A Hamas official said the Islamist terror movement which controls the Gaza Strip said it ''opposes any dialogue with Israel, especially concerning the diplomatic issue.''
Yesh Atid leader Lapid says that by ruling out the possibility that Labor would join a Netanyahu-led coalition, Yacimovich ensured that the next gov't would continue to ''give billions to yeshivas, distant settlements.''
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Hatnuarh, the party recently launched by Tzipi Livni, both denied an Israel Radio report that respective representatives were in indirect talks with a view to appoint her as Foreign Minister in his next government.
According to Human Rights Watch,Palestinian armed groups in Gaza violated the laws of war during the “Operation Pillar of Defense” by launching hundreds of rockets toward population centers in Israel.
Smith Research poll finds Likud's joint list with Yisrael Beytenu falls to 34 seats from 36 in one week; rise in Bennett's popularity comes after Likud attacked him for saying he wouldn't evacuate Jews from W. Bank homes.
Former foreign minister Liberman questioned for 40 minutes by police; report says surrogates for Tzipi Livni, Prime Minister Netanyahu in talks over her reclaiming Foreign Ministry.
An Israeli ministry planning committee on Monday approved a plan for the building of 1,200 apartments in the southern Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood which is located over the Green Line.
