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Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz addressed the national ceremony for Israel's Memorial Day, expressing sorrow for those who have fallen in Israel’s defense and confidence in the IDF’s capabilities.

As Israel marks its 65th Independence Day, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics has released a new census showing that the population of the Jewish State has grown by 1.8% over the past year to stand at a little over 8 million people.

Israel’s entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has been thwarted in her attempt to champion disgraced fashion designer John Galliano, after the Israel Broadcasting Agency (IBA) declared such a move the move would be inappropriate "at a time when racism and anti-Semitism is rampant in Europe”.

Israel’s representative at the Eurovision Song Contest is in discussions with none other than John Galliano – the fashion designer reviled more than once for anti-Semitic gestures - to design her outfit for the performance.

Support for firing rockets from Gaza into Israel has dropped sharply, from 74% in December 2012 to 38% now, according to a survey conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center and published on Wednesday.

19-year-old Arab Israeli Lina Makhoul won the final of the second season of Israel’s singing reality show “The Voice”.

US Secretary of State John Kerry preached a message of unity as he prepared to leave Israel Tuesday night. At the end of an intense two days of talks with both Israeli and Palestinian authorities as part of his second visit to the region inside a month, he insisted all sides had focused on how “we are going to engage in new efforts, very specific efforts, to promote economic development and to remove some of the bottlenecks and barriers that exist with respect to commerce in the West Bank, to move very rapidly towards increased business expansion and private sector investment in the West Bank, all of which, we are convinced, will help improve the economic security of the people living there as well as improve the security of the people of Israel”.

Forces seek to restore calm in the region; Palestinians have thrown 1,195 rocks at Israelis since January 1

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu  for extensive talks Monday, as he praised the PM’ “good-faith efforts” with regards to the stalled Middle East peace process Tuesday in a joint press briefing in Jerusalem.

An Israeli violin maker’s 'Violins of Hope' concert in Monaco next week is set to feature 8 Holocaust-era violins from the 45 violins that he has collected over the past 20 years that were used by Jewish violinists. But one of Amnon Weinstein violins hides an abusive pro-Nazi message that was hidden from view for nearly 80 years: