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An unidentified injured Israeli tourist is carried in front of Borgas hospital after an explosion at Burgas airport, outside the Black Sea city of Burgas, Bulgaria, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. A bus carrying young Israeli tourists in a Bulgarian resort exploded Wednesday, killing three people and wounding at least 20, police said. Witnesses told Israeli media that the huge blast occurred soon after someone boarded the vehicle. (AP Photo/ Bulphoto Agency) BULGARIA OUT

6 die in Bulgaria as bus carrying Israelis bombed

Aron Heller · July 18, 2012 4:00 am

In this Monday, July 2, 2012 an Israeli soldier prays next to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City. Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses burrowed into books, immersed in biblical study and oblivious to their surroundings. These young men, and their sheltered lifestyle, are at the heart of a battle that is tearing Israel apart in a clash between tradition and modernity, religion and democracy. The fight centers on whether ultra-Orthodox males should be drafted into the military along with other Jews, but it really is about a much deeper issue: the place of Judaism in the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli draft pits secular Jews vs. ultra-Orthodox

Aron Heller · July 8, 2012 4:00 am

Mosab Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, June 18, 2012. As a youth, Mosab Yousef was a member of the Palestinian upper crust, the son of a well-known and respected founder of the Hamas militant group. On Monday, he returned to the region in the most unlikely of homecomings, welcomed by Israelâs parliament as a hero for renouncing the violent ideology of his fatherâs movement and serving as an undercover Israeli spy for nearly a decade. "I was born to be something and I chose for my life something else," he told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

AP Interview: Hamas informer-author tours Israel

Aron Heller · June 18, 2012 6:37 pm

In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo an Israeli children pray with their families in a reformist Jewish synagogue, in Mevasseret Zion near Jerusalem. Israel's attorney general recently announced that a group of 15 non-Orthodox rabbis who answer a certain criteria will begin to receive government funding like some 2,000 of their Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox brethren.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Non-Orthodox Jews start making inroads in Israel

Aron Heller · June 18, 2012 7:43 am

With eye on Turkey, Israel debates Armenia deaths

Aron Heller · June 12, 2012 6:57 pm