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The U.N. Security Council will meet to discuss a request for an emergency session on the Goldstone Commission report.

A strong majority of Americans would support military action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to a new poll.

A federal court judge said the Securities and Exchange Commission was "misusing the procedure" in its investigation of Elliott Broidy.

Avigdor Lieberman is proposing a foreign policy shift that would move Israel away from its "lone dependence" on the United States.

UNWRA will teach about the Holocaust to students in Gaza secondary schools.

A Weizmann Institute scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, only the fourth woman in history to secure the prize.

The founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is suing a Dallas-based religious organization for praying for his demise.

Restrictions on worshipers at the Temple Mount remained in place as the annual Jerusalem march took place across the city.

Israel raised its swine flu death toll to 31.

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Violent clashes in Jerusalem, rhetoric ratchet up tensions

Palestinians shout at Israeli border police officers blocking the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on Oct. 4, 2009. (Mohammar Awad / Flash 90 / JTA)

Amid clashes between Arab rioters and Israeli police, and calls for Palestinian to "defend" the Temple Mount, some Israelis said the rhetoric was reminiscent of the fall of 2000, when a similar scenario around the High Holidays erupted into the second intifada. Read more »

Victory for Israel in Goldstone delay, fury among Palestinians

When the U.N. Human Rights Council unexpectedly delayed its vote on endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, advocates for Israel were pleased. Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were outraged -- mostly at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Read more » Beating swords into green plowshares in Israel Israel, which long has been a global leader in military technology, is adapting its technologies to develop green advances. Read more » Editors' Picks On the unrest in Jerusalem Is this the beginning of a third intifada? Inside or outside the mainstream? Some 160 members of Congress will attend the upcoming conference of the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobbying group J Street. Some Jewish pro-Israel figures are not happy about it. Silence on Polanski Why aren't female film directors applauding the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski on charges that he raped a 13-year-old girl? asks Aviva Kempner at the Forward. A call to boycott It's time for a Jewish boycott of Ukraine, writes Anshel Pfeffer of Ha'aretz. In no other country in Europe does the president honor "patriots" responsible for massacring thousands of Jews.