An Israeli Arab member of parliament today claimed that Israeli soldiers desecrated the Koran, the Islamic holy book, while searching Palestinian security prisoners.

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin has threatened to begin a hunger strike if he is not granted conjugal visits with the woman he says he married by proxy, a spokesman for the Israeli Prisons Authority said today.

Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti was transferred to the general population in his southern Israeli prison today, an Israeli official said, ending almost three years of separation from other Palestinian prisoners.

Palestinian prisoners held by Israel ended an 18-day hunger strike today but both sides disagreed over the accomplishments.

Israel’s nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu may not be released as scheduled today because of his refusal to provide his address to authorities, a prison official said.