Israel has pressed Hamas to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since the ceasefire that ended an eight-day war in November.
Masked Palestinian gunmen fired in the air as thousands marched at the West Bank funeral of a prisoner whose death in an Israeli jail has raised fears in Israel of a new uprising.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emerged the bruised winner of Israel's election, with his hawkish bloc unexpectedly losing ground to resurgent centre-left challengers, exit polls show.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once seen as a right-wing figure. Now he's widely considered a moderate. But it's not Mr Netanyahu who has changed; Israel has.
Israel has fired a guided missile into Syria in a potent "warning shot" after mortar fire from fighting between Syrian troops and rebels hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the second time in four days.
Israel has launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza, killing the military commander of Hamas in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group vowed would "open the gates of hell".
The United States has urged Israel to reconsider its plan to erect 3000 more homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying the move was counterproductive to peace efforts with the Palestinians.
Israel's army has fired tank shells into Syria and scored "direct hits" in response to a Syrian mortar shell that struck the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli military said in a statement.
Israel has killed three Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, a day after two men identified as the most senior al Qaeda affiliates in the enclave died in an Israeli air strike as they rode a motorcycle.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will seek an early Israeli election, a ballot that political commentators said would likely take place in January or February.
Israel's high court has ruled that the largest unauthorised Jewish settler outpost on occupied West Bank territory must be evacuated by next Tuesday.
Israeli forces have discovered the remnants of a rocket near the border with Egypt, two days after two explosions shook the area in a suspected cross-border shooting.
Iran announced missile tests and threatened to wipe Israel "off the face of the earth" if the Jewish state attacked it, brandishing some of its starkest threats on the day Europe began enforcing an oil embargo and harsh new sanctions.
Israel said it would build 851 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank hours after parliament rejected a bill that proposed legalising all settler apartments on privately owned Palestinian land.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported an early general election in four months' time, a ballot polls say could strengthen his hand as Israel confronts Iran's nuclear ambitions.
More than 40 pro-Palestinian activists reached Tel Aviv's international airport on Sunday as part of an attempted "fly-in", only to be detained as Israel denied them entry and scrambled to stop other campaigners boarding flights in Europe.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cautioned that Israel will respond to any attempts to violate an Egyptian-brokered truce that went into effect earlier in the day, ending four days of cross-border violence with Gaza militants.
Israeli air force drones are patrolling the skies over the country's gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea due to security concerns, a defence official said.
The caution apparent from our security services when dealing with holders of Israeli passports who visit this country is understandable. New Zealanders have not forgotten, nor forgiven, the attempt in 2004 by presumed Israeli agents to obtain by deception or identity theft New Zealand passports.
Forcefully stepping into an explosive Middle East debate, President Barack Obama has endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation based on "permanent occupation."
