Prime Minister, speaking to Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, says Palestinian calls for a building freeze before negotiations an ‘impassable obstacle’

Eyal Ballas’s ‘Soaps’ documentary says accusations of Germans making soap out of human fat date back to World War I

Literary giant Leon Wieseltier says without a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the days are numbered for Israel’s existence as a Jewish homeland

Survivors of 1988 Halabja attack demand an investigation of the French company that supplied poison gas to Iraqi government

Morsi says he is not calling for war, though, as Egypt ramps up rhetoric against dam that could leave country parched

email sent to citizens in Israel after heavy fighting between Syrian troops and rebels along border last week

Border battles and the crumbling of the UN peacekeeping force bring the civil war closer, though most Israelis would prefer to stay out

NY Daily News reports on the first business conference aimed at offering networking and business resources to New York’s ultra-Orthodox community