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Egypt's Islamists won't promise to honor Israel peace treaty
Deputy head of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party denies comments by U.S. State Department that Brotherhood made guarantees to honor peace deal with Israel, says, "treaty is not sacred and can and should be changed."
 
Boaz Bismuth | Listen to the Muslim Brotherhood
Ever since Tahrir Square, the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel has had a question mark hanging over it.
 
Abraham Ben-Zvi | Between Iowa and New Hampshire
It seems as though only Romney can reach voters outside the narrow confines of the Republican tent.
Jacky Levy | A great miracle happened there
Every Hanukkah thousands of Jews gather in England for an event called Limmud.
Dr. Haim Shine | Haredi soldiers are a good thing
A few lousy Knesset seats based on hatred for Haredim might bring down this beautiful Zionist enterprise.
Yossi Beilin | The next kidnapping
Legislating the maximum price Israel would willingly pay for ransom is both foolish and dangerous.
Dr. Reuven Berko | News of a kidnapping
Gilad Shalit's release symbolizes an absurd reality.
Iran says underground uranium enrichment site to operate soon
Move is likely to further increase tensions between Tehran and the West over Iran's nuclear ambitions • Iran has said for months that it is preparing to conduct uranium enrichment at Fordow, a protected site near the Shiite Muslim holy city of Qom.
Clifford D. May | The historian, the diplomat and the spy
How they see the threat posed by Iran’s rulers.
Education, defense country's top budget priorities, Netanyahu says
Faced with opposition to his budget cut, Netanyahu says cabinet ministers may postpone vote • Measure would make education free starting at age 3 • Lieberman says benefit should apply only to families where parents work and served in military.
Where in the world is Omar the hacker?
Israeli blogger claims to have found the "Saudi" hacker: a 19-year-old from Mexico • Security companies: group of hackers responsible • Danny Ayalon: "Exposing credit card numbers – an act of terror" • Israel Police arrest man for using exposed data.
ADL tells Santorum to leave religious appeals out of campaign
Anti-Defamation League asks Republican presidential candidate "to refrain from overt expressions of religious preferences on the campaign trail," saying appeals are "un-American."
The politics behind the appointment of Israel's new judges
Judicial Selection Committee achieves a compromise to appoint four new Supreme Court Justices • The Right gets Judge Solberg, a religious settler in exchange for the Left's appointments of Judges Barak-Erez and Zilbertal.
How does someone simply disappear from the world?
Guy Hever, 35, has been missing since August 1997 • He was last seen on a Golan Heights base reading the science fiction book "Quantum Leap" about a journey through time and dimensions • Rina, Guy's mother, is certain her son is being held in Syria.
Indictment: Activists who attacked base had IDF intelligence
Jerusalem District Court indicts five right-wing activists for alleged role in "price-tag" attack on Ephraim Brigade Command base last month • Suspects allegedly ran an operations room to monitor soldiers' movements.
'Gaza was the main reason for the Arab Spring,' Haniyeh says
In special interview with Britain's The Independent, Hamas ruler says Arab Spring was triggered by "people's anger at the regimes that cooperated with Israel and did not recognize the government in Gaza.
Man dressed as Santa Claus murders local Christian leader
Orthodox Christian leader Gabriel Cadis and fellow members of Jaffa's Orthodox Community had just finished their Christmas parade Friday night when a disguised assailant came behind Cadis and stabbed him twice in the upper back.
Retired generals say it is time to draft ultra-Orthodox
Fifteen former major-generals sign petition calling on government to abandon policy of exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF service, advocating mandatory service that is "tailored to all Israelis."
Don't stop dancing: Beit Shemesh women reclaim public square
More than 100 women come together to perform a seemingly spontaneous coordinated dance • Participants came from all religious backgrounds and all ages and danced to Queen's "Don't Stop me Now."
Ilan Grapel says he has no regrets
U.S. student and ex-Israeli soldier was held captive in Egyptian jail for more than four months on accusations of spying • He was released in late October as part of a swap that freed 25 Egyptian prisoners in Israel.
Iran's leader looks to Latin America for support
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is courting Latin America on a four-nation tour starting Sunday • His government finds itself largely isolated in the standoff over its nuclear program.
Elliott Abrams | The pariah tour
There are perhaps 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that are fully free, and it is no accident that Ahmadinejad appears to be visiting none of them.
Thousands hold prayers for Syria bombing dead
Coffins bearing 11 policemen, covered with Syrian flags, were brought into the Al-Hassan mosque for the prayers, a day after the explosion ripped through a Damascus intersection, killing 26 people and wounding 63.
Iran thanks US for rescue, begins military drill
U.S. navy rescues 13 Iranian sailors held hostage by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Oman • Tehran thanks the U.S., but says incident will not influence their relations • Iran launches massive land-based military exercise near border with Afghanistan.
Book reveals tensions in White House
In a book to be published Tuesday, New York Times reporter portrays a White House where tensions developed between the first lady and her aides • Book also chronicles strains in her relations with former chief of staff and former press secretary.
Auschwitz sees record number of visitors in 2011
More than 1.4 million visitors came to the site of the former death camp in 2011 • Mass tourism, while seen as important for Holocaust education, adds strain to the structures already in a state of severe dilapidation.