Israel Air Force helicopters attacked two armed Palestinians believed to be planting explosives on the Gaza border.
It is not known if the men, who were fired on Sunday, were injured, according to reports.

The new “popular intifada” that Fatah is planning in the West Bank won’t be an armed one, Nabil Shaath, a senior Fatah official, said on Thursday.

Israel fears new wave of Hamas attacks due to pressure from rival groups.

Next year, "the birth of a Palestinian state will be celebrated as a day of joy by the entire community of nations," says Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in an exclusive interview to Haaretz.

More than 12,000 people were invited to Defense Minister Ehud Barak's traditional Independence Day reception last year, at a cost of some NIS 1.5 million, the state comptroller said Thursday in a brief statement.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said that he is building in Jerusalem on his own accord and not because coalition partners are pressuring him to do so.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was set to convene his senior ministers on Friday afternoon to discuss the demands made by US President Barack Obama and his overall trip to Washington – a trip that, because of negative atmospherics and amid a paucity of hard information, has been widely characterized as among the most difficult in recent memory.

The IDF is investigating two West Bank incidents in which Israeli soldiers shot dead four Palestinians in less than 24 hours.

The Israel Air Force successfully bombed a Gaza City weapons storage facility overnight Monday, the IDF Spokesperson announced Tuesday morning.

Plans to build two new residential neighborhoods for Jews in East Jerusalem were put on hold last week on the instructions of the legal adviser to the Jerusalem municipality.