Truly friendly US president would be one that helps Israel make peace

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The Jerusalem girls' dance troupe told to wear hair coverings and long clothing for its performance at the inauguration of the bridge at the capital's entrance is planning on suing the Jerusalem Municipality for NIS 500,000, an attorney for the group said Wednesday. 

Numerous cartoons have appeared recently in the Arab press that portray presumptive U.S. presidential candidates senators Barack Obama and John McCain as lackeys controlled by Israel and by American Jews. 

A report expected to be released by the United States security coordinator to Israel will reveal a turf war going on between two American generals sent by the State Department to the region, Israeli defense officials said Wednesday. 

The Knesset approved a law by a wide margin on Wednesday that allows haredi high schools to receive state funding even if they do not teach the minimum requirements in core subjects like math, civics and English. 

A Syrian adviser told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday that the Israeli people must focus on building peace with their neighbors, not on using their military might. 

A key committee has approved a new settlement in the West Bank, an Israeli official said Thursday. The impending construction of Israel's first new settlement in a decade infuriated Palestinians, who said settlement building cripples peace efforts. 

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, on his first official visit to Washington, warned Thursday that Israel would not rule out any course of action regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israel Radio reported. 

Defense minister meets with opposition leader in his Tel Aviv office; aides say meeting did not deal with political issues   

A key panel of lawmakers on Thursday approved 20 new housing units at Maskiot in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported, despite a 2007 pledge to the United States to halt construction at the site. 

Tel Aviv is more expensive to live in than New York, according to the 2008 cost of living survey compiled by the Mercer human resources consultancy firm. 

Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin believes that the cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip serve the interests of Hamas, not Israel, and charged that by agreeing to the deal Israel has "offered Hamas a lifeline." 

State Prosecutor Moshe Lador is leaning toward indicting former president Moshe Katsav on two counts of rape, according to sources in the prosecution.

The IDF soldier filmed firing a rubber bullet at the foot of an unarmed and bound Palestinian demonstrator in the West Bank two weeks ago has been released from Military Police custody, the army said on Tuesday morning.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) was looking into Palestinian claims on Monday that settlers from Har Bracha and Yitzhar in the West Bank fired two rockets into fields near Nablus. 

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of war crimes including Europe's worst massacre since World War II, was arrested Monday evening in a raid that ended a nearly 13-year manhunt, the country's president and the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said.

A New Jersey man who once claimed insanity was convicted Monday of a hate crime for accosting Nazi death camp survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel in a hotel elevator. 

For the second time this week, a senior American official will meet with representatives of a Middle Eastern country that the US has sought to isolate diplomatically. 

Senior officials in the U.S. State Department, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have repeatedly complained to Israel recently over relatively minor Palestinian issues that it would have ignored until a few months ago, Israeli officials say. 

US Democratic presidential aspirant Barack Obama will bring his campaign to Israel Tuesday evening for a whirlwind tour that Israeli diplomatic officials say is meant both to present him as a foreign policy maven and to court Jewish votes in the US.