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• 2 Israeli police convicted in Palestinian death

  (AP) -- A Jerusalem court has convicted two Israeli police of negligent homicide for leaving an injured Palestinian man on a roadside, where he was found dead two days later.The case has raised questions about the failures in the justice system that led   Read more »

• Intel eyes future with computers that learn

  Intel Corp is launching research in Israel into technology that mimics the human brain and develops devices that "learn" about their user."Machine learning is such a huge opportunity," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told reporters in T   Read more »

• Ancient Bethlehem seal unearthed in Jerusalem

  (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birth   Read more »

• Ex-PM: Give up on trying to unify Jerusalem

  The Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Israeli leaders Sunday to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Ar   Read more »

• Palestinians face hurdles to a greener West Bank

  (AP) -- After years of neglect, the Palestinians are going green.In a society preoccupied with the struggle for independence from Israel, protecting the environment has often been sidelined -- as evidenced by the ubiquitous sight of burning trash and pil   Read more »

Around the web

• Bad week for Israel-bashers

  from 146 countries to be the best of the best. Will the anti-Israeli Brits boycott Google for that? Or stop using disc-on-key, which was invented in Israel? What a disastrous week for Israel bashers. Uri Dromi is a columnist based in Jerusalem. 6:45 PM from Miami Herald Read more »

• Madonna kicks off world tour in Israel

  (AP) — Pop music star Madonna treated tens of thousands of ecstatic fans in Israel to the inaugural show of her "MDNA" world tour on Thursday, performing in a country where she has long claimed a special bond. The "Material Girl," a devotee of a form of Jewish 6:31 PM from WFAA Read more »

• Israeli legislator suggests sending human rights activists to 'camps'

  demonstrate against discrimination of Ethiopian immigrants in front of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) on January 18, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. According to Ethiopian residents of the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, housing committees in the city have been 6:26 PM from Global Post Read more »

• In Obama we trust?

  deficit” that accumulated during the first two years of the Obama term. This “trust deficit” stemmed from what officials in Jerusalem termed Obama’s “ambush” on the settlement issue and the Administration’s back-tracking from the letter Bush sent to Ariel 5:00 PM from Jerusalem Post Read more »

• Israel’s attorney general to indict reporter

  — Israel’s attorney general has decided to indict an Israeli journalist who in an investigative report revealed that top army officers had approved killings of wanted Palestinian militants in the West Bank, charging him with illegal possession of classified 4:02 PM from The Washington Post Read more »