Participants read from a custom-made haggadah, which consisted of both traditional Passover texts and modern additions such as Bob Marley’s reggae classic “One Love.”

Israel’s relations with Shi’ite Muslim Azerbaijan are going from strength to strength, as illustrated by the appearance of Israeli weapons in recent clashes over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

There is so much thirst for freedom here, so much love for life, but the life led and the freedoms given take place within the strict confines of the regime and its laws.

7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes southern Japan, killing at least 20 people, injuring more than 1,000 and trapping people in collapsed buildings.

The Jewish senator decried the "immoral" gap between the world's rich and poor that he said was worse than a century ago.

Former foreign minister says government policy towards Islamist rulers of Gaza is limp and defeated.

The melee broke out during a rally marking the 28th anniversary of the assassination of the PLO’s Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), in Tunisia.

Israel’s two senior mayors – Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai and Jerusalem’s Nir Barkat – are eyeing the premiership, much the way former Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad started off as mayor of Tehran.