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In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video released Friday that he is being treated well by his Palestinian captors and appealed to Israel's leader to bring him home.

After claiming to successfully test-fire two short-range missiles during drills Sunday by the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran will test-fire a missile on Monday that could have the capability to hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf region.

Israeli legal authorities have indicted former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges.

A man opened fire on a crowd at a gay community center in Tel Aviv, killing three people.

The United States is "absolutely not" giving Israel a green light to attack Iran, U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN Tuesday.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. suggested on Sunday that the U.S. would not stand in the way of Israeli military action aimed at Iran’s nuclear program.

Roughly half of Israelis support bombing Iran's nuclear facilities if international efforts to stop the Islamic republic from developing nuclear weapons fail, according to a Hebrew University poll released Sunday.

A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift, throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades. The gesture ended up bankrupting Annat's mother, who had stuffed her savings of nearly $1 million inside her old bed for decades, Annat told Israel Army Radio.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says Israel is not planning unilateral military action against Iranian nuclear sites.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rebuffed U.S. calls to impose a freeze on all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, setting the stage for friction with President Barack Obama.