With both countries intent on keeping in check the ‘barbarians at the gate’, South Africa used its uranium reserves and Israeli technical support to develop its nuclear programme
Israel’s elder statesman won world acclaim as a symbol of hope in a region long plagued by war fuelled by deep religious and political divisions.
Israel’s president says the country’s ultra-orthodox minority is threatening national values, following attacks on "immodestly dressed" schoolgirls.
A US academic told the <em>M&G</em> on Tuesday that Pik Botha would not have known about discussions with the Israel regarding nuclear weapons.
Israel never "negotiated the exchange" of nuclear weapons with South Africa, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2009
Hezbollah is turning Lebanon into a powderkeg, Israeli President Shimon Peres charged on Tuesday a day after a blast in southern Lebanon.
Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ 25 February 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s Likud party, has not given up hope of forging a broad coalition government.
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/ 20 February 2009
Right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form the next Israeli government, the office of President Shimon Peres said on Friday.
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/ 19 February 2009
The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.
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/ 13 February 2009
Final results confirmed the Kadima party narrowly won the election but suggested Likud is better placed to form a government.
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/ 27 October 2008
Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Monday that efforts to form a new government had failed, paving the way for snap elections.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step aside over corruption allegations or face a collapse of his coalition that would disrupt peace talks with the Palestinians. This came a day after an American businessman told a court how he handed Olmert envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars in cash.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday declared the birth of an Anglo-French axis as a force for progress in Europe and the world, on issues ranging from climate change and nuclear power to United Nations reform and the war in Afghanistan.
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/ 15 January 2008
Israel killed 15 Palestinians, nearly all of them militants, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, dealing its deadliest blow to Hamas in more than a year in raids that followed a peace mission by United States President George Bush. A volunteer from Ecuador, working on an Israeli kibbutz, was killed by a Palestinian sniper.
Snipers patrolling rooftops, streets and entire city blocks sealed off and thousands of police and soldiers on duty — Israel and the Palestinian Authority are going on full alert for United States President George Bush’s visit. For weeks, Israeli and Palestinian officials have grappled with how to ensure the safety of the leader of the world’s sole superpower.