US president George Bush arrived at Israel’s official Holocaust memorial today, visiting exhibits that detail the Nazi extermination of European Jews.

CHARLES HAYES (Irish Examiner letters, August 14) grossly misrepresents and misquotes my letter of August 9.

Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened more rocket attacks on cities in central Israel tonight and dismissed a new diplomatic effort by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying the United States wants the fighting to continue.

A Hezbollah rocket slammed into a building today in the mainly Arab town of Nazareth, killing three people, including two children, Israeli authorities said.

ISRAEL said yesterday it had destroyed most of the military positions of Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas along its northern border in the heaviest fighting since it ended its 18-year occupation of Southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese guerrilla was killed and two Lebanese civilians were wounded in cross-border fighting today as Lebanese gunmen responded to Israeli airstrikes by attacking Israel, the Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV said.

ISRAEL’S defence minister advised the incoming Palestinian prime minister yesterday to fear for his life if Hamas militants start attacking Israel again.

ELDER statesman Shimon Peres looks set to leave Israel’s Labour Party, his political home for 60 years, and join Ariel Sharon’s government if the prime minister is re-elected in March.

A deal was emerging today for elder statesman Shimon Peres to leave the Labour Party, his political home for 60 years, and join Ariel Sharon's government if the prime minister is re-elected in March.

Shimon Peres has decided to leave the Israeli Labour Party and join Ariel Sharon’s next government, a senior Sharon adviser said today.

Traditional belief holds that Jesus was killed by blood loss after six hours on the cross.

Israel will ask the US for supplemental aid to help pay for its planned pullout from the Gaza Strip, Vice-Premier Shimon Peres said in Jerusalem today.

“ABBAS is Jewish, Abbas is Jewish,” chanted 41,000 delirious Israelis after the Bnei Sakhnin midfielder had equalised against Ireland at the Ramat Gan Stadium. The irony of it all wasn’t lost on any of them.

THE two central players in the latest Middle East peace process have had very different reputations, one hard-line, the other conciliatory.

ISRAELI soldiers yesterday began digging up 59 bodies of Lebanese militants buried in a small plot in northern Israel, a first step toward a prisoner swap with the Hezbollah guerrilla group take place this week

An Israeli court has indicted an Israeli Arab woman for planning a suicide bomb attack, the Justice Ministry said today.

A suicide bombing on a bus began a day of bloodshed that left 18 people dead and dozens injured in shootings, bombings and ambushes from northern Israel to Jerusalem and the Mediterranean coast.

A Palestinian suicide bomber devastated a bus during the morning rush today - killing himself and eight passengers on a day punctuated by violence from Galilee to Jerusalem’s Old City and the Mediterranean beachfront.

Israel was today considering its response to the suicide bombing that killed two people - the second such attack in two weeks.