JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted as saying on Friday that he doubted a full peace deal with Israel could be reached this year and urged the next U.S. administration to continue negotiations.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a nation dominated by macho military men and a religious establishment with strict views on the role of women....

Archaeologists in Jerusalem give a sneak preview of newly exposed 2,100-year-old walls to the south of the Old City.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas have tried to abduct Israelis abroad and several such attempts have been thwarted, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli agents who kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 found the notorious death camp doctor Josef Mengele but let him get away, one of the operatives said Tuesday....

Seth Freedman: The Jerusalem interest-free microfinance fund has been set up to benefit both poor Muslims and Jews in the holy city

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem for a further round of US-backed peace talks.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will try to draw up a preliminary document of understandings to present to Washington next month, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

JERUSALEM, Aug 29 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may have
announced that he will resign as soon as his ruling Kadima party
has chosen a new leader next month, but that doesn't mean
the prime minister has given up hope of reaching an agreement
with the Palestinians or the Syrians.

JERUSALEM, Aug 29 (IPS) - Israel continues to be a favourite destination for
the trafficking of women for the sex industry, also known as the
white slave trade, and for a form of modern day slavery where
migrant labourers from developing countries are exploited.