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Tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians grew Tuesday as Israel announced plans for over 1,000 new housing units outside of boundaries established during the 1967 war.

Ed Koch backs Obama after heavily criticizing president's Israel policy.

Women in the military are currently eligible to perform 93 percent of the jobs, including artillery duties

The text of the Dead Sea Scrolls is available online now (with translation) thanks to Google.

The manuscripts include both religious and secular texts documenting life in the first and second centuries after Christ.

Ten Muslim college students in California were convicted and sentenced to probation on Friday for disrupting a speech at their university by Israel's ambassador to the United States.

It seems invisibility cloaks are not mere fabrications of the world of wizardry. Scientists and students have introduced a new phenomenon of cloaking, with a magnetic invisibility cloak as its latest addition.

Invisibility cloaks did not end with Harry Potter's final film. Cloaking has become a new trend among students and scientists, with a magnetic invisibility cloak becoming the latest installment.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.

Israel has never confirmed nor denied the existence of a nuclear weapons program

Critics of President Barack Obama assert that the president has not shown enough support for Israel, but the U.S.'s sale of 55, powerful, bunker buster bombs, among other military aid to Israel, refutes that thesis.

The Republican presidential candidates are debating once again Thursday night, this time in Orlando, Fla. The participants are Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Stay on this page for live updates.

Leo Apotheker won’t remain CEO of Hewlett-Packard into a second year. Directors of the world’s biggest computer maker ousted him in favor of the former head of eBay, Meg Whitman, who lacks computer experience.

September has proved to be a tough month for technology boards of directors who seem to be foundering, and not leading their companies. The result may be that customers wonder who's designing the products.

The determined efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to push for United Nations membership met with the stiffest resistance Wednesday when U.S. President Barack Obama made it clear he will veto any resolution recommending UN membership to Palestine.

The archaeological site of Hurvat Burgin at the foothills of Jerusalem, around the ancient city of Beit Guvrin, features Hirbet Madras caves believed to be ancient rebel hideouts.

Google’s Street View that lets explore places around the world through 360-degree street-level imagery virtually will soon provide street by street images of Jerusalem, Israel.

The world may know later Wednesday whether or not Leo Apotheker will remain CEO of Hewlett-Packard into his second year. After a year on the job, the HP leader's progress ought to be reviewed. But if a computer-savvy expert who's not been given much of a chance to put a strategy into effect is booted out, where is the HP Way?

President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to drop plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state despite U.S. and Israeli objections.

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Barack Obama said the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own, but this goal can only be achieved via direct talks with Israel.

The crowded streets of every major West Bank city indicates that many Palestinians are throwing their support behind the initiative.