Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the reconciliation agreement with Turkey restoring diplomatic ties after a six-year freeze.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s new rightist coalition government, hobbled by a razor-thin parliamentary majority, was sworn in late on Thursday amid wrangling within his Likud party over cabinet posts.
Israel’s Cabinet approved the call-up of as many as 40,000 additional combat reservists.
Israel’s Cabinet allocated nearly $124 million to a plan designed to have illegal African migrants return to their countries of origin.
Israeli Labor party leader Shelly Yachimovich lost primary elections for the party leadership to Isaac Herzog.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there will always be a job waiting in Israel for a U.N. interpreter caught wondering aloud at the excessive number of anti-Israel resolutions.
Seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded when Islamist supporters of Mohamed Morsi fought opponents of the deposed Egyptian president and security forces, marking a return of violence that overshadowed the naming of an interim cabinet.
Israel’s Cabinet unanimously approved a proposal to moderate cuts to the defense budget as part of sweeping austerity measures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Israeli political parties to \”come together and unite our forces,\” hours after being granted an extension to form a new government.
With a strong bipartisan majority, the U.S. Senate confirmed Jack Lew, President Obama\’s nominee to be Treasury Secretary.
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