Following a ground-breaking case in Germany last week, in which a former Auschwitz guard apologised for his crimes, Andrew Nagorski looks at the refusal of many former Nazis to say sorry.

IN A world that seems more adept at perpetuating conflict rather than resolving it, the negative reaction to the deal struck with Iran over its nuclear programme seems, at its mildest, unhelpful.

A video posted online yesterday by Islamic State militants showed a boy killing Muhammad Musallam, an Israeli Arab accused by the group of having signed up as a jihadi to spy for Mossad, with a bullet to the head.

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Mike Harari, the Israeli Mossad spy who directed an assassination campaign against Palestinians suspected of involvement in the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died at 87.

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Israel’s prime minister today defended the actions of his country’s security forces following a public uproar over the mysterious death of a man who apparently hanged himself while being held secretly in a maximum-security prison.

THIS little planet of ours is hanging in the middle of a circular traffic jam of satellites: some gazing out towards the stars, some spying on al Qaeda and the Russians, but most of them ensuring that we have speedy access to Facebook and pornography.

Families of murdered Iranian nuclear scientists are suing Britain, Israel, and the US, accusing them of being behind the killings.

Iranian state television showed several Iranians alleged to be part of a group of 13 who “confessed” to killing four Iranian nuclear scientists after being trained by Israeli intelligence.

Israel vowed to strike back at Iran for a brazen daylight bombing that killed eight people on a bus full of tourists in Bulgaria.

Nurit Modai (Letters, Jul 6) now seeks to deny the existence of Palestinians.

Today’s attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse provoked horror and condemnation in equal measure.

Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia have been targeted in near-simultaneous strikes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed on arch-enemies Iran and Hezbollah.

Jessica Chastain is set to star in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden death movie.

Iran has arrested 12 CIA agents, reports say.

THE websites of Israel’s army and intelligence services were down yesterday, two days after a hacker group appeared to threaten the Jewish state over its interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.

JOHN MADDEN’S The Debt (15A) opens in modern Israel, with Rachel (Helen Mirren) attending the launch of her daughter’s book, which details a mission carried out by three Mossad agents in East Berlin during the 1960s.

John Madden directs a gripping English-language remake of the Israeli film 'Ha-Hov' about three retired Mossad agents, who come face-to-face with the spectres of the past.

A FORMER US government space scientist pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted espionage for trying to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy.

From film to fashion, movies to music, food to travel, our critics reveal their Hot 100 choices for the summer ahead.

Israeli secret service agents have been accused of kidnapping a Palestinian engineer from a Ukrainian train in the middle of the night.

IRAN will not be able to build a nuclear bomb before 2015, according to Israel’s newly retired spy chief.

Saudi Arabian security forces have arrested a vulture they believe to be an Israeli spy.

Iranian security has arrested several people in the hunt for the killers of a prominent nuclear scientist, its intelligence chief said today.

Six Irish passports may have been compromised by a Russian spy ring uncovered in the US earlier this year, it emerged today.

Poland today extradited a suspected Mossad agent to Germany, where he faces charges over a passport that was used in the murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year.

A POLISH court has ordered the extradition to Germany of an Israeli man suspected of being a Mossad agent involved in the slaying of a Hamas operative.

THE travel documents allegedly used by one of the Russian “spy ring” suspects again highlighted the vulnerability of the Irish passport, according to Fine Gael.

Diplomats were tonight trying to trace records of an Irish passport given to a US-based Russian spy on a debriefing mission.

A false Irish passport was allegedly to be used by members of a Russian spy ring arrested in the United States, it was disclosed today.

The Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Zion Evrony, said today that the decision to expel an Israeli official over the use of fake Irish passports in the assassination of a Hamas official was "regretted".

THE Government will today kick out an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged Irish passports in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai.

Polish authorities have arrested an alleged Mossad agent wanted in connection with the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai, the German federal prosecutor’s office said today.

AN internal Israeli investigation into the state’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla “will not suffice”, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has said.

IVOR always gets there in the end – even if it is by the scenic route.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin is expected to recommend the expulsion of an Israeli embassy official over the use of forged Irish passports in an assassination in Dubai.

A decision on whether to expel an Israeli embassy security worker from Ireland over the use of fake passports in a secret service assassination has been delayed, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin today revealed

IT is difficult to respond to the Israeli murder of at least 10 peace protestors – or provocateurs as Israel would have us believe – in terms that will not inflame an already very dangerous situation.

Australia is to expel an Israeli diplomat after investigators said Israel was responsible for forging four Australian passports used in the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai, it emerged today.

Britain announced the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat today after concluding Tel Aviv forged the UK passports used by the killers of a Hamas commander.

An Israeli diplomat is expected to be expelled from Britain today over the use of UK passports by Mossad agents who assassinated a Hamas commander in Dubai.