International Business News - Israel http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Israel's new Prime Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been questioned over corruption allegations for at least seven hours by police on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211551-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090402/avigdor-lieberman-israel.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090402/avigdor-lieberman-israel.htm Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:31:35 EDT Israel's right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu was given two more weeks on Friday to form a government, allowing further time to try to balance his coalition by including the center-left Labor party. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/211023-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090320/israel-banjamin-natanyahu-form-government-two-weeks.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090320/israel-banjamin-natanyahu-form-government-two-weeks.htm Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:57:27 EDT Lebanon's president ruled out on Wednesday holding direct peace talks with Israel, saying that the best way to resolve his country's differences with the Jewish state was to hold a regional peace conference instead. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210923-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090318/lebanon-israel-regional-peace-conference.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090318/lebanon-israel-regional-peace-conference.htm Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:10:52 EDT Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's party secured its first coalition partner on Sunday, reaching an initial agreement with the ultra-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210801-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090316/israel-prime-minister-banjamin-netanyahu.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090316/israel-prime-minister-banjamin-netanyahu.htm Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:09:02 EDT Syria President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Monday that a peace deal with Israel was possible but that normal relations would only be possible if Israel ended its conflict with the Palestinians. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210455-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090309/peace-israel-syria.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090309/peace-israel-syria.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:55:59 EDT Mauritania has ordered staff at Israel's embassy to leave the country within 48 hours after freezing ties with the Jewish state over its invasion of Gaza, a senior Mauritanian official said on Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210374-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090306/mauritana-israel-leave.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090306/mauritana-israel-leave.htm Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:26:58 EST When Palestinian Sharif Attoun asked bulldozer driver Ziad Dabash to flatten his home in Arab East Jerusalem, his friend was heartbroken. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090306/israel-palestine-demolish-house.htm Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:14:49 EST Israel's right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has abandoned efforts to woo centrist Tzipi Livni into forming a broad coalition government, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210072-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090228/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-party-unity-government-tzipi-livni.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090228/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-party-unity-government-tzipi-livni.htm Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:53:56 EST Israeli right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist Tzipi Livni met Friday but failed to agree on forming a coalition government and left it unclear whether negotiations between their parties would continue. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/210028-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090227/israel-talks-tzipi-livini-banjamin-natanyahu.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090227/israel-talks-tzipi-livini-banjamin-natanyahu.htm Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:14:56 EST Differences over Palestinian statehood are likely to scupper Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to forge a broad government with his main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an official from his Likud party said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209992-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090226/israel-rivals-palestine-state-benjamin-netanyahu-tzipi-livni.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090226/israel-rivals-palestine-state-benjamin-netanyahu-tzipi-livni.htm Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:57:13 EST Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish Likud party launched talks on Wednesday with right-wing parties on forming Israel's next government after he failed in initial efforts to enlist his main centrist rival in a broad coalition. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209907-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090225/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-party-coalition.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090225/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-party-coalition.htm Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:52:03 EST Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will replace Israel's lead envoy to Egyptian-brokered truce talks with Hamas after he publicly criticized the government's negotiating strategy, officials said on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209800-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090223/israel-ehud-olmert-led-envoy-egypt-hamas-ehub-barak.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090223/israel-ehud-olmert-led-envoy-egypt-hamas-ehub-barak.htm Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:41:41 EST Right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday accepted a mandate to form Israel's next government and immediately called for a broad, national unity coalition with centrist and left-wing partners. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209720-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090220/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-government.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090220/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-government.htm Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:35:39 EST Benjamin Netanyahu's chances of becoming Israel's prime minister were boosted on Thursday by the conditional backing of an ultranationalist politician who emerged as a kingmaker in a photo-finish election. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209667-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/israel-banjamin-natanyahu-prime-minister-avigdor-lieberman.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090219/israel-banjamin-natanyahu-prime-minister-avigdor-lieberman.htm Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:42:09 EST Israel decided Wednesday against lifting its border blockade of the Gaza Strip until Hamas agreed to the release of a captured Israeli soldier, putting a longer-term ceasefire proposal by Egypt on hold. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209617-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090218/israel-soldier-release-hamas-egypt-gaza.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090218/israel-soldier-release-hamas-egypt-gaza.htm Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:49:59 EST Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran to try to delay Tehran's alleged attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, a British newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting a former CIA agent and intelligence experts. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209501-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090217/israel-covert-war-iran.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090217/israel-covert-war-iran.htm Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:18:38 EST On Tuesday, despite the stormy weather in Tel Aviv, Israelis set out to vote in a closely contested election between right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the centrist Kadima party of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209375-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090210/israel-elections-close-benjamin-netanyahu-tzipi-livni.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090210/israel-elections-close-benjamin-netanyahu-tzipi-livni.htm Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:36:47 EST Four smuggling tunnels and a weapons depot in Gaza have been attacked by Israeli military. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090207/israeli-gaza-attack.htm Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:38:54 EST On Wednesday Israel's Foreign Ministry said it ordered Venezuelan diplomats to leave the country, the Associated Press reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090128/israel-venezuela-bolivia-diplomatic-ties.htm Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:55:45 EST On Tuesday Palestinian militants detonated a bomb that killed an Israeli soldier patrolling near Gaza, to this, Israel responded with an airstrike, straining the fragile cease-fire on the eve of a visit by President Barack Obama's new Mideast envoy. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209126-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090127/israel-palestine-bomb-airstrike.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090127/israel-palestine-bomb-airstrike.htm Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:58:50 EST