Isabel Kershner New York Times

Annie Pearl Little, 82, died on Christmas Day. On the day of her funeral at McCall's Bronxwood Funeral Home in the Bronx, the manager there called her only son, Donald Little.

Cross-border hostilities between Gaza and Israel continued on Saturday, a day after a temporary cease-fire expired. But the simmering exchanges were on a lower scale than the fighting that has raged for most of the last month, as Egyptian-brokered efforts continued for a new cease-fire and a resumption of talks on a more durable end to the conflict...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the bombings that targeted Israeli Embassy personnel in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. "In the past few months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in a number of places - Azerbaijan, Thailand and others," Mr Netanyahu said ...

The Israeli military deployed the first mobile battery of a new antirocket missile defence system on Sunday on a dusty rise at the outskirts of this southern Israeli city after a week of heightened tensions between Israel and Gaza.Military officials said the deployment was accelerated because of the recent escalation in rocket and mortar fire by Ga...

A YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the Libya uprising across the Middle East. And in an added affront to Colonel Qaddafi, it was created by an Israeli living in Tel Aviv. Noy Alooshe, 31, an Israeli journalist, musician and Internet buff, said he saw Colonel Gaddafi's televised speech la...

The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority dissolved his cabinet on Monday and was immediately reappointed by the president to form a new one. It was the latest in a series of political steps taken by the authority after the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Ghassan Khatib, the spokesman for the authority's government in the West Bank, s...

The flames encircled Ed Sernoff's house in this Israeli artists' village in the Carmel hills near the northern port city of Haifa, licking a corner of the stone structure and cracking a window but otherwise leaving it intact. A small child's playhouse survived in the middle of the mostly charred garden, but the chalet-style home that Mr. Sernoff's ...

Israel  was still struggling on Friday to control a fire raging in a rain-starved forest in northern Israel that has left at least 41 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of residents, destroyed some kibbutz houses and prompted the government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the blaze.A spokesman for the fire service...

A fire raging in a rain-starved northern Israel  forest on Thursday has left at least 40 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted the Israeli government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the inferno.A spokesman for the fire service in the area, Hezi Levy, sa...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had recently renewed contacts with a German mediator to negotiate the release of a captured Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, who is being held by Hamas."We are working all the time and in various ways to try to bring Gilad back," Mr. Netanyahu told Israel's Army Radio. "One of those...

Annie Pearl Little, 82, died on Christmas Day. On the day of her funeral at McCall's Bronxwood Funeral Home in the Bronx, the manager there called her only son, Donald Little.

Cross-border hostilities between Gaza and Israel continued on Saturday, a day after a temporary cease-fire expired. But the simmering exchanges were on a lower scale than the fighting that has raged for most of the last month, as Egyptian-brokered efforts continued for a new cease-fire and a resumption of talks on a more durable end to the conflict...

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran and Hezbollah for the bombings that targeted Israeli Embassy personnel in New Delhi and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. "In the past few months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in a number of places - Azerbaijan, Thailand and others," Mr Netanyahu said ...

The Israeli military deployed the first mobile battery of a new antirocket missile defence system on Sunday on a dusty rise at the outskirts of this southern Israeli city after a week of heightened tensions between Israel and Gaza.Military officials said the deployment was accelerated because of the recent escalation in rocket and mortar fire by Ga...

A YouTube clip mocking Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's megalomania is fast becoming a popular token of the Libya uprising across the Middle East. And in an added affront to Colonel Qaddafi, it was created by an Israeli living in Tel Aviv. Noy Alooshe, 31, an Israeli journalist, musician and Internet buff, said he saw Colonel Gaddafi's televised speech la...

The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority dissolved his cabinet on Monday and was immediately reappointed by the president to form a new one. It was the latest in a series of political steps taken by the authority after the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Ghassan Khatib, the spokesman for the authority's government in the West Bank, s...

The flames encircled Ed Sernoff's house in this Israeli artists' village in the Carmel hills near the northern port city of Haifa, licking a corner of the stone structure and cracking a window but otherwise leaving it intact. A small child's playhouse survived in the middle of the mostly charred garden, but the chalet-style home that Mr. Sernoff's ...

Israel  was still struggling on Friday to control a fire raging in a rain-starved forest in northern Israel that has left at least 41 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of residents, destroyed some kibbutz houses and prompted the government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the blaze.A spokesman for the fire service...

A fire raging in a rain-starved northern Israel  forest on Thursday has left at least 40 people dead, caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted the Israeli government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the inferno.A spokesman for the fire service in the area, Hezi Levy, sa...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had recently renewed contacts with a German mediator to negotiate the release of a captured Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, who is being held by Hamas."We are working all the time and in various ways to try to bring Gilad back," Mr. Netanyahu told Israel's Army Radio. "One of those...