Israeli PM, top ministers convene for decisive meeting on prisoner swap

Israel holds crucial meeting on prisoner swap

Israeli media: Israeli PM, top ministers begin meeting on prisoner swap with Hamas

Israeli ministers meet on prisoner swap

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Army Radio says the prime minister has begun a meeting with top ministers to decide whether to approve a deal on a prisoner exchange with Hamas militants.

Israel harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, in 1990s without permission

Israel harvested organs in ’90s without permission

Israel’s Olmert reportedly offered Palestinians land near Gaza, West bank for settlement blocs

Israel’s Olmert reportedly offered land swap

Report: Israel’s Olmert offered Palestinians land near Gaza, West bank for settlement blocs

Report: Israel’s Olmert offered land swap

JERUSALEM — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to swap Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for settlement blocs in the West Bank, the Haaretz newspaper reported Thursday, in the most detailed account of the former Israeli leader’s proposed peace offer to the Palestinians.

Haaretz nespaper says Olmert offered ceding land near Gaza, West Bank for settler blocs

paper: Olmert offered land swap for settlements

Newspaper: Olmert offered to expand Gaza in exchange for settlement blocs

Newspaper: Olmert proposed expanding Gaza

JERUSALEM — The Haaretz daily says former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed giving the Palestinians 100 square kilometers (38 sq. miles) of Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip in exchange for West Bank settlement blocs.

Abbas to Israel: if settlements frozen for 6 months, peace deal doable in that time

Abbas says peace deal possible in 6 months

Israeli intelligence chief says Iran nearing breakthrough on technology to build nuclear bomb

Israel: Iran nearing atomic bomb capability

Hamas anniversary rally draws huge crowd, showing group still has strong support after war

Hamas rally shows it still has strong Gaza support

Hamas celebrates anniversary of 1987 founding with rallies amid Gaza’s poverty and war damage

Hamas celebrates anniversary in war-damaged Gaza

U.S. President Obama has a mixed view among Israelis: Poll

JERUSALEM - A new poll of Israelis suggests that U.S. President Barack Obama is better liked in the Jewish state than widely believed.

Israeli police: Assailants vandalize mosque, holy books in West Bank

Assailants vandalize West Bank mosque

YASUF, West Bank — Assailants vandalized a Palestinian mosque early Friday, burning prayer carpets and holy books, and leaving behind Hebrew graffiti indicating the rampage was the work of settlers angry over Israel’s plans to curb settlement construction.

Facing uproar, Israeli prime minister offers funds, benefits to West Bank settlers

Israeli PM offers new benefits to settlers

EU warns Israel not to play ‘divide and rule’ over bloc’s new position on Jerusalem

EU warns Israel not to divide bloc over Jerusalem

Israel’s justice minister causes stir by saying religious law must become binding

Israel official: religious law must become binding

Netanyahu says settlement freeze proves Israel wants peace, while Palestinians don’t

Netanyahu: Building halt proves Israel wants peace

Settler leaders vow to continue to resist Israel government order to freeze West Bank building

Settlers resist Israeli building freeze order

Former PM Olmert’s brother punches sports reporter after basketball game

Former PM’s brother punches reporter

JERUSALEM — The brother of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has knocked an Israeli sports reporter unconscious.

Israeli police arrest West Bank settler leader who blocked troops from stopping construction

Israeli police arrest settler leader in West Bank

Report: American convicted of spying for Israel opposes prisoner swap with Palestinian Hamas

US spy opposes Israel-Palestinian prisoner swap

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falls ill, trip to Germany postponed

Netanyahu ill, trip to Germany postponed

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen ill, and his trip to Germany has been postponed.

Pakistan, North Korea bigger threat than Iran: Medvedev

Jerusalem, Nov 27 (ANI): Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that Iran is not as great a threat to global security as other nuclear-proliferating countries such as North Korea and Pakistan.

Palestinians: Expected Israeli offer for settlement freeze is not enough

Palestinians cool to expected Israeli offer

Hamas officials: prisoner swap deal snagging on names of top militants to be released

Hamas: Prisoner swap snagged on top militants