HAIFA, Israel (AFP) - (AFP) - A key witness in a civil case brought by the family of US activist Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza, said on Sunday that she had caused her own death.
Retired Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz, a former brigade commander in Gaza, said a military police investigation into the March 2003 incident found no fault with the be [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel on Sunday deported 36 pro-Palestinian activists who were taken into custody after flying into Israel for protests over the weekend, an official said.
Two other activists were deported overnight, leaving 82 still in Israeli custody awaiting flights back to home.
"Now on their way to their flights are 36 people, 35 of them will leave on a Lufthansa fl [...]
KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli film "Restoration", directed by Joseph Madmony, won the main prize at the 46th international film festival in the Czech spa city of Karlovy Vary on Saturday.
A jury led by Hungarian director Istvan Szabo chose the film starring Sasson Gabai about a struggling furniture restoration workshop out of 12 movies competing for the 30,000 [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday extended by 15 days the detention of a man suspected of spying for Israel, a judicial source told AFP.
Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli dual national, "will remain in custody for another 15 days pending investigation," the source said.
His remand had been due to expire Monday.
American-born Ilan Grapel was arrested last month in [...]
NAZARETH, Israel (AFP) - (AFP) - Several thousand Israeli Arabs protested in Nazareth on Saturday against the detention in Britain of controversial Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Saleh who faces deportation.
An AFP journalist said around 4,000 people, among them Arab members of the Israeli parliament, marched through the town in northern Israel holding pictures of the imam and chanting [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel is preparing to expel 120 mostly European activists jailed after having managed to arrive on flights to the country as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, an official said on Saturday.
But immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said four activists from Germany and Holland were authorised to stay after giving a written commitment "not to provoke [...]
BUCHAREST (AFP) - (AFP) - Romania said Friday it had yet to decide on its vote on a unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood in September, two days after telling Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu it opposed any unilateral solution.
"We are analyzing the forms and implications of the planned Palestinian bid," the foreign ministry said.
"As this bid has not been submitted yet, all specula [...]
BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel (AFP) - (AFP) - Officials at Israel's main airport on Friday refused entry to 69 people they said were pro-Palestinian activists, and said most would be repatriated on the first available flights.
Immigration spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said that four people had already flown out of Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, and the remainder were in custody waiting t [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top Israeli official said he was unaware of a disputed German deal to sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia but had complete confidence in the German government, in an interview published Thursday.
Saudi Arabia is reportedly about to buy 200 Leopard-2s, Germany's main battle tank which is also produced under licence in Spain, for a multi-billion-euro (dolla [...]
SOFIA (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel suffered an unexpected rebuff from close ally Bulgaria Thursday when it failed to get its immediate backing against a planned Palestinian bid for statehood in September.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been travelling around European capitals to drum up support against the Palestinian bid at the United Nations, and has already received assu [...]
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