Exactly one year ago, Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann told Haaretz: "I do not want to change Basic Law: The Judiciary hastily, but with careful consideration and as part of an organized, comprehensive public debate." The organized, comprehensive debate has yet to take place, yet Friedmann nonetheless decided, in a last-minute underhanded move, one week before the government's resignation, to bring the proposed change to Basic Law: The Judiciary for the cabinet's approval this morning.

There is no need to wait for the red telephone to ring at 3 A.M. to assess the good sense and decision-making ability of three of the four candidates for Kadima's leadership. Suffice it to tune in at 9 A.M. to their positions in the cabinet debate on the evacuation-compensation bill to understand whom we are dealing with.

The German city of Freiburg and its surrounding communities, located on the edge of the Black Forest, could have been a model of environmental progress. Nearby mountain summits sport wind energy production installations, and solar panels allow many homes and offices to rely on clean solar energy.

As well as recommending that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be charged in the Talansky and Rishon Tours affairs, police also said there was sufficient evidence to indict the prime minister's close associate and former law partner Uri Messer, it was reported on Monday morning.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will remain head of the transitional government that would come into being when he quits following the Kadima primary, even if Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz decides to indict him, a source close to Olmert said Saturday night.

The Prime Minister's Office issued a statement Sunday evening in the name of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lawyers, saying that a police recommendation to indict has no significance whatsoever.

Iran is consolidating its grip on Hizbullah and has instituted a number of structural changes to the Lebanese group, under which Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah no longer enjoys exclusive command over its military wing, top Israeli defense officials have revealed.

Israel and the United States will hold their first-ever joint High Technology Forum this week near Washington. It is aimed at easing regulations for exports to Israel on dual-use products that have both a military and civilian use.

The bill approved by the cabinet Sunday to give the Knesset the right to re-legislate laws that the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional, "is not so bad," according to former MK Uriel Lynn, who shepherded two basic laws protecting human rights through the Knesset in 1992.

A joint panel of the Knesset House and Law committees on Sunday approved a proposal amending the national referendum bill, so that it now states a vote must be held before concessions on any territory under Israeli legal jurisdiction, including Jerusalem.

In light of the serious nature of the negotiations with the Palestinians, there is a need to begin discussions about evacuating some of the settlers from isolated areas of Judea and Samaria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.

The New York-based Anti-Defamation League on Sunday denounced a call by a Canadian-based international evangelical Christian organization to target European Jews for conversion, calling it a "serious affront to the Jewish people" and "disrespectful" to Judaism.

Making a living is tough, but dying is not much easier and it is getting more expensive, according to the latest price list for graves released Sunday by the Religious Services Ministry in the Prime Minister's Office.

Making a living is tough, but dying is not much easier and it is getting more expensive, according to the latest price list for graves released Sunday by the Religious Services Ministry in the Prime Minister's Office.

The die has been cast. In the wake of the police announcement on Sunday evening, we know that the indictment potentially facing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert involves two of the six investigations that he has been undergoing over the past months.

More than two-dozen Palestinian refugees fleeing from violence in Iraq have been granted asylum in Iceland and will be heading there on Monday.

What does the largest nation on earth, with an abundance of natural resources, need to import from our tiny, crowded state? The answer, to judge from a recent mission by Russian businessmen, is scientific talent.

Two people suffering from severe mental and physical disabilities have been infected with HIV virus in the residential facility where they live, and police are investigating the possibility that they were raped.

One of the reasons people go to Ikea is to get a good price. But it turns out that the prices at the furnishing store's Israeli outlets are about 30% above the prices in Britain and the Netherlands. The same items bought here cost about 24% more than in France and Sweden, TheMarker has found.

Amos Oz's autobiographical novel, "A Tale of Love and Darkness," has been translated into Arabic thanks to a contribution by the family of an Arab man killed in a terror attack in 2004.