Jonathan Cook

Human-rights groups and the president of the Palestinian Authority condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem.

Lieberman's "blueprint for a resolution to the conflict" demands that most of the country's large Palestinian minority be moved outside Israel's future borders.

A group of strictly religious Jews are on the run from the Israeli police, as the country faced a confrontation between the secular courts and the Orthodox community

Name of the group issuing ultimatum is linked to a rabbinical death curse invoked against the former PM Yitzhak Rabin just before his murder

Israeli authorities are pressing ahead with plans to build a courthouse complex on a large historic Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem that is already at the centre of protest over plans to locate a museum there.

Israel works to fast-track the release of hundreds of foreign peace activists arrested in its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla earlier this week.

Settlers say that their outposts will provide a safe haven if Israel comes under attack from Hizbollah's long-range rockets.

A leading human rights activist from Israel's Palestinian Arab minority is charged with the most serious security offences on Israel's statute book, including espionage.

New reports says only six per cent of the country's public sector workers were Arab.

USAid has reportedly built 114km of roads in the West Bank that critics say isolate Palestinians and leave main roads for exclusive use by settlers.

Two leading Arab minority human rights activists advocating disinvestment from Israel have been arrested by Shin Bet and charged with espionage on behalf of Hizbollah.

Labour tribunal lifts the lid on Shin Bet after Islamic scholar says his candidacy for imam of a Jaffa mosque was rejected by security service agents for 'extremist' views

Six Arab members of the Israeli parliament returned last week from a visit to Libya at the personal invitation of its leader, Muammer Qadafi, to a storm of protest in Israel.