Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said the government must start preparing now for the evacuation of settlers from the West Bank. "Since it is possible we will need to make decisions in the future that will involve the evacuation of residents, we should already prepare for this now and think about its consequences, especially while serious [peace] negotiations are being held," said Olmert.

Muslims converged on the Cave of Patriarchs in Hevron Friday for Ramadan prayers, urinated next to Torah scrolls and left behind Hamas flags. The Cave of the Patriarchs is the tomb of the biblical founders of the Jewish faith, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their wives, Sarah, Rivka, and Leah.

Israeli police charged three Bedouins with smuggling 110 pounds of heroin from Lebanon. Hizbullah was not mentioned, but it rules the drug routes.

Controversy in the Cabinet abounds. In addition to the proposal to attempt to entice Jews to leave Judea and Samaria, the government will also discuss this morning (Sunday) an attempt by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann to restrict the Supreme Court's authorities.

Today's weekly Cabinet meeting features two controversial items: The offer to compensate Jews for abandoning their homes in Judea and Samaria, and a proposal to restrict Supreme Court powers.

Seventy-five years after his death, creations of world’s most famous cantor, Josef 'Yossele' Rosenblatt, come back to life in new project

Deadline arrives for students’ final condition pertaining to increase in tuition for upcoming academic year. Student leaders to meet government officials in attempt to prevent additional strike

Former Gush Katif residents angered by Sunday's cabinet discussion on compensation for settlers who voluntarily leave West Bank. 'This is a spin aimed at diverting the attention from the real problems,' says woman evacuated from Neve Dekalim

Sunday Times reports Kremlin discussing sending teams of nuclear experts to Tehran, inviting Iranian nuclear scientists to Moscow for training, in response to US call for NATO expansion eastwards. 'Russia may respond by hitting America where it hurts most – Iran,' Russian source says

German Christians, Jewish Israelis work together to discover excavation site’s history, building lasting friendships in the process Prof. Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University, director of the excavations at Ramat Rachel, south of Jerusalem, described the fourth season of digging there as “great from any perspective. I’m very happy and proud of it.”

Cabinet debates outline of bill offering monetary competition to West Bank settlers who will agree to leave homes, amid harsh criticism of odd timing. 'We were often criticized over the fact that the Gaza vicinity communities were ill-prepared for the pullout, so we have to start planning ahead,' prime minister says

Some 100 young Palestinians rioted at the Kalandiya checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, on Friday, shortly after the first communal prayers of Ramadan.

"The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of years now and I think tonight does mark a new phase," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday after meeting Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.

"I do not support military action against Iran, but the world must become a united front and impose harsh economic sanctions on Iran," President Shimon Peres said Friday.

Ultralight aircraft crashes at foot of Mount Carmel, in fields of Moshav Ein Ayala; one passengers sustains moderate wounds, other lightly hurt

The Chabad envoy to Alaska on Thursday praised State Governor and recently nominated Republican candidate for Vice President Sarah Palin for her steadfast support for Israel.

Egyptian security forces on Saturday uncovered three smuggling tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip, the Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat reported.

An 87-year-old Ukrainian immigrant lost his appeal to keep his U.S. citizenship after a U.S. federal court ruled he had collaborated with Nazis during Germany's occupation of Ukraine and helped liquidate a Jewish ghetto in Poland.

When, in 2003, the veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell described the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair as being influenced by a "Jewish cabal," he was roundly condemned for making what many saw as an obviously antisemitic remark.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president - on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.