The reptile, whose name in Hebrew is Land of Israel Viper, lives in the Jewish state, the West Bank, parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. (JTA) — Israel declared as its national snake a species ...

Slain Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas was not killed by an explosion, as Hamas claimed, according to Israel’s top forensics chief. Dr. Chen Kugel, director of the Abu Kabir National Institute of ...

Now, more than two decades later, the man who dispatched the bomber – Sami Jaradat – has been released from Israeli prison as part of the ceasefire and hostage release deal reached between ...

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamas says it has agreed to Israel's request to speed up the release of Israeli hostages, including two men Hamas has held for around a decade. Hamas said it would give Israel ...