Or Sinai's 'Anna' took first place in the Cinéfondation student film competition, while Assaf Polinsky's 'One Week and a Day' won a Critics' Week award.

Former president backtracks at last moment, instructs lawyers to ask to commute his seven-year rape conviction.

To return to the political arena and contend for the premiership, the outgoing defense minister will need political skills he may not have.

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Sources close to the American billionaire say he has promoted a trip to Israel as being advantageous for the Republican presidential candidate.

Investigators say the messages sent by the jet before it disappeared from radar don't specify what caused the smoke or fire.

For the past few years Dareen Tatour has been posting poems, all written in Arabic, on her blog and on Facebook and YouTube – these are the scenes of her crime. 'I am in the State of Israel, a democracy,' she says. 'I never thought I would be arrested for poetry.'

The attempt to garb the hatred of the religious in lofty pretensions and excuses such as equality and feminism is like trying to wrap fish in a transparent, stinking fishnet stocking.