May I throw some light on the Israeli general election, the results of which worried Dr Kevin McCarthy [Letters, 19 March]. 

WHEN Barack Obama made history in Nov 2008, Nitzan Horowitz, then covering the campaign for Israel’s Channel 10, had a front-row seat.

On the other hand, you might ask what kind of “enlightened and cultured people”, to use Peres’s phrase, is it that needs a bulldozer to crack a nut; that feels the need to deploy hundreds of policemen to the task of evicting two Arab families from an Arab neighbourhood? That’s Israel for you

HUNDREDS of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv yesterday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed two people at a youth club in the worst ever attack on homosexuals in Israel.

Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv today in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed two people at a youth club in the worst ever attack on homosexuals in Israel.