Iran has produced approximately enough nuclear material to assemble an atomic weapon, according to several nuclear experts quoted in the New York Times Thursday. The experts, who were analyzing data from the latest UN atomic watchdog's report on the Iranian nuclear program, added, however, that the existent material would have to first undergo added purification.

According to an article published Thursday in the New York Times, "Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts."

Responding to reports surfacing Thursday that Jordan's King Abdullah II had urged Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minster Ehud Barak not to embark on a wide-scale IDF operation in Gaza during a secret meeting in Amman, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said that despite strategic ties with Jordan, Israel would continue to act according to its own interests.

The US dollar was trading for over four shekels as trade opened on Thursday, the first time that the American currency passed that threshold in almost a year.

Following rioting by settlers occupying the disputed Hebron home, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter vowed Thursday that the High Court order to evacuate the four-story stricture would be carried out "word for word."

Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah accused Hamas on Tuesday of staging the latest blackouts in the Gaza Strip in a bid to win sympathy and incite the Palestinian public against Israel and the PA.

MKs Ami Ayalon and Rabbi Michael Melchior are holding talks with an array of environmental and educational organizations with which they hope to partner in an ambitious new political grouping to run in the coming Knesset elections.

The Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday rejected the plea bargain regarding Boaz Yona, former head of Hefziba, and ordered him to pay NIS 8 million in compensation to purchasers of apartments instead of the NIS 4 million agreed upon by the State and Yona's lawyers.

Jerusalem court approves in principle plea bargain signed with Boaz Yona, who escaped to Italy following his construction company's collapse, orders him to pay NIS 8 million in restitution clients who lost their money when firm filed for bankruptcy

Israel is increasingly concerned that Germany might sell Dolphin-class submarines to Egypt, top defense and political officials told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Cairo, officials said, has opened talks with Berlin aimed at having the Egyptian navy purchase several Dolphin-class submarines, regarded as one of the top diesel-powered submarines in the world.

"The state of Israel has become the enemy of the people and the land of Israel," settler rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe said Tuesday during an emergency meeting on the state's plan to evacuate a house in Hebron whose ownership has been at the center of a bitter dispute for over a year.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and United Nations High Commissioner on Civil Rights Navi Pillay squared off Tuesday, trading charges on who is responsible for reported food shortages in Gaza.

Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert misled the government and the public by claiming that he is waiting for the IDF to make recommendations before acting against rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, according to an IDF statement that contradicted Olmert's statement to the Cabinet.

Tensions high ahead of evacuation of disputed Hebron home; settlers hold special meeting, rabbis call on participants to avert evacuation, urge IDF soldiers to refuse orders. Knesset Member Ariel: Jews will be defending their homes

The Palestinian Authority will promote the Saudi Plan in a series of full-page advertisements to be displayed in Hebrew language newspapers in Israel beginning on Thursday. The program, which includes allowing millions of foreign Arabs to move to Israel, will put PA ads in Israeli papers for the first time in history.

Minutes after being discharged from army IDF soldier documented firing rubber bullet at bound, blindfolded Palestinian in Naalin in July, tells Ynet of misunderstanding, betrayal that led to the most difficult months of his life

The Jewish Agency has upset both liberals and hardliners this week by urging Israel to form new, "moderate" conversion bodies. The Agency's assembly, which met in Jerusalem this week, rejected a more sweeping proposal calling for Israel to recognize converts of all streams as Jews. 

Unknown assailants threw a bomb at the Central Police Unit's offices in Ramle Tuesday, leading to an investigation into whether the attack was a retaliation by a crime family. 

Jihad al-Wazir, governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, was 25 years old when his father, Khalil al-Wazir - better known as Abu Jihad ­ was assassinated. It happened in their Tunis home in April 1988. 

The Finance Ministry is soon expected to unveil a multi-billion economic stimulus package, but the approval of the state budget for 2009 remains a priority to help the economy cope with a looming recession in the global economy. "Clearly not passing the state budget for 2009 is not good for the economy, and its approval is one of our main priorities in coping with the global financial and economic crisis," said Finance Ministry's director-general Yarom Ariav in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.