While it flopped worldwide, Trump-brand vodka based on potatoes was once popular among Israel's religiously observant community over Passover.

The Trump way of seeking power through loudmouthed invective has its practitioners in 
Israel, too, and the sports and culture minister is the one most likely to succeed using it.

New clause added to prevent mosque loudspeaker broadcasting of the call to prayer in the early morning hours, but would not prevent the sounding of a siren to announce the beginning of Shabbat. Watered down bill may prove to be toothless.

East Jerusalem gets only 15 percent of building permits issued, comptroller report finds, while also criticizing lax enforcement of building violations in same area.

Avichai Mendelblit says measure would violate international law barring countries from applying its own lies to land beyond its borders.

Erik Ader, a former ambassador of the Netherlands to Norway, says the monument built on what used to be a Palestinian village is 'an abuse of Ader's memory' because of Israel's 'ethnic cleansing.'

Knesset okays bill waiving need to record suspected terrorists' interrogations; only Arab lawmakers opposed, saying 'bill will give security interrogator total immunity.'

Firefighters battle flames in Jerusalem area and in northern community as unusually dry November makes country more susceptible to brush and forest fires.