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JERUSALEM - Serbia's Honorary Consul in Israel Aleksandar Nikolic said on Tuesday the Serbian embassy in the country was aware of the kidnapping of an Israeli Serbian citizen, 22-year-old Alon Ohel, by Hamas.

JERUSALEM - The Serbia men's national 3x3 basketball team won the gold medal at the FIBA Europe Cup in Jerusalem by beating Lithuania 22-20 in the final on Thursday evening.

Serbia won their fifth consecutive European title.

An Israeli civilian was injured in the occupied West Bank Sunday when troops fired at a group of "masked suspects" who turned out to be Israeli citizens, the army said.

JERUSALEM - Serbian high jumper Angelina Topic won the gold medal at the U20 European Athletics Championship in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening.

With a 1.90 m jump, Topic claimed her second career U20 European title.

Rome's next luxury hotel has some very good bones: Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero's Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel steps from the Vatican.

A library in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem offers a rare glimpse into Palestinian history with its treasure trove of manuscripts dating back hundreds of years before the creation of Israel.

At the Khalidi Library in the walled Old City, Rami Salameh expertly inspects a damaged manuscript as part of the effort to restore and digitise historical Palestinian documents.

A large number of citizens are protesting because the Knesset passed a bill on judicial reform proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Dozens of protesters in Israel were arrested overnight in Jerusalem.

Israel's parliament on Monday approved the first major law in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious plan to overhaul the country's justice system, triggering a new burst of mass protests and drawing accusations that he was pushing the country toward authoritarian rule.

When tens of thousands of Israelis marched up to Jerusalem this weekend to protest the far-right government's plan to limit judicial power, many were driven by an urgent fear that the government is trying to steal the country that their parents and grandparents fought to build against the odds.

BELGRADE - The FMs of Serbia and Israel, Ivica Dacic and Eli Cohen, said on Wednesday in Belgrade it was time to consolidate Serbia-Israel relations and develop bilateral cooperation and a positive agenda in many areas, which they noted would benefit both countries and both peoples.