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TEL AVIV – Only moments before the funeral was slated to take place, the family of an Israeli woman killed in a boating accident in Chile last week discovered that the wrong body had been sent for burial.

Israel expelled Turkey’s consul to Jerusalem on Tuesday, as diplomatic tensions between Jerusalem and Ankara over deadly clashes on the Gaza border a day earlier spiraled to a fresh nadir.

Two Jordanians were sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in jail with hard labor for planning attacks on the Amman embassies of Russia, Iran and Israel.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday revised its travel advisory for Zimbabwe, warning Israelis not to visit the country and telling those who are there to remain inside their homes amid reports of a coup in the southern African nation.

TEL AVIV — Jordanian media has increased its criticisms of Israel over a recent shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman, where a young Jordanian who stabbed an embassy guard was shot and killed.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Friday announced that a preliminary probe was launched into the attack Sunday near the Israeli Embassy in Amman where an Israeli security guard killed two Jordanian nationals, including a teen assailant who was attacking him with a screwdriver.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned the Deputy European Union Ambassador Mark Gallagher for a clarification, after the EU accused Israel of demolishing Palestinian homes in Area C of the West Bank.

An Egyptian rock band is facing boycott threats from Palestinian university students after it coordinated an upcoming show in the West Bank with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

JERUSALEM – Hamad a-Sharifi, a former diplomat at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, arrived on Sunday for a visit to Israel, Israeli paper Ynet reported. The unusual visit by the national of a country with which Israel has no diplomatic relations

TEL AVIV – The Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief, William Booth, was briefly detained and questioned by authorities here on Tuesday while he was covering events just outside the Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City and scene of numerous recent terrorist attacks.

Turkey and Israel are close to signing an agreement on compensation for the death of 10 Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010, a Turkish ruling party official said on Monday. The former allies have stepped up efforts in recent months

TEL AVIV – Diplomatic cables from Israeli embassies all over the world indicate that the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is gaining significant momentum, the Jerusalem Post reported.  A number of diplomatic cables sent to Israel’s

Egypt has sent Hazem Khairat as the new ambassador to Israel after a three-year hiatus, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Khairat, arrived on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his return to Israel saying it “will allow us to improve even more

Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union (EU) bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labelling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu