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'When I saw him, I thanked God for helping me to make Keren's dream come true,' 42-year-old Nisim Ayash told today to israeli press.

A former ballerina and her husband have left their comfortable lives in Tel Aviv to run a rehabilitation centre for sick and injured animals in the desert. Their philosophy is: if an animal can be saved it will be saved.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started on Thursday his official visit to the Czech Republic, the first of its kind paid by an Israeli prime minister since 1948, in a move to promote bilateral relations.

Political activist, producer and actor Juliano Mer Khamis, 52, was shot to death Monday in front of the Freedom Theater in Jenin.

Israel declassified a map of what it says are 950 underground Hezbollah bunkers and weapons storage sites in south Lebanon.

A law that will require the removal of all known mines in Israel passed its second and third Knesset reading.

A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Israel Museum during renovations.

An agreement was signed in Paris between the State of Israel and UNESCO on the establishment of a center within the organization devoted entirely to developing and promoting Holocaust education and combating its denial worldwide.

The Palestinian Authority president's proclamation came after an Abbas aide told reporters that elections would be carried out regardless of Hamas's decision to participate.

The Israeli cabinet ratified the appointment of a new armed forces chief after Defense Minister Ehud Barak's first choice was withdrawn over a property scandal.