The leader of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah recently delivered an odd but deeply important political message to his followers: Heed traffic signs and pay your electric bills.
Haaretz has learned the identities of two Palestinians arrested in Jordan in connection with the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
The US administration is quietly pressuring the Palestinians to come to the negotiating table, according to an influential American Jewish leader and longtime supporter of US President Barack Obama.
A Russian arms export official said on Wednesday the delivery of its S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Iran had been delayed because of technical problems but would go ahead, Interfax news agency reported.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Tuesday said that there was no proof Israel's Mossad spy agency was behind the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, after it emerged that some members of the hit squad involved in the killing had used the identities of foreign-born Israelis.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his delegation emerged from nearly four hours of talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday confident that Moscow has come a long way toward believing Teheran wants nuclear weapons, but unsure whether a nuclear Iran is a prospect the Kremlin feels it cannot live with.
