Christophe Bigot

With its huge offshore natural gas deposits, Israel is hoping to become an energy El Dorado, and is seeking foreign partners to help develop its newly-discovered resources.

Israel was set up as a haven for Jews whose lives were threatened, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday as he met the families of four people killed in a French shooting attack.

A shocked Israel prepared on Tuesday to receive the bodies of four Jews killed in an attack in Toulouse, and urged French authorities to act quickly to arrest the perpetrator of the murders.

Israeli media commentators on Tuesday warned of the growing spectre of anti-Semitism in Europe, a day after an attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse that left four people dead.

A Frenchman is suing Google for making him the laughing stock of his village after the firm's Street View service put on the Internet a picture of him urinating in his garden, his lawyer said Thursday.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has finally returned home after emerging frail but elated from 1,941 days of captivity in a deal that saw 477 Palestinians walk free.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit finally returned home on Tuesday after emerging frail but elated from 1,941 days of captivity in a deal that saw 477 Palestinians walk free.

Israel has moved several of its Hamas prisoners to solitary confinement, media reported on Sunday three days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to make their conditions harsher.

The parents of an Israeli soldier snatched by Palestinians five years ago chained themselves to railings near the premier's home on Saturday to protest against their son's continued captivity.

Firefighters have overpowered the deadly blaze which tore through a forest in northern Israel after a four-day battle aided by aircraft from around the world, officials said on Sunday.

Judge orders French publications to pay damages to Polanski and family. A Paris judge ordered three French publications Tuesday to pay damages to Roman Polanski and his family for printing unauthorized photos ? but the sums were a fraction of what the filmmaker had demanded.

Polanski sues French media for privacy invasion, including paper that ran house arrest photo. The news snapshot shows Roman Polanski standing at a window, a thin slice of his face visible amid an opening in the curtains. The French paper that printed the photo saw it as a newsworthy depiction of the director's life under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet.

Polanski sues French media for privacy invasion, including paper that ran house arrest photo. The news snapshot shows Roman Polanski standing at a window, a thin slice of his face visible amid an opening in the curtains. The French paper that printed the photo saw it as a newsworthy depiction of the director's life under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet.