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Prime minister starts two-day visit to Israel
Prime minister starts two-day visit to Israel
JERUSALEM -- Serbia and Israel share good bilateral ties, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Sunday upon arriving in Israel for an official visit.
He also expects his trip to produce "significant results on the political and economic level."
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Israel arrests 30 suspected militants commanded from Turkey, thwarts attack on Jerusalem stadium
Israel has thwarted a planned attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Jerusalem's biggest football stadium, arresting 30 suspected militants commanded from Turkey, security services said on Nov. 27.
Israel claims Hamas planned to assassinate FM Lieberman in West Bank
Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to assassinate Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say.
Four Killed In Jerusalem Synagogue Attack
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, reports Reuters.
According to CNN reports, the men came from East Jerusalem and also had a handgun.
Six other people were wounded during the attack in the Har Nof area of West Jerusalem including two responding police officers.
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Israel lifts age bar on Jerusalem mosque prayers: police
Men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main weekly Muslim prayers Friday at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first time in "months", a police spokesman said.
"No age limit on the Temple Mount, we're hoping things will be calm and quiet today," spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP.
Kerry meets Abbas as Israeli-Palestinian tensions soar
US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Jordan on Nov. 13 for talks aimed at calming a wave of violence gripping Israel and the occupied territories.
Israel approves 200 new east Jerusalem settler homes amid turmoil
An Israeli planning committee on Nov. 12 approved plans to build 200 homes in a Jewish settlement neighbourhood of annexed east Jerusalem, a city councillor told AFP.
Arab east Jerusalem has been shaken by months of clashes and city councillor Yosef Pepe Alalu told AFP that plans to build in the Ramot neighbourhood would cause further tensions.
West Bank mosque torched in suspected revenge attack
Suspected extremists torched a West Bank mosque in an apparent revenge attack Nov. 12, as the Palestinian leader and the U.S. top diplomat were to meet Jordan's King Abdullah over the spiralling violence.
Palestinian killed in new West Bank clashes
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian demonstrator in clashes in the West Bank on Nov. 11 as Israel tightened security following a pair of attacks that took two Israeli lives the day before.
Clashes erupted near the city of Hebron where about 150 Palestinian demonstrators were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers, the army said.
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Palestinian stabs Israeli soldier as tensions hit Tel Aviv
A Palestinian teenager stabbed and critically wounded a young Israeli soldier on Nov. 10 as unrest which has already rocked Jerusalem and the north spread to coastal Tel Aviv.