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

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was returned to the operating room today after a brain scan revealed he required more treatment following “massive, widespread” bleeding in his brain.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today suffered a “significant” stroke with “massive bleeding” in his brain, a hospital official said.

FORMER Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres quit the Labour Party yesterday, leaving his political home of nearly six decades to campaign for Ariel Sharon's new centrist party.

Israel will ask Washington for hundreds of millions of dollars to help foot the bill for next month’s €1.6bn evacuation of the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements, a senior Israeli official said today.

A BADLY burned Palestinian woman was alternately defiant and tearful last night after Israeli soldiers caught her trying to enter Israel with 22 pounds of explosives hidden on her body.

Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, on trial in Israel for violating the terms of his release from prison, said today he is determined to persuade the court to remove the restrictions placed on him.

Thousands of red locusts swarmed into southern Israel today, threatening the region’s agriculture with a biblical-like plague.

Nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu was arrested by Israeli police this morning for passing on classified documents to unnamed international parties, Israeli media reported.

About 1,600 Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike today to protest at conditions in Israeli jails – despite a warning by Israel’s public security minister said they could “starve to death” before he agrees to ease restrictions.

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

Outlining vivid details about his abduction by the Mossad spy agency, Israel’s most famous nuclear informer wrote in a letter published today that he was lured by a young woman to agents who drugged, bound and shipped him from Rome to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained defiant today and said he will not quit despite corruption allegations and the possibility that he might be indicted in coming weeks.

The Israeli Justice Ministry was today considering whether to indict Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for allegedly accepting bribes, forcing him to step down, after charges were brought against a close associate.

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, facing a slip in his popularity, has told his Cabinet he will consider unilateral moves, possibly drawing a border and dismantling some settlements.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is floating a plan to draw a border with the Palestinians and dismantle small Israeli settlements if there is no progress on a US-led peace plan.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cancelled all his meetings to face a day of being interrogated by anti corruption police.

Two years of talks between former Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have produced a 50-page peace deal that could be the basis for eventual official negotiations, even though it has no formal standing, participants said today.

THE chief Palestinian peace negotiator submitted his resignation yesterday, signalling deep divisions within the Palestinian camp.

Winning Israel’s general election was the easy part. Now premier Ariel Sharon faces an uphill battle to form a national unity government against “the murderous hatred” of Palestinian militants.

Israeli troops raided a Gaza Strip town and a refugee camp today, killing a gunman and an apparent bystander and destroying several alleged weapon workshops.

The US will give Israel sufficient warning before any attack on Iraq to allow time to prepare for expected counter attacks against it by Baghdad, says Ariel Sharon.

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.

Israel has reopened a desert detention camp to hold some of the thousands of Palestinians it has rounded up during its 19-day sweep through the West Bank.

Two Palestinian gunmen sprang from a car and sprayed automatic gunfire at Israelis outside a military base today, killing two women soldiers and seriously wounding five others before they were shot dead by the troops.