Daily Archives: December 17, 2008

Israeli troops, intelligence agents and border police, acting in a joint operation, killed an important Islamic Jihad leader Sunday night. The leader, identified as Jihad Nawahada, 23, an al-Quds Brigades’ member, had been on Israel’s...

Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, greets Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at 10 Downing Street, London yesterday. (Ian Nicholson/PA/Associated Press) Until recently, Israeli government spokespersons, in bilateral dealings with the British government, had not publicly...

Israeli rescue workers carry a wounded passenger at the scene of a bus crash near the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat yesterday. At least 26 people were killed and dozens of others seriously...