the foreign ministry staff.