Insisting "peace is possible," President Barack Obama on Thursday prodded both Israelis and Palestinians to return to long-stalled negotiations with few, if any, pre-conditions, softening his earlier demands that Israel stop building settlements in disputed territory. ...
05:38 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Gaza City: Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian journalists in their cars, a Gaza health official and the head of the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV said. Israel acknowledged targeting the men, claiming they had ties to militants. The strikes came on Tuesday on the seventh day of Israel's offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers. A number of journalists have been killed over the years while covering fighting between the Jewish state and...
04:29 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Jerusalem for talks on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as expectations rose of a ceasefire soon to end a week of fighting around the Gaza Strip. However, Gaza's rulers, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, revised a statement that a truce would start overnight, saying it was still waiting for an Israeli response to proposals and did not now expect...
03:49 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Jerusalem: A Hamas official said on Tuesday Egypt had brokered a Gaza ceasefire deal that would go into effect within hours, but a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "we're not there yet". "An agreement for calm has been reached. It will be declared at 9 o'clock (1900 GMT) and go into effect at midnight (2200 GMT)," Hamas official Ayman Taha told Reuters from Cairo, where intensive efforts...
12:51 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Jerusalem: A senior Hamas official says his group is close to a cease-fire with Israel, but a deal has not yet been reached. Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Tuesday from Cairo that "we haven't struck the deal yet, but we are progressing and it will most likely be tonight." Cease-fire talks have been taking place in the Egyptian capital. The deal would end nearly a week of fighting between Israel...
10:23 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Tel Aviv: A court in Jerusalem on Tuesday cleared former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert of multiple fraud and corruption charges but found him guilty of breach of trust while in office. Olmert said he respects the court for acquitting him of the central corruption charges, stressing that he was only found guilty of "procedural improprieties" and that he would absorb the lessons of the verdict. "There are judges in...
03:54 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Jerusalem: A group of 37 Indians, including 10 women, who were to participate in a pro-Palestine global march to Jerusalem, have been detained by Lebanese authorities at Beirut port. Indian activists and journalists participating in the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ), along with three Filipinos and one Iraqi have been asked not to leave the 246-seater boat which docked at Beirut on Wednesday at 9 am (IST). The GMJ's local...
06:02 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Jerusalem: All 80,000 items in Albert Einstein's archives, including personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers and a poignant postcard to his ailing mother, are going online. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which owns the Einstein collection, is slowly uploading high resolution photographs of scientific papers, letters on social issues including nuclear disarmament and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and other texts. Archivists said today's launch of the online repository will give...
09:00 PM, Mar 19, 2012
London: Britain's deputy prime minister accused Israel today of carrying out "deliberate vandalism" by continuing to build settlements on land the Palestinians hope will form part of a future state. In an escalation of Britain's previous condemnations of Israeli construction, Nick Clegg warned that continued settlement building is jeopardising prospects for a peace deal. "Once you've placed physical facts on the ground that makes it impossible to deliver something that...
08:57 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Jerusalem: Agreeing to set the agenda for the next decade, India and Israel on Monday came together to raise a toast to each other with Israeli President Shimon Peres saying that India is the greatest democracy on earth and that Tel Aviv was following New Delhi with "great care and interest". In his welcome address to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, who arrived in Jerusalem on Monday on a...
11:41 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Jerusalem: Seeking closer ties with Israel, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf said the Jewish state is a fait accompli, relations with it can help Islamabad come closer to the strong Jewish lobby in the US and in its conflict against India. Musharraf, who is planning to return to Pakistan on January 25 or 27, in his first interview to an Israeli daily "Ha'aretz" said getting closer to Israel would...
08:58 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Jerusalem: Looking upto Mahatma Gandhi's message of peace, Jerusalem municipality is mulling over setting up a memorial for the Indian leader, which will include a statue of Bapu and a mediation centre, in an area connecting a Jewish neighbourhood and an Arab one. "This gesture comes too late by 64 years," the initiator of the idea and fundraiser, Councilman Dr Meir Margalit, told Ma'ariv. "We should have had long cherished...
10:24 AM, Jan 05, 2012
'Jerusalem: The Biography' is one of the great reads of the year for me and you should not miss out on reading this one. I have always loved reading anything by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He writes with honesty and passion that is hard to miss. Whether it is about Stalin as a boy and adolescent to Monsters and Heroes, Montefiore does a remarkable job of it. Jerusalem is a true...
06:30 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Jerusalem/Bethlehem: Hundreds of Christian pilgrims from India took out a procession in Jesus Christ's birthplace of Bethlehem praying for world peace on the eve of Christmas. Around 500 Indians who took part in the procession were Christian tourists from various parts of the country. "The scenes from various parts of the Middle East during the last few months have been very worrisome, so we decided to gather in this Holy...
08:30 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Jerusalem: Israel is tired of Hollywood filming Jesus' crucifixion in Italy and the Crusader invasion of the Holy Land in Morocco. So Israeli officials are promising better tax breaks, terror attack insurance and handouts of up to $400,000 to lure international movie producers to the holy city of Jerusalem. They want to cash in on the multibillion-dollar industry, and want the real Jerusalem on the silver screen - not Mediterranean...
04:54 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Jerusalem: Could two of the nails used to crucify Jesus have been discovered in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jerusalem? And could they have mysteriously disappeared for 20 years, only to turn up by chance in a Tel Aviv laboratory? That is the premise of the new documentary film "The Nails of the Cross" by veteran investigator Simcha Jacobovici, which even before its release has prompted debate in the Holy Land....
01:40 PM, Apr 12, 2011
Jerusalem: A bomb exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday, injuring at least 30 people, police and medics said. Police described the explosion as a "terrorist attack", Israel's term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first such bombing in Jerusalem in seven years. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which police said was caused by a bomb planted close...
08:32 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Barack Obama will to begin his tour to West Asia to 'reach out to Muslim world'. ...
08:53 AM, Jun 04, 2009
In retaliation Israel fired missile at car in Rafah town, killing a Hamas militant. ...
12:04 PM, Feb 04, 2009
Lessons may be learnt from other cities like London, New York, Madrid. ...
02:30 PM, Dec 09, 2008
