Dozens of people attended the funeral of leading Moroccan rights activist Abraham Serfaty on Friday, including representatives of NGOs and members of the government.

Opposition Muslim Brotherhood says several of its rallies have been disrupted and more than 1,000 of its members have been detained.

Givati Brigade soldiers were convicted of forcing a 9-year-old Palestinian boy to open a number of bags they thought might contain explosive materials.

Towns throughout the West Bank protest possible renewed building freeze by closing their schools and municipal service.

Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee published details of program that will allow 930 new housing units to be built beyond the Green Line.

San Francisco-area Jewish organizations condemned a proposed ballot measure to outlaw Jewish ritual circumcision in the city.

NATO chief tells Haaretz that alliance will enforce, but not forge, Mideast peace.

The actual dock where Hermann Goering and other top Nazis sat in the Nuremberg trials features in a new exhibit opening this weekend in the same courthouse, exactly 65 years on.

Brussels, the city which headquarters the EU bodies, has presented its bid to host Parliament of the World Religions in 2014, the largest interreligious gathering in the world held once every five years in a different city.

Iranian president says country ''does not need nuclear weapons to defend itself''; foreign ministry slams Western powers' involvement.