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The Israeli defense minister and the Obama administration’s Middle East envoy will confer for the second time in a week to pursue regional peace efforts, a senior Israeli official said.

Arab intransigence & the realization that Iran nukes might be more important than Jewish houses lead Obama administration to a slight policy shift.

Judge selection committee convened but made no appointments. Deadlock between nationalists and Beinisch group over Supreme Court continues.

Poll: Most PA Arabs reject Obama’s call in Cairo to make Jerusalem “a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims.”

Housing Minister Ariel Attias raises a stir by calling mixed Arab-Jewish cities “unsuitable” and calling to “save the Galilee.”

A Palestinian Authority Arab woman was shot and moderately wounded at a checkpoint after waving a plastic toy gun at soldiers.

Ari and Jeremy discuss the Jewish connection with past, present, and future, and take to the streets of Jerusalem to take the pulse of the people.

FM Lieberman belittled the global focus on Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, and said there would be no more unilateral concessions to the PA.

IDF spokeswoman Lt.-Col. Avital Liebovich responds to Amnesty International’s allegations, terms group’s reports unreliable and inaccurate.

INN TV’s Yoni Kempinski and legal expert attorney Sigal Horowitz discuss Amnesty International’s report on Operation Cast Lead.

Druze and Circassian Israelis protested Thursday against alleged government discrimination. Roads were blocked between Akko and Carmiel.

Amnesty International accused both Israel and the militant Hamas movement that controls Gaza of war crimes during the three weeks of fighting earlier this year.

Bank of Israel head Stanley Fischer says the worst of the global financial crisis is over, but warns that the practical effects may worsen.

Despite/because of pressure to end Jewish settlement in Biblical lands of Judea/Samaria, efforts to revive Shdema, north of Gush Etzion, continue.

The Comptroller is investigating reports that Barak’s 39-man entourage to Paris last month overspent. His hotel room cost $$3,500 a night.

Israeli and Indian technology firms in a joint bid for a unique identification card project for the Indian government.

Arabs raided the yeshiva of Homesh in Samaria on Wednesday and torched dozens of books of the Talmud and of the Five Books of Moses.

At least 15,000 vehicles in Israel have been converted to run on less expensive, low emission liquefied propane gas.

Amnesty International condemns Israel for its treatment of PA Arabs. In contrast, the report only briefly notes atrocities performed by Hamas.

MK Danny Danon (Likud) says coalition Mks should boycott American Independence Day celebrations in protest of U.S. hostility.

The announcement by Iranian authorities that they would put some embassy staff members on trial for spurring on protests against the government could deepen the diplomatic crisis with the European Union.

Some of the British embassy staff arrested in Iran for “inciting protests” will be put on trial, a top cleric says.

US Vice-President Joe Biden holds talk with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad as part of his role to oversee the US departure.

A 17-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire in a clash with Palestinian militants near the border.

Newly released summaries of interrogations of the captured dictator show how much he miscalculated the risks he faced before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. began a two-day mission that he said was intended to “re-establish contact” with Iraqi leaders.

Nineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel awaiting deportation on Thursday, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza.

Britain continued to push other European countries on Thursday to take a tough stance against Iran for detaining at least one employee of the British Embassy in Tehran.

Syria’s president scraps a law limiting sentences for men who kill their female relatives in the name of family honour.

US Vice-President Joe Biden makes an unannounced visit to Iraq to visit US troops and meet the nation’s leaders.

US investigators publish accounts of interviews with Saddam Hussein, giving a wealth of detail about the Iraqi leader.

Reports from Iran say SMS text messaging services have been unblocked for the first time since disputed presidential elections.

Groups that have advocated violence against Americans urged Iraqis to continue the fight, but not among themselves.

The European Union is considering pulling out all 27 ambassadors in a dispute over Iran’s detention of British Embassy personnel.

Amnesty International accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes in a detailed report on the January conflict in Gaza.

Three more British embassy staff are released by the Iranian authorities, state-run media reports.

A French minister denies earlier official claims that a “black box” recorder from a plane crash in the Indian Ocean has been found.

The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, a top Iranian official says.

Israel’s top court orders stronger charges against two soldiers over the shooting of a bound Palestinian in the West Bank.

One of the flight recorders from the Yemeni plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean has been located, French officials say.

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cancels his trip to an African Union summit in Libya, without giving any reason.

Oil and gas companies were demanding far more for their services than the Iraqis were ready to pay.

Iraq’s prime minister offered assurances that security could be ensured, but a car bomb that killed at least 24 marred the public holiday.

Oil and gas companies were demanding far more for their services than the Iraqis were ready to pay.

Iraq declared a holiday Tuesday to celebrate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraqi cities and towns, but many Iraqis stayed home, fearing violence.