ISRAELI attacks killed eight Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip yesterday and the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Israel.

A barrage of rockets battered an Israeli town less than half a mile from the Gaza fence today – seriously wounding a woman – just before the arrival of President Shimon Peres.

A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up next to Israel’s fortified nuclear reactor, killing a woman and wounding 11 people in the first such attack in more than a year.

At least one person was killed today and six others injured, one critically, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Israeli town which houses the country’s nuclear reactor, authorities said.

An Israeli court today ordered nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to return to jail for six months for violating an order restricting his contact with foreigners.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was indicted today for violating the terms of his release from prison, the Israeli Justice Ministry announced.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a group of Israelis soldiers in the West Bank yesterday, killing one and wounding three, just a day after militant leaders in the area told Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas they were ready to abide by a cease-fire.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was tonight elected rector of a Scottish university.

Heavily-armed police commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound and arrested nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu today – seven months after he completed an 18-year prison sentence for treason.

PEACE activists held a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin yesterday to call for a nuclear whistleblower to be granted asylum in Ireland.

Peace activists held a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin today to call for a nuclear whistleblower to be granted asylum in Ireland.

THE whistleblower who alerted the world to Israel’s nuclear weapons programme last night urged a foreign country to grant him asylum.

The whistleblower who alerted the world to Israel’s nuclear weapons program appealed tonight for a country to grant him asylum.

Israel’s Supreme Court today upheld security restrictions that limit the movements of nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.

MORDECHAI VANUNU was released on Wednesday after serving almost 18 years in jail for telling the truth about Israel's surreptitious efforts to develop nuclear weapons in 1986.

A bitter and unrepentant Mordechai Vanunu spent his first night of freedom in a Jerusalem church after serving an 18-year prison term for disclosing Israel’s nuclear secrets.

A DEFIANT Mordechai Vanunu walked out of prison yesterday after serving 18 years for spilling Israel's nuclear secrets.

Mordechai Vanunu was released from prison today after serving 18 years for spilling Israel’s nuclear secrets, saying he was proud of his actions and complaining he was treated cruelly by his jailers.

Actress Susannah York and anti-nuclear activists from around the world gathered today to welcome freed whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, as Israel slapped tough restrictions on his movements, fearing he has more secrets to spill.

NUCLEAR whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu said he has no more secrets to reveal, but he believes Israel’s nuclear reactor near the desert town of Dimona should be destroyed, according to remarks published yesterday.

Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu believes his disclosure of Israel’s secrets provoked an essential debate on nuclear weapons and has no regrets over the action that sent him to prison for 18 years, his brother said today

Singer Whitney Houston is in Israel looking for inspiration for her upcoming Christmas album.

The US will give Israel sufficient warning before any attack on Iraq to allow time to prepare for expected counterattacks against it by Baghdad, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today.