There is no evidence that a Palestinian woman reportedly killed at a West Bank security fence protest died from tear gas poisoning, Israel's military said.
According to U.S. diplomatic memos, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to agree to UN-backed nuclear fuel swap deal in 2009 but faced internal pressure from hard-liners.
Israeli prominent journalist Dov Yudkovsky, a Holocaust survivor who became editor of Israel’s Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper newspaper, died last week after a long illness. He was 89.
Committee also recommends levying progressive tax rate on profits of 20-50%, canceling the depletion allowance; ''state's take from oil and gas reserves revenue below level of comparable countries,'' Sheshinski says.
The personal papers and other materials of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, have been given to the University of Colorado.
More than 19,000 ‘olim’ or new immigrants chose to make their home in Israel in 2010, a 16% increase in comparison with 2009, according to figures from the Jewish Agency and the Israeli ministry of immigrant absorption.
