Boycotts, divestments, and sanctions are needed until all Palestinians are allowed to live freely in a truly independent state alongside Israel, writes Daoud Kuttab.

Scientists in Israel have developed a way of using satellite images to help farmers detect small-scale changes in climate and improve their harvests, a method that could bolster food supplies for an increasingly hungry world population.

Israel’s leaders today blamed the Hamas-led Palestinian government for the worst suicide bombing in 20 months but decided against launching a large-scale military operation, an apparent attempt to avoid escalating violence in Israel’s showdown with the Islamic militant group.

After extending a hand to other Christians, Jews and “nonbelievers,” Pope Benedict XVI made a meeting with religious leaders his first public appointment today.