Ex-Spymaster Gains in Israeli Election

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former intelligence official who controlled Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard has put his new party in a position to influence Israel’s next government with its surprise showing

Pro-Pot party poised for parliament in Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel — Dressed in sneakers, khaki pants and a sweatshirt, the chairman of Israel’s pro-marijuana Green Leaf party takes a drag from his cigarette.

“If it was up

At the zoo, two-by-two

JERUSALEM (AP) _ Like most of its modern, conservation-friendly counterparts, Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo is trying to save animals from extinction and reintroduce them into the wild. But that philosophy, referred

Israel’s mob wars

JERUSALEM — The extradition of a suspected Israeli mob boss to face drug charges in Miami and New York is drawing new attention to Israel’s increasingly brazen underworld, where gangsters

Hebrew-speaking Hamas member new media darling

JERUSALEM (AP) – Who says Israel and Hamas aren’t talking?

Officials may be shunning all contact, but Ribhi Rantisi is rocking the Israeli airwaves, spreading the Hamas word in fluent

Shimon Peres, pub crawler?

JERUSALEM (AP) _ It’s nearly midnight and Shimon Peres, clad in a fashionable black leather jacket, casually strolls down a sidewalk in downtown Jerusalem, the heart of the city’s nightlife.

My AP blog on Ariel Sharon’s stroke

THURSDAY, Jan. 19, 6 p.m. local

TEL AVIV, Israel, The Old Bus Station

Israel’s first suicide bombing of 2006 was also its first in five years without Ariel Sharon at