Winner of numerous literary prizes for works on Holocaust, Israeli wars and culture instructed that no funeral be held; body to be ‘donate to science’

‘I’ll pursue a policy of reconciliation and peace,’ says former top nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani

‘It is time for the government to decide its true position on this critical issue,’ says Isaac Herzog; opposition head reconsiders joining coalition to advance peace

Ynet News: Peacekeeping chief says last week’s Quneitra standoff was the closest the two countries came to direct conflict in 40 years

Officials to investigate how racially offensive song was played before England’s 3-1 defeat to Norway in Petah Tikva

Controversial invasions of privacy exposed in the PRISM program to root out terrorists are less dramatic than those routinely carried out under Israeli law

Egyptians carefully following anti-Erdogan demonstrations in Turkey, which experts claim serve as a warning for Cairo’s Islamist president

Nice Jewish boy Daniel Shapiro leaves the big leagues and moves back to Seattle to be near family