The Hula painted frog has made the comeback of the year.

An Israeli soldier has been stabbed in a Tel Aviv train station and police have arrested a Palestinian suspected of attacking him as part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israeli police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Arab Israeli after video footage emerged showing the man was retreating from police when he was shot.

Israel deployed ground troops inside Gaza for the first time to raid a rocket launching site in the Palestinian territory.

Israel has widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and announced it would hit northern Gaza "with great force" to prevent rocket attacks from there on Israel.

Three Israeli suspects in the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death last week confessed to the crime and were re-enacting the incident for authorities, an official said, as the country’s leaders raced to contain a public uproar over the slaying.

Three Israeli suspects over the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death last week have confessed, an official said.

Israel has arrested six Jewish suspects over the murder of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week — a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country.

Israel has arrested six Jewish suspects over the murder of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week – a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country.

A Palestinian-American teenager who was filmed apparently being beaten by Israeli forces is to be put under house arrest for nine days.

Israeli warplanes today struck a target south of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

Israeli police have said two rockets fired from Lebanon have landed in northern Israel, causing no injuries.

An American man who was in Israel for a Jewish work and study programme shot a chef dead at a Red Sea hotel and then killed himself in a shoot-out with Israeli commandos, police said.

A Palestinian protester in Gaza has reportedly died from Israeli army gunfire as thousands took part in an annual protest against Israeli land policy.

Israeli security forces in riot gear have confronted Palestinian demonstrators along Israel’s frontiers on an annual protest day.

Israeli forces are on high alert ahead of expected mass demonstrations as Palestinians prepared for a day of marches throughout the region.

Three rockets have been fired at northern Israel from Lebanon, and at least two of them struck Israeli soil, Israeli military sources said.

ISRAEL is preparing to release 477 Palestinian security prisoners today in order to secure the freedom of captive soldier Gilad Shalit following a landmark deal with Hamas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today declared three days of mourning for the 15 people killed in mass protest marches toward Israel’s borders from Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.

ISRAELI troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders, including the frontier with Syria, leaving 16 people dead and dozens more wounded in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day of mourning for their defeat at Israel’s hands in 1948.

An inferno that has raged for four days in a northern Israeli forest is under control, fire chiefs said today.

Israeli police clashed with protesters in an Arab town in northern Israel today ahead of a march by Jewish extremists.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today appealed to Pope Benedict XVI “to make his voice heard” and use his moral authority to condemn the harsh anti-Israel rhetoric voiced by Iran’s hard-line president.

Two rockets have been fired from south Lebanon toward Israel, Lebanese security officials said today, injuring at least one Israeli.

Egypt and Hamas are close to a deal for a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, where the death toll from the Israeli offensive exceeded 1,000, officials said.

There are rights and wrongs on both sides in the current Gaza conflict. Israel was undoubtedly provoked, but its response has undoubtedly strengthened the hand of Hamas within the Arab world.

Reports say two rockets have fallen on northern Israel in an attack that could signal a second front in Israel’s 19-day offensive.

Israeli police said at least three rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon today and rescue services reported at least one person wounded.

GAZA’S deeply entrenched Hamas rulers won’t be easily toppled, even by Israel’s unprecedented bombings on Saturday that killed more than 280 people, most of them men in Hamas uniform.

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has concluded that Israel should exchange the perpetrator of a particularly serious terror attack for two Israeli soldiers held in Lebanon for the past two years, a senior government official confirmed today.

AS ISRAEL celebrates its 60th birthday, Israelis have their gaze set firmly backward.

Palestinian militants fired a Russian-made rocket into southern Israel today, police said, signalling a possible escalation by armed groups in the Gaza Strip.

Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon fell on northern Israel today, police and the military said.

A former prime minister and a political newcomer who both pledge to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government will face each other in a run-off after an inconclusive vote for leadership of Israel’s Labour Party.

A campaign to oust Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shifted to the streets today, with a mass rally in Tel Aviv expected to draw tens of thousands of opponents calling for the embattled Israeli leader to step down.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced calls for his resignation in the wake of harsh findings of an official inquiry into the shortcomings of his leadership during last summer’s costly, but inconclusive, war in Lebanon.

Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert and defense minister Amir Peretz faced new calls to resign today after Israel’s army chief stepped down, succumbing to widespread outrage over the handling of last summer’s inconclusive war in Lebanon.

Israeli defense minister Amir Peretz, leader of Israel’s Labour Party, has chosen Arab MP Raleb Majadele to be a cabinet minister, Israeli media reported today.

The Israeli army dropped phosphorous bombs against Hezbollah guerrilla targets in Lebanon during the war there this summer, an Israeli Cabinet minister said today, confirming Lebanese allegations for the first time.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed Beirut’s bombed-out suburbs for a Hezbollah “victory over Israel” rally today, where guerrilla leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was expected to deliver a historic speech about his group’s weapons.

US President George Bush, who says peace in the Middle East is one of the prime objectives of his presidency, is due to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in New York today.

JAMES McGRATH (Irish Examiner letters, August 22) seems to have read my recent letter too quickly to follow what I was saying (Irish Examiner, August 15).

Lebanon’s defence minister threatened today to halt the Lebanese army’s deployment in south Lebanon if the United Nations does not intervene after an Israeli commando raid near Baalbek.

FINTAN LANE tries to attack Israel, this time from a different angle (Irish Examiner letters, August 15).