On visit to Azerbaijan, Liberman slams as "James Bond story" a report that Baku had allowed J'lem use of airfields for Iran strike; meets Azerbaijan president, says bilateral relations "could not be better."
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hosted Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak Thursday in their second Pentagon meeting in as many months as concern grows over Syrian unrest and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
At least 23 killed in the day's fighting; Russian draft resolution, which will likely be reconciled with an EU draft, makes no mention of outside air assets, is a rare contribution to the Security Council.
Wiesenthal Center says spotted war crimes suspect in Hungary; prosecutors confirm investigation based on Wiesenthal report; no suspect has yet been heard by prosecutors.
Kofi Annan's spokesman says more monitors will join team of seven currently observing fragile cease-fire; 10 Assad troops killed in roadside bomb near Golan border.
French FM Juppe calls for force of 500 observers to be sent with Annan mission in order to prevent a civil war; Annan spokesman says situation on the ground is "not good."
Transcripts of the Shin Bet interrogations of the cagily ambivalent Marwan Barghouti a decade ago show the former PLO leader avoided taking responsibility for terror attacks during the second intifada while bankrolling them.
Some 500 Jews are expected to travel in May to Tunisia's Ghriba synagogue, the oldest in Africa, reviving a pilgrimage scaled back last year amid security fears, the chief organizer said Tuesday.
A Palestinian delegation handed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a letter setting but the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, refused to join them for what would have been the highest-level meeting since 2010.
Records surface of the 2002 Shin Bet investigation of former Fatah leader who was jailed ten years ago; investigators pressured Barghouti to provide them with the 'smoking gun' against former Palestinian PM Arafat.
