Israeli Official Declines UK Invitation

An Israeli Cabinet minister has turned down an invitation to visit Britain out of concerns that he could be arrested there on war crimes charges for his role in the 2002 assassination of a senior Hamas militant in Gaza, his spokesman said Thursday.

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Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found

A wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says.

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Giant Israeli Flag Breaks World Record

The record for the world's largest flag now belongs to an Israeli banner produced by a Filipino evangelical Christian.

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Israel May Extradite Sex Abuse Suspect

A man who fled the U.S. for Israel more than two decades ago amid accusations he sexually abused children while pretending to be a rabbi and psychologist appeared in court in Jerusalem — a step toward his possible extradition.

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Google Israel Head Rejects Censor Role

Google is not the address for stopping online hate, the Israel director of the engine whose brand name is so well known that it means searching the Internet, told a conference on Monday.

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Institute to Get Ancient Bible Parchment

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.

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Dutch Couple Honored for Hiding Jews

A Dutch couple posthumously received the highest honor for non-Jews from Israel's Holocaust center Thursday for their bravery in sheltering a Jewish family from the Nazis during World War II.

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Arsonists Attack Jerusalem Church

Arsonists burst into a Jerusalem church and set the building on fire, church officials said Wednesday, raising suspicions that Jewish extremists were behind the attack.

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Christians Bring Iranian Jews to Israel

Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to Israel in recent months, offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran's tiny Jewish community is in grave danger.

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Lynch Promotes Meditation on Israel Trip

David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres.

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Police Question Israeli Prime Minister

Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for five hours Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether he interfered in the sale of the country's second-largest bank.

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Israel Denies Palestinian Exec Entry

A Palestinian high tech executive has been denied permission to enter Israel to attend an executive MBA program run by Northwestern University, an Israeli advocacy group said Monday.

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